"What do you mean...... Are we about to sink to the bottom of the river? Hearing the bad news Xu Licheng said, Chen Xin immediately thought of Shen Jiang and asked with a little hesitation.

Xu Licheng glanced at Chen Xin, did not pick up Chen Xin's words, but began to check several instruments on the console.

"Will the water tank still work?" , Xie Guoping leaned over and asked with a concerned face. As the owner of the submarine back then, Xie Guoping still has some understanding of the equipment function of this submarine, and the key to the sinking and floating of the submarine is the water tank, as long as the water tank is in good condition, even if there is no power, it can float to the surface.

"Good luck, mechanical", Xu Licheng pointed to a hand crank behind the cockpit and said, then glanced at Chen Xin and said, "I just need one person to manually drain the water." ”

Chen Xin looked at Xie Guoping, who was blackened all over, touched his nose, moved his body unexpectedly, turned around and began to shake the handle, and actually found that this wheel-like crank handle, although there was no trace of recent maintenance, but the wheel was not obscure, and even the abnormal sound was almost none.

With Chen Xin's movements, the submarine really began to float upward, and in less than a few minutes, it rushed out of the water with a "bang".

"Finally, there is good news, we are only a few dozen meters from the shore", Xu Licheng, who opened the glass porthole, looked up into the distance and said with a sigh of relief.

"We have to hurry to the shore", Xie Guoping also drilled the submarine, and just glanced at it and suggested out loud.

Chen Xin finally poked his head out and found that Xie Guoping was already twisting his neck and turning his wrist, obviously warming up before swimming, he looked at the wide river again, and asked with an incredulous expression, "Don't tell me, we want to swim to the shore?!" ”

"Then you want to stay in the submarine and go down the river to the mouth of the sea?" , Xie Guoping looked at Chen Xin with a smile and asked rhetorically.

Chen Xin sneered and touched his earlobe, he knew that he could only swim to the shore in this situation, fortunately, he had also learned to swim, and the distance from here to the shore looked at the length of a few laps of the standard swimming pool, so he let go of a little worry, but looking at the wound under Xie Guoping's tattered combat uniform, he was still a little worried in his heart, "Old Xie, are you okay swimming with this injury?" ”

Since the outbreak of the virus, the levels of the virus in natural water bodies have been high, making it much more difficult for humans to survive in the wild, especially for people with wounds. And Xie Guoping's body is full of burns at the moment, and if the broken skin is immersed in natural water, it is likely to be infected by the virus.

"I can only fight, it should be fine", Xie Guoping is not too worried about the virus content in the river water, if it is a pool of stagnant water on land, Xie Guoping, who is covered in injuries, really does not dare to go into the water to try, but the flow rate of the river is not slow, the content of the virus cannot be too high, with his 7th level of awakening and resistance, it should not be a problem to survive a distance of tens of meters.

Chen Xin saw that Xie Guoping didn't care, so he didn't say anything more, and when he was about to jump into the water directly, Xie Guoping reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes.

"If you don't want to go ashore without dry clothes to wear, take off your clothes and shoes and put them in the submarine, it's best to stuff them into your backpack just in case, this kind of mountaineering bag has a waterproof function", Xie Guoping knows that the two may not have any wilderness survival training, some details are not clear, but these details often determine the physical state, so where he can be reminded, he still tries to remind him, especially now that he is in the wild, compared to the underground base, the external environment is relatively stable.

After speaking, Xie Guoping quickly took off the tattered combat uniform on his body, and stuffed it into his backpack along with his boots. His dagger had been left at the dock, and the rest of his luggage was nothing particularly worth caring about, but fortunately, the backpack had been left in the submarine from the beginning, and there were quite a few previously resolved replica samples in it. If he even threw away his backpack, Xie Guoping really didn't gain anything from going to Jiangxin Island this time, except for burns and injuries.

Chen Xin was naturally very convinced of Xie Guoping's suggestion, even Xu Licheng on the side was already unbuttoning his plaid shirt, if it weren't for Xie Guoping's quick hand, Xu Licheng would even have to take off his underwear.

"The panties are snug-fitting and can do things quickly, and you don't want to swim past with a bait hanging from you, right?" , Xie Guoping said narrowly while stuffing his clothes.

Xu Licheng was squeezed by Xie Guoping's words, his face suddenly turned red, and in order to avoid embarrassment, he was the first to jump into the river.

To be honest, Xie Guoping is more fond of young people like Xu Licheng who don't have many twists in his heart, and he doesn't have to think too much about being teammates with them, the atmosphere will always be more relaxed when communicating, while Chen Xin on the other side is more like a polyhedron polished in society, although it will be more worry-free to complete a goal together, but when communicating, he always has to go through his mind first, for fear that he will misunderstand or inadvertently say something that should not be said.

However, both kinds of people have their own advantages and disadvantages, even Xie Guoping himself feels that there may be some times, especially in the wasteland world, people like Chen Xin can survive better.

But now there is no time to think more, Xie Guoping saw Xu Licheng jump down the river, for fear that he would encounter some accidents, so he also jumped down, and when he came out of the water, there was actually an extra cable in his hand.

"Swim with me, don't spread too wide, I don't know what kind of mutant creatures are in the water", Xie Guoping looked good at the water, and after a few swings of his legs, he rushed to Xu Licheng's side and said.

