What about the siblings?
Heading to Hei Jiang City, one can't help but ponder this question.
It's not like there's any particular fondness for Li Huang and Li Xin.
Pure curiosity, nothing more.
Upon closer thought, Shajiang City has few zombies and abundant resources.
Any siblings with a bit of brains should be able to survive just fine.
Forget it!
Bai Yin shook his head, pushing aside these trivial thoughts.
Compared to fleeting acquaintances lasting only a few days.
Undoubtedly, the next plan to cross the river is the more pressing issue.
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It's probably around 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
The sun is setting, and night is approaching.
Looking at the wide river in front of him, Bai Yin hesitated.
The water quality is good.
A post-apocalyptic river untouched by human pollution for a year.
Absolutely crystal clear.
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The current is not swift, and with a suitable boat, Bai Yin could easily cross.
Scanning around, but no suitable boat or tools were found.
Bai Yin could only walk along the riverbank.
Finally, he found a large white floating object bound together with countless giant bubbles.
Though it's somewhat crude.
But, with proper use and a bit of caution.
He could use it to cross the river.
Bai Yin found an oar buried in the soil by the shore and dug it out.
Then, he stood on the huge white floating object.
And paddled towards the other side.
The whole process was careful, fearing capsizing due to instability.
"Woof!"
Midway across the river, the dog in his bag kept barking.
Bai Yin looked around.
Finally, he spotted a lot of industrial waste at the bottom of the river, nearly a dozen meters deep.
And...
Human skeletons sunken into the riverbed.
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"Hush... just bones, nothing serious..."
Trying to quiet the dog down, but it wasn't convinced.
"Woof woof woof!!!!"
Rather, it barked louder as if it had discovered something.
Bai Yin sensed something was wrong.
At this moment, he was in the middle of the river.
About forty meters from the other shore.
Just as he was vigilant, looking around.
"Sssss..."
A strange sound suddenly came from behind him.
Not only that, a huge shadow.
Directly blocked his small boat under the setting sun.
Bai Yin turned abruptly.
"Plunk!!!"
But all he saw was a white figure plunging into the splashing water.
He looked down.
Then widened his eyes in disbelief, nearly stopping his heart.
Because what lay beneath the lake at this moment was not something else.
It was none other than an outrageously large white snake.
This white snake was as thick as a minivan and ridiculously long.
Before Bai Yin could even estimate its length.
Its head, larger than Bai Yin's "boat," lunged directly towards the bottom of the boat.
The snake's eyes were green, bigger than Bai Yin's backpack.
"Holy shit!!!"
No time to be shocked, his body instinctively abandoned the boat and fled for his life.
But it was too late.
"Boom!!!"
The snake's head directly lifted Bai Yin and the foam boat from the riverbed into the air.
Then, accompanied by the sound of splashing water as he fell into the water.
Bai Yin fell directly into the water about seven or eight meters from the shore.
He hit the water face-first, it hurt.
But fortunately, the fall wasn't from a great height, so there was no major injury.
Foam scattered all over the river surface.
Landing everywhere.
But Bai Yin didn't have the leisure to observe.
Just frantically swimming towards the shore.
"Whoosh..."
He could hear something paddling behind him, slowly approaching.
Bai Yin could only swim desperately towards the shore.
"Woof woof!!!"
The dog on his back kept barking as it chased after the big snake behind him.
Its voice sounded spirited, suggesting nothing was wrong.
---
"Sssshh!!!"
Finally, Bai Yin rushed to the shore.
But because of the rush, when he got ashore, he didn't notice a iron stick stuck in the ground.
Bai Yin's leg grazed the sharp end of the iron stick.
Tearing his pants, making a tearing sound.
But even so, he didn't look back.
Just kept running for his life.
Having fled about thirty meters from the riverbank, hearing no movement behind him.
Only then did he look back.
Finally, he saw the big snake only sticking its head out of the water.
Hissing and sticking out its black forked tongue at him.
After staring at each other for two or three seconds.
With a "plunk," it disappeared into the water, soon disappearing.
"Haaah, haaah..."
Narrow escape.
Meanwhile, greedily breathing in the fresh air.
Bai Yin felt like his heart was about to jump out, sitting on the ground gasping for breath.
After less than five seconds of rest, he quickly took off his backpack.
Seeing that the dog in the bag was fine, just its face was a bit wet.
Only then did his unease truly dissipate.
"Woof woof!!!"
The dog barked, wanting to come out.
Bai Yin opened the zipper of the backpack.
Fortunately, the backpack was waterproof.
Even though there was a hole in it, the short time it was in contact with water didn't cause much damage to the things inside.
Rather, the dog's head plugged the hole, preventing much water from entering.
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"What kind of monster..."
The ridiculously large snake made Bai Yin wonder what had happened to this world.
However, the snake didn't directly chase him out of the river.
This was something Bai Yin hadn't expected.
Bai Yin knew one thing very well, that is, if the giant snake had surfaced, he would have been dead for sure.
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"Woof woof!!!"
The dog ran towards Bai Yin's thigh.
Then started licking the wound on it.
Only then did Bai Yin realize.
Not only were his pants torn on his right leg, but there was also a ridiculously large wound.
The wound was on his thigh, about twenty centimeters long.
Bleeding profusely at the moment.
If this continued, he would definitely bleed to death today.
Looking at the tool that scratched him on the shore.
He found it was an iron rod with a sharp tip.
"Damn!"
Bai Yin's backpack happened to have no tetanus medicine.
But now, there was no other way.
Bai Yin could only push the dog away and then take out alcohol and medical cotton from the backpack to clean the wound.
The whole process was excruciatingly painful, but he had to endure it.
Finally, he took out a bandage from his bag.
Enduring the intense pain, he wrapped the wound to stop the bleeding.
After everything was settled, and putting the dog back into the backpack and wearing it.
Then he continued on the path ahead.
His right foot was in intense pain, so he limped as he walked.
But after less than an hour's walk, Bai Yin, his forehead covered in cold sweat, began to feel dizzy.
Ahead was Hei Jiang City, and Bai Yin could already see some tall buildings.
But his consciousness
was becoming increasingly blurred.
"Plunk!!!"
In the end, he collapsed on the ground due to exhaustion.
At the moment of closing his eyes, he heard the roar of a motorcycle coming from ahead.