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Chapter 110 Wei County
Cheng Yu didn't say how to take them away, and Shu Fu didn't ask much. She was skeptical about whether she could leave Wei County. The most important thing for her now was to help Yao Ruoyun put out the raft and decorate the cabin with her.
The two hurried back to the third floor. Using the space and display cabinets, Shu Fu only made two trips back and forth and piled all the tables and chairs in the teahouse into another empty room.
Now the hall of the small teahouse is completely empty, but so many heavy tables and chairs have been moved away that it is not suitable for other people to come in and see.
Shu Fu locked the door, Yao Ruoyun took a deep breath, and finally put out the raft for the first time.
"Senior, my raft is much bigger than yours! The front deck is so big that your mini raft can be put directly on it! In the future, my raft can even carry your raft and drift together on the water!"
Shu Fu: ...
Thank you.
Yao Ruoyun excitedly rushed into the room again, looking at the empty bathroom, she smiled happily: "There really is a squat toilet! Ah, my dream has come true! Finally I won't freeze my butt when I go to the toilet!"
Shu Fu: ...
What a down-to-earth dream.
Yao Ruoyun was so excited about placing the raft for the first time that she spent twenty minutes studying it in the empty bathroom. Most of the time she was squatting next to the toilet to study it, studying how the sewage pipes worked, and whether using the raft on land would result in an embarrassing scene of sewage flowing all over the ground...
In the end, Shu Fu pulled her up and said, "No, your raft cabin is a completely black technology product. The sewage will automatically disappear after leaving the cabin." Chen Fa and Lu Zheng had already studied this, so she knew it very well.
Shu Fu pulled Yao Ruoyun to the outer living room, and then began to take out furniture and various items: "From now on, it's time to decorate the cottage!"
"Wow wow wow wow!" Yao Ruoyun clapped enthusiastically.
It took the two of them two hours to make the originally empty cottage look like a home.
The folding bathtub that Yao Ruoyun had taken a bath in before was placed in the bathroom. Yao Ruoyun put on rubber gloves and used a brush to clean the inside. Then Shu Fu filled it with clean water, which could be used for daily cleaning.
Although Yao Ruoyun's water purifier can melt snow and filter it for use at any time, it is too cold outside now and it is inconvenient for them to get snow. It is better to just put a bucket in the bathroom.
In addition, the bathroom also has a wooden tripod, on which are placed plastic basins, soap, laundry detergent, lotion, toilet paper, disinfectant and other daily necessities.
In addition, there is a wooden cabinet with a mirror placed against the angle between the two walls, on which are three thermos bottles. The mirror is also convenient for washing, dressing, etc.
Most of these things were collected from the neighbors' homes. Yao Ruoyun was amazed at the time how good it was to have space in the backpack, as she, her parents and three others could still move without anything.
But now that I have a raft cabin and space in a backpack, anything that is 70% to 80% new I see I think may be useful, so I stuff it into the backpack.
Fortunately, this is a residential building. When the owners moved to Xizhou Province, they were unable to take most of the furniture and furnishings with them. Now she can rely on these to decorate her own small home.
The living room of the cabin was even more well-stocked than when Chen Fa and Lu Zheng first decorated the cabin. The two found a house that seemed to be a newlywed's house, and borrowed Shu Fu's "display cabinet" to move a bed directly into it.
When they saw this bed, there was only a bed frame but no mattress. Later they found out that when Cheng Yu and his friends were looking for a mattress for them, they had taken away the mattress on this bed.
This is a large stainless steel bed. It does not have a complicated design. It just has a bed head and four bed legs. It is clean and tidy facing the corner of the cabin. There is space under the bed for some cardboard boxes to store things that are not used often.
The sofa, coffee table, dining table, chairs, storage cabinets, small wardrobes, curtains, table lamps, floor lamps, and clothes hangers were also collected from the homes of nearby residents. In order to match the style of the raft cabin, they tried to choose light-colored and log-colored home furnishings.
Finally, Shu Fu set up a water dispenser cabinet for her, and the decoration of the entire cabin was basically completed.
Without using any heating equipment, the raft cabin was in a catastrophic cold environment with a temperature difference of 20 to 30 degrees from the outside. The temperature has risen a lot in the past few days, basically between minus 20 and 25 degrees Celsius during the day and around minus 30 degrees Celsius at night, and the temperature difference is close to zero degrees.
For the two people who have adapted to the cold climate, they don't feel particularly cold even without using the heater and kerosene stove.
