◎Happy 139th Day: Flying Fish at Sea◎
Jiang Muyun got goosebumps when he saw the patch of black bumps.
There is no way to hard top.
Just based on the number of mutant fish that gathered together, they could overturn their boat with a single blow.
The little lazy boy relies on his thick skin and flesh to be able to enter and exit the fish school several times, but ordinary humans like them don't have that ability.
"Run." Jiang Muyun made a quick decision.
I can only run.
These fish swim very slowly in the water, so they have to run fast before the road ahead is completely blocked by the fish.
"Chu Buwen, get the rope." Jiang Muyun shouted, and at the same time, using the cover of his backpack, he took out two pairs of thick work gloves from the space and threw one pair to Chu Buwen.
Fortunately, they all carried several bundles of ropes, which are essential for survival in the apocalypse, when they went out, otherwise it would be really difficult to deal with now.
Chu Buwen had never been chased by a fish, but he and Jiang Muyun had been chased by a snake.
As soon as Jiang Muyun opened his mouth, he knew what Jiang Muyun was going to do.
Chu Buwen climbed into the raft, picked out the two longest bundles from a pile of parachute ropes of different colors, and threw one bundle to Jiang Muyun.
"Turn off the engine and get on board first." Jiang Muyun's expression was a little cold when he spoke, and even Captain Yu was stunned for a moment.
Captain Yu paused for less than two seconds before gritting his teeth and getting on board as instructed.
He didn't know what Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen were going to do, but he knew two things.
Time is running out now. Even if we need to question something, this is not the time to do so.
Also, Jiang Muyun is not a person who doesn't know how to live or die.
Since Jiang Muyun did not order them to do anything, it proved that the two of them could handle the matter and there was no need for more people to interfere.
Instead of wasting time talking at this time, it is better to let those who know what to do concentrate on doing the work.
After throwing the parachute rope to Jiang Muyun, Chu Buwen flipped over two rafts in a row and came to the rear left side of the wooden platform. Jiang Muyun quickly took a few steps to the rear right side of the wooden platform, where Chu Buwen had originally been.
"Little Lazy, go to the front." Jiang Muyun used two sticks to pick up the mutant fish around him, and said to Little Lazy who was still diligently driving away the school of fish at the stern.
The little lazy boy shook his head, dived into the water obediently and swam forward.
Fortunately, Xiaolan is the kind of person who listens to everyone, otherwise Jiang Muyun would have to spend a lot of effort.
Jiang Muyun really didn't have time to explain to Captain Yu and the others.
Because after the few people guarding behind the rope net, including Zhou Fei and Gao Liang who were responsible for driving the boat, all returned to the raft, the mutant fish, without opponents, began to pounce on it one after another and tear the rope net apart.
Jiang Muyun unfolded the parachute rope and tied it around the bottom end of the rope net pillar on the right rear side.
Now the entire ship was swaying back and forth under the push of the mutant fish, and it looked a little shaky.
The closer the twisted black waves came, the more excited the fish surrounding them became, attacking almost indiscriminately any creature they saw.
She was almost moving around the mutant fish's mouth, and even with the protection of the gloves, she had to concentrate and dodge to avoid getting hurt.
On the other side, Chu Buwen's movements were almost a mirror image of Jiang Muyun's.
The two of them tied a knot on the parachute rope at the same time, and then took a few steps to the front of the wooden platform with the parachute rope, and also wrapped the parachute rope around the bottom of the pillar. They were almost bitten by the mutant fish that pounced on them several times.
Jiang Muyun risked his life by using the back of his hand to slap away a mutant fish that was pouncing on him. He grabbed the remaining parachute rope with one hand and supported the edge of the kayak with the other. He flipped over and landed between the two kayaks, just face to face with Chu Buwen.
Chu Buwen didn't wait for Jiang Muyun to react, and directly pulled the umbrella rope from her hand, and handed the sharp wooden stick to her. He bent down and stuffed the remaining part of the two bundles of umbrella ropes out of the rope net, and then quickly shook it open and tied the two ends of the two bundles of umbrella ropes together.
Jiang Muyun originally planned to do this himself, but now that he already has the wooden stick in his hand, any further entanglement would only put Chu Buwen in danger.
