Chapter 160 Shelter Raft

Not long after Cheng Yu and Han Lan left, the Drifting Island House left the shore with a series of rafts.

This area of ​​water was originally the upper reaches of the Yinsha River. Later, the water level gradually rose and the river channel became wider and wider. Now, like the lower reaches, it has submerged a large area of ​​land on the east bank, making the mountains become islands in the lake.

Therefore, when Shu Fu left, he did not have to follow the original river channel, but could directly pass through the "islands" in the water and enter the deep water area.

Also because the global water level continued to rise, she could move freely by towing large and small rafts behind her, just like when she had only a small raft at the beginning.

Because it needs to tow Liu Shuang's raft, the drifting island house has now entered a moored state.

Shu Fu passed the hotel building and came to Liu Shuang's raft. Compared with the buildings of different styles towed by others, the shelter on Liu Shuang's raft could almost be described as monotonous.

This is a single-story log cabin with a gable roof. It is much larger than the original cabin, with clear lattice windows and a glass-inlaid door. The gable roof should be an attic, with lattice windows on it as well, but they are half the size of those on the first floor.

The only big change from the past is that this log cabin is narrower in width, leaving more space on the left and right raft decks. If people on the raft want to go to the rear deck, they can go directly from both sides. Probably because the deck is passable, there are more than one-meter-high fences on both sides of the raft, making the whole raft look more like a wooden boat.

Apart from that, the whole house looked ordinary. Shu Fu was a little confused. Was this the upgraded shelter? Why did it look almost the same as before the upgrade? Was there something else going on inside?

She stepped onto Liu Shuang's raft and was about to knock on the door when she heard Liu Shuang's voice coming from the back of the house: "Is that Xiao Fu? Come to the back of the house quickly."

Shu Fu immediately turned around, walked around the cabin and headed towards the rear via the side deck surrounded by fences on both sides.

Liu Shuang was standing at the edge of the rear deck. There was also a fence at the rear end of the raft, but there was a hole in the middle. Liu Shuang's raft was now at the very end of the team. Logically, there should be water outside the rear end of the raft, but now there seemed to be a passage extending to the water behind at that hole.

Did I see it wrong?

Shu Fu took two steps towards the tail end of the raft. Liu Shuang, who was standing there, took out a high-intensity flashlight, turned it on and shone it towards the gap in the middle of the rear fence.

She was not mistaken, there was indeed a passage there, which looked similar to the passages connecting other rafts in front, one meter wide, made of log-colored planks and chains, solid and dense. Probably because this passage was independent of the water and had no decks on either side, there were handrails on both sides of the passage.

Liu Shuang shone his flashlight along the water passage and found a hemispherical water building at the other end of the passage. The entire building looked larger than Liu Shuang's raft. It looked somewhat like the earliest flying saucer imagined by humans, and somewhat like an Eskimo igloo.

It seems that this water building connected to the back of Liu Shuang's raft should be the reason why Shu Fu wanted to exchange the positions of the two rafts on the function screen just now but failed.

The two looked at each other and walked towards the rear along the water deck passage.

Although there are no fixed rafts on both sides of this passage, the foot still feels very stable when stepping on it, and there is no shaking due to being on the water. The entire passage is about ten meters long, and the passage is divided into two at the end, extending to both sides along the hemispherical water building in front.

When I got closer, I found that this was also a building with a wooden exterior, but it was made into an arc shape, like a bowl upside down on the water, or a sphere cut in half.

There is a circle of small independent windows on the "bowl body". The windows are very small, even smaller than the windows on a ship cabin.

They walked along the passage surrounding the water building. The passage was about two meters wide and also had handrails. The small windows were also arranged in a circle around the "bowl body". There were about a dozen of them at random, making the building look more like an alien flying saucer.

This hemispherical water building floating behind Liu Shuang's raft should be a real shelter. So what are its specific functions and where is the door?

After being reminded by Shu Fu, Liu Shuang quickly returned to her raft cabin, took out her electronic screen from the door, and began to study.

**

This is a floating shelter, which fell on the back side of Liu Shuang's raft and was connected to it, but independent of the water. Its special property is that it is isolated from the entire raft development area. The protective shield of this area can be closed or opened by the owner of the shelter raft alone.

As the name suggests, the shelter is a place where people can take refuge. It serves non-raft residents and is not open to raft residents.

