Xia Ruize walked across the road while observing left and right.
Cheng Huaiqian opened his eyes and stood in front of the newsstand. The old man smoking a cigarette in the newsstand and listening to the opera on the radio asked impatiently, "What do you want?"
Cheng Huaiqian glanced at the newsstand and calmly returned: "Map."
"50 beads." The old man shouted impatiently while throwing a map to Cheng Huaiqian.
Cheng Huaiqian was stunned for a moment, not calm, because he realized that he didn't have the money here, so he simply said, "I'm sorry, no more."
As soon as he turned around, he saw Xia Ruize behind him, smiling with frowning eyes. Xia Ruize remembered that when he was in the novice world, he had no money to buy buns. Now that Cheng Huaiqian was in a similar embarrassment, his stomach hurt from laughing instantly.
Cheng Huaiqian pinched Xia Ruize's cheek itchy, what was he doing with such a good-looking smile 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 was coming!
At the same time, a new mission prompt appeared in my mind:
The annual Zhuoyuan City Tourism Festival is coming, this is a national carnival celebration, I wish you a good time!
Main Mission: Participate in the five-day celebration
Mission Completion: Rewards 1,000 Survival Points
Mission failure: deduct 500 survival points]
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other with suspicion in their eyes, it even prompted "Have fun"? Why couldn't they believe it?
The reality lived up to the expectations of the two. As the sound of "boom and boom" became louder and louder, the two looked up at the top of the slope together and found that someone's terrified head was exposed at the top of the slope. Then, all the tourists were inexplicable. In their eyes, water waves nearly two meters high rushed over the top of the slope, rushing down!
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian: ???
All visitors: ???
Everyone watched helplessly as the tourists who were wrapped in the waves rushed down the mountain like tigers. In less than two seconds, they rushed all the way from the top of the slope to the bottom of the slope, submerged by the waves.
Cheng Huaiqian held Xia Ruize's hand tightly, the two people standing on the half slope rushed to the edge of the road within a second before the water wave came, trying to hide in the side alley.
But their struggles were in vain, and when the waves drowned them, they were wrapped in the waves and rushed down the slope without any resistance.
In the chaos, Cheng Huaiqian could only hug Xia Ruize tightly to prevent the two from being washed away by the water. The two rose and fell together in the water waves. Xia Ruize's eyes couldn't open at all. Relying on spiritual exploration, he found that only humans were washed away by the water. The waves swept away, and other items remained motionless under the impact of the water waves.
Even the seemingly lightweight toy ball was not swept away by the water waves, which was really weird.
However, these items couldn't be leveraged by human beings. When someone tried to hold the items left in place to stabilize their body, they would find that the items that were originally motionless in the water waves seemed to have changed their properties in an instant, not only would they flow with the water waves, it even dragged people down faster.
Holding the ball would accelerate the rush down, holding the stall would rush down, even holding the car, hugging the wall, these originally fixed items would instantly start rushing down.
The humans who were hit by the bigger water waves were panicked and could only let go, leaving themselves to continue to float and sink 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 flow rate of the water waves instantly eased a little, at least it didn't make people confused, and it was not too late to react.
At this moment, Xia Ruize noticed that the street lights on both sides of the road could be used for leverage. Someone had already successfully used the street lights to stop the flow, but the street lights were not towed away.
Street lights were special!
Xia Ruize informed Cheng Huaiqian of the discovery through 'heart net', and the two immediately reached a consensus. They struggled to swim to the edge of the road, seized the opportunity to hug a street lamp, and finally successfully stopped the body from continuing to flow along the water.
A bald man next to the stream slapped the water with his arms and shouted in panic, "Help! Help! I can't swim! Help!"
Cheng Huaiqian saw that his waving hand was about to hit Xia Ruize, he immediately stretched out his hand and pushed him away a bit, and then said silently, "Stop waving, this water is very buoyant, you won't sink if you don't move around."
When the other party heard it, he stopped swaying his arms in a daze, and as expected, he found that the part above half his chest was still floating on the water, and the buoyancy of the water was large enough to keep his head out of the water.
Realizing that the water would not make him drown immediately, the bald man's heart dropped halfway immediately, seeing Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize relying on the street light pole to stop on the side of the road, he subconsciously waved his arms and paddling towards the two of them.
"Brother, brother, pull a hand, pull a hand!"
The bald man rowed hard and approached the two against the current, while shouting for help.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, Xia Ruize hugged the street light pole with his left hand, and tightly pulled Cheng Huaiqian with his right hand. Cheng Huaiqian leaned on Xia Ruize's hand to fix his body, stretched out his hand and pulled the bald man back. He also hugged the street light pole, and he could save one and save the other.
"Damn, what a broken tourist festival! Have fun! It's killing people!"
Finally, there was no need to float up and down in the water. The relaxed bald man was so angry that he cursed, and he almost pointed to the sky and cursed "evil god".
A street lamp could easily carry three people, and the drowning people drifting along the water noticed the situation on both sides of the road, and they followed the example, and they all rowed towards the shore, trying to stay.
However, the streetlights that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian found were relatively forward, and those who reacted a little slower realized that they had already been washed behind by the water, and could only aim at other streetlight poles.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian observed the street lamp. On the black lamp post, they saw a small lamp the size of a thumb flashing in the shape of a small arrow. The arrow pointed to the north of the reverse current.
"Two brothers, thank you for pulling me, I, Da Hu1, am actually very capable, don't worry, I will cover you after this!"