Jiang Muyun quickly cleared out the mutant fish that were crawling and biting nearby, and quickly used a wooden stick to pick away several mutant fish that tried to jump out of the water to bite Chu Buwen's hand that was holding out the rope and net.
More and more mutant fish gathered around the wooden platform, and the mutant fish that climbed onto the rope net gathered into one dirty black tumor after another, causing the entire wooden platform to shake continuously on the water surface.
"Little Lazy!" Jiang Muyun saw the knot in Chu Buwen's hand taking shape, and immediately called back Little Lazy who had been hovering nearby trying to prevent the large-scale gathering of fish.
"Little Lazy, bite it, run forward, and stop where there are no fish!" Chu Buwen threw the knot in his hand forward, and Little Lazy's golden head broke through the water and bit it.
"Pull up the awning." Jiang Muyun ordered Tang An and others on another raft.
At the same time, the two men flipped over and entered the boat. The awning on the top of the raft was also pulled down by the two men, covering the entire raft tightly.
"Hold on tight!" Jiang Muyun, carrying a backpack, grabbed the safety ropes on both sides of the raft with both hands and held Professor Chen in his arms.
The thrown out parachute rope became a rein, and Xiaolan's body, which looked a little scary due to a full meal, stretched out freely in the water. The next moment, the whole wooden platform suddenly tilted forward, and a huge thrust pressed everyone to the ground.
Jiang Muyun still remembered the first time she and Chu Buwen encountered Little Lazy. It took only seconds for Little Lazy to escape from the elevator shaft back to the underground garage. It was so fast that Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen didn't even see its shadow before they found its nest.
The golden python is not a water snake, but Xiaolan did not show any discomfort in the water during this period. The speed at which he swam was eight hundred times faster than that of the group of small snakes that chased Jiang Muyun in the flood.
I wonder if anyone has ever heard of flying fish at sea.
Jiang Muyun played it once before the end of the world.
The ten-minute project almost broke Jiang Muyun's neck.
Now Jiang Muyun felt that history was repeating itself.
Jiang Muyun felt that if there was a professional league for the Flying Fish at Sea event, with their current strength, it would not be too much for them to enter the global finals.
She even began to think that if she continued like this, the crudely made wooden platform would fall apart, and everyone would be doomed.
It rained heavily for more than half a month, and the raft was always wet. Jiang Muyun slipped and lost his balance. He had to rely on his hands holding the safety rope to keep his position.
To make matters worse, Professor Chen was unable to hold on to the safety rope at the side of the boat during the sudden shaking. She was almost half lying in the raft, sliding straight down along the forward tilt of the wooden platform, relying entirely on Jiang Muyun to hold her in place.
The combined weight of her and Professor Chen, nearly two hundred pounds, fell on her hands. Even though Jiang Muyun was wearing gloves, she felt a burning pain in her palms.
This can't be done.
The pain was secondary. The main problem was that the force-bearing surface of the safety rope was too small. If the safety rope on the kayak was pulled and something went wrong, she couldn't count on the awning on the kayak to protect them.
At that time, she and Professor Chen would probably be thrown out of the kayak, or even thrown off the wooden platform to feed the fish.
As Jiang Muyun was thinking this, he suddenly felt a push on his feet.
She turned her head and saw Chu Buwen leaning one leg against the edge of the boat for leverage, with a little white dog clinging to him tightly in his arms.
At this moment, Chu Buwen was trying to use his waist and abdomen to sandwich Xiaobai between him and the raft, then he turned sideways and used half of his shoulder to push Jiang Muyun's shoe sole to push her up.
Another jolt came, and Jiang Muyun clearly felt that his whole body was suspended in the air for a moment.
The waves from the front hit the awning and shattered it on the spot with a bang.
The mutant fish caught in the waves was caught by the rope net, and fell back into the school of fish in a daze and became food for its own kind.
Before Jiang Muyun had time to worry about the quality of the awning, he discovered that Professor Chen had also slid down a bit in this gap.
Professor Chen is not tall and her arm span is not enough. Even though she tried very hard to pull the safety rope, she still failed and could only rely on Jiang Muyun's protection.
Jiang Muyun gritted his teeth and said to Chu Buwen, "Be careful."
