◎Happy 131st Day: Effective Revenge◎
The several survivor bases around Nanshi all act quite decently, and the environment around Nanshi is relatively peaceful.
The roar of the engine and the hull of the boat cut through the rain curtain. If someone with bad intentions saw them from afar, even if they were extremely greedy, they could only grit their teeth and bypass them.
Anyone who could afford gasoline at this point was clearly no ordinary person, and certainly well-equipped with weapons. If a fight broke out, it would be a two-way standoff, with no one escaping the situation.
Now that they have lost their boat, there is a 99% chance that they will lose their lives. They are not at the end of their rope yet, so why bother?
Jiang Muyun held up the telescope and waved his hand after seeing the group of people in the distance turn around and leave.
Captain Yu put down his Type 85 rifle, shook off the water from the gun, and turned to comfort Professor Chen: "It's okay, the person is gone."
The people on the boat had clear division of labor. Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen took turns observing the surrounding terrain while sailing during the day, which allowed them to locate themselves while also taking on some of the security tasks.
Captain Yu is the best marksman. While steering the boat, he is also responsible for long-range sniping of the enemy when he discovers a situation.
Zhou Fei, Gao Liang, Tang An and several mutant animals were responsible for close-range surveillance, taking turns driving the boat, and also responsible for clearing obstacles washed over by the water on the road.
Chen Cheng practiced boat driving skills for a few days before setting off, so he could temporarily take over the kayak if the company commander had to let go. He also usually helped Tang An and others clean up the debris that floated over.
Professor Chen responded and asked them to sit down first.
Jiang Muyun put down the binoculars: "At this rate, we'll be at school in about an hour."
Professor Chen looked at the time and hesitated, "It's only a little after one o'clock. How about we walk a little further?"
Jiang Muyun and the others worked together to pull the canopy back up, then sat down cross-legged and said to Professor Chen with a smile, "Today is our first day out. Let's get used to it first and rest early."
The kayak that Captain Yu brought was equipped with a foldable awning, which Jiang Muyun thought looked a bit like the awnings on electric vehicles before the end of the world.
Just after Jiang Muyun discovered the group of people in the distance and gave a warning, everyone except Professor Chen stood up from the boat, and the awning was naturally put away.
Now that the alarm has been lifted, it's time to put up the awning again.
This awning is quite large. If it is fully opened, it can cover the entire kayak, but usually they only open the small piece on the top to consider the visibility.
Although the rain will still come in from the front when the boat moves, it is better than being drenched by a heavy rain.
Professor Chen pulled down his raincoat hood, patted Chen Cheng's arm, and asked the others to push away a floating wooden stake. He then brought over a large thermos and poured half a cup of hot water for each of them. "I know you're taking care of me. Don't worry, I'm taking good care of myself, too."
Professor Chen was no longer stubborn at this time.
Whether you are useful in the team or not, whether you are a burden to others or not, those are not things you should think about now.
The group had only been on the journey for half a day, but that was enough time for Professor Chen to understand that at this speed, her greatest contribution was to adjust her physical condition, avoid seasickness, conserve her strength, and be able to escape when an emergency occurred.
If she keeps her hands in her pockets and does nothing the whole time, that's not a burden. But if she tries to be tough and gets into an accident and falls on the road, that's a burden.
Jiang Muyun and others were really prepared to sacrifice their lives when they escorted her to the capital this time.
Her most important task on the road was to take good care of herself, arrive at the capital alive and well, and not let the efforts of Jiang Muyun and others go to waste.
Professor Chen put away the cup and thermos, and used a plastic bottle to scoop out the water from the raft from time to time.
Chu Buwen took over the observation task. Jiang Muyun sat down cross-legged, using his back to block the rain coming in from outside. He took out a map from his bag and made a mark on it.
Chen Cheng had already wiped his hands when Jiang Muyun took the map and took out a small notebook from his pocket.
Chen Cheng is a very smart little girl. According to the calendar compiled by Jiang Muyun and others, she just turned thirteen this month.
A child of this age had just started school when the end of the world happened. His learning of basic knowledge was entirely dependent on the textbooks brought back by Tang An and others when they went out to search for supplies.