So in the end they moved in the honeycomb coal stove, the remaining honeycomb coal, and several stainless steel barrels for burning wood. The ones that were not in use were temporarily placed opposite the bathroom door, and the honeycomb coal stove that was to be used was placed in the corner closer to the door. After it was ignited, the temperature in the entire room would quickly rise by another 8 to 10 degrees.
Even though there was no demand for large amounts of electricity, Shu Fu still took out a generator to facilitate small-scale electricity use. She also took out a few portable oil barrels and asked her to put them in her backpack. She taught her how to use them and asked her to add fuel and start the generator herself when necessary.
Next, during the day, they stayed in Yao Ruoyun's cabin. Now the place was bigger and all kinds of furniture were arranged. They didn't have to lie on the mattress all the time. They could curl up on the sofa, eating braised duck feet and wings while watching TV series, or take out the kerosene stove to cook hot pot and drink soup and meat.
At night, Shu Fu would set up the carbon monoxide alarm for Yao Ruoyun, then go back to her own drifting island house to wash up and sleep on her comfortable and familiar bed. Yao Ruoyun is now in her own raft house, where no one else can enter, so she can rest alone and at ease.
And Shu Fu's raft, just as Yao Ruoyun had said before, was placed directly on the deck of her raft. The distance between the two sides was so close that she could reach it with a forward roll.
So even though they slept separately at night, Yao Ruoyun no longer felt afraid.
During this period, Yao Ruoyun used the treasure shovel twice in the residential building. Once, he found a compartment in the floor behind the cabinet on the fourth floor. Inside was a tin box with the property certificate. It was obvious that this family had hidden it here. The owner of the house hid it so well, probably thinking that he would be able to come back one day in the future.
Yao Ruoyun has now learned from Shu Fu that this world will eventually become a water world, and the land where they are standing now will disappear in the near future. At this moment, they feel a little sad when they see the property certificate that has been hidden away so carefully.
They put the property certificate back, restored the floor of the compartment, and moved back the cabinet.
Another time, it was on the first floor. This time it was more difficult to dig. It was a secret door in the closet. It was probably a small storage room inside, and the outside was made into a closet.
They found a larger generator in the storage room, along with some fuel.
This generator is also for home use, but its power is much greater than the portable camping model that Shu Fu bought. Yao Ruoyun said that it was no wonder that when he took out the shovel today, he had a strong feeling that he had to go to the first floor to dig. It turned out that he had found something good.
This generator is large and not convenient to carry during the transfer, but it can be put into Yao Ruoyun's backpack.
After the two returned to the cabin, Yao Ruoyun returned Shu Fu's generator and portable oil barrel to her, and then happily tried out the generator she had dug up.
Even though the generators were different in style, the methods of starting and using them were basically the same. She tried twice and it started successfully soon. Except that the sound was slightly louder than Shu Fu's, there was no problem.
After this, even if she took out the treasure shovel the next day, she had no desire to dig. This meant that there was nothing hidden in this residential building, or within a certain range around her.
Unless Yao Ruoyun moves to another place, the treasure-hunting shovel will be useless.
**
On the afternoon of the eighteenth day of the blizzard, the outdoor temperature was minus eighteen and it was snowing moderately.
The sound of propellers was heard again in the sky above Wei County where snowflakes were floating. Yao Ruoyun and Shu Fu quickly put on all their warm clothes, packed up the raft and rushed to the balcony before the fourth floor.
They saw a large drone that was more than twice as big as the previous ones. This time, the supplies to be airdropped were hanging underneath the drone.
"It's Rainbow-4! I've seen it before when I was transferring with Xun Huiming! The maximum flight time is 35 hours! The maximum load capacity is 345 kilograms! What is hanging underneath it? It's so big!" Yao Ruoyun tiptoed and poked his head in the direction where the drone was hovering.
Shu Fu was also leaning his head to look, which was in the direction of the gymnasium next door. At this moment, on the south wall of the gymnasium's basketball court, eye-catching red smoke was rising from the ground. That was the signal mark of the airdrop site!
Shu Fu took out the telescope and found that the place where the red smoke rose was the south side of the venue. She remembered that there was a large entrance and exit on the south side of the venue that could accommodate armored vehicles. The snow had been cleared in advance and a small open space had been cleared.
The large drone descended to a height of about three floors, and then the large package hanging below fell to the ground with a bang, landing accurately on the open space that had been cleared of snow.
The snow layer around was too high, about four or five meters high. After the airdropped supplies fell, no matter how hard Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun looked, they couldn't see the situation inside the snow layer.
The two stood there for a while, and finally returned to the teahouse.
About two hours later, they heard the noise outside again. This time, the noise came not from the air, but from the ground south of the residential building.