After saying that, the ship took off into the air again. Jiang Muyun put force on his feet, stepped on Chu Buwen's shoulders and successfully pushed himself up a bit.
With the help of this force, Jiang Muyun successfully bent his knees, bent his waist, pulled up with both hands, and adjusted his posture during the moment of suspension in the air. When the wooden platform fell heavily on the water, Jiang Muyun also followed the force of gravity and sat directly on his calves.
The wooden platform hit the water, causing Jiang Muyun's calves to go numb. Fortunately, she returned to her kneeling position and found a gap to free her hands to pull Professor Chen back.
Fortunately, their supplies were all wrapped in membrane and tied to the raft. Otherwise, with the rough seas, they would probably have to rely on rowing to the capital by hand after they escaped from the mutant fish.
Xiao Lan remembered Chu Bu Wen's words and stopped when he reached a place where there were no fish.
So when it swam forward for dozens of kilometers with the parachute rope in its mouth, and found that there was indeed no trace of food around, the lazy boy stopped obediently.
When Jiang Muyun lifted the awning, his hands and feet felt weak and he almost lost all strength.
She carefully surveyed her surroundings, making sure no mutant fish had landed on the wooden platform before she completely opened the awning. Then, half-lying over the edge of the boat, she praised Xiaolan, who was leaning his head against hers and looking at her expectantly, "Well done, well done, Xiaolan, you're awesome."
The praised little lazy boy happily swung his tail and looked like he wanted to pick up the rope and run for a distance. Jiang Muyun was so scared that he quickly stopped him. He coaxed the little lazy boy into letting go of the rope in his mouth in a daze, and he wanted to tie a bow around Jiang Muyun to express his true feelings.
Professor Chen was speechless at this moment.
She was breathing slightly heavily, leaning against the kayak.
She was old and afraid of catching a cold, so she didn't dare to follow Jiang Muyun and others and rush into the rain to wake herself up. She could only ask Chen Cheng to unbutton her raincoat and fan her, drink some water, and wait for her body to recover slowly.
The few people on this ship were still sober, but the situation on the other side was not very good.
To be precise, Zhou Fei and Gao Liang's situation is not very good.
"vomit--"
Tang An lifted the awning, and everyone saw Zhou Fei and Gao Liang lying weakly in the raft, with their heads tilted and making retching sounds.
A huge bald boy was pressing on Zhou Fei, while Gao Liang was holding Xiaoguai in his arms.
According to Tang An, when the boat started to move, Tutu stuffed all four of his paws into the safety rope, and then the whole dog lay directly on his owner Zhou Fei, using his weight and size to block Zhou Fei tightly.
As soon as Xiaoguai saw Tutu's actions, he immediately used his clever little brain and tried to hold Gaoliang in his arms.
But how tall is Baldy and how tall is Xiaoguai?
In the end, Xiaoguai not only failed to hold Gaoliang in his arms, but forced Gaoliang to free his hands to protect it.
As for why Zhou Fei was lying there peacefully throughout the whole process, but was the one who vomited the most severely in the end?
Zhou Fei was silent for half a minute after hearing this, and then he said, "Although I have never weighed Tutu, please take a look at his head. If the boat falls, it will fall with it."
Zhou Fei clutched his chest and said in pain, "When it came down, I felt like my lungs were about to be squeezed out."
Gao Liang nodded weakly.
Xiaoguai is not like Xiaobai who lies in someone's arms.
It was directly pressing on Gao Liang, and it was only because Gao Liang took the time out of his busy schedule to pull out an arm to hug it, and Tang An gave it a hand from time to time, that it was not thrown away.
The force of this rise and fall on Gao Liang was as strong as a stone breaking his chest.
The group lay in the rain in a twisted state, and it took them a while to recover from the trance that made them feel like their brains were shaken out.
It's already dark.
Since there were no survivors around, everyone simply turned on the lights hung on the top of the rope net pillars and began to clean up the mess on the boat with the help of the light.
First, the supplies tied to the supply ship.
Big items like oil drums and travel bags are easy to deal with because they are already tied up tightly. As long as they don't flip a thousand times in the air, they won't be lost.
