◎Happy 135th Day: Refugees and Excited Children◎

Captain Yu’s advice is still very necessary.

In the middle of the night, everyone was leaning against the edge of the boat, lulled to sleep by the swaying rhythm of the boat.

Jiang Muyun's dream had just begun when it was interrupted by a sudden gunshot.

Jiang Muyun was suddenly awakened. His right hand subconsciously reached behind his waist, and with his left hand he fastened the hood of his windbreaker. Together with Chu Buwen, who was also awakened, he lifted up their half of the awning.

Jiang Muyun didn't know what time it was, nor who was on guard duty, so he simply asked the figure standing on the supply ship, "What happened?"

Tang An's recognizable voice came: "The boat has disembarked from the building opposite. I warned them, but they have already returned."

The others who had also been awakened breathed a sigh of relief. Captain Yu jokingly said, "They scared the enemy back. Their marksmanship has improved."

Tang An smiled and said, "It has nothing to do with my marksmanship. It's just that Sister Muyun chose a good place."

The place Jiang Muyun chose is really great.

They had a Type 85 rifle with an effective range of over 1,500 meters. Normally, even if ordinary survivors had guns, they would primarily use ordinary rifles and pistols, with an effective range of no more than 500 meters.

Jiang Muyun parked the boat about a thousand meters away from the tall buildings, just in a range where they could attack each other, but the other party would most likely be unable to do anything to them.

The rain now is not as terrible as when the rainy season first came. At least they can use binoculars and night vision to roughly see the movements of the other side through the rain.

Unless the people upstairs are desperate enough to dive out from the water at this time, it is impossible to approach them quietly.

Just like just now, the people on the other side had just launched their boat into the water and were about to approach here when Tang An discovered their tracks and fired a warning shot.

No matter where the bullet went, even if Tang An fired directly into the air, the other side would understand that they had been discovered.

Anyone with some sense would know that this evil idea won't work tonight, so it's better to just go back to sleep.

Jiang Muyun always responded to compliments without hesitation: "Thank you, thank you. I think so too. My main strength is my sharp brain."

"I always thought I was a calm, steady middle-aged man, but today I realize I'm still rebellious." Captain Yu said seriously, "I know you're smart, but now that you've said that, I suddenly can't boast anymore."

Jiang Muyun put the gun back into his waist and secured it with an elastic band, sneering at the calm middle-aged man.

Chu Buwen pulled down the awning, adjusted the position of the pillow for Professor Chen who had just half stood up, and fumbled out of his bag to find a button-sized compressed towel.

After unpacking the towel, Chu Buwen pulled Jiang Muyun's blanket over and used the small compressed towel to absorb all the water on the blanket.

The blankets they cover themselves with at night are wool blankets sandwiched between thermal blankets, which not only provide better thermal insulation but also prevent moisture.

Just now, some rain came in and a part of Jiang Muyun's blanket was wet.

Chu Buwen carefully soaked the water off the blanket and returned it to Jiang Muyun. He did not put away the compressed towel that had expanded on one side after absorbing the water, but put it aside and let it stretch freely.

The quality of this compressed towel as a towel after unfolding is not very good, but the advantage is that it is small in size, light in weight and can absorb water, so it is quite convenient to wipe things in this environment.

After wiping, it can also be used as an air desiccant, placed here to absorb moisture in the air.

It is hard to say how much use it will have, anyway, the boat they are on now is just a small space covered by a canopy, and a little less moisture in the air in that space will make people feel more comfortable.

This thing was a gift from the manufacturer when Jiang Muyun bought cream at the home chemical factory. The quantity was small. It happened that it was inconvenient for them to bring too many tissues on the road this time, so Jiang Muyun remembered that she had these small things with individual packaging in her space, so she brought them out.

Chu Buwen found it really convenient to use, and even began to regret why he didn't think of buying more of it when he was stocking up.

He was only thinking about dehumidifiers and anhydrous calcium chloride.

However, these two items can only be used at home. Once you go out, they are a pure burden.

I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, or if the compressed towel’s dehumidification effect is really that good, or if everyone didn’t sleep well the day before and was more tired at night, but anyway, everyone slept well that night.

Even Professor Chen, who said yesterday morning that the sound of rain gave him a headache, was able to sleep peacefully at night with the help of earplugs.

People's ability to adapt is really incredible. In just three or four days, everyone has become accustomed to the sound of raindrops hitting the awning.

Because they are so used to hearing them, they can naturally ignore the noises when they are resting and pretend they don't exist.

After sleeping on the boat for the second night, everyone felt much better than the previous two days.

"We should turn north today." After finishing breakfast cooked on an alcohol stove, Jiang Muyun said to a few people while sitting on the boat.

"The water level in the coastal area is deeper than I thought, and the current is having a significant impact on the ship's speed. We'll head due north and remeasure our speed."

As Jiang Muyun spoke, he used the pencil in his hand to draw a vague curve on the map. The end of the curve was a small county town similar to where they stayed last night.

The direction of the water flow has clearly shown that the water level in the north is now decreasing. If there is no disaster such as an earthquake that causes changes in the northern terrain, then the rainy season in the north is likely over.

If they didn't want to actually go out to sea in their kayaks, they had to hurry.

So after the first few days of adaptation, Jiang Muyun directly extended the travel time from 8 am to 3 pm, a total of about seven hours, to 7 am to 4 pm, a total of more than nine hours.

