Chapter 276 Settlement

Wei Dong hugged Tong Zi tightly and held the railing on the side of the window to prevent the two from falling.

He stared at the scene outside, frowned and asked Xie Yun in the cockpit: "What are those black and shiny things on the water? Is it oil?"

Xie Yun's voice came out from the cockpit: "Maybe the previous earthquake caused a large amount of oil leak somewhere, and now the ocean is completely covered by this thing."

When everyone heard this, they were shocked. Is it possible to survive in a place submerged by the tsunami?

"Then... where are we going next?" Wei Dong asked the question on behalf of everyone.

Xie Yun looked at the dark sky ahead, raised the airship to a safe altitude, and set the system to automatic cruise.

He accompanied Yu Duoduo back to the cabin, looked at everyone, and said:

"We haven't figured it out yet. This airship can only float in the sky for half a month at most. We just need to find a suitable way out before then. Do you have any ideas?"

The cabin fell into silence. Outside the panoramic glass windows of the airship was the black sea. Where could they go?

"Should we try to go higher?" Wei Dong's voice attracted everyone's attention, and he continued:

"For example, plateaus and mountains. This tsunami will not be higher than 100 meters. Even if the sea recedes, the land will definitely not be usable due to such horrific oil pollution, and drinking water will also become a problem.

What’s more, we left in a hurry and didn’t bring enough food and supplies. If we go to a place where there is nothing, I’m afraid it will be difficult to survive.”

After listening to Wei Dong's analysis, the others nodded.

Upon hearing this, Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun unlocked the doors of the four large rooms adjacent to the cabin, only to see food, bottled water, daily necessities and clothing piled up almost overflowing!

"These are to clear all the points on our and the family's cards at the base. The supplies we bought should be enough to last for a while. We don't have to worry about supplies in the short term."

While everyone was shocked, Yu Duoduo took out his tablet, put the offline map in front of everyone, and began to study the plan of where to go.

There is no need to consider the high mountains surrounding the city. After all, in the mountains where the Hui City Bunker is located, the trees had been cut down during the extreme cold, so there is no life left.

So in the end everyone unanimously decided to go to the Green Tibetan Plateau.

The original population living there was very small, and after the end of the world, not many people would be able to migrate to such a remote place. Compared to other places, it would most likely be a pure land.

They immediately started to arrange the flight duty roster.

The staff worked in two shifts, led by Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun, who were both capable of flying airships. They took turns piloting the airship towards the predetermined target.

According to the map, the provincial capital is about 3,000 kilometers away from the Green Tibetan Plateau in a straight line.

But the airship was flying above the endless darkness, and apart from a general direction - that is, flying west, nothing else was certain.

Such as flight time and flight speed.

Airships, like sailboats at sea, are easily affected by wind. They travel faster with the wind and slower against it, so no one can predict when they will reach the designated area.

But the supplies that Yu Duoduo had stored on the airship in advance calmed everyone's minds. With supplies in hand, there was nothing to worry about.

After the airship had been flying slowly in the air for about ten days, everyone began to feel visual fatigue.

Outside the airship, there was the endless Black Sea and the blazing sun. It was like entering a dream that I couldn't get out of and losing my way...

"We have been flying inland for so many days, but why is the sea water showing no sign of receding?"

Moreover, the weather outside is so hot, and the sea water doesn't seem to have evaporated at all...

Yu Duoduo and Tong Zi sat in the cockpit and chatted, while the rest of the people rested and killed time in the cabin.

"Not only that, haven't you noticed that the daytime hours have been getting longer these past few days?

We work in shifts, so it’s still light when we go to bed, and it’s already light when we get up.” Yu Duoduo said softly.

"Hey~ Now that you mention it, it's true! What's the reason?" Tong Zi asked.

"I don't know." Yu Duoduo replied.

In fact, she had a vague answer in her heart. When the end of the world just began, she checked on the Internet and found that there was a word called "eternal daylight" in the scope of natural disasters, but she was not sure that this was it.

Once this happens, it means that the climate environment of the entire earth will change, but as of now, there has been no change.

"Duoduo, look at that gray point in the distance. Is it a mountain?" Tong Zi suddenly shouted excitedly.

Yu Duoduo looked in the direction of her finger and actually saw a little other color on the edge of the black!

I was instantly excited. It was definitely a mountain. It looked like we were almost there!

The two rushed out of the cockpit and announced the good news to everyone, "We're here, we're here! We're almost there!"

Then everyone immediately got out of their sleeping bags, lay on the sightseeing glass, and checked the situation outside.

For a moment, the cabin was in an uproar. On the mountain that was getting closer and closer, they actually saw a little green!

There is salvation, they have a way out!

Xie Yun and Wei Dong replaced Yu Duoduo and Tong Zi in the cockpit and sped up towards the distant mountains.

Soon, numerous mountains appeared before everyone's eyes, stretching and undulating, like a dark border that suddenly opened up!

This was the first time that Yu Duoduo had set foot on the plateau in two lifetimes.

Xie Yun piloted the airship slowly toward the relatively flat plateau grassland. Despite the extremely hot weather, large tracts of green grassland were still preserved here!

It roughly follows the principle that the temperature drops by 6.5℃ when the altitude rises by 1,000 meters.

The temperature on the plateau with an average altitude of 3,000 meters is nearly 20 degrees lower than that on the plain where the fire base is located. The temperature on the plain is 55 degrees Celsius, while here it is 35 degrees Celsius, which is just the right temperature for rapid plant growth.

But on the other hand, if it is extremely cold, then the temperature here would be 20℃ lower than down there!

Everyone got out of the airship one after another. They had been floating in the sky for ten days without touching the ground. They felt dizzy and uncomfortable.

Brother Wang lay down on the lawn without any scruples, looked up at the sky, and breathed in the fresh air. It had been a long time since he had felt such a beautiful environment!

Everyone hit it off and decided to settle down here!

Although there are only vast mountains and lawns, as long as grass grows, crops can be grown. They have the big boss Leyan from the research department, so why would they be afraid of not having rice to eat?

The supplies on the airship are enough to sustain them until the first harvest of crops!

To be on the safe side, everyone rested in the cabin of the airship on the first night. They agreed to take turns to keep watch, with four people in a group and they could play mahjong together so they wouldn't get sleepy easily.

There are 14 of them, and they can take turns in three groups a night from 9 pm to 6 am. Each group only needs to guard for about three hours, and the other two people can take turns at will, so there is almost no pressure.

But this night was extremely unusual. Wang's eight brothers worked from 9 pm to 3 am, and when Yu Duoduo and others came to take over, it was still light outside!