They wrapped themselves up again and left the raft cabin, gathered together in front of the south window and looked out through the gaps between the wooden bars.
In the originally pure white world of ice and snow, there was a dark green armored vehicle. Like a snow-eating beast, it started from the gymnasium and crushed all the way towards the deep ice and snow layer that was higher than it.
The huge snow shovel installed in front of the car is pushing the four or five-meter-high layer of ice and snow in front of it. Then the loose ice and snow are continuously sprayed out from the snow pipe above the snow shovel, forming a white arc with ice mist, which falls on the snow layer beside the snow track.
Behind the armored vehicle, a wide and clean snow trail is slowly taking shape.
This is Cheng Yu’s armored vehicle!
At this moment, Shu Fu finally knew what was inside the giant package that had just been airlifted by Rainbow-4.
Yes to load the snow shovel!
It is a giant snow shovel that can be installed on the front of an armored vehicle!
**
The first snow trail was quickly dug. It started from the large entrance on the south side of the gymnasium basketball court, crossed the open space in front, turned left after leaving the gymnasium gate, and went directly along the main street to the windows on the first floor of the south side of Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun's residential building.
The south-facing windows of the small teahouse were nailed shut and could not be opened. Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun lay down between the wooden bars and looked downstairs, and saw the dark green "giant beast" quietly resting among the ice and snow downstairs.
After a moment, the upward-tilted door on the passenger side was pushed open. Han Lan, wearing ski goggles, stepped on the car body and leaned half of his body out, then waved ostentatiously towards the floor where they were.
At the same time, Cheng Yu's voice rang through Shu Fu's intercom: "The car is too big to go in from the side street. Come down and find the window in front of us that has been cleared of snow. I'll hand you some supplies. Then, get ready. Once we've cleared all the snowy paths we need, we'll evacuate from here together."
"Evacuate from here?"
"right."
"Wait a minute, I'll be down right away!" Shu Fu immediately ran back to her raft, stood under the eaves, quickly took off her home cotton coat and cotton pants, took out her outdoor interlayer jacket and pants from under the eaves and put them on, and finally sat there and changed her cotton shoes into waterproof and warm boots.
Yao Ruoyun also heard what Cheng Yu said just now, but she could go downstairs by herself, and the other party could wait in the cabin. When she left, she put away the drifting island house on the deck of Yao Ruoyun's raft, and told her to close the door and put away the raft immediately if she found anyone other than her coming up.
She quickly went downstairs and found the house whose windows Cheng Yu and his team had cleared. Because she and Yao Ruoyun had collected supplies door to door before, they had pried open all the locked doors in the building. Now they were just reopening the closed doors.
The windows inside were also reinforced. Shu Fu took out a crowbar from his backpack. There was a small fork on the head of the crowbar, which could be used as a nail remover.
She quickly removed the wooden bars nailed to the window frame, and found that outside the half-broken glass window, Cheng Yu was using an electric tool connected from the car to pry the wire mesh on the window.
The reinforcements inside and outside the window were quickly cleaned up. She pushed open the broken window, and Cheng Yu handed in a large backpack from outside, as well as two pairs of boots.
"Snow tactical boots are all fleece-lined and a bit larger in size, but they're all new. They're one of the supplies airdropped along with the snow shovel this time. The backpack contains snow covers, folding walking sticks, fleece gloves, spare insoles and socks, and two sets of jackets and pants. They're all large-sized pieces for snow protection. You can wear them over your cold-weather clothes..." Cheng Yu explained the items and functions of the backpack to her one by one.
Shu Fu was a little surprised. The completeness of the supplies prepared by the other party was beyond her imagination.
In fact, she had all these things. Some of them were bought before, and some of the materials that would not go bad in water were obtained from the "Automatic Water Fishing Rod" in Suicheng at that time. They might not be as professional as the ones he gave her, but it was still no problem to piece together a few sets of snow equipment.
But when they met each other, they only had those supplies at the beginning. Small things could be "taken out" from the backpacks, and some suitable food could be "found" in the residents' homes, but such professional equipment and clothes were really not easy to get. This was why Yao Ruoyun had been wearing a military coat when she went to the gymnasium to spend the night.
But now, he had prepared everything she needed for the snow trek, solving her dilemma of having supplies but being unable to take them out and use them.
But she was also a little worried that she and Yao Ruoyun would take up their supplies and they would not have enough for themselves.
"Since it was airdropped, your share has naturally been counted in." Not only that, the supplies previously dropped to the hotel building, clinic and the hotel building opposite also included a small portion of snow supplies, but the equipment could not be as professional and meticulous as this batch of supplies.
