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Strangely enough, he felt as though he knew this girl, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not recall where or when they had met.
The girl made a series of gestures. Because a tree blocked his view, Li Zhao had to squint for quite a while before he finally realized that she was frantically pointing toward something.
That way?
He turned to look, and he saw a wall of floodwater charging in from the distance. The muddy torrent reared high, carrying with it the momentum of ten thousand warhorses.
“A flood! Run!”
His playmates screamed and bolted for the riverbank. But the Li brothers were still standing in the middle of the river, where the water already reached their waists. They could no longer run to the banks just as the other kids did.
Before they could make it to the riverbank, the raging current crashed right onto them.
Water closed in from every direction, forcing its way into Li Zhao’s mouth and nose, carrying clumps of grass, mud, and broken twigs. Every so often, he was tossed above the surface and could hear the horrified shouts of people on the banks.
Flailing desperately, his hand suddenly caught hold of a tree root.
This root, which had been worn smooth from years in the river, had become his lifeline. Li Zhao clung to it with all his might, and...
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