From time to time, birds fly deep in the grass on the forest or river beach. The slightly rotten natural atmosphere of soil mixed with the damp breeze blows. The dense forests reveal mottled autumn colors everywhere, and the soil on the river beach at their feet is soft and elastic. This is an extremely fertile land.

Within about ten minutes after breaking up with the Liaodong Han, Su Zining and Yan Xiaosong remained silent except for occasionally reminding each other to pay attention to their feet.

"Su Zining, what should you guess?" He temporarily rested among a rock, Yan Xiaosong opened the kettle while pointing to the south.

"Haha, how do you know?" Su Zining threw the stone in his hand towards the river without a direct answer.

"The river channel is getting wider and wider, and there are more and more wetlands in tidal flats, and even non-inland birds appear. This is a typical estuary terrain of the estuary of the sea." Yan Xiaosong handed over the kettle and showed a mysterious smile, "Why, are you still thinking about that cross? A Westerner who has been dead for hundreds of years, and the wooden cross still exists."

"You are thinking about whether it's good or not." Su Zining smiled ugly. "Since yesterday, you seem to be constantly hinting at me, and in fact I should ask you more questions. For example, we all came out to search voluntarily, but in fact we just wanted to verify it."

"I guess those people in the temporary self-rescue leadership group should have known the result yesterday. Although there is no satellite signal and the global positioning system cannot be used, the captains are on the list of leaders of the self-rescue team. All kinds of instruments and equipment on the ship will not be useless." Yan Xiaosong's face gradually became serious. "These hundreds of people, including half of the port and dock, were sent to this place for no reason, and everyone's minds will not be normal. At least they have not found the existence of a madman yet, which means that everyone has their own guesses."

"It's only one day, maybe in a few days, I'll be the first to go crazy?" Su Zining sorted out her backpack, took out the signal gun from it, and then stood up, "Let's go ahead, we'll try to walk to the mouth of the river."

More than half an hour passed. After passing by, after passing by a large wetland, the two finally stood at the end of the forest and river beach in a sympathetic manner.

In front of you is a line of water and sky, with the estuary several kilometers wide, and about one kilometer away, there is also a small island.

There is obviously more than one river coming from the estuary of the river entering the sea. It is surrounded by a relatively small river from the northeast along the southern top of the land under your feet. On the other side of the river is a larger area of ​​primeval forest, but I don’t know if that land is also an island.

"Okay, we are all satisfied." Yan Xiaosong made a mark on the drawing board and then breathed a long sigh. "The higher-dimensional area of ​​the northern hemisphere is southward, and the estuary is uninhabited, if it is not counted as that cross."

"If possible, I would like to bypass this southern end and continue to go over and take a look." Su Zining also smiled tacitly, but raised her hand and raised her watch, indicating that the time was almost up. "Go back, just our team, don't think about completing it in one day."

As they were talking, suddenly a crisp gunshot came from the forest in the north behind them. The two of them paused, and they all showed surprise expressions.

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Although the separation has been more than an hour, the actual distance will not exceed too far because we walk along the way.

After running along the coast along the original road in the direction of gunfire, less than ten minutes later, the young armed police soldier and the big man from Liaodong stood by the river in a mess.

The riot police were very nervous when they held the Type 81 rifle. It was obvious that the gunshot was made by him, while Dong Jiunan on the other side was a little depressed with the fire axe.

"I just met a wild beast in the woods, and it seemed like a wild boar." The Liaodong man shrugged his shoulders, looking at the riot policeman who was shooting with a look of regret.

"It is a miracle that you can escape unscrupulously." Su Zining smiled and took off her backpack, looking deep in the forest. "You should know that wild boars usually do not stay alone, and the whole family follows them."

"It's not a wild boar, it's a wild wolf! I've been following me for a long time." The nervous riot policeman suddenly shouted loudly, "When I was a child, there were similar things in the woods in my hometown, and I knew them!"

The accent of the riot policeman Cheng Peng also came from Northeast China, and it seemed that he was very scared this time.

Wild wolf? That's even worse! These guys are all hunting in groups! Su Zining and Yan Xiaosong's faces changed at the same time.

"Go back to the boat!"

Several people shouted almost at the same time, and then Su Zining raised his hand and fired a signal flare in the signal gun. The four of them ran along the river bank to the north as fast as possible.

Zhou Kemin and the boat doctor who saw the signal flare soon drove a motorboat halfway to meet the four people. Shortly after the motorboat left the river bank, under Su Zining's turn, several low animals appeared in the grass on the edge of the forest.

Seeing these smart and cruel animals actually followed them all the time. Su Zining and others were shuddered.

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At about 13:00 pm, the search and rescue team, who had found nothing, finally returned to the starting point, and saw countless temporary shacks made of broken fiberglass tiles appearing on the edge of the forest.

After the disaster recovered for a night of physical strength, the people began to curse and curse again. Strong men even physically tugged with others to prove that a box was their luggage before the disaster.

Many women shivered in the overturned dock container, timidly and anxiously fiddling with the phone, but they did not receive any feedback.

Dozens of uniforms have been clearly organized to maintain safety throughout the river beaches and between the wharf ruins, calming down small frictions that occur from time to time.

After Su Zining ate something briefly, he returned the discovery along the way of himself and Yan Xiaosong to the highest commander of the temporary self-rescue leadership team, the customs anti-smuggling captain Zheng Quan. But the latter did not seem to show much surprise, but only attached great importance to the appearance of wild wolves more than ten kilometers south.

