Chapter 163: Plateau Destruction

Shu Fu responded, then clicked on the map panel again, pushing the drifting speed of the Drifting Island House to the maximum 100.

Before the rafts were started, they had already located the locations of the two giant ships and set them as the destination. At this moment, as the speed increased, a string of rafts in the front immediately carried the floating shelter at the back and swept across the water at a very fast speed, heading towards the deep waters in the south.

This time, Liu Shuang did not open the protective shield of the shelter. One reason was that the survivors had not yet received the white wristbands and were not "refugees". Once the protective shield was opened, they would all be ejected from the shelter.

Secondly, it is impossible to hide the ferrying of survivors. Compared with the "floating shelter" which is always elusive, suddenly appearing to load and unload people and then suddenly disappearing, it is better to appear openly in everyone's sight.

Anyway, other people still can't see the drifting island house and raft area in front, and that's enough.

Although the protective cover of the water shelter has not been opened, under the current weather conditions, the unique safety properties of the upgraded raft set can block most of the wind, waves and bumps from the outside world.

The survivors in the shelter didn't even realize that the shelter had already accelerated. They were still studying the hall they were in and discussing why the interior of this round house was much larger than it looked from the outside.

They also knew that a few people with special abilities had some unique skills, and they guessed that this must be the special ability of this person with special abilities.

"So we were lucky to be picked up by this special raft?"

"That should be the case. It seems that the raft's supernatural being is generous and even provides free water!"

"Do you want to fill up some water? I just drank it. The water is so clean, and there's no peculiar smell at all. It doesn't look like the filtered water with water purification tablets!" Drinking water on the northern plateau is no longer as particular as it used to be. After all, there are no such conditions. Several water plants equipped with filters are controlled by large teams. Daily water is simply filtered rainwater, and drinking water is filtered with water purification tablets added.

Even if you boil this kind of water and drink it, it will still taste strange. In the northern plateau, many people cannot even drink this kind of water.

The water purification tablets are all supplies airlifted from Xizhou Province. Now is not a peaceful time, so it is impossible for everyone to have enough supplies. In addition, each team has dedicated personnel who wait for airdrops at fixed locations and times to snatch and collect airdrops. Therefore, it is difficult for small teams with poor strength, or marginalized people who have not even joined the team, to obtain the supplies they need.

For a moment, all the survivors couldn't help but step forward, take out the bottles and cans in their backpacks, and fill them with water to drink.

There are four food machines and eight drinking water outlets in the hall, so even if there are more than a hundred people, as long as everyone abides by the order and lines up one by one, it will be their turn soon.

At first, the person at the end of the line was worried that there was limited purified water in the machine and that it would be out of water by the time it was his turn. He would occasionally stick his head out to ask the people in front of him to drink less, out of consideration for the people behind him.

We all lived in the same place, so we knew each other when we lined up together on the shore. Although there were some minor frictions, they quickly passed.

However, it was not until everyone had filled their bottles with water that they discovered that the four machines were still able to dispense new water.

Although everyone was shocked and curious, except for a few people who didn't fill their water bottles and went forward to add water, no one dared to do anything too extreme. After all, this was the raft of the superpowers, it was someone else's territory, and they were here to help them. If they really caught them and kept studying them, it would be too tactless.

Soon, someone else discovered that the sliding doors on both sides of the room they entered were closed and locked.

"Why is it locked? Is it to lock us up?" someone questioned in confusion.

But more people refuted the doubters: "Lock you? What's so special about you that you deserve to be locked up? Stop being funny, sit down and have a rest!"

"That's right. Look at how dirty you are. You even made other people's clean floors dirty. Who would want to lock you up?"

"They're probably afraid that we'll run around and fall into the water while sailing, right?"

"Yes, it's raining so hard outside, and the wind and waves are even stronger in the deep water area. If the door is not locked, the rain will pour in if we go in and out!"

The person who first questioned it was embarrassed: "No, you misunderstood me. I mean, when was the door closed and how was it locked? Don't you think it's strange?"

"It's not strange. It's just an automatic door. As for being locked, this is a raft of a superpower. The superpower must be controlling it nearby. It's very likely that he's in the doors next to us. He might be watching us. He will report our situation later..."

I have to say, this person was actually half right by accident.

On the other side of the surveillance camera, Liu Shuang raised his eyebrows slightly.

In the hall of the shelter, due to an unintentional remark by a survivor, the other survivors suddenly became more restrained. They found a chair or sat down in a corner of the hall, quietly waiting for the arrival of the ship.

After a while, someone looked at the sign at the water dispenser and couldn't help but approach his companion: "Hey, do you still remember the small raft that carried passengers for free more than half a year ago?"

Almost all the survivors in the entire Northland Plateau knew about that incident. Even though the small raft only operated near Zhangcheng most of the time, its silent and selfless attitude of carrying passengers was indeed a glimmer of light in the hearts of the survivors who were struggling in the abandoned city on the water, representing kindness and hope.

