Chapter 164: Plateau Destruction

It looked like a small log-colored building that leaned back, and the whole house seemed to have been cut off by a part of the deck.

The small building is relatively large, occupying two-thirds of the raft. It is high in front and low in the back, with a log exterior wall, and a somewhat abstract shape. The small building has two floors. The first floor is like a semi-open booth area. The front is an open foyer with log-colored walls and large floor-to-ceiling glass. There is no door, so you can go straight inside.

There is no compressed space effect inside this booth area. The walls on both sides are floor-to-ceiling glass, and it has the main characteristics of a commercial raft: good lighting and good views.

There are two double booths and one four-person booth inside, and two raft point redemption machines next to the booths. The design is simple, but has a sense of simplicity and freshness. Compared to the name "snack bar", Shu Fu feels that this place is more like a casual dining bar.

Further inside the booth area, there is a restroom in the middle, with a staircase on each side. One leads upwards, turns around and leads to the raft owner's living space, and the other leads downwards, passing through the open deck and directly to the bottom of the deck.

Hua Qiong followed Shu Fu's advice and went to the upstairs living space to get the electronic screen inside the door, and then the two of them walked towards the stairs on the other side.

Shu Fu had just walked down a few stairs when she saw the swaying light of the water coming up from below - this was actually an underwater shop!

There should be a compressed space underneath, but because it is just a beginner set, it is not very big, estimated to be around 50 square meters. It looks exquisite and compact, with original wood floors and ceilings, and the colors look very warm. The surrounding walls are floor-to-ceiling glass walls covered with electric blinds. Although the blinds are all hanging down at the moment, they are all in the open state. No wonder I saw the swaying water light as soon as I came down.

After discovering that the store's official business area was in the underwater space below the deck, Shu Fu realized that the booth area on the upper level was more like a waiting area, or a backup dining area for some guests who were not used to underwater restaurants. This was the store's real dining area.

Standing in the direction of the stairs, you can see two sets of rectangular tables and chairs next to the left and right glass walls, which can seat four people at the same time. There is another set of tables and chairs next to the glass wall on the side close to the stairs. Because they are all next to the glass wall, guests who come to eat can choose to close or raise the blinds.

In addition, there is a slightly larger round table in the middle of the store, which is suitable for large gatherings.

The kitchen is next to the glass wall facing the stairs. It is the first compartment made of log walls. There is a horizontal serving counter on the front wall and a door on the side.

The kitchen is divided into two parts with a door in the middle. The inner room is a warehouse with two large freezers and a large refrigerator, which are convenient for placing some ingredients that need to be refrigerated and frozen, so that other partners who come to work without backpack space can take them by themselves. There are also many storage racks and several employee lockers next to it.

The outer room is the kitchen area, which looks different from an ordinary kitchen. There is only one stove for cooking, and next to it is a long row of cabinet-like machines with a display screen on each machine.

There is a western-style island on the side, and there are matching high-legged chairs for resting next to the island. It doesn't look like a work area, but more like a place for people to sit and rest. On the countertop next to it, all kitchen appliances and pots and pans are also available.

Hua Qiong looked carefully at the pots, pans, and utensils here. Perhaps because the shop was built on a raft, all the utensils here were made of a hard metal. They looked like stainless steel, but they looked better than stainless steel, with a matte texture, and were neatly placed in several large drawers.

The kitchen appliances are just like the kitchen inside the RV, they are all fixed in the cabinets or countertops, and will not shake and fall due to occasional large winds and waves.

In addition, there is a display screen on the wall inside the serving counter, and a display screen on the left and right sides of the outside of the kitchen wall.

After studying the electronic screen in his hand, Hua Qiong expressed surprise that this was actually a fully automatic kitchen!

**

The sides of the row of cabinet-like machines can be opened, revealing a meal learning area, a raw material delivery box, and a place to place dishes.

This machine can currently simulate and learn ten dishes. Just put a finished meal into the learning area, then click on the display screen to set the record, and the machine will record the taste, quantity and cooking method of the meal.

After that, just put all the raw materials and ingredients needed to make this dish into the raw material delivery box, the machine will automatically make it from cleaning to production, and the finished product will eventually appear from the machine's food delivery area.

Of course, the machine can not only record, but also delete a recorded meal and replace it with a new one.

For example, Hua Qiong now stir-fries a dish of shredded green peppers and potatoes by herself, then places the dish in the food learning area and clicks on the screen to let the machine simulate learning.