When she has nothing to do, she reads books and studies on her own. When she encounters something she doesn't understand, she can only rely on a group of older brothers and sisters who haven't touched a textbook for several years to help her.
After several years of learning with bumps and bruises, Chen Cheng can now not only understand the agricultural knowledge taught by Professor Chen, but can also assist Professor Chen when she is doing experiments and help process some basic data.
According to Captain Yu, Chen Cheng also knows a lot about the mutated animals and plants after the apocalypse.
Now seeing Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen calculating the terrain and planning the route along the way, Chen Cheng also wanted to learn from them.
Jiang Muyun was there holding several maps and doing calculations. Chu Buwen would provide her with some observed road conditions from time to time, as well as his estimated data such as water flow rate, the height of mountain buildings above the water surface, precipitation, and the speed of water level rise.
Jiang Muyun made calculations based on the map and the information provided by Chu Buwen, positioning herself on the map as accurately as possible and planning her route. At the same time, she orally narrated her calculation process, and for more complicated ones, she would even list a few formulas on the map.
Chen Cheng followed Jiang Muyun's ideas and wrote and drew in the small notebook. He marked the parts he didn't understand and planned to ask Jiang Muyun for advice when they took a break.
Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen were currently working on, firstly, to predict where there might be whirlpools and undercurrents, and to avoid high-risk areas in advance. Secondly, they were constantly tracking their current position, to prevent them from straying from their original direction due to detours.
The information involved is huge and complex, and most of the inferences were made by Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen based on the current direction and speed of the water flow, the building information and terrain provided in the road books and various maps, as well as their experience of traveling in their previous lives.
These information and experiences were disorganized. Even if Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen wanted to teach, they would not be able to make sense of them for a while.
Seeing Chen Cheng's interest, Jiang Muyun simply let her watch and learn on her own. There was plenty of time on the way anyway, so she could absorb as much as she could and ask if she didn't understand.
After forty minutes, Jiang Muyun turned his head and said to Chen Cheng, "Let your little parrot determine the north again."
Chen Cheng's little parrots have to determine their direction every ten minutes to ensure that their direction of travel has not changed unknowingly.
The pink-feathered little parrot was already used to this, and without Chen Cheng saying anything, it chirped twice and flew away.
A few seconds later, Captain Yu, who was steering the ship at the stern, said, "We're heading in the right direction."
Jiang Muyun nodded, looked up at Chu Buwen and said, "If I'm not mistaken, we are less than two kilometers away from the school. Do you see the school over there?"
Chu Buwen held up the telescope, his eyes narrowed slightly. "There are buildings ahead. The height above the water is estimated to be no more than five meters, which is consistent with our assumption of a school."
Jiang Muyun compared the city planning map, circled the location of the school on the topographic map, marked it, and then connected the several small dots between the two circles.
Looking more closely, the curves formed by these small dots all avoided the places that were painted with black dots by Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen.
These black spots are the high-risk areas that they speculated need to be avoided.
Jiang Muyun rubbed his temples and said, "The middle section of the road is safer. We can just run straight ahead."
Chu Buwen heard the fatigue in her words, put down the telescope, picked up the backpack placed aside, wrapped the map that Jiang Muyun spread on his knees in a waterproof bag and put it into the bag.
"Take a break, we are very close to the school."
They were burdened with a lot of information, as much of it was time-sensitive, and there were many unexpected situations along the way, such as the sudden collapse of a large building. Only when they reached a certain time and location could they obtain enough valid information to plan their next route.
Before this, they could only give a general direction of travel and could not prepare in advance.
Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen were constantly receiving information, calculating data, and coordinating plans. The energy they consumed along the way was far more than what they could achieve through physical labor.
Jiang Muyun let out a breath, put the map away, turned around, stretched, and took two deep breaths of fresh air.
"It's killing me. I feel like I just came out of the monthly exam hall for my freshman year in high school." Jiang Muyun raised the telescope hanging around his neck and looked in the direction of the school.
Only after she made the same judgment as Chu Buwen in her heart did she completely let go of her worries and leaned against the edge of the boat like a salted fish.
Chen Cheng, who had never been to a proper school, asked curiously, "Why is it the monthly exam venue? And why is it in the first year of high school?"
