Chapter 96 Boundary Line
Chamu County is located on the border of Xizhou Province, bordering the northwest corner of the Southwest Plateau. Because it is not a city, the material conditions are average, so the queue is not as crowded as in other cities. But the altitude there is high, more than 4,000 meters, and there are many mountains, backed by the mountains, which is suitable for them to keep a low profile and wait for her to go to Xizhou Province to reunite with them.
In the next few hours, Shu Fu kept a close eye on the weather conditions outside. He also let the raft wander around the area with more boats, and listened carefully to the conversations of people and team members on other boats, in order to infer the weather conditions in the Pengcheng area.
Fortunately, she had never heard of any sudden extreme natural disasters in Xiangzhou Province.
After dinner that day, she felt relieved when she received news from Chen Fa and Lu Zheng that they were safe.
In the following days, she would receive intermittent messages from them about their daily lives in the new environment. What they talked about the most was that Chamu County was very cold. At an altitude of 4,000 meters, the temperature was originally colder than other areas with lower altitudes. In addition, the temperature of the entire planet was dropping little by little, so the feeling of coldness became particularly obvious in Chamu County...
The temperature in the water area at the junction of Xiangzhou and Muzhou provinces where Shu Fu was located was also dropping. She had been staying in the house on the drifting island where there were people, so she couldn't feel the temperature outside, but she could roughly guess the situation outside from the clothes of the people on the boat and the way they were sitting on the boat.
At night, when the raft was parked back in the uninhabited waters against the mountain wall and the protective cover was turned off, she also tried to walk out of the eaves with an umbrella. The temperature felt about ten degrees, and it was even more humid and cold because it was in the water.
Ten degrees is not considered a low temperature, but it is October now and this is not a mountainous plateau, so the temperature is already very low.
Within two days, another sudden storm covered the area, and this time large hail was mixed in with the wind and rain.
The engine of a small speedboat was hit so hard that it started smoking. The boat was trapped in the middle of the water and unable to dock. Other boats in the nearby waters were rushing towards the nearest shore. Another speedboat with only a few rescue team members on board turned back, intending to transfer the people there and take them back to the shore to find shelter in a building.
However, just as the two small speedboats came close together, the hail became more and more dense, and holes were smashed in both speedboats by the hail. When a high wave hit, both speedboats capsized and fell into the water.
Shu Fu, who was in the nearby waters, sighed and tried to see if the shield could be closed. The raft shield would automatically open when it encountered an extreme natural disaster. On the contrary, if it could be closed during a natural disaster, it meant that the disaster at this stage would not cause any damage to the raft and the drifting island house.
The protective shield was closed smoothly, and the suddenly appearing raft once again became a life-saving straw for the victims. They quickly climbed onto the deck and experienced the same surprise, astonishment and confusion as the previous group of people.
Finally, they all found the balcony on the roof, screamed and rushed up the wooden ladder to hide inside, thus avoiding the fate of being hit on the scalp and bleeding.
The two overturned speedboats were not big, and one of them was empty. There were only eight or nine survivors in total. One of them was the last one to fall behind. When he climbed onto the deck behind the wooden house, he was holding a man with a bloody head and unconscious. He was wearing the rescue team's waterproof field uniform, so he must have fallen behind because he was trying to save people.
Soon someone on the terrace rushed down with a life jacket covering his head. The person who rushed down was also wearing a combat uniform. He shouted "Captain" and helped drag the unconscious person onto the wooden ladder. There were other people helping on top. They were busy and fast, and in a few moments they dragged the person into the glass balcony.
Shu Fu stood inside the door, looking out through the glass. She felt that the last person who climbed onto the deck had broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and his figure and height looked familiar. Just before stepping onto the wooden ladder, the person turned his head towards the door, revealing a face that surprised her and was familiar.
What a coincidence, it turned out to be Cheng Yu.
However, soon, when his head turned completely and Shu Fu saw his face clearly, she couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise.
