◎Happy 142nd Day: Ruins Blockade◎

"Friend, have you heard of the Da Vinci sleep method?" Jiang Muyun crawled out from under several layers of blankets with lifeless eyes, wrapped himself in the blankets and buttoned the lining of his jacket, his tone of voice sounding ethereal.

Jiang Muyun tilted his head back and took a sip of mouthwash. After a few gulps, he continued, "The Da Vinci sleep method, also known as multi-stage sleep, simply put, is to sleep for fifteen minutes for every four hours of work. This way, you can gain more working time."

Jiang Muyun's expression was very serious when she said this. She seemed to be trying to persuade everyone, but also seemed to be hypnotizing herself.

Gao Liang, who had also just woken up in the neighboring boat, lay on the edge of the boat and cried, "But shouldn't the ultimate goal of mankind be to not have to work and still have money? Why should I fight for more working hours?"

Tang An spoke frankly in the sea breeze: "Of course it's for my dream."

Gao Liang casually scooped up a handful of cold sea water and splashed it on his face. Then he shuddered and completely sobered up: "I don't have any dreams. I work just because I want to live."

"Work may not keep you alive, but working with dreams in your heart will definitely keep you from starving to death." Zhou Fei said slowly, and handed him a piece of cotton cloth that had been used to wipe something before. Gao Liang took it and wiped his face with it without even looking at it.

Chen Cheng, a minor who had never worked before, was very curious: "Why?"

Jiang Muyun patted the child's head lovingly: "Because every day the boss makes a big cake for us to eat, and there's also northwest wind to drink. As long as we have food and drink, we won't starve to death."

Little girl Chen Cheng is thirteen years old this year. Except for the infant stage when she could not remember anything, she has lived in the apocalypse without the Internet for most of her life. So she does not understand why these strange adults can live by eating the pie in the sky drawn by their superiors and starving.

She felt that if it were her, she would only have about a one-third chance of surviving by relying on the northwest wind.

Because the north wind was blowing, she felt that the north wind did not want her to live.

Hopefully, "Xi" is a friendly guy.

Otherwise, she might not even have a one-third chance of survival.

This was their fourth day traveling north along the coastline, and also their second day officially entering the sea.

The rain stopped at noon the day before yesterday, and the temperature dropped suddenly yesterday.

It cannot be said that the temperature dropped suddenly. It should be said that the temperature has been slowly decreasing. It’s just that they have been engaged in physical labor and rarely have long periods of time to stop and rest, so they are not so sensitive to temperature changes.

Until yesterday when they entered the sea.

Anyone who has lived in a top-tier sea view house or a top-tier sea view ship in the north should know that to enjoy the beauty of the sea, in most cases you have to be beaten by its accompanying gifts first.

The fierce wind at the seaside is really not just talk. Jiang Muyun felt that after being in the sea for two hours, his hairline had been blown back two centimeters.

And the wind is from the north.

To be more specific, it means to go against them and try to blow them back home.

Can they agree to this?

Of course not.

So Gao Liang and others pulled the engine start rope, and with a buzzing sound, the horsepower was turned on full speed. The forces on both sides collided, and the outboard motor was almost burned.

It just so happened that no one had slept well in the past two days, and they were really scared by the wind, fearing that a cold wave would suddenly hit one day, so they simply took up the oars and took turns rowing to contribute to protecting Captain Yu's fragile heart - Jiang Muyun did not need to contribute, she only needed to be responsible for route planning and positioning.

Although this force was insignificant, the main force of the resistance was still the unlucky outboard motor for those two days, plus the little lazy boy who was soaked in sea water and itchy all over and often ran back to land to crawl with them, and occasionally couldn't bear to watch it anymore and dived into the sea to push them for a while.

With Xiao Lan coming back from time to time to do the hard labor, their progress became much faster.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen's CPUs also burned out many times due to the outboard motors.

If Jiang Muyun was asked to choose between reserving a seat for everyone or working as a laborer rowing the boat, she would definitely choose rowing.

