Chapter 137 Shelter

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They spent another day or so moving from east to west along the southern part of the peninsula.

The wind here is weak, but the rain is still heavy.

During these two days, Tang Yatong will remove the weapon barrier during the day, and this little wind and rain will not have much impact on the fully enclosed yacht. The barrier will be opened at night, mainly to exempt from sudden accidental injuries.

Whether it is a water tornado, typhoon, thunderstorm or someone with bad intentions who wants to board the ship, all damage can be exempted, and when the barrier suffers a huge impact and damage, Tang Yatong will sense it and wake up in the first time.

In this way, the five people in the group can get enough rest at night, wake up early in the morning, and continue to move forward.

The southern part of the peninsula was not hit by the tsunami, but it has lost a large area of ​​coastline and some cities under the heavy rain.

The heavy rain is much milder than the tsunami. Most of the buildings along the southern coast are well preserved. As they passed by, they could clearly see that all kinds of boats were parked on the outer walls of each building submerged in the water, ranging from rubber boats, duck boats, and wooden bathtubs to large wooden boats and two-story speedboats.

In comparison, their yacht only looks beautiful and luxurious, but not particularly outstanding (?).

Youxi and Tang Yatong can clearly see the people in the buildings. There are still many people living in these water buildings.

Some of them may be homesick and don't want to leave. They are used to rowing out to search for supplies during the day and going back to rest at night, and they live like this.

Some people may have elderly or sick people at home. Rather than wandering around, they would rather stay where they are and wait until they can no longer stay.

Some people may have simply given up. Now everyone knows that there has been no external rescue on the peninsula so far. It is like an isolated island isolated from the outside world.

The irony is that when there is an occasional signal, they can learn about the situation outside from TV or the Internet. The world is also suffering from typhoons, rainstorms, and tsunamis. However, everything is like watching flowers from the other side of the shore, a world that only exists in the picture.

It is said that someone once drove a boat to a city outside the peninsula, but there has been no news since then.

There are also people - mostly people living in the west of the peninsula, who packed their luggage and drove away from the peninsula, but again, those who left never sent back any news.

One or two people may be just accidental, but when everyone is like this, one cannot help but wonder, did the people who left successfully arrive in other cities outside the peninsula?

Or, did they... successfully leave the peninsula?

Various kinds of news are circulating everywhere.

Some people have heard this kind of news so many times that one day when they woke up, they were shocked to find that their family members who had gone on a business trip to a city outside the peninsula a long time ago have not returned yet.

However, before today, their brains were like rusted and blunt, and they ignored this matter without any agreement. Even if they occasionally talked about their family members who didn't know when they would return from the business trip, they never thought there was anything strange.

Now, the fog that had been covering their minds for a long time dissipated overnight. They could clearly remember that their family had been away for a long time, but let alone coming home, they had not even called back...

Why didn't they feel strange at all before when something was so obviously wrong?

As the information in their minds became clearer and clearer, they were filled with great panic.

They couldn't get through to their family members, and when they wanted to call the police, they realized that there were natural disasters happening one after another outside, the order was in chaos, and there was a shortage of manpower everywhere. Even if they called the police, who would help them find their long-missing family members?

With the arrival of the end of the world, some people on the Lushan Peninsula gradually recovered the information that had been blocked before.

They can sense the abnormality around them better than others, but now the order outside is in chaos and people are dying every day. In comparison, no one will pay attention to their affairs.

**

When the yacht stopped in the waters near the building to rest for the night, Youxi and Tang Yatong received various messages with their superior hearing.

"It seems that before the end of the world, the rules of the world seem to have their own way of dealing with those who left the peninsula for some reason and entered the time and space loop area."

"Well, it feels like it is to prevent the order of this fragmented world from collapsing before the end of the world."

Tang Yatong's weapon barrier has been opened, and the light arc that is so faint that it is almost invisible blocks the rain outside the yacht. Youxi and Tang Yatong sit on the tatami at the front of the main deck of the yacht, drinking (beverages) while analyzing the information they heard before.

