However, just as everyone was buzzing with discussion, Su Chen maintained a completely calm expression, seemingly not feeling at all that his answer was problematic.
"This junior stated earlier that even if later generations forgot the name of Emperor Yu, his spirit has always been passed down, deeply engrained in the bones of every descendant of Huaxia."
"Although floods still ravage Huaxia today, how can there not be tens of millions of descendants like Emperor Yu?"
"With these people here, even if the waves tower to the skies, what is there to fear!"
At this, Su Chen bowed once more, his eyes filled with absolute sincerity as he looked at Dayu.
"Placing our ancestors high upon a pedestal, burning incense and kowtowing, is certainly a way to show respect."
"Yet carrying on their aspirations and following in their footsteps is, in this junior's view, the best commemoration of our ancestors!"
Dayu frowned slightly.
"In today's Huaxia, there are tens of millions of descendants like me?"
"Do these descendants all carry on my aspirations? Do they follow in my footsteps?"
Dayu silently repeated Su Chen's words to himself a few times, then suddenly pointed a single finger.
A speck of light instantly flew from his fingertip, drifted toward Su Chen, and merged into the top of his head.
The next second, before Dayu's eyes and within the minds of everyone across Huaxia, an image emerged.
It was precisely what Su Chen was thinking at that moment.
That was the bank of a great river, the sky gloomy with incessant thunder.
Within the dikes, rolling floodwaters surged past.
Outside the dikes, everything was also entirely a watery kingdom.
Dilapidated houses, snapped trees, floating carcasses of livestock.
Along with those disaster victims who had climbed onto the dikes, covered from head to toe in mud, weeping as they searched for their loved ones.
Everything resembled the doomsday scenes from a movie to the extreme.
Before the might of nature, everything appeared so insignificant and fragile.
Even without being in the midst of it, upon seeing this image, many people felt their legs turn weak and involuntarily took two steps back.
At that very moment, a loud crash suddenly rang out.
The embankment, already hanging by a thread, finally could not withstand it and collapsed with a roar.
Like an ancient fierce beast, the floodwaters instantly surged out from the seven-to-eight-meter-wide breach.
Countless disaster victims ran desperately toward the high ground, for a single slow step meant being swallowed by the flood and vanishing forever.
Seeing this scene, all the people of Huaxia breathed heavily, their fists clenching involuntarily.
Yet the very next moment.
Figure after figure clad in camouflage uniforms lined up, pushing through the fleeing crowd and charging toward the breach.
"The soldiers have arrived, we're saved!"
Though danger was right before their eyes, the appearance of these figures seemed to possess a magical quality, banishing the fear in the victims' hearts.
These young soldiers had not closed their eyes in sleep for days and nights.
When hungry, they took a few bites of steamed buns.
When thirsty, they scooped a handful of muddy water from beside the dike.
When utterly exhausted, they slumped over sandbags for a moment before plunging back into the fight.
Yet despite their arrival at the earliest possible moment, the breach, originally only seven or eight meters wide, had now expanded to tens of meters wide under the relentless impact of the floodwaters!
Giants waves nearly ten meters high swept with a wild, matchless momentum straight across the fields behind the dike, rolling toward the distant city.
The hundreds of thousands of citizens inside the city were in imminent danger!
"This is... Jiuhe City?"
"Could this be the flood of '98!"
"Good heavens! These images are actually real!"
When the scene shifted to the city, catching sight of the street signs along the road and the crowd fleeing for their lives, many Huaxia people could not help crying out in shock.
Many of them still remembered this catastrophe from over twenty years ago.
That year, our country suffered unprecedented flood disasters, with the affected population reaching over 200 million and more than six million houses collapsed.
It was precisely this flood before their eyes that shattered countless families and separated countless loved ones across the divide of life and death!
The view of the city flashed by for just a moment, as the scene returned to the embankment.
Countless soldiers were already standing upon the breach, trying to block the surging floodwaters.
Yet the speed of the current was truly too fast.
The sandbags tossed down by the soldiers were swept away in an instant before they could even sink to the bottom.
Sandbags wouldn't work, so they used trucks!
However, twenty-one military trucks pushed down merely spun around before being swept away by the floodwaters, failing to have any effect at all.
Watching as Jiuhe City was about to become a living hell.
The on-site commander could only requisition nearby cargo ships, hoping to block the breach by sinking ships.
Upon hearing the ship requisition order, the nearby boat owners immediately delivered their vessels.
As the expensive cargo ships were scuttled one by one, the breach, tens of meters long, was finally plugged.
Yet the floodwaters were not so easily defeated.
Before the soldiers even had a chance to catch their breath, new breaches quickly appeared along the embankment.
By this time, however, the ships had been scuttled, and the sandbags were entirely used up.
There was nothing left that could be used to plug the breaches.
Everyone knew, though, that if they waited any longer.
Before long, these breaches of several meters would expand to over ten meters, or even tens of meters!
A shocking scene unfolded!
Those soldiers, who looked no more than eighteen or nineteen and still retained their youthful innocence, leaped into the breach without the slightest hesitation.
Faced with the towering, monstrous waves rushing straight at them, they locked arms and fought desperately to steady their footing.
These young soldiers used their own flesh and blood to build a human wall.
As soon as one was washed away, another immediately took their place!
With their lives, they allowed the disaster-stricken people to see a glimmer of hope.
At this moment, they were not only children cherished by their parents; they were, even more, the Huaxia People's Liberation Army!
Before their eyes lay the cycle of life and death, and behind them stood the people of the motherland!
The citizens present, upon seeing this scene, had already cried until their eyes were red.
They even forgot to run for their lives, kneeling on the ground and weeping with heart-rending cries.
"I beg you, stop jumping!"
"We don't want our homes! We don't want our land either! Come back!"
"You're still children! You can't afford to be hurt!"
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"Stop jumping! I'm begging you! Stop jumping!"
Yet facing the pleas of the people and those pairs of hands trying to hold them back.
The soldiers remained silent, still charging toward the breach one after another.
With their actions, they proved the oath they took before setting out.
As long as the embankment stands, we live! If the embankment falls, we perish!
The footage abruptly cut off here.
The voice of Su Chen immediately rang out in everyone's ears.
"In the face of natural disasters, humanity is certainly insignificant, but it is precisely because of this insignificance that our spirit of unity is birthed."
"Not many of these heroes who defied death and stepped forward have left their names behind, yet they share a common name!"
"The Huaxia People's Liberation Army!"
"They are the heroes of Huaxia, and they are also the representatives of Huaxia!"
"They are the millions of Dayu of today's Huaxia!"
"For countless years, we descendants of Huaxia have always been like this-relying neither on the heavens nor on the earth, but rather on unremitting self-improvement!"
"In our blood, the gene of humanity conquering nature is passed down from generation to generation, and even after thousands of years, it has still not been extinguished!"
"This! Is the spirit of Dayu!"
"This! Is the spirit of the Huaxia nation!"
"From ancient times to the present, it has never changed!"
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