Xia Ruize walked across the road while looking left and right.
Cheng Huaiqian opened his eyes and stood in front of the newsstand, where the old man, smoking a cigarette and listening to opera on the radio, asked impatiently, "What do you want?"
Cheng Huaiqian glanced at the newsstand, and calmly replied, "Map."
"50 beads." The old man shouted impatiently while throwing a map to Cheng Huaiqian.
Cheng Huaiqian was stunned for a moment, not calm anymore, because he realized that he didn't have the money here, so he simply said, "Sorry, I don't want it."
As soon as he turned around, he saw Xia Ruize behind him with crooked smiles. Xia Ruize remembered that when he was in Novice World, he had no money to buy steamed stuffed buns, and now seeing Cheng Huaiqian going through a similar embarrassment, he laughed so hard that his stomach hurt instantly.
Cheng Huaiqian pinched Xia Ruize's cheek itchyly, what are you doing smiling so nicely outside
At this moment, there was a faint rumbling sound in the distance.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, and both of them had a tacit understanding in their eyes: something is coming!
At the same time, a new task reminder appeared in my mind:
[The annual Zhuoyuan City Tourism Festival is coming, this is a celebration of carnival for the whole people, I wish you a happy time!
Main Quest: Participate in the five-day celebration
Mission completed: reward 1,000 survival points
Mission failed: 500 survival points deducted]
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, their eyes were full of suspicion, and they actually suggested "Have fun"? Why are they so unbelievable
The reality did not disappoint the two people's expectations. As the sound of "Boom Boom Boom" became louder and louder, they both looked up at the top of the slope, and found someone with a frightened face protruding from the top of the slope. In his eyes, a nearly two-meter-high water wave rushed over the top of the slope, rushing and rushing down the slope!
Xia Ruize, Cheng Huaiqian:? ?
All visitors: ? ?
Everyone watched the tourists rushing down the mountain like tigers, wrapped in water waves. In less than two seconds, they rushed all the way from the top of the slope to the bottom of the slope. Everyone only had time to close their eyes. Submerged by the waves.
Cheng Huaiqian held Xia Ruize's hand tightly, and the two standing on the Banpo rushed to the edge of the road within a second before the water wave came, trying to hide in the alley next to them.
But their struggle was in vain. When the water wave submerged them, they were wrapped in the water wave without any resistance and rushed all the way down the slope.
In the chaos, Cheng Huaiqian could only hug Xia Ruize tightly to prevent the two from being washed away by the water. The two of them rose and fell in the waves together. The waves washed away, and the other objects remained motionless under the impact of the waves
Even the seemingly light and light toy ball was not washed away by the water waves, which is really strange.
But these objects cannot lend strength to human beings. When someone really tries to hug the objects left in place to stabilize their body, they will find that the objects that were originally motionless in the waves seem to change their nature instantly, not only will they flow with the waves , and even drag people to speed up and rush down.
Holding the ball will speed up the country rush, hugging the stalls and stalls will rush down, even hugging cars and walls, these originally fixed objects will start rushing down in an instant.
Panicked by the greater water waves, human beings can only let go, leaving themselves to continue floating in the water.
After some dizziness, the tourists on the east-west slope were all rushed to the north-south road below the slope. The speed of the water wave slowed down instantly, at least it would not make people confused and have no time to react.
At this moment, Xia Ruize noticed that the street lamps on both sides of the road could be used to borrow strength. Someone had successfully used the street lamps to stop the flowing figure, but the street lamps were not dragged away.
Street lights are special!
Xia Ruize informed Cheng Huaiqian of his discovery through the heart network, and the two immediately reached a consensus, struggling to swim to the edge of the road, finding the right opportunity to hug a street lamp, and finally successfully stopped the tendency of the body to continue flowing along the water.
Next to him, a bald man flowing along the water was slapping his arms on the surface of the water, and shouted in panic, "Help! Help! I can't swim! Help!"
Cheng Huaiqian saw that his waving hands were about to hit Xia Ruize, so he immediately stretched out his hand and pushed him away, and then said wordlessly: "Stop waving, this water is very buoyant, you won't sink if you don't move around. down."
Hearing this, the other party stopped waving his arms in a daze, and found that half of his chest was still floating on the water surface. The buoyancy of the water was strong enough, and he only needed to slap the water surface with his hands now and then to maintain Head out of the water.
Realizing that the water would not drown him immediately, the bald man immediately relaxed half of his heart. Seeing Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize leaning on the light pole to stop at the side of the road, he subconsciously waved his arms and paddled towards them.
"Brother, brother, pull, pull!"
The bald man paddled vigorously and approached the two against the current, calling for help.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other. Xia Ruize hugged the lamppost with his left hand, and tightly held Cheng Huaiqian with his right hand. He also hugged the lamppost, and it was easy to do, so he could save one or the other.
"Damn, what a waste of a tourist festival! Have fun with the bullshit! It's killing people!"
Finally, he didn't have to float up and down in the water, and the bald man who relaxed was so angry that he almost pointed at the sky and scolded "thief God".
A street lamp can easily carry three people. The drowning people who floated along the water noticed the situation on both sides of the road, followed suit, and tried to paddle to the shore, trying to stay.
However, the streetlight Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian found was closer to the front, and those who reacted a little slower realized that they had been washed to the back by the water, so they could only aim at other streetlight poles.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at the street lamps. On the black lamp post, they saw a small thumb-sized flashing light in the shape of a small arrow pointing to the north of the reverse flow.
"Both brothers, thank you for giving me a hand. I am actually very capable, don't worry, I will protect you from now on!"
After venting his panic by cursing, the bald man who called himself Dahu hurriedly thanked Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were discussing whether the little arrow implied that they should go upstream to the north, just looked at Duo a few more times, nodded and did not respond.
