"Dress this up."

Karachev put a thin orange vest crumpled and flattened over his body and handed another one to Qi Lin.

This thing is not a real vest, but an inflatable life jacket, as long as you pull the upper tab, puncture an air tank built into the life jacket, the high-pressure carbon dioxide inside will be released immediately, filling all the air bags on the entire life jacket.

Qi Lin had just put on his life jacket, and before he could pull the ring, suddenly a thinner tentacle stretched out from the bottom of the water and slammed into the sea near the destroyer!

With the whipping of the tentacles, a huge wave directly lifted all the boats within a radius of 100 meters around him, Qi Lin only felt that the sky was spinning, and the whole person was already in the cold seawater, and a large amount of salty liquid was desperately pouring into his mouth and nostrils.

"Grass!"

Scolding in his heart, Qi Lin quickly closed his mouth, held his breath, and slid his hands around for a while, but he grabbed a cold object in his hand.

"Obtain the item [Improved Makarov Pistol], a green quality item, this is an improved version of the Makarov PM pistol, codenamed PMM, one of the standard pistols of the Russian army in the old era, the magazine capacity has been increased from 8 rounds to 12 rounds, and the power has also increased a lot."

The nine-millimeter Makarov PMM pistol was Karachev's pistol, but Qi Lin struggled to open his eyes and searched around the water, but there was no trace of Karachev.

It's just that in this situation, Qi Lin can't care about the safety of others, so he stuck the pistol on his belt, and Qi Lin used his hands and feet together, constantly paddling in the water.

After swimming out for about two or three hundred meters, Qi Lin pulled the ring on the life jacket, and the compressed gas gradually filled the entire life jacket, and the buoyancy of the sea water sent Qi Lin to the surface.

Looking back, I saw that a large hole had been cracked in the middle of the destroyer, and the entire warship was full of exploding fires, and the nearby sea was full of overturned boats and heads protruding from the water.

The soldiers of the Cheng Consortium were still searching for traces of Cheng Yanqiu in the water, but at this time, a powerful suction force suddenly came from the bottom of the sea below the destroyer!

A rapidly expanding whirlpool appeared on the surface of the sea in an instant, and many soldiers, lifeboats, and the wreckage scattered by the explosion of the destroyer that got close to it were all sucked into the whirlpool!

"Damn, is this a squid or a whale?"

Qi Lin, who was just about to turn around and save people, saw this vortex, and immediately turned around and swam out with all his might—the ending of being sucked into the vortex, Qi Lin could think of it with his heels.

Qi Lin's luck was good, he was at a relatively far distance at the beginning, and the radius of those vortices no longer expanded after extending to about a hundred meters, and at this time, Qi Lin was already four or five hundred meters away from the wreckage of the destroyer.

When he encountered this kind of monster, Qi Lin was already very reluctant to escape by himself, as for the others...... Alas, ask for more blessings.

Five hundred meters was not an absolutely safe distance, Qi Lin floated in the sea for a while, and after quickly recovering his strength, he continued to swim in the northwest direction.

Eighteen km ...... Originally, it was already far away to row, but now, there was no dinghy, and Qi Lin could only swim to the mainland with his body, which was almost twice as long as the marathon swimming competition in the old era.

However, the only good news is that the radiation concentration in the seawater is not low, and for Qi Lin, the lost physical strength can be replenished at any time.

After swimming for about half an hour, the outline of the continent finally appeared faintly in Qi Lin's field of vision.

Qi Lin didn't know where the coast was on the map, he could only be sure that it was part of the Russian Far East.

……

……

Three hours later, Qi Lin finally dragged his wet body to the shore, and there was no one on the shore, except for some garbage that had been washed up on the shore, shallow buried in the dirty sand.

"Cooper, where is this?"

"Cooper?"

"Hey, Cooper, can you hear me?"

Qi Lin shouted at the Zhi Brain on his wrist again and again, however, Cooper, who was originally on call, seemed to disappear and did not respond.

Qi Lin suddenly realized that the location he was in now was separated from the 404 base by most of the land of China, and in between, there were various signal shielding areas set up by countless wasteland forces, and he was completely unable to get in touch with Cooper in this strange land.

The loss of Cooper is undoubtedly the loss of a very powerful boost, and in this case, Qi Lin needs to be doubly vigilant - after all, there is no high-intelligence AI to help him keep an eye on the footsteps behind him all the time.

Qi Lin checked the equipment on his body, the railgun and backpack were swept up by the huge waves set off by the king squid, but the Makarov pistol that was casually inserted in his waist was still on his body, in addition, Qi Lin still had a small bag that was tightly tied and the light armor made of the scales of the king blood dragon lizard.

Inside the packet were the incomplete starting core and some practical gadgets, as well as two high-calorie military compressed rations that had been crumbled into powder form and a bag of water.

The magazine of Makarov's pistol is full of twelve bullets, although the power of this pistol is not great, and the range is very limited, but at least this is the only weapon in Qi Lin's hands at present, and in many cases where close combat is not possible, the difference between a pistol and no pistol is still very large.

Putting the pistol away, Qi Lin swallowed a handful of powdered compressed ration crumbs, then poured two more mouthfuls of water before he began to walk inland step by step.

The depth of the beach was not far, a few hundred meters away, Qi Lin's feet had already stepped on the hard ground, and he continued to walk a distance, and after turning over a low ridge, a deserted town located in the valley appeared in Qi Lin's field of vision.

There was no sign of human life in the town, and it was full of yellow weeds and shrubs, as well as many trees with their leaves peeling off.

The walls of the dilapidated buildings were peeled off in large chunks of lime, revealing the original mottled color of the wall tiles, and the roads made of gray-white cement were covered with cracked lines.

Except that there is no iconic Ferris wheel, this small city is very similar to the small city called Pripyat in Ukraine in Qi Lin's impression.

Even the radiation contamination in the surrounding environment is the same.

The name of the city of Pripyat may not be familiar to many people, but the name of a nuclear power plant on the edge of this small city in the former Soviet Union, many people must have heard of it-

Chernobyl.

In 1986, the Chernobyl accident broke out, and the No. 4 reactor of the nuclear power plant caught fire and exploded, leaking more than eight tons of highly radioactive material, the radiation intensity of which is equivalent to 400 atomic bombs that exploded over Hiroshima.

Overnight, the city of Pripyat was abandoned and became an abandoned place, a dead city.

Qi Lin's mercenary group once received a mission, and the target was a group of desperate drug dealers who had hid in Pripyat. When he saw the dead city for the first time, Qi Lin was shocked in his heart, but he didn't expect that within a few years, the entire surface of the earth would become a desolate wasteland.

The city looks dead silent, but according to the information provided by Cheng Yanqiu, the Far East is not calm at all, and there is war and killing everywhere - the appearance of this deserted small city with no one is obviously very abrupt.

Qi Lin walked down the ridge and walked down a path into the city, where the only sound of the cold wind blowing cans echoed in the air in the deserted streets.

The concentration of radiation in this city is quite high, which is probably the reason why the various forces did not send people to occupy the entire small city, but the deserted city full of radiation is an excellent shelter for Qi Lin.