Chapter 2 Suicheng

【2】——Ghost Wall and Heavy Rain

This was the first project that she, a third-rate screenwriter, had to take charge of alone - adapting a small game into an animation.

It was also because of the generous screenwriter fees that came with the identity of chief screenwriter that she made an exception and took on the animated series adapted from the game. You know, although she was a third-rate screenwriter before and her screenwriter signature ranking was always at the bottom, she was a genuine movie screenwriter.

The prototype of the game is an old stand-alone game with very rough graphics and sloppy settings. The protagonist survives in a water world, the cheat code is a raft, and the task is to drift on the sea, survive, find supplies, upgrade the raft, and then stay alive.

This is a single infrastructure game with no main storyline, no ending, and no other players. The protagonist survives alone, and has to start all over again if he dies.

It was a new company that decided to develop the single-player game into an animated film. It was said that this game was the boss's childhood dream. Now that he has the conditions, he wants to make a complete animated film with a plot, conflicts, contradictions and passion.

The animation company is quite small, but the director and investors have many requirements. They deny this and deny that. They don't allow XXX to be written, and they don't allow OO to be written. They ask her to add cheat codes, plots, conflicts between characters and tasks, and disasters. They upgrade the intensity of the original pure water world disasters again and again...

The script hasn't even started being written, but the outline has been forced to be revised dozens of times.

Her original outline was stuffed with many plots from the company boss and the director, and had long deviated from her original idea. As a creator, she should have walked away with dignity, but as a working dog, she had to accept it.

In her native world, both her parents died, so she had to rely on herself for everything. As a social animal, she has no right to say no.

The 26th version of the outline was finally approved, and the animation company also attracted an investment. Before she officially started writing the animation script, the boss took everyone to a seaside restaurant for dinner.

While walking on the beach in the evening, she picked up a beautiful message in a bottle - this was the one that appeared in her hand after she clicked the bottle icon on the bracelet.

After living in this world for several years, she has forgotten many things about her native world. When she thinks back on it, it's like recalling things that happened four or five years ago. She remembers them but not clearly.

But she had a very deep impression of this drifting bottle, because she came into this world after she fell asleep on the night she picked up the drifting bottle.

She also remembered clearly that the drifting bottle also contained such a blue liquid, but floating on the liquid was a very ordinary sailboat ornament. The raft with the "drifting island house" was clearly the setting in her outline.

But there was no bracelet or message in a bottle in her settings.

How did these things get "hooked up" together?

"Drifting Island House" is the golden finger of the protagonist's opening. The protagonist is not called Shu Fu. The boss of the company asked her not to name the protagonist for the time being. The boss said that he would name the protagonist himself. He wanted to think of the most thunderous and shining name, but unfortunately he still couldn't think of it after half a month...

So, the “Unsinkable Floating Island House” has not been activated at this moment. Is it because she is not the protagonist, or - the name of the protagonist has not been decided yet?

Does the biggest cheat code in this setting mean that you can only look at it but not use it?

Outrageous!

**

After being shocked, Shu Fu's first reaction was to open her phone to buy a plane ticket. She wanted to leave the city immediately.

The city she lives in is called Suicheng, which is located in the southeast of Hua State. It is not by the sea and is about 800 kilometers away from the coastline. It is a pretty standard location, but the problem is that the average altitude of Suicheng is only 30 meters.

This data sounds really insecure.

However, after she opened the ticket purchasing app, she found that she could not buy tickets for any flight to any city. All the purchase columns were gray and unclickable.

At first she thought she bought it in a hurry and all flights today were full.

But later, when she opened the ticket purchase counters of the high-speed rail and long-distance bus stations, and even the taxi APP, and found that she could not buy or order any means of transportation leaving Suicheng, she suddenly realized that it was not a problem with planes and trains, but her own problem.

She didn't dwell on this strange question for too long, and immediately went out with all her documents to rent a car. She turned on the navigation system and wanted to drive off the highway by herself, but the navigation system told her that the destination could not be set.

She changed to another highway exit and directly entered Suicheng Airport and Railway Station. Finally, she even entered other cities near Suicheng as navigation destinations, but the destinations were either unreachable or could not be set.

Finally, she gave up on navigation and drove towards the outside of the city relying on her memory. Logically speaking, as long as she determined a direction and continued driving along the road, she would eventually be able to leave Suicheng.

