Chapter 119 The Last Five Percent

Shu Fu didn't move. Under the current circumstances, it seemed that nothing she said would be right.

Liu Shuang was the first to walk up to her. In the silent rainy night, she looked at her with a little helplessness and sigh: "I'm still thinking, even if you don't tell us the reason, you will at least say goodbye to us."

"Sister Liu Shuang..." Shu Fu's throat was a little choked. In fact, she had already felt something in the past few days. There were some things that she didn't say, and the other party didn't ask. She once thought that they would always "ignore" and even choose to "remain silent" when she had to leave.

But obviously, that was not what the other party intended.

Seeing that she opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, Liu Shuang hurriedly held her shoulders and said, "Don't say anything, just like before, you don't have to say anything... just say goodbye to us properly." After all, they are soldiers, and this is their mission. If they ask, know, and make it clear, even if they can't take her back, they will definitely record her in the book.

So, just like now, it’s okay for both of us to understand each other tacitly.

Don't expose her or ask her questions. Just pretend you know nothing about it. Then, when she is about to leave, say goodbye to her properly.

Even though Liu Shuang didn't say anything else, Shu Fu understood everything from the look in her eyes. She felt sour in her heart, took a step forward, and hugged her: "I'm sorry, I won't leave without saying goodbye like this again..."

"You, now you know how to apologize? Han Zi is right, you are a little girl without conscience. If we hadn't come, would you really have left like this?" Liu Shuang hugged her and patted her back, speaking in a reproachful manner, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Cheng Yu who walked a few steps towards them.

She glanced at Cheng Yu, and after meeting his expression, she couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Really, even after all this, he still couldn't bear to endure her few words of blame.

Liu Shuang touched Shu Fu's head, and when he let her go, he changed his tone: "Okay, I accept your apology. Silly girl, I am a soldier, but I am also your sister Liu Shuang, remember?"

"I've got it." Shu Fu nodded obediently.

"Pretending to be good again." Liu Shuang smiled. At this moment, she once again felt a strong sense of déjà vu about the person in front of her. They seemed to have had conflicts like this before. No, it seemed to be a more intense dispute than the two innocuous sentences just now...

She seemed to be saying: No, I need to keep revising it, she definitely can’t shoot it like this…

What?

Liu Shuang's consciousness froze for a moment, less than one or two seconds. She seemed to be distracted for a short time, thinking of a vague scene in a dream, and then she woke up in an instant.

She looked at Shu Fu again, and Shu Fu was also looking at her.

In other words, Shu Fu was looking at the top of her head. The white light bar appeared again, but it disappeared in a flash. It was still not full, with one-fifth of the progress left.

Liu Shuang patted Shu Fu, walked away a few steps, and left space for Cheng Yu.

Compared to Liu Shuang, Shu Fu always felt that Cheng Yu had guessed more, and she was actually a little nervous to face him again. He had taken care of her a lot along the way, and he might have known something a long time ago, so he took the decision of evacuating early on himself at that time.

She turned back to save him, and between worry and reproach, she could feel that he was actually happy. He didn't often show his emotions, but that time, he couldn't control himself, and she felt it clearly.

She admitted that she knew very well that even if she left without saying goodbye again, he wouldn't be able to do anything to her the next time they met. It was as if she relied on his care for her, so when she had to leave, she chose to leave without saying goodbye without hesitation.

It was as if she knew that at this moment, even if he stood in front of her with a cold expression, he would not say any words of blame to her.

But she still felt uneasy, as if she had let something down.

Cheng Yu probably read her emotions from her expression. He reached out and gently pressed the hood on her head again, just like every time in the past, and softened his tone and expression: "Don't be afraid, it's okay. I just want to ask, when can we meet again next time?"

He had so many questions in his mind, but he knew she didn't want to talk about them.

Since she didn't want to say anything, he wouldn't ask anything.

Cheng Yu didn't ask her if they could meet again, as if he was certain that even if she left alone, she would be able to appear in front of him again next time in good condition.

He is really too gentle.

Shu Fu sighed softly, pulled down the big hand above her head, and gently held it with both hands: "Cheng Yu--" This was the first time she called him like this, not "Captain Cheng" when she was serious, not "Uncle Cheng Yu" when she was joking, and not "Brother Cheng Yu" which was rare in her soft tone, but she simply called his name directly.

At this moment, she is not the Shu Fu who has just graduated and started working in this world, but the Shu Fu in her own world who has been in society for many years and has met all kinds of people.

For some reason, even though she hadn't said anything yet, his heart suddenly shrank slightly, as if something sharp had pierced it, and the pain spread immediately.

Shu Fu looked at his slightly furrowed brows and realized that he seemed to have misunderstood what she was about to say. She took two steps towards him, one hand still holding his hand, but the other hand stretched upwards, tiptoed to put her arm around his neck and hugged him.

He was too tall, and it was difficult for her to hug him. She felt him lean over slightly, coordinating with her movements, and holding her waist tightly with his other hand.

