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Tao Sai put on a lightweight backpack and fastened the horizontal buckle on his chest. The backpack was firmly fixed on his body and would not shake no matter whether he ran or jumped.
Inside her bag were the dry rations Li Yinzhu and Zhou Ning had packed for her, enough for seven or eight days. The variety was diverse and nutritionally balanced. Having Zhou Ning and Aunt Li on board saved her a lot of trouble.
After saying goodbye to everyone, Tao Sai controlled his unsteady hands and feet and took unsteady steps forward.
At this moment, the cell phone in the pocket of his overalls rang. He picked it up and saw it was Lin's mother calling. She and Lin Kang had finally reached the dock after a long journey that had left their legs cramped.
The road Tao Sai told them about was a country lane, extremely remote. They didn't see a single car along the way and had to rely on their two legs for the entire journey.
At first, Lin Kang refused to go any further after a few hundred meters, feigning footaches, a headache, and a nagging pain in his buttocks. Mother Lin, feeling sorry for her son, had to carry him on her back, while her other hand had to drag the heavy suitcase. Mother Lin, no longer young, was soon sweating profusely from exhaustion and nearly fainted.
Afraid that they would not be able to reach the dock before dark, Mother Lin had no choice but to let Lin Kang go, no matter how much he made a fuss.
Tao Sai asked Mother Lin to continue walking along the bay on the phone, and she sat at the fork in the road waiting for the exhausted mother and son.
"I hate you! You are not as good as my sister!" The moment Lin Kang saw the culprit Tao Sai, he suddenly cheered up and pointed at her and yelled.
"After all, I'm not your sister." Tao Sai said calmly, with a forced smile.
Lin Kang clenched his fists and glared at her fiercely. If he didn't take revenge, he would not be a man!
Tao Sai didn't bother to pay attention to him. She turned her head and said to Mother Lin, "Auntie Lin, I have something else to do. Just keep walking a few hundred meters ahead. Our berth number is A273. I've saved lunch for you. After lunch, have a good rest."
"Okay, thank you, girl." Mother Lin thanked her while panting, and continued to move the suitcase with her legs that felt like they were filled with lead.
"Kid, you'd better be obedient on the boat." Tao Sai raised his chin slightly and said to Lin Kang.
Lin Kang was quite dissatisfied.
Ask him to obey? Why?
"Let me show you something." Tao Sai narrowed his eyes, took two steps forward, bent down and hugged a solid stone pillar on the side of the road, then picked it up easily.
When she put the stone pillar back on the ground, Lin Kang clearly felt the ground shaking.
Lin Kang: “…”
Under the organization and mobilization of grassroots government agencies, Donghai City's fishing boat rescue team was assembled. A total of 1,105 large and small boats were organized into 21 teams. Each team was led by a fishery administration ship and immediately set sail for the Yangtze River.
Yu Wenfu and his iron boat were assigned to the seventh team, which consisted of 44 boats. Their mission was to go to the Wolong River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, to evacuate the affected people.
Yu Wenfu's ancestors weren't actually fishermen. He'd been in the business for less than ten years. The harvest was good in the first few years, so he saved up some money and took out a loan to buy a new boat, becoming his own boat owner. Working alone, he took on more responsibilities, working harder and hiring fewer people. His income had increased several times over when he was working for others, and he was on the verge of paying off his loan.
But man proposes, God disposes. The country has issued a fishing ban, and fishing in the East China Sea fishing grounds is closed for a full five months a year.
The fishing ban means that he has no income at all for five months. He still has to support his wife and children, and he also has the burden of loans, so his life is getting more and more difficult day by day.
Yu Wenfu was bored and restless on the boat all day long. He was anxious because he had no money to earn. He even thought about selling the boat and finding another job.
As a result, a natural disaster occurred, and the government organized them to go to the disaster relief and also gave them subsidies and rewards. He signed up without hesitation.
Yu Wenfu sent his wife and children aboard his father-in-law's boat. His father-in-law's family had lived on the boat for generations, their ancestors having been fishermen. His father-in-law's boat was a wooden one, and it was old. It was fine for fishing near the coast, but it certainly couldn't withstand the rigors of disaster relief.
Yu Wenfu is the only one on his boat at the moment, and there should be other rescue workers when they arrive.
It was almost time to depart. Yu Wenfu tuned his radio to the pilot boat's frequency. After a burst of electric current, the boat's pilot's voice came: "Everyone, get ready. We'll depart in five minutes."
Yu Wenfu went to loosen the mooring ropes quickly. He looked up and saw a young girl standing beside his boat. The girl greeted him, "Uncle, can I get on board?"
"Miss, my boat has been assigned to the rescue team. We are going to the Yangtze River soon. It's not very convenient." Yu Wenfu waved his hand.
"I just want to join the rescue volunteer," said Tao Sai.
"Then you should go find the cadres from the subdistrict office." Yu Wenfu looked her over. "But girl, do everything within your capabilities. I know you young people are well-educated and have a lot of ideas, but rescue operations are too dangerous. Let us men do it."
"It's okay, I'm strong." Tao Sai said confidently.
Hearing this, Yu Wenfu couldn't help laughing.
"Look at what you said, little girl. No matter how strong you are, how big can you be?" Yu Fugui waved his hand again, "Go back."
"If you don't believe me, we can arm wrestle."
Yu Wenfu was stunned when he heard this, not knowing what to say for a moment. He went fishing and pulled large nets, sometimes weighing hundreds of kilograms or even tons. He felt that he could easily lift the skinny girl in front of him.
Forget it, I have to make her give up completely.
"Okay, then we have a deal. If you lose, you go home." Yu Wenfu said as he jumped off the boat.
