Of course, even if the distress message can be sent out, how to carry out rescue in such a situation where the whole city is submerged is difficult.
There were also some people who were scattered with their relatives and friends under the impact of the sudden water waves. At this time, they calmed down a little and were busy looking for people.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian watched the movement around them vigilantly, they always felt that the series of tests were not over yet, and what they encountered so far was just an appetizer.
Facts proved that their premonition was correct. After hundreds of wooden oars flowed along the water, something new flowed down from the upper reaches of the north side. From a distance, it looked like a piece of wood. After Xia Ruize carefully observed with mental power, I finally recognized that it was not an ordinary plank, it seemed to be a small boat
Cheng Huaiqian swam to the middle of the water again, and dragged a piece of wood back to the shore. Duo followed his movements and pulled back a piece of wood. When they took a closer look, they realized that it was a piece of wood that was one meter long. How long is the plank, with two depressions at the front and back, as if for people to sit on, except that it can float on the water, and it doesn't look like a boat.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian cooperated tacitly. Xia Ruize supported the board first, Cheng Huaiqian turned over and climbed up, sat in the depression in front, and tried to paddle with two wooden oars.
To their surprise, the difficulty of paddling is much lower than that of swimming, and the speed of advancing in the water by relying on planks and wooden paddles is much faster than swimming.
The two looked at each other, as if they had realized something.
Next, Cheng Huaiqian paddled with a wooden paddle from time to time to keep the wooden board from being washed away by the current, so that Xia Ruize could also climb on the wooden board.
Unfortunately, the plank is really narrow and short, and the whole plank flipped over with a slight force. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who had fallen into the water, emerged from the water and hurriedly recovered the plank and oar that had been washed away by the current.
The embarrassed two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing, exchanged a few words, and tried again.
This time it was Cheng Huaiqian who protected Xia Ruize to climb up first, Xia Ruize relied on the wooden paddle to keep the plank balanced, Cheng Huaiqian then tried to turn over and climb up, who would have thought that the balance of the plank would be very difficult to maintain, and the two fell into the water together again.
At this moment, the people around who were paying attention to their movements couldn't help laughing.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian found that they had a better grasp of the plank the second time than the previous one, so they tried to climb the plank for the third time without discouragement... until the fifth time, they finally sat down on the small plank at the same time On the board, try to push the board forward with a wooden paddle.
After the big tiger and the little tiger laughed, they also started to try to climb up the wooden plank, and as expected, they also fell over and over again.
The other people who fell into the water around them paid attention to their performance, from laughing at the beginning to a little bit of envy later.
The body below the chest was soaked in water for a long time, and the pressure of the water came from all directions, making it difficult to breathe. Many people began to breathe in small mouthfuls and quickly, but still felt a sense of pressure in the chest cavity.
Although it is only a small board, it is better to sit on the board than to continue to soak in the water.
At this moment, other people also began to try to pick up the plank and then tried to turn over and climb up.
After trying it themselves, they realized how difficult it is to control the balance of the plank. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian climbed up after trying five times. Others probably couldn't climb up the plank at the same time after more than ten attempts.
At this time, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were already paddling the boards upstream. They wanted to see what was there upstream, so they kept going downstream with the paddles and boards.
Surprisingly, after Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian passed the ramp on the left, Cheng Huaiqian, who was sitting in front, saw a "starting line" in the water ahead.
The bottom of the water is the previous asphalt road, and the three big white characters "starting line" are written on the road, through the water surface, and come into view.
"Boat race?"
Xia Ruize tilted his head and saw three large characters. The first thing he thought of was the competition, and then he remembered the task reminder. Could this be some kind of "celebration event"? Let everyone become a drowned chicken to celebrate
"咻咻咻!" At this moment, several loud bangs resounded through the sky, and all the people who fell into the water couldn't help but look up at the sky, only to see a few fireworks rushing into the sky inexplicably, bursting a few lines of large characters in the sky :
"2333 Zhuoyuan City Tourism Festival Celebrates the First Day of the Carnival: Wanke Fights for the Flow!"
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were silent, probably because they touched the starting line and started a weird celebration.
The two turned their heads to look at the stunned people behind them, discussed a few words briefly, without any further hesitation, they paddled their oars in tacit agreement and continued to move forward.
Those who fell into the water after seeing the reminder of the fireworks woke up one after another, and tried to climb the board and paddle forward more eagerly.
Some acquaintances and friends are really not sure about the balance, so they have no choice but to get on the same plank, so they just put on the same plank and row forward hastily.
Although it is not clear what the hell Zhuoyuan City is doing, it is always right to compete for the top.
More and more wooden boats carry people forward, but the number of wooden boards and oars is still scarce compared to the number of people who fell into the water, and the fallen people who landed in the back position can only stop the body. Looking at the changes ahead, I was anxious, but before the wooden oars and boards flowed over, they were divided up by the people in front.