"I don't know when we'll meet next time. There are some things I can't control, but I've been trying to make myself freer." Shu Fu put her chin on his shoulder and said softly to him, "You have my satellite phone number, you can send me a message at any time--"

She paused, then said, "I'll be back."

Instantly, she felt the arms tighten around her waist.

She heard his deep voice respond, "Okay."

"When... we can meet again, I'll send you a message."

"good."

"Is there anything else you want to know?"

"..." This time, he was silent for a long time before he slowly said, "No. I'm waiting... until we meet again."

Shu Fu let go of her hand, looked up at him and smiled: "Then you have to live well."

These words are very specific and are obviously referring to what happened in Wei County before.

He smiled at her as well: "I remember it."

His smile moved his eyebrows, and his originally solemn expression suddenly became relaxed and bright. It was a rare expression. Shu Fu couldn't help but reach out and stroke the corners of his narrow eyes, and her fingertips brushed across the scar at the corner of his eyes.

He looked down at her, not moving, letting her touch his scar.

Shu Fu remembered something and "took out" a glass jar filled with colorful candies from her backpack.

The glass jar is not very big, and the candies inside are from the same store as last time, but they are of different styles. This time they are all the same little stars, smaller than the flowers from last time, and also come in various colors. They are crystal clear and look like crystals.

She handed him the jar: "Take one a day. When you finish, we should be able to meet."

Cheng Yu took the glass sugar jar: "Okay."

After all, the three of them still had an escort mission to perform, and when the time was almost up, Han Lan also squeezed over, saying he wanted to say goodbye and wanted a hug, and even asked for candy as a gift.

"...There are no more similar candies." Shu Fu said, and went to "search" her backpack again, and finally "took out" a box of Planet Lollipops, which contained eight sticks.

Liu Shuang came over and kicked Han Lan, then held Shu Fu's hand and said, "How dare a grown man ask a little girl for candy?"

"Why are you only talking about me? I'm only 28! He's already 30 - no, he's already 31! A typical old man!"

Cheng Yu: ...

Yao Ruoyun: ...

Shu Fu watched them quarreling, and finally stuffed the box of lollipops to Liu Shuang: "Eat one when you are tired. And..." She thought about the words, "If anything happens in the future, if you have any questions or confusions, call me - call my satellite phone."

Having said that, she turned to Han Lan and said, "I promise, if you call me, I will...deal with it as soon as possible." The "deal with it" she mentioned was naturally not as simple as just answering the phone.

Their white light bars will be full sooner or later, and judging from the situation, the values ​​should be very high. After awakening, they will be different from ordinary psychics.

What she just said was equivalent to giving them a promise. Maybe they don’t understand it now, but when they wake up and think about what she said today, they will naturally understand it.

If they had made their choice at that time, she would have gone there no matter how far away.

The rain was still falling, but no one cared. Shu Fu waved to the four people, turned around and walked back in the direction they came from.

She knew that what was waiting for her ahead was loneliness.

She feels sad every time she leaves. Although she wants to stay with everyone forever, she knows very well that at this stage, everyone has their own path to follow.

Yao Ruoyun was going to Zhicheng to reunite with her parents, while Liu Shuangchengyu and Han Lan were also going to continue escorting the survivors to the rescue station, and after that, there were still tasks they needed to continue to perform. No one could just abandon everything willfully and recklessly.

If a person abandons family ties and responsibilities, many things will deteriorate even if they are forced to stay together.

Just like she said to Cheng Yu, she would work hard to make herself freer, she would solve the mysteries of this world and find the answers she wanted.

I hope they will become better people when we meet again next time.

On the rain-soaked mountain road, the figure turned a corner and disappeared completely.

"Let's go." Cheng Yu lowered the brim of his hood again, turned around first, and set foot on the mountain road in the opposite direction of Shu Fu.

**

Half an hour later.

Shu Fu leaned back in the large bathtub with the tide mode on, enjoying the warm water flowing in, and had long forgotten the melancholy and loneliness she had felt earlier.

This was the first time she used the tidal mode of this tub, because she had always been on the water when she was playing stand-alone, floating on the waves every day, so she preferred the hot spring mode, and had used the bubble bath mode many times. But that's how people are, every time they lack something, they will miss it.

Although the time on land was not long this time, they were trapped in a building by freezing rain and blizzards. This made Shu Fu, who had long been accustomed to drifting on the boundless waters, miss the sound of the tide.

She started hiking in the rain yesterday morning. Although her jacket was waterproof, it was bound to get wet after walking for such a long time. After getting on the raft in the evening, she had no conditions to change clothes, so she had to continue sleeping on the terrace for half the night wrapped in half-dry, half-wet clothes.

Now that I am back in my little home, I can finally take off my heavy clothes and equipment and take a good bath.

She reached out, took the instant noodles from the shelf beside her, tore off the lid, and started to eat the most comfortable and satisfying meal she had had in days.

In fact, she didn't eat instant noodles very often these days. She mostly ate dry food. Occasionally, she made instant noodles to provide meals for other team members. She and Yao Ruoyun only ate a little.

