Traveling by water is certainly much easier, but of course it still requires some technical skills. If the boatman is rough, he can easily knock everyone on board into the water.
Fortunately, the bamboo raft has a professional tool like a bamboo pennant, which can not only grasp the direction and balance, but also increase the traveling speed when needed.
Things like pennies were common to Jiang Yue when he was a child. In addition, he was naturally smart and had strong manual skills. After a few fumbles, he easily mastered them.
Du Yifeng was embarrassed for a while, and almost knocked the people on the bamboo raft into the water several times. Fortunately, everyone was awakened and had good physical coordination and balance.
After studying for a while, I slowly mastered some tips to ensure that the bamboo rafts can drift down with the water.
Fortunately, this is drifting downstream. If it were going upstream, it would definitely be much more difficult and the speed would definitely be much slower.
The two temporary boatmen gradually mastered the trick, and with the support of their bamboo poles, the speed continued to increase.
The bamboo rafts floated on the water, gently pushed by the breeze in the mid-spring afternoon, and it really felt like the boat had crossed the Ten Thousand Mountains.
Han Jingjing's beautiful eyes were looking at Jiang Yue intently. The more she looked at him, the happier she felt in her heart. Even if the spring breeze is ten miles away, it is far inferior to you in her heart.
How can a boy be so handsome?
This handsome man is not only charming in appearance, but what is even more handsome is the way he focuses on doing things and the way he looks like doing what he does.
Logically speaking, Jiang Yue has nothing to do with his status as a boatman, but when he gets the pennies in his hands, he is able to do tricks, and with just a few strokes, he becomes as skilled as an experienced boatman who has been there for decades.
Look at Du Yifeng's embarrassed and clumsy look again...
I am afraid of comparison in everything.
Xu Chunru naturally knew how Han Jingjing felt about Jiang Yue, but she didn't have the consciousness to be a light bulb and took the initiative to find a topic.
"Brother Xiao Jiang, we were at the entrance of the village before. How did you know it was an empty village?"
"Sister Ru, have you ever lived in a rural area?"
Xu Chunru was startled and shook her head subconsciously.
But does it matter?
"At this time in the countryside, farmers will definitely not be idle in their houses. They are either in the fields, in the fields, or on the hillsides tending cattle and sheep. Along the way, there was not a single soul, and no one was walking on the village road. Not even a rooster crows or a dog barks. It obviously doesn’t look like there is any human activity.”
"Of course, these are just objective details. In addition to these, there is also intuition. At that time, I had an intuition that the village was empty."
What is intuition?
Is it so magical?
"But where have the villagers gone?" Xu Chunru felt a little guilty when she mentioned this topic.
Indeed, it is none of your business.
But the incident in the empty village is obviously very strange and unsettling.
This is obviously a mountain village with many residents.
The details of every household show that the villagers here have been living a normal life in the recent past.
This near future can even be specific to the past two or three days.
Because clothes are still hanging out in front of many people's homes, and the clothes are not fully dried yet. There are still leftovers in the kitchen cupboards, and even these leftovers have not gone rancid.
If it had lasted for a long time, it would have gone rancid, or even become spotted and hairy.
Where have people gone?
Jiang Yue couldn't answer this question.
The living creatures in the village seemed to disappear suddenly, as if they had evaporated from the world.
It didn't look like it was caused by a disaster, because most of the houses in the village were intact.
It didn't seem like there had been any serious conflicts, because most of the households showed no obvious signs of conflict, and the furnishings in each house were in good condition.
Jiang Yue even had the absurd idea that these people, including the living creatures in the village, walked out of their homes on their own initiative.
As for where he went, why he went in such a hurry, the door was not locked, and he didn't bring any food, the reasons are unknown.
"I hope this matter has nothing to do with the mission of the ecological park..." Jiang Yue sighed.
"Maxi Village is more than ten kilometers away from the ecological park. With such a long distance, can it be related?" Xu Chunru said in surprise.
"There is an ominous thing, which is that whatever you are afraid of will definitely come." Han Jingjing suddenly said quietly.
Xu Chunru spread her hands: "If we really want to come, we can only go ahead and continue."
He glanced at the linen bag at Jiang Yue's feet and asked curiously: "Brother Xiao Jiang, what's wrong with you carrying a big bag?"
"They are all worthless things, but they will definitely be useful in the field."
Jiang Yue patted the sack and didn't explain much.
All the way down the stream, the speed of the water is not slow, and with the support of the bamboo pole, the speed is easily 20 to 30 kilometers per hour.
