◎Happy Day 46: Go for it!◎
At the same time Jiang Muyun stood up, Xiaobai, who was lying on the ice to survive, also stood up with his ears erect. The two chickens in the room suddenly started yelling in hoarse voices.
Jiang Muyun picked up the glass of water on the table.
There is no water under the cup, it is dry, and the cup will not slide when it is put back.
There was a distance between Xiaobai and the table, so it was impossible that Xiaobai bumped into the table.
She believed in her own observation skills, and her caution did not allow her to fool herself with the excuse of "dizziness" at this time.
The building can’t be about to collapse, right?
This building is not made of paper, and the time when the temperature difference was the greatest has passed. It won't collapse after being soaked in water.
Could it be that the dike upstream of Nanshi has burst? Is a flood coming?
Jiang Muyun looked out the window. The water surface was slightly rippled, and raindrops of moderate size hit the water. The white noise sounded quite comfortable.
Ignoring the suspected corpse stuck in the corner of the wall, the outside was quiet and peaceful.
If the shaking just now was really caused by the flood, it shouldn't be so calm outside now.
Jiang Muyun stood up and walked around the room twice, putting all the important things into the space.
Xiaobai didn't know why, but he kept following Jiang Muyun around silently, looking a little impatient and confused.
Jiang Muyun was about to go out and ask his neighbors if they had noticed anything wrong.
As soon as she opened the security door, a ball of small coal rushed towards her.
Jiang Muyun didn't know how Dabai managed to accurately pass through the gap in the iron gate and pounce on it, but Dabai's condition was obviously more abnormal than Xiaobai's.
Dabai was now trembling all over, whimpering non-stop in his throat, with all the nails on his claws stretched out, clinging tightly to Jiang Muyun's arms and refusing to move.
Jiang Muyun looked at Chu Buwen: "What happened to Dabai?"
Chu Buwen didn't know either.
Just now, Dabai suddenly became irritable and scratched him desperately. No matter how Chu Buwen tried to comfort him, it didn't work.
Maybe because he didn't get the response he wanted, Dabai let go of him and ran to scratch the door desperately.
Chu Buwen had no choice but to open the door and let Dabai out. As soon as Dabai came out, he rushed towards Jiang Muyun.
Jiang Muyun rubbed Dabai in his arms as a way of comforting him: "Something's wrong. Xiaobai also suddenly became agitated just now."
Jiang Muyun told Chu Buwen about the shaking water she saw: "I suspect... the building is going to collapse?"
When Jiang Muyun said this, his tone was full of uncertainty.
She had also experienced extreme cold, extreme heat and heavy rain in her previous life, but she had never seen any building collapsed by rain before the flood came.
Chu Buwen would not doubt Jiang Muyun's words. He frowned and said, "No matter what, pack up your things first. We should prepare for the worst."
"Okay. I'll go call them." Jiang Muyun patted Dabai. Dabai obediently put away his paws and was placed next to Xiaobai by Jiang Muyun.
Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu's family didn't have any animals, and they didn't notice anything moving, but they knew that Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen were not the kind of people who would play pranks for no reason, so they immediately said they would change their clothes, pack their things, and prepare to run away.
Jiang Muyun's things were done the fastest.
All she had to do was carry an escape bag, put some common supplies in the suitcase, stuff the two chickens back into the birdcage, and tie it to the suitcase.
Jiang Muyun packed up his things, and the others were also ready.
Now these people are all dressed similarly. Wearing long sleeves and long pants, wearing masks, carrying bags, and holding a suitcase.
During the time they were packing up, there was no movement from the outside world.
But Dabai and Xiaobai became more and more irritable, and even the two chickens in the cage were uneasy.
The two survival boats they made yesterday were brought out, and the suitcases were first secured to the boats.
Jiang Muyun looked around at several windows and finally chose the bathroom window of 1504 as the place where they would escape from the building in case of an accident.
This place is the most remote, sandwiched between two buildings. There is a wall on the opposite side, and the downstairs floors are all the bathrooms of each household.
Now everyone’s bathroom is sealed, so it would be difficult for them to be discovered if they put things down there.
