Chapter 97 Wei County

[Complete the check-in task of Weixian No. 1 Clinic within five days to get a 20% progress bar for level 5 of the raft. (Current progress of level 5 of the raft: 0%)

Note: Failure to complete this task will deduct 40% of the progress bar. 】

Wei County?

Shu Fu opened the electronic map to check the location of Wei County, while turning on the satellite phone to look through the chat records with Chen Fa. She remembered that Chen Fa seemed to have mentioned Wei County.

She quickly found out that in mid-September, Chen Fa and his team had just arrived in Pengcheng when they mentioned Wei County, saying that Wu Shaoshan and her family had moved from Zicheng to Wei County because of the disaster that blocked the road, and they planned to schedule a trip to Xizhou Province from Wei County.

The network signal in Wei County is not as good as that in Pengcheng and Zicheng. Wu Shaoshan does not have a satellite phone, so after arriving in Wei County, the communication was not as smooth as before. Later, Chen Fa and others moved to Cham County, where the signal was not good either, so the communication between the two sides became even less smooth. The last contact was in late October.

At that time, Wu Shaoshan was still in Wei County, but Wei County was far away from the tsunami zone, and there were troops stationed there. The transfer to Xizhou Province was also carried out by the troops, so she and Chen Fa both felt that it should go smoothly.

It is now early December, and the location of the new mission is in Wei County. Could it be that Wu Shaoshan has not moved yet, and the person associated with this mission is her?

Shu Fu's guesses were just guesses, but she did not make blind judgments. This was what her experience taught her.

She quickly confirmed the location of Wei County on the electronic map. It was located in the southwestern corner of Xiangzhou Province - on the southwestern outer edge of the mountainous area. To the south was the Southwest Plateau, and to the west it was separated from Xizhou Province by the Yinsha River.

It was originally an inland area with a relatively high altitude, with the lowest altitude being 1,400 meters. Given the rise in water levels, it should have been inaccessible, but the giant tsunami in mid-November changed everything.

Along with the new mission comes new water routes.

[It has been detected that the waterway between Yuncheng and Weixian is unobstructed, please click to activate. 】

Shu Fu clicked on the map panel and found that the unobstructed waterway was actually the location of the Yinsha River.

The Yinsha River originates in the northeast of Xizhou Province, flows through the border between Xizhou Province and Xiangzhou Province, changes its course to the east at the southwestern plateau, continues to flow eastward along the border between the southwestern plateau and Xiangzhou Province, and finally flows through Muzhou Province, Sankou Province... Suicheng, winding all the way eastward and finally merging into the sea.

Today, the Yinsha River has long disappeared at the border between Xiangzhou Province and the southwestern plateau. The tsunami in mid-November turned the entire area into a flood zone. The rivers and water bodies converged, the water level rose sharply, and the river banks overflowed. The situation was worse than that of the Qinghe River.

From the water route map, it can be seen that the only things left in Xiangzhou Province today are the uninhabited mountainous areas in the west and some high-altitude lands around the mountainous areas. She is now at the border between Xiren Province and Xiangzhou Province. The nearby land of Xiangzhou Province has long disappeared. She was trapped by the border line and could not continue to travel west.

Now that the barrier was open, she could drift across the border of Xiangzhou Province, drift straight to the mountainous area of ​​Xiangzhou Province, then go around the southern line of the mountainous area, enter the flooded Yinsha River, and finally arrive in Wei County.

She quickly set the destination on the map, and the route information was: [723/9:02:03]. Shu Fu looked at the time. It was only a little after seven in the morning, which meant that she would be able to reach her first destination at around four in the afternoon.

Because she was going to land, she opened the shield. She had been staying in the waters with few people recently, so she opened the shield less often, and accumulated a lot of time. She was going to take a nap, after all, she was about to land, and she had to seize the tail of the long vacation.

When she lay back on the bed, she thought of Chen Fa and the others. After some thought, she decided not to ask about Wu Shaoshan's current situation, nor to tell them about her current progress. Not only that, from today on, she would try to reduce the number of contacts with Chen Fa and the others, and not inform them of her actions.

Because Wei County is very close to Xizhou Province, she was afraid that Chen Fa and his team would come to find her directly if they knew she was in Wei County, which would trigger a butterfly effect and affect the normal progress of the mission. She would follow the previous mission method, keep a low profile, complete the entire level 5 raft mission smoothly, and unlock the "raft towing function" earlier.

Shu Fu pulled the curtains aside again, covered herself with a thin quilt and went to sleep.

Because she was deliberately lazy, she slept until almost noon. After washing up, she went to the terrace, put out a table and chairs, ate a bowl of delicious beef ramen, and ate a few pieces of durian.

This kind of soupy or smelly food cannot be eaten after getting off the raft. She plans to eat a little bit of what she particularly wants today, and at the same time start to pack her equipment and backpack for going out.

She was going to use a newly salvaged waterproof backpack, a frosted old style, very low-key, but larger than the one she used before, so she could hold a lot of things, or in other words, she could "take" a lot of things out of it when needed.

It was a long rainy season, and the rain hardly stopped, so she had to wear a two-piece raincoat with a waterproof jacket underneath. After lunch, she took advantage of the shelter of a small rock wall that exposed a small area of ​​land in the water, temporarily closed the protective cover, and tested the temperature outside. It was only about 2 or 3 degrees outside, so cold that she shivered.

Not only did she have to put on the lining inside her windbreaker, she also had to wear breathable and warm fleece clothes and pants underneath, and sweat-wicking underwear as a base, otherwise she would feel very uncomfortable after getting off the raft.

After the raft was officially upgraded to level 4 and the portable protective shield was unlocked in early September, she has never gotten off the raft, and therefore has never used the protective shield again. Now the protective shield time has increased by a full 880 minutes, plus the remaining 54 minutes, a total of 934 minutes. She can use the portable protective shield continuously for 15 hours, which is a length of time that makes her feel extremely at ease.

But even so, this protective cover still cannot be used as a portable air conditioner to isolate low temperatures. After all, 15 hours is less than a day.

At 4pm, the raft stopped just before reaching the end of the water. Various debris of buildings and plants were floating on the water nearby. It seemed that due to the ocean current, all kinds of debris and garbage from the city that was destroyed by the tsunami were brought to this area. The entire bay near the mountainous land was filled with dense debris.

Because there are too many floating debris and the water here is relatively shallow, even if you sneak, you can't avoid the garbage on the water and under the water, so the raft cannot stop after reaching the set destination.

But Shu Fu set this place as the first destination not to dock, as it is more than 900 kilometers away from Wei County. She went straight inland mainly to try to see if her mobile phone or radio could receive a signal.

There should be an undestroyed base station on the mountainous land not far away. After turning on the phone and waiting for a while, it finally connected to the Internet. Although the signal was very poor, this was the first time she connected to the Internet since Lucheng, so she was still very excited.

Several large platforms in Huaguo are still in operation. When you open them, you will see all disaster-related news. The most discussed one is the giant tsunami that destroyed half of Xiangzhou Province more than half a month ago.

But Shu Fu didn't want to check these things. She began to search the entire Internet for key words: raft, space, special people, weapons.

Sure enough, there are, and there are quite a few posts. Although most of them are just follow-up posts that are bragging about what people have heard, it can also be seen from the side that compared to two months ago, more people know about this matter, which means that the number of people who have seen or encountered awakened people is increasing.

Most of the posts that mentioned the special people mentioned the raft, but the space did not directly describe it. Some of the posts that mentioned it also inferred it based on the raft. After all, it is impossible to take out the raft out of thin air without the space. Moreover, the raft is very large, and there is a small room, which can hold a lot of things. In a disguised way, it can also be regarded as a non-fresh space.

There are also posts mentioning a mysterious person who sells purified water and fish, and judging from his appearance, he is probably also a special person.

As for weapons like Chen Fa's gun that were beyond real technology, no post mentioned it. She didn't know if they existed but were hidden, or if they didn't exist at all. She actually leaned towards the latter. After all, humans were different, and it was almost impossible to make all the awakened people who didn't know each other stay alert and not reveal any information about weapons.

Therefore, at least a few things can be confirmed at present: other awakened people have rafts, fishing rods and water purifiers should also have, but backpack compartments that can preserve freshness and each person's unique weapons may not have them.

Some of the posts have been online for more than a month and have never been deleted. This is probably because not all posts praise special people and there are quite a few warning posts mixed in.

There are also posts warning ordinary people to take a detour if they see special people, otherwise they may be cheated of all their supplies. After all, outsiders cannot enter the raft hut, and as long as they are on the water, ordinary people have no chance of winning against the raft owner.

Perhaps because the posts about special people are both good and bad, and not one-sided, these posts can continue to remain.

Shu Fu, however, was keenly aware of the official attitude. There was no public announcement, but it was not banned like the early apocalyptic videos. It seemed that the official attitude was more open and spectator-like.

The Internet is too chaotic and all kinds of news can be seen. The most banned ones are posts about disaster scenes. For example, disaster scenes that are too bloody and scary will be directly restricted and cannot be opened no matter what.

Most of the popular posts are for help, and some netizens have posted safe evacuation route maps online, telling those who will be migrating west how to pass through which areas, where to see rescue stations, and which roads have completely collapsed and are blocked.

But correspondingly, there are real help posts and there are fake help posts. Some people will deliberately post such posts and then lure people who migrate westward into a trap.

Those who were lucky enough to have their supplies taken away and survive were considered to be lucky. Many more people died in the traps, silently, with no one knowing until a certain trap was breached by troops and a news notice was posted online. Only then did some people realize where their family and friends, whom they had been waiting for so long but could not show up, had gone...

In addition, there are many positive posts from the safe zone, showing the results of the official's increased efforts in recent times to people who can still access the Internet, and spreading the news through word of mouth.

Most of the posts come with pictures, all of which are of various newly built resettlement houses in Fengshang Plateau City. Both the exterior and interior are photographed, ranging from one-bedroom to three-bedroom units. All are simply decorated with furniture and appliances, and you can move in directly with your luggage. The conditions of the resettlement houses are still very good, which gives many people who are still in the process of relocation more hope and motivation.

Afterwards, she focused on the situation in Wei County.

Although Wei County is close to the Yinsha River, it is actually located on the mountain beside the river bank. Even the lowest altitude in the county is more than 200 meters higher than the river bank. The water level has definitely risen now, but it will not flood Wei County for the time being.

As one of the transfer points for the westward migration, Wei County has always had troops stationed there. Previously, due to the blockage of the Zicheng road, many people moved to Wei County, making the small mountain county overcrowded. Various supplies began to be in short supply, especially medical resources. Later, the county relied on airdrops from Xizhou Province to overcome the difficulties.

The safe relocation from Wei County to Xizhou Province is not only separated by the Yinsha River, but also by a large uninhabited mountainous area, and the relocation route also requires a detour. Therefore, before the tsunami, many people had the idea of ​​temporarily settling in Wei County. It was not until half of the land in Xiangzhou Province was gone that people who wanted to take a break began to relocate again.

At present, eight out of ten people there have been relocated, and most of the troops have also been relocated. Those who are still there do not want to leave, but are waiting for a car. The number of cars that can be mobilized every day is limited, so waiting is inevitable.

After Shu Fu understood the general situation, he planned to set a new destination and go to Wei County.

However, after exiting the website on her mobile phone, she couldn't help but open WeChat.

This time, there were not so many unread messages, and the time was basically before early November. Some messages came from Wu Shaoshan and Zhang Tian. They all knew that she and Chen Fa were in the Northern Plateau before, and they had always mistakenly believed that she was traveling with Chen Fa and others. So most of these messages were sent in the dormitory group. They were all daily conversations, and some of the content of the messages overlapped with what Chen Fa told her.