It's just that Xu Licheng's swimming level seems to be only half-, he can only bury his head in the water and paddle desperately, and he can't even raise his head to breathe, so he shouldn't have heard Xie Guoping's orders.

Xie Guoping didn't even pull Xu Licheng, and he didn't even dare to pat him on the back, for fear of breaking his swimming rhythm, with this injury on his body, if someone drowned, I am afraid it would be difficult to rescue and drag him to the shore.

But Xie Guoping originally wanted to hand over the cable connecting the submarine to Xu Licheng and Chen Xin, he was very aware of his physical condition, and if he dragged another submarine, he would probably not be able to swim to the shore. It's just that the submarine is, after all, an important non-renewable armament in the post-virus era, and if it can be towed back, Xie Guoping is still reluctant to let it rush into the sea.

"Poof", Xie Guoping heard the sound of falling water from the side, and knew that Chen Xin had also gone into the water, turned his head to look, and saw that he seemed to have strength left, so he hurriedly handed over the cable in his hand to Chen Xin.

Chen Xin took the cable without saying a word, and after signaling Xie Guoping to lead the way, he followed unhurriedly. Since Chen Xin was promoted to the 5th rank, his physical fitness has been much stronger, and he has mastered the ability of "depth perception" in the water inlet pipe under the water treatment plant, and he is like a fish in water in the water, and he doesn't care about wasting a little more physical strength to drag the submarine, and even took the opportunity to test the new "breadth perception" ability in the river.

It was very smooth all the way to the shore, and I don't know if it was the 7th-order aura emanating from Xie Guoping's body that scared away the fish or if it was lucky, the three of them didn't encounter a single mutant creature.

Chen Xin climbed the embankment for the last time, looked around, all of them were irregular wave-proof cement piers, but the yards were unusually neat, it can be seen that Far East City still put a lot of effort into the riverside breakwater, that is, it has been in disrepair for so long, and the cement on the embankment does not have too many cracks.

It's just that it seems that there is a wall on the left and right sides of the embankment, as far as the eye can see, between Far Eastern City and the embankment, and if you want to return to the city, you will have to find a way to climb over this embankment that is not too low.

Xie Guoping had already taken the cable from Chen Xin's hand, and after pulling the submarine closer, he took out the backpack in the cockpit, and at this moment he had almost finished putting on the combat uniform with several holes.

"There is a park not far ahead, there are a lot of gravel beaches, we hide the submarine there", Xie Guoping put the back of his hand on his forehead and said, then pointed in the opposite direction and continued to speak, "The port settlement is over there, and the distance will not be too far, at most half an hour can be there." ”

"Or just tow it to the port?" , Chen Xin pointed to the submarine that was still floating in the river and asked, the park and the port that Xie Guoping pointed to are basically two directions, and he wants to waste time on the way back and forth.

Xie Guoping shook his head rarely, and said, "None of us know what the situation is in the port now, and the submarine is out of fuel, in case there is any accident, we can only give it up, which is too risky." ”

Xie Guoping looked at the pocket submarine rising and falling with the river waves, and was also full of emotion, this "old guy" was born in the same era as him, and he had experienced so many accidents together, and this time he relied on it to get out of the island, so he was naturally reluctant to throw it away at will, but fortunately, the draft of this submarine was extremely shallow, and there was no problem of running aground, as long as he found a hidden place to hide.

Since Xie Guoping has clearly expressed the idea that he would rather waste some time than hide the submarine, he will naturally be good again, take the initiative to take the cable from Xie Guoping, and go into the water to tow the submarine.

Although Xu Licheng, who was standing on the side, was a little anxious and wanted to go to the port immediately to find out Wang Jiayi's whereabouts, he also knew that Chen Xin and Xie Guoping were already taking a huge risk if they could accompany him to the port first, and then urging them to give up a safe back road was indeed a bit inappropriate.

However, although Xu Licheng was in a hurry, he still looked around, and even occasionally climbed the wall by the river embankment to take a look.

"Did you find anything?" , Xie Guoping knows that neither of the two boys in front of him can be underestimated, even if Xu Licheng is only a second-order awakening, but his brain seems to be extraordinarily good, for intellectuals, Xie Guoping has always respected and listened to opinions with an open mind.

"The ratio of zombies and mutants around is surprisingly low, even if one or two of them occasionally appear are newly awakened evolutions!" , Xu Licheng frowned, this was completely opposite to what they had expected before.

"Trouble", Xie Guoping looked at the reeds not far away, knowing that they were already very close to their destination, but stopped Xu Licheng's words, and there was no half happy emotion in his tone, "As long as there is an abnormality, it means that there are high-level lifeforms in the annex!" ”

Even though Xie Guoping had never studied statistics and did not know the law of normal distribution, his previous experience and hunch in his heart still told him that he would encounter the perpetrator who caused the abnormal decrease in the number of zombies and mutant creatures around him, and this kind of perpetrator usually means "big trouble".

If it is usual, Xie Guoping doesn't care about these troubles, he can fight if he can, and if he can't fight, he can run, with his ability, he can always get out of the way. But now, with two "drag oil bottles" around you, you have to plan for a lot of things first.

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