Chu Buwen's family didn't know where so many parachute ropes came from. Several people tied the parachute ropes into knots to make several simple rope ladders, and then used these ropes to hang the lifeboat and slowly lowered it from the window.
After the boat was lowered, several people tied the other ends of the parachute ropes to the base of the toilet, and tied rope buckles around themselves, ready to evacuate at any time.
Chu Buwen could carry Dabai and Xiaomeiqiu away by putting them in his pocket, but he couldn't do that for Xiaobai.
Jiang Muyun thought about it and was still worried about Xiaobai lying on her alone, so she simply found a backpack and carried it in front of her.
Once they were about to go downstairs, they let Xiaobai squat in the bag.
It has been more than half an hour since Dabai and Xiaobai started to act strangely, and the outside has been calm ever since.
But the calmer it was, the scarier Jiang Muyun felt.
Jiang Muyun couldn't sit still at all. She frowned and whispered, "The animals are moving strangely. Could it be an earthquake?"
Not to mention that Nanshi is not in an earthquake zone at all, if Jiang Muyun had not happened to want to drink water, he would not have noticed the slight shaking at all.
Didn’t Chu Buwen and the others just feel nothing?
It doesn't feel like an earthquake, it feels more like...
"Is it a vibration?" Chu Buwen suddenly said.
Nanshi is not in the earthquake zone, but it is not far away from it. If the magnitude of the earthquake is high enough, they may feel it here.
A picture flashed through Jiang Muyun's mind.
She rushed to the window and looked downstairs: "Something's wrong, I know what's wrong. Did you see it? The water flow downstairs, it's totally wrong!"
The rain is not heavy now and there are a lot of debris in the water. They can clearly see the direction of the water flow downstairs from where they stand upstairs.
Jiang Muyun and his friends left the community and went east to find the supermarket. There was a small downhill slope in the middle, and the water had always flowed east before.
But now.
The water surface downstairs was rippling with slight waves, and the eastward flow had obviously stopped.
Nanshi is higher in the west and lower in the east. Even if a flood is coming, the water should flow faster to the east.
The current situation is more like a water flow impacting from the east, blocking the original trend of the accumulated water flowing eastward.
And to the east of Nanshi...
The four of them looked at each other, and one word came out of their mouths - "Tsunami!"
In the past, coastal cities in central China, such as Haishi, were rarely affected by tsunamis caused by earthquakes, mainly because they were located on an inland sea.
But if the speculations of several people are proven true, the super-strong earthquake will cause the terrain to change, and the sea area adjacent to Haishi will change from an inland sea to an open sea. It is entirely possible that Haishi will face the impact of a tsunami.
Nanshi is only 500 kilometers away from the nearest coastline, so it is not impossible for a tsunami to reach Nanshi.
In the past, the impact of a tsunami could not extend so far because once a tsunami made landfall, it would lose its water supply and the friction of the earth would naturally pull it back.
But what is the situation now?
Even Nanshi was flooded like this, not to mention Haishi, which is located at a lower altitude.
When the tsunami comes ashore with supplies everywhere, it is no different from staying at home in the ocean. Isn't that still flying freely?
It might take less than an hour to travel 500 kilometers from Haishi to Nanshi.
It is unlikely that a flood will reach the fifteenth floor, but a tsunami is no problem at all.
Jiang Muyun thought of the flag he set when he was building the boat, and he really wanted to slap himself twice!
Everyone knows how mysterious the world is now, how dare you still imagine those nonsense!
Now, there might really be a tsunami in Nanshi.
"Let's go!" Jiang Muyun stood up and said, "No matter if it's what we guessed or not, let's go first. Let's go to the western suburbs."
The western suburbs are all mountains, so they can block the way for a while.
It would be best if their guess was wrong.
If they guessed correctly, they would be dead if they stayed here.
Few of those who stayed in the urban area of Nanshi City survived.
Jiang Muyun gritted his teeth and asked Qin Shiwu, "Brother Wu, is the speaker in your house still there?"
Qin Shiwu's family has a plastic speaker, the kind that can record sounds while setting up a stall and then play them on a loop. They bought it when the brother and sister went to experience life setting up a stall at the night market.
The price is very cheap, the sound quality is extremely touching, but the volume is extremely shocking, outshining all the stall owners in the night market.