They found a clean stone block and squatted face to face. Yu Wenfu raised his strong arm and placed it on the surface of the stone block. His thick, calloused hand grasped Tao Sai's small and slender hand. After counting three, two, and one, both sides exerted force at the same time and held each other.
Yu Wenfu thought it was a crushing victory, that he would win in seconds and then rush back to sail, but in the end, he couldn't even break it off?!
In fact, Tao Sai was even stronger than this, but in order to appear less outrageous, she deliberately didn't exert any strength and just let it go.
Three minutes later, Yu Fugui still failed to defeat Tao Sai. Instead, he was exhausted due to prolonged exertion.
So Tao Sai added a little more strength and forcibly pressed down the arm with bulging veins.
Yu Wenfu kept the back of his hand pressed against the stone pillar and did not come back to his senses for a long time.
The mighty fleet set out from the 500-year-old fishing boat dock in Donghai City. Each formation has different tasks and will carry out tasks such as material transportation and civilian transfer under the unified arrangement and coordination of the emergency command center. The mission locations are mainly concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and its main tributaries.
Tao Sai had inquired in advance that the 7th Fleet she was currently in was heading along the Wolong River to Shijin City to evacuate the people, and Feisha Ferry was on the route, located on the opposite bank of Shijin City, only 10 kilometers away from the urban area.
The coordinates of the "extremely dangerous player" displayed on the hidden task have not changed. Compared with the beginning, there is only a slight change in the number of seconds, which means that "Qu Wuyi" is still in Feishadu.
Before his death, the player [Li Du] said in the world channel when he sent a team invitation that a large number of insect bloods were spawned in Feishadu, so "Qu Wuyi" should be spawning monsters now, so his position has not changed much.
The position did not change for several hours, which seemed to indirectly indicate one thing: "Qu Wuyi" did not know about the hidden mission and had no idea that he had become a prey hunted by other players.
If he knew, his normal reaction would be to immediately find a favorable terrain, hide, or make defensive preparations using favorable terrain as cover.
Unless he is extremely crazy.
Tao Sai repeatedly studied the terrain of Feishadu on the map. The waters were wide, and both sides were flat sandy platforms. It was not suitable for hiding and was easy to be attacked from both sides.
To sum up, it is highly likely that he was unaware of it.
Now Tao Sai is disguised on this iron fishing boat. The appearance of the fishing boat is completely different from that of various levels of shelter ships. She can hide herself very well and slowly pass through Feishadu with the fishing boat without being noticed.
"I Only Love Qu Wu Yi" is in the open, and she is in the dark, choosing the method of attack when the opportunity arises, and advancing and retreating freely.
The mission countdown kept passing, three hours, five hours, eight hours, and the outline of the continent gradually appeared on the horizon.
During this period, except for sleeping time, Tao Sai kept moving on the deck in an attempt to completely tame his limbs as soon as possible.
There were 58 hours left in the mission countdown. The fishing boats of the seventh fleet entered the Wolong River under the guidance of the fishery administration ship. The coordinates of "Only Love Song Without Memory" remained unchanged, which meant that in less than 30 kilometers, she would see the fourth-level shelter ship again and would pass by the "extremely dangerous player" again.
Tao Sai's nerves tensed unconsciously. She simply sat down to adjust her breathing, took out compressed biscuits from her backpack and started to eat them.
Two windows opened on the transparent game panel before her: one displayed the coordinates of the "Extremely Dangerous Player" in the hidden mission, and the other was the [Interactive] [Hunting] channel. Of course, she would occasionally switch to the [World] channel to see if "Wei Ai Qu Wu Yi" had posted any new messages, but during that time, the channel was strangely quiet, with no one speaking.
The [Hunting] channel still shows only one person from beginning to end, that is Tao Sai himself.
No one else took the quest. She guessed that either they hadn't reached the required level yet and hadn't left the novice stage, or they were afraid of this "extremely dangerous player."
Tao Sai walked from the deck into the cabin, found a chair to sit down, massaged his solar plexus and closed his eyes to rest.
Yu Wenfu steered the steering wheel carefully. The river gradually narrowed. Unlike the sea, he needed to be more careful to avoid colliding with the ships in front, behind, and on both sides.
At this time, the voice of the pilot on the fishery patrol boat came over the radio: "There is a supply point ahead. Everyone can come and fill up the tanks in turn."
The rescue fleet stopped and lined up at the refueling point to refuel.
Suddenly, the fishermen on the surrounding boats became restless and argued about something.
Tao Sai suddenly opened his eyes and asked Yu Wenfu, "What's wrong, uncle?"
Yu Wenfu's pupils contracted, his face twitched, and he pointed a trembling hand at the densely packed, black, surging mass of things on the left bank. "Insects... Insect tide!"
Hearing this, Tao Sai quickly stood up from his chair and ran to the deck.
The weather is clear today, and the vision is unrestricted and I can see very far. I see countless black insects surging on the river bank, and the trees and crops on the river bank are constantly being swallowed up. Countless mature insects are flapping their wings and circling.
Insects repel water, and the edges of the insect tide retreat as they approach the river, always keeping a certain distance from the fleet in the center of the river.
But even though they kept their distance, the fishermen on the boat were still very frightened and terrified.
After all, what you see on TV or mobile phone videos is completely different from what you see with your own eyes.
Facing such a horrifying scene, if a person were swept into the swarm of insects, would he be able to survive even a hair?
Tao Sai was much calmer. She had seen more insects and even blew up an insect axe.
She was about to turn around and head back to the cabin when a voice came over the radio again: "Emergency, the emergency command center is notifying us. Yuquan Village, two kilometers ahead of us, has been attacked by a swarm of insects. The villagers on the riverbank need to be evacuated urgently."
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