Seeing his companion nod, the man continued, "... Do you think this round house raft looks a bit like it?" They both have colorful notices posted on them, they both provide free purified water, and the raft owner is also elusive...

"The rafts are definitely not the same one. As for the similarities, they are probably just coincidences..."

"Really..." That person just had a sudden thought and guess, and he didn't really believe that the two were related. After all, even the rafts were different, so how could there be the same superpower behind them...

When the survivors thought they were only halfway through the journey, the sliding doors on both sides that were originally closed suddenly opened slowly again.

After the door opened, they saw the heavy rain outside, the waves hitting the circular deck, and the super-large ship that was already close before them in the water ahead.

They--arrived so soon!?

Everyone couldn't wait to put on their raincoats again, left the shelter and went onto the deck. Fortunately, the deck was very large and went around the shelter, so many people could stand on it at the same time.

This was supposed to be an empty deep water area with only the boundless water surface except for the heavy rain and strong winds, but now it has become lively and noisy. Near their raft roundhouse, they can see more speedboats and rafts of psychics traveling back and forth, and the boats heading in the same direction as them are full of survivors.

Most speedboats are only equipped with thick plastic films to block rain, and the effect of keeping out wind and rain is not that good. Everyone on the boats wrapped themselves in raincoats tightly, but they were still soaked by the wind and rain along the way. In addition, the temperature has gradually dropped in the past few days, and the rain has poured in through the collars of their raincoats, making them so cold that their faces turned pale.

The survivors on the rafts carrying the psychics were slightly better off, as the container houses on the front deck could shelter them from the wind and rain. However, most of the psychics' rafts did not have safety fences. So even if the survivors inside heard the noise outside and wanted to take a good look at the situation outside, they dared not come out directly in the surging waters. They could only gather at the small windows of the container houses, squeezing against each other and trying to look outside.

On the other hand, they had been staying in the warm, dry and clean spacious hall all the way, drinking free purified water. It felt like only a short time had passed, but they had actually arrived.

And because they had a good rest along the way, they were still full of energy to run out and lean against the fence to watch the fun. Even though they were standing on the deck with a wind and rain blowing in their faces, they could endure it if they thought that they would be able to board the ship soon.

Some people were looking at the huge ship in front of them with shocked expressions. The closer the raft was to the ship, the taller and bigger the ship in front of them looked, like a fortress on the water. Some of the survivors had been to Louyun City in Muzhou Province and had seen the water-blocking dam that once protected Louyun City.

Although the dam was eventually destroyed in the devastating tsunami, the once magnificent walls of the building still remain in their hearts.

Seeing such a huge ship at this moment, they immediately thought of the dam. It was not that they looked similar, but that the visual impact they brought at first sight was the same. It was an equally amazing and admirable human engineering project, and it also gave people an infinite sense of security.

They soon saw the open hole on the bottom side of the huge ship, through which boats and rafts in the surrounding waters entered and exited.

Shu Fu stood on the terrace of the hotel and saw the open hole. From a distance, the opening seemed only small compared to the entire ship. When he got closer, he found that it was like a huge indoor waterfront dock, hollow inside, about five or six stories high, the size of two football fields, and could accommodate hundreds of boats and rafts at the same time.

And this only occupies a small corner of the huge body of the ship.

The hotel is located in the middle of the raft. When the lighthouse milk tea shop is not raised, the hotel terrace is at the highest position, and standing here is convenient for her to check the surrounding situation.

She quickly adjusted the direction of the rafts, and when they were close to the ship, she turned the entire row of rafts and pushed them backwards into the ship with the shelter in front.

Under the effect of the protective shield, the drifting island house and raft inside only have their presence infinitely reduced, becoming an existence that other people and machines will not care about, but it is not invisible.

So as long as the surrounding water space is wide enough, she doesn't have to worry about colliding with other boats and rafts, because they will subconsciously avoid them, just like people walking on the road will subconsciously avoid steps and stones.

In comparison, the shape of the shelter attracted a lot of attention from the surrounding areas.

This shape, a flying saucer? An Eskimo hut? A donut?

However, although everyone is curious, they don't investigate further, after all, there are too many strange buildings on the surrounding rafts. The reason why this circular shelter attracts people's attention is that its circular deck and cabin are particularly unique.

But everyone was busy with rescue and transfer, and it was impossible for them to know every raft of superpowers sent by the authorities this time. So after this round house raft docked at the cabin dock inside the giant ship and the survivors on the circular deck boarded the ship one after another, they no longer paid attention to it.

Inside the protective cover, the residents of the raft all stayed indoors and did not go out. They were afraid that if they accidentally stretched their hands out of the protective cover while standing on the deck, they would be noticed to be doing something suspicious.

Compared to Shu Fu, they were actually a little nervous. It was not until the shelter "unloaded" the last survivor and the Drifting Island House dragged them back to the outside waters again that they quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

**

After the first rescue and unloading was successfully completed, the following process went smoothly.