Everything about the tsunami is just their speculation.
Their only evidence, besides the animal's anomaly and the water flow, was Jiang Muyun's statement: "The water in the cup swayed a bit."
Who would believe them for that?
Even they themselves find it ridiculous.
If the communication had not been interrupted, the authorities might have received the news from Hai City long ago.
But the communication was cut off.
They don't even know where the government's current offices are, so even if they have solid evidence that a tsunami is about to happen, they have no way to contact the authorities.
We can only leave it to fate.
Qin Shiwu found the speaker from home and replaced it with two new batteries.
Qin Shiwu pressed the recording button, and after a dozen seconds of silence, he turned it off again.
He really didn't know how to say this so that it wouldn't be taken as a prank.
Jiang Muyun took the speaker from his hand, pressed the recording button, slowed down his speech, and calmly repeated their speculation process and conclusion.
This disaster is different from previous ones.
The previous cooling, warming, drought and heavy rain had no signs at all.
If Jiang Muyun dares to act as a prophet in such matters, there will be only one result - after the disaster comes true, he will be caught by the power of the state.
Trying to fool people with nonsense like foresight is just playing with the Chinese officials as fools.
For the sake of the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese people, the Chinese authorities will certainly try every possible means to ensure that every word she speaks is true, at least the truth in her subjective opinion, and then use their own means to verify the objective truth of these words.
Military technology is at least ten years ahead of civilian technology. Even an ordinary student like her knows about the existence of scopolamine truth serum. It's obvious that the authorities must have something better than scopolamine truth serum.
Jiang Muyun thought to herself that she was just an ordinary person and there was no way she could withstand professional torture methods.
What happens after she finishes telling the truth?
Rebirth and eternal life are just one word apart and one step away.
Throughout human history, countless wars have broken out over resources such as food, gold, land, and oil.
But the temptation of all these resources combined is not as great as the word "eternal life".
When disaster strikes, an opportunity arises that may allow people to gain eternal life.
There is probably no need to wait for the Blue Planet to destroy humanity. Humans can eliminate themselves first.
Jiang Muyun believed that there was definitely someone in the Chinese government who could withstand the temptation of eternal life and do his utmost to protect her.
But Jiang Muyun didn't believe that everyone could withstand it.
Officials mobilize resources for advance disaster preparedness, and these events pass through countless hands and are known to countless people. China might be a step ahead once or twice, but if it happens too often, someone will notice something's amiss.
While order still exists, the authorities may be able to protect it. But what will happen after the world is disconnected, the central government’s control over local governments is no longer strong, and social order collapses?
At this time, if even one person who knows the truth cannot resist the temptation of eternal life, Blue Planet will be on the verge of a world war.
Jiang Muyun didn't know what the outcome of this eternal war would be, but she was sure that her fate would definitely be the worst.
But this tsunami was different.
This time they deduced it through various small signs, and they themselves were not sure whether it was true or not, so Jiang Muyun dared to say it out loud, and whether others believed it or not was entirely up to them.
Everyone has their own destiny, and there's only so much they can do. There's no need to fight with themselves over such things.
After Jiang Muyun finished recording, she listened to it again. After making sure that the words were clear, Chu Buwen handed her a plastic box.
Jiang Muyun put the speaker into the box: "Let's go."
This rope ladder was very simple and unstable. It took a lot of effort for several people just to go downstairs, and they almost overturned the boat tied underneath because of their big movements.
Qin Shiwen was the first to go down, followed closely by Qin Shiwu.
After the two men got on the boat, they untied the ropes tied to the boat, then picked up the oars and moved them outward a little.
Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen went downstairs one after another. As the weight of the rope ladder fell, the boat that was originally floating on the side was pulled to the position under their feet.
Jiang Muyun stepped on the plastic board and swayed slightly because of his unstable center of gravity. He was able to stand by holding on to the rope ladder.
Chu Buwen followed her down.
Xiaobai must weigh several dozen kilograms now. It was like there were two adult men sitting on the boat she and Chu Buwen were on. The plastic board sank instantly and dirty water flooded over it.
