Chapter 53 No Lou Yuncheng
His hair was disheveled and his beard was untidy. He looked much worse than last time and he didn't look very energetic. His hands were shaking when he was taking selfies. He sounded dazed and kept repeating the same words.
"...something is wrong...everything is messed up! No, you have to believe me...there shouldn't be such a tsunami this year, not even in the past ten years...it shouldn't happen, we have already made all the preparations...it is absolutely impossible...why...you have to believe me, I was really reborn, I remember it very clearly, there was no tsunami...no! There wasn't such a huge tsunami...there is something wrong with this world...ah, they are coming, they are coming to find me...I have to upload it to the Internet quickly..." The video ends with the man suddenly looking back with a panicked expression.
The entire video is less than a minute long, but it gives everyone who has watched it a chilling chill.
What's the meaning?
This tsunami shouldn't have happened?
Were you already prepared?
Who prepared?
What preparations have you made?
And - who are they?
People who already believed in the apocalyptic video were panicking and didn't understand why things had taken such an uncontrollable turn.
Others who originally did not believe in doomsday theory and rebirth became even more angry, condemning him for being mysterious and doing whatever it takes to become famous, even daring to show his face. Why can such a lunatic still surf the Internet freely?
Probably because the person involved was a key figure, the video disappeared shortly after it appeared.
But the public was well prepared. Anyone who happened to see it had super-fast hands and downloaded the video, which then continued to circulate it crazily in various groups.
If that were the case, Shu Fu hadn't logged into WeChat, and she happened to pass by an area with signal, so it shouldn't have been such a coincidence that she could see it.
But not long after this video was released, it suddenly appeared on the website overnight, and on all the websites without exception. No one knew who was behind it, but the video was like a nail that was stubbornly nailed to the website.
Along with this video, there is also the previous apocalyptic video. The two videos, one above and one below, occupy the top positions. It is difficult for anyone who is online to miss them.
There are countless layers of replies and comments below, and many people are speculating, is the person who posted the video this time the same person who made the previous apocalyptic video?
Why on earth would that person do such a thing?
It took the authorities three or four days to completely clean up the last video. How long will it take this time?
Some people even started a new thread to count the days that the two videos existed, and a bunch of people followed suit and checked in every day to count together. People had a new way to relieve stress and fear, their attention was diverted, and fewer people participated in the war of words.
After watching this video, Shu Fu went to look at the timing post. It has been four days now and it has reached the match point. Someone even started a vote below, wondering if he can last past the limit of four days and move towards five days.
Some people have set up lottery posts, saying that as long as you can survive the last time, the prize will be drawn, and 200 people will be randomly selected by leaving a message to give out money.
Someone asked under this post if they could give out supplies instead of money, because they are in the disaster area and are still waiting for rescue...
Then someone actually created a new thread, saying that as long as they could hold on for a week, a prize would be awarded, and 300 people would be randomly picked by leaving a message, and they could choose either money or airdrop supplies.
Many people posted comments below, and many people also said that a week is too long. Even if those two videos can make it through, their stomachs can't...
Onlookers were watching the fun, asking the poster what he was going to use for the airdrop. Drones were probably not good enough, was it a wealthy man with a private jet?
Shu Fu: ...
They are truly the people of Huaguo. Even in the most difficult and dark years of disaster, they were still able to entertain themselves and let loose in various ways.
She rubbed her eyes, which were a little swollen from browsing too many pages, and continued to check. This time, she basically read the rescue news released by the official.
Because the disaster-stricken area is so large and the signal is interrupted in so many areas, rescue forces cannot arrive in time, so it has been decided to implement airdrops of supplies throughout the disaster-stricken areas.
The entire territory also represents all land. Wherever the disaster occurs, as long as there is land above water, no matter how small the land is or whether there are survivors on it, supply packages will be airdropped indiscriminately.
The supply package is wrapped in double waterproof cloth and contains energy meals, clean water, a hand-pulled neck life buoy, disinfectants, warm clothing, rain gear, signal smoke sticks, etc., which will not expire within five years.
These supplies are intended to provide survival assistance to the disaster survivors who cannot be rescued for the time being.
Because the survivors in the no-signal area may not be very clear about the situation outside, a note of encouragement is placed in each supply package, indicating that the authorities are working hard to encourage them to hold on in the desperate situation, not to give up, and wait for rescue to arrive.
Especially the signal smoke stick, an instruction manual is specially included in the supply package, which indicates that the smoke stick must be used when a rescue helicopter is seen flying nearby, which will greatly increase the chance of a successful rescue.
As the news of the airdrop of supply packages across the country came out, some people's attention was diverted and they started posting various prayer and encouragement posts.
…
Shu Fu read the messages one by one, feeling a faint warmth in her heart.
She found an official donation platform, logged into a non-chat payment account on this phone number, and donated the entire amount. Fortunately, she had prepared for it before and had money in this phone, otherwise she really couldn't do anything now.
