Chapter 86 The Sandy River Crisis
Xu Yi and Steele were stunned at the same time, looking in shock at the direction where the sound came.
Xu Yi was extremely annoyed. The atmosphere between him and Steele just now was so good that he could complete a passionate kiss in the early morning, but was disturbed by this guy.
And it’s not good for this guy to scold him, but he actually scolded himself by name. How can he tolerate this?
Xu Yi let go of Steele and frowned and walked towards the direction where the sound came.
He wanted to see which guy was so ugly.
Unexpectedly, after only two steps, I suddenly heard another "thump" sound from that direction, as if some heavy object had fallen into the water.
Xu Yi was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked at Steele, who was also stunned, and shouted "Oops". He no longer cared about so much, and added a wind-control technique to himself and flew directly to the river.
The two of them flew to the river in an instant, looked down and found a figure floating on the wide Sandy River, sitting on the river surface with the flowing river water.
While floating, the man was still shouting for help.
Seeing this situation, Xu Yi couldn't help but feel angry and amused.
Sure enough, the guy who committed suicide was impulsive and would still regret it when he was facing death.
Xu Yi sighed, shook his head, flew down, pulled the collar on the man's back with one hand, and directly picked him up from the river.
He flew to the river and put him down. The man rolled on the ground and vomited several mouthfuls of river water before he calmed down.
After finally stopping and breathing, he raised his head and saw Xu Yi and Steele in front of him. He thanked repeatedly: "Thank you, two, for help. Where are you living? What's your name? I'll come to the door to thank you."
Xu Yi looked up and down at the man and found that although this man looked a little embarrassed after soaking in the river, his clothes were not from a poor family, and his words and behavior were very decent. No matter how he looked, he didn't look like a person who committed suicide by jumping into the river because of poverty.
Thinking of the guy cursing himself so much before jumping into the river, Xu Yi asked with some amusement, "You were scolding me so happily, but now you can't recognize me? Besides, it doesn't matter if you can't recognize me, you can't even recognize Steele, right?"
Steele didn't have time to respond to the praises of Xu Yi in reply to her words. Instead, he squatted down, looked directly at the man, and asked coldly: "Why did you scold Xu Yi? Did he offend you?"
The man looked at Steele in surprise, then looked up at Xu Yi. He did not recognize him under the backlight because the two of them were facing the Chaoyang. When he changed the angle and looked carefully, he instantly recognized the two of them.
Xu Yi was right at all. As a person from Bonta City, it is reasonable to not recognize Xu Yi, but if even Steele couldn't recognize it, it would be impossible.
However, after recognizing the two, the man seemed to be frightened. He pressed his hands on the ground and retreated several meters on the ground.
Just as Xu Yi and Steele looked puzzled and wanted to continue asking, he suddenly jumped up from the ground and pointed at Xu Yi and shouted loudly: "Xu Yi! You are Xu Yi! You bastard! Return my fleet to me!"
Xu Yi was even more inexplicable. He looked at the man who looked angry but seemed to be afraid of approaching him because of fear. He couldn't help but say, "Hey, I don't even know who you are, why do you return your fleet? Besides, I don't know what fleet you have at all, why did you ask me to return it?"
Steele frowned and looked at the man for a while, then suddenly patted his hands and said, "Oh, I remembered that you seem to be the president of the Porter Chamber of Commerce, called...why is Potter?"
"Smila Porter." The man didn't seem to have expected Steele to recognize him. After a moment of frightening, the angry expression on his face faded away, and he smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that Miss Steele could recognize me even if I became like this. Yes, I am the president of the Porter Chamber of Commerce, but the Porter Chamber of Commerce is no longer here."
Xu Yi gave Steele a look and signaled her to negotiate with Smith Porter first.
Steele nodded knowingly, thought for a while, and continued to ask Smitha Porter: "President Porter, I remember the last time I met you was at a banquet held by the Salak Chamber of Commerce. If I remember correctly, your Porter Board mainly operates river transportation, right?"
"Miss Steele has amazing memory." Smith Porter praised. "Yes, our Porter Chamber of Commerce is indeed mainly engaged in river transportation. But now..." Speaking of this, Smith Porter glanced at Xu Yi, his face full of hatred. "... But because of President Xu, our board of commerce was forced to close down almost no business. My beloved fleet has been sold, and maybe it has been dismantled into pieces of wooden boards now."
Xu Yi frowned and couldn't help asking: "President Porter, your chamber of commerce is forced to close the business if you can't receive it. What does this have to do with me?"
"Why doesn't it matter!" When answering Steele's question, Smith Porter was able to remain calm, but when he heard Xu Yi speak, he immediately became irritable and replied loudly: "If it weren't for your New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce that built a damn highway, if it weren't for your New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce that had even more damnly managed the upstream of the Sandy River, how could our Chamber of Commerce not receive business? How could it be closed? All this is because of you! Do you dare to say it has nothing to do with you?"