It has been almost eight months since she and Cheng Yu last met. During these eight months, Liu Shuang and Han Lan have both changed a lot, and so has he. He looks thinner, and his facial features appear more three-dimensional.
He had the best eyebrows and eyes on his face, with long and sharp eyebrows and deep and delicate eyes. But at this moment, there was an abrupt scar extending from his forehead all the way to the corner of his eyes, completely destroying this delicacy.
The scar was very deep. Even though it had fully healed, she could still see the scar clearly from such a distance. She could fully imagine how deep and dangerous the scar was when he was injured.
When he didn't speak, his temperament was originally quite fierce. Now that his delicate features were destroyed, he looked even more murderous, and the smell of gunpowder on his body was even stronger.
He didn't stay at the entrance of the wooden stairs for too long. The hail was still falling outside. Someone from the glass balcony on the terrace called him captain. He responded and rushed up quickly with his long legs.
Shu Fu didn't expect that this coincidence would actually save Cheng Yu. Such a coincidence inevitably made her think of the mission, but now the level 5 raft mission has not been launched, so this coincidence should be just a simple coincidence...
She thought so, but when she lay back on the sofa to read, she couldn't help but recall every detail of Cheng Yu climbing onto the raft, and recalled whether there was a white flashing light bar above his head.
She couldn't be completely sure whether there was or not, because outside there was not only a storm but also hail, and there were strong winds and waves on the deck, so she couldn't see clearly at the time.
Shu Fu lay on the sofa for a while, then got up and went to the kitchen with an empty cup to make herself some coffee. She was stunned when she passed the back door, and she saw Cheng Yu again. His dark eyes were looking in the direction of the back door, and because of the angle, it seemed as if he was looking at her from a distance through the door of the Drifting Island House.
Shu Fu's heart skipped a beat. She quickly moved one step to the left, then two steps to the right, and finally confirmed that the glance just now was just a problem of visual angle.
Or maybe, because of his military nature, he had a keen intuition that there must be someone in the cabin of the raft, and there is a high possibility that the person is standing in the door and looking at the people outside through the one-way glass.
Shu Fu walked to the door with the cup in hand. The hail outside had not stopped yet, and she could hear the sound of hail hitting the deck. Cheng Yu was standing under the wooden ladder. There was not much space there, just a little space. It was the only safe area on the first deck under the current weather conditions.
However, the first floor of the entire Drifting Island House is only about 2 meters high from the outside, so the height of the wooden ladder is only 2 meters. His height is estimated to be 1.9 meters, plus the thickness of his military boots. At this moment, he is standing behind the wooden ladder with his head on the steps of the ladder. The size of the whole person and the ladder is extremely mismatched. There is a sense of contrast between an adult who accidentally entered a children's playground, which made Shu Fu want to laugh.
She really smiled, but soon her eyes met the scar on his forehead and she couldn't smile anymore.
The wound on his forehead was most likely caused at the border.
According to Han Lan's description, they should have gone to the border together. Han Lan almost died. After returning from the border, Cheng Yu had already withdrawn from the front line and was in the safest Sand City, but he came here to rejoin the front-line rescue team...
Was it because of guilt? Because he was the one who made her live in the family housing complex, so he was determined to find her.
If she hadn't heard it from Han Lan this time, she wouldn't have known that he had felt guilty about this for so long. But in the final analysis, what did this have to do with him? Natural disasters were not something that could be controlled by human power.
Moreover, when she received Cheng Yu's message when she had internet access in Lucheng, she didn't hear any clues from his voice message, and she never thought that "her disappearance and whereabouts unknown" had become a concern for him.
Shu Fu sighed, thinking of Yao Ruoyun and Zheng Feifei who were still out of contact. She seemed to have made too many people worry about her.
However, even though she sighed, and even though she knew in her heart that she could resolve Cheng Yu's worries by simply opening the door and saying a few simple words to him, she still had no intention of showing up.
This time she saw clearly that there was no white light strip above his head.
Sure enough, in essence she is still Shu Fu, whose rationality always outweighs her emotion.