Anyway, as long as she doesn't go into the city, she won't have to spend any money. Besides, all this money is converted from gold, so it can be said that it is taken from the people and used for the people.
But for high-altitude cities and non-affected cities that are making the kits, the amounts she gives could potentially produce hundreds more kits that could be airdropped to survivors.
The news of the nationwide airdrop was released yesterday. That day, when Shu Fu reopened the raft and headed towards the destination again, she heard the roar of an airplane.
She stood on the raft and looked up. A plane carrying supplies was flying low over the nearby hills. The cabin door was open and a series of small parachutes were dropped out.
Even though this is a small piece of land deep in the water, and even though there were most likely no survivors here months ago, the supply packages still arrived as promised, some landing on the slopes of the hills, and some in the shallow water next to the land.
These supply packs are all equipped with flotation tools and are brightly colored, so they can be seen from a long distance no matter where they fall, and will not sink or take on water even if they fall into the water.
Every supply package has the potential to save several lives, and these are hopes of survival.
**
After the raft had been drifting for half an hour, the network signal became very poor, and after more than ten minutes, the network was completely gone.
Shu Fu resumed her single-machine operation again. However, this place was only about an hour and a half away from her destination today by water. If she was sure that she could go ashore there and spend four hours every day, she could come back anytime she needed the Internet in the future.
Since marks could not be made on the map panel, Shu Fu took out the tablet and left a mark on the electronic map.
The biggest gain today was actually the new video released by this reborn person. Others might not understand the message he revealed in the video, but she understood it.
This reborn being was saying that the planet-wide tsunami that happened this time did not happen in the future that he had experienced.
Strictly speaking, there were indeed tsunamis, but their severity was all within the normal range of tsunamis, such as the 15-meter-high tsunami that first hit the Huaguo coastline, and the 30-40-meter-high waves that hit the Louyuncheng Dam.
And the kind of world-destroying tsunami that was hundreds of meters high a week ago had never happened before - at least, it shouldn't happen on the timeline he knew.
In other words, the "past" he knew had changed, and the future that was supposed to be predetermined had deviated for some reason.
"Obviously, all preparations have been made." This should refer to various official measures, which may include but are not limited to: casting waterproof dams in advance, developing and building backward small cities in plateau areas, initially implementing traffic bans and city entry passes, and then opening up a number of cities for relocation and providing various preferential policies...
However, everything that was going according to plan was disrupted by this super tsunami.
Because that reborn person, and even other unknown reborn people in Hua Country, did not predict this disaster.
Too many people died in this disaster, and he went from being a prophet and savior to the object of everyone's abuse.
Perhaps he could not bear the blow, so he fell into confusion and self-doubt.
The video of the reborn person matched Shu Fu's previous guess. The authorities were indeed unaware of the situation, otherwise they would have acted more quickly. For example, when Suicheng and other cities were flooded, the evacuation was completed in about ten days.
So now the question is, why would the established future be changed?
Because of this incident, other people might automatically interpret the failure of the Reborn One's prophecy as meaning that he was not a savior in the first place, but just a madman who was deceiving others, and his crazy words just happened to coincide with the previous disaster.
But Shu Fu doesn't think so. She herself is a non-scientific time traveler, so she believes in the prophecy of the reborn person 100%.
Since the reborn person did not lie, then what went wrong?
It was like some invisible existence was playing a bad joke. The disaster had been predicted and the country had taken preventive measures to avoid it, but it suddenly escalated doubly.
It seems that they want to tell humans in this malicious way that no matter how hard they try, what is destined to be destroyed will eventually be destroyed...
What’s even more frightening is that such deviations may happen again in the future.
As a result, the officials, who were originally able to take countermeasures because of the reborn people, will fall into a more passive situation.
**
At 7:35 in the evening, Shu Fu finally arrived at his destination after spending an extra half an hour in the signal area.
The rain outside had lightened a little. The hills in front of us stood in the dark rainy night, looking blurry and indistinct, like a silent animal sitting in the water.
These are two independent hills, surrounded by water. The parts that are now exposed above the water may have been the two highest peaks in the vicinity in the past. Shu Fu did not get too close because he was not sure whether there was really no one up there.
There were still remnants of buildings and ship debris floating in the nearby waters. She moved the raft over, anchored it, and closed the raft's protective cover.
After today's use, the protective shield has 26 hours of storage time left, but in another 5 hours, it can be replenished for another 4 hours.
Shu Fu was going to finish her lunch instant noodles for dinner. She also found a box of salmon, sea bream, scallops and sea urchin sashimi from her space. She poured special soy sauce into a small bowl, squeezed out mustard, and started her instant noodles with sashimi dinner.
After the meal, she cleaned the pots and pans, washed up, and climbed into bed early.
