Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 186 - The Raft is Gone

Chapter 186 -186 The Raft is Gone

Heard the sound, Ye Qing and Su Dai looked up warily, only to see that the Emperor Scorpion had already disappeared from sight with a “plop” into the water.

The splash sounded quite distant.

Ye Qing: “…”

Su Dai: “…”

Had their eyes deceived them just now?

No one had made a move…

The two exchanged a glance, completely baffled.

Without planning, they turned to Jiang Yan, who seemed oblivious to anything amiss, and took a folded umbrella out of her backpack with a “bang.”

“Let’s go,” Jiang Yan, ignoring their astonishment, calmly held the umbrella and disembarked.

“Xiao Ye, honey, hurry up and get on the boat!” Sun Jingtao saw Ye Qing and Su Dai still dazed and couldn’t help but urge them anxiously.

The scorpions’ strange behavior made him suspect that there might soon be a big earthquake.

And judging by how frantically the scorpions were fleeing, the magnitude of this earthquake wouldn’t be much less than in Anming.

Ye Qing and Su Dai then reacted and leapt aboard.

Although the insecticides had been sprayed on the scorpions, a significant amount still lingered in the cabin.

The smell was quite strong.

It was fortunate that everyone wore N95s and were outdoors.

Otherwise, they could easily become poisoned again.

“Eh, is my rubber dinghy gone?” Jiang Yan glanced at the stern, which was already empty.

“It’s there.” Sun Jingtao pointed solemnly into the dark mist not far away and then regretfully said, “The cabin was punctured by a scorpion’s claw and water got in; we couldn’t save it in time. The fish we caught are now just bones.”

“…” Jiang Yan followed his pointing, her heart sinking.

Her half-submerged rubber dinghy now had several wrist-thick holes.

Around these holes, densely packed, were glossy Emperor Scorpions.

In the crawling mass of scorpions inside the cabin, the white bones of the fish could faintly be seen.

In less than half an hour, those fish had been entirely devoured by the Emperor Scorpions!

And the white mosquito net previously used for holding the fish had been torn to shreds.

Their assault boat wasn’t in much better shape.

It looked completely battered.

Mainly stones and clods of dirt were scattered everywhere.

Some slime from the scorpions’ bodies was visible, disgustingly so.

Luckily, the assault boat’s material was sturdier and more abrasion-resistant than the rubber dinghy, having only some scratches left on the hull.

“Ah, this—” Su Dai, seeing the rubber dinghy and the fish just gone like that, felt deeply regretful.

Ye Qing, seeing Jiang Yan frowning, consoled her, “Jiang Yan, it’s fine as long as no one is hurt.”

“Okay,” Jiang Yan nodded.

There was no other choice now.

She had plenty more in her “Space,” just lacking a proper reason to take them out.

Seeing everyone settled down on the boat, Sun Jingtao said, “These scorpions are acting too weirdly, I suspect there might be an earthquake or some other disaster soon, Kong Wu, you can start the boat and move us further away from the cliff.

Afterward, I suggest we row by hand.”

The front was pitch black, and visibility was limited, so they could only move at a slow speed.

It was a pity to use up gasoline.

It might be more convenient to row by hand and save some gasoline.

“Okay!” Kong Wu took out a compass and started the motor.

The peaks began to slowly recede from their view.

Having reached a safe distance, Kong Wu turned off the engine.

He had just bent over to grab the spare oar when he suddenly yelped, “Ouch, you little thing, damn it!”

Everyone tensed up and looked his way.

They saw him holding up a slightly smaller Emperor Scorpion that he had pinched out from a gap in the storage compartment.

Before the scorpion could attack him, it had already been swiftly thrown out.

“Everyone be careful, we’ve thoroughly checked the boat, but some may have slipped through,” Song Qian said gravely.

He still wore the small bear ears hat that Jiang Yan had given him, along with protective goggles and an N95, looking somewhat comical.

He resembled a stout sci-fi bear.

But this bear was dirty.

The others didn’t look much better.

Their clothes and white N95 masks were already covered with a light layer of black dust.

Currently, masks were in short supply, with none to replace them, so they could only manually dust them off from time to time.

Everyone nodded and said, “Okay.”

“Brother Sun, standing next to Brother Song, you two look like Bald Strong and Bear Big!” Kong Wu said, looking at Sun Jingtao, who wore a red helmet, and Song Qian in the bear hat.

Hearing this, everyone found the resemblance amusing and burst into laughter.

But after laughing briefly, they started to pant.

“Let’s try to avoid speaking loudly or laughing later; these masks won’t block much particulate matter towards the end,” Song Qian said with a furrowed brow, reminding everyone.

Everyone responded, “Okay.”

“I think I still have some N95s in my luggage bag; later, when we have cleared the cabin, I’ll find them and give them to everyone,” Jiang Yan took the opportunity to say.

She had tens of thousands of them in her “Space.”

“That’s great, we’re one step further from tuberculosis,” Kong Wu said cheekily; then, receiving a punch from Song Qian next to him, he was told, “Speak less of inauspicious things.”

“cough, Brother Song, aren’t you a materialist?” Kong Wu forced a smile, not forgetting to tease him.

“Right now, I’m nothing; I’m just an apocalypse refugee,” Song Qian said, reaching out to take the oar from him.

“By the way, everyone might want to put this on,” Su Dai suggested, taking several disposable raincoats from her backpack and handing them out.

Their clothes had been wet and dry since escaping from Anming, which was far from comfortable.

Now with the black haze, getting wet would be like walking active air purifiers covered in debris.

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Wearing raincoats could also reduce some of the black dust that fell on them.

The group quickly got fully equipped, and their tasks also became apparent.

Song Qian and others, in accordance with last night’s watch arrangement, rowed in pairs.

They switched every hour.

Under normal circumstances, the four could row the rubber dinghy all day without needing to switch.

But the assault boat was inherently heavy, now loaded with a bunch of supplies and six people.

Rowing for an hour was not easy.

Su Dai and Jiang Yan were responsible for cleaning the cabin, clearing out the supplies contaminated by insecticides, scorpions, and clods of dirt.

Things that were definitively unusable were thrown away.

Fortunately, as the most precious resources, the food was stored in the compartments of the assault boat, rarely contaminated by insecticides or scorpion fluids.

“Okay, we’re off to the next stop, Xiangcheng!” The first rowing shift of Song Qian and Ye Qing was ready.

Sun Jingtao and Kong Wu began making fishing tools.

Jiang Yan and Su Dai continued to clean out the luggage bags.

The boat proceeded very slowly, and the cabin was stable.

But to be safe, each of them was tethered by a rope.

Meanwhile, at the behest of Jiang Yan’s thought, Hua Bao started from their boat’s prow, stretching four vines out in four directions.

A fresh “Flower” radar was now operational!