Chapter 404 The great work has come
It turned completely dark.
Everything in sight was pitch black, and I couldn't see my fingers. All I could hear was the sound of rain and water. The raging water collided with each other, like dense drums, crackling one after another.
In such a situation, not to mention ordinary people, even mages with extraordinary power, they are no different from blind or deaf people.
Gothe lit up the Mandora Magic Eye and continued to run it with "minimum power". With the help of the extremely high ability to see in the dark, he would not become completely blind.
Under the water, Tuanzi was already a little tired.
His body was swinging hard in the turbulent water, and paddling seemed a bit difficult.
Even if it is an earth-line creature, dragging a small boat upstream in such a fast river is still very tiring.
Had it not been for the fact that after following Gaode, the high-level earth-line creatures had eaten more flesh and blood and had grown beyond their years, I am afraid that they would have stopped eating by now.
You must know that it is just a juvenile capybara over one year old.
Gaud took out the map of the Auckland area and looked at it again. The map was shaking violently in the wind, and the corners wet by the rain were shimmering. "The road ahead should be the No. 3 Flood Barrier of the Royal River."
The Royal River is the waterway that Gaud is walking on now, and it is also the longest river in the Auckland area.
In order to protect the cities, villages and fertile farmland in the Royal River Basin from flooding, Aucklanders built a series of complete flood control dams.
"Tuanzi, work harder." Gothe shouted into the water.
The speed of the boat is even faster.
The closer we got to the No. 3 flood control embankment, the louder the sound of the water became. In the end, it was deafening and as shocking as thunder.
A huge gap with a width of a hundred feet appeared in front of us.
The originally strong No. 3 flood control embankment has collapsed.
The water rolls out from this gap. Even if the height difference is not big, at this speed, the water splashes down and still rolls up layers of white foam.
The turbid waves rolled and squeezed each other, carrying a large amount of sand, stones, aquatic plants and dead fish, rushing downstream like a dragon.
Tuanzi twisted left and right in the water, not only to fight against the current, but also to avoid the stones in the water.
Gaode looked slightly stern.
He drew a circle and marked the location of No. 3 flood embankment on the map.
Subsequently, based on the direction of the Royal River marked on the map, Gaode quickly determined the town that would bear the brunt of the disaster after the No. 3 flood control embankment broke and released the flood: Yaxi Town.
"Tuanzi, turn around." Gothe looked at the No. 3 flood control embankment that no longer existed, and finally left here.
Tuanzi's physical exertion was close to the limit.
But this time, it is no longer necessary to go against the flow, but to go downstream along the direction of the flood discharge.
Apart from maintaining a slight balance, there is basically no need for it to exert any more force, so it can still persist.
There is no need to identify the direction any more, just go all the way down the river. In less than ten minutes, Gaode arrived at a small village in Yaxi Town.
But at this moment, the appearance of the village is no longer visible at all. At a glance, there is nothing but water.
It was only when Tuanzi popped its head out and signaled that it had seen the remains of some houses under the water that Gothe confirmed that this place had really been a village.
"I don't know how many people in the village have escaped." Gothe sighed slightly and continued to swim down the river.
He needs to quickly find the current refuge point of the survivors in Yaxi Town, and then organize a fleet from Tyrell Town to evacuate the victims.
The boat was bumping violently in the turbid waves.
Gaode’s eyes were sharp and he paid close attention to the surrounding scene.
Ahead, a slightly raised plateau attracted his attention, surrounded by some thick tree roots.
Gaode immediately asked Tuanzi to approach the high ground.
As the distance got closer, Gothe could see clearly that the high ground was actually a small mound that was mostly submerged by the flood.
There were several big trees growing on the mound, but now only half of their trunks are left above the water, and their thick roots are looming under the impact of the water flow.
Gothe saw the time correctly, and when the boat approached, he quickly used his magician's hand to wrap the rope around the tree root, and then pulled hard to slowly pull the boat closer to the mound.
The boat finally found a place to stay and docked temporarily.
Tuanzi floated to the side of the boat, jumped onto the boat with a splash, and lay prone like a dead fish.
Exhausted!
A light green light flowed out of Gao De's hand.
In an instant, 10 plump and round berries appeared in his palm.
Gaode handed it to Tuanzi's mouth.
Tuanzi stuck out his head, rolled his tongue, and swallowed all ten berries in one mouthful.
Such a high-intensity exercise requires energy replenishment.
While taking advantage of the break, Gothe took out the map and marked the situation he saw while going down the river on the map. He frowned and thought about the action plan.
In the turbid water, in addition to the dead fish that kept turning belly up from the water, Gothe also saw more than one bloated human corpse.