After about a certain period of time, the machine will display the recorded dishes, and then she can find the dish at any time on the display screen. When she wants to make it, as long as the raw material box contains basic seasonings such as potatoes, green peppers, salad oil and salt, she can directly click on the screen, choose to confirm the production and the number of servings to be made, and the machine will automatically complete all subsequent processes. After a certain period of time, new green pepper and potato shreds will appear in plates from the food delivery area.

The time it takes to simulate learning and prepare the dish depends on the complexity of the dish, the amount of ingredients and the number of servings required.

Just like making a bowl of bubble wontons, the process is definitely much more complicated because a lot of raw materials are needed, including pork, flour, chicken, salt, chicken essence, onion, ginger... The pork must be made into minced meat, the chicken must be made into chicken soup, and the flour must be made into wonton wrappers. Relatively speaking, it will definitely take more time, but overall it will be much shorter than pure manual production.

Most importantly, with this machine, Hua Qiong can easily stock up on some food during non-business hours, and then quickly sell the food during business hours.

Of course, the prerequisite for accomplishing all this is that the store has access to water and electricity.

As for the other three screens, their functions are similar. They are the menu display screens for the day. After clicking on them, you can set the store menu, set price points, and upload pictures of meals. At the same time, each page will automatically display the snack bar operator's wristband QR code.

The two display screens outside are equivalent to an active menu. When customers come in, they only need to check the menu, scan the code to order, pay the order after confirmation, and then the ordered dishes will appear on the display screen in the kitchen.

After preparing the food, the person working in the kitchen needs to click on the display screen to confirm the order that has been served. After that, the snack bar system will automatically pop up a prompt on the corresponding customer's wristband, and the other party can come and pick up the food according to the prompt.

The whole process of picking up the food is somewhat similar to the Bubble Wonton Shop that Hua Qiong used to run. When there are many customers in the shop, after ordering and receiving the serial number, you need to go to the pick-up counter to get the food when the food is served.

Chopsticks, spoons, chili peppers, chopped green onions, coriander and other condiments are all prepared next to the serving counter and customers can help themselves.

Apart from the store location and the surprises in the kitchen, this snack bar was very similar to the wonton shop that Hua Qiong had run previously, especially the serving counter, which gave her a long-lost sense of familiarity.

She can research new delicacies here, let the machine learn and record them, and quickly serve them to customers. She can also make delicious home-cooked dishes manually when she feels like it. How to run the business is up to her.

Hua Qiong touched every appliance and item in the kitchen with special care, and her eyes couldn't help but become moist.

She turned to look at Shu Fu, her voice trembling slightly: "Thank you."

She really didn't know what else to say except thank you.

Shu Fu smiled at her, said nothing more, and took her to check the living space on the upper floor. It was also about 70 square meters with two bedrooms and a living room, with simple furniture and home furnishings.

What is different from her daughter's plantation house is that this residence is upstairs, with a balcony on each side. The balcony is enclosed by glass, but the lighting is very good.

Hua Qiong could easily imagine how warm and comfortable the scene would be if she laid out a blanket here, put out a rocking chair, and planted a few pots of beautiful flowers. When the flowers bloomed, she could sit here with her daughter and look at the endless ocean outside.

Probably because this is also a commercial raft, there are battery panels on the top of the building, but unfortunately there is no compressed water tank.

Fortunately, Shu Fu now has many towing positions. She took out the newly drawn "Water Resources" raft card, activated it and placed it at position 9, while the shelter raft originally at position 9 automatically moved to position 10.

It just so happens that the shelter doesn’t have 24-hour purified water, but now it can be supplied.

Afterwards, the last sharing function was selected for Huaqiong Raft: electric energy.

The electricity in the Drifting Island House is now allocated for eight hours a day, which is enough even if Hua Qiong wants to run a snack bar. The battery panels can keep equipment that requires 24-hour electricity, such as refrigerators and freezers, running during power outages in the snack bar.

Currently, the snack bar can hire two employees, one at the front desk and one in the kitchen.

The store saves the work of ordering and delivering food, but still needs an employee to watch in front, clean up the tableware, and clear the garbage at any time. As for the used tableware and dishes, there is a large automatic dishwasher in the kitchen, which can automatically wash, disinfect and dry as long as there is water and electricity.

As for the kitchen, with the area for automatic meal preparation, Hua Qiong can handle it all by herself. She just needs to study carefully and select ten dishes with reasonable combinations.

Therefore, she felt that as long as she hired one more person, she would be able to run the business smoothly.

But unfortunately, there is a shortage of people on the raft at the moment. Among the newcomers, the young and strong one is the only one left with a vacant seat: Liu Zhen.

When it comes to recruiting workers, other people have to be willing to take the initiative. Just like Xu Jiechu, he would rather learn fighting than work a day's job. Even his own brother can't do it, so it's impossible for others to force him.