She sighed again and decided that if she had the chance to meet him again at the right time next time, she would be nicer to him. At most, she would not be so rude to him anymore...
This time, the storm mixed with hail lasted for three hours. Although there was nothing in the glass balcony and it was crowded, it was very safe and protected from wind and rain without being bumpy.
As usual, after the hail stopped, the wind and rain subsided, and other ships appeared on the water, Shu Fu opened the protective shield and ejected everyone on the raft.
However, considering that one or two of the survivors might be injured and unconscious, she opened the door and ran under the eaves when the raft began to dive under the water, throwing several life buoys out of the protective shield.
Several lifebuoys were fished out from the waters of the old site of Yuncheng. They were all deflated when they were pulled up. She inflated them one by one and found that they were all intact, so she kept them naturally.
After the lifebuoy left the protective cover, it immediately floated to the surface due to its buoyancy and landed right next to the confused survivors. They immediately pulled their unconscious companions over and let the unconscious people lean against it.
Cheng Yu also saw the lifebuoy. He was stunned for two seconds, then suddenly dived into the water.
Before Shu Fu had time to enter the house, he saw a figure diving quickly from the water. It was Cheng Yu. Relying on his excellent swimming skills, he searched everywhere under the water.
She saw him passing through her protective shield again and again. Several times, he almost bumped into the shield head-on. He could reach her inside the shield with his hand, but - just almost.
She knew this was impossible, the protective shield could interfere with and block everything.
She always felt that he dived into the water to search for it because of a sudden guess, perhaps one that he himself did not believe. He was too serious, and she suddenly felt a little sorry for him.
Shu Fu quickly took out the map tablet, set the destination, adjusted the drifting speed to the maximum, and quickly left the waters.
**
Since she unexpectedly met Cheng Yu that day, she changed her destination to another area of water during the day.
The weather conditions were getting worse and worse, with hail or heavy rain every other day. Both the official rescue team and private ships became more vigilant after the previous accidents, and also accelerated the pace of transfer and rescue.
The long rainy season lasted for more than two months and covered a wide area. Even in safe cities, the sun had not been seen for a long time. The weather in mid-October was so cold that it felt like December.
The rescue work in the border areas of Muzhou Province was completed at the end of October, but the water level was also spreading towards Guancheng County and several other nearby towns in Xiangzhou Province. The rescue team could not stop evacuating the people.
The land line of Xiangzhou Province, which is closest to her waters, is retreating little by little without a trace. The waters continue to expand, but the barrier that restricts her is still in its original place and has not expanded with the expansion of the waters.
Shu Fu had completely given up, knowing that before the Level 5 raft mission appeared, her range of activities could not be expanded.
In early November, she began to steer the raft northward along the westernmost border, passing through the entire Muzhou Province, and finally arrived at Xiren Province. The altitude here is similar to that of Muzhou Province, and the easternmost land has also experienced a world-destroying tsunami, and now the entire province has become an ocean.
Xiren Province went further north to the southern line of the Beidi Plateau. She spent less than two months, moving the raft back and forth, and traveled through all the waters that could be freely moved at present, and finally stopped at the border between Xiren Province and Xiangzhou Province.
Because when she passed by here before, she saw a familiar raft. The raft was the same as Chen Falu Zheng's raft, but it was a little bigger than hers and there was also a wooden hut on it. However, probably because the owner was different, the furnishings of the entire raft were also different.
The raft has two marine motors installed on the rear deck and a sail installed on the front deck. The wind is strong every day, and as long as the direction is correct, the raft can be moved forward with the help of the wind without consuming fuel.
She immediately took out the map panel, adjusted the direction, and followed the raft for a long time. Finally, before it crossed the border line, she saw the owner of the raft.
It was a strange man with an ordinary appearance, whom she had never seen before, either in this world or in the previous one. However, what she really wanted to see was not his appearance, but the top of his head.
There was indeed a white light bar there, which was in a completely stable state, indicating that it had reached 100% progress. However, the value of this light bar was only "6", which was incredibly low compared to Chen Fa and Lu Zheng.
