The water had already reached halfway up the mountain; everyone boarded the cruise ship using small boats, and then they collected the boats and gathered on the cruise ship.
Everyone understood that this wasn't a simple flood, but a rise in the water level, which was precisely the disaster they had anticipated and feared the most.
The evacuation to Mount Everest was exactly for this scenario of rising water levels, but they hadn't anticipated that the disaster would strike before they even got there.
Lu Ruisheng briefed everyone on the situation and then entered the cockpit. The path to the cockpit had been modified before. Once inside that corridor, it was all under their control, with password locks that only their people could open.
Previously, they had deliberately trained people for every position, so now everyone was taking charge of their duties, even Meng Meng had her own post.