Tang Yatong sighed: "It's cruel. It seems that the human beings in this world can only choose between lies and the end of the world."

"Rather than choosing, it's better to say that it's arranged."

Hearing this, Tang Yatong fell silent .

She thought of her native world. To the people in the system tower, it was undoubtedly a mission world. So, are all the disasters that befell that world also arranged?

The surrounding waters were pitch black. Because of the power outage, the buildings that seemed to be a little lively during the day were now dead silent.

Only occasionally, there were a few windows, revealing some weak flickering flames.

In order to avoid being abrupt, the yacht will pay special attention to the lighting problem at night after turning to the southern coast. Even when eating dinner, only a few dim lights in the boat are turned on.

In Tang Yatong's opinion, this was as it should be. All the electricity on the yacht came from fuel. The yacht consumed so much fuel, and she was always worried that Youxi would not have enough fuel, so she had to save as much as possible.

Youxi was embarrassed to say that a lot of the gasoline in her fuel space was stored in the meteorite world...

"We should be able to reach the first shipyard tomorrow morning. Judging from the current position of the sea water, the shipyard should have been completely submerged."

Youxi nodded: "I will go into the water by myself tomorrow, and you stay on the yacht."

Tang Yatong reached out and clinked glasses with her: "Then you should be careful." The two of them had cooperated countless times, and there was no need to say more about this.

The next day, the yacht stopped after sailing west for two hours.

There were no buildings nearby. Looking around, there was only water. You had to go far away to see the hills exposed above the water.

Several broad orange steel hangers stretched across the front of the yacht. These were large open-air facilities for assembling the ship's sections. These giant hangers fixed to the dock were usually more than a dozen stories high, but now they were nearly half submerged by the sea.

Such a conspicuous hanger indicated that the yacht had arrived at its destination, the shipyard, which was just below this body of water.

Youxi had already put on her diving gear. There was no barrier outside the yacht. She opened the electric glass door of the restaurant and was immediately surrounded by heavy rain.

She turned around and sat on the railing of the yacht, then flipped backwards and entered the water neatly.

The water blocked the noise of the heavy rain. Youxi turned on the waterproof searchlight fixed on her wrist to check the situation underwater.

Most of the shipyards in this area are general assembly shipyards, which only manufacture hulls, outfitting piping and cabin insulation decorations, and assemble and test ships. Other marine machinery and equipment are provided by other professional factories.

It is more likely to find a completed ship in this type of shipyard than to find a complete ship in a comprehensive shipyard.

Youxi found the steel bars at both ends of the giant hanger, and dived along the shaft of the bars, and soon reached the original dock.

There was indeed a boat underneath, and because of its own weight, it stood there like a giant rock. Youxi adjusted the searchlight to the brightest, and began to check whether the assembly was complete by sticking to the hull.

Finding a boat is easier said than done. Even if they have completed the first ninety-nine steps, the last step still depends on luck.

At the first shipyard, Youxi did not find a completed ship.

She sent a text message to Tang Yatong using the transparent phone on her wrist underwater, and then continued to swim towards the second shipyard in front.

Tang Yatong received the message, started the yacht, turned on the radar detection device, carefully bypassed the hanger area in front of her, and moved forward.

They found three shipyards in total, and most of the hulls were not assembled. There was a ship that seemed to be completed on the surface. When Youxi borrowed the space of the transportation tool to fold up the ship and floated it to the surface, she found that many important machines were missing in the cabin.

"How about putting it away first? Then go and collect more mechanical equipment, and find someone who knows how to install it later?" Tang Yatong suggested this to Youxi who was sitting on the deck when she changed the oxygen cylinder.

Youxi looked up at the huge cargo ship on the water. When it was put into the space of the transportation tool, it automatically expelled all the seawater that penetrated into it. Now that she released it, it can float steadily on the water because of the integrity of the hull.

