Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 173 - : Survival at Sea: Keep Heading East!

Chapter 173: Chapter 173: Survival at Sea: Keep Heading East!

“Yes,” Song Qian nodded, watching Jiang Yan with a look of admiration, “There’s another issue. If the temperature keeps dropping, we’ll face the water freezing over and the possibility of a blizzard.”

Sun Jingtao said, “Then we can only stop temporarily or find a shelter nearby and wait until the ice is completely solid before we move on.”

“Yes, so everyone should be mentally prepared for heavy on-foot travel later on. Some heavier food and items that are difficult to carry should be consumed as much as possible earlier,” Song Qian concluded.

Everyone nodded, “Okay.”

“Maybe we’ll get lucky and catch up with the leader’s boat! After all, their big boat is slow, definitely not as agile as our smaller ones,” Kong Wu cracked a smile, optimistically.

“It’s not impossible,” said Song Qian, glancing over the group, “Okay, does anyone else have any questions?”

The group shook their heads.

He looked at Jiang Yan and Su Dai, adding, “We don’t know what we’ll encounter on this journey. So, I suggest that Brother Sun and Xiao Ye sit in the last row, you two in the middle, and Kong Wu and I in the front.”

His arrangement clearly aimed to protect the two women in the center.

Sun Jingtao and Ye Qing naturally raised both hands in agreement.

The group quickly adjusted their positions.

Song Qian picked up his watch to adjust the direction with the sun, then waved his hand towards the east, “Let’s go!”

“Eastward ho! Let’s set off!” Kong Wu bellowed, starting the motor.

Amid the roaring sound, the boat carrying several people shot out like an arrow, stirring up a spray of white foam.

The whistling cold wind cut against their faces like a knife. Jiang Yan pulled out two masks from her bag and handed one to Su Dai.

“Jiang Yan, good thing you were well-prepared,” Su Dai said while quickly putting it on.

By now, they should have been at the edge of the urban area, with nothing but water all around them and not a single building peeking above the surface.

Nor a single person in sight.

Due to the continuous aftershocks, the water surface was always undulating.

The sunlight scattered down, glittering on the waves, it looked as if they were at sea.

But everyone’s thoughts were heavy, with no desire to enjoy the view.

Gradually, some bare mountaintops appeared in their vision.

There was more yellow mud and scattered dead branches and leaves in the water.

It was at this point that Kong Wu’s boat began to slow down.

“Folks, once we pass that mountain up ahead, we’ll completely leave Anming behind,” Kong Wu pointed to a small mountain not far from the water’s surface.

Atop that mountain peak once stood a white-domed observatory.

Probably due to landslides and earthquakes, the dome now appeared dust-covered, with black cracks all over, and more than half of the wall had collapsed into the mud.

The iron sign bearing “Purple Gold Observatory” was also broken at waist height, half-submerged in water.

A glance revealed nothing but ruins and a scene of decline.

Jiang Yan’s nose felt slightly sour as she watched.

As a child during the summer vacation, she had visited this observatory.

It had been a beautiful summer, with green trees, birds chirping, cicadas singing, and the company of her beloved parents hand in hand.

There, she had seen the brilliant Milky Way and felt the vastness of the universe.

Unfortunately, many things can never be returned to…

Su Dai also sighed, a hint of confusion flashing in her eyes, “Jiang Yan, do you think we’ll have the chance to come back?”

“I don’t know,” Jiang Yan shook her head.

She took off her backpack, pulled out an empty mineral water bottle, then bent over to fill it with muddy water, “glug-glug.”

“Jiang Yan, that water is too muddy, we can’t drink that!” Su Dai’s eyes widened in surprise.

“I’m not drinking it,” Jiang Yan said, slowly screwing the cap tight.

“Ah, the hometown we can’t return to, the distant places we can’t reach. I should have, like Sister Yaen, carried the mountains and rivers of my hometown with me. Then when I missed home, I could take it out and have a look…” Kong Wu, steering the boat, looked at the water bottle in Jiang Yan’s hand, his small, bright eyes moistening.

He had left his homeland at the age of a teenager and since then never had a chance to return.

Hearing Kong Wu’s words, the others understood and each felt a moment of wistfulness.

But clearly, this was not the time for nostalgia as they still had a long journey ahead.

“Everyone, hold on tight!”

As fewer dead branches appeared on the water, Kong Wu wiped his eyes and sped up the boat.

The sound of wind whooshing by their ears returned.

The city behind them gradually disappeared into the vast expanse of water.

“For a long time to come, we probably won’t encounter any urban buildings, so everyone can close their eyes and rest a bit. I’ll wake you up when we reach a place to rest,” Song Qian, in charge of directing Kong Wu, said.

It was already not easy to sit steady on such a bumpy boat.

Sleeping was out of the question, but closing their eyes for a brief rest could at least restore some energy.

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“Alright, Brother Song, I’ll take over for you in a bit,” Sun Jingtao said.

He, Ye Qing, and Jiang Yan were among those who had stayed up all night.

Having been on edge for so long, claiming not to be tired would be a lie.

It was only the brisk cold wind that kept their minds sharp.

Song Qian responded with “Okay,” and continued to focus on directing Kong Wu.

After that short moment of emotional pain, Jiang Yan immediately lost all sense of sleepiness.

Noticing that Su Dai also had no intention of sleeping, she asked in a low voice, “By the way, did Wen Wanli and the others go to the base too?”

When they returned, the door to 3203 was wide open, with some bloodstains at the entrance.

Thinking back, it felt odd.

Once the speedboat picked up speed, the roaring sound was quite loud, so there was no worry their conversation could be overheard by Song Qian and the others.

Su Dai pursed her lips, choosing her words for a few seconds before telling Jiang Yan everything that had happened at Shallow Bay after they left.

Jiang Yan and the others hadn’t returned all night, and the people living in the corridor had harbored bad intentions toward Su Dai, who was left alone in room 3204.

Just as dawn broke, those people shamelessly began prying open her door.

Zhou Wei, who had risen early to “monitor” the outside, just happened to spot it.

Naturally, Zhou Wei, armed with a Door-breaking Hammer and accompanied by Wang Jin, rushed out.

Somehow, a scuffle ensued.

Soon after, more people came up from downstairs.

They were led by Tian Jiliang’s group.

They had heard from Tian Jiliang that Zhou Wei’s family were actually people from Ma Longbiao’s group, so naturally, they attacked fiercely upon arrival.

The two men, disliked on both floors, quickly became the target for everyone to vent their anger on and were stabbed dozens of times.

Su Dai had been on lookout with the telescope, watching for Sun Jingtao and the others to return and had almost stayed up all night.

Only at dawn had she become too exhausted to keep watch and had fallen into a deep sleep.

She was sleeping soundly.

When she heard someone wailing outside, Zhou Wei and Wang Jin had already fallen into pools of blood.