SWNOVELS Chapter 86
Chapter 86
Jackson stood where he was, watching Vanessa from behind.
“Mr. Foster?” Mr. Lynch could tell something was wrong
“Mr. Lynch, did you say that you guys would pick some wild mushrooms for lunch? Jackson asked.
Mr. Lynch was all smiles. “That’s right. They are picking and will be done soon”
Jackson asked, “Can I join them?”
Mr. Lynch immediately said, “Sure! Mr. Foster, look, there are many mushrooms over there.”
He could tell that Jackson wanted to follow people from Greenwood Village. Perhaps Jackson knew the people who came to inspect. As for whether they were their friends or enemies, Mr. Lynch was not sure for the time being.
In any case, as long as they didn’t harm his interests, he would just play dumb and cooperate.
They walked forward, following William’s group.
Jackson’s team caught up with William’s team a while later. Everyone dispersed to o pick up mushrooms. Now that they were all focusing on looking for mushrooms, no one tried to find faults with people from the other team.
Every time Vanessa quickened her pace, Jackson would speed up to catch up with her.
Vanessa was annoyed. She looked at the basket which was nearly half full and said to William with a smile. “Are we taking a look at anything else for the inspection?”
This morning, William told her that they would pick mushrooms first before inspecting the geology of the mountains.
“We’re done,” William said with a smile.
“You’re done with the inspection?” Vanessa was surprised.
“Yeah.” William smiled and raised his eyebrows slightly.
Actually, there was not much to investigate. He just needed to come to the village to confirm the location and take a look at the surrounding environment.
“Then shall we go down the mountain?” Vanessa asked.
“Okay,” William replied.
When Mr. Hecox heard that they were going down the mountain, he felt that he had not had enough fun and asked, “Are we going down the mountain?”
“Yes,” William said.
“Okay, let’s go. Mr. and Mrs. Hawk, slow down,” Mr. Hecox said.
The group prepared to go down the mountain.
The villagers from the Milestone Village who had said it was about to rain looked at the sky again and said, “I’m afraid it’s really about to rain. Let’s go down the mountain.”
“It won’t rain son soon. It’s been like this for the past few days. Yesterday afternoon, I was about to plow the land for next spring sowing, but when I saw that the sky was covered with dark clouds, I thought it was about to rain and didn’t go. I played poker all afternoon and lost 100 bucks, but it didn’t rain in the end,” another villager complained.
Everyone burst into laughter.
“It’s really raining the villager who was looking at the sky said.
“It’s fine. It won’t rain heavily. It will stop after a few drops,” another villager said.
“Let’s go down the mountain too,” Jackson said when he saw Vanessa and the others were ready to leave. “Alright. Everyone, let’s go down the mountain. We’ll be in big trouble if there’s a storm.” Mr. Lynch said. When everyone was ready to go down the mountain, it began to rain heavily.
“Fuck! It’s really starting to rain heavily! Hurry up and go down the mountain,” a villager shouted.
The people from Greenwood Village had the foresight to bring raincoats.
They divided up the raincoats and everyone hurriedly put them on.
William handed the basket to Jim and helped Vanessa tidy up her raincoat. He held her hand and said, “Slow down. Let’s go
down the mountain.”
The two teams were both ready to leave now.
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However, the mountain path was blocked by the water and was extremely slippery because of the heavy rain.
Mr. Hecox suggested finding a place to hide. “The rain is too heavy. Let’s just wait. Anyway, there’s no thunder. Let’s find a place with trees to hide. We’ll go down the mountain when the rain is ceasing.”
It was fine if they fell from the slippery road, but it would be too bad if William and the people who came with him got injured.
William was also afraid that Vanessa would fall, so he agreed to find a place to hide from the rain.
Now that there was no thunder, Mr. Hecox took them to a big maple and asked them to hide under it.
Mr. Lynch also led a group of people to hide under the big maple tree.
It was winter and the tree almost lost all its leaves, but as it had so many branches, Jackson’s clothes were not wet.
It was just that dead branches would occasionally fall off the tree from the rain.
“There’s another tree over there.” Vanessa pointed to a tree at the side.
It was much smaller than the big maple tree, but as they were wearing raincoats, the small tree was enough to shelter them from the rain.
William brought Vanessa over, and the villagers of Greenwood Village immediately caught up with them.
Everyone stood under the tree while watching the rain. They were prepared to go down the mountain when the rain
lessened.
Suddenly, someone shouted, “Oh no! There’s a landslide over there.”
The others followed his gaze and saw stones and mud falling off a mountain not far away.
“I hope there’s no one there,” one of the villagers said.
“I don’t think there’s anyone there. Landslides often occur in that place. A villager used to live there. Later, the village government reassigned him a piece of land to build a house, and he has moved.”
“The rain is so damn heavy. Will there be a landslide on our side?”
“Bah! Are you cursing us? Has there ever been a landslide on Mount Yanstall?”
“There was one when it rained heavily the year before last.”
“That was a storm… Gosh!” a villager cried out.
The mud behind a villager not far away from Vanessa collapsed. Next, he lost his balance and hurriedly grabbed a small tree beside him.
However, the tree was so small that its root was pulled out of the soil when he grabbed it. Vanessa hurried over and reached out to him, trying to pull him back. Unfortunately, the villager lost his balance and pulled Vanessa down the slop with him. “Nessa!” William immediately rushed over. He reached out to pull Vanessa but failed because he was sliding even faster than
her.
“Willie!” Vanessa had just grabbed a tree that was slightly thicker than her wrist while she was sliding down. Just as she calmed down a little, she saw William fall and shouted anxiously.
Vanessa’s vision was getting blurry from the heavy rain. When she looked down and saw William sliding down, she simply let go of the tree, wanting to slide down with him.
As soon as she loosened her grip on the tree, Jackson grabbed her and the two of them rolled down together.
As the rain continued to pour down, the mountain was filled with people’s screams.
“Hurry up! Go find them!”
“Ah! Help!”
The mud slid down like crazy in the storm.
“Willie!” Vanessa sat up, sweating profusely.
She woke up from a terrible dream.
Then she found herself in Katerine’s house.
Vanessa was extremely worried at the thought of William. She lifted the blanket and was about to get out of bed.
Katerine rushed in and pressed her down. “Mrs. Hawk, you can’t move around for the time being. You have a fracture and it will take 100 days before you recover. Don’t move.”
It was not easy for them to get Katerine a doctor to reconnect her bones. If she moved a lot and broke her bone again, she would have to suffer the pain one more time.
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Previously, she was in a coma and couldn’t feel the pain. But if she had to have her bones reconnected, she might not be able to stand the pain.
“Katerine, where’s my husband?” Vanessa burst into tears as she asked.
“Don’t worry. He’s fine. He’s lucky and wasn’t hurt as badly as you,” Katerine said.
While they were talking, they saw William coming over in a wheelchair.
Vanessa looked at him with tears in her eyes. “Willie, you…”
His hand was broken and was being bandaged around his neck. His face was also abraded and taped with gauze.
“I’m fine. How are you feeling? Does it hurt?” William wheeled himself over and held Vanessa’s hand.
The landslide happened yesterday.
Vanessa had been unconscious for 24 hours.
Apart from the couple, Jackson, and the villager who fell down first, the other villagers were also injured to varying degrees.
The villagers got them a doctor who was famous in nearby villages and specialized in traditional medicine to connect their bones and bandage their wounds.
According to the doctor’s diagnosis, Vanessa was pregnant, but….
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