Chapter 18 goes straight downstream
The city where Li Ye grew up is a typical southern water town, and the river is the biggest feature.
Although it is not a very big city, the various small bridges and flowing water in the city where Li Ye is located are a very special scenery.
However, with the passage of time and the planning and development of the city, many of the original scenery has been removed and rebuilt. The only things that remain are moats and various branch rivers built around the perimeter of the ancient city walls.
Of course, the moat has become a sight in the city, and there are special sightseeing boats moored at some mooring points for some tourists to take a tour of the city.
"We can probably get to the junction between the city and the suburbs along the river, and if it goes well, we might be able to find a vehicle out of the city when we get there."
Because zombies can't swim, Li Ye and the others are safe at this time. The four of them sat on such a tour boat, sailing quietly ahead.
Fearing that the sound of the motor would attract the zombies around him, the man named Ling Ao turned off the ship's power motor after driving a certain distance, and then drove forward with all his strength.
Of course, this is very slow, but for security reasons, everyone agrees. And Li Ye, as a survivor who has just joined, will certainly not raise objections.
On the way, Ling Ao turned out a map from the boat, which was a sightseeing map used for those tourists in the past. Although the map is not very detailed, it is clearly marked with the city's transportation network. The river, in particular, is the most important of them.
Sure enough, with Ling Ao's explanation, Li Ye found that although the location of everyone was already out of the most prosperous part of the city, it was still a long way from going out of the city.
"I remember that the river leads to the Grand Canal, right?" Li Ye glanced at the map carefully.
Although he was born and raised in a local, he was not very familiar with his hometown, but some things were still clear, such as a canal that was built by a lustful emperor in ancient times who spent manpower and material resources and paid a lot of infamy, a canal connecting many provinces and cities in the north and south.
Now the small river where Li Ye and the four of them are located can be connected to the Grand Canal over there, if that is the case, it is a very simple thing to get out of the city, just go out along the river.
Of course, Li Ye had his own selfish motives in putting forward this opinion, what he wanted was not to really go out of the city, but to go to the east where the university he once studied.
And the location of that university is right on the edge of the Grand Canal, and the distance in a straight line will not exceed a kilometer!
"Yes, it's true that you can get to the Grand Canal, but ......" Ling Ao nodded, and then showed a very distressed expression, "But it's unlikely that we can go there so smoothly......"
"Huh? Why? Li Ye was stunned, he was very strange, since he could go out so safely, why not do it? This man called Ling Ao doesn't look like a brainless fool, right?
"We are now a countercurrent ......" At this time, the beautiful woman who looked at least ten years younger than her real age spoke, and after seeing Li Ye's puzzled expression, she did not sell it, but explained.
It turned out that Li Ye himself made a very low-level common sense mistake, although the small river of the moat could indeed lead to the Grand Canal, but the key problem was that they had made a mistake in the direction at this time.
The moat, as the name suggests, exists to protect the city, and is a man-made river that was artificially excavated around the perimeter of the city wall in ancient times. So its shape is not the same as that of a natural river, but a circular river.
At this time, the direction of the boat where Li Ye and the others were traveling was marked by Ling Ao on the map, and then he marked the opening where the Grand Canal and the moat were connected.
"It's completely the opposite...... "Li Ye, who doesn't have much knowledge of direction, can clearly see it from the map.
At this time, their location was not far from the intersection to the Grand Canal, and it was estimated that if the power system on the ship was opened, it would be possible to reach it in half an hour.
But there is a key problem, now they are driving in the opposite direction, and if they want to continue in this direction, it is not impossible, they only need to circle the whole city.
"How long will that take?" Li Ye asked, he may be more professional than many people in hand-to-hand combat with zombies, but for other things, he is still a child who has not been exposed to much society.
"If you drive the boat at full speed...... Ling Ao thought for a moment, then drew a few times on the map and then looked up at Li Ye, "If there are no accidents, it will take at least four hours or more......"
Four hours, in fact, is not a long time. But Li Ye looked at the sky, it was already afternoon, and it would be dark in less than two or three hours, although the ship was safe, but once it was night, he would still feel uneasy.
If it weren't for the invention of electricity and lights in modern times, the night would have been a time when humans felt insecure. Not to mention that there are zombies everywhere today that don't use their eyes at all and can move by eyesight.
"Why don't you turn the bow of the ship and we go back?" Li Ye looked at the map, if it wasn't going around in circles, but going back, wouldn't it be possible to reach it soon?
"Impossible!" Ling Ao shook his head again, and without waiting for Li Ye to ask questions, he directly explained, "Didn't you pay attention? Not far from the section of the river where we had just set off, many colliding boats had blocked the road there. Let's not talk about whether this narrow river can turn the bow of the boat, even if it can, we can't go back, that would be too dangerous. ”
"Then ......," Li Ye thought for a moment and asked again.
"Why are you so annoying! Ask this and that, I told you that I can't ask if I can't do it. Brother Ling Ao ignore him, we'll do what you planned! ”
The girl who had been holding back her mouth finally roared at this time and glared at Li Ye fiercely. I don't know what the reason is, this girl has been very hostile to Li Ye since she got on the boat.
Specifically, Li Ye didn't know, but he could rarely guess it. However, he has always been a kind of indifferent attitude towards others, except for being a little silly when he treats that person. This girl named Shangguan Ya, Li Ye, almost directly treated her as air.
Through the previous introductions to each other, Li Ye knew the specific names of these three people. Ling Ao, a veteran, later became a bodyguard. Shangguan Ya, the eldest lady of a wealthy family, is very Ren surname and is also very hostile to Li Ye. Miao Yunyao, the beautiful woman who couldn't see that she had such a big daughter at all.
"Actually, we don't have much fuel, so we have to drive all the way here, and then go ashore and find another way out of the city!" Ling Ao said a very bad message......
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