Fortunately, the middle of this lifeboat is flat, so water cannot accumulate. The empty bottles under the plastic board also provide considerable support, so the boat does not collapse.
At most, when two people were sitting, a finger-knuckle-deep part of their bodies was soaked in water.
After Xiaobai got on the boat, the backpack was released and a rope was tied around his waist. The other end of the rope was tied to the back half of the bucket by Jiang Muyun as Xiaobai's life rope.
Dabai was originally shivering in Chu Buwen's pocket, but after Chu Buwen sat down, it jumped out and insisted on squeezing into the cage with the two chickens.
Seeing that the liquid cat was about to try to get into the birdcage through the gap, Jiang Muyun had no choice but to open the cage door and let it in through the main door.
People on both sides got on the boat and tied a rope between the two boats to prevent any accidents on the road from separating them.
Two simple homemade survival boats quickly emerged from the gap.
Chu Buwen took out the plastic box containing the speaker from his bag, pressed the loop button, turned up the volume to the maximum, and pushed it out along the water flow.
"At around 3:10 this afternoon, our city was affected by an earthquake with noticeable tremors. Water began to flow westward. It is speculated that..."
The completely distorted sound exploded in everyone's ears and echoed throughout the entire community. Even Wang Qingqing and others who lived on the top floor heard it.
Wang Qingqing opened the window and the sounds outside came in. The girls in the room looked at each other.
"Tsunami?" Zhou Ying murmured, "Why is there a tsunami in Nanshi? Is this a prank?"
Zheng Xiang squinted and looked down. "I don't know if this is a prank, but the water seems to be flowing westward. This is so abnormal. Do you remember when you were standing on the stool to get the quilt, it suddenly shook?"
China's terrain is generally high in the west and low in the east, and this is especially true in Nanshi.
They had gone out to retrieve supplies a few days ago, and they were just drifting eastward along the current. She couldn't have remembered it wrong.
And according to the loudspeaker, there was a tremor around 3:10 pm, which exactly matched the time when Zhou Ying was shaking.
There will be a tsunami in Nanshi.
Wu Xingyue had never thought of such a ridiculous thing.
She asked somewhat helplessly, "What should we do then?"
Zheng Xiang gritted her teeth and said, "Tear up the sheets and tie the rope. Let's get down from the window. Just like what the broadcast said, let's go to the western suburbs."
The entrance to their house is now occupied by other people, and there is no way for them to get out.
If the four of them hadn't been so determined to risk their lives, they might not even be able to keep their home.
But in the face of life-threatening danger, everything that should be given up must be given up.
Wang Qingqing brought out the quilt boat they had made themselves and tied up all their belongings together: "Even if it's a prank, it's just a wasted trip. If it's true, we'll just be waiting to die if we stay here."
Soon, a quilt boat tied with a crude cloth rope was thrown out of the window on the 20th floor.
Jiang Muyun and his companions grew up by the water and had rowed a boat a few times. After the initial confusion, they quickly picked up speed.
Several people pushed a plastic box with a loudspeaker on it and marked the way out of the community. The water flow outside was obviously much faster.
Jiang Muyun pushed the oar in his hand, and the plastic box swayed and drifted away along the current.
As for how many people can hear it and how many people will believe it, this is not something they can decide.
Jiang Muyun took a deep breath, recalled the places she had found where she could take out the boat, and took the lead in paddling: "Let's go. The western suburbs are all mountains. The first group of people to evacuate are most likely in the western suburbs, and the official office is most likely there as well."
"We're heading to the western suburbs from here. On the way, we'll pass by a place selling fishing tackle, and there might be boats there. If we can find a motorized boat there and rush to the western suburbs, then everything will still be in time."
The wave speed of a tsunami on the sea surface can reach up to 700-800 kilometers per hour.
With the current depth of water, it is impossible for Nanshi and Haishi to be completely submerged into a vast ocean.
As long as there are buildings, they will affect the speed of tsunami waves.
Moreover, the terrain from Hai City to Nan City is getting higher and higher, and there is no reason why the tsunami wave speed can always remain at the highest peak.
The four of them tacitly did not mention Zhao Jiahao and Li Anxuan.
They didn't even know where the two men were stationed before, and now there was nothing they could do except pray that they had evacuated to the mountains in the western suburbs.
