Chapter 136 Rafting around the plateau
Shu Fu was preparing to have dinner at that time. Because he felt the protective shield was opened, he paid attention to the situation outside. After discovering the huge wave, he immediately went to the function screen and sent a voice notification through the notification function in the trailer.
"Attention! There are huge waves over 40 meters high in the eastern waters. The protective shield has been opened, but the huge waves will still cause the raft to shake. Please do not stay on the deck or terrace during the huge waves. Please stop your work and return indoors. I will turn on the raft's stealth and temporarily leave this stormy waters."
Shu Fu's voice came from the electronic screens of the two towing rafts. Because Lu Zheng's place was a hotel, voice announcements would automatically be broadcasted through the hotel broadcast to the entire building.
Everyone returned to their rooms after hearing this. Although they knew that the protective shield was amazing, in their hearts, the 40-meter-high waves were still a terrible disaster. At least, if they were replaced with ordinary rafts, they would definitely not be able to withstand such a huge wave.
Although Shu Fu quickly issued a voice announcement, she was calm inside. Having experienced a world-destroying tsunami hundreds of meters high, she had basically no feeling for such a huge wave tens of meters high. She was also very clear about the defensive capabilities of the protective shield.
The reason why she issued the notice and moved the raft was mainly because she was afraid that other friends were not familiar with the function of the protective shield and would stay on the raft or outside the building during the disaster period, and when the raft was bumpy, they would directly roll out of the protective shield from the edge of the raft...
Shu Fu quickly set the drifting direction on the map panel. This time she planned to go south along the boundary between land and water, turn around the southeast corner of Fengshang Plateau, and then continue west along the south bank.
This was a route she had never taken before, because at that time part of the boundary between the Fengshang Plateau and the Southwest Plateau was still land, and she was blocked by a barrier and could not get through at all.
But now, the water level has gradually flooded the southern bank of the Fengshang Plateau. In the southwestern border area of the Fengshang Plateau, there should be a small amount of land remaining in several other countries close to the Fengshang Plateau.
That piece of land was also the border area that Cheng Yu warned her not to go to in the near future when he contacted her for the last time.
However, as shown on the map, the area outside this small circle of land close to the border line has all become water. She can directly let the raft go around by water. As long as she does not go ashore, her raft is almost invincible in the water.
In addition, Chen Fa said today that the reunion would be postponed for half a month, so during this time she planned to travel around the land and water line of Fengshang Plateau to check the land and water conditions of the entire Xizhou Province.
She set several waypoints and the final destination on the map panel. The entire journey around the Fengshang Plateau was about 9,000 kilometers. If the raft traveled at full speed, it would only take about four days.
But she didn't plan to rush it, and when the raft dived underwater and completely got rid of the wind and waves on the surface of the water, she adjusted the speed to 50 kilometers per hour, preparing to spend about ten days to complete the trip.
Just in a dozen days, she would be able to accumulate 10 chances to draw the lottery. If everything went well, she would be able to complete ten consecutive draws when she met Chen Fa, and maybe even hang up both Chen Fa and Hua Qiong's rafts in one go.
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At dawn the next day, the raft had automatically floated back to the surface of the water, and the protective shield was closed again. The people who had just woken up in the hotel and the plantation house were surprised to find that the surrounding waters had not only turned into a deep dark blue, but also had no boundaries. The mountains that had been seen before, which looked like isolated islands, had long disappeared.
Are they - coming to the sea?
Lu Ce noticed the text notice posted by Shu Fu on the electronic screen. After reading it, he ran around telling others excitedly.
The content of the notice is as follows: In the next ten days, the raft will go from east to west, from south to north, and then from west to east to complete a round trip around the Fengshang Plateau. On the way, it will stay in several areas at the border of land and water for several hours. The protective cover will open when it is close to land and will close in calm seas. You can go sea fishing when the protective cover is closed. PS: Be careful not to be dragged into the sea by big fish when sea fishing:)
They were still unhappy yesterday about not being able to meet captain Chen Fa, but when they heard about this notice today, they all suddenly revived.
What is it like to have a drifting island homeowner who can go on a sea drifting trip at any time?
In the following days, a group of friends from land witnessed the true extreme of water drifting, as well as everything about the deep water area that they could only learn from Shu Fu's occasional text messages at that time.
The calm time on the sea was less than they thought, and Shufu said it was because summer was coming. Summer on the planet was the season of storms, hail, hurricanes, waterspouts, and thunderstorms.
Although these catastrophic weather conditions also occur in the other three seasons, they are not as frequent as in summer.
