Chapter 23 Suicheng

It is very simple to test her guess. Just choose the direction in the driving mode and adjust the speed to "go with the flow", and you will get the result quickly.

However, this experiment was of little significance, and she was tired and hungry at the moment. She was not sure how many rescue team ships had not yet evacuated from Suicheng, so it was not advisable to move rashly for the time being.

The screen of the phone she had placed on the bar table next to the front door began to flash. The same number called several times. She had saved this number. It was Cheng Yu's number.

He must have discovered that she was not on the boat much earlier than she expected.

She originally thought that he would come to check on her arrival after all the ships had evacuated to the shelter in the suburbs of Ningcheng. But by then the ships had already docked, and she had blended into the crowd, so it wouldn't be too strange if she couldn't find her.

She didn't know how he knew about her situation at this time when he was on another ship, which made her feel a little tricky.

Zhang Tian, ​​Chen Fa, Wu Shaoshan and Zheng Feifei were not in the same evacuation shelter as her, and they had always thought that she had evacuated according to the procedures. They had occasionally contacted her in the past two days, and she had always responded promptly because they would not doubt the authenticity of her evacuation.

But she couldn't answer Cheng Yu's call.

They came out of the same shelter and boarded the same ships. At this moment, these ships have not yet docked. In his eyes, she has disappeared from the ship for no reason.

In such an environment, there is only one possibility for someone to go missing from the boat: falling into the water.

Shu Fu didn't know whether he would ask rescuers to return and look for her in the surrounding waters, but she knew that it would be impossible to explain this matter to him clearly, so she couldn't answer the phone. But it was not appropriate to ignore him like this. She didn't want to waste other people's rescue resources.

Shu Fu thought about it, picked up her phone, wrote a message, sent it to Cheng Yu, then quickly turned off the phone and removed the SIM card.

The message she sent was: I'm safe, but I have some personal matters to take care of. Sorry, please let others know I'm safe. Thank you.

Deep in her heart, she still held on to a glimmer of hope that she could return to her original world.

Whether it was Cheng Yu, Yao Ruoyun, or Lu Zheng, they were people she would never see again, so there was no need for explanation, but she also didn't want others to worry for no reason.

This is the best way, leaving an unexplainable answer, and as time goes by, they will naturally forget it.

Fortunately, when she bought other mobile phones and satellite phones, she also bought new phone cards, so if she really wanted to contact the outside world, she would not be completely helpless.

As for Zhang Tian and the others, she can use another electronic product to log into WeChat directly to contact them. Cheng Yu doesn't know her WeChat, and as long as she doesn't enable location permission on WeChat, it is impossible for others to locate her.

For a while, she had to hide for a while until the evacuation of Suicheng was completely completed and other people truly realized that the end of the world had come, the world began to become chaotic, and the number of casualties and missing persons increased. Only then could she truly hide among them and not worry about attracting other people's attention because of her disappearance.

Shu Fu took out a big pot of oxtail bone and radish soup from the shelf in the bracelet space. It was a big pot full of soup that she had cooked at home earlier. She had only drunk it once.

At this moment, as the lid is opened, the aroma of oxtail soup hits your nose.

She took out bowls, chopsticks and spoons from the cabinet under the bar table, served herself a large bowl of soup, put the pot back, and took out a box of crispy fried chicken wings and a cup of taro bubble milk tea.

These days, she eats three meals a day, either instant noodles or self-heating rice. For breakfast, she eats two small pieces of bread at most, and the side dishes are only boiled eggs and ham sausage. The taste of self-heating rice is far inferior to the takeaway rice and homemade fried rice. Although instant noodles are very fragrant, after eating them for five or six days in a row, she starts to feel sick.

What's more, she was used to eating fresh fruits, fresh meat, vegetables, and sweets every day, but she couldn't eat any of them these days. When her mouth was bored between meals, she could only chew some small and easy-to-store snacks such as dried fruits and vegetables and candies.

But even with these, the amount of food should not be too much, because the space in the backpack is limited. It is reasonable to take out one or two cans of sugar and a few bags of dried fruits and vegetables, but it is impossible to move things into the space unlimitedly.

