Chapter 33: Where Have the Ships Gone?
"I've found two small pulp boats, and I'll have to cross them tomorrow morning, and I'll have to make a big circle to walk."
At seven o'clock in the evening, he returned to the farmhouse compound and said to a few people: "From Shendun Village to Qiandun Village, there is not a single diesel engine boat, it is close to the national highway, there are a lot of zombies, it is more convenient to row a boat." ”
Zhou Ling said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, we are dragging you down." ”
The boy named Li Chengwei said admiringly: "Yes, there are more than ten miles from Guangfeng Village to Shendun Village to Qiandun Village, and more than 30 miles back and forth...... Brother Yu, what did you eat to grow up? ”
Li Mengyao whispered: "You, do you have superpowers?" Isn't it said in the novel that many people have superpowers after the end of the world. ”
"Ha, haha." Chen Yu scratched his head and said with a dry smile: "I don't know, anyway, it's like this if you get sick, I guess." Anyway, I'm not the only one with superpowers, I've seen other people too. ”
"Who?"
"Secret."
"......" female teacher Zhou Ling smiled: "Chen Yu, then we are now a team, right?" ”
"Sort of." Chen Yu touched his nose, he had regretted being the boss of others for the first time when he helped someone build a team, but now it doesn't matter after awakening his superpowers.
"Then we'll choose you to be the head of the team."
"No, it's supposed to be the captain."
Chen Yu waved his hand and said indifferently: "You guys, just Teacher Zhou, I'm lazy and don't want to take care of things." ”
Zhou Ling hesitated for a few seconds and said generously: "That's okay, I'm welcome." Anyway, I should be the same as you, everyone has to listen to you, who called you Superman, cluck. ”
Both men and women laughed, and it was the kind of laughter that came from the bottom of their hearts, and it made people feel comfortable listening to it.
Although such a team is less efficient, at least it does not have that kind of unhealthy atmosphere, and the relationship between men and women is not that absurd and unruly.
When the team grows up in the future, ask Zhou Ling to set up the rules well.
At night, the seven of them slept in the same room for safety, but they all kept their senses and chatted with each other, and even if the other two boys made a few innocuous meat jokes, the girls only giggled and laughed a few times.
After sleeping until dawn, everyone got up to cook on the fire, and after eating, they went to the shore to board the boat while it was dark. The two boats were full of eight people, but unfortunately the rowing skills were really unsightly.
"Forget it, I'll do it. You pull over the boat. ”
Chen Yu beckoned to the other boat, then took off his clothes and pants, and plunged into the water with only a pair of underwear, grabbed the rope on the bow of the boat with his left and right hands, and pedaled wildly with motors on his two legs, dragging the two boats forward quickly.
I went to it, this scene was really eye-catching, if there was a mobile phone, everyone would definitely take pictures on the spot.
After dragging the boat for three or four miles, Chen Yu jumped on the boat to rest for a while.
"What other superpowers do you have?"
"yes, you've been diving for at least half an hour!"
"Still figuring it out." Chen Yu shrugged, wiped his sunglasses on his clothes and put them on his face, bared his teeth and smiled: "I'll tell you when I figure it out." ”
Everyone rowed for a while, let Superman drag for a while, and rowed from morning to evening, before they landed on the bank of the river embankment in a small town.
Chen Yu jumped ashore first, and killed back and forth for more than half an hour before emptying the zombies on the side of the road, covering the others into Huzhang Town, and stationed in the health center in the center of the town.
