Chapter 48 Lou Yuncheng
The three locations are all in Louyun City, Chu Xiufeng is in the western suburbs, Taiyang Garden is in the southern suburbs, and Mufeng Farm is in the eastern suburbs. As shown on the map, Mufeng Farm is closest to her current location.
Shu Fu immediately input the longitude and latitude displayed by Mufeng Farm into the navigation system of her mobile phone. The system showed that the distance was 20 kilometers. From the map, the distance between the two was not that far. The main reason was that she was now on a hill, and she had to take a detour to drive down the mountain. She could not drive fast and it would take some time.
She put on her going-out clothes as quickly as possible, put her phone and tablet into her backpack, got off the raft and put them away, then turned on the storage mode on her bracelet and put away the few daily necessities that were placed in the room.
Then he put the backpack in front of him, put on waterproof boots, put on a baseball cap and mask, held the car keys, and went out fully armed.
The B&B is located on a high ground in the hills. There is a parking lot at the door, but it is open-air. After the disastrous weather began, the rescue team reinforced the original large restaurant here and turned it into a temporary indoor parking lot.
Shu Fu's car was parked inside. It only took her one or two minutes from going downstairs to getting in the car.
She jogged all the way, and was very nervous because of the progress bar that was deducted by 100%. She wished she could grow wings and fly directly to Mufeng Farm.
She got in the car, started the car smoothly, and placed the phone on the phone holder. She did these meticulous things as much as possible so as not to make mistakes due to panic and to avoid wasting time by starting over.
She fastened her seat belt and slowly backed the car out of the indoor parking lot. The navigation started working. When she drove out of the gate of the B&B, she glanced at the sky to the east. The sky there was gloomy, and the sun that had been hanging high in the sky not long ago was covered by dark clouds again.
She actually had all kinds of guesses in her mind, but she had been patient and didn't delve into it further. Everything would have to wait until she completed the task.
The car drove out of the B&B and headed down the hill along the two-lane road. The hills in Louyun City were well developed. Although it was a two-lane road, the road was flat and spacious. There were some trees on both sides, but they were always broken by wind and rain and scattered on the road, so they had long been artificially trimmed into bare trunks.
Two iron gates have been installed at the two turnings going up and down the mountain. Only vehicles with license plates entered into the system can be allowed to pass. When Shu Fu moved in more than a month ago, Han Lan helped her with this task.
This is why this hill remained safe and quiet after the chaos broke out in the city, and why she stayed there after turning off her phone and taking out her card.
If it weren't for this sudden mission today, she could have stayed in the B&B on the hill for a long, long time.
Normally, it only takes 30 minutes to drive 20 kilometers, but that is the driving time on flat roads in the city. Moreover, if you drive 20 kilometers in the city and happen to encounter a red light jam during rush hour, it may take 40 minutes or even an hour to drive 20 kilometers.
Although there is no traffic jam in the suburbs, the speed of the car cannot be increased on the hilly roads, so she dare not drive too fast.
The only thing to be thankful for is that because the rain has stopped for two consecutive days, the mountain roads are not so slippery, and there is no heavy rain and strong winds to make driving more difficult.
However, after driving for more than ten minutes, as if responding to her thoughts, a thunderclap exploded in the air behind the car. She glanced at the rearview mirror. Behind the car was the east. The gloomy sky more than ten minutes ago was now even darker. Thick and gloomy clouds piled up in the sky, and lightning flashed in the clouds from time to time.
When she finally finished the mountain trail and officially left the hills, heavy rain began to fall as the dark clouds moved.
There are still 12 kilometers left to go, and the 1 hour and 50 minute countdown on the phone has 1 hour and 20 minutes left.
As long as the rest of the journey is smooth, we will still have time.
The sky around gradually darkened with the arrival of heavy rain. Shu Fu turned on the car lights and wipers, and turned on the double flash lights. He stared at the navigation while paying attention to the road conditions in front and behind.
When driving in such weather, in addition to paying attention to the road conditions and vehicles ahead, being careful not to collide or rear-end, you must also pay attention to other vehicles behind you to avoid being rear-ended by some road killers.
On the way from the hills to Mufeng Farm, you will pass through several shelters, where there are still many refugees.