But she wandered around the outskirts of Suicheng for two hours, and even when she asked for directions, she still couldn't leave Suicheng. She thought she had a good sense of direction, but she got lost again and again, and couldn't leave, like she was stuck in a maze.

In the end, she abandoned her car and went to the roadside to try to get a taxi, but unfortunately, the result was still the same, she couldn't get a taxi at all.

It felt like there was an invisible force preventing her from leaving Suicheng, or trapping her in this city.

She returned to the rented car. The sunlight shone on her through the car window. The temperature was scorching. She could feel everything. She also clearly remembered how she sold her house, bought a train ticket, and dragged her luggage to this city to go to school several years ago.

But now, she can't leave this city.

So, it was her who was trapped in this city, not the original "Shu Fu" in this world?

Or are the other memories before coming to this city just “memories”?

She looked at the cars speeding on the road towards the outside of the city, and an inexplicable chill spread through her body. Everyone else was normal, but she was the only one who could not leave the city.

Since morning, the world has become an abnormal world!

After realizing and recognizing this, Shu Fu gave up trying to leave and began to stockpile supplies in retaliation.

**

When Shu Fu was squatting in the corner of the garage with her chin in her hand and daydreaming, her cell phone rang and the other party said that the items she ordered had arrived at the community.

This was the first batch of supplies she ordered in revenge. When she thought of her own situation and the various disasters in the setting, she made an impulse purchase and found a water sports store in the same city online and bought a lot of water sports equipment.

From water floating ropes, life buoys, buoyancy belts to quick-drying one-piece swimsuits, cold-proof diving suits, wet water rescue suits, water rescue knives, diving boots... everything is available.

The life buoy does not need to be inflated, is not easy to break, and is small in size. It costs 170 yuan each, and she bought three.

The buoyancy belt is divided into automatic opening and manual opening types. It is instantly inflated to form a lifebuoy around the waist and abdomen. It is a very practical life-saving tool and can be reused. She bought 10. At the same time, because the belt will consume gas cylinders and water solvent tablets when it is opened once, 100 gas cylinders and water solvent tablets are also equipped.

The wet water rescue suit is the most expensive, but it comes with diving boots and a wet water rescue knife and can be used in shallow or deep water. She bought three sets.

She bought five sets of the cold-proof diving suit and five sets of the quick-drying one-piece swimsuit, one to keep out the cold and the other to keep out the heat.

She bought two small automatic inflatable boats for two people. Although they are hand-rowed, this type of inflatable boat can be automatically inflated like a buoyancy belt. It has both automatic inflation when it comes into contact with water and manual automatic inflation. It also has a windproof and rainproof triangular canopy, so it is very safe and practical. She bought two.

She also bought a waterproof bag, a snorkeling mask, a scuba diving apparatus, a portable oxygen tank, an underwater flashlight, and various small tools. This was the first huge sum of money she spent today. It was a complete impulse purchase to calm her inner panic...

But now think about it, if the water line really rises to the point where Suicheng is no longer able to survive, the world will be in chaos, and supplies will be scarce and everyone will have to snatch them. She can't carry anything on her shoulders or lift anything with her hands. Who can she beat in this cruel doomsday?

It’s better to choose a comfortable way to die. Maybe you can go back to your original world after death.

Being a salted fish seems to suit her better.

While complaining, she opened the garage door and signed for a local delivery of water sports supplies.

Water sports equipment may sound large, but most of them are inflatable and can be stored into their smallest state before use.

After being opened, the largest automatic inflatable boat is only the size of a handheld boat bag that is more than one and a half meters long. All the things added up to eight large and small waterproof travel bags can be placed completely in the garage.

She closed the garage door again, put the water equipment into the space of the bracelet backpack, and felt a little more at ease.

More than thirty minutes later, the water station clerk came to deliver water in a three-wheeled electric vehicle.

The tricycles at the water station are divided into two types: barreled water trucks and boxed water trucks. The barreled truck can carry 25 barrels, while the boxed truck can only carry 20 boxes, so two trucks came and went, intending to unload all the water for her at once.

At this moment, there were only a small number of supermarket paper towels, a few large bags of snacks, a few bags of rice and other supplies left in the garage. Shu Fu saw that the boxes of water on the second car were also full, and because the boxes of water could be stacked, there was still enough space in the garage, so she asked if the remaining 10 boxes on the other car could also be unloaded to her.

