You Were Supposed to Inspect the Dam, So Why Did You Open the Floodgates?

[Urban development] [Extreme rescue]

Reborn into a new life, a real man should take charge of the nation’s most critical projects and turn the tide against natural disasters!

Chen Jue, a star water conservancy engineer, dies in a rescue operation and is reborn in a parallel world as a disillusioned technician. After being disciplined for “operational errors,” he has been transferred to a hydrological station in a third-tier city.

Just as he thinks he’ll spend the rest of his life buried in data, a once-in-a-thousand-years deluge threatens to burst the Zhenhai Super Dam, the largest in Asia and third-largest in the world!

Floodwaters surge from upstream, cities lie downstream, and hidden structural damage threatens from within the dam. The three-pronged danger puts tens of millions of lives on the line.

The experts are all at a loss. Their only plan is to sacrifice several towns downstream by opening the floodgates early and diverting the water, saving the greater part at the expense of the lesser.

Chen Jue wants to save his hometown downstream, and protect the massive engineering project he dedicated his previous life to.

At the provincial flood control command center, everyone thinks he’s trying to do the impossible.

“That’s a real shame. We have no choice but to abandon those towns downstream.”

“Chen Jue? The technician who was disciplined? He says he can use a ‘flood’ to stop a ‘flood’? He must be crazy!”

“What can he do? Forget remotely operating the gates, he can’t even get the command center’s authorization password!”

Then, to everyone’s horror, Gate Seventeen, the sediment-flushing gate at Zhenhai Dam, opens in reverse at an utterly impossible angle. It precisely diverts part of the flood peak into the long-abandoned Dragon Siphon River channel, easing the pressure on the main dam. Everyone is stunned.

“What? You used the floodwater from a failing dam as a surgical scalpel?”

“What... is he trying to do?!”