They had to calculate how many kilometers they advanced per hour, facing many interfering factors, such as the ever-changing wind, the unpredictable waves, the outboard motor that occasionally stopped working, the rowers whose strength was unknown, and the lazy foreign aid who occasionally rushed over to push them. Jiang Muyun felt like someone was having a barbecue party in her head, ready to burn everything in her brain into charcoal.

Fortunately, the water on the shore has receded, and the buildings on the shore have been exposed, which can give her some reference.

Otherwise, Jiang Muyun would definitely close his eyes and urge people to drive north, due north. When they hit the shore in front and there is no swamp on the shore, they can go ashore and take the land route.

Even if she knew how to observe the night sky, it would be useless for her to do this. The unit of measurement for celestial distances is light-years, and the angle of viewing the earth is also very tricky, which is a barrier between her and the earthlings.

What if the astronomical object said that according to its observations, it had traveled a total of 8.963 light years from 8 to 9 this morning, would she believe it or not?

Anyway, their entry point is in the inland sea, and the latitude difference between its location and the capital is no more than two degrees. If they were not reluctant to lose their kayaks, so they wanted to find a piece of sandy land where humans could walk out alive and then turn to land, they would not have to struggle to move forward on the sea against the wind and waves.

"There are more survivors on the beach. On average, we can see a group every ten kilometers." Jiang Muyun put down the telescope, propped up his legs and curled up in the raft to avoid the wind, so as to avoid the map being blown away by the evil wind.

"Times have changed." Captain Yu rowed the boat with a chuckle. "Just the way we're sailing, two years ago people would have come over with guns to say hello. Now everyone's more clever than the other, all for show but no fire."

Every time Captain Yu retracted the oar in his hand, the handle would collide with the Type 85 rifle hanging on his chest, but even so he had no intention of taking the gun off.

In the past, everyone thought that the elderly and children were weak, and they would have bad thoughts when they saw the elderly, children, women and children on the street.

People nowadays are much smarter.

Everyone has gone through several rounds of trials and tribulations in the jungle law. The real weak ones have either been hiding in the survivor base or have long been screened out and used as fertilizer.

It's not easy to survive and dare to go out.

Nowadays, when people see the elderly, the weak, women and children walking outside, their first reaction is: This person is really something, as he is able to survive until now and dare to go out even though he is not at an advantage in terms of strength.

If the other party appears to be timid, it is possible that he is forced to leave the survivor base to make a living.

But for people like them who carry guns and sniper rifles, burn gas and pass by arrogantly, and even keep a few big dogs, there is an 80% chance that they really have something, and more than just a little bit.

Those who have the capital to attack them look down on their few supplies and are unwilling to exchange human lives for these few melons and a few dates.

Those who are interested in these supplies don’t have much good stuff in their hands, and a few rifles and guns are the most they can get.

I don't think anyone would be so foolish as to compare the range of the Type 56 and Type 85.

"It's a good thing there are more survivors on the beach." Chu Buwen had just finished his positioning work and went boating. After a long aerobic exercise, Chu Buwen felt his mind was a little clearer. "The more survivors come to the beach to get water, the longer the dry season will last. We're not far from reaching shore."

It's just that it's not a pleasant feeling to have someone pointing a gun at you from a distance from time to time along the way.

Even without binoculars, they couldn't see whether the people on the shore had guns.

It is precisely because I can’t see it that it makes me feel even more uneasy when I imagine it.

"It's not far." Jiang Muyun sat up, stuffed the map in his hand into his bag, and said to Chu Buwen, "Lend me some strength."

After saying that, Jiang Muyun held Chu Buwen's shoulders and stood up unsteadily.

The wind on the sea was very strong and the waves were quite large. Although they had four kayaks tied together and were relatively stable, it was extremely difficult to stand up on the boat.

Chu Buwen was held by her shoulders for support, so he didn't dare to move. He was afraid that if he moved, Jiang Muyun would fall directly into the sea. He could only warn her, "Be careful. What happened?"

Jiang Muyun stood up straight, holding up the telescope and staring forward for a long time. He frowned and said, "Young Master Chu, please put down your work for a moment and take a look at the map. How far are we from the capital now?"

She had just gotten up in such a hurry that she didn't pay attention to their exact location.