Finally, Hua Qiong thought about it and prepared to write a job opening notice and post it in the open booth area on the deck. Anyway, the raft area is so small now, and everyone will definitely come to visit when they find a new raft building here, and they will be able to see it then.

Currently recruiting workers are front desk staff, and there are no specific requirements. Free meals are provided, and the working days per week are set at five days. This means that even if the snack bar opens, Huaqiong will only be open five days a week, and will no longer be working 365 days a year as before.

**

After completing the trailer and upgrade set, Shu Fu returned to the Drifting Island House. She thought about the red first prize she had won again in this ten-draw streak. Now she had three gift pack cards to use with the upgrade set.

Out of curiosity, she tried it on the function screen, and just like last time, a list of available rafts popped up for her to choose.

The list that jumped out this time is: 1. Chen Fa’s raft; 2. Hua Qiong’s raft; 3. Liu Shuang’s raft.

The first two names were within her guess. She estimated that after using them, all kinds of matching ingredients would appear in Chen Fa and Hua Qiong's stores, filling up the now empty cabinets, shelves, refrigerators and freezers.

But Liu Shuang’s raft…the shelter can actually be used?

What happens after using it?

She thought that after there were actual refugees living in the shelter, she could discuss it with Liu Shuang and perhaps try using the accompanying gift package cards.

Shu Fu thought so, ate some breakfast, and then started a new day of rescue activities.

Official rescue operations are carried out 24 hours a day because personnel can be replaced in shifts, but when the weather suddenly turns bad, ordinary boats have to take a break.

As for the raft of the superpowers, there is no problem in dealing with ordinary bad weather. Even if the owner of the raft needs to sleep and rest, members of the rescue team can board the raft and continue to assist in the rescue work.

Like the survivors, the rescue team members can take shelter in the container house or operate the marine motor or sail added to the raft.

Shu Fu was not afraid of any bad weather, but she had to rest because she was the only one who could operate the drifting island house. So she was very busy these two days. Except for the seven to eight hours of sleep every day, she spent the rest of the time operating the raft to travel between the abandoned city and the giant ship.

The friends on the raft only watched during the first few rescue operations out of curiosity and nervousness. Later, when they found that they could not help but would not be a hindrance, they each followed the routine and continued their work and life.

**

By the evening of that day, when the shelter carrying another group of survivors arrived at the interior of the giant ship and unloaded all the personnel, Shu Fu, who was on the terrace of the Drifting Island House, suddenly heard the air raid sirens coming from all around.

Her first reaction was that the special shape of the shelter had finally attracted the attention of the authorities, and someone had taken it seriously and checked all the rafts of the psychics, confirming that the strangely shaped round house raft did not belong to their official rescue team.

But soon, she overturned this speculation.

If it was just for her raft, there would be no need to sound the air raid alarm to this extent. Wouldn't it be better to just send a few team members with guns to surround the shelter?

She walked to the fence and looked around. She soon discovered that the rescue workers on other nearby ships were all alert. They stood up and listened attentively to the air raid sirens echoing inside and outside the giant ship. They soon showed solemn expressions, talked to each other for a few words, and began to urge the survivors still on the boats to board quickly.

The survivors were also very nervous. Like Shu Fu, they heard the air raid sirens but were not sure what they meant.

There had been bad weather in the area over the past few days, and the rescue ships had been interrupted for a time, and the time they were supposed to board the ship had been delayed. But even so, they had never heard anyone say that the giant ship had sounded the air defense alarm.

Is this a big disaster coming?

The survivors who were already inside the giant ship also heard the air raid sirens sounding simultaneously from the two giant ships. The long, piercing sound made people's eardrums buzz, and their hearts began to beat uncontrollably.

The survivors who had been separated into different cabins of the giant ship rushed to the portholes and looked out through the double-layer glass. It is said that the porthole glass of the giant ship is submarine glass, which is highly hard and transparent and can withstand the strong pressure of the deep sea.

Therefore, in order to save materials, the windows of some cabins of the giant ship are made very small.

At this moment, so many people gathered in front of the window, but no one could figure out what was happening outside.

They only saw that the boats and rafts that had been traveling in an orderly manner between the giant ship and the land began to speed up, and those boats closer to the giant ship flew across the water, ignoring the bumps of the waves, and quickly rushed towards the hole under the giant ship.

The boats and rafts that were originally in the shallow water all turned around and quickly headed towards the higher land in the north. Then, under the guidance of the rescue team members, they quickly disembarked and looked for solid shelter on the shore.

Above the giant ship, more than a dozen helicopters took off at the same time, heading towards the abandoned city area, and began to issue air defense alerts throughout the area.