Chapter 73 Northland Plateau

At the same time Shu Fu asked that question, the protective shield she carried with her was silently activated, and an extreme sense of security surrounded her. She felt her emotions stabilized a little, and she was able to observe the person sitting next to her more calmly.

It seemed like just a moment, and the soft light of memories in Lu Zheng's eyes suddenly disappeared.

He turned around to look at Shu Fu, a little stunned: "What are you asking?" His expression was gentle and his eyes were clear. There was nothing wrong with him. It didn't seem like he was deliberately playing a prank, nor did he show any disturbing or weird expression. He was just a little stunned and confused by her question, as if he didn't even realize what he had just said.

Shu Fu stared at him intently, as if she wanted to punch a hole in his face: "You said you drank with me before, and it was raining that day?"

Following Shu Fu's voice, Lu Zheng seemed to fall into memories again. He thought for a moment and nodded slowly at her: "Yes, I remember... the last time I drank with you, the glass windows of the box were noisy due to the heavy rain... You also said that you particularly liked the sound of raindrops hitting the glass windows on rainy days, which would give you special creative inspiration..."

Shu Fu looked at him, and this time, she was stunned.

She did say this, but it definitely couldn't have happened in this world.

In this world, she is just an ordinary college graduate, what creative inspiration does she need! ?

She reached out and held Lu Zheng's arm.

At this moment, Lu Zheng in front of her looked like a huge BUG!

After Lou Yuncheng didn’t recognize her “Shu Fu” relative at all, the second BUG appeared.

Shu Fu's thoughts were racing. Even if she had said this, it was impossible that she had said it in this world. It was not a memory of this world. It was a memory of her original world!

She is a film screenwriter in her original world, and only she in that world would say such things!

But why did Lu Zheng know about this? He was from this world, how could he know what she said in that world! ?

unless--

Unless he, like her, is not a native of this world!

He and she are from the same world! ?

Not only that, he knew her and had seen her in that world!

Yes, she had doubted it since she awakened, because her appearance was exactly the same as her original self in that world, and even the subtle details were exactly the same, as if she had traveled directly to this world.

So, was he confused?

But why did she have no impression of him at all?

…

In just a few seconds, countless guesses and thoughts flashed through her mind like shooting stars.

Shu Fu held his arm tightly, pulled him closer to her, and asked in a soft voice, trying not to disturb his recollection: "Are you sure you heard it with your own ears?"

"Yeah." He nodded, his expression calm, as if he himself didn't realize that he had messed up his memory...

“Are you… still Lu Zheng?”

This time, he was the one who looked puzzled: "Why do you ask? Of course I am."

"So at that time, when you and I were drinking - where was Lutze, was he there too?"

"Lu Ce?" Lu Zheng frowned slightly, as if he was recalling something very seriously.

But if things are really as Shu Fu guessed, then this thinking itself is invalid.

He had just mentioned the director and the leading actress, and she had roughly guessed what kind of occasion it was - it should be a dinner party for the main cast of a movie.

She is not the chief screenwriter, so she is not required to attend many dinner parties. However, she has a good-looking face, so occasionally when the leading actor gets angry and doesn't go to the dinner party and someone is needed to support him, the producer will temporarily call her to support him.

These are all workplaces, and participants cannot bring along underage family members.

What's more, Lu Ce is from this world!

The occasions in that world and the characters in this world should not appear in the same dimension, and they are not worth thinking about at all. But Lu Zheng in front of her really thought about this problem seriously, but soon, a broken expression appeared on his face.

This fragmentation was not on a physical level, but rather a state of mind. His expression seemed to become fragmented, like the aftereffect of the confusion of memories in two dimensions, or maybe he finally realized that something was wrong with himself: what he knew was different from what he should know!

He shouldn't have drunk with her, and he shouldn't have seen her wearing that black dress, let alone heard those words from her...

He was just a college student studying in Suicheng and working part-time as a food delivery man. He and his brother lived in a cheap rental house, and she was their neighbor in the same community and also his senior in college. Not long after they met, Suicheng began to have a heavy rainstorm, which eventually submerged the entire city...

He...what's wrong with him?

Whose memories were those mentioned before?

His memory?

Then who is he...?

Suddenly, he felt Shu Fu's fingers loosening around his. She leaned back slightly, raised her head and looked above his head without blinking.

