The attractive bounty set off a fierce competition among the members of the Saviors Guild. \ Almost every day, dozens or hundreds of members come in and out to rest.
For this reason, the guild had to organize manpower to set up a support fleet to maintain communication and material exchange between the Cuiling camp and the headquarters.
This good atmosphere fell into Fang Jin's eyes and made him very satisfied.
What can be expected is that if this momentum is maintained, the overall strength of the Savior Guild will surely see another jump in two months.
But under such a good situation, a piece of bad news that had never happened in the previous life appeared.
October 11th.
Fang Jin, who was about to go out, received a report from the Logistics Management Department that the groundwater level in Shu County had dropped significantly.
Domestic water for tens of thousands of survivors and more than a thousand professionals, so there is some difficulty Fang Jin didn't take this matter seriously at first, and just asked casually: "What's going on with the water level dropping?"
Director Liu Chang made a lot of preparations and investigations in advance, but he still had confusion on his face and said: "President, I don't know the specific reason.
As early as noon two days ago, our No. 6 motor shaft started to be unable to pump water.
The water is coming."
As he spoke, he laid out a tourist map of Shu County in front of Fang Jin.
The red symbol on it indicates the water source of the Saviors Guild.
After the apocalypse, the original waterworks and water supply pipelines soon became paralyzed.
At first, the Saviors Guild could drink the bottled mineral water it found.
Later, as the number of people increased and the mineral water was not enough, they had to use the original wells and use diesel generators and water pumps to pump water.
Well No. 6 has the shallowest water level among them.
"My subordinates initially thought that it was caused by excessive pumping of water due to too many survivors after the capture of Yuncheng.
But in the past two days, more wells have had problems.
As of this morning, only the three wells with the deepest underground water levels can still Even so, the water volume and water pressure are seriously insufficient.
We suspect that there may be a problem with the groundwater."
With the help of this map and Liu Chang's explanation, Fang Jin quickly understood the seriousness of the problem.
If this trend continues, wouldn't it take another two or three days for all the existing wells of the Savior Guild to fail, leaving more than 10,000 people without water?
That's okay Bronze-level professionals are far from being able to live without grains.
Even if they were gold-level in their previous lives, they still need to eat a lot of high-energy animal meat.
Not to mention water "Didn't you find out the reason?"
Fang Jin was a little anxious.
He thought for a moment and asked, "Could it be a precursor to an earthquake?
I remember that before a major earthquake, the groundwater level may change dramatically."
"This subordinate also thought so."
There was recognition on Liu Chang's face, but he couldn't be sure.
After all, it is impossible for the technology before the apocalypse to predict earthquakes a few days in advance, let alone after the apocalypse.
"No, that's not right."
Fang Jin quickly shook his head and rejected the idea.
There was no such thing as a major earthquake in Shu County in the previous life, so there was no reason why my rebirth could affect this.
As for small earthquakes caused by space cracks, it is unlikely given the stability of the space around Shu County.
Moreover, it is difficult for an earthquake of this low intensity to affect the water level so obviously.
“This is weird” He walked around the room a few times in confusion, thinking about it, but like Liu Chang, he still couldn't think of the possible reason.
He could only ask: "I remember, our guild should have built a water tower and stored bottled water, right?"
"Yes."
Liu Chang nodded and reported a set of data: "Since I discovered that something was wrong yesterday morning, I ordered the logistics department to start stepping up preparations.
If the current momentum continues, the reserved water source can be used for at least three days if it is immediately Issue an order to implement a strict water rationing system, which should be extended to five days or even a week."
Doesn’t the water rationing system make the crisis clear to the public?
Fang Jin hesitated and asked, "How many people know about this now?"
Liu Chang thought for a while and replied: "Professionals basically don't care about this, and few know about it.
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Ordinary survivors don't know much about it.
People in the Logistics Department basically know about it, but I gave the order not to allow it."
I’m not sure how many days it can be kept secret even if it’s spread randomly.”
In other words, not many people know about it yet.
"I know, you did a good job in this matter."
Fang Jin became more and more satisfied with Liu Chang, the director of the Logistics Department.
He praised him a few words and then indicated that he could go down, but did not mention the immediate implementation of rationing.
He himself sat back down and thought carefully about the idea of going out to practice, but he had already forgotten it.
For a quarter of an hour, he went through the things in his memory.
After confirming that there was no such thing in his previous life, Fang Jin roughly figured out one thing: this water crisis must be caused by man-made reasons, more or less influenced by the butterfly of his own rebirth. effect.
The fact that the water reserves can last for a few days is undoubtedly the only good news among the bad news.
The top priority now is to figure out why the water level has dropped; and whether this is the case only in Shu County.
Soon, two orders were passed down.
First, the association began an internal self-examination to see if there were any water conservancy experts who could explain the possible causes of the water crisis.
The second step is investigation.
The guild issued a secret mission and sent a team of professionals to the towns around Shu County to investigate the status of nearby water levels.
Because of the bounty placed a few days ago, except for the necessary rotating professionals, there are almost no other professionals in the guild at this moment.
In order to gather four teams, Fang Jin really spent some experience, and finally had to transfer the professionals on duty.
As for the security of the guild headquarters, having him personally in charge is the best guarantee.
The members under his command are naturally very concerned about the task that the president personally coordinates.
In the afternoon of that day, teams of professionals who had gone out returned one after another, bringing with them the status of the groundwater level around Shu County.
The water levels in the east, west, and north directions of Shu County are almost the same as those in Shu County, and all have declined to varying degrees.
Among them, the north is the most serious.
The town near Baishan River was almost completely without water.
The originally huge Baishan River has almost stopped flowing.
Sun-dead fish and shrimp can be seen everywhere on the wet mud of the river.
Only in the south of Shu County and in Xinpu County, which was burned by Ragnar in the previous fire disaster, the water level did not drop significantly.
"The further south you go, the greater the impact will be on the Xiaobaishan River being cut off."
The situation gathered from several aspects made Fang Jin sensitively aware of something.
Although no water conservancy experts were found within the Saviors Guild, based on this information, he had already made a bold inference.
Changes in groundwater levels are related to the discontinuation of the Baishan River: