What was once a flat industrial area has now become a vast ocean.

The artificial sky overhead is now completely devoid of light.

With the continuous accumulation of groundwater and the constant erosion by mutated termites, the once seemingly sturdy top layer of the fortress has now become as brittle as an eggshell.

One crack represents a series of chain reactions, and the giant waterfalls overhead are becoming more and more numerous.

Lu Yuan, Zhou Tong, and Wang Mingming did their best to prevent the kayak from capsizing.

Unfortunately, there were undercurrents everywhere, and the kayak was completely out of control, drifting back and forth.

Lu Yuan also gave up on letting the kayak go to various places to rescue other survivors according to his own ideas.

"Phew! Forget it! Don't bother!"

Lu Yuan gently stopped Wang Mingming's arm as she was still paddling hard.

"Brother Lu, let's try again!"

"No need to try anymore! We've already done our best!"

Wang Mingming put down the oar, her face full of helplessness and grievance.

Zhou Tong gently patted Wang Mingming on the back: "This can't be blamed on us, we've done our best! Now let's think of a way to get out of this awful place!"

Wang Mingming's eyes were slightly red as she took out the notebook that had been soaked and gently wiped away the water.

"There are still 30,000 people!"

Lu Yuan shone his flashlight around and said, "There's no hope! The water has risen to over five meters! Even if we search everyone one by one, we might not find many survivors!"

Then, Lu Yuan sighed, his eyes filled with desolation: "It seems... it's time to leave!"

Wang Mingming looked again at the rippling water in the distance and the various wooden furniture and trees floating around. He felt a sudden pang of pain in his heart. He wanted to cry, but he felt that it would be too shameful to cry at this moment.

Fortunately, there were no lights here, so the three of them kept shining their flashlights around.

Finally, when she saw several floating corpses drifting by, Wang Mingming silently shed tears.

Wang Mingming gently covered the deceased's eyes with her hand and silently mourned for two seconds.

"Let's go! The city center is probably already under lockdown! If we're too late, we might not be able to leave!"

"Okay! Let's go! Get moving, Wang Mingming!"

Zhou Tong patted Wang Mingming on the shoulder, and the light reflected from the water illuminated Wang Mingming's face, instantly revealing the tear stains on her face.

"I...I just..."

Wang Mingming reached out and wiped away her tears, wanting to offer an explanation.

Lu Yuan gently patted him on the shoulder: "You did a great job today! Don't think about it! Just live well! You'll have to do even more for the remaining survivors in the future!"

"Okay! I understand!"

Wang Mingming wiped away the tears on her face with her sleeve, then took the oar with a determined look and began to row towards the urban area.

Along the way, the kayaks will encounter some dangerous situations, such as falling steel frames and rocks overhead, or trees washed ashore by the flood. Sometimes they also have to be careful of sharp floating objects, because after all, it is a kayak, and if it gets cut, it may leak air directly.

Lu Yuan and the other two took turns doing their jobs so that everyone could get a good rest.

Suddenly, when Lu Yuan took the oar, he noticed a colored mark on it.

"Huh? What is this? Why is it this color?"

Zhou Tong and Wang Mingming looked over upon hearing this, and saw that Lu Yuan's oars were covered with something that looked like water-soaked diesel fuel, emitting multicolored light.

After reading it, both of them shook their heads.

Lu Yuan shone his flashlight around and asked, "Where are we now?"

Wang Mingming quickly took out the locator and glanced at it: "We're...on our way to the urban area!"

"Huh? On the way to the city center? This place should be very clean! How did it become like this?" Lu Yuan was full of doubts.

Then Lu Yuan asked again, "Let's see what buildings used to be around here!"

"Oh! The nearest place around here is... a nuclear power plant!"

After Wang Mingming finished speaking, he immediately took out a flashlight and shone it around.

The beam of the powerful flashlight shone in the distance, and finally a huge chimney was spotted.

"Phew! That's the nuclear power plant!"

Lu Yuan looked in the direction of the flashlight beam, and was about to nod when he suddenly remembered something.

"No, take another picture and let me see!"

Wang Mingming paused for a moment, then shone the flashlight again.

"Move a little to the right!...A little more to the right!"

Wang Mingming followed Lu Yuan's instructions and shone the light.

"Brother Lu, what's wrong?"

Lu Yuan felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out.

"The chimneys are still there!"

After Zhou Tong finished speaking, he immediately exchanged a glance with Lu Yuan.

"One chimney? Holy crap! Wait a minute! Nuclear power plants used to have two chimneys!"

At this point, Lu Yuan grabbed Wang Mingming's flashlight and checked it again.

Sure enough, only a chimney remained in the distance of the nuclear power plant.

"That chimney is... a fake laboratory! The chimney of the real nuclear power plant has already collapsed!"

Lu Yuan's eyebrows twitched incessantly at that moment.

He shakily took out a radiation monitoring device from the dimensional space.

As soon as the monitor was turned on, a strange red light flashed on the screen.

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