"What's wrong, Shufu?"

What's wrong?

Shu Fu stared at the white light flickering above his head and felt shocked again. She wanted to ask what was wrong!

She looked at the white light bar above his head that was moving with his movements, and realized that she had not seen it wrong the two times before! The same flickering light bar appeared above Lu Zheng's head as Chen Fa's, and it was gradually decreasing in frequency and becoming clearer, as if it was stabilizing little by little.

Because the flashing frequency decreased, she could finally see the entire white light strip clearly.

This is a - progress bar!?

The entire progress bar was transparent, and the white light bar was the progress part. Just now, the white light bar extended a little further. It existed in the air above his head, like a completely unreasonable bug. She couldn't touch it with her hand, nor could she cover it.

Unrealistic and weird.

She took out a mirror under the cover of her waist bag, handed it to him, and asked him if he saw anything wrong.

He looked in the mirror and shook his head in a daze, as if he had not yet recovered from the chaotic memories of the two dimensions.

"Didn't you see what's above your head?" Shu Fu asked directly.

Lu Zheng looked in the mirror again and asked with a confused expression: "What's on top of your head?"

He couldn't see it, or rather, of all people, only she could see it.

So——a thought suddenly flashed through Shu Fu’s mind.

Could it be that this white light bar is a progress bar for her to view only?

What does the progress above represent?

**

The rain became lighter at night.

The rainfall in the Beidi Plateau has always ranked last in the entire Hua State, so compared with Suicheng and Louyun City, there are more periods of time when the rainfall decreases.

Shu Fu sat at the table in the container house, using the dim light from her cell phone to look at the black mini notebook in her hand with a frown.

[Complete the check-in task at Lucheng No. 3 Trading Station, and obtain a 15% progress bar for level 4 raft; obtain an additional 15% progress bar bonus; and obtain 4 wheel draws. (Current progress of level 4 raft: 75%)]

This time, not only did the progress bar increase by 30% at once, but there were also 4 draws.

Including the one accumulated before, there are currently a total of 5 chances to draw.

The reward was so generous, so generous that even though she had a lot of questions in her heart, she couldn't stop being happy. Shu Fu was struggling between forbearing and taking it away, and finally decided to return to the arms of the "little cutie" first.

There was no light on in the container house. She checked the locked door and the small window that was almost sealed, and went into the bathroom at the other end.

She did not stay in the bathroom for long and went straight to the iron gate on the other side. This door faced the outside of the building area, closer to the salt lake. In simple terms, it turned its back to the houses where other townspeople lived, and was a blind spot.

Shu Fu activated the bracelet and first remotely opened the protective shield of the drifting island house, then began to place the raft. She precisely controlled the placement angle, and then opened the iron door facing outwards of the bathroom.

Outside the door, the rear deck of the raft was tightly attached to the door frame, with almost no space between the two.

As she stepped lightly out of the door, she also stepped directly onto the raft. In the protective shield state, the presence of the drifting island house was zero, so even if someone saw the raft, they would subconsciously ignore its existence.

But a low sense of presence does not mean complete transparency. It is like a stone blocking a wall. People passing by will see the stone but will not pay attention to it. But at the same time, people passing by cannot see the door on the wall through the stone, let alone notice that someone has quickly moved from the inside of the wall to the raft outside in just one second.

As long as the protective cover is not closed, no one will ever find out that she is not actually in the container house, but has hidden in her safe drifting island house through such a method of transplantation.

All in all, she hadn't been on the raft for about 20 days, but when she opened the back door and entered the house, she realized how much she missed this always comfortable and safe house.

When she was outside, even if she was wearing a raincoat, rain would always seep in through the gaps if she stayed outdoors for a long time. She had become able to let her clothes get wet and dry, dry and wet again without changing her expression.

Even if she didn't take a shower or change clothes for a few days, she could still sleep soundly. But at this moment, when she took off her waterproof boots and walked into the drifting island house barefoot, she immediately felt something was wrong with her whole body.

The cabin was clean and tidy, with a spotless floor and a faint scent of gardenias - the scent of the scented candles placed in the living room. There were no damp and moldy walls, no rusty window frames, no muddy and stained floors, and no bloody and smelly fish or annoying flying insects.

It is so clean and fresh here, like a space from another dimension.