The other party was originally going to deliver water to other places after delivering here, but there was no reason to refuse business, so he called the boss and after getting a positive response, he moved the other 10 boxes of water in the car into the garage.

Shu Fu transferred the balance to her boss, thanked him, and looked back at the forty full boxes of purified water in the garage. Her heart felt a little more at ease.

It was a weekday afternoon, the community was shabby and there was no surveillance. In addition, the sky was cloudy and the garage was in a remote corner, so no one noticed the situation here.

Shu Fu left four or five boxes of water in there for temporary storage, and put the rest into the space of the bracelet backpack. She symbolically picked up a few boxes of tissues and two large bags of snacks, then locked the door and returned to her residence.

**

She took the internal stairwell in the middle of the building, five floors plus the height of the garage, a total of six floors to climb.

She just graduated in the summer and moved here a few months ago. She thought she would start working on her own, so she signed a two-year lease. Although the community here is run-down, if you look carefully, you will find better and newer houses.

This type of householder also takes good care of his or her house and is not willing to rent it to a group of people or to a family with a large population.

For a female college student like Shu Fu who had just graduated and lived alone, the landlord was naturally happy to rent the house to her and even gave her a small discount.

The house is not big, less than 60 square meters, with one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom. It occupies the easternmost corner of the building. Outside the north-facing gate is a full-length corridor. There is no wall on the north side of the corridor, only a fence. The open kitchen and dining area are at the entrance of the house. On the left is the bathroom, which has a window facing east.

A narrow bar table separates the dining room and the living room. The living room faces south and has a small balcony with a glass sliding window. Because of the high floor, the sunlight is very good and it is very convenient to dry clothes. The bedroom is in the southeast corner, with a window facing south.

The whole house is not accessible from north to south. The kitchen window is a long window next to the front door. Because there is a walkway outside, the lighting is not very good and the lights have to be turned on during the day. In addition, for safety reasons, anti-theft bars are installed outside the window. Looking out from the inside is like being in an iron cage.

But compared with the disadvantages, there are more advantages: compared with other buildings near the community, the floor is higher, the small balcony has good light, and it is in a convex rectangular shape, with a wide field of vision, and you can see everything around. The original house has little furniture and the owner agreed that she can renovate the house without changing the house type...

Now the wallpaper in the house is new, the curtains are also new, there are not many pieces of furniture, but most of them are brand new discounted items that she bought bit by bit from the furniture market. The whole house is decorated in a natural wood style, which is warm and comfortable.

Shu Fu had originally planned to buy some more things, but now as soon as she entered this house, she would be reminded of her real home in her native world and immediately become paralyzed.

It was a brand new loft on the 20th floor, with a constant temperature and oxygen design, and all smart appliances with remote control and voice control. The loan had just been paid off...

The height of the apartment she is renting now is fine in the short term, but it is definitely not suitable for the long term. There are no high mountains in Suicheng, so she has to find a tall building in the city to continue living.

The tallest building in Suicheng is in the commercial center, on the top floor, No. 66. She should be able to survive there for a long time, but she needs to stock up on food and drinks, and many things need to be purchased online or in the city. For now, it is definitely more convenient for her to stay in this house.

The room was very stuffy, so she casually threw the things she brought into the room into the space on her bracelet backpack, turned on the air conditioner in the living room, took off her sun protection clothes, went to the tea machine, poured herself a glass of purified water and drank it all, then she lay down on the sofa, emptying her mind in revenge, until her cell phone rang and a new batch of supplies was delivered, then she got up mechanically.

All ordered goods are delivered to her door. For lighter and smaller items, she will have them delivered directly to her door. For heavier items or items in large quantities, such as boxed drinks, milk, coffee, milk tea, and coconut water, she will leave the address of the battery garage and go downstairs to pick them up herself.

In the next three to four hours, she ran up and down the stairs eight or nine times. She didn't even realize how much she bought. In addition to food and cleaning supplies, she even bought ten power banks...

Because it was a cloudy day, it was completely dark around six o'clock.

When she came out of the garage after collecting things for the last time, it was raining heavily outside.

The rainstorm finally came. Fortunately, an umbrella was on her shopping list. She took out a new umbrella from the space in her bracelet backpack, locked the garage door, and turned to walk towards the stairwell.