Although she is still unclear about the function of this number, she can infer that Chen Fa and Lu Zheng, the two awakeners, are different from other awakeners.
The mission is indeed meaningful.
Occasionally, other rescue ships and survivors can be seen in this area of water, but their numbers are very small.
There is still no network signal here, but there is a radio signal. It is an official radio station on the opposite side of Xiangzhou Province. The radio station releases some news every day, and when there is no new news, it will replay the old news.
Through the radio and satellite information from Chen Fa, this time she was finally not cut off from the rest of the world.
In mid-November, as more and more of Huaguo's land was submerged, the ocean currents became unstable again, and tsunamis occurred frequently. Once, a giant tsunami as high as 400 meters hit the Beidi Plateau where Lankou Province is located, Xiangzhou Province, and two provinces with lower altitudes on the Southwest Plateau at the same time.
This time, Shu Fu directly turned on the "stealth" and went a hundred meters underwater, intending to escape directly from the water. However, the giant tsunami of more than 400 meters also affected the underwater area of 100 meters deep.
Shu Fu's raft was caught in the turbulence before it could go far, so she had to give up and just hang out in the house on the drifting island, and then she experienced the underwater "roller coaster" again. However, she was prepared this time and took seasickness medicine, so the dizziness reaction was not as severe as before.
On land, it was a completely horrific doomsday scene with huge, roaring waves.
The disaster hit Xiangzhou Province the hardest, with half of the province destroyed. No area with lower altitudes, including the Northeast, East, Southeast, and South districts of Xiangzhou Province, was spared, and dozens of towns and cities, large and small, were buried by the huge waves.
Fortunately, this time, the evacuation was ongoing, and most people had already evacuated to the mountainous area west of Xiangzhou Province before the tsunami hit.
This mountainous area is extremely large, occupying almost a quarter of the entire Xiangzhou Province. The altitude ranges from over 1,000 meters to over 2,000 meters, and several higher peaks reach over 3,500 meters. However, the terrain of this mountainous area is undulating, and the area is full of continuous mountains. The construction and development are originally relatively backward. Not to mention cities, there are very few villages and towns with people, and most of them are concentrated on the outer lines in the east, south and west close to the mountains.
To the east, it is close to the urban area of Xiangzhou Province, and its development and construction are going well. To the south, it borders the southwestern plateau, and it is developing well because of the tourism industry. To the west, it is separated from Xizhou Province by another big river of Hua State, and because of the smooth water and land transportation, it is also developing well.
In the middle is a large uninhabited mountainous area. Even if the people of Xiangzhou Province evacuate, they will bypass this uninhabited area.
The uninhabited mountain area is too big and the mountain roads are too difficult to travel. If you get lost, the altitude is high enough and you are not likely to encounter floods, but there is a serious lack of supplies. If you are trapped inside, no one will come to rescue you in the current situation in Huaguo. You can only wait to die...
Therefore, most of the local people and refugees from other provinces and regions who are still in Xiangzhou Province are concentrated in these small towns along the outer line. Although the altitude here is high enough for the time being, they still cannot feel at ease and they all want to evacuate to Fengshang Plateau as soon as possible to solve the problem once and for all.
Yes, at this point, even the dullest people could basically see clearly that in the entire Hua State, only the Fengshang Plateau where Xizhou Province was located was completely safe.
In the short period of half a month that followed, most of the people stranded in the mountainous areas were evacuated again, leaving only the two areas in the northwest and west bordering the Fengshang Plateau, and the area in the southwest close to the high-altitude area of the southwestern plateau, as well as several small towns where people could be seen.
The radio signal that Shu Fu was originally able to receive was also completely cut off.
One morning in early December, Shu Fu was sleeping half asleep when he suddenly felt a vibration on his wrist.
She first turned over, then sat up suddenly and quickly opened her bracelet.
She saw new words appearing on the black mini notebook.
It really is a mission!
Level 5 Raft Mission - Finally here!
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