Wasteland Survivalist: A Scientific Guide to Post-Apocalyptic Survival

Gu Lang and He Ping worked together to reorganize the messy supplies.

The crew cabin where Zhao Xun had previously stayed now has an empty bed.

After settling the team members in, Gu Lang returned to the cockpit.

I opened the drawer, took out my notebook, and wrote down today's navigation log.

The speedboat has arrived at Dongxing County in Fangcheng Port City, which is also the southern end of the coastline of the Dragon Kingdom.

The northern starting point, Yalujiangkou in Dandong City, is also the starting point of Gulang's escape route by sea.

This sea voyage took him a full three months.

Except for a short distance in the Bohai Bay, I have almost covered the entire 18,000-kilometer coastline of the Dragon Kingdom.

And if we include the more than 2,000 kilometers of land travel from Mohe City to Zhuanghe City.

He has been traveling south for more than five months since the solar storm began.

Such a long journey filled him with mixed emotions, as if it were a dream.

After studying the map of the Ten Thousand Mountains for a while, Gu Lang returned to the crew cabin.

The next day at daybreak, Gu Lang launched a drone to scout out Dongxing County.

This border town is small in area and has few high-rise buildings; it is mainly composed of self-built houses and residential buildings with four to six floors.

Numerous cold chain storage facilities are also distributed along the river and coastal areas.

The streets were deserted and littered with trash.

The bustling market on the other side of the river was in a similar state.

The transmitted images show that the navigation conditions on the Beilun River are very poor.

It is currently low tide, and large areas of mudflats are exposed in the estuary area.

The channel is only about 10 meters wide, with many shoals and shallow water, so it seems that only small boats under 30 tons can pass through.

So Gu Lang gave up his attempt to drive the speedboat up the north bank of the Yellow River.

Fortunately, the straight-line distance from here to Shiwan Mountain is only a few dozen kilometers.

If you are driving a Lynx assault vehicle, drive along the road into the mountains.

It's only about 100 kilometers to the forest park in the core area of ​​Shiwanshan.

However, before setting off, he still planned to scout out the route first before deciding on the final plan.

After replacing the drone's battery, the drone continued to expand its search area eastward.

The hills extend directly into the sea, forming a series of small bays and rocky shores.

Soon, Gu Lang discovered a strange building.

In a secluded bay, a small section of reinforced concrete extends outward from the mountainside.

It looks like a tunnel through a mountain, but for some reason it leads directly to the sea.

Gu Lang lowered the drone to a height of fifty meters above the sea surface, getting close to the building.

Looking into the tunnel from the entrance, it is completely dark inside.

Huge metal bolts and hinges remain on the concrete walls on both sides of the entrance.

The hinges are ridiculously large, suggesting that two heavy-duty explosion-proof doors may have once been installed here.

The door bolts and hinges are heavily corroded, suggesting they weren't recently removed and may have been abandoned for decades.

"We've actually found a good spot." Gu Lang retrieved the drone and showed the footage to He Ping.

After studying the tunnel's structure, the two concluded that it was a coastal cave that had been abandoned for many years.

Judging from the concrete pouring process of this underground cavern, it should be a product of coastal defense engineering construction in the 1960s and 1970s.

Gu Lang had an idea in mind. He started the propulsion and drove the speedboat slowly toward the harbor where the cave was located.

The entrance to the harbor is narrow, with rock walls covered in shrubs on both sides, making it almost impossible to spot the waterway hidden there from the sea.

After the speedboat passed through the entrance, the view suddenly opened up.

The harbor is an oval-shaped natural body of water, about 500 meters in diameter.

Surrounded by hills, the harbor is not visible from any direction on the sea.

The entrance to the cave is located at the deepest part of the harbor, and from the water's surface, it looks like a giant mouth of an abyss.

The tunnel's cross-sectional width is estimated to be over twenty meters, and its height is over ten meters.

The tunnel is flanked by thick concrete walls, and at the bottom is a man-made channel that allows seawater to flow naturally between the tunnel and the outer harbor.

Gu Lang reduced the speedboat's speed to three knots, turned on the navigation lights, and slowly steered it into the cave.

The beam of the searchlight swept across the concrete wall, illuminating the "15-meter depth" marker painted in red on the wall and the long-faded mooring signs.

The cave is very deep; even a searchlight aimed at the end cannot reach the bottom.

There is a concrete pier on each side of the channel. The piers are about three meters wide, which is enough for small vehicles and forklifts to pass through.

The surface of the pier is covered with rust, but the concrete itself has not peeled off.

Gu Lang chose a spot near the entrance to moor the boat, and He Ping jumped onto the pier and tied the rope to the mooring post.

The temperature inside was several degrees different from the outside, and a cool, damp air rose from the depths of the cave.

"I know what this place is now, it must be a submarine cave."

This area utilizes natural rock formations as a protective layer, allowing submarines to dock, undergo maintenance, and resupply in a completely concealed manner.

It can evade the threat of enemy satellite reconnaissance and air strikes.

Look closely at the passageways on both sides; further in, you might see that additional facilities were once built.

Gu Lang stood at the bow of the ship, looking up at the concrete dome above him.

"I'll go inside and take a look." He Ping took out a flashlight and slowly walked into the depths of the cave.

After waiting for about ten minutes, he finally returned to the speedboat.

"I checked, there's no one inside."

Further in through the passageway, there are also maintenance workshops, ammunition depots, fuel depots, and living quarters for personnel.

However, the equipment had long been dismantled, and the passage to the land had been blocked.

I also saw a lot of graffiti on the wall, the most recent message being from last year.

It said something like, "If you have money, you won't go to Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou; if you're down on your luck, you'll definitely go to Fangchenggang."

"Haha, interesting. This slogan sounds quite fitting now."

When you went in, I also checked the area around the dock.

There are four berths in total, and the two outermost ones show signs of having been moored recently.

There are still fresh footprints on the dock, presumably indicating that people once came here to take refuge.

However, this place was completely unsuitable for long-term survival, so they left not long afterward.

We can also use this as a temporary base to conceal speedboats.

"But it's a dead end inside. The ship is stopped here. How are we going to get out?" He Ping asked.

"Good question, let me give you a job."

Gu Lang entered the hangar and untied the ropes securing the Lynx assault vehicle.

They quickly began disassembling the equipment, separating the heavy machine gun from the ammunition box.

Then he directed He Ping to transfer all the supplies and detachable items from the vehicle to the hangar floor.

To reduce the weight of the vehicle, he even emptied the fuel tank.

Leave only a little bit of oil at the bottom, just enough for the engine to run for a short while.

After retracting the hose of the hand-cranked oil pump, Gu Lang tied a cable to the tow hook at the rear of the assault vehicle, made a double knot, and tightened it.