It's just that there is a lack of machinery at present, and there is no way to make it sail.

A ship that cannot sail is like a floating island in the water. It is not completely unusable, but it will be more troublesome in the future.

"Forget it, let's keep it for now. If there is a better cargo ship behind, we can change it." Youxi put on a mask and said that he wanted to go into the water again.

"It's already afternoon, you haven't had lunch yet, why don't you eat something before going into the water?"

"I remember there is a public pier ahead. I'll try my luck there and come up to eat when I find the pier."

The reason why I said try my luck is that the ships in places like public piers are finished products. As long as it is not a tsunami, whether it is a rainstorm or a typhoon, they can react in the first time and sail away from the dangerous area immediately.

So in places like this, the possibility of finding a ship is even smaller.

Tang Yatong drove the yacht to the vicinity of the pier, and before it stopped, Youxi went into the water directly.

In the kitchen on the main deck, Chen Lei and his son learned that Youxi would go on board to eat after going into the water this time, so they were preparing lunch. Chen Lei is a single father. His cooking skills cannot compare with Tang Yatong, but he can cook most home-cooked dishes.

These days, with the consent of the owner, they have contracted the daily cooking work.

There are many ingredients in the refrigerator and cabinets of the yacht. Compared with what they have seen along the way, they feel happy even if they just cook.

The two of them were a little afraid of "Qu Yichen" at first. They only felt that although the boy was young, his eyes were very deep and cold. When "he" looked at them, they always felt a sense of fear from the bottom of their hearts.

But these two days they spent the night near the building complex. When Chen Lei woke up in the middle of the night one day, he saw "Qu Yichen" rowing a rubber boat full of rice and flour, passing by one building after another in the dead of night.

Wherever they went, "he" would stop for a while. It was too dark at night, and Chen Lei couldn't see clearly what he did when he stopped. But when he rowed the rubber boat back again, the rice and flour on it were gone.

It turned out that the other party was going to deliver supplies, and he did it in this way of giving gifts in private.

Since then, Chen Lei's feelings towards "Qu Yichen" have been completely different. All the fear in his heart has turned into awe - even though the other party is younger than his son, it does not hinder his respect for him.

Lunch was almost ready. Chen Shengxin cut a plate of watermelon and took it directly to the semi-outdoor restaurant in the back. The electric glass door was tightly closed to block the rain.

You Zhenzhen stood in front of the glass, staring at the place where You Xi entered the water in a daze.

"Are you hungry? Have some fruit first?" Chen Shengxin asked carefully.

"Put it on the table. I'll wait for my mother to come up before we eat together." You Zhenzhen frowned worriedly, "Why did she take so long this time? Didn't she say that the possibility of finding a boat at the pier was very low? Didn't she just go down to take a look and come back?" She

wanted to send a message to him, but she was afraid that she would disturb You Xi and distract her underwater, so she waited patiently.

"Don't worry, your mother is so powerful, she should come up soon."

Chen Shengxin put down the watermelon and stood in front of the glass with her to wait.

You Zhenzhen looked outside, while Chen Shengxin kept looking at the girl beside him. Suddenly, he heard her scream. Before he could react, she opened the electric glass door and ran onto the back deck.

He hurriedly picked up the umbrella beside him and ran after her to shield her from the rain.

"Look!" You Zhenzhen stretched out her hand and pointed to the water on the other side of the yacht.

Chen Shengxin looked back and saw that there was another ship on the originally empty water surface - a cruise ship!

**

This is a medium-sized passenger cruise ship, nearly 100 meters long, 20 meters wide, and a total of five floors. According to the information in the cockpit, the cruise ship is used for island tours. It has a total of 108 guest rooms and can accommodate about 600 people.

But this is only the limited number of people in the room. If all kinds of functional rooms are counted, more people can be accommodated.