Therefore, although she was very hungry now, she didn't want to eat noodles or rice. She just wanted to eat some fried crispy meat.

The fried chicken wings here are all cooked to perfection, with the skin fried crispy and sprinkled with cumin powder. When you take a bite, the salty and fragrant gravy inside bursts out immediately.

The chicken wings were marinated and the chicken was well-seasoned. When she bit into them, the chicken was torn into strands and the delicious juice overflowed. The fragrance was so fragrant that her intuition was awakened and she felt a sense of happiness that went straight to her soul.

After taking a bite of chicken wings, a sip of taro bubble milk tea, and then a sip of nourishing oxtail bone soup sprinkled with chopped green onions, Shu Fu felt like she had completely come back to life.

There were ten crispy chicken wings in a box. She drank a big bowl of soup and ate six chicken wings and couldn't eat any more.

She put the dishes and chopsticks containing food waste into the kitchen sink, went to the function screen, enabled the two options of "waste crushing and purification", and then started using the new function.

The kitchen sink is different from the bathroom sink. The drain has a cover and a filter. After removing all of them, it becomes a sewer opening where garbage can enter.

Shu Fu had 100% confidence in the function of the Drifting Island House and dumped the food waste directly into it. A subtle clicking sound came from deep below the pool, as if something was being ground, accompanied by a slight sound of water.

After about three or four seconds, all the subtle movements calmed down.

Is this the end?

Shu Fu was a little surprised. She had seen videos of this type of household garbage disposal machine before. Not only did she have to turn on the faucet first, she also had to start the machine manually, and then wait for more than ten seconds. And the water had to keep flowing during the entire process.

But now, the process is completely automatic.

She checked the function screen and found that the water level in the "water tank" was still 478L. The amount of water used to process the garbage just now should have been less than 1L.

This "garbage crushing and purification" function is so practical that it perfectly solves the problem of domestic waste.

Of course, she would have to put another trash can in the living room outside the cabin to facilitate the disposal of some ordinary dry garbage. It would be best if she could find a place to discard it in the future. If not, she would just throw it down the sink.

Shu Fu put the sink filter back in, washed the dishes, took out a radio-shaped Bluetooth speaker from the space, turned on another mobile phone, opened the soothing music playlist that she had downloaded earlier, listened to the music with the sound of rain outside, drank taro bubble milk tea, and began to decorate the new kitchen area.

All those stacked storage boxes of varying sizes were moved to the outside of the kitchen compartment and neatly placed against the walls of the compartment.

The refrigerator, coffee machine, and daily dishes and cups that were originally placed in the living room were all moved to the kitchen. The door of the kitchen compartment happened to be opposite the door of the bathroom compartment, so it was more convenient to connect the power cord.

Because she had the wristband space as a moving tool, she could set up the kitchen very quickly. The food that was originally stored at room temperature in the living room was also moved into the wooden cabinet in the kitchen. The cabin did not have 24-hour electricity, so she temporarily used the refrigerator as a storage cabinet to store some room-temperature drinks that would not go bad in a short time.

The microwave oven, oven, pots, electric kettle, induction cooker, knives, cleaning utensils... that were originally placed in the house were also taken out by her and put back in their proper places one by one. This originally extremely simple small compartment finally looked like a kitchen.

Finally, she attached two long, rechargeable human body sensor lights on the wall above the sink and on the wall near the entrance.

This lamp can be stuck anywhere. It is a long and thin strip that can be used for a long time on a single charge. The most important thing is that as long as the switch is turned on, it will automatically sense and dim when no one is around, and brighten when someone is around.

In the living room, on the side close to the bathroom wall, after the refrigerator and coffee machine were taken away, only the standing water bar was left. Now that the area has become larger, this area seems empty, so Shu Fu took out a small revolving bookcase that was originally placed in the living room and placed it against the angle between the walls on both sides.

The revolving bookcase is more than two meters high and rotates 360 degrees. It has a total of six layers. In addition to books, it can also hold some small items.

For example, Bluetooth speakers, power banks, drinking cups, tea cans...

The left side of the bookcase near the floor-to-ceiling window is covered with thick cushions and pillows, where you can lean on them to listen to music and read books.