Shu Fu stepped out immediately. It was not enough to just take off her shoes. She put her backpack and waterproof travel bag under the eaves of the back door, then equipped herself with the electric card and went into the bathroom.

She was going to take a shower first and then a nice hot bath.

The shower was turned on, and clean water of suitable temperature and without any strange smell poured down from above her head. This refreshing feeling made Shu Fu sigh deeply. She never thought that just taking a shower could make her feel so happy.

Twenty minutes later, Shu Fu leaned back in the bathtub, leisurely enjoying the scented bubble bath. The floor-to-ceiling glass beside her was covered with traces of rain. New raindrops kept hitting the glass. The sound of rain was fine and long, and on this quiet night by the salt lake, it was like a piece of music by nature.

From time to time, she reached out and took a sip of the brown sugar pearl ice milk tea from the bathtub shelf.

Brown sugar pearls are more delicious than ordinary pearls, and the materials from the milk tea gift package are of exceptionally high quality. Each pearl in it is glutinous and has no hard texture like plastic. The more you eat, the more addictive you become.

The washing machine nearby, specially designed for outdoor clothes, was washing the clothes she had worn recently. Although the clothes she had taken off before had been washed with rainwater with water purification tablets added and dried with fire, the conditions were limited after all, so for her now it was basically the same as not washing them.

She doesn't know how long she will stay in this salt lake scenic area, and she is too lazy to test the boundaries of the new place. Anyway, if there is a mission, she will follow the mission, and when there is no mission, she will follow the movements of Chen Fa and others.

If they wanted to stay a few more days, she would stay with them. If they wanted to leave, she would follow them. If they got stuck, she would find a body of water and launch a raft to lie down.

Shu Fu took a comfortable bath and washed her clothes. She took them out and hung them in the dryer, blew her hair dry, applied glitter-effect scented lotion all over her body, and changed into clean and soft home trousers and T-shirt.

Afterwards, she walked to the function panel and used the "one-click dust removal" function, then lit the gardenia scented candle in the living room, adjusted the indoor lights to a very soft brightness, and finally connected her mobile phone to the Bluetooth speaker and selected a particularly soothing and beautiful song.

Shu Fu performed all the rituals that could be done, and then began to draw five times in a row with piety.

First turn, green fourth prize: one-week electricity card.

For Shu Fu, who drew two "Monthly Electricity Cards", a week's electricity card is really not enough, but - it's better than nothing, there are still four chances, she has to continue to maintain a pious attitude.

Second turn, green third prize: raft extended use card (24 hours.)

Shu Fu: ...

This award is somewhere in between good and bad. It is a good card after all, but she doesn't really need it right now...

The third turn, the third red prize: 10 barbecue gift packs.

Shu Fu's mood gradually improved. It had been a long time since she last ate barbecue. Although she also had other fresh meats stored in her space, she could cut them into slices suitable for barbecue herself, but it would take time to cut and marinate them.

Moreover, she had eaten this barbecue gift pack before and knew that it even contained lettuce, garlic, and seasonings. She didn't have much stock of the high-quality marbled beef, French-cut lamb chops, and lamb kebabs in her space.

However, ten gift packages require ten large cardboard boxes, which take up quite a lot of space. She cannot take them out for the time being, so she has to leave some space for use when needed.

She wondered if she should tidy up the space after the draw. She could take out some furniture and temporarily pile them up in the underwater bedroom. She would not live there since she was on land for the time being.

However, overall, the prize trend is moving upwards.

Shu Fu pressed the draw button again, and this time the pointer stopped at the dazzling gold.

Fourth turn, golden second prize: portable protective shield for drifting bottle (1-hour trial card).

Shu Fu was so excited that her eyes were filled with tears. This was exactly the portable protective shield that she wanted to draw the most at this stage!

There have been various unrests on the shore recently, and she uses this protective shield almost every day. Even if she is very frugal and opens and closes it, the time is decreasing little by little.

Especially after today, the remaining time was about to fall below 30 minutes, which made her feel very insecure. Now, the accumulated shield time is 90 minutes left, and she feels as if she is going out with 90 lives.

Sure enough, the sense of ritual is very important, and Shu Fu made her last turn with a happy mood.

Last turn, blue second prize: compressed display cabinet (portable, 10 slots).

Shu Fu: !!