The cruise ship is neither new nor old. When it was discovered by You Xi, it was overturned near the underwater dock. Many of the glass in the room was broken, and even a few corpses could be seen inside - they were all crew members, not many in number, and no one knew what happened on the day of the accident.

She released the cargo ship in other empty waters, then put the cruise ship (excluding the bodies and seawater) into the transportation warehouse, and placed it on the water after floating.

Youxi just tried it, but she didn't expect the cruise ship to stay steadily on the water.

Afterwards, Tang Yatong drove the yacht closer, You Zhenzhen stayed on the yacht to guard, and the other four boarded the cruise ship to check. They found that except for the broken glass in some rooms and the messy and wet walls and floors of some rooms, the main machinery of the cruise ship was intact, and even the water tank and fuel tank were full.

"As long as it is repaired and sorted out, and then find the right crew, this cruise ship can be used."

Tang Yatong was in a good mood. Such a cruise ship with complete facilities is much more practical than a larger cargo ship. Of course, it will take a lot of time to repair it in the early stage, but under the current circumstances, such a cruise ship will prevent their subsequent actions and plans from becoming passive.

After lunch that day, Tang Yatong held a small meeting and said that the next step was to return to the central part of the peninsula, but along the way, they would continue to visit several places where they might find large quantities of drinking water and supplies, including several places where they could find fuel, most of which were underwater.

Chen Lei and his son had no objections at all, and of course even if they had objections, it would not change anything, so Tang Yatong just informed them and left.

Cruise ships cannot load other mechanical vehicles (except rubber lifeboats) and then put them into space, but they can load supplies. Such a large hull space can hold amazing supplies.

Tang Yatong and Youxi boarded the cruise ship again and placed all the supplies they had found in several warehouses in a well-sealed warehouse on the cruise ship that had not been flooded. Then they asked Youxi to put away the supplies, and

the two of them had space to continue searching for supplies in the water.

After that, they drove the yacht, stopping and starting along the water, heading towards the highlands.

**

In the next few days, the entire Lushan Peninsula continued to be shrouded in heavy rain. The rain never stopped for a moment, and it kept falling, washing the entire peninsula, and the water level was rising a little bit.

If someone looked down from a satellite at this time, they would find that the area of ​​the entire peninsula had been reduced by nearly half, and half of the land had sunk underwater.

All the survivors on the peninsula were evacuating to the central highlands. In the cities that their yacht passed through, various ships became the main means of transportation.

Occasionally, they would encounter large ships that had survived the typhoon and were carrying many survivors.

However, the situation in each area of ​​these flooded lands was different. Slightly larger ships could sail along the outer edge of the peninsula, but once they cut into the inland, they would easily run aground.

Once they ran aground, the ship could not move, and it was unknown how long they would have to wait to get out of the grounding after the water level rose sharply.

Some people were forced to leave the ships that could shelter them from the wind and rain and seek a way out elsewhere due to the pressure of drinking water.

Some people would stop by every building that was exposed to the water, break the glass and go inside to search for supplies.

Take away everything you can eat, drink and use after you find it.

Sometimes, some buildings are still inhabited, and conflicts arise between outsiders and those who are unwilling to leave their homes. Those who still retain a sense of order will use defense as the basis, with one side warning the other to evacuate. Those

with ruthless hearts will clash, with outsiders either taking away the other's supplies, or the people guarding their homes taking away the supplies of the outsiders.

In the early days of the chaos, it was not yet to the point of life and death for a piece of bread, but many people's hands were already stained with blood.

Many people who feared this kind of chaos were eager to go to the central highlands, where the terrain was high and not flooded. It is said that official people have also evacuated there, and they are carrying a lot of supplies, and they are still insisting on distributing food and clean water every day.

These flooded cities have been surviving on rainwater for a while.

However, rainwater contains a large number of bacteria, and most people do not know how to filter and disinfect it. Sometimes there is no condition to boil it. Many people with poor physical fitness have become sick after drinking too much rainwater.

