Chapter 903 - 393 Rowing Against the Current (Part 1)_2
Two hours into the boat journey, 10 kilometers had passed, and they were about to leave Central City, still 35 kilometers away from their destination, the Southwest Train Station Distribution Area of West City.
The boat stopped for drone reconnaissance. The drone operator, Shana, picked up the walkie-talkie: "Attention, everyone, we’ve got big trouble." The water’s surface visibly displayed irregular turbulence, resulting in vortices everywhere. Although the vortices were small, their formation indicated that there were two or more opposing currents interfering with each other.
This was the overpass section of the city’s elevated roads, with half of the interchange above water and the other half submerged. The estimated maximum depth here reached seven meters. The fleet needed to pass through a two-kilometer open area to enter the district of West City. The open area lacked the protection and buffering of buildings and had become a convergence zone for water flows, with an unknown number of currents meeting here.
In Day After Tomorrow City, the southwest is high and the northeast is low, the closer it gets to the southwest direction, the shallower and faster the water. This overpass was like a low-lying area, receiving not only the floods from the southwest but also the undercurrents rebounding from the seabed. As seen from the scattered debris, their drift directions were irregular, with two planks drifting in opposite directions within ten meters of each other. For this reason, one-meter-high waves would form due to the collision of water currents.
Lin Wu picked up the walkie-talkie: "Let’s go."
Without other options, Shana pointed the hook gun towards a building two kilometers away: "Start the engine, move out."
As the two groups of boats entered the area, it was clear that the vessels were affected by the currents. Shana shouted, "Full power, rush through!"
Shana, after all, wasn’t Maya; her operational skills were weaker, and this command led to a severe consequence. The two groups of boats had different loads, which wasn’t a big issue, but when combined with the currents and other factors, it caused the 2 groups of rubber boats to drag the makeshift boat to a dead stop, immediately veering to the right. The makeshift boat itself had no power and was being dragged forward while drifting to the right.