Jiang Muyun pinched the child's neck and frightened him, "Because there's no distinction between arts and science in the first year of high school, we have to take all nine subjects at once. There's no time allocated for small exams like monthly exams, so we usually squeeze all nine subjects into one, and finish them all in two days over the weekend. I'm so exhausted from studying that I end up answering questions instinctively."
Even though many years have passed since Jiang Muyun's high school life, she still remembers the pain that felt as if her brain had been boiled dry.
Gao Liang, Xiaoguai's owner on the next boat, got excited when he heard this: "Why does this exam schedule sound so familiar to me? Alumni?"
Jiang Muyun turned his head: "Hmm?"
Gao Liang pushed away Xiaoguai, who always wanted to cuddle with him, and excitedly tried to exchange secret signals with Jiang Muyun: "Red bean wine roast duck rice and soy sauce pancakes at the back door of the school for three consecutive times?"
The code matched perfectly. Jiang Muyun was surprised: "What a coincidence?"
Gao Liang: "That's right. There's not another school in all of Nanshi that brings students back for exams on weekends. Even after 80 years of graduation, I still can't forget this pain. What class are you from?"
Jiang Muyun counted on his fingers: "I'm from the class of 23, and the temperature dropped sharply right after I graduated. Fortunately, I didn't go to the university for military training, otherwise I wouldn't be able to come back."
Gao Liang gasped, "I'm from the class of 2016! This damn school hasn't changed its monthly exam process in all these years!"
Zhou Fei felt sympathy when he heard this: "You two are so miserable. This is such a miserable life."
Gao Liang shed a tear when he spoke of this: "That's right! We have monthly exams every weekend, and after that, we have classes. When I have nothing to do at work, I just reminisce about my high school life. That's how I withstood the pressure of overtime and persevered until the day I got a promotion and a raise."
Zhou Fei kindly steered the conversation towards his happy life with numerous promotions and salary increases: "And then?"
Gao Liang said with a deadpan expression, "The temperature dropped the night before we moved to the new office."
Everyone was silent.
Jiang Muyun: "You are the most miserable one."
Chen Cheng, who was full of longing for school life, also kindly changed the subject: "Uncle Zhou, where did you go to high school?"
Seeing how sympathetic Uncle Zhou Fei is to Sister Jiang and Uncle Gao Liang, his high school life must have been very happy, right?
Zhou Fei was silent for a moment, looking suspiciously at Chen Cheng's expectant gaze. He coughed dryly and said in a low voice, "...private school."
The raindrops collided with the awning, making crackling sounds. Chen Cheng didn't hear what Zhou Fei said at all, so she naturally asked again.
Seeing that he couldn't fool anyone, Zhou Fei had to speak honestly, "Nanyi Bilingual Private School."
This time Zhou Fei's voice was quite loud, and everyone on both ships heard it clearly.
A moment later, joyful laughter suddenly broke out, and a happy atmosphere filled the water. Only Zhou Fei wanted to jump into the water on the spot.
Nanyi Bilingual Private School, everyone present had heard of this name.
Because in a few minutes, they will enter the main campus of the school and spend the night there.
Gao Liang hugged Xiaoguai and laughed, "Go, go, go." "Is it that legendary, fully military-run boarding high school? The one with evening study at 11 pm and training at 6 pm every day, even on weekends? The Nanyi Bilingual Private School?"
Gao Liang sincerely held Zhou Fei's hands and said, "I feel much better now. Thank you for your comfort."
Jiang Muyun inherited everyone's kindness and took the initiative to speak up to help Zhou Fei out of the predicament: "Come on, friends, we're back to school. Are you happy that we don't have evening self-study tonight?"
Zhou Fei: "I have some news about the night activities we might have after returning to school tonight. I think you will be happier after knowing this."
A group of people curiously poked their heads out, and a lot of them actively asked, "What's the news?"
Zhou Fei: "Hee, I won't tell you."
The smile did not disappear, it just shifted to Zhou Fei's face.
Zhou Fei felt refreshed. What is effective revenge?
If I don't talk tonight, none of you will be able to fall asleep!
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