Kingdom of Corrosion

During the early morning breakfast, the flood had already entered the city district. Days of rain overwhelmed the city’s drainage capacity, and the sudden flood surge caused the already waterlogged urban water levels to skyrocket. The broadcast reported the situation, estimating that within 30 hours, most of Day After Tomorrow City would be submerged with an average depth of reaching five meters. All survivors were advised to stay away from low-lying buildings and avoid going out as much as possible.

The Shadow Refuge began to lower the first set of rubber rafts. They had constructed a support and pulley outside the window, and the electric descent system was slowly letting down the two rafts in pairs. As the rafts touched the water, Snow Egg, wearing it, shouted a stop through the walkie-talkie, untying the ropes and reaching the water line securely.

The previously calm murky river water churned for a moment, and the Dao Su raft collided with the wall, causing the two rubber rafts to spin. Snow Egg turned his head to see both rafts being sucked into the underground parking lot’s drainage system, so he yelled, "Grab onto the walls."

Su Shi held a drill gun and made a hole in the wall, while Little Knife used her fingers and shoulders to rub against the wall to slow down the drifting speed of the boat. Su Shi took out an expansion screw from his mouth, drove it into the wall, and then hung a net rope on it. The two rubber rafts stopped by sticking to the wall.

But things were not over yet. While Su Shi and Snow Egg were installing the engine propellers, Little Knife warned that 20 meters away a cabinet was being sucked toward the direction of the underground parking lot. Although the suction was not strong, the cabinet was large and heavy, and a collision would certainly not be good. Little Knife and Shana each took out a homemade hook gun to brace against the cabinet, pushing it to one side.

Just as this crisis was resolved, two zombies fell from the 6th floor, landing in the water in front of the rubber rafts. The zombies floated on the water like rotten wood. They could not swim and couldn’t be drowned, grimacing towards the two boats and reaching out to the humans with their claws in mid-air. When the hook guns pierced their bodies, they grabbed the guns and wrestled with the humans for them.

In the midst of this struggle, the zombies got closer to the raft, and Snow Egg took a homemade paddle and knelt on the edge of the raft, striking the zombies’ heads. The zombies grabbed the paddle and gnawed on it, instantly tearing off a piece of the inferior paddle. Shana stabbed a hook gun into a zombie’s shin, pushing it outward, and with a push from Snow Egg, the zombie floated past half a meter from their raft. The two of them immediately went to assist Dao Su raft.

After the ordeal, the homemade raft was lowered into the water. Snow Egg used a hook gun to pull the homemade raft, with Xiao Wen aboard coordinating the knot tying. The homemade raft floated to the back of the team’s rubber raft.

Once things below were stable, Stone and Xiao Wu’s Stone Wu raft, as well as Lin Wu and Lin Meng’s Double Forest raft, began to be lowered. Lin Wu was not in the boat; he stayed to control the electric motor. When he heard Stone say "good" through the walkie-talkie, Lin Wu decisively stopped letting out the rope and slid down the rope from the 51st floor to Double Forest raft.