In other words, the friends on other rafts and the residents who officially stayed in the hotel could only stand at the tail end of Liu Shuang's raft to see the floating shelter, but they could not step into the water passage connecting the shelter, as this was a restricted area.

There are two doors to the shelter, one is at the end of the passage facing Liu Shuang's raft, and the other is at the back. Both are hidden wooden sliding doors. To open the sliding doors, the owner of the shelter needs to scan the wristband, or the "executive" appointed by the owner of the shelter needs to scan the wristband.

The word "executive" was found in the recruitment column on the electronic screen, and it was similar to a job position compared to other rafts.

Only those who obtain this position can reach the shelter area through the water channel.

As for Shu Fu, she tried it quietly - using the matte silver bracelet on her left hand, and found that just like before, she could open the door without any obstacles.

After entering through the sliding door, the entire space inside is slightly sunken. There are first a few downward steps inside the door, and then there is a walkway as wide as the door. There is an exchange machine on each side of the walkway, but the exchange machine here is different from the exchange machine in the raft development area above, and no materials need to be put in for exchange.

Simply put, you can get a wristband for free as long as you register your personal biometric information, but the wristbands you get from the redemption machine in the shelter are white and do not contain raft points.

People who are not wearing white wristbands can also enter the shelter hall to avoid external disasters.

People wearing white wristbands can not only avoid the disaster in the hall, but also get a bed and receive water in the shelter. They are considered official refugees here and can stay here.

But this white wristband is also a restriction. It is clearly written on the electronic screen in Liu Shuang's hand that refugees wearing this wristband are not considered official residents of the raft. They cannot step onto the water channel and enter the raft area at the other end. They can only move around in this floating shelter.

At the same time, even after the protective cover of the shelter is opened, the protective cover of the raft towing area in front will still block their sight - similar to the difference in level, they will be the same as other people on land, and will not pay attention to the uniqueness and existence of the raft in front even if they see it.

But as long as the refugees stay in the shelter, they can drift on the water with the raft in front of them, pass through dangerous waters, and be sent to safe land before letting them leave.

This floating spherical house relies on the raft in front, but it is independent of the raft area.

These restrictions will not be lifted until one day, when asylum seekers are allowed to receive dark brown wristbands.

Shu Fu soon realized that although it was named a shelter, it was actually more like a sea shelter than a sea shelter. It could shelter the victims in desperate situations without exposing any of the raft's appearance or the residents on it.

For Shu Fu, this was perfect as he could save people while completely protecting the secret of the raft and the safety of other friends and regular residents on the raft.

The central hall of the shelter is the same as the exterior structure, it is a hemispherical hall. It is very large inside, and in terms of proportion, it should be the largest compressed space among all functional rafts, about 300 square meters, with a high top and several large skylights installed on it.

This is a public activity hall with a dining area and a food pick-up area. The food pick-up area is near the passages on both sides, and it looks a bit like a vertical vending machine, with a tray pick-up area, a food pick-up area, a tray recycling area, and a drinking water outlet.

In addition to the dining area, there is also a leisure area, two toilets in two locations, and two small rooms in the corner whose uses are unknown.

The small room had no windows, only a wooden platform against the wall, which looked more like a resting board in prison that could be used for sitting or as a bed.

On the curved wall surrounding the activity hall, there are neatly arranged doors of the same size, and behind the doors are rooms.

The room was not big, with four bunk beds, meaning eight people could stay in it. There was a small window on the curved wall facing outward, which was the one they had seen from outside before.

When looking out from the inside, the windows appear visually larger.

In addition to four beds, there are two wardrobes at the entrance and a simple bathroom on the other side. It is the kind of bathroom that can only be used for going to the toilet and washing hands. There is no shower. However, there is a cabinet above the sink with eight stainless steel cups neatly placed in it.

The shower areas are all in the public restroom outside.

Apart from basic water, rest and activity areas, there are no other supplies provided here.

They counted and found that there were a total of sixteen room doors, separated by two corridors leading to the outside world, with eight rooms arranged in each semicircle on both sides.

Liu Shuang did a quick calculation: "If all the functional buildings on the raft can be upgraded, this place will be even bigger and more fully equipped in the future. In the initial stage, it can accommodate 128 refugees at the same time. I see from the display above that the main function of the shelter now is not only to provide water shelter, but also to autonomously provide two meals a day and purified drinking water in accordance with the number of people, which can guarantee people's basic daily needs."

