Typhoons are a great disaster for residents of any place, especially for island nations. Every time a typhoon appears, refugees need to be evacuated. Otherwise, when the typhoon truly arrives, people will die. Moreover, with the tsunamis that accompany typhoons, destroying houses is a minor matter. If a certain place takes the opportunity to secretly discharge nuclear wastewater, it will be a major issue. At that time, discharging nuclear wastewater will become a matter of course, as if the tsunami caused the leakage of nuclear wastewater, which then flowed into the sea.
However, on the beach after the tsunami, it was filled with good things. If nothing else, in the areas affected by the typhoon, there were countless fish and crabs. Typhoons could even sweep up whales. For the rich, typhoons were disasters, but for those who had nothing, the beach was full of opportunities.
A group of barefoot children, with fish baskets hanging from their waists, walked towards the beach, laughing and talking. As soon as they saw fresh fish on the beach, they immediately picked them up and put them in their baskets. This was their dinner for today. Poor families couldn't afford good food and ate whatever they found.
However, at this moment, a group of children in the distance spotted a dark shadow on the beach and rushed towards it. For them, this was a great find. If it were a sea lion on the beach, it would be enough to eat for a month.
But what these children saw was not a sea lion. As they got closer, they realized that the dark shadow on the beach was a dilapidated wooden boat. It was likely that this wooden boat had been blown ashore by the typhoon. This made the children even happier. The boat looked like it had been damaged not long ago, and there might be good things on it.
So, a group of children scrambled forward. They found the cabin and looked inside. There was a lot of water in the cabin, and there were two corpses. These two corpses were very tragic, emaciated, and skin and bones, likely starved to death. However, behind them, there was a lot of rice. This rice had swollen after being soaked in seawater, and even the bags had burst.
In the apocalypse, even children were accustomed to seeing corpses. They were not afraid when they saw the corpses, but were happy to have found so much rice. Although this rice was soaked in seawater, it was still edible. Thus, two brave children first crawled into the cabin.
One child observed the cabin and found that there were quite a few good things on the boat, including a stove, firewood, and even quilts. The other child was clearly impatient and reached out to grab the rice.
"Snap," at this moment, a withered hand grabbed the little boy's wrist. The corpse, which had been dead, slowly opened its eyes. Looking at the other side, the other corpse also opened its eyes. The corpses had awakened.
"Wow..." The two little boys had never seen such a scene before. Seeing such a terrifying sight, what other answer could there be? It must be a zombie! These resurrected corpses would first eat people, and whoever they caught, they would eat!
The little boy who was not caught was quick. Screaming, he crawled out of a hole in the cabin. The children outside who were preparing to share the spoils scattered like birds and beasts after hearing the news of the zombie. The psychological trauma would not disappear for several years.
However, the little boy who was caught could not escape. Although the hand that grabbed his wrist was slender and long, like a chopstick, and looked like it could break at any moment, this hand had surprisingly great strength. The little boy struggled but could not break free. In the end, he could only kneel on the ground, repeatedly saying, "Sumimasen."
Seeing the boy's performance, Yue Hengyi couldn't help but sigh and said in a hoarse voice, "Feng Ge, it seems we have arrived in Japan!"
Shen Feng also recognized the nationality from the child's accent. After all, people from that country would immediately apologize when they made a mistake, without any delay. But if they made a mistake, they would admit it, and then continue to make mistakes. Since they would apologize, what could you do to them!
"Phew, five days have passed, and we've finally reached the shore. Fortunately, we didn't die!" Shen Feng's voice was also hoarse. His body's fat and glycogen had been almost completely depleted, and both of them were quite weak.
Shen Feng looked at the child Yue Hengyi had grabbed and asked directly, "Your, what do you do!"
The child couldn't understand the Chinese Shen Feng was speaking and could only keep saying "Sumimasen," kneeling on the ground in a standard tiger-crouching pose.
Shen Feng shook his head helplessly and said, "It seems we need to find a translator again. Let this kid lead the way, and let's find a place with people!"
Yue Hengyi also nodded, grabbed the child's hair, and said seriously, "Don't kowtow. Take us to find people, understand?"
The child couldn't understand these words, but after carefully observing the current situation, he made a guess. These two were likely not corpses, but humans. They were just starved thin, so they were all skin and bones, and these two were foreigners.
The child babbled a string of words, which Shen Feng couldn't understand much of. However, the child kept gesturing outwards, roughly meaning to leave here.
Shen Feng nodded and said to Yue Hengyi, "Pack up, get ready to go. Bring the ability potions, meteorites, and desert rose seeds!"
Yue Hengyi pointed to his waist and said, "Your servant cannot do it. I was thrown out of the cabin earlier, and several of my bones are broken. I am in pain all over now. How can I pack things?"
Yue Hengyi and Shen Feng were both more miserable than each other. After taking the desert rose seeds, their strength and speed indeed surged, and their usable abilities broke through their limits, but the price was also enormous. The energy storage substances in their bodies were almost completely consumed. They had survived the past few days by eating raw rice and drinking cold water. Their situation was truly pathetic.