Replace the single sofa with a larger, wider and softer double sofa, so you can choose to snuggle here when taking a nap.

A small dining table and a dining chair are placed on the other side of the window. Now we have to eat in the Drifting Island House every day. We can sit on the floor and eat in front of the coffee table, but it will be uncomfortable to sit for a long time. What's more, the space in the house has increased. In addition to the sofa and coffee table, there is more than enough space to add a dining table and chairs by the window.

Afterwards, she put away the camping air mattress next to the floor-to-ceiling window on the other side, placed the mattress that had been stored in the space before on the original sleeping place, and re-covered it with sheets, thin blankets, and pillows and thin quilts.

This mattress is 1.5 meters by 2 meters. I bought it when I moved here. It is moderately soft and hard and very comfortable to sleep on. I didn’t think of putting it in the drifting island house because it was too small. Now that the raft has been upgraded, this mattress can be put in completely. It will be more comfortable to sleep in the cabin at night in the future.

There are also two shoe-changing areas at the front and back doors. She decided to lay carpets and put in simple small shoe cabinets made of assembled materials...

Shu Fu enjoyed decorating the cabin. Each thing she did was a trivial matter, but for her now, this would be her daily life in the future, and each thing was very important.

After simply decorating the cabin, she took out the power card and tried out the new function she had been thinking about for a long time.

[Whole house electricity energy: Electricity card equipped (23:59:58)]

After activation, a string of numbers will be displayed behind the electricity card. According to the 24-hour usage time of the electricity card, this should be the remaining time that the Drifting Island House can use electricity.

But after activation, how to use electricity?

She had never found any socket switches in the cabin, and after clicking on the function screen, no new options popped up except "Do you want to uninstall the power card?"

Shu Fu was a little confused. Could it be that she was not careful enough and did not find the power switch in the cabin?

As she was thinking, she suddenly heard the faint sound of music coming from the kitchen. The music sounded like the music reminder when a text message came in on the phone, short and very familiar.

She walked into the kitchen with some suspicion, and the sensor light lit up automatically. She saw that the light on the setting interface of the double-door refrigerator in the kitchen lit up.

How is that possible?

When she was setting up the kitchen just now, she hadn't had time to connect the refrigerator's power cord to the generator's socket. How come there is electricity suddenly now?

Shu Fu reached out and opened the refrigerator. The light inside really came on. At the same time, she heard the sound of the refrigerator starting to cool.

She was stunned for two seconds, then suddenly realized what was going on. She turned around and tried to turn on the microwave, oven, and induction cooker one by one. Sure enough, every household appliance that needed electricity had power, but she had not connected any of them to a socket!

So this is what “whole house electricity energy” means!

As long as the electricity card is equipped, all the household appliances in this wooden house can be used directly without being connected within the usage time!

"Awesome!" Shu Fu couldn't help but praise out loud.

What kind of black technology is this, a must-have for lazy people at home and traveling!

Shu Fu quickly checked every part of the wooden house, hoping that she had not overlooked any function. As a result, she actually discovered a little difference.

When the cabin is equipped with an electric card, some rechargeable electronic products such as mobile phones, power banks, electric hot water bottles, and rechargeable lamps will automatically enter the charging state as long as they are placed in the cabin.

When the faucet is turned on, the water flowing out is no longer cold water, but warm hot water, and the temperature of the hot water will change as the faucet is turned left and right, similar to the gas water heater she used at home before, which heats up immediately when turned on and the temperature can be adjusted at will.

The new feature is perfect and impeccable. The only problem is that the electric card currently seems to be only available through a lottery, and the chance of winning depends entirely on luck.

Thinking in this way, this electricity card seemed particularly precious. She immediately went to the screen and uninstalled the electricity card. She wanted to save such precious electricity for the whole house until she needed it most. It would be best to take out all the electrical appliances that needed charging in her space and charge them at the same time to make full use of the usage time.

If you use a small amount of electricity on a daily basis, a generator is more suitable.

She carefully put the electric card into the space and took out another golden card. This was the drifting bottle shield experience card she drew that can be used on any level of raft. In the current situation, she felt that she needed to figure out what kind of shield this was.