The alley that Jiang Muyun mentioned, which specializes in selling fishing tackle, is quite famous among local anglers in Nanshi. When the accumulated water just rose, many people risked their lives to come here to find boats.
If Jiang Muyun and the others come over now, they will naturally not find anything.
The buildings here were not originally very tall, but now they have been completely flooded, with only a few roofs visible above the water.
If they were not in a hurry, Jiang Muyun would just fish out an uninflated manual kayak from the water.
But what they need now is a mobile vehicle that can be driven away immediately.
If Jiang Muyun brought the boat to the surface of the water at this moment, then in the eyes of others, this boat would definitely be a supernatural phenomenon that appeared out of thin air.
Qin Shiwen looked at the water surface with only some debris floating in front of him and sighed deeply.
Chu Buwen patted Jiang Muyun and said, "Let's go. We're in a hurry, so we need to row faster."
Seeing that their boat was about to pass through this area, Jiang Muyun gritted his teeth and shouted, "Wait, I think I see something underwater."
After Jiang Muyun finished speaking, he put down the oars, jumped into the water, and swam towards the nearest roof.
Chu Buwen was too late to stop him and could only watch Jiang Muyun dive down and disappear in the murky water.
Chu Buwen didn't think too much about it. He let go of the oars and jumped in, leaving Xiaobai alone on the boat, roaring wildly.
Jiang Muyun heard the sound of someone falling into the water behind her and groaned inwardly. She could only swim faster and pray that the visibility underwater was low enough so that Chu Buwen could not see her movements clearly.
Jiang Muyun quickly found her target - a room completely submerged in water with broken windows.
Jiang Muyun leaned half of her body into the room and came face to face with a face on the ceiling whose features were blurred and distorted due to being soaked. She was so scared that she almost gasped for the other person's bath water.
Jiang Muyun calmed his mind and with a thought, a small speedboat appeared in the room and floated straight towards the ceiling.
Jiang Muyun didn't want her car to come into close contact with the face on the ceiling. She grabbed the speedboat with one hand and pressed the wall with the other to gain leverage, trying to pull the speedboat out.
A hand appeared next to Jiang Muyun.
Jiang Muyun turned his head and saw that the person next to him was Chu Buwen.
The two of them worked together to pull the speedboat out of the window, and then the buoyancy of the speedboat brought them both to the surface.
When Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu saw the two of them suddenly jump down, their hearts stopped beating in fear.
Fortunately, not long after, a speedboat suddenly emerged from under the water, and the two people who had just entered the water also pulled the speedboat out.
Qin Shiwen felt a little exhausted: "You just jumped down suddenly because you saw this?"
Jiang Muyun clung to the speedboat and took a few deep breaths. "It looked like it, so I wanted to go down and take a look. It must have been washed into someone's house and got stuck in the window, which is why no one took it away."
No matter whether this reason is tenable or not, no one is interested in the logic at the moment.
Chu Buwen raised his hand: "I'll carry you up first."
Jiang Muyun nodded. She had just been frightened and had used a lot of strength, so she was a little short of oxygen. It would be more convenient to have Chu Buwen to lend her strength.
Jiang Muyun used the buoyancy of the water to lift his legs and stepped on Chu Buwen's arm. At the same time, he pushed hard with both hands and flipped into the speedboat.
Due to the size of the window, the assault boat Jiang Muyun took out was also small and could only carry two people at most.
After pulling Chu Buwen up, the assault boat was already full.
"Let's tie the lifeboat and the assault boat together, as close as possible." This time Chu Buwen didn't have a parachute cord on him, but Jiang Muyun took out a parachute cord from her survival bag.
The speed of the assault boat was very fast. In order to ensure that the survival boat behind them would not capsize, Qin Shiwen and Qin Shiwu had to push their center of gravity back as much as possible. Qin Shiwu directly held Xiaobai in his arms to increase the weight.
The survival boat that Jiang Muyun and the other person were originally on was tied behind them by Qin Shiwen, and the suitcases on the boat were also unloaded and tied together to Qin Shiwen and his boat to increase the weight.