In less than an hour, the bamboo rafts had drifted to the ecological park area.
I saw a ferry in the distance. There was a huge stone tablet erected at the ferry, with the five characters "Wangxian Ecological Park" engraved on it.
"arrive!"
The people on the two bamboo rafts were extremely excited.
After landing on the shore, Jiang Yue called to Du Yifeng and dragged the two bamboo rafts to the grass a few hundred meters away and hid them.
After climbing more than a dozen steps, we finally reached the embankment. At the end of the embankment is an endless peach forest.
It's a pity that it's almost May now and I missed the day when the peach blossoms are in full bloom.
Otherwise, there must be ten miles of peach blossoms in front of you, scorching their splendor.
Du Yifeng stopped everyone and reminded: "Everyone, if someone asks us how we got here, we must not reveal that we took the water route."
Zhang Jiye was delighted: "Yifeng, you have also been led astray. Do you need to be so cautious? What is there to hide?"
Walking by water is such a cool thing, it's just a good time to show off when you meet an acquaintance, why don't people talk about it?
Du Yifeng said seriously: "Brother Ye, the waterway is our escape route. You don't want others to come and compete with us for our retreat, right?"
"What's so valuable here? Everyone can go their own way?" Zhang Jiye said in a light tone.
Du Yifeng's voice suddenly increased: "Everyone goes his own way? You put it lightly. We only have two bamboo rafts. Although they are hidden, it is not difficult to find. If someone is really targeting us, will they be polite to us?"
Zhang Jiye was still a little dissatisfied: "It's against the current to go back. Who knows how to sit on a bamboo raft? It's so laborious. Besides, the task is completed, so we won't be in a hurry to walk back, right?"
Du Yifeng held his forehead. If it weren't for the friendship between his ancestors and if Zhang Jiye wasn't a few years older, he would have had the urge to beat him up.
He even regretted a little, why did he have to recruit this idiot to join the gang in the first place?
Xu Chunru warned: "Zhang Jiye, go back to play and go back to trouble. These two bamboo rafts are the escape route and the bottom line. If you are neither serious nor serious, don't make friends when the time comes."
Zhang Jiye's bad temper also broke out.
He roared with a black face: "If you don't have to do it, you don't have to do it. Who are you trying to scare? Everyone is targeting me, right?"
In terms of age, Zhang Jiye is the oldest among this group of people.
Du Yifeng usually calls him brother and sister, so affectionate that he actually talks about him too.
In addition, Xu Chunru also warned him again and again, with a bad tone.
A young master like Zhang Jiye has a high-minded temperament and is not easy to talk to when he is being followed. How could he possibly accept the attitude of Du Yifeng and Xu Chunru?
In addition, he felt that Du Yifeng and Xu Chunru were siding with Jiang Yue and deliberately opposing him, which naturally added fuel to the fire.
"Don't think that I don't know your little thoughts. Don't you just want to flatter some people? I really don't understand! Is an outsider worth kneeling and licking like this?"
In the final analysis, the root of Zhang Jiye's anger lies with Jiang Yue.
Back at the Silver Lake Hotel, when this guy saw Jiang Yue for the first time, he didn't like it. I don’t know whether it was a bad first impression or whether they were in conflict with each other.
Du Yifeng had never been an easy talker, so he was naturally furious when Zhang Jiye spoke so harshly.
"Zhang Jiye, we tolerated you all the way because of the friendship between generations. If you are so ungrateful, it doesn't matter. Anyway, we are already on the ground. If you really feel that you are not in harmony with everyone, you will not like us. , no problem, you can go it alone. I, Du Yifeng, will never stop you."
"It's passed, it's been passed! Yifeng, Brother Ye, we have been friends for several generations, so we can't do anything wrong." Xie Feng came out with a smile to smooth things over, "You are so red-faced arguing over an outsider, I don't care at all. Look, everyone is gone!"
Several people looked into the distance and saw that Jiang Yue and Han Jingjing had indeed left, walking several hundred meters along the peach forest.
In the Peach Blossom Spring, the peach blossom forest is only a few hundred steps across the bank.
This peach forest is far more than just that.
Passing through this peach forest, you can see a magnificent gate from a distance, which is the main entrance of the ecological park.
This gate is grand and majestic. The base is made of huge rocks and the roof is made of thick logs. The shape is quite primitive and tribal.
Seeing the gate of the ecological park, everyone's pace accelerated significantly.