The relief packages that were delivered before were all prepared by the authorities, but these given to Shu Fu were those that he applied for on his own initiative.
"Although there are a lot of things here, they are all worn on the body. You and Yao Ruoyun should adjust the equipment you are wearing. Try to throw away some cumbersome and heavy things. You should have several backpacks here now. Each of you should take one. Pick the one that is sturdy, waterproof and has the largest capacity. Bring food, medicine, tools and communication equipment."
"You just said you were going to take us away from here. Are you going to leave Wei County?"
Cheng Yu nodded: "Yes, but you have to wait a while, because we have to dig all the necessary snow trails. Wait for my notification."
Just like last time, Shu Fu did not continue to ask the reason for leaving, nor where they could go after leaving Wei County in this snowy world.
Conditions did not allow it now, so she could not actively explore the border and had no idea where the barrier that restricted her was. When she was in the Northern Plateau before, the barrier on the small map was broken only after a new mission appeared.
But that disaster was different, they were chased by strange fish and had to run. But this time, the danger was outdoors, and they could only survive by hiding in a building, so she originally thought that she would stay in Wei County for the entire mission.
She was not sure whether the bracelet would have a new task before following Cheng Yu and the others.
She only knew that she really didn't want to be trapped in front of them this time. After all, she was not only facing familiar friends, but they also knew everything about the people with special abilities.
With her "disappearance", he was completely relieved and could lie down and do nothing, but what about Yao Ruoyun? Moreover, when Liu Shuangcheng met Han Lan, he not only knew what was going on with her, but he would also soon discover that she was the most special one with special abilities...
After Shu Fu returned to the teahouse with the supplies, he was still thinking about this matter.
This had nothing to do with whether Liu Shuang and Han Lan were awakened. If she was just an ordinary psychic, they might still be partial to her, but the fact that she "disappeared in an instant" was enough to prove that she was different from any psychic. She really didn't want to test people's hearts. After all, finding psychics and recording them was their duty and mission.
Shu Fu briefly explained the whole thing to Yao Ruoyun and let her choose whether to follow Liu Shuangchengyu's team or to move quietly with her and hide in another place.
Yao Ruoyun looked at her with an expression that said, "Why would you ask such a question? Do I even need to choose?" "Senior, just tell me, where should we move to?"
It didn't matter to them where they were, as long as there was enough space inside the building to launch her raft.
"Wait a little longer until they confirm the evacuation time." She mainly wanted to wait and see if the bracelet would issue a new task at about the same time as before.
In order to prevent her from making a decision too hastily, putting herself in an awkward situation and doing useless work.
**
On the afternoon of the nineteenth day of the heavy snowstorm, the outdoor temperature was eight degrees below zero.
"It's warming up, and it's rising so fast. I even feel a little hot today." Yao Ruoyun said, and got up to extinguish the honeycomb coal stove burning in the corner of the hut. At this temperature, it is enough to stay in the hut with a heating pack in hand.
Shu Fu left the cabin and stood in front of the window, looking at the snow path that was shoveled out by the armored vehicles in the square outside and leading to the outside of the county. He frowned and said, "The temperature rose by about ten degrees in the previous four days, but now it has risen by ten degrees in just one day. The temperature seems to be rising a little too fast."
"The rapid rise in temperature means that this extreme natural disaster is over. The temperature in Wei County was originally above 0 degrees Celsius in winter, but now it's minus eight degrees Celsius, which is still a bit cold!" Yao Ruoyun came over disapprovingly, "In fact, the weather has been good these two days, with little wind and snow. Although it's cloudy most of the time, if the weather stays like this, the current temperature is acceptable."
The two stood at the window and watched for a while, and found that the military off-road vehicle that had not been seen for a long time drove out of the gymnasium and went along the snow path dug on the main street towards the direction of the hotel building.
This snow trail is not connected to the first one dug leading to their building. The two are parallel, but there is a snow wall in between. The snow wall is more than five meters high. A normal person on the other side of the snow trail cannot see that there is another snow trail next to it, and even if they can see it, they cannot climb over it.
This should have been done intentionally by Cheng Yu and Han Lan when they first dug the snow trail. The snow trail in front of the building they built only leads to the gymnasium. Even if other people pass through another snow trail, they cannot reach the building where they live and have to go around the gymnasium.
This also provides them with a layer of protection.
The people in the car must be from the team. Are they going to find the Wei County rescue station?
Although it was a car that passed by, Shu Fu inexplicably felt that it was in a hurry from the body of the car.
That day, until dark, Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun did not see the SUV return. Of course, it is also possible that the vehicle had already returned but they did not hear any movement outside while in the cabin.