Of course, because the shelter raft currently has water but no electricity, so except for the door, other machines that require electricity to start cannot be opened for trial. So they don't know where the food ingredients for the two meals a day provided by this shelter come from.

Is it due to the special nature of this shelter, or does it still require supplies from other rafts?

In addition, all the doors here - including the main door and room doors - can be controlled by Liu Shuang with just one click through the electronic screen.

This means that if she wants, she can give the refugees the right to enter and exit freely, or she can control it with one click and cancel their right to enter and exit freely.

After all, the refugees are different from Shu Fu's companions with whom she has reached a bond, as well as her family members and comrades recognized by her companions. They are complete strangers to the raft, and it is impossible for them to have no problems with their character and character. Moreover, this place can accommodate 128 people at the same time. When there are too many people, it is easy for chaos to occur. At this time, some power is needed to control order.

Liu Shuang roughly guessed the purpose of the two small windowless rooms - they should be small dark rooms similar to those for detaining troublemakers, used as a transition and observation room. If the troublemakers repeatedly committed the same offense and caused trouble again and again, she could also expel them from the shelter.

At the same time, Liu Shuang can also recruit staff - executives, but unlike other functional rafts, there are some restrictions on recruiting staff here. For example, after she registers the information of the person she wants to recruit, his details will appear on Shu Fu's function screen, and she must get Shu Fu's consent before she can hire this "executive".

**

The two men looked around the floating shelter inside and out, and finally returned to Liu Shuang's raft through the water passage.

The first floor of this wooden cabin is the living space for her and her family. It is about 80 square meters, which is slightly larger than the living space of the other friends mentioned above because it has an additional entrance hall inside the front door.

This is a double-door design with a square entrance hall inside the door. On one side is the door leading to the living space, and on the other side is the staircase leading to the upper attic.

The triangular attic on the upper floor has another door at the end of the stairs. Inside is a work control room with a dozen screens of various sizes, various operating screens and instrument panels, as well as four chairs, a table, a set of sofas, cabinets and other basic facilities.

Apparently, this is where the raft owner and "executive" do their daily work.

Because there was no electricity, the machines could not be used. Shu Fu had no choice but to go back to the Drifting Island House and replaced the swimming pool raft at position 7 with an "electric energy" raft, and selected Liu Shuang's raft at position 8 as one of the outputs.

When she returned to the attic of the cabin again, Liu Shuang had successfully turned on all the machines. The screen immediately displayed surveillance footage of every corner inside and outside the shelter. A dozen screens made it almost impossible to leave blind spots in the entire shelter.

This is a night vision camera, which means that even in pitch darkness, Liu Shuang can sit here and clearly know everything that happens in the shelter behind.

In addition, there are more things that can be done on the screen here, such as checking the behavior of the refugee after he moves in, and viewing all his past tracking surveillance footage...

“Looking at it this way, it does have a bit of the meaning of prison management…” Liu Shuang said with a smile. At the same time, she felt that she had made the right choice because her expertise was suitable and among the friends currently towing the raft, no one was more suitable than her to be the manager of this shelter.

For example, check the water supply and determine the level of meals provided to refugees.

The source of drinking water is purified water. There is a water tank in the shelter that automatically stores water.

The default catering level of the shelter is elementary, which includes two meals a day. Breakfast is between 8 and 10 o'clock, and the content is one of compressed biscuits, mashed potatoes, bread, and multi-grain steamed buns, with 250ml compound juice or 250ml vegetable soup.

Dinner is between 3pm and 6pm, and consists of one of compressed biscuits, mashed potatoes, bread, or multi-grain steamed buns, with a piece of mixed fish pie, and 250ml of compound juice or 250ml of vegetable soup.

These foods can ensure the survival of a refugee, but there is no choice in the type and amount of food. However, this is provided by the shelter itself, which means that the raft or Shufu does not need to provide it separately.

But if you want to modify the menu, such as adjusting the time, changing two meals a day to three meals a day, or adding other kinds of rich food, such as rice with toppings, meat buns, sausage bread, etc., of course you can do that. As long as the food exists in the menu that can be made on this screen system, the shelter can make it, but adding more rich food requires the shelter owner to purchase or solve the raw materials by himself.

Food ingredients are purchased once a week, and the required quantity will be calculated based on the number of refugees currently in the shelter.

Or the owner of the shelter can initiate a charity donation campaign and ask the raft residents to make kind donations. Simply put, this shelter is like a real orphanage or poverty alleviation center. All supplies depend on donations, and it is the only raft among all the towing rafts that has no output.