The corpses were pale, their clothes were torn, and they were floating in the water. The scene was shocking.
This time the disaster in the Auckland area was far more serious than imagined.
The main reason is that the emergence of this huge cyclone is very contrary to the laws of nature. Both the time of arrival and the trend of development and expansion are too unreasonable, which also leads to a further increase in the degree of disaster.
In just half a day, the Auckland area was turned upside down.
After resting for about half an hour.
Tuanzi also regained some strength, and his limp body became a little more alive.
Gaode set out again without any further delay.
In this case, just squeeze out your physical strength.
It will be tiring at most, but every extra minute you gain may save one more life.
Not long after, Gothe finally arrived at Yaxi Town.
The Plantagenet Dynasty was extremely prosperous. As a coastal county, Barrow County needed to have an economy, resources, and a rich heritage, so even if it was just a small town, three or four-story buildings were very common.
Standing on the bumpy boat, he glanced over and saw half of the upper floors of many buildings protruding out of the murky water.
The doors and windows of these buildings are broken, and the walls are covered with traces of flood impact.
Broken walls, broken swords, and occasionally washed-down furniture.
It's just that as far as the eye can see, there is still no living person to be seen.
Apart from the sound of wind, rain and water, there was no other movement around.
Of course, it’s impossible for them all to die.
"It should have been transferred away." Gao De thought secretly.
Although the flood control embankment collapsed suddenly, local officials have been dealing with cyclones all year round and it is impossible not to have this awareness of the crisis. After the cyclone landed, they should have thought of the possibility of embankment failure and evacuated the people urgently.
If you don't even do this, it won't be your own head that will fall off afterwards, but the heads of your whole family.
However, the incident happened so suddenly, it is not easy to directly transfer a large number of people to a safe area. It should only be moved to a nearby high-lying place.
Gothe quickly went through the topography of the Auckland area in his mind - by now, he had already memorized the map firmly in his mind, and no longer needed to look it up frequently.
Soon, he determined the place where the residents of Yaxi Town were most likely to move.
Plantagenet Dynasty is a plain terrain, flat terrain, but there is a naturally formed highland on the edge of Yaxi Town.
It’s not big, it doesn’t even have a name, but its terrain is much higher than the plain, which can provide a certain degree of safety and avoid being easily submerged by floods.
According to Gaode's speculation, this unknown highland should have been formed due to long-term sedimentation on the alluvial plain.
After confirming the destination, Tuanzi, who had just recovered his breath, began to work hard again, pulling the boat towards the high ground.
The boat was struggling to move forward amidst the bumps under Tuanzi's hard pull.
Sometimes the bow of the ship is raised high, almost perpendicular to the water surface, and sometimes it is severely photographed. Most of the hull is submerged in the water, causing splashes of several feet high. The ship may capsize at any time under the violent force.
However, after being familiar with the "type of work" for more than half a day, Tuanzi has gradually mastered the skills and learned to take advantage of the flow of water.
It is like an experienced sailor, keenly sensing every change in the water flow, and skillfully adjusting the direction and intensity of force.
The water is still fierce, but the boat's movement has become more and more stable due to its efforts. It no longer rocks violently and irregularly like it did at first, but can shuttle on the top of the waves without any danger.
But under floods, dangers are everywhere.
At this moment, something unexpected happened.
Tuanzi felt a huge force coming from the ship along the rope tied to it.
This force came without warning and was so powerful that it was beyond imagination. It was as if it was pulled by a huge force, and it suddenly lost its balance and fell into the water.
And the huge force continued, pulling it in one direction.
Tuanzi was able to shake his body and struggle for a while at first, but soon he felt that the huge force was still expanding, making him unable to control his body at all. He watched helplessly as he was being pulled by the rope towards an unknown place.
A critical moment.
Gothe, who was standing on the boat, realized that something was wrong, and immediately drew his sword and cut off the rope.
Without the rope, the boat under his feet was like an out-of-control fallen leaf, spinning crazily in the turbulent water.
The hull of the ship shook violently, and Gaode stumbled and almost fell.
He reacted extremely quickly and without caring about anything else, he immediately cast [Jump Technique], stamped the ship's board hard, and jumped out.
With a splash, Gaode fell into the turbid water.
There was a strong suction force from the water behind, like a pair of invisible urging hands trying to pull God over.
Gao De is no better than Tuanzi, and his strength is limited. In this case, his body is actually being pulled back gradually.
At the critical moment, Tuanzi arrived in time.
It swam under Gao De.
Gaode, who already had a tacit understanding with Tuanzi, instantly understood its meaning.
He lay on Tuanzi's back and grabbed Tuanzi's body with both hands.
Tuanzi, on the other hand, tried his best to swing his body and struggled to escape from this dangerous water with Gaode.