After cursing and venting his panic, the bald man who claimed to be Da Hu quickly thanked Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were discussing whether the small arrow suggested that they should go upstream to the north, just looked at Da Hu more, nodded and didn't respond.
The information told by Da Hu just now seemed to be related to the mission, but after experiencing the peaceful coexistence of the last mission world and other trialers without disturbing each other, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian treated other suspected trialers more calmly, and only prepared to observe, but not to get too close.
Da Hu's enthusiastic attitude was not affected by the indifference of the two, and he introduced his younger brother inside and out. According to him, his younger brother was a smart, strong and reliable person, as long as they found his brother, they didn't need to worry about anything.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian smiled politely, and suddenly heard a loud noise in the distance, they turned their heads and looked back, a street lamp behind was dragged down because it was carrying too many drowning people.
This abnormality was noticed by the drowning people around the seven or eight street lamps. The atmosphere around the street lamps that carried more drowning people immediately became tense.
Da Hu also looked at the fallen street lamp in the back, and accidentally saw his younger brother, and immediately shouted his brother's name: "Xiao Hu! Xiao Hu! This way, I am here!"
Xiao Hu was also bald, and he stood out among a group of drowning people thrashing in the water. After he heard Da Hu's greeting, he immediately tried his best to swim towards Da Hu's position.
"Two brothers, I kneel and beg for help again. If there are only four of us, it shouldn't be enough to bring down the street lights."
Da Hu quickly and sincerely asked Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian for help.
Around the street lamp that had fallen down before, there were more than 20 stragglers gathered. Because of the large number of people, the people on the outside were all close to the center of the water flow, so it was easier to be caught by more drowning people, and in a very short period of time it expanded to a very large extent, eventually dragging the street light down.
However, there were only three of them here, and the street lights carrying seven or eight people were in good condition, so they won't be nervous.
So, when Xiao Hu struggled to swim for a long time and finally approached the three of them, Xia Ruize, Cheng Huaiqian and Da Hu pulled one by one, and finally Da Hu and Xiao Hu successfully connected and dragged the person back.
"Thank you, two brothers!"
Da Hu happily touched his brother's bald head and thanked the two again. Xiao Hu looked much thinner and shy, and was gasping for breath from exhaustion. Hearing this, he nodded to the two of them.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian carefully observed the Xiao Hu's state. If Da Hu was a trialer, then the Xiao Hu should be too, but a trialer shouldn't be exhausted and gasping for swimming for a distance of about 30 meters, right?
But after thinking about it, ordinary people didn't seem to be extremely tired from swimming for a distance of 30 meters. So, was there a problem with the water?
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were constantly discussing the information they had collected so far in their heart net, observed the situation upstream of the current, and then saw something flowing down the current from a distance.
After getting closer, Xia Ruize reminded: "There are wooden oars in the water."
The drowning people around the street lights in front also noticed the wooden oar, but the wooden oar was in the center of the water flow. If they wanted to get it, they needed to swim sideways to the center of the water flow. After getting the wooden oar, they could swim to the side of the circuit. The tourists had lingering fears, hesitating whether they should take the risk or not.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who didn't care what others think, were determined to get the wooden oar.
Taking this opportunity to test the difficulty of swimming in the current, the two of them released the street lights and swam towards the center of the current before the wooden oars reached the vicinity.
After a few strokes, the two of them felt the difference in the current. 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 it was very laborious to swim.
Fortunately, it was only laborious at the moment. Against the resistance of the current, the two swam smoothly to the middle of the water. They spotted the floating wooden oar and quickly grabbed a handful with one hand.
This time, both of them had two wooden oars, barely grabbed the wooden oars with one hand, and paddled vigorously with the other hand, turning back towards the street lights by the roadside.
After seeing the movements of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, Da Hu also swam to the middle of the water. After successfully getting the wooden paddle, he returned to his brother who was resting and swam to the middle of the water again, trying to get another pair of wooden paddles.
The resistance against the current made Da Hu lose his strength quickly. After he returned this time, he hugged the street lamp and began to pant heavily.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, and felt that their own power had also lost a lot.
The surrounding drowning people watched the actions of several people. Some people gritted their teeth and dared to follow their example and swam to the middle of the water, and then swam back after getting the wooden oar.
Some people succeeded, some people lost their strength for a while and were swept away by the current for a while, but fortunately they approached the next lamp post cleverly and stabilized themselves again.
All those who tried to get a wooden oar, whether they succeeded or failed, ha in common that the person who swam around in the water was tired.
Elderly people with white hair were very tired, teenagers were very tired, strong young adults were also very tired, even Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were a little tired, they keenly noticed the difference.
Judging from the resistance they endured, the old man and the young man should not be able to bear it at all, but it seemed that everyone could swim smoothly, but the degree of fatigue was different. Could it be that the resistance of this water was different for everyone?
After all the other impossibilities were ruled out, this seemingly impossible conjecture seemed to be the conclusion.
Realizing this, not only did Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian not panic, but they felt a little more excited.
If this water was really ordinary water, according to their strength and physical attributes, they would be able to swim in it for several days and nights without getting tired. It was precisely this water that had mysteries that was also a test that needed to be handled with caution.
The drowning tourists who had been relieved shouted loudly, and communicated with each other through the street lights and the wide water current. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were listening patiently, quickly learned that most of these people's mobile phones were lost or could not be used after soaking in water.
There were only one or two people whose mobile phones could be turned on, but there was no signal. In short, the distress message could not be sent.