Or, it cannot be said that there is no output at all. The biggest feature of this shelter raft is that it can produce "people". If the various functional facilities on the raft continue to be upgraded, there will definitely not be enough employees on the raft in the future.

But if they were asked to rashly accept strange outsiders, they would feel very uneasy.

However, if the shelter is monitored, observed, and screened thoroughly, perhaps it would be possible to select some capable and good-natured individuals from among the refugees, and then upgrade the level of their wristbands and include them in the category of formal residents.

Of course, if someone becomes a formal resident and then starts to have bad intentions, all Shu Fu needs to do is delete the person's registered biometric information on the redemption machine.

Yes, on the raft, only the owner of the towing raft and his family with sufficient bond value can have the right to live on the raft without exchanging the wristband. That's because their raft has already signed an "agreement" when it was towed.

Shu Fu has the power to delete the identity information of other regular residents with one click. The wristband on the hand of the raft resident whose identity information is deleted will become invalid and disappear, and he will be ejected from the raft instantly due to the xenophobic effect of the protective shield.

After losing his right to reside there, the raft and everything on it would once again become an existence that he could not notice.

…

Liu Shuang's raft had just been towed and upgraded today, and the two of them had only done a brief study of it. They would have to continue to spend time to learn in detail about various matters and how to proceed.

The most important thing is that the shelter has not yet been put into use, and some specific procedures can only be truly known after people move into the shelter.

**

Because Shu Fu and Liu Shuang studied the shelter for a long time in the middle of the night, it was past her usual biological clock time, so after returning to her drifting island house, her mind was still in an excited state and she continued to suffer from insomnia.

She was not in a hurry to sleep. She took out a bowl of beef vermicelli soup from the space and had a long-awaited midnight snack.

Then find a melodramatic and exciting rebirth drama from the tablet's massive inventory, curl up comfortably on the sofa, cover yourself with a thin blanket and start watching the drama.

You don't have to use your brain when watching this kind of rebirth drama, just have fun, it's very relaxing.

She originally thought that the bed was right next to her and she only had to climb half a floor to get there. She could go there to sleep when she felt sleepy. But she actually fell asleep while looking at the bed.

The sofa was large and soft, and the temperature-controlled and comfortable Drifting Island House was quiet and cozy. In addition, she had drawn the curtains on both sides of the floor-to-ceiling windows before watching the show last night, so she slept until noon the next day.

There was a familiar sound of rain outside. It started raining again, and judging from the sound, it was raining quite heavily.

Shu Fu got up from the sofa, moved to the cushion next to the floor-to-ceiling window, and opened the curtains. The weather outside the window was indeed gloomy, with dark clouds hanging in the sky. The waves outside the raft were high, and it was like two completely different worlds from yesterday evening.

After Shu Fu washed up, he sat under the eaves of the front door, listened to the sound of rain outside the protective cover, ate a bowl of Huaqiong brand bubble wontons, and without changing clothes, he went straight to the large and small rafts in the back in slippers to start his daily inspection.

The first row of rafts, the Lighthouse Milk Tea Shop, rose up. It was probably because she adjusted the raft drifting speed very slowly before going to bed last night. This speed was just suitable for staying at a high place to enjoy the scenery.

Outside the glass plantation, Hua Qiong still insists on setting up a stall every day. Now that the output of rafts has increased, her menu has also expanded. Dishes such as vegetable salad, stir-fried potato with green pepper, hand-shredded cabbage, and vegetable egg drop soup have also begun to appear.

Huaqiong does not stock many different varieties of dishes, but they are often changed, mainly as a private snack stand, with little surprises every day.

On the hotel raft in the second row, Liu Shuang, who had just become a raft resident yesterday, was leaning on the outward fence of the raft with his parents and Han Lan's parents, looking at the water outside.

For them, every second from the moment they wake up in the morning until now, the images and information they see and receive are new and amazing.

The two retired team members, one named Tang Li and the other named Zhang Jun, although one lost an eye and the other injured a hand, they were both restless people. They helped clean the hotel building after getting up early in the morning, and now they followed Longsheng to the breeding house, always looking for work to do.

The hotel's internal area has expanded, there is more work to do, and two more employees can be hired. Although Tang Li and Zhang Jun are both injured and not suitable for further missions, they do these ordinary jobs quickly and well.