After all, she didn't sleep much yesterday, and even though she made up for it with two hours of sleep today, she still felt a little sleepy now. She planned to rest early to get enough rest so that she would have enough energy to work tomorrow.
The next day, it was cloudy and rainy as usual. She stood in front of the French window, biting into a beef and cheese croissant while looking through a telescope at the situation on the opposite hill.
This is the area hit hardest by the tsunami. Most of the original trees and vegetation on the slope were broken and now lie scattered all over the place. It is a complete scene after a catastrophe.
According to the electronic map, one of the hills was relatively large and had a relatively flat top, with several guesthouses built on it. She was looking at the direction of the top of this hill, but among the messy branches lying horizontally, she saw the collapsed walls of the building.
Obviously, a super tsunami also wreaked havoc in this area. All the homestays on the hills were hit by huge waves and were destroyed without exception.
For Shu Fu, landing on this hill has both advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that the situation up there is rather dire, and the possibility of survivors is slim. As long as she can find a suitable temporary shelter, she can go ashore for the four hours every day when the raft cannot be used.
But this is also a disadvantage, because the situation above is too tragic. She just checked and found that all the buildings near the mountainside were destroyed without exception. She didn't know whether she could find a temporary shelter after getting ashore.
4 hours, if she is unlucky, she can encounter all kinds of extreme weather. She can release the raft at any time to take shelter, but it would be better if there is a sturdy and stable temporary shelter that can shelter from wind and rain.
After all, she herself didn't know how long she would stay in these waters, and she couldn't always rely on the delay card.
Shu Fu thought about it and decided to go to another hill nearby to see the situation.
When she compared the hill with the electronic map, she made a good discovery. If she was lucky, it might solve all her problems.
Shu Fu manually operated the raft and made it head towards the hill on the other side. The two hills that were originally connected together now looked more like two isolated islands facing each other in the vast ocean. If the water level receded by several dozen meters, the slope connecting the two sides might be exposed.
The raft easily passed through the waterlogged area in the middle of the hill. The situation here was similar. The original trees on the slope had all fallen down, most of them were stacked together in a crisscross pattern, and the rest fell into the nearby waters and became floating objects.
Shu Fu adjusted the drifting speed of the raft to 20, and then manually adjusted the direction all the way so that the raft could drift around the hills.
Since the map panel appeared on the wristband, although you can set the destination and let the raft drift automatically, it is still not very convenient to operate for short-distance drifting that needs to change direction at any time. Because changing direction requires operation on the function screen behind the door, it would be better if there could be a rudder on the upper floor of the wooden house like a boat.
The terrain of this hill is different from the other side. The top of the hill is small and it is not easy to build a homestay. The west side of the hill is a steep cliff. There is a natural cave at the top of the cliff, which has been developed into a cave sunset restaurant.
When she passed the signal area yesterday, she once again looked up the restaurant in detail and found a lot of photos, which gave her more confidence in this place.
When disaster strikes, there is no structure more solid than the cave itself.
Shu Fu observed the entire hill and found a suitable place to dock. It was a col near the cave restaurant. Judging from the color of the water, it was not particularly shallow. The main reason was that the raft now had an underwater bedroom. She had not observed this underwater bedroom from the outside, so she didn't know how much space it occupied under the raft.
The original raft had a very shallow draft and could be anchored anywhere, but now she was afraid that the bedroom would be stuck in a shallow place and the raft would not be able to pass, so she tried to find a place where the water was not so shallow to go ashore.
If even this water level is not enough, then she can only take out the inflatable boat for a temporary ferry.
Fortunately, the raft was not stuck, and the front end of the raft successfully reached the shore. She moored the raft to make it more stable, then took a big step off the raft and stepped onto the land.
It was not too cold outside, and the rain was getting heavier. Shu Fu wore waterproof boots and waterproof jacket and pants. Because of the raincoat, she didn't even take a backpack. She only wore a mask and pulled down the brim of her rain hat. In the end, she chose the latter between rushing up the ramp with the nail in hand and opening the portable protective shield.
Today's trip was to explore the road, and this place was not like the previous one in Suicheng, a city she knew very well after all the people were evacuated. This was the wilderness, she had never been here before, and she didn't know if there were still people or other living things on this hill, and the weather conditions were a bit bad.
So this time, the protective shield cannot be saved.
After Shu Fu put away the raft, she immediately activated the portable protective shield. As expected, once the shield was opened, the wind and rain were blocked outside. She could even take out her mobile phone and navigate by comparing it with the downloaded electronic map.
The mountain road ravaged by the tsunami was extremely difficult to walk on. The distance that the map showed would only take four or five minutes took her more than ten minutes to walk.
Of course, the protective shield couldn't be kept on all the time. After the initial observation and vigilance, she only used it on muddy slopes and in broken woods with poor visibility until she arrived. The whole process took 4 minutes and 21 seconds, and every second was used where it was needed.
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