The information revealed by Duhu's words just now seems to be related to the mission, but after experiencing the peaceful coexistence of the world with other trialists without disturbing each other in the last mission, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian treated other suspected trialists more indifferently, and only prepared to do more. Observe, and not prepare to get too close.
Duhu's enthusiastic attitude was not affected by the indifference of the two, and he introduced his younger brother inside and outside the words. According to him, his younger brother is a smart, strong, strong and reliable person. As long as you find him Brother, they don't need to worry about anything.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian smiled politely, and suddenly heard a loud noise in the distance, turned their heads and looked back, but it was a street lamp behind that was dragged down because it was carrying too many people who fell into the water.
This change was noticed by the people who fell into the water around seven or eight street lamps. The atmosphere around those street lamps that carried more people who fell into the water immediately became tense. They finally agreed to hug a safety pole in the current, and no one wanted to be safe. The pole fell.
Dahu also looked at the fallen street lamp behind him, saw his younger brother unexpectedly, and immediately called out his name: "Xiaohu! Xiaohu! This way, I am here!"
Xiaohu also had a bald head, and he was very conspicuous among a group of drowning people flopping about in the water. After hearing Dahu's call, he immediately swam towards Dahu's position with all his strength.
"Two brothers, I beg you to help me again. If there are only four of us, we shouldn't be able to drag down the street lamp."
Du Hu hurriedly and sincerely asked Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian for help.
Around the street lamp that fell down before, more than 20 people who fell into the water gathered one by one. Because of the large number of people, the people on the periphery were all close to the center of the water flow, so they were more likely to be caught by more people who fell into the water in a short period of time. Expanded to a very large extent, and eventually pulled down the street lamp.
But there are only three of them here now, and the streetlights carrying seven or eight people are in good condition, so they won't be nervous.
So when Xiaohu struggled for a long time and finally approached the three of them, Xia Ruize, Cheng Huaiqian and Dahu pulled one by one, and finally Dahu and Xiaohu successfully connected and dragged the person back.
"Thank you two brothers!"
Dahu happily stroked his younger brother's bald head, and thanked the two of them again. Xiaohu looked much thinner and shy, and was gasping for breath from exhaustion. He then nodded to the two of them.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian carefully observed Xiaohu's state. If Dahu was a tester, then Xiaohu should be too. But the tester shouldn't be panting from exhaustion after swimming a distance of about 30 meters, right
But after thinking about it, ordinary people don't seem to be extremely tired from swimming a distance of 30 meters. Is there something wrong with the water
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were constantly discussing the data collected so far in the heart network, faced the upstream of the water flow to observe the situation, and then saw something flowing down the water flow from a distance.
After getting a little closer, Xia Ruize reminded: "There are wooden oars in the water."
The sporadic drowning people around the street lights in front also noticed the wooden paddle, but the wooden paddle is in the middle of the water flow. If you want to get it, you need to swim sideways to the middle of the water flow. After getting the wooden paddle, you can swim to the side of the circuit. Shui Liu had lingering fears, hesitating whether to take the risk or not.
They didn't care what others thought, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were determined to get the wooden oar.
Taking this opportunity to test the difficulty of swimming in the current, the two of them let go of the street lamp and swam towards the center of the current before the wooden oar flowed nearby.
After paddling a few times, the two felt the difference in the water flow. The buoyancy of the water was great, but the resistance in the water was also great. With their super high strength attributes, they even felt that swimming was very strenuous.
Fortunately, it was only a matter of effort at the moment. Against the resistance of the water flow, the two swam to the center of the water smoothly, spotted the wooden oar floating past, and quickly grabbed a handful with one hand.
Now, both of them had two wooden oars, barely grasping the oars with one hand, paddling vigorously with the other hand, and turned back towards the street lights on the side of the road.
After seeing the actions of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, Duhu also swam to the center of the water. After successfully getting the wooden oars, he struggled back and handed them to his brother who was resting. He swam to the center of the water again, trying to get another pair of wooden oars .
The resistance against the water flow caused Duo's strength to drain rapidly. After he returned this time, he hugged the street lamp and began to pant heavily.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian glanced at each other, feeling that they had lost a lot of their own strength, their hearts shivered, and they raised their vigilance, the water was really weird.
Those who fell into the water around watched the actions of several people, and some of them gritted their teeth and boldly followed their example and swam into the middle of the water, and swam back after getting their wooden oars.
Some people succeeded, and some lost their strength for a while and were washed away by the current for a while. Fortunately, they cleverly approached the next lamppost and stabilized themselves again.
All those who have tried to get a paddle, whether they have succeeded or failed, have in common that anyone who has swam around in the water is tired.
The white-haired old man was very tired, the teenagers were very tired, and the healthy young and middle-aged were also very tired. Even Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were a little tired. They were keenly aware of the strangeness.
Judging from the resistance they endured, the elderly and young people should not be able to bear it at all, but it seems that everyone can swim smoothly, but the degree of fatigue is different. Could it be said that the resistance of the water to everyone is different?
After ruling out all the impossibilities, this seemingly improbable conjecture seems to be the conclusion.
Realizing this, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian not only did not panic, but were a little more excited in their hearts.
If this water flow is really ordinary water, according to their strength and physique attributes, I am afraid that they will not be tired after swimming in it for a few days and nights. It is just that this water has mysteries, and it is also a test that needs to be treated with caution for them.
The tourists who fell into the water shouted loudly and communicated with each other through the street lights and the wide water. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who listened patiently, soon learned that most of these people's mobile phones were lost or could not be used after soaking in water. .
The only one or two people whose mobile phones can still be turned on have no signal. In short, the distress message cannot be sent out.