Every day, the protective shield would be automatically triggered to open, and in the following hours, they would sometimes see a super thunderstorm with dozens of purple-blue lightning bursting through the sky at the same time, or a terrifying scene of several roaring and surging waterspouts, or a violent storm mixed with hail... and also, terrifying waves that were hundreds of meters high!
They had only seen such a huge wave that covered the sky once during this journey. Before the huge wave appeared, everyone on the raft felt the shaking of the nearby waters, as if an earthquake had occurred somewhere on the seabed.
They had a premonition when the earthquake happened, and sure enough, Shu Fu quickly issued a voice announcement to the entire raft, this time with more details than last time.
Following the voice announcement, they quickly gathered up all the odds and ends at hand, put them into drawers, spread the sofa cushions and bedding on the floor near the window, and finally sat on them, nervously and excitedly watching the sea outside that was beginning to roar and spread.
This time, when the huge waves hit, Shu Fu did not let the raft dive under the water, because the direction where the huge waves were coming was the direction she wanted to go. After she made the voice announcement, she sat down on the cushion next to the floor-to-ceiling window, then adjusted the speed of the raft to 100 and rushed straight towards the huge waves.
The small drifting island house towed two fragile-looking rafts, climbing up along the rising waves, and finally successfully crossed the crest of the wave before the wave hit it, rushing into the area where the waves were calm.
Shu Fu originally thought that if the raft was not fast enough, she would use a temporary acceleration card, but it was obvious that a speed of 100 kilometers per hour was completely enough.
The raft continued to move forward at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. The water on the other side of the huge waves seemed like another world. The storm disappeared, the clouds were broken by the sunlight, and two beautiful rainbows hung at the end of the water.
No matter how Lu Ce, Yao Ruoyun and Xu Jiechu said "this is unreasonable", this unreasonable scene was still displayed in front of everyone. The most terrible disasters are often accompanied by the most extreme beauty. It was not until that day that they truly understood the meaning of this sentence.
As the raft entered the inland waters southwest and west of Fengshang Plateau, the most common disasters they encountered gradually turned into turbulent whirlpools in the waters.
This is a fixed disaster area with water whirlpools everywhere. Some are big, some are small. Whenever a ship passes by, it will be sucked into the whirlpools. The formation of this area is mostly related to the original land topography under the water. After all, this area was all land in the past.
Every time they encountered extreme disasters or extremely complex terrain in waters or at the border between land and water, Shu Fu would take photos and video footage, compare them with electronic maps, record the longitude and latitude, and then archive these photos and videos into different categories.
Later, when they stopped at a water-land junction on the northwest coast of Fengshang Plateau and accidentally connected to the Internet, Shu Fu gave the information to Lu Ce.
She asked him to instruct Lan Lan to set up a separate website, accessible only to people in Huaguo, and then publish the information on the website. Finally, post the website address publicly on the few large platforms in Huaguo today.
It has been almost a month since Cheng Yu and Liu Shuang last contacted her, and the other party has not responded to the message. When she bypassed the southwest coast of Fengshang Plateau this time, she did not accidentally enter any scene, but she saw the shadow of a huge ship sailing on the boundary between land and water from afar.
There was no way to find out the follow-up of the naval battle and border situation on the Internet, and she was actually a little worried about them.
These photos recorded various types of disasters and marked the locations of some fixed disaster waters. She had thought about posting them anonymously online before, and now she is posting them at this time, hoping that they can be of some help to the authorities.
And perhaps, it can help Cheng Yu, Liu Shuang, Han Lan and others who are still out of contact.
Her drifting island house was just a safe house after all, not a combat raft, so this was the best she could do.
That day, the others took advantage of the Internet access available on the shore where they were anchored and went online to check the news on land. In recent days, the most common words on the Internet, in addition to the hurricanes and huge waves that came with the arrival of summer, are ichthyosis.
At first, they thought that this was happening on the Northern Plateau. After all, so far, the amphibious man-eating jumping fish that caused the large-scale appearance of ichthyosis patients all lived near the waters of the Northern Plateau.
But soon, they discovered that the area where ichthyosis patients appeared was Na'an County in the northern part of Xizhou Province.
Na'an County is located in the northern part of Xizhou Province, deep in the heart of the plateau, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters. It is far away from the rainstorm and hurricane areas in the eastern waters. It is separated from the northern plateau where amphibians, man-eating fish and jumping fish are rampant by half of Xizhou Province and the entire Xiangzhou Province, with a straight-line distance of more than 2,000 kilometers.
When the migration wave just started, it was the ideal migration destination in many people's minds. However, it was before the devastating tsunami, so the flood level was not high. The average altitude of more than 4,000 meters was a big challenge for most people.
In addition, the Na'an County area is mountainous, cold and oxygen-deficient, and sparsely populated. Even the official construction and development is very slow, so even today, the population there is not large.