"Wait, Xiao Su. Lao Qi told me about your situation before. Although you are young, you have rich experience in grassroots work, calm and knowledgeable, so we decided to let you join the temporary self-rescue leadership group." The customs anti-smuggling officer over 40 showed a frank smile at Su Zining.

Thinking of Qi Jianjun's expression that trusted him before leaving, Su Zining roughly understood the meaning.

"Captain Zheng, I want to know our current coordinates. I think you don't have to hide it anymore, right? I believe that the few captains who have been running in the sea for many years in the leadership group for self-rescue have understood astronomical and latitude measurements."

Instead of directly agreeing to Zheng Quan's invitation, Su Zining finally threw out the problem of thinking about all night and half a day.

"Although I have rarely walked, it is obvious that this is not China." After Su Zining said that, she took out another piece of paper from her pocket, which were strange letters on the cross copied by Yan Xiaosong.

"I think that I should find someone among the survivors who can understand these words. I am a major in English, but I can't understand this." Su Zining solemnly spread the paper on a large packaging box that was temporarily used as a table.

"Go on the boat and talk." Looking at the young man's undeniable gaze, Zheng Quan just nodded slowly.

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Yuan Xinyi is the translator of a private high-paying energy company in the south. On the day of the disaster, he was accompanying the engineers of the company and the chief engineer from the sasol Energy Company in South Africa to inspect a set of imported equipment at the port terminal.

First, he encountered a natural disaster that made people fear until now, and then he arrived at such a strange world that looked no different from the original forest. Then, the black South African engineer carried out from the ruins was beyond recognition. Yuan Xinyi, who was only 24 years old, almost fell into a state of dullness.

The sound of trumpets from the entire camp, seeking foreign language translation, finally woke Yuan Xinyi up at lunch. Under the guidance of a customs anti-smuggling team member, he boarded the customs anti-smuggling ship that had successfully escaped from the stranding state.

There were still many men standing in the command cabin, but these people all looked embarrassed. It seemed that there was a problem that bothering everyone.

"Hello, I am the leader of the temporary self-rescue leadership group and the captain of the customs anti-smuggling captain Zheng Quan. This is Su Zining, a member of the team. In the morning, we found something in the south, and wanted to let comrades who understand foreign languages ​​see what it means."

As he said that, Zheng Quan put a piece of paper on the table.

"Well, it's Dutch, but the grammar is still a little different from now on." Yuan Xinyi, who masters many European languages, saw a series of words on the paper at a glance, "meaning: God has forgiven Mr. Boradu Vansini for all the sins of Mr. Boradu Vansini, and his integrity and piety have allowed him to stay by the Lord. May he rest in this rich new world, and his widow and his two children as always in Amsterdam."

After reading, Yuan Xinyi looked at the people around her for no reason, and saw that everyone showed a discomfort.

"Well, it's a simple epitaph. Or a Dutch from Amsterdam. Are we in the Netherlands?" a man who came to help out on the side muttered.

"Thank you everyone, I'll find everyone if you have something to do!" Zheng Quan quickly winked, and the customs anti-smuggling team members politely sent these people away.

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Traveling through time?!

After leaving the customs ship, Su Zining couldn't calm down like a train passing by. Zheng Quan finally gave him an answer that he had predicted for a long time, and the content was more than he thought.

Although modern satellite communication systems have been scrapped, the captain of a bulk cargo ship still came up with a result last night with simple tools. The survivors are now on another continent, and from the latitude and longitude, it is the east coast of North America.

But this news is only known within the self-rescue leadership group, and it is strictly guaranteed not to be leaked for the time being. Thinking of the hundreds of old and young people who survived the disaster, those haggard, dull or anxious faces, Su Zining knew that this decision was at least correct at the moment.

Su Zining and Yan Xiaosong sat by the bonfire, both silent.

"The location is confirmed. This is the estuary of the Hudson River into the sea. In other words, the place we are sitting now is the downtown of Manhattan where every inch of land is valuable?" Yan Xiaosong's always optimistic face rarely becomes like a bitter melon. "If they insist on astronomical starlight measurement data, then I suspect that I have not only traveled through geographic times, but also traveled through time."

"Didn't you say that I've been thinking about the time on that cross this morning? A cemetery that looks like it's up to ten years." Contrary to Yan Xiaosong's expression, Su Zining actually had an abnormal smile on his face.

"Well, you and I had this prediction in our hearts at that time. But you didn't say it, of course, I didn't say it, why?" Yan Xiaosong laughed, "Okay, let's assume that we were hit by a typhoon-like wormhole, and then the powerful energy swept half of the dock, and finally sent us to the east coast of North America in the early 17th century."

"Well, Zheng Quan and the others probably have to accept this result." Su Zining nodded.

"What then?" Yan Xiaosong hung his head weakly.

"About a few years later, a Dutch merchant would buy the entire Manhattan Island from the Indians with $24 worth of junk. This time, to be precise, one day in 1624." Su Zining took out the cigarette box, divided the last two pieces, then lit them and took a deep breath. "And then, hundreds of years have passed, land prices soared, and the return on investment is unparalleled."

"Yes, there are Indians here!"

At this point, the two of them jumped up almost at the same time, and the survivors chatting in front of a bonfire not far away were shocked.
Chapter completed!