Jiang Yue stood in front of a guide map at the door and took a closer look at the structure of the entire ecological park.
The entire ecological park mainly includes four areas.
Hotel B&B area, Didi Paradise area, Ecological Botanical Garden, and Fairy Valley Scenic Area.
Entering along the gate, there is a main road. There are tall trees on both sides of the main road, which is like entering a primitive fairyland.
A few hundred meters ahead along the main road, there is a large parking lot on the left. The parking lot is large enough to accommodate thousands of cars.
However, the parking lot was not full at this time, and there were only more than a hundred cars by visual inspection.
Continue walking towards the main road, and there will be an arch bridge with a moderate arc on the right.
The sign above shows that the arch bridge leads to the B&B area.
Walking to the highest point of the arch bridge, you can see a sparse and bright B&B building.
"I heard that this place used to be a village, and these B&Bs were renovated and renovated from villagers' houses," Han Jingjing said.
B&Bs are separated from each other. Coupled with various scenery and partition designs, the privacy between houses has been significantly enhanced after renovation.
The best thing is that there is a small stream running through the B&B area, which adds to the charm of the B&B area.
Everyone roughly counted and found that there were about thirty B&B buildings, basically two-story buildings.
At the end of the B&B, there is a hotel building with a very grand name, Yunqiong Hotel.
Everyone walked around the B&B area and arrived at the entrance of Yunqiong Hotel.
It can be seen that these B&Bs and hotels were obviously affected by the earthquake. Both the trees and green plants along the road and the buildings themselves were slightly damaged.
Of course, the degree of damage is not that serious compared to Star City.
Although they have arrived at their destination, and visually they should be among the first ones to arrive.
But among the seven people in the group, no one felt relaxed.
On the contrary, each of them was filled with doubts and even fear.
Where are people?
Why is there no one in this huge ecological park?
There are obviously so many cars parked in the parking lot.
It makes no sense that there are more than a hundred cars parked but no one is there, right?
The day of the first change came so suddenly, and it was the weekend. There must be a lot of tourists in this ecological park. Even if the tourists are sparse, there are always staff, right?
But since they entered the gate, not to mention a human figure, not even a sound was heard.
This made them couldn't help but think of the Maxi Village they passed by. It was almost the same and weird.
The huge ecological park seemed to be deserted.
"What the hell, where did this person go? Is he breathing?" Zhang Jiye couldn't hold it in for the first time and couldn't help but yell into the air.
Echoes.
After a while, the hotel and B&B area was still empty, except for the gentle evening breeze that rustled the leaves.
"Ma Dan, what kind of hell is this place? Are the officials too deceptive? They sent us to this hell place without explaining anything about the situation."
Zhang Jiye took out the sealed task note from his pocket while complaining.
"Brother Ye, it's only a quarter past six. It's not even eight o'clock yet!" Xie Feng reminded.
Zhang Jiye shouted: "Eight o'clock? I'm really doubtful. Can we survive until then?"
In this weird atmosphere, such depressing words are especially easy to make one's scalp numb.
Xu Chunru sighed: "Jiye, don't be so clumsy."
Zhang Jiye smiled strangely and said, "What? Sister Ru is also afraid? Don't you have bodyguards?"
"Save your head, will you die if you don't say a few weird words?"
"Haha, if we die, we will definitely die together. Sister Ru, don't blame me for not reminding you that some people have one foot in several boats. At critical moments, you may not be reliable as a bodyguard."
Han Jingjing scolded: "Zhang Jiye, why are you more arrogant than women? Why don't you pick a time to find trouble?"
"I'm not as knowledgeable as a woman who gets carried away." Zhang Jiye turned his head and said contemptuously.
"It sounds like someone wants to talk to you." Han Jingjing curled her lips disdainfully.
As soon as Han Jingjing finished speaking, Zhang Jiye suddenly screamed strangely.
"There's someone there!"
Zhang Jiye's face turned pale and he pointed at an ancient tree in the distance in the direction where he turned his head, his voice trembling slightly.
"Behind the tree!"
"Stay still and stay safe."
Jiang Yue warned, his body shaped like an arrow, and shot towards the ancient tree where the two of them were hugging each other.
There was nothing behind the tree, not even a single person.
Jiang Yue looked around, there were some bushes around, and it didn't look like anyone was hiding.
Seeing that Jiang Yue found nothing, Du Yifeng and others quickly walked towards Jiang Yue.
"Brother Ye, are you not dazzled?" Du Yifeng looked around and asked curiously.