She put the card on the screen, and the screen sensed the card and a message popped up: [Drift Bottle Shield 24-hour trial card, do you want to use it? ]

She clicks "Use".

[The raft has entered the drifting bottle protection shield state (23:59:57). In this protection state, the entire raft area is upgraded to "master mode", and a "drifting bottle barrier" is formed around the raft. The sense of existence of the space inside the barrier is infinitely reduced, making it a meaningless and natural reasonable floating object on the water. Even if it is seen, it will not attract any attention. ]

This was the first time Shu Fu saw such a detailed explanation of the function on the function screen, but if it hadn't been explained in such detail, she really wouldn't have been able to understand the function at first.

Reasonable floating objects on the water that are seen but do not attract attention, meaningless - in simple terms, they are like building debris floating on the water, weeds and stones on the roadside, which, even though they are there every day and seen by countless passers-by, will not attract anyone's attention.

Because, that's just meaningless.

It's not about disappearing from other people's sight, but becoming a more natural, reasonable and meaningless existence. The function of this protective shield is so good that it's a bit against the sky. No wonder it is a gold third prize item.

Shu Fu had already figured out how to get back to his residence within the raft's usage time limit tomorrow.

She reached out and cancelled the protective shield status of the drifting bottle on the screen, and also carefully put the golden card into the space.

Afterwards, she took out the lottery wheel from her bracelet, took a deep breath, and started the lottery.

After completing this task, there will be a total of five chances to draw a lottery. Her requirements are not high. Even if she can't draw the five prizes of gold, green and red, the more the better.

However--

Red fourth prize: Sichuan cuisine gift pack.

This gift package surprised her more than the barbecue and hot pot gift packages, because the Sichuan dishes in this gift package were all cooked, and each dish was packed in a very environmentally friendly kraft paper packaging box. The variety of dishes included all the Sichuan dishes she knew and didn't know. She counted and found that there were more than 30 boxes, which meant that there were more than 30 Sichuan dishes.

Green fourth prize: one-week electricity card.

Blue fourth prize: back door eaves.

Gold third prize: Drift bottle protective cover (24-hour experience card).

Her luck was so good in this lottery that there was no prize lower than the fourth prize, and in the end she even won the second prize!

[Blue Second Prize: Automatic Water Fishing Rod (Daily Use Times: 3, can be used on any level of raft)]

【Do you want to receive the prize? 】

【whether】

Even though it was the blue prize that she least wanted to win, as soon as she saw the words "Second Prize", she knew it was a rare prize, so she chose to receive the prize immediately.

Just like when she received the blue prize before, the prize did not appear in front of her, and only the words "Already Placed" were displayed on the lottery wheel.

She used her cell phone as a flashlight and carefully checked every corner of the cabin. Nothing had changed inside. She then expanded her search to outside the cabin and finally saw a new object on a raft outside the front door of the cabin.

It was called a fishing rod, but it looked more like an automatic fishing trap. It was placed outside the one-meter-high wooden fence on the right side of the eaves of the front door, close to the edge of the raft.

It consists of a roller with a thin cable, a metal rod, a large metal basket and a metal box containing the metal basket. The operation looks simple because there are only three buttons on it. One button is "throw", another button is "collect", and the last button is "disinfection".

The side of the metal box facing the water surface is currently open, and the metal basket inside can be clearly seen. The mesh of the metal basket is very fine, there are no hooks for bait, and there is no net bag. The bottom seems to be movable and can be opened, much like the grappling hook of the fool fishing device in the game.

In the original stand-alone game on which the creation of "Unsinkable Floating Island House" is based, the fishing rod is also an important prop, which allows players to harvest various kinds of sea fish and seafood. Seafood and sea fish can be cooked to increase satiety.

But she did not include this setting in the main outline of the animation. After all, fishing rods in the water world are too common and are almost the default equipment.

Moreover, the fishing rod in the game and the one in front of her now have nothing in common except the name.

Shu Fu squatted under the eaves and checked for a while, and finally decided to give it a try, so he reached out and pressed the "throw" button.

As she pressed the button, the rollers turned, and the metal basket slid out of the metal box, slid along the metal rod pointing underwater, and sank into the water with a gentle sound.