The land of the Northern Plateau is half exposed and half submerged, towns are scattered everywhere, and the terrain is complex. The total number of survivors is at least hundreds of thousands. It will naturally take more than one or two days to transfer and evacuate them all.

Shu Fu and his family's shelter participated in the rescue, but it was just a small contribution in this massive rescue operation.

Their biggest advantage is that rafts do not require maintenance, inspection, or adding any fuel, and there is absolutely no possibility of grounding or collision accidents.

At midnight on the second day after the raft participated in the rescue transfer, Shu Fu once again encountered ten consecutive draws.

This time, the golden first prize trailer position was still in the lead, with two coming out first.

Next, there are some useful but not particularly needed prizes.

Green Second Prize: One-year electricity card.

She still needs the electric card at this stage, because there is only one electric energy raft for the time being, which can only provide 24-hour constant power output for three rafts at a time. Her current choices are the shelter, the breeding house and the plantation.

The plantation house used to rely on a limited-time power supply and battery panels, which were sufficient to supply all the vegetables and fruits in the plantation house. But now that the plantation house has been upgraded to a plantation house, the daily power demand has increased several times, and the power supply period set for her Drifting Island House is no longer enough to fully charge the battery panels.

The breeding house will be upgraded soon, so she prepared for the future and provided the three rafts with a 24-hour constant power supply.

In addition, other rafts have to use electricity according to the power supply period of her drifting island house.

The ample electricity cards allow her to extend her daily electricity usage, for example, from the previous four hours to six to eight hours.

Red third prize: beverage gift packs × 10.

Red third prize: flower seed gift pack (random) × 1.

This was the fourth type of seed gift package she had drawn. This gift package was somewhat similar to the vegetable and fruit seed gift package she had drawn the first time. It was also a large flat cardboard box with one hundred glass jars inside. Each jar contained a type of flower seed, covering different flowers in different seasons in different regions of the planet.

Flowers are different from fruits and vegetables. Once they grow and bloom, they can not only be picked and placed, but also transplanted with their roots. After transplantation, they can be used to decorate the house, terrace and deck, making the entire raft living environment more vibrant.

Shu Fu also liked buying flowers in her native world. She would regularly buy a bunch of beautiful daisies, which she could place indoors for a long time.

After that there are some rewards related to towing rafts.

Green First Prize: Energy Raft (Water Resources) (Note: It takes up one trailer position. After being towed, it can provide unlimited filtered purified water for 5 trailer rafts for 24 hours. It can be released at any time after being towed, and will return to the card state after being released.)

Red first prize: Upgrade set gift package (universal).

Blue 1st Prize: Upgraded Set (Bathroom)

Blue Second Prize: Affiliated Raft Holiday Card (one month)

In the last turn, my luck was so good that I actually got a golden first prize!

So far, this round of ten consecutive draws has produced a total of three towing positions, and there are already eleven towing positions behind her drifting island house. Just by imagining it, one can predict that in the future, as more rafts are towed, it will become a very long string.

The trailer space was full again, and Shu Fu planned to first hang Hua Qiong's raft and use the snack bar's suit. Because now he knew that these suits would be upgraded and strengthened after meeting certain conditions as long as they were managed step by step, so the sooner they were towed, the sooner they could be upgraded.

Hua Qiong was used to going to bed early and getting up early, so Shu Fu set the alarm clock and, when Hua Qiong was getting up, first let the raft team drift to the back of an uninhabited mountain, and then moved the "water resources" raft that was originally at position 5 to position 8.

This time, because there were three more towing positions, 9, 10 and 11, behind position 8, the raft was moved successfully.

The small "water resource" raft appeared at position 8, while Liu Shuang's shelter raft automatically appeared at position 9. Shu Fu roughly understood that due to the special nature of the shelter raft, it would automatically default to the last position of all rafts at the moment when the raft changed position.

It is now at position 9 because positions 10 and 11 are still empty, and if she continues to place new rafts or swap positions, the shelter raft will change again.

Hua Qiong hasn't taken out her raft for a long time. Although it would be nice to set up a snack stand next to her daughter's plantation, she is still looking forward to having a formal shop.

[Towing location: Hua Qiong's raft (bond value: 85).] [Starting shared function: Option 1 (protective shield); Option 2: (sewage treatment); Option 3: ()] [Special: Upgraded suit (snack bar)] (Note: When the raft is untethered, the upgraded suit will peel off and disappear, and the upgraded level will be reset to zero)]

Hua Qiong has only chosen two of the three shared functions for the time being. As for the third one, she wants to wait until she has checked out the upgraded snack bar before deciding. If the store has a compressed water tank like the one in the hotel, she will choose electric energy. If there is a battery panel, she will choose purified water, depending on the specific situation.

As Shu Fu operated on the function screen, Hua Qiong's raft was first connected and fixed to the rafts in front and behind, then covered by a protective shield, and finally changed silently inside the protective shield.