Chapter 1298: Chapter 1289: Facing It (Part 1)
On this day, from a scientific perspective, it was the continuous rain of the previous days that triggered the geological disaster. Coupled with the director group’s rogue operations, they clearly received warnings from the meteorology and forestry departments, yet they took chances. Who would have known that it was precisely this chance that led to the most unlikely accident?
From a metaphysical standpoint, Xia Siyu was originally supposed to go up the mountain, but she came down the mountain to deal with her mother’s affairs. In the grand scheme of things, perhaps her mother really was protecting her from above, ensuring her safety.
If you examine it from a literary angle, a quote from Zhang Ailing’s novel “Love of the Fallen City” best captures the feeling: “Perhaps just to fulfill her destiny, a great city toppled. Tens of thousands died, tens of thousands suffered, followed by earth-shattering reforms… Such are the legendary figures who topple kingdoms and cities.”
In front of them, the earth shook and the mountains swayed, an entire mountain was sliced by more than half, people cried for help in unison, the fire department, forestry, the police, as well as staff from the tourist area and the program group, all rushed forward.
First, they tried to rescue the staff who had fallen into the water as much as possible. Fortunately, the staff were unlike the celebrities. For the sake of looking good on camera, the celebrities had taken off their life jackets. Even if the staff were swept into the water by the waves along the shore, most of them were wearing life jackets.
The director group, of course, worried about the staff, but they were even more anxious about the celebrities. After all, they really had no protection. Usually surrounded by managers, assistants, bodyguards, drivers, and other staff, their life skills had atrophied, and now facing this situation, what would happen if they were in danger!
The firefighters, police officers, they were certainly busy rescuing the people in front of them first, but the director group was obviously more worried about the safety of the celebrities. Immediately after the landslide, communication was cut off, they wanted to reach out but couldn’t get through, the anxious director group mobilized, ignoring the warnings of the fire and police, trying to search for people up the mountain.
But a landslide is never a one-time event, where there is one, there is a second. Just like an earthquake, where after a major quake, there might be minor aftershocks, which could also affect others.
The director group couldn’t hold back any longer, they quickly sent people to find the celebrities. Their every move was also recorded by the journalists following them.
In fact, the director group hadn’t ignored this. Being filmed could be significantly impactful, who knew how it would be portrayed when broadcasted. But they could only try their best to persuade, because even if the journalists didn’t film, the onlooking crowd following them could record, even live stream it, what could they do?
Likewise, Bo Yan and Xia Siyu standing nearby also entered the journalists’ view.
Although this time is about the disaster relief, everyone’s focus was still on the six missing celebrities and other crew staff, but these two are the top celebrities! Even if Xia Siyu was criticized and ridiculed, she was absolutely top tier, not to mention Bo Yan, almost an artist without blemish.
Moreover, these two have always disliked each other in public, yet at this moment, they stood together, so intimately!
Honestly speaking, in the journalists’ minds, the two of them being together was even more shocking than the difficulty of the other six celebrities descending the mountain!
Similarly, when some journalists heard that something had happened to six celebrities here, they immediately applied for a full city live broadcast.