Shen Feng was helpless. Yue Hengyi's ribs were broken. It seemed that he had to carry the items himself. First, Shen Feng put all the ability potions on his body, then tied the cloth bag containing the desert rose fruits around his waist, and finally carried the more than forty pounds of meteorite out of the cabin.
Yue Hengyi released the little boy and casually untied the rope around his waist. If the rope hadn't been tied to him, Yue Hengyi would have died in the sea long ago.
The little boy was released from his wrist and intended to escape, but with Shen Feng watching outside the cabin, he could only slowly walk with the two of them, preparing to take them home.
The little boy was full of curiosity. He didn't understand why these two didn't take the rice when they left the cabin, but instead took heavy stones. Was it a lack of intelligence? After all, these two guarded a lot of rice but were starved to skin and bones in the end. If this wasn't a lack of intelligence, what else could it be?
In Shen Feng's eyes, the little boy leading the way was ragged and had no shoes to wear. His clothes had so many patches that one could imagine the boy's living conditions were not good.
In the distance on the beach, a group of children who had already run far away were watching. They saw two emaciated figures walking out of the boat, carrying large stones, and immediately made a guess: "It must be two monsters who are going to eat people and are preparing to attack Xiong Yi with stones."
Before leaving, Shen Feng glanced at the sailboat. The sailboat was now tattered. Except for the core cabin, which was not damaged, other parts had varying degrees of damage, especially the mast and keel, which were already broken. This ship could not be repaired.
"It seems we need to find other means of transportation!" Shen Feng sighed.
Yue Hengyi said, "The most important thing now is not to find transportation, but to find a place to recuperate. We are severely weakened. In this situation, can we still travel? If we continue to travel, we will die on the road!"
After experiencing this danger, Yue Hengyi knew that haste makes waste. If they continued to act recklessly, they would easily encounter danger. Therefore, Yue Hengyi, uncharacteristically calm, prepared to find a place to recuperate for a while.
After walking for a while, Shen Feng also felt tired. As a dignified sixth-order ability user, he now had trouble walking. It could only be said that exhausting the body's energy was too damaging. He could not recover in a short period, and even using abilities was somewhat difficult.
"Little Yue, we can't use our real names now, otherwise, we will still be hunted. Let's change our names and avoid the limelight for now. We'll talk about it after we recover!" Shen Feng said to Yue Hengyi.
Now, the child leading the way couldn't understand Chinese, so Shen Feng and Yue Hengyi could communicate with confidence.
Yue Hengyi thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'll reverse my name, and it will be Yi Hengyue. My parents gave me this name, and not a single character can be missing!"
Shen Feng thought that his name, even if reversed, might still be recognized. So, he decided to keep his surname and change his given name. "In that case, I'll be Shen Fuyao, soaring ninety thousand li!" Shen Feng also murmured.
The child finally led the two gaunt figures up the mountain and arrived at a shrine on a nearby mountain. A group of children had gathered there, led by an old man. The old man had lost many of his teeth, indicating he was very old. The children around were nervously watching these two newcomers.
Shen Feng threw the meteorite on the ground, sat on it, and said to the old man, "Hello, can you understand Chinese?"
"Hello." The old man quickly replied. He couldn't understand the rest of the words, only "Hello." He also understood the general identity of the two.
Shen Feng exchanged a look with Yue Hengyi and said, "Never mind, let's stay here for now. I have gold with me, they should understand."
After speaking, Shen Feng took out a gold button from his body and handed it to the old man. The old man took the gold button and was immediately overjoyed. He didn't expect to unexpectedly obtain gold. With gold, he could buy many things.
The old man then chattered a lot to Shen Feng and Yue Hengyi, but Shen Feng and Yue Hengyi didn't understand anything. Shen Feng didn't need to understand. He walked to the shrine, opened the door, threw the statue outside, and then lay down on the wooden floor, feeling comfortable all over. It seemed that the most comfortable posture for humans was to lie flat.
Everyone who saw this scene was a little angry. This was the deity they worshipped, how could they be treated like this?
A brave child cursed at Shen Feng, who was lying in the shrine, with great emotion.
Yue Hengyi also needed to rest at this time, but hearing these children making noise, he couldn't help but get angry. He said in a hoarse voice, "All of you shut up! We, as materialist warriors, are never afraid of so-called deities. If you keep making noise, I'll show you what's what!"
After speaking, Yue Hengyi stepped on the head of the statue. The stone statue immediately cracked, its head detached, and rolled into the mud.
At this point, neither the old man nor the children dared to make a sound. They finally realized that the two people who came to the shrine were not ordinary people. If they were ordinary people, they wouldn't be able to casually step on the head of the statue.
The old man then began to scold the children, asking them to gather food, while he laboriously moved the statue to the shade of a nearby tree and respectfully placed the head of the statue on it. He muttered incomprehensible words, but it was likely to appease the deity and prevent it from getting angry, and to invite the deity back into the shrine after the two left.
Yue Hengyi also walked into the shrine, lay down next to Shen Feng, and let out a long sigh, muttering, "God bless me with a good dream!"