Xu Yi was still very puzzled: "I still don't understand what is the relationship between building a highway and managing the upper reaches of the Sandy River and whether your Porter Chamber of Commerce can get business?"
Smith Porter glared at Xu Yi fiercely, as if he also found that he could not communicate well with Xu Yi in this way, so he took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.
"Do you think it's okay, President Xu?" Smith Porter sneered. "I tell you, it's a big deal! Before your New Flying Chamber of Commerce has not built that damn highway, whether it's cargo or people, it's much faster to walk from the river than from land, and it can be transported more at once. So before that, half of the cargo in Bonta City was transported out by our Port Chamber of Commerce through the Sandy River. However, after this damn highway was built, everyone found that running on land is faster than in the river. And it can also be transported directly to the place without turning up and down on the boat. In this way, of course, fewer and fewer people choose our Chamber of Commerce for river transportation."
"This is not right. The river transportation can transport bulk goods, which cannot be replaced by the current land transportation." Xu Yi asked strangely.
"Bulle?" Smith Porter sneered again. "Did you forget another reason I just mentioned?"
"Governing the upper reaches of the Sandy River? What does that matter?"
"Of course it's relevant." Smira Porter pointed to the turbulent Sandy River next to him: "Your New Flight Chamber of Commerce has managed the upper reaches of the Sandy River to the northwest of the Falling Rain Forest. Now the Sandy River has indeed restored its previous channel, but the silt and sand of the Sandy River did not deposit in the Falling Rain Forest upstream, but it was washed away by the river. Look at the river carefully. Haven't you noticed that it is much turbid than last year?"
Xu Yi and Steele looked at the Sandy River next to him at the same time. Xu Yi hadn't found any problem yet, but Steele nodded and said, "Well... I haven't noticed it yet if you don't say it. Compared to when I was a child, the current river water does not seem to be as clean as it is."
Smith Porter laughed: "Ha, President Xu, have you found the problem now? The mud and sand in the upper reaches of the Sandy River have been washed away near Bonta City, which is not just to make the river muddy. Let me tell you. I have been running on this river for decades and are very familiar with these things. I am sure that in a few years, the water level of this river will rise due to the sediment of mud and sand. At that time, it will only take a heavy rain, so you can wait and see the flood. I heard that last time you were going to build a project on both sides of the river. I want to build both sides of the Sandy River into a garden-like environment. Ha! Garden? When the flood comes, it would be nice to not turn it into a cemetery!"
Xu Yi was silent for a moment, walked to the riverside, stretched out a hand, and the magic power flowed in his body. A stream of water immediately flew up from the riverside, and then gathered into a water ball in the air.
Xu Yi and Steele looked up at the huge water mass with a diameter of two meters. They found that the color of the water mass was indeed very turbid. Below the water mass was controlled by Xu Yi to stop flowing, and a layer of mud and sand was naturally deposited.
The two looked at each other and saw the worry in each other's eyes.
Although Smith Porter was a bit alarmist, judging from the water conditions of the Sandy River, this is indeed a very important thing.
The technological level on the Sainz continent is not high, and of course the level of water conservancy projects cannot be achieved anywhere. In the past, no matter where there was a flood, it would eventually lead to very serious consequences.
There has never been a flood in the Sandy River before, so no one in Bonta City has ever thought about this problem, but now when you look at it, this is a problem that needs to be solved.
Xu Yi turned around and looked at Smith Porter, nodded to him, and said seriously: "Thank you."
Smith Porter was stunned. He didn't expect that he would say ill words to Xu Yi so much, and Xu Yi would thank him so sincerely.
"What do you thank me?"
"Thank you for noticing the changes in the Sandy River and telling me about the possible serious situation." Xu Yi replied. "Although this is not entirely my responsibility to our New Flight Chamber of Commerce, since it has something to do with me, I have to take this responsibility. So I want to express my gratitude to you. If it weren't for you that I noticed this problem, I'm afraid it would be too late to wait until the problem really occurs."
Looking at Xu Yi's sincere and serious expression, Smith Porter's expression changed rapidly. After a while, it turned into depressedness. He waved his hand and sighed: "Forget it, our chamber of commerce was forced to close the business. This is also my own ability, I can't blame you for not being able to blame. I just called you my wrong, please don't take it to heart."
Xu Yi smiled and shook his head: "This is a trivial matter. But President Porter, what do you plan to do in the future?"
"Me?" Smila Porter smiled bitterly. "The fleet is gone and the chamber of commerce is closed. What else can I do? Now I don't even have the courage to commit suicide. Then I will just find a job and just wait for death."
"That's not necessarily." Xu Yi's face showed a confident smile. "President Porter, if you believe me, I have a job that suits you very well. And I can guarantee that it won't take long to get the attention of everyone. By that time, I can help you recreate a brand new fleet. Are you... willing to believe me?"
Chapter completed!