In desperation, some people simply swam forward boldly. After all, the sooner they moved forward, the sooner they could get the tools they needed.
On the other side, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who crossed the starting line, quickly noticed that the resistance they faced when rowing became greater, and the water flow under the board also increased, and they needed to use more strength to slide at a faster speed Wooden oars can ensure that the boat keeps moving forward instead of backward along the current.
But the currents do not change as much as the distance of the eye.
After paddling for less than ten meters, the two people no longer saw the modern scene of buildings and street lights before them. The water surface became narrower and narrower, and the two sides turned into a mud grass field full of weeds, and the front became a scene of lush forest.
The two looked at the front and then at the back, only to be dumbfounded, and deeply felt that they had entered a large illusion.
For this reason, the two slowed down specially, Cheng Huaiqian rowed the boat, Xia Ruize tested the surrounding environment in every possible way, but they were still unable to find any flaws in it.
"It may be an illusion that is several times higher than my level, or it may be that what I see is real, and the space has been changed. Of course, it may be caused by principles that we don't understand at all."
Xia Ruize, who found nothing, had no choice but to give up and continue exploring.
The two of them didn't move forward in a hurry, but slowly waited for the people behind to gradually catch up. They watched him with a shocked expression, two shocked expressions, and four or five expressions of disbelief...
It wasn't until Xia Ruize had more than 20 people included in his observations that Xia Ruize was convinced that if these people who crossed the starting line first were not all testers, it could only mean that the changes in the environment were too shocking. incomprehensible.
At this time, the waterway Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were in was only two meters wide, but the banks on both sides were dense forests five to six meters wide and more than ten meters high. The branches and leaves above were layered and blocked the light, making the dense forest and the winding waterway look gloomy.
However, it was precisely this kind of environment that made Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian notice that there was actually a bright "small light bulb" hidden in the grass on the shore.
It was a small, round, transparent fruit about the size of a thumb. It was crystal clear inside, with brilliance flowing, and it was displayed on the outside in the shape of a small light bulb.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian carefully observed the small light bulb, and noticed that there was a row of three similar-sized depressions at the front of the board. Finally, they decided to take off the small light bulb and try to put it into the depression.
The small light bulb fit perfectly with the depression, and after putting the small light bulb on, the two immediately found that it was easier to move the board than before.
With this discovery, Xia Ruize's spatial retrospective skills are often turned on, but his observation range is limited to less than fifteen meters in width of the waterway and both sides.
Going further, he felt that his mental power had encountered two "walls", unable to break through, and saw what was behind the "walls".
Xia Ruize didn't force it, and after finding that it was difficult to meet the small light bulbs that were on, the two focused on rowing.
Since it is "Wan Ke Contest", the word "competition" shows that the order of the end points should be more important.
After the two of them got serious, the person who surpassed them while they were studying the scenery on the shore was chased and overtaken again.
The big tiger and the little tiger paddled the plank and followed the two of them. The big tiger thought that he would be the toughest if he left the water he was afraid of, but he didn't expect that the two young brothers who knew each other for no reason were stronger, so he made up his mind to follow the two. What's going on behind the scenes, the two brothers and the two buddies in front can still help each other.
After rowing for half an hour, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were so tired that they began to pant. They looked at the water in the water channel below with lingering fear.
The big tiger and the little tiger who tried their best to follow behind them couldn't hold on anymore, and the big tiger sitting in front of the wooden board greeted loudly:
"Brother Cheng! Brother Xia! Slow down, slow down, rest, rest! You're exhausted..."
Xia Ruize looked back and saw that Dumb was already sweating.
Looking back, there were no other figures within the tens of meters of the waterway as far as the eye could see.
It was rare for someone who could keep up with them by strength, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian didn't think about getting rid of them completely, so they slowed down their rowing speed.
"Two, two, are you veterans in Zhubo District?"
Dahu swiped vigorously twice, caught up with half of the plank, turned slightly sideways, and asked in a low voice beside Xia Ruize. The one who can be stronger than the two brothers may be the veteran of the veterans.
"what about you?"
Cheng Huaiqian asked a question.
"Hey, my brother and I have experienced seven missions in Zhubo District, two are excellent, and three are passing, hey."
The other party could understand what they said, and Dui immediately knew that he had met the same kind, and he took the lead in explaining their achievements indifferently, with a bit of complacency in his words.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, and Cheng Huaiqian said calmly: "We have only been promoted to Zhubo District not long ago."
"Then you guys are really amazing!" Duhu praised without any pretense, stretching out his thumbs to compare in his busy schedule.
Brothers Cheng and Brother Xia can always keep ahead in rowing, which shows that their physical fitness attributes are not low. Presumably, they have experienced many tasks in the white paper area and accumulated a lot of strength to get up.