Chu Buwen tried it briefly and found that the engine was fine. It seemed to have enough horsepower and there was no shortage of fuel.
Seeing that Qin Shiwen and the others had tied up the ropes, Chu Buwen asked, "Are you ready?"
Now the trend of the water flowing westward is becoming more and more obvious, and they no longer even need the help of floating objects on the water to see the direction of the flow.
Jiang Muyun held onto the edge of the boat and said, "Let's go."
Chu Buwen confirmed with her: "You guys aren't going to open it?"
Several people spread their hands and said, "We don't know how to do that."
Chu Buwen: "You haven't opened one before?"
Several people nodded.
"Okay." Chu Buwen reluctantly said, "Then I really will open it."
Jiang Muyun looked puzzled: "Or else, you could just pretend to open it and scare it?"
Chu Buwen started the engine with a solemn expression. The moment the electric paddle entered the water, Jiang Muyun was carried backward by inertia and fell directly into Chu Buwen's arms. Chu Buwen's hand shook, and the entire assault boat almost flipped over.
"Slow down! Slow down!" Qin Shiwen's indistinct screams came from behind, mixed with the squeaking of several little guys.
Jiang Muyun swore that since the two chicks hatched, they had never cried so loudly.
"No! There is no place to control the speed!" Chu Buwen hugged Jiang Muyun and shouted at the top of his voice in the wind, while trying to control the direction while shouting.
Jiang Muyun struggled to climb out of Chu Buwen's arms and lay on the bow of the boat. The wind was so strong that he could hardly open his eyes.
Several people were forced to circle on the water. Chu Buwen almost vomited after looking at the compass on the survival bracelet. He finally found the right direction and stabilized the boat to head towards the western suburbs.
"Haven't you driven an assault boat before?" Jiang Muyun was hit by a mouthful of wind as soon as he opened his mouth.
She remembered that when she met Chu Buwen in Xishi, Chu Buwen was repairing the engine of an assault boat there!
"It flipped over after driving ten meters!" Chu Buwen said as he put his hands behind his back, took out the goggles from his bag with difficulty and put them on with one hand. Finally, he could open his eyes and see the road.
Before the apocalypse, he was busy going to school and making money. After the apocalypse, assault boats became a rare commodity, and not everyone could touch the assault boats in various bases.
He was unlucky and picked up a wild and broken one. It overturned less than ten meters after he drove it. He tried to fix it for a long time but couldn't.
If Chu Buwen wasn't at the helm, Jiang Muyun would have wanted to give him a hammer.
So that's what you meant by all that nonsense you just asked! And you asked me if I was ready?
If you had told me this was the preparation method, I would have tied myself to the bow of the boat!
There was no way. None of them had ever driven a speedboat before. Seeing that Chu Buwen had already stabilized the direction, they didn't dare to try it themselves.
Not only did they not dare to change hands themselves, they also had to take turns encouraging Chu Buwen, asking him to try his best to maintain his condition and not to capsize.
Jiang Muyun was lying on the bow of the boat. He didn't know if it was the waves or some other reason, but the boat was bouncing back and forth, making Jiang Muyun, who never got seasick, feel nauseous.
Chu Buwen felt guilty and tried to change the angle to make the boat more stable. As a result, he took the group of people around in a circle again, which scared Dabai so much that his hair stood on end.
Jiang Muyun finally couldn't hold it in any longer and clung to the bow of the boat, retching twice. "Stop playing around and hurry up! We're in a hurry!"
This brand of assault boats is well worth its price, and the group rushed all the way to the western suburbs at lightning speed.
As they gradually approached the western suburbs, they occasionally saw other ships on the road.
When the shadows of the mountains in the western suburbs began to appear faintly, Jiang Muyun heard a voice similar to that of a broadcast.
Before Jiang Muyun could figure out what was being said on the radio, he heard Chu Buwen shouting from behind him, "Make way! Make way! Muyun, don't lean against the bow!"
When Jiang Muyun heard this, he looked up and saw a speedboat not far ahead, rushing towards them head-on.
There were familiar faces on the assault boat. Zhao Jiahao was screaming frantically at the top of his lungs: "Fuck! The people on Li Anxuan's boat are crazy! Get out of here!!"
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