Chapter 8 Suicheng

Shu Fu pressed and held the "book" icon on the bracelet, put away the notebook, and below the "raft" icon, a fifth icon appeared: a circular turntable.

After she pressed and held the "turntable", a small metal circular display screen appeared in the palm of her hand.

There is a pointer in the center of the display screen, and the surrounding turntable is divided into twenty-four grids with a total of four colors. The grids are of different sizes and the colors are arranged in disorder. Most of them are red, blue and green, and some of the grids are large and some are small.

Only the gold color occupies only three grids, and the area is very small, with the smallest grid not much wider than the pointer.

The turntable was smaller than her palm and looked like a pocket watch. The dot in the middle of the pointer showed the number: 1.

So this means she has a chance to win a prize?

Since nothing could be learned from just looking at it, Shu Fu quickly pressed the dot in the middle of the pointer.

The thin metal pointer began to spin, faster and faster, and after about ten seconds, it gradually slowed down and finally stopped in the green grid. This grid was relatively large among the twenty-four grids, and Shu Fu subconsciously realized that she had probably drawn a consolation prize.

The pointer and all the grids on the turntable disappeared, the turntable surface was replaced by dark green, and a line of small words appeared on it.

[Congratulations on winning the fifth prize: unlimited electricity card (24 hours, note: must be used on a level 2 raft)]

【Do you want to receive the prize? 】

【whether】

After she clicked "Yes", a green metal card the size of a playing card appeared in her palm with a line of small words on it: Unlimited electricity card (24 hours), please swipe the card on the raft (level 2) display screen to use it.

Shu Fu: ...

The good news is that after the raft is upgraded to level 2, it may have the function of self-generating electricity.

Bad news, this prize raft is now unavailable.

Shu Fu sighed and casually put the power card into the bracelet space.

She spent the whole day on Saturday, and after completing her morning check-in at Yao Ji and going to a hardware and window store near the community on her way home, she had no plans to go out again.

Firstly, there will be many couriers delivered to her door today; secondly, because of the progress bar task, she has some ideas that she wants to experiment with.

As for going to the door and window shop, it was mainly because of the multiple falling objects incidents that occurred in Suicheng the day before. She wanted to reinforce the windows of her home by adding a layer of tempered laminated glass inside, strengthening the window frames, and installing sliding anti-theft windows on the outside.

Tempered laminated glass is made of two layers of tempered glass with a middle glue layer. It is much stronger than ordinary tempered glass, and because of the special properties of the laminate, it will not shatter and fall.

The other party originally thought that she wanted to replace the window and said bluntly that it could not be replaced on rainy days. Later, when he realized that she wanted to install an additional window, he immediately came to her house to measure the size.

The apartment is small, with only three windows facing outwards. There are more glass windows on the small balcony, the bedroom has three normal windows, and the bathroom window is very small.

Because laminated glass has to be custom-made, it takes three to seven days to wait. Shu Fu always felt that the time was a bit long and not safe, so after negotiation and price increase, she reduced the time to two days. The other party agreed to come and install it for her on Monday afternoon unless there was a strong wind or heavy rain.

For the rest of the day, she repeated the process of lying down and checking her phone, answering the phone to indicate someone was home, and then opening the door or going downstairs to sign for the package.

The kerosene stove and special oil, which she had ordered online or offline the day before from the electrical appliance city, food city, and commodity wholesale market, all arrived one by one. She had the other party deliver the large electrical appliances to the garage, and the other small items or things she needed were all delivered to her doorstep.

The good thing about local shopping with offline stores is that the goods are checked in advance and each one is selected by her, so there will be no situation where the goods are not the same as the ones shown and need to be returned or exchanged. Moreover, compared with ordinary express delivery, local shopping generally provides door-to-door delivery service.

Not only did the coffee machine get delivered to her door, but the man also installed it for her and let her try it out. After he left, she drank the fragrant freshly ground coffee.

Listening to the sound of rain outside, she drank coffee and curled up on the lazy sofa on the small balcony. She took out her newly bought mobile phone and tablet with large memory. The mobile phone was used to download maps and various survival information, including text and video popular science about related disasters, extreme climate information, and a large amount of marine life information.

The tablet is used to download entertainment materials, various apocalyptic and romantic novels, various movies, TV series, web series and entertainment programs, various music and piano pieces...

Keep mobile phones and tablets that you don’t need temporarily as backup.

