Chapter 877
Crying for Help in the Storm
Chapter 877 Crying for Help in the Storm
The sound of Apparition's explosion still reverberated in the air. Wade wiped the rain splashed on his face, shook his head slightly, and showed a helpless expression.
Grindelwald left in a rage, abandoning all his usual elegance.
The sound of his teleportation was like someone detonating a bomb on a rooftop; the violently compressed air even blasted the surrounding rain into scattered white mist.
But Wade wasn't worried about Grindelwald's anger.
When you see that those who come after you are more outstanding and thorough than you expected, shouldn't you, as the pioneers, feel gratified?
Although Grindelwald was arrogant, cold-blooded, extreme, conceited, manipulative, and lacked reverence for life, at least he was not a petty person.
Wade turned his gaze back to the city ravaged by the torrential rain, his eyes filled with a cold scrutiny.
……
Along the coast, towering waves, reaching three meters high, roared like a black wall, crashing onto the shore with unstoppable force!
A confident man who took advantage of the storm to try surfing was instantly swept away by a wave and disappeared from the sea in the blink of an eye, as fast as a stone thrown in.
“No, John—” His female companion on the shore was completely stunned. When she came to her senses, she immediately let out a heart-wrenching scream: “Help… John… John…”
Underwater, the man was being tossed and turned by a tremendous force, seawater filling his mouth and nose, and he struggled desperately in the face of intense suffocation.
But no matter how much he thrashed his arms and legs, he was still swept up by the current and plummeted rapidly into the deep sea.
Just as his consciousness was about to fade, a powerful and sudden thrust came from beneath him!
That force, against the current, pushed him up quickly from underwater with an equally irresistible force!
Before John could cough up the water from his lungs, he was thrown high into the water.
"Wait, cough cough cough, wait a minute—"
John yelled and glanced back quickly. He felt as if he were a stone launched by a slingshot, involuntarily thrown more than ten meters away, and then crashed heavily onto the wet beach!
“John—”
The woman ran over crying and hugged the man tightly, bursting into tears.
"Cough cough cough..."
John, who had narrowly escaped death, coughed violently. Still shaken, he turned around and looked at the sea, which was still roaring and brewing for the next crash.
"Hurry! We need to get out of here quickly!"
His girlfriend pulled John up and helped him run quickly away from the shore.
John turned back again and saw only a blurry black shadow flash by underwater, quickly disappearing into the depths of the murky waves.
--what is that?
The man was thinking in a daze:
Is it... a jellyfish?
……
The rain poured down, as if a hole had been torn in the sky, and the rainwater cascaded down like a waterfall instead of dripping.
The murky rainwater, carrying mud, sand, and garbage from the ground, formed torrents that rushed along the streets and into low-lying areas.
The underground parking lot seemed to have become a flood discharge channel, with sewage rushing in and quickly engulfing the vehicles parked and the goods piled up in the underground space. The water level continued to rise at a visible speed.
Faint cries for help came from the narrow entrance.
"Help—is anyone there? Please help us—"
The woman shouted with all her might, her voice echoing in the underground space, but it was mostly swallowed up by the rushing water and howling wind and rain.
Earlier, a mere moment of hesitation cost her her chance to escape the underground parking lot. In a panic, the woman lifted her three- or four-year-old child and desperately climbed onto the roof of an SUV.
The icy sewage had submerged most of the car body in the blink of an eye. The child was so frightened that he trembled and clung tightly to his mother, not daring to let go.
“It’s alright…someone will come to save us…” The woman comforted the child, her voice trembling, before letting out another desperate and helpless cry: “Help…please save us…can anyone hear us…”
"Boom!!!"
Thunder rumbled, as if giants were violently beating drums, overwhelming all other sounds in the world.
Just then, light shone through the narrow window, illuminating the dark water.
The woman suddenly noticed a strange ripple spreading across the water. She looked up in horror, her heart nearly leaping out of her chest.
With a "splash," a wet head popped out—it was a huge black dog, looking like a bear when it emerged, startling the woman and child who screamed simultaneously.
"what!"
"Wang!"
The black dog barked friendly, approached the roof of the car, and stared directly at the mother and child.
The woman held her child tightly in her arms, shrinking back in fear, trembling as she confronted the enormous creature.
The black dog retreated slightly, its limbs nimbly moving in the water. It neither approached to attack nor left, but simply lingered around the two of them.
"Get away! Don't come near us!" the woman cried, her voice trembling with tears. "I have no food, get away from me!"
The black dog retreated a little further, its dark, crystal-like eyes fixed on her, quiet and docile, as if it could understand her fear.
The woman suddenly felt somewhat guilty about her rude attitude.
In just a few minutes, the water level rose considerably, and the murky water had reached the roof of the car, making it difficult to even stand. The biting cold and fear made her tremble uncontrollably.
suddenly--
"Thump—Clang!"
Amidst the strange, muffled thuds, the woman watched in horror as a Honda Accord began to sway as if drunk, then broke free from the earth's grip and began to rampage wildly through the water.
"Bang—Sizzle—"
The car, propelled by the water, scraped past a row of parked vehicles with a sickening screech. Then, it lurched violently and crashed into the SUV parked at the woman's feet!
"what!"
With a scream, the woman fell off the roof of the car. She closed her eyes in despair, but did not fall into the cold sewage.
The black dog caught them.
It supported the two of them with its neck and back, and barked again in short bursts: "Woof! Woof woof!"
At the critical moment of life and death, the woman actually understood its meaning.
She used the black dog's strength to steady herself and asked in a trembling voice, "You...you've come to save us, haven't you?"
In the dim light, the black dog nodded, its gentle eyes seeming to speak volumes.
Suddenly, a strange feeling ran through the woman's body, like fear, or perhaps emotion, or the numbness of suddenly relaxing after escaping from a desperate situation.
The woman held back her tears, gritted her teeth, and carefully climbed onto the dog's back.
The black dog immediately sprang into action, its limbs paddling rapidly in the water at an astonishing speed.
Like a fish cutting through the waves, it skillfully avoided the vehicles colliding and pressing against each other in the water, steadily carrying the mother and child towards the exit.
The woman clung tightly to the fur on its back, feeling as if tonight's events were a dream, with only the child in her arms being real.
(End of this chapter)