The relocation news in early March was actually the most friendly to this group of people. After all, transportation tickets were cheap, and there were a lot of discounts for renting and buying houses in the 30 relocation cities, and the living conditions were much better than here in Louyun City.
Rescue team members have been going to the shelters since early March to do various ideological work and mobilize them to relocate, but so far, many refugees are still unwilling to leave.
Shu Fu probably knew that these people stayed behind hoping to take advantage of something that was not right. As the rescue team members were transferred away in batches, the eastern part of the city closest to here became chaotic again. The original residents of Louyun City moved away, and some houses became empty. Some refugees took the opportunity to occupy these ownerless houses.
There were fewer people in the shelter, and those who stayed had more living space and were even less willing to leave.
When Shu Fu was driving past the road near the shelter, he saw some people wandering on the side of the road in the rain.
She saw some news on the Internet a few days ago, which was uploaded by the public. It said that the area around the suburban shelter was in chaos, and people stopped cars to beg in broad daylight. Some unlucky car owners were even beaten by beggars who smashed their car windows and pulled them out of the car windows because of their bad attitude after being stopped.
This person lamented that he seemed to have traveled from a civilized society into an era of chaos. In the end, his car was robbed, and he limped away in the rain before he managed to save his life.
After returning to the city, he went to call the police, but found that the police station was full of people like him who had suffered losses and came to report crimes. The relocation operation obviously also affected the management of public security.
Someone did accept their report, but no one knows whether anyone followed up and resolved the issue.
Shu Fu withdrew his thoughts, his face slightly stiffened, and he looked at the direction. Instead of slowing down, he stepped on the accelerator. The jeep was driving very fast, and it sped past those figures before they stepped onto the road.
There were two people who were walking fast and close to her, so she could even see the angry expressions on their faces through the heavy rain when the car passed by.
At the same time, there was a clanging sound coming from the rear of the jeep, and it sounded like someone had hit it with an iron rod or something.
Shu Fu was mentally prepared and was not shocked. As long as the car was not stopped, all problems would not be a problem.
The weather was getting worse and worse. In addition to the heavy rain and thunder, the wind outside was also gradually getting stronger. Shu Fu drove the car with full concentration and successfully found the fork in the road indicated by the navigation.
There was still one hour left in the countdown, and she felt a little relieved.
The road conditions at the fork in the road were not so good, so she slowed down a bit and drove about another kilometer along the fork in the road. At the end of the road, she saw the broken gate and fence. The sign above the fence was also almost damaged, but she could vaguely make out the word "Feng".
Because she entered the longitude and latitude into the navigation, the positioning showed that the destination was less than 2 kilometers away.
She did not act rashly. She activated her personal protective shield, rushed out of the car and pushed open the damaged iron gate of the farm. She moved quickly throughout the process, but it still took about forty seconds.
The portable protective shield will only be activated when the raft reaches level 4. Using it a little less now will make her feel a little worse, but she has to use it no matter how painful it is, because she must ensure that nothing goes wrong before completing this mission.
This was her first time using the protective shield in natural disaster weather. She found that it not only protected her from rain but also from wind. Even though the tree trunks around her were bent by the wind, she did not feel any wind resistance when she ran.
The car drove into the farm and continued along the navigation.
This is a farm that has been destroyed by heavy rain, hail or strong winds. Near the entrance, you can still see the remnants of tent houses, glass plantations and damaged RVs.
Shu Fu quickly drove through the farming and pastoral camping area, bypassed a forest, and a huge lake appeared in front of her.
This place is very spacious, with no traces of any buildings or artificial carvings around. It is a large purely natural scenic area.
Shu Fu gradually understood the reason for the check-in locations given in the mission, because there was no surveillance around, and there were no living conditions at all, it was a completely uninhabited area. She felt relieved and drove along the navigation route to the end, and found that the latitude and longitude marked the location by the lake.
She stopped the car, put away her backpack and mobile phone, scanned the interior of the car, put the only supplies in the car - spare tissues and biscuits - into the wristband space, and then turned on the portable protective shield again.
She pushed the door open and got out of the car, then quickly walked to the lake. After looking around, she moved her fingers quickly and skillfully to release the raft on the lake.
Without hesitation, she stepped across the wetland by the lake, took a big step onto the raft, and after rushing into the eaves of the front door, she turned off the portable protective shield, then bent down and quickly took off her waterproof boots, ran barefoot into the drifting island house, and used the raft drift bottle protective shield on the functional screen behind the door, reducing the raft's presence to zero.
She has not used this experience card since arriving at the Louyuncheng Shelter. She currently has two cards, one with 5.5 hours remaining and the other with 13 hours remaining, which is enough to meet her current usage needs.
Shu Fu breathed a sigh of relief after turning on the protective shield, but did not rest first. Instead, he took out his mobile phone and recalibrated the latitude and longitude of his current location. He confirmed again and again that there were no mistakes before he completely relaxed.
She has completed the raft check-in at the designated location within the specified time of the mission. One hour later, if the mission can be successfully judged as completed, the raft will be officially upgraded to level 3.
The level 3 raft will officially activate the raft bottle protection shield function, and the daily usage time of the raft will increase again. She doesn't have high requirements, as long as she can increase it by 7 hours like when she upgraded to level 2 raft, she will be satisfied.
If all else fails, even adding 5 hours would be good.
The main reason is that her recent lottery draws were too bad, and she has been so discouraged that she doesn’t have any demands anymore.
Shu Fu took off her going-out clothes and fell relaxed on the sofa. Only then did she realize that she was sore and tired all over. Even though she had been driving the whole way, her muscles were subconsciously tense because she was highly concentrated the whole time.
Now that I am in the completely safe house on the drifting island, I will naturally feel tired once I relax.
She hadn't turned off the countdown on her phone. After a short rest, the countdown showed that there were still 30 minutes left. Shu Fu had originally planned to have barbecue for lunch, but now the mission was not completed and the raft was in a place where it could not stay for 24 hours. Of course, she couldn't continue to eat such complicated food.
After thinking about it, she finally took out a portion of spicy shredded chicken and a portion of cold vegetarian dishes from the space shelf, and then took out a can of Coke from the kitchen refrigerator. She needed the happy fat house water to relieve her stress.
The refrigerator had no power and the Coke was at room temperature. Fortunately, she had used an ice maker to stock up on a few ice buckets of ice cubes. She put the ice cubes in a cup and poured out the Coke to drink it, and the effect was the same.
Shu Fu sat at the dining table, picking up food with chopsticks in one hand and checking the three locations of the previous mission on her mobile phone with the other hand, reviewing all the guesses in her mind one by one.
When reviewing some key points, I will put down my chopsticks and write them down in my notebook.
First of all, these three locations are located in three different directions of Louyun City. If they are connected with a line, they roughly form a triangle, which covers most of the entire Louyun City.
In other words, when this task appears, no matter where she is in Louyun City, she can reach one of the locations within the specified time.
If she had not moved to the dormitory building on the hill and still lived in the original Jixing community, it might have been faster for her to drive to the current Mufeng Farm.
To sum up, this task itself is not particularly difficult. As long as you don't delay time deliberately and don't have any accidents on the road, you can reach the destination and place the raft within the specified time.
But why?
For the first time in history, the bracelet showed the words "100% deduction from the progress bar for unfinished tasks", but gave a task that seemed urgent but not difficult. The placement location was in an uninhabited area, and even details such as avoiding being photographed or seen when placing the raft were taken into consideration, as if she was simply asked to stay in this place within the specified time.
What's so special about this place? Shu Fu turned his head to look out the floor-to-ceiling window. The lake was very large, surrounded by grassland. There were no buildings. The hills were all far away, and the surroundings were empty and flat.
If we have to find a difference, it would be the "emptiness".
Is...something going to happen?
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After finishing the shredded chicken and salad and drinking all the Coke, the countdown returned to zero.
There was no movement from the bracelet, and nothing new happened outside the cabin except the heavy rain and lightning.
Shu Fu picked up the garbage, opened the door, stood under the eaves for a while, and after making sure there were no people or movements around, he went into the house and temporarily closed the protective cover of the drift bottle.
She was afraid of complications just now, but now the stipulated two hours have passed. Even if someone really came here and saw the raft later, it would not matter. She had already moved the raft and let it drift to the center of the lake, and no one else could get on.