"If you don't find the boat, you can't do it, I don't know how long it will take to get to Nanhu Province if you go on like this." Zhou Ling spread out the map of Huaguo University next to the fire, pointed to the map and said: "Look, this is Huzhang Town, which is 1,300 miles away from the Yangtze River waterway. But if you go from the national highway, it's only 800 miles. ”
Chen Yu nodded: "Then what do you mean?" ”
"I mean, since you have superpowers, then we don't have to be afraid of zombies. Just look for a big truck, or a bigger buggy. Li Mengyao and I can both drive, let's go directly from the national highway, and when we encounter a place with a lot of zombies, we will take a detour or stop. Then we hide in the car and you go out and kill the zombies. When you're done, we'll move on. ”
Chen Yu smiled: "It doesn't matter if I'm alone, if I'm blocked by thousands of zombies, you won't be able to escape if you want to." ”
Zhou Ling sighed and said, "It's us who dragged you down." ”
"That's not what I said." Chen Yu sighed and said, "That's it, you guys have a good rest here at night." I went to the shore to look for it, but I still didn't believe it, there is a huge Yangtze River, and the boats can still be driven away! ”
On this night, Chen Yu first searched south from the coast of Huzhang Town for more than 30 miles, but found nothing but wood pulp boats, and then turned west to Changwu Lake, an inner lake, to look for it, and found that there was not a single large fishing boat.
Finally, they swam to the middle of the lake and found a team of survivors with four fishing boats, hijacked one of the small fishing boats with a displacement of ten tons, returned all the supplies on board to the team, and drove away with only some diesel fuel.
In the middle of the night, he drove the fishing boat to a coastal park that Huzhang Town usually uses for fishing, and then went to the town center health center to wake up Zhou Ling and the seven people from their sleep, and returned to sleep on the fishing boat together.
While the others slept, he went to the town to scavenge for diesel, and he could find a bucket of it.
He finally knew why there were no fishing boats along the Yangtze River, and the team merger mode of big fish eating small fish began one step earlier than in the city. The larger the fleet of the large team, the less room the small team has to live, so they can only hide in the inner lake and survive secretly.
After the fish ponds in the inner lake have been recuperated, it is too easy to feed the survivors of hundreds or thousands of people without satisfying the belly of millions of residents in big cities.
As long as there is no shortage of oil and salt, the people on the fishing boats live in much better conditions than the survivors in the cities, not only are they well fed, but they are also relatively safe.
The ten-ton fishing boat usually lives in a family of four or five people, and eight young men and women are squeezed in at once, and everyone can only squeeze in the cabin and the bed, and the doors and windows are closed and huddled together for warmth.
Anyway, with the protection of Superman's classmates, this group of teachers and students slept very peacefully.
Chen Yu took a nap for three hours, and felt that his physical strength had almost recovered, so he habitually lit a cigarette, sat on the side of the boat, swallowed clouds and smoke, and thought about some things.
At dawn, he shook the old diesel engine of the fishing boat and drove the fishing boat to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
Although there are many tributaries of the Yangtze River, the main channel is marked very clearly on the map of China, and as long as the general direction is good, it will never go the wrong way.
Although the small fishing boat is not as fast as the sand carrier, it is not slow, and under the condition of extending the service life of the diesel engine, it can run more than 10 kilometers per hour, which is much faster than on land.
The men and women in the cabin slept until more than eight o'clock before getting up one after another, washing and cooking, and then came to the stern wheelhouse together to watch Superman's classmate Lao Shen operate the ship comfortably.
"This old fishing boat doesn't have a steering wheel, it all relies on this handle to control the rudder diversion, and I will give you time to practice in the future, so let's hurry first."
Chen Yu eats and drinks in the wheelhouse, in fact, he doesn't need to operate too much, he just has to keep an eye on the direction of the ship, and adjust it when he encounters the mouth of the bay or when the direction of the ship deviates significantly.
The operating principle is simple and clear, and everyone will know how to play at a glance. Of course, this kind of old fishing boat is most afraid of diesel engine failure, but fortunately there is no problem.
Take a boat during the day, rest at night, sleep hard when you encounter a bridge across the river, and then stay up all night to hurry. It can cover a distance of 150 kilometers in one day, and after two days, the small fishing boat is in the area of Beihu Province.
At this time, it is only more than 400 kilometers away from Dongting Lake in Nanhu Province, and it can be reached in three or four days.
Tethering the boat to the pier of the cross-river bridge, Chen Yu drove for two consecutive days, although he was not physically tired, but his mental state was a little confused, so he had to let everyone take turns to keep vigil, and he slept all the way to the sky.