The internet speed at home was fast enough. While downloading the files on her mobile phone and tablet, she used her original mobile phone to buy some survival equipment from online stores in the same city, such as a multi-functional hammer and pliers that was equivalent to more than a dozen tools. It came with wire cutters, pliers, a hammer, hex wrench, tooth knife, can opener, bottle opener, cross screwdriver, etc.

There are also multifunctional flints, survival ropes, wire saws, survival blankets, batons, strong flashlights, multifunctional survival whistles, compasses, etc.

Of course, there is also a matching waterproof backpack.

In addition, after researching and selecting, she bought five high-power nail guns, which were purchased according to her own upper limit of hand-held strength. They were the straight nail type that could be used to drive nails into concrete brick walls. They were equipped with two large-capacity batteries, a charger, goggles, earplugs... and each nail gun came standard with 1,000 straight nails.

The nails are not big, about 3 cm long and 0.3 cm in diameter. There are 30 in a row and they can be fired continuously. They are unlikely to cause fatal injuries, but they are easy to use and can make those with bad intentions suffer excruciating pain and lose their ability to move under special circumstances.

She knew that with her survival plan based on "survival", these things might not be useful, but it was better to be prepared. Now that she had the chance, she had to buy what she needed.

These online stores deliver the goods on the same day, and the price is higher than that of online stores that deliver the goods in a few days, but her first requirement now is speed, as long as it can be delivered on the same day, the price is slightly higher. The main thing is that these things can be paid in installments, and the first payment is not much.

I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t drive out, but there was no new task prompt on the bracelet.

It wasn't until Sunday morning, when she ordered takeout for herself, that her bracelet suddenly vibrated and a new task appeared.

[Give a tip to the knight who works hard to deliver food on a rainy day, and you will get a 5% progress bar for level 2 of the raft. (Current progress of level 2 of the raft: 20%)]

Shu Fu was refreshed. It seemed that even if she didn't go out and didn't contact acquaintances, tasks would still appear according to her life situation. However, compared with the previous tasks, this task was obviously much simpler, but there was still a 5% progress bar.

If she still wants an extra reward, what should she do this time?

The rain outside was heavy and light. She didn't order a particularly long order, but a breakfast shop on the street outside the community, 500 to 800 meters away. In addition to handmade pancakes, this breakfast shop also sells shengjian, spicy soup, tofu brain, preserved egg and lean meat porridge, soup dumplings, glutinous rice cakes and fried dough sticks, tea eggs...

Shu Fu has become accustomed to it. Considering the future, she would order takeout food four to five times a day, and each time she would buy super super super... um. This time was no exception. She ordered all her favorite foods.

The rider delivered the food very quickly and recognized the door number accurately. It only took about twenty minutes from the time the order was placed to the time the food was delivered to your door.

Because of the mission, she subconsciously looked at the other person a few times. The knight was very young and good-looking. He was wearing a brightly colored delivery man's jacket. This jacket was probably waterproof, so he didn't wear a raincoat outside. He wore a helmet on his head, but his cheeks and hair were wet from the rain.

But the two big bags of takeout he handed over were well protected by him and not caught by any rain. I don't know how he did it.

She thought about it, took the takeaway, and gave the other party the highest tip on her mobile phone: 50 yuan.

The tipping function of this food delivery app seemed to have an instant reminder. The other party had already left, but after a few steps, he turned around and looked at her with a confused look on his face: "Hello, did you click the wrong amount?"

"No." Shu Fu shook her head.

It was normal for the other party to be surprised. After all, her order was so recent, and the delivery fee was almost free because of the discount offered by the platform, but she gave him a tip fifty times as much.

She could sense surprise and joy in his eyes. If nothing unexpected happened, this should be the largest amount of tips he had ever received since he became a delivery rider.

The other person looked at her and thanked her seriously.

**

Shu Fu only took out the pancakes and stored the rest of the breakfast in the wristband space. Then she heated a cup of milk for herself and ate the pancakes while waiting quietly. About half an hour later, the wristband vibrated.

[Complete the Knight Reward Mission, get the 5% progress bar of the raft level 2; get the wheel lottery: 1 time. (Current progress of the raft level 2: 25%)]

All right……

She is not greedy, as long as she can get the progress bar smoothly, not to mention that the roulette wheel lottery is also an extra reward.

As expected, the lottery pointer stopped in the larger grid this time, but the color of the grid was red.