What's more, in a farm like this, it doesn't seem out of place to have a small raft like this on the lake.
There are less than 18 hours left for the protective shield, and she doesn't know when the mission will be completed or when the raft can be upgraded to level 3. The protective shield time must be used when it is most needed.
After removing the protective cover, the sound of wind and rain outside became much louder. Shu Fu felt a little uneasy. She first curled up on the sofa and browsed the internet to check the situation in Louyun City and the latest disaster notifications. When she found nothing, she turned on the music on the Bluetooth speaker, got up and went to the rowing machine to start working off the shredded chicken she had eaten for lunch.
Not long after the exercise, several thunderbolts flashed in the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window in front of him. This time, in addition to the thunder that followed, Shu Fu felt some unusual movement.
She stopped, reached out to pick up the phone on the floor beside her, turned off the music, then stood up and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
On the hills on the other side of the lake, under the gloomy sky and in the heavy rain, it seemed that countless dark shadows were flying out from the woods on the hills.
That's -- a flock of birds?!
There were birds of all kinds, big and small. In such a stormy weather, animals' instinct to seek good and avoid danger would make them hide in the depths of the forest or even in caves. But at this moment, although it was still raining heavily outside, the flocks of birds rushed out of the forest quickly, flying all the way across the sky above the lake and heading to the other side of the lake.
Shu Fu's heart was beating like a drum, and she didn't know if it was due to the exercise just now or because of the abnormal scene in front of her.
The flock of birds is flying from east to west. Is there something in the east... coming over?
Yes, in nature, animals suddenly show abnormal behavior, usually accompanied by a disaster - her thoughts were interrupted by the wooden house shaking slightly. The raft drifted on the lake, and because of the protection function of the drifting island house itself, the storms and thunderstorms outside would not have any impact on the wooden house.
But now, it is the entire lake surface where the raft is resting that is causing the vibration.
This is - an earthquake!
The next second after reacting, Shu Fu rushed behind the door and immediately turned on the drift bottle protection shield again on the function screen.
Sure enough, when the protective cover of the drifting bottle was opened, the protection of the entire raft was upgraded, and the shaking feeling caused by the vibration of the lake surface disappeared instantly.
Shu Fu lay on the floor-to-ceiling glass window and found that the surface of the lake outside was shaking more violently than before, as if the water in a pot was shaking constantly in someone's hand, and the water surface inside was also shaking up and down, and the waves were surging towards the shore.
So, the mission just now was to let her leave the B&B building first and come to a safer open place?
Shu Fu frowned, something was not right. Although the lake outside was shaking, it was still far from an earthquake that could collapse a house. Moreover, if it was an earthquake, there was no need for her to take shelter here. She only needed to leave the building before the earthquake and reach a nearby open space.
what else?
She looked down at her beeping phone again, and now all she saw were earthquake warnings and notifications.
Louyun City was not the epicenter, but was affected by the earthquake. The epicenters monitored by instruments were Shanyang City, Guanyu County, Fuyang City, Caoshan County, Meishan City, Quyu County...all of which are cities in the flood zone east of Louyun City.
Wait! Shu Fu soon discovered that none of the cities shown on those earthquake warning notices were the same, and they covered a very wide area.
This means that earthquakes are occurring simultaneously in multiple locations. Given the current flood disaster in China, such an earthquake will trigger unprecedented super waves!
Sure enough, a few minutes later, the tsunami air defense sirens sounded again throughout Louyun City.
Shu Fu stood in front of the French window, her eyes fixed on the east side of the lake. There was a hill there. Although it was not high, it completely blocked her view. She could not see the dam, nor the situation outside the dam at the moment. She could only hear the shrill air raid sirens that continued to sound, and it had not stopped for more than ten minutes.
The noise made her eardrums ache and she felt extremely uneasy.
The lake surface, which had calmed down due to the cessation of the earthquake, began to shake again. Faintly, it seemed as if thousands of horses were roaring and galloping in the distance. It was a huge sound, mixed with the sound of rapid collision and friction of water.
Shu Fu opened the door, stood under the eaves and looked at the sky in the east.
She never knew that the sound of water could be so loud. Even though it was separated by the protective shield of the drifting bottle and was obviously still far away, it drowned out all the noise around it.