But Lu Zheng was embarrassed to hire them both, as they were retired soldiers who had brought enough supplies and wanted to live out their retirement comfortably on the raft.

This was only the second day after they boarded the raft. Their enthusiasm to help was different from him directly hiring them as employees. Even if it was just a rare occasion for them to help, he would not accept it with a clear conscience. He had already instructed Lu Ce to prepare fresh fruits and vegetables and send them to them when they returned.

The breeding house was as lively as ever. Even if you were just passing by, you could faintly hear the calls of various animals coming from inside. Fortunately, Zheng Feifei and her mother's living space had good sound insulation, otherwise they would have been disturbed by the noise when resting at home.

On the third row of rafts, the Tree House Bookstore was open today. Shu Fu went in for a walk and saw Liu Zhen standing on the moving stairs looking for a book. She looked very focused and happy.

On the fourth row of rafts, she saw a few friends who were taking a break today standing at the tail end of Liu Shuang's raft, curiously looking at the floating shelter that had fallen on the water behind them.

However, because they were neither employees of the shelter nor refugees, they could not go to the back through the water passage connecting the two sides. They could only stand on Liu Shuang's raft and enjoy the view.

They probably already knew the general situation of the shelter from Liu Shuang, and also knew about the special position of "executive". They were obviously very interested and were discussing at the moment whether it would be embarrassing to change jobs on the raft and return to the original raft to work in case they were not selected.

Liu Shuang's raft is the first one among all the towing rafts to choose the shared function of "purified water". The "purified water" and "electricity" in the shared function are the same, and their usage time must be based on the setting in the Drifting Island House.

Currently, the purified water in Shu Fu's house on the drifting island can be used for six hours a day, and the six-hour period can be adjusted at will, and there is no limit on the amount of water used during the set period. Shu Fu originally did not adjust this period because her house has a 5000L compressed water tank, which will automatically store water during the daily purified water use period, so she has never lacked water.

But Liu Shuang's raft was different. Although there was a water tank in the shelter, there was no water tank in the small house with a triangular attic where she lived and worked, and it was impossible to store water automatically. So after towing the other party's raft, she had readjusted the water usage time periods, trying to disperse them as much as possible to make the six hours more reasonably arranged.

Shu Fu replaced the electric energy raft with the swimming pool raft because Liu Shuang said that the shelter has not been started yet, and her parents like the environment of the hotel very much. Han Lan's parents also live there. So although her raft is towed, she is the only one who will return to the living space to sleep at night during this period.

It was somewhat unnecessary to tow the electric raft for her alone, and she also wanted to try out this sea swimming pool, so she asked Shu Fu to change it back and change it back when needed.

The few people standing on Liu Shuang's raft originally came here to swim. They lay on the fence and looked at the shelter for a while, then came to the swimming pool raft. Seeing Shu Fu was there too, they all smiled at her.

Shu Fu smiled back at the other person, then turned and walked along the passage between the two rafts towards the drifting island house at the front.

After her daily inspection, she prepared to go back to her cabin and lie down.

It just so happened that she had various building blocks toys that Cheng Yu had sent her yesterday, so today she could play building blocks while watching TV series and eating snacks.

**

One day later, Yao Ruoyun's raft had been towed for 100 days and a sharing function could be added. She finally chose "one-click dust removal".

After all, the area that needs to be cleaned is far greater than the solid waste that her home needs to deal with every day.

Six days later, Lu Zheng's raft trailer also reached 100 days. The new shared function he chose for the hotel was naturally "garbage disposal". This "garbage disposal" was better than he imagined. In addition to the sink drain in the multi-functional kitchen, the drains in the public restroom and toilets in each room were also upgraded. From now on, guests in the hotel no longer have to sort and pack their own garbage.

The raft carried the new passengers eastward, taking them to wider waters.

The oceans in autumn are much calmer than in summer. Although rainstorms and storms are inevitable, the high temperatures are gradually subsiding, and rafts drifting in the waters can occasionally close their protective covers when the weather is calm, allowing people to go sea fishing and replenish seafood supplies.

If the harvest is good on a particular day, there will be a seafood barbecue dinner in the evening.

Another ten days passed, and there were only a few days left before Shu Fu's next ten-draw streak.

That day, when she was using a satellite network card to upload some new marine life data, she saw the news that the Northland Plateau was about to sink completely from one of the few websites that were still operating on the Internet.