"Be careful, hold on to me. If you can't, sit down first." Chu Buwen held Jiang Muyun with his left hand for fear that she would fall, and stretched out his right arm to reach Jiang Muyun's bag.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen's locations are not updated in real time. They basically click on a point on the map every hour. The rest of the time they record and calculate the current speed in real time.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen had been taking turns recording positions since they set out, and were very familiar with these formulas. Chu Buwen had an idea of ​​the answer after a rough calculation based on the draft Jiang Muyun had made earlier.

Chu Buwen estimated: "We are now near the Jingji Port, no more than 150 kilometers away from the capital, and no more than one degree of latitude."

Jiang Muyun put down the telescope and looked at Chu Buwen's new target: "That's not bad, we're pretty lucky."

Chu Buwen asked, "What happened? Why do you suddenly need to check the distance?"

Jiang Muyun handed him the telescope, and Chu Buwen looked into the distance by himself.

The other people were also very curious when they saw this. Except for Chen Cheng and Gao Liang, who were responsible for driving the boat, everyone raised their binoculars.

"Have you found anything?" Jiang Muyun asked.

Captain Yu frowned and asked, "Did the building collapse?"

When building a sea view house by the sea, if you want a good view of the sea, a high-rise elevator is essential.

So as they walked along the coast, they saw resorts built by tourist cities on the seaside at regular intervals, and high-rise buildings also clustered together.

Even though these high-rise buildings are several kilometers away, they can vaguely see the outlines with the help of telescopes, hanging on the coast like sesame seeds.

But now, the road ahead suddenly became smooth.

You know, if their positioning is correct, if you walk a little further, where the high-rise buildings disappear, you will find that Gyeonggi City is a well-known tourist city, the back garden of the capital's people, and it is always crowded during holidays.

As far as Jiang Muyun knew, the resort hotels here wanted to be built up to 380 stories high. No matter how many stars they were, as long as they could catch a glimpse of the sea from the corners, they would all be called sea view rooms, and the prices in the peak season would start from four figures.

How could capitalists allow a flat land to appear in such a place?

Jiang Muyun looked towards the shore closest to them: "Now we know two conditions."

"Firstly, this place has never experienced a tsunami. Judging from the terrain, if the buildings in front collapsed due to a tsunami, the buildings near us would not have survived either."

"Secondly, not all of the buildings near us have survived. I suggest you hold your binoculars aside for now and look at the randomly appearing surviving structures nearby. You'll see what it means when sunlight shines brightly, revealing everything. It'll be clear at a glance which ones are made of high-quality materials and which ones were cut corners. Of course, I don't advocate criticizing the quality of collapsed buildings. After all, they're gone, so we can show some respect to the deceased in our words."

Gao Liang and others turned around as they were told, but Chu Buwen had already reacted.

Chu Buwen put down the telescope, looked at Jiang Muyun and said, "Is it an earthquake?"

They have traveled to many places and seen ruins after earthquakes, as well as ruins buried by sand and dust after earthquakes.

This situation probably occurred because their current location was far from the epicenter and they were affected, but not much - not much according to Jiang Muyun's speculation that Gyeonggi City was basically razed to the ground.

Captain Yu also reacted quickly: "No way..."

An earthquake of this magnitude in such a place did not trigger a tsunami - at least not a large-scale tsunami that could threaten buildings. This can only mean that the epicenter was located inland.

An inland area further inland than Gyeonggi Province.

Where is west of Gyeonggi?

Is this even worth thinking about?

It’s called Gyeonggi City, so of course the capital is next door!

Jiang Muyun remained calm. "Anyway, we didn't expect the capital region to be completely free of disease and disaster. Every inch of the entire Blue Star has experienced the ravages of some unconventional natural disaster. The only difference lies in the nature of the calamity and the severity of the blow."

"Nuclear bombs can't plow the land, and earthquakes may not be able to do anything to them either—oh, unless they directly split the people and create a huge rift valley in the capital." Jiang Muyun tried to cheer everyone up. "But compared to that, I think we should worry about how to break through the blockade of the ruins."

Buried beneath the desert are the ruins of dozens of collapsed buildings.

Listen to the conditions.

Does it look like humans can get out of this alive?