In addition, Zheng Feifei had the most news. Like Liu Shuangcheng and the others, they only received news from her in June, and then she lost contact again.

The messages she sent to Liu Shuang, Cheng Yu and the other two were a little different. It seemed that she was used to it, or as if she was talking to herself, indicating that she knew she couldn't reply now, but she also knew that she would eventually arrive in Xizhou Province safely, and she was waiting for her news.

She informed each of them that she was safe.

Liu Shuang also replied to her messages twice after June, lamenting that she was still alive, and then told her to move as soon as possible and contact her when she got to a place with internet access. She was still in Xizhou Province.

Han Lan also sent her a message in July, the same time as Cheng Yu replied to her first message. She guessed that this should be after they completed the border mission.

As for Cheng Yu’s dialog box, the last message was in October, and that message only had four words: Is it you?

Shu Fu was stunned at first, then, when she saw the specific date of the message and recalled what happened that day, her head buzzed, as if something exploded silently.

This message was sent on the day when there was a heavy hailstorm and she accidentally saved him.

——Is it you?

He was asking her about the person who had not shown up in the raft cabin just now, the person who had saved them, the person who had thrown out the lifebuoy - was it her?

Shu Fu subconsciously threw her phone on the sofa.

He definitely didn't ask this question until he was sure. It was probably just some fleeting inspiration and guess.

But this man's intuition was so sharp, so sharp that it was a little scary. When she saw the message on her mobile phone just now, she felt as if he was right in front of the phone, looking at her through the phone.

Just like that day on the raft, she knew that he couldn't see her in the house through the door of the drifting island house, but at a certain moment, she still had the illusion of looking into his eyes.

Shu Fu had been planning to reply to his message, but now, she didn't know how to reply for the time being. Fortunately, she didn't reply to Liu Shuang and Han Lan's messages either, so she decided to continue to lose contact for the time being...

Shu Fu took out the map panel, reset the destination, and turned the raft to the south, bypassing the floating debris in the bay and heading towards the original Yinsha River. There were still more than 900 kilometers left, and they would arrive in about 11 hours - around 3 a.m.

She planned to rest early today and land before daybreak tomorrow.

**

The next day, on the outskirts of Wei County.

There were originally several small villages at the foot of the mountain in Wei County. Because they were too close to the Yinsha River, they were flooded several months ago. All the people were evacuated, and many had already passed the schedule and went to Xizhou Province. The terrain in the village was uneven, and many buildings were completely flooded, but there were also some buildings where you could still see the roof and a section of the wall.

This is the place Shu Fu chose for herself to go ashore. There are many buildings and plants here, which is just right for her to find a secluded place to go ashore.

It is said that for many years most of the mountains here were barren. Due to the perennial drought, there were bare and barren lands everywhere, and the plants were mainly sparse and short shrubs. It was only through artificial planting in the later period that the current green vegetation was achieved. However, these vegetations are only distributed in inhabited areas. Large cliffs and uninhabited areas of the mountains are still khaki in color.

As before, she kept the raft's shield open, opened her personal shield, and landed on the hillside that had become a wetland. Her army green raincoat was almost the same color as the surrounding plants. She stepped through the calf-deep water and mud, folded up the raft as she walked, and soon walked into the forest above.

She turned directly from the small path in the village forest to the main road leading up the mountain. She walked on the mountain road in the pouring rain for more than ten minutes, considering whether to walk all the way to Wei County or drive to Wei County.

According to the electronic map, she was about 6 kilometers away from Wei County. It would only take about ten to twenty minutes to drive 6 kilometers. If the mountain road was difficult to travel, it might take more time. But if she had to walk on foot, it would probably take an hour and a half in this weather.

If she drove up the mountain, it would be difficult to put the car back into the display cabinet after being seen by everyone, but it would seem stupid for her to walk up the mountain in the rain when the car was not in use.

Just as Shu Fu was struggling, the sound of an engine came from the bottom of the mountain road, and a car was coming.