They are just some scattered small items, such as pots, pans, and small stoves used for cooking in daily life. For convenience, they usually put them in a net bag and tie them to the boat.
Now that I have taken down the net bag and taken a look, I can only say that it is a good thing that they use stainless steel and other metal products, so even if there are some bumps, it does not affect the use.
In addition to these things, it was time for the fishing rods they had made earlier to come in handy.
Xiao Lan led them out of the school of fish, but there were still many mutant fish hanging on the rope nets around them that refused to let go.
I don’t know where these mutant fish get such strong obsession.
This is good too, as it gives the little white ones who have been waiting all the way a snack.
However, Jiang Muyun didn't dare to bring the fish back alive for Xiaobai and the others. He had to wait until they killed the fish before hooking it back.
Jiang Muyun twisted his sore wrists, took off his work gloves and the tactical gloves he had been wearing underneath, rubbed the purple marks on his palms from the safety rope, and then put the tactical gloves back on. He said to Gao Liang and Zhou Fei, "Let's start the boat first."
Looking at the colorful patches floating on the water around them, you can tell that they have not yet left the polluted waters.
No one knew whether the crazy fish would continue to follow the scent, so it was still a long way from safety.
"By the way, check if there are any landmark buildings around. We need to find our new position." Jiang Muyun reminded.
Jiang Muyun kept moving while talking, using the nail on the wooden stick to poke a mutant fish that was biting the rope net.
Chu Buwen held up the fishing rod and placed the iron hook under the fish's body. He pulled it up with force, and the iron hook embedded into the fish's body. Jiang Muyun pulled out the iron nail, and Chu Buwen raised the fishing rod and hooked the fish back.
Gao Liang swept the surroundings with the tactical flashlight in his hand.
It was completely dark, so no one noticed just now.
At this moment, Gao Liang took a look at the surrounding situation and discovered something unusual nearby.
There are too many buildings.
In other words, there are too many buildings exposed above the water.
Little Lazy took them on a run, naturally to a place where it could move freely.
So there was a lot of open space within a few dozen meters around them.
But if you look further away, you can easily find that the roofs of many residential buildings have emerged from the water.
From the moment they entered the polluted waters, they had been heading north, including when Xiao Lan took them on a run. As long as Xiao Lan didn't go astray, they were also running towards the north.
Jiang Muyun had previously speculated that the rainy season in the north might have ended.
After the pink-feathered parrot re-determined its direction and confirmed that they had not gone astray, the three words "probably" could be removed.
Captain Yu rubbed his brows with a headache: "What kind of bad luck is this..."
Jiang Muyun fed a mutant fish he had just brought back to Xiaobai's mouth, turned on the flashlight and scanned the surroundings. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Let's go to the densely built-up areas. Let's find the urban area and see what the high-rise buildings here are like."
They only know that the rainy season in the north has just passed, but they don't know when the rainy season will come there.
If they just kept heading north, they might end up in a swamp stretching over a hundred kilometers.
"Looking at the situation with the high-rise buildings in this area, we are ready to turn eastward into the sea."
Jiang Muyun said this and looked at the hungry little white kittens.
Originally, if they walked on land, they could occasionally find a small hill for Xiaobai and the others to go out and find food to replenish their bodies.
But if they decide to turn into the sea and head north along the coastline, Xiaobai and the others will have to rely on mushrooms to fill their stomachs for the next few days.
After all, there are so many people going to the beach to fetch water during the dry season, so Jiang Muyun has never heard any news about the mutated sea fish from the water sales team.
At least there are no marine fish in the shallow waters.
Jiang Muyun looked at Xiaobai, who had never been hungry even after the end of the world, Tutu, who looked like a big eater but had a hard time getting full, and Xiaolan, who hadn't had a full meal in who knows how many years, and a wicked idea came to his mind.
Otherwise, how about finding a way to get some more food for them?
Half an hour later, the group finally arrived at an urban area with relatively dense buildings. Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen checked the cities, counties and towns around Qi City one by one on the map and found swelling and pain in the solar plexus.
At the same time, a large net bag containing several half-dead mutant fish was tied to the tip of Xiaolan's tail. Under Jiang Muyun's coaxing, it swam in the direction they came from.
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