The roller continued to turn for a long time, and the thin cable was not completely released. It even turned back a few times, as if someone was really fishing and adjusting the length of the fishing line.

After that, there was no movement.

If you fish normally, you will also need to wait for a long time.

But now this area is flooded land, so the possibility of there being fish should be small, right?

Shu Fu didn't hesitate. It was just her first attempt after all. She pressed the button and went back to the cabin.

If the raft is used continuously, it can only be used until 12 noon tomorrow. She has finished all the work she needs to do now and plans to go to bed early. After all, it is her first time to spend the night on the water. The better she goes to bed and gets up early, the more energy she will have to deal with any problems in the second half of the night.

There are no locks on either door of the cabin, but with the "master mode" on, there is no need to lock the door.

She turned off the bathroom light and glanced at the function screen again as she passed the back door. She felt as if she had overlooked something in this upgrade.

It was not until she set the alarm clock, turned off the desk lamp, turned on the rechargeable night light on the revolving bookshelf, and lay down comfortably on the bed covered with a thin quilt that she remembered what she had overlooked.

This time, after the raft was upgraded to level 2, there did not seem to be a progress bar showing the raft upgrading to level 3.

Is it because the new task hasn't arrived yet, so it's not displayed?

She turned over in the thin quilt, looked at the dark water outside the floor-to-ceiling window, listened to the crackling sound of rain on the glass, and quickly closed her eyes.

**

At five in the morning, she woke up to the sound of the alarm. Because she went to bed early, she slept for eight hours.

The Drifting Island House can filter out the excessively noisy rain sounds from the outside world, and it has a constant temperature, dryness and comfort. In addition, it has unique stability, so she slept better this time than in the previous few nights in the library.

It was still pitch black outside, the rain was still pouring down, and visibility was very low.

It was not cold in the room at all, and she did not add any more clothes. She was still wearing her long-sleeved cotton home clothes. She went to the bathroom to wash up first, then took a cup of hot latte she had made from the space. While drinking it, she took out the tablet, found the Suicheng map, came to the function screen, and opened the water map on it.

She compared the two maps and roughly found the location of her home on the water map. She took out a red pen and lightly tapped it to leave a mark.

Although the raft can currently be set to drift in a certain direction, there are only four options: east, south, west, and north. It is not possible to make it go in a curve.

So according to the direction of the mark, she had to walk a distance to the east first, and then manually adjust the raft to face south. The entire water area was like a horizontal oval, so the distance to the east was about twice as long as the distance to the south.

Fortunately, as the raft "goes with the flow", it will automatically bypass obstacles and make subtle adjustments so as not to hit buildings above the water or touch underwater obstacles. Otherwise, the way back would not be so easy.

She had been in the library for so many days, and the water level in Suicheng city must have risen again. She didn't know how many floors of the building where her house was located had been flooded, whether there were still trapped people in the city, and whether there were rescue team members who had not left for special reasons.

If the water level is not too high, she can stay there for a while to take shelter temporarily. When the entire Suicheng becomes a deserted city, she can use the raft's 12 hours of usage time every day to find a high-rise building suitable for long-term living.

Although she now has two drift bottle protection shield cards, they only last for 48 hours in total. This is something that can save lives at critical moments, so she has to use it sparingly.

After determining the direction, Shu Fu changed "anchoring" to "drifting", chose "east", and adjusted the speed to the fastest 40 kilometers per hour.

Finally, she took out the golden card and opened the protective shield of the drifting bottle.

The raft turned half a circle on the water and headed towards the floating city in the heavy rain.

For a raft that is similar to a floating platform, a speed of 40 km/h is indeed quite fast. It gives a feeling of riding the wind and waves and is quite unique.

But with the protection of the shield, even if it encounters other speedboats on the water, it will not attract attention.

She wanted to save the use time of the protective shield, so naturally she had to use the fastest speed.

Shu Fu was a little worried at first, after all, this area used to be land, and there were too many broken trees around, so she was worried about floating objects on the water. So she opened the front door, stood against the pillar under the eaves for a while, and checked the situation of the raft's first drift.

The protective cover function of the drift bottle makes the entire raft area protected from wind and rain, and the surroundings are warm like spring. This feeling is very magical and gives her a full sense of security.

