Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 900 - 392 Ship_2

Chapter 900: Chapter 392 Ship_2

Stone asked, "We still have a lot of waterproof fabric and duct tape, couldn’t we redesign the hull?"

Snow Egg said, "Our boat doesn’t have a keel and can’t withstand waves and wind, even a slightly sharp object could puncture the hull. Heading upstream to the southwest is very difficult."

Lin Wu suddenly had an idea, "What about going downstream?"

"Downstream is easier, but the current would take us into the ocean."

Lin Wu said, "Maybe we could find a real boat during the process of entering the ocean?"

"You really dare to dream," Shana said. "Without a proper boat, we won’t reach the southwest. The flooding period of the city is the best time for us to leave."

As everyone was deep in thought, Lin Wu asked, "Xiao Wu, why is the station called a fire station?"

Xiao Wu answered, "Because the fire department is nearby."

Lin Wu said, "Doesn’t the fire department have inflatable boats?"

"Yes, they also have inflatable rubber lifeboats and such. But we can’t possibly take the original route to the fire station."

Xiao Wen raised his hand, "The Galaxy Hotel has rubber lifeboats, quite a number of them."

Lin Wu puzzled, "Why would a hotel have lifeboats?"

Xiao Wen replied, "Around Day After Tomorrow City, there are many freshwater fishing spots."

Apart from the previously mentioned reservoir, The Day After Tomorrow River also had an abundant fish resource, all thanks to its low water temperatures in winter and the enforcement of legal regulations. The cold water effectively prevents the proliferation of scavenger fish like the tilapia and other tropical fish. The law only allows fishing with a single hook per person, does not permit nesting or net trapping.

Thus, not only were there many fishing enthusiasts locally, but also many from other places came for the fishing. The hotel offered small lifeboats for this purpose. These lifeboats could usually seat two persons and came equipped with a detachable diesel engine propeller. The lifeboats were not big; once inflated, they could be placed on top of a traveling car and towed away, or kept in the car trunk and inflated at the destination.

Tourists could rent lifeboats, drive to any stretch of the river, wear life vests, learn the basics, and then steer the lifeboat into the river. Tourists could choose their own fishing spot, fish from the boat, or dock next to an abandoned dredge to fish from on board. Due to excessive sand extraction in previous years, The Day After Tomorrow River was wide and deep, making the current very calm. It was often possible to find big catches rarely seen in ordinary freshwater rivers.

"On which floor?"

"I’m not sure, all I know is the hotel’s warehouse is on the 30th floor," Xiao Wen added. "The lifeboats aren’t big, about the size of standard rafts, it’s uncertain if they can withstand the flood."

Stone decided, "A dead horse will be treated as a living horse, we’ll start work tomorrow morning."

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The search for lifeboats was easier than everyone thought. Lin Wu tied a rope and used an electric descender to create a rope bridge to the east side of the 30th floor of the Galaxy Building. Looking through the windows on the 30th floor, they quickly found the warehouse where the lifeboats were stored, entered through the window, dealt with two zombies, tied up the warehouse door with cloth ropes, and then calmly began to move supplies.

The so-called lifeboats were actually more like rafts for drifting. They had one advantage: they were highly resistant to sharp objects. Weighing around 15 kilograms, there was a bracket at the stern of the rubber boat for installing a propeller engine.

After Lin Wu called through the walkie-talkie, Shadow Refuge operated the descender, and the improved descender pulled the rubber boats tied to the ropes through a pulley system. After sending seven rubber boats across, Lin Wu used materials on site to pack the engines and hang them on the descender, as they couldn’t withstand wall friction and collisions.

The biggest problem was the air pump. There was a large air pump in the warehouse, weighing over a hundred kilograms, which they estimated could inflate a rubber boat in less than a minute when connected to a power source. Additionally, there were four manual pumps, some operated by foot and some by hand, none weighing more than two kilograms.

Given the circumstances, they had to choose the latter. Besides lifeboats and pumps, the warehouse also contained a lot of fishing gear. One side of the wall was lined with rows of lure fishing rods, and the cabinets on the wall held boxes of various sizes, containing all sizes of lines, various artificial baits, and more. Of course, there were also life vests. In addition to these, there were hundreds of books on the waterways and geography of Day After Tomorrow City.

Little did they know, until they looked, that the waterways of Day After Tomorrow City weren’t just one or two rivers, but a whole three. The first river flowed from the Southern Mountain Range, River 1, which is the same river from the Southern Reservoir Dam. This river brought countless disasters to Day After Tomorrow City over centuries until the dam was built.

The second waterway was to the northwest of Day After Tomorrow City, called River 2, formed by a group of mountains converging and with a dam built in that direction, known as Reservoir Number 2, the potable water reservoir of Day After Tomorrow City. The third waterway was a canal linking Day After Tomorrow City to Day After Tomorrow City, running from the northeast straight to Northeast Harbor, bypassing the city area.

River 1 wrapped around the southwest of Day After Tomorrow City to the northeast, and River 3 went from the northeast of Day After Tomorrow City to the southeast. Both rivers met in the northeast part of Day After Tomorrow City and then flowed through several kilometers to the ocean.

Shana, using the hydrographic map Lin Wu brought back, perfected the city map and revised her previously formulated water route. Meanwhile, after half an hour, the first rubber boat had been inflated.

The rubber boat was placed in the conference room, and Snow Egg explained, "Under its weight capacity and as long as the inner tube isn’t pierced, even if the boat fills up with water, the rubber boat won’t sink. The exterior of the lifeboat is made from PVC material with a silk-net interlayer, similar to the technology used inside tires, making it quite difficult to puncture even with a dagger. The boat is circled with a net rope that is very tenacious, once inflated it’s equivalent to being fixed to the body, offering some stability to those on board."