From any perspective, it is a very safe county.
Perhaps because of this safety and comfort, people living here are less vigilant.
One morning, when someone saw a humanoid creature covered with light gray stratum corneum and blood-red eyes crawling up the shore wetly from the river at a mountain pasture, he was immediately confused by the huge visual shock and panic. For a moment, he completely forgot the relevant knowledge about ichthyosis patients that he had read in the online news, and subconsciously picked up the tools at hand and attacked.
As a result, this attack irritated the ichthyosis patient, who was counterattacked and his abdominal cavity was easily scratched by the fingertips covered with gray hard shells...
When the man's family arrived, only the upper half of the man's broken body was left on the shore. The surrounding meadow was covered with red blood and internal organs. The scene was extremely tragic.
This kind of thing did not just happen in this place. In the following week, similar tragedies occurred in the entire waterfront area of Na'an County. Most of the incidents occurred in the early morning and evening. The scene conditions were similar and they were all in secluded areas. There were no other witnesses at the scene.
For a time, everyone in Na'an County was in danger and did not dare to approach the water source or go out after dusk.
The troops in Nan'an County quickly began an investigation. Since the relevant information of the incident had already been posted on the Internet, the subsequent investigation process was not concealed, and the fact that the attacker was a patient with ichthyosis was soon made public.
Both the local residents of Na'an County and people from other towns who learned about this incident through the Internet were extremely shocked.
Because of the extremely low temperature and snowstorm in winter, the number of new cases of this disease in the Northern Plateau has dropped drastically, and treatment drugs have been developed long ago. Although the cure rate has not yet reached 100%, even people in the Northern Plateau have not seen new patients for a long time.
How could it suddenly happen that in Xizhou Province thousands of kilometers away, which should have been the safest area in the entire Hua State, a patient with ichthyosis appeared out of the water and attacked people?
Everyone knows that once a person suffers from this disease, he will suffer from the pain of chapped skin every night, and will become demented and confused during the day. How could he know how to hide in the water during the day and come out to attack when the light is dim, as he does now?
The ichthyosis patient who appeared this time was more like a wild beast than a patient, because those actions were animal habits.
A search team composed of members of the Na'an County Army secretly searched several waters where the accident occurred, but the long rainy season caused the water levels in all waters to surge. Not only did the river depth double, but there were also many undercurrents underwater. The search process was very difficult, but they eventually caught several ichthyosis patients lurking underwater.
The appearance of these ichthyosis patients was even more terrifying than they had previously known.
They still have human bodies, but they don't have a single hair on their bodies. Their entire bodies, including their fingertips, are covered with a light gray stratum corneum, making it basically impossible to tell their gender. There is a thin layer of sticky substance between their five fingers when they open them, and the same goes for their toes.
The whites of their eyes were red, and when they stared at people they were cold and alert, like some kind of disturbed creature. Rather than being humans, they were more like human-like fish creatures.
They can swim freely in the water like fish and stay underwater for a long time without dying, but they can also go ashore and even walk, but in a somewhat strange posture.
They can hardly speak anymore. When they are caught and dragged ashore by the team members, they make sharp noises, showing strong aggression. Even the trained team members feel physically uncomfortable when they see their appearance and sounds...
The official later released news that when ichthyosis patients mutate to this stage, there is currently no cure. It is like cancer, which can still be saved in the early stages - although the time and effect of treatment vary, but once it enters the late stage, there is really no way to save it.
These ichthyosis patients belong to the latter category.
Shu Fu took screenshots of the photos on the Internet and checked them over and over again, confirming that the ichthyosis patients who appeared in Na'an County looked similar to the ichthyosis patients she saw when she left Youcheng, or in other words, their mutations were more radical than those she saw when she left Youcheng.
However, there was a gap of several months between the first appearance of ichthyosis patients in Youcheng and her departure. At that time, there was no one to treat or take medicine for the people suffering from this disease in the city, and they eventually turned into that appearance.
But now, where did these ichthyosis patients contract the disease?
Where did they spend the several months of the mutation? Why was there no news about them before the mutation? And how come they suddenly appeared in an inland county town in Xizhou Province at this time?
There is a river in Na'an County, but the altitude there is high. If creatures from outside want to go to Na'an County through the river, they have to go upstream along the river for a long distance.
But the river is not just one channel. With such a long basin, there are countless river branches in the middle. The river will pass through these branches to other uninhabited mountainous areas or inhabited villages and towns.
Why had there been no previous reports of ichthyosis patients elsewhere along the river's course?
How could a patient with ichthyosis who had lost his ability to think like a human being swim upstream so accurately and eventually climb onto the land of Na'an County?
The whole thing is weird at every turn.
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