But even so, their progress inevitably slowed down.

If calculated based on straight-line distance, their daily progress is only around 60 kilometers.

Of course, the water current has an impact on the speed of the ship, but more importantly, it is because they have to avoid places where survivors gather, so it is difficult to move forward in a straight line.

When Jiang Muyun planned the length of the route, he aimed to arrive at the designated rest area at 4 pm.

In other words, only when everything goes well on the road can they arrive at the designated rest area on time at four o'clock to rest.

But given the complicated road conditions, how could everything go smoothly?

Not to mention the need to temporarily change the route based on real-time information obtained on the road, occasionally when you are unlucky and run into other survivors, it is inevitable that some time will be wasted.

Not all survivors want to rob anyone they see at this moment.

In fact, if the speed of travel was taken into consideration, Jiang Muyun would even prefer that they encounter malicious and stubborn bandits.

After all, they are the ones with the range advantage.

If they were to encounter a tough gangster, they could easily sink all of the enemy's ships from a thousand meters away, and then they could just go on their way.

It's a pity that to survive in a coastal area where there are many people and gossips, apart from anything else, he definitely has a good eye for people.

Most of the time, the survivors they encountered did not require Jiang Muyun to fire warning shots.

If people on the other side heard the engine sound from afar, or saw the weapons on their group and the big size of Xiaobai Tutu and the others through binoculars, they would consciously avoid them.

Several people on the opposite side were deliberately making evasive gestures. Even if Jiang Muyun and the others were originally heading towards the other side, they had to move away at this moment and prove with practical actions that they did not want to have a conflict.

When encountering this situation, it takes longer than if both sides take direct action.

Captain Yu said that they were all kind-hearted gentlemen who would rather trouble themselves than kill others. Otherwise, they would just drive all the way and destroy every ship they saw. There would be no need to go around in circles.

Jiang Muyun once again used the little parrot to guide him north, directing everyone to steer the boat back to the original safe route. Hearing this, he replied, "Yes, and in two days, we should be followed by several fleets."

Gao Liang laughed heartily: "You're all here to seek revenge, right?"

Captain Yu objected: "How could it be that there was only a fleet behind them, and no one was blocking the way ahead? Then I don't really approve of their determination for revenge."

Chu Buwen said sincerely: "It should be said that you have a noble temperament of sacrificing your life."

Captain Yu: "All the words are good, but I feel like you are scolding me."

Jiang Muyun highly praised Chu Buwen's literary accomplishment: "Look at this elegant and graceful writing style. It would have been suitable for the Chinese textbook selected a few years ago. Just looking at it makes people want to do reading comprehension."

Captain Yu laughed with everyone for a long time, and finally came to his senses when it was time for dinner.

That's not right. When Jiang Muyun said this, wasn't he implying that he was doing his reading comprehension blindly and misinterpreting the meaning of Chu Buwen's words?

You bastards, are you trying to fool him by singing the same tune?

For four or five days, Jiang Muyun and others advanced towards the north at an extremely slow pace.

The water flow had slowed down now, but their progress was getting slower and slower.

Because the further north they went, the more often they encountered survivors on the road. At the same time, due to the lower water level, many places with dense buildings were not suitable for sailing.

When planning his route, Jiang Muyun not only had to avoid high mountains and urban areas, but he also had to go around ordinary counties and towns.

Of course, these are nothing. The most troublesome thing is the other survivors.

They didn't see a single person for two or three days when they first set out, but now, if they are unlucky, they can encounter three or four groups of survivors in a day.

The frequency was so high that Xiaolan would run around everywhere with great energy every day. Jiang Muyun and his friends had to hold this spoiled and fearless cub in their arms to coax it, so that if they didn't keep an eye on it one day, Xiaolan would just run away with someone else.

"It's a bit strange." Chu Buwen looked at the jet ski towing a kayak passing by in the distance with some confusion.

The survivor fleets they encountered in the past two days almost all came from the north.

And these fleets also reacted strangely when they encountered them on the road.

He didn't rush over with a fierce look on his face to try to rob me, nor did he politely give way like a normal encounter to avoid causing misunderstanding.

Except for the fleets that would actively adjust their directions when the ships on both sides were about to collide, most of these fleets just focused on their own journey, pretending not to see them.

Jiang Muyun felt that something was wrong.

At this time, the only people who would move around in groups were robbers and caravans.

But the wealth gap between the survivor fleets they encountered in the past two days was astonishingly large.

Some people drove speedboats and burned oil to escape, while others paddled rough small rafts with difficulty. The only self-defense weapons on their waists were kitchen knives, and there were also the elderly, the weak, women and children in the team.

It's obviously not related to robbers or caravans.

Jiang Muyun thought about it and could only think of one situation that fits the situation.

"Escape?"

Jiang Muyun stroked Xiaobai's head, then pinched Dabai, who had his head sticking out of her pocket, and said puzzledly, "It doesn't look like there's any disaster. I can understand why our two fearless fools didn't react, but it's impossible that the ones on our boat are also fearless, right?"

If there is anything unusual about the mutant animals they brought out in the past two days, it is that they are unusually lively.

There was no sign of fear at all.

They looked completely different from the survivors they had seen in the past two days who were migrating south with their families.