In this case, the sick people either wait for self-healing or wait for death.

The only motivation that keeps them going is the dry land on the high ground, where there are many hotels and guesthouses. Even if they are in a dilapidated state under the attack of thunderstorms and typhoons, they can make a floor in a building with eaves and make a fire to keep warm, which is better than staying in the never-ending cold rain wrapped in a raincoat.

But when these people finally reached the highlands after stumbling all the way and using up all their drinking water, they found that the place was already overcrowded.

The people of the entire peninsula, except those who died in the disaster, all fled here.

A large number of people were squeezed into the limited space, making the situation in the entire highland chaotic.

**

Wang Mufeng's family of three was relatively lucky, because he liked water sports, so he often went to the beach to play. He, his wife, and his teenage son were all good at swimming.

Not only that, they also had a fully enclosed rubber boat and many practical water tools at home, such as long-sleeved one-piece swimsuits, snorkeling masks, snorkels, earplugs and nose plugs, flippers, and other simple diving equipment.

They originally lived in a city near the eastern hills. When the flood hit, they packed their luggage and drove away.

However, because the road was blocked, they were soon caught up by the flood. At the critical moment, the family of three worked together to prop up the rubber boat and threw all the water equipment and precious drinking water supplies into the fully enclosed rubber boat.

They survived on this rubber boat. On the escape route from the east to the central part, they met all kinds of people.

Some people were friendly on the surface but actually coveted their rubber boat; some people suddenly appeared when they were searching for supplies and fought to the death with another person. After the life-and-death struggle, the vicious people looked at them, but did not come forward to deal with them, and did not even rob their supplies.

That day, Wang Mufeng picked up the dead man's original weapon with his shaking hands - a sharp fire axe, and was determined to protect his family and bring them to the central highlands safely.

But when they finally arrived at the highlands, they found that the situation here was not much better than the flood area.

Food was indeed distributed every day, but many people formed organizations to specifically rob those who got food.

Every hotel and guesthouse was already crowded with people, and even a garden corridor with air leaks on all sides became a resting place that required food exchange.

When Wang Mufeng was robbed of the water he received for the third time and resisted by a group of people, he heard the conversations of several other people in the group while he was being beaten.

It is said that there is a very special shelter in the north of this highland.

The shelter was not officially established, and its origins were a bit mysterious. It did not accept everyone. To join the shelter, you had to bring your ID and five kilograms of soil or one liter of fuel per person for an interview. Only those

who passed the interview could enter the shelter.

There was a criminal with a criminal record who tried to sneak in by claiming he had lost his ID, but he failed. It was okay to lose his ID, as long as he reported his ID number, the other party could still verify it.

But passing the ID is only the first step, and the subsequent interview is the most important.

Some people who failed the interview said that the other party was very strange in the interview, asking only a few questions and had to answer them within a time limit.

Some people answered randomly and concealed the truth, thinking that the other party would not know it, but without exception, they were all driven back.

These people were all driven back, and at this moment, they complained while swearing that one day they would seize the other party's shelter.

Wang Mufeng carefully protected his head and other important parts while sneering in his heart, thinking that they were worthy of it?

That day he returned to the eaves where his wife and son were taking shelter. Seeing his family suffering from hunger and cold, he decided to take them to try their luck.

The three of them walked in the rain with difficulty, climbed over two hillsides of the highland, and came to the north, but found that there were no buildings around, only the gray water below the hillside.

The northern part of the highland was originally not far from the northern coastline. After the water level surged, the water had completely submerged the land in the north.

"Dad!" The son suddenly pulled him and pointed to the opposite side of the hillside. "There is a ship there!"

Wang Mufeng raised his head and carefully distinguished it in the heavy rain.

Sure enough, there was a cruise ship parked in the waters opposite the hillside.

At the same moment, inside the cruise ship, the number of refugees accommodated had just reached fifty.

Youxi, who was somewhere on the cruise ship, heard the sound of the system.