Instant noodles, paired with fried chicken wings, and a can of refreshing and degreasy happy water, Shu Fu's tidal bath has her unique style.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling window where I was soaking in the bathtub was the Yinsha River and the flowing river water. The rain was heavier than before, and the raindrops hit the glass, making a fine rustling sound.

The river upstream was not as wide as the section where they were hiking, but the current was very fast, so she chose the mooring mode when placing the raft.

Because she had to get on the raft secretly, she did not walk from the place where she had landed before, nor did she directly place the classic S-level house model in a high-profile manner. Instead, she opened the drift bottle protective cover as usual, and then placed a small primitive house model in the woods beside the river. In this way, she could get on the raft with the cover of the trees and would not "disappear out of thin air" on the uncovered shore.

But it was strange. Although she was very curious about the S-class collection house and wanted to go up to equip the electric card and tour the entire house inside and out, when she saw the familiar little raft and drifting island house appear, she still felt a strong sense of joy and belonging.

This feeling was far better than the feeling when she saw the classic S-class house. It was as if this exquisite and compact drifting island house was her real home, and that luxurious water villa was really just a luxurious holiday home as its name suggested.

When she was exhausted physically and mentally, when she was surrounded by strong melancholy of parting and loneliness, what she needed more was the cottage that she had decorated bit by bit with her own hands.

It seemed that only here could she be healed.

Half an hour later, Shu Fu put on clean and soft home clothes and hung the clothes in the two washing machines in the dryer.

The raft did not enter the autonomous drifting mode, and she did not rush to set a destination, but just anchored in the waters above the raft. She did this just in case, after all, there was still 5% left in the Level 5 raft mission, and maybe the bracelet would go haywire and ask her to go back to Liu Shuangcheng and meet them again?

Although the possibility of this situation is very low, and the last percentage tasks before upgrading the raft in the previous few times were all single-player modes, the possibility of this situation cannot be ruled out.

In order to avoid running around like a lunatic, she decided to stay still and stay near the Yinsha River for a few days. The raft's protective shield had accumulated a lot of time anyway, so there was no need to worry about it being insufficient.

When she came out of the bathroom, it was already 4:30 in the morning. She had slept for half the night and thought she wouldn't be sleepy, but she had just eaten something and now she had washed herself thoroughly and was in the small room with constant temperature and dryness. She began to feel sleepy.

Shu Fu used the "one-button dust removal" function on the function panel, then removed the power card and closed the floor-to-ceiling curtains on both sides of the living room.

She climbed onto the upper berth, put her satellite phone on vibrate mode and placed it on the bedside table, lifted the thin summer quilt, and got into her comfortable and warm bed. Then she fell asleep to the sound of the river flowing outside and the rhythmic sound of rain.

She slept until noon the next day. She rolled over on the bed and felt like she was alive again, both physically and mentally.

She grabbed the satellite phone, switched it from vibrate to ring, and then checked the messages.

There were indeed unread messages on it, one from Yao Ruoyun and the other from Cheng Yu.

Yao Ruoyun: We finally arrived at Ri County! Oh my God, I finally finished the journey! The situation here is not bad. Although it is just a small county town, many shelters were built later. Captain Liu said that this kind of house is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is rainproof, moisture-proof and hail-proof. Many of them are planned and built in cities and towns in Xizhou Province to accommodate us migrants! Except that it is a little small, there is no other problem! The survivors have been officially handed over to the rescue station here, and I am one of them. Everyone will rest here for a day, then register their personal information, and finally arrange seats according to their different transfer directions. Captain Liu said that they are going to another rescue station to replenish supplies. It is closer to Zhicheng, so they can take me there first, and then ask other teammates there to arrange for me to go to Zhicheng. If all goes well, I will be able to reach Zhicheng in three days, and I will tell you then!

Cheng Yu: Everyone has arrived safely. The seriously injured have also been scheduled for surgery. Take care of yourself. There is a signal in the county. Your satellite phone has been paid for. You can use it without worry.

Looking at the length comparison of the two messages, Shu Fu couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Cheng Yu still likes to do practical things as always, but he also solved her worries.

She replied to each of them.

——Be careful when moving alone, and charge the stun gun if you can find a place where it can be charged.

——Thank you~

It’s a pity that satellite phones can only send text messages and don’t have emoticons.

However, now there are a few more people with whom she can keep in touch for a long time, and she foresees that even if she will be alone in the future, she will not be too lonely.

After Shu Fu got up and washed, he walked out the front door, stood under the eaves and stretched.

It was raining heavily today, but the wind was not strong. She sat under the eaves and drank a bowl of chicken and mushroom porridge that she cooked herself, as well as a serving of beef fried dumplings. Then she hesitated for a moment between visiting the collection of S-level ultra-vacation-style luxury villas and the seven-draw series.

In the end, she decided to visit the new house type first, and then find the most comfortable place in the new house to do seven consecutive draws!