She was a little curious, so she held the railing beside her and stretched out her hand. When her fingers reached the area beyond the edge of the raft, her fingertips immediately felt the cold and dampness in the air.

Perhaps because she was the owner of the Drifting Island House, the invisible protective shield did not restrict her entry and exit. However, this was also a disguised reminder for her to be careful. Although the protective shield was impervious to wind and rain, it was not a solid entity.

She was standing on the edge of the raft and if she wasn't careful she would fall out.

The raft moved forward at a constant speed, and each time it steadily avoided floating objects on the water, the waves outside looked a bit big, it must be a windy day today. During the process, the raft seemed to sway with the ups and downs of the water, but when this feeling was transmitted to her inside the protective cover, it was extremely subtle.

Great, I don’t have to worry about seasickness.

Shu Fu was very satisfied. When he was about to go back to the cabin for breakfast, he remembered that he had not put away the fishing rod he cast yesterday.

She went over to check and saw that the automatic water fishing rod was still in the state of being thrown into the water, the metal basket at the other end of the thin cable was still submerged in the water, and the "Collect" button on it had lit up.

She originally thought that the fishing rod would automatically reel in after catching a fish, but now it seems that she still has to manually confirm the "reel in". Is it because she didn't catch any fish, or is she afraid that the fish she caught will die out of the water too early and no one will collect it?

She guessed so, but when the thin cable finished turning and the metal basket returned to the raft, she was stunned by what was inside.

Is this... a chain?

The huge metal basket was empty, there was no fish at all, only a golden chain lying at the bottom of the basket with fine grids. At first glance, it looked like some garbage that was accidentally hung there.

She wanted to reach out to take it, but the metal basket slid all the way into the metal box. Then the metal box lowered its walls to cover the metal basket inside. The entire metal box seemed to be tightly fitted, forming an enclosed space.

Then, the third button “Disinfection” lit up.

She roughly understood what this meant, and reached out to press the "disinfection" button. There was a slight noise in the metal box that lasted for about ten seconds. When the noise stopped, the inner wall of the metal box rose up, and the metal basket slid out, stopping at just the right angle.

Shu Fu reached out and picked up the chain, and found that it was spotlessly clean without a trace of water stains or dirt. It looked brand new and shiny, as if it had been deeply cleaned.

"Xiaosha"? Does it mean disinfection and sterilization? It is indeed black technology, so considerate.

Shu Fu checked it again and again, and finally confirmed that it was a pure gold bracelet, which was quite thick and trendy in style.

The conservative estimate for the price of a bracelet this thick is around 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

She was speechless for a long time holding the bracelet. What kind of automatic water fishing rod is this? It's basically an underwater fishing device...

No wonder it’s the second prize, this one catch is worth hundreds of fish.

But such a fishing rod is useless to her now, and she cannot leave Suicheng. The whole Suicheng is flooded and people have been evacuated. Even if she has money, she has nowhere to spend it!

It would be better to give her a few more Sichuan cuisine gift packs and barbecue gift packs!

Although Shu Fu complained, she still put the bracelet into her space.

Afterwards, she threw the fishing rod into the water again. There were three chances a day, so if she didn't use it, it would be a waste.

She had spicy soup and pan-fried buns for breakfast, as she didn't feel like cooking for the next two days. After eating, it was not yet six o'clock, and she had to keep an eye on the raft's route, so she couldn't take a nap, so she opened the front door of the cabin and moved a low lazy sofa under the eaves.

Sitting in this position is like going out to sea on a yacht in the past. You can take in the situation of the surrounding waters. It is spacious and comfortable.

However, she dared to sit here only because the protective shield was turned on. Although she had no experience, she guessed that without this layer of protective shield, the cold ice rain would most likely hit her randomly as the raft moved forward, soaking her like a drowned chicken.

Shu Fu placed a small round wooden stool beside her and used it as a table. On it, she placed a Bluetooth speaker, some cashews, prunes, duck tongues, and a cup of grapefruit lemon tea. Then she turned on the music and chose a soothing song "insomnia". While listening to it, she read a downloaded novel on her phone and began her daily routine of lying down in the drifting island house.