Soon, she saw surging water vapor appearing above the hills opposite the lakeshore. The water vapor overwhelmed the pouring rainstorm and spread like clouds, covering the entire hill. It was also like waves on the sea, which were instantly teleported into the air by a capable person.
Shu Fu once used the phrase "blocking out the sun and covering the sky" to describe the huge waves that first hit the Louyuncheng Dam. At that time, the waves were more than 40 meters high, nearly the height of a 14-story building. It was the most terrifying wave she had ever seen in her life.
But at this moment, the waves coming from the other side of the hill were completely beyond description.
It was a horrifying scene that left her completely speechless.
The hills on the opposite side of the lake were at least two hundred and fifty or two hundred and sixty meters high, but the surging waves were higher than the hills. Water vapor covered the entire sky and earth, and the strong wind was howling sharply.
She heard a loud roar of a building collapsing in the distance, and couldn't tell whether it was the dam that had blocked huge waves time and time again, making the people of Louyun City so proud, or the building protected by the dam that had collapsed.
In the face of huge waves of this height, it makes no difference whether it is a solid dam or a fragile building, because they will all be smashed to pieces under the water pressure.
If she was still in the B&B at this moment, she would be hit by the super tsunami immediately. There are too many buildings and trees there, and the hills and mountains will form countless high-speed water waterfalls and whirlpools under the waves.
Also, the place is too close to the dam, and the broken dam wall will be swept over by the water flow in the first place. Even if the raft has a protective cover, as long as it is blocked by the huge fragments of the dam wall, I am afraid that no matter how advanced the technology is, the raft will not be able to escape.
It turns out that this is the real reason why extreme tasks appear.
Shu Fu stood in front of the eaves, watching the hundreds of meters high waves rolling over the hills, colliding to create even larger waves and water vapor, then engulfing the hills, covering the sky, and then pouring towards the lake where she was.
She was confused for a moment, unable to tell whether she was in reality or in a nightmare.
Not until the hills in the distance completely disappeared in the waves did she suddenly move, turned back to the cabin, closed the door, changed the mooring status to drifting on the function screen, and then quickly activated the bracelet's collection status, quickly collecting the few glass products and fragile items placed outside the house on Drifting Island into the space.
Being anchored may increase the pressure on the raft against the waves, while drifting in this case is more likely to relieve the pressure.
She didn't know the limit of the pressure resistance of the raft bottle's protective shield, but she believed in the task given by the bracelet.
If the protective shield of the drifting bottle could not withstand such a disaster, she would not have been allowed to take refuge in this open space just now. Instead, she would have been asked to drive west immediately, as far away from the flood area as possible, to the southwestern mountainous area with a higher altitude.
But even if the protective shield can withstand such water pressure, the raft will never be able to stay in place safely under such a world-destroying tsunami.
Her heart was pounding as she quickly cleared out the scattered items in the room. Finally, she looked around and sat down on the cushion by the floor-to-ceiling window.
After all, the drifting island house is not an airplane or a car. There is no safety belt inside to secure her to the seat. The cushions are thick and soft, which can absorb the collision caused by the raft rolling over.
She leaned against the window, staring at the huge waves that covered the entire sky, while putting her finger on the bracelet, ready to activate the portable protective shield at any time.
If the raft was really overturned by the waves, she would be in danger in the house even if the raft was protected by a protective cover and would not break apart.
Shu Fu didn't even dare to blink. He just stared at the water wall that was getting closer and closer. The moment the edge of the lake was swallowed up, he activated his portable protective shield.
In just a second, the surrounding scenery disappeared, and the waves replaced everything within sight.
She only heard a buzzing sound, and the raft was completely swept into the water wall.
The author has something to say:
In fact, when I first wrote about the huge wave, I had already designed this scene~~
Oh, I finally wrote it~~
Tsunamis can be divided into two types based on their mechanism: downdraft and uplift.
The description here is more in line with the raised type.
Don't be afraid, a tsunami of this magnitude requires specific conditions to occur, which is difficult to happen in reality.
The highest tsunami in real history occurred seventy years ago. The 524-meter-high wave was called the Devil's Tsunami, which overturned oceanographers' understanding of tsunamis.
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