Phew!
Finally, the pulling force behind him disappeared, and Gothe resurfaced and took a breath of air.
Looking back, I saw that the ship was spinning violently and was completely swallowed into the water.
It looks like it is no different from other waters, but in fact it hides a huge whirlpool undercurrent that originates from nowhere.
The center is bottomless, like a black hole, swallowing up everything that comes close, which is frightening.
Gao De, who narrowly escaped death, secretly remembered the location of this whirlpool and undercurrent. He leaned on Tuanzi and held on to Tuanzi under the fierce current. His knuckles turned white from excessive exertion.
「继续走。」高德通过【兽之联结】发布指令。
都走到这里了，自然不可能因为遇到危险就半途而弃。
Without the boat and leaning on Tuanzi, although Gaode's physical consumption increased significantly, without the weight of the boat, Tuanzi's speed also increased significantly.
所以仅仅是半刻钟不到，高德就已经快要靠近那片无名高地。
黑夜之中，雨幕如帘，他抬起头来，雨水与河水顺着他的脸颊不断滑落。
Just by squinting, Gaode could see sporadic lights scattered on the high ground in the distance.
Those lights were swaying in the wind and rain, but Gao De was almost certain that the residents around Yaxi Town should be concentrated on this unknown highland that stretched for nearly a kilometer.
However, when he was about to reach the high ground, Gothe discovered that it was not peaceful here either.
Under the high ground, the water level was relatively shallow, and there were originally some boats from the town.
It should be that after the floods, local officials formed a fleet to transfer dozens of surrounding villages.
These ships vary in size, ranging from simple fishing boats to slightly larger cargo ships. At this moment, they are all surrounded by a group of water beasts and are in trouble.
On the ship, there were many mages standing with solemn expressions, fighting and confronting water beasts.
The water is too dangerous now. They don’t say whether the water is good or not. Even if they are proficient in water, they don’t dare to enter the water at this moment.
Since the mage did not dare to enter the water and the sky was so dark, the water beasts took advantage of the right time and place, so they had the upper hand for a while.
The boats are connected, and hundreds of lights are held high, trying to illuminate the water clearly, but in such bad weather, it is impossible to do so.
The mages in Yaxi Town could only barely see the outlines of these water beasts under the water through the dim orange light.
These water beasts are a kind of strange fish, more than half a man in length, and their whole body is covered with a layer of rough scales.
The triangular head is sharp and fierce, and the blood-red eyes are extremely penetrating in the dark night.
Their mouths are unusually wide and full of sharp, inward-curved tusks.
Each fang is like a sharp dagger, opening and closing with amazing bite force.
These strange fish shuttled between the ships and launched ferocious attacks on them again and again.
They open their big mouths, and their fangs penetrate into the hull of the ship, and then bite hard. With the amazing bite force, they can tear off a piece of wood from the ship.
The mages cast spells on the boat to attack these strange fish underwater.
These strange fish either dived into the water in time to avoid spell attacks, or they relied on their rough scales to withstand a spell without any problems.
Of course, there are a few good players who cast powerful spells that directly caused fatal damage to some strange fish.
A piece of red foam suddenly rose up on the yellow turbid water, and was washed away by the water in the blink of an eye.
Compared to the huge number of strange fish schools themselves, this loss is nothing.
"These beasts!" On the boat, the mages kept shouting and cursing, but they knew very well that this was just their own incompetent rage.
"If this continues, all our ships will be destroyed by them. Although they cannot go ashore and cannot threaten us for the time being, without a ship, we will have no way out. We don't know when rescue will come. We evacuated in such a hurry, but we didn't have time to bring food!"
There are some smart people who have realized that the current situation is extremely bad.
"How to solve this problem?" They were anxious and worried.
Yaxi Town is just a town, and the most powerful mage in the town is a three-ring mage. This afternoon he led another fleet to go out to search for the victims, and he has not returned yet.
Among the mages left on the highlands, the most powerful are only the second level. There are not many of them, and there is not even a dedicated battle mage.
With this kind of weather and this kind of scene, facing these hordes of water beasts, there is really nothing we can do and nothing we can do.
"There is no way to continue like this!" On the bow of the ship, the temporary leader, the noble knight Hao from Yaxi Town, felt his heart burning.
He could identify these strange fish as first-order water beasts, black water sharks.
On weekdays, Ha'ao Knight, who is also a second-level mage, is naturally not afraid of mere first-level water beasts.
But things are different now.
One is that there are too many black rays and it is difficult to exterminate them in bad weather.
The second is that these black water sharks do not need to hurt people, they only need to destroy all their ships, which will make them unbearable.
What to do, what to do?
(End of this chapter)