【Congratulations on winning the fourth prize: a barbecue gift pack. 】

This time the prize surprised her a little. Whether it was a raft, a notebook, or a turntable, they were all black technologies, similar to gaming equipment. They appeared out of thin air and disappeared out of thin air, and would not remain in the real world for too long.

But this time the barbecue gift package is real supplies. Can you really eat it?

If it is real food, then this lottery wheel can become another source of supplies, which is of great significance in a certain sense.

As it turns out, it really works.

After she received the prize, a one-foot square thick cardboard box appeared on the dining table. It looked like an ordinary express delivery, but unlike ordinary express delivery, there were no other advertisements or trademarks on the outside of the thick cardboard box. There were only five words "Barbecue Gift Pack" written on it.

She opened it and found the contents unexpectedly rich: 1 kg of M9 marbled ox eye, 10 lamb skewers, 1 kg of thick-cut pork belly, 10 oysters, 10 French-cut lamb chops, 10 chicken wings, 10 large prawns, 10 squid skewers, 1 kg of vegetable and mushroom platter, and some seasonings and side dishes.

Different types of meat are neatly arranged on white paper plates, covered with transparent plastic wrap and labeled with the name and weight of the variety. They are very similar to the semi-finished barbecued products in the fresh food freezer in the supermarket.

The seasonings and side dishes include garlic slices, hot peppers, lettuce leaves, barbecue powder, and barbecue sauce.

Such a barbecue gift pack is enough for her to eat five or six meals.

Now all she has to do is take out an electric grill pan, plug it in, and she can enjoy barbecue right away!

Suddenly the pancake in my hand doesn’t smell good anymore…

On a rainy day like this, if she didn't have to go to an appointment at noon and complete her second task, she really wanted to stay at home and eat barbecue.

**

The group message that day came from her college roommate group. She had never changed roommates in her four years of college, and the four girls got along quite well.

This kind of harmony does not mean that everyone's personalities are so compatible, but that the four of them are all normal college girls. They have both advantages and disadvantages, but none of them are particularly extreme.

During the four years in college, they naturally had some unpleasantness, but they also understood that when living under the same roof, they couldn't be too willful sometimes. It was okay to have small conflicts, and everything would be fine after a few days.

Zhang Tian was in charge of the party on Sunday. Her birthday was coming up and she said that she would not be in Suicheng on the actual day, so she wanted to celebrate in advance and announce an important news at the same time.

Zhang Tian is a native of Suicheng. Her family is not bad. After graduation, she didn't like working, so her parents invested money to let her open a milk tea shop. The milk tea shop is a franchised chain brand, and there are also store employees. Usually, she can watch the shop when she wants to, and go out when she wants to, and she has retired in advance.

She is pretty and likes to dress up. She always says that one should not waste one's youth, so she had almost no gap in her four years at college. The longest time she was single was one week. She really did not waste any of her youth.

Another roommate, Chen Fa, complained in the group about Zhang Tian's plan to have a party on a rainy day. Zhang Tian said that she had originally wanted to make the appointment a week ago, but the weather was too hot and her makeup was smudged after walking for a while.

Although it was raining now, at least the high temperature hell was over. At worst, they could find a shopping mall near the subway entrance to have a meal and afternoon tea. The underground area of ​​this shopping mall and the subway station were connected by a passage, so they would not get wet as long as they entered the subway station.

“Won’t we get wet on the way to the subway station?” Chen Fa worked in a Fortune 500 company, worked overtime every day, and had only one day off a week. He originally wanted to lie at home on Sunday.

But in the end, she couldn't resist Zhang Tian's coquettishness and gave in. "Let's make a deal first. If it's still stormy near noon, we won't make it up to you. I'll make it up to you when you come back!"

Shu Fu had no choice but to accept the invitation.

As for the last roommate, Wu Shaoshan, she lived in the same house with Chen Fa and had no objections. Once the other three made a decision, she agreed directly.

They made an appointment for half past twelve. As the rain gradually subsided around ten o'clock, Shu Fu was used to driving and didn't want to take the subway. Plus, there were many shops in the shopping mall, so she planned to do some shopping, so she left the house very early.

As usual, she went in to fill up her gas tank when she passed by the gas station, and then bought six 30L portable oil drums and filled them all up at the same time. It was a rainy weekend, so there were not many cars on the road. It was only half past ten when she parked the car on the second floor below ground, and she had two hours to stock up on things.

On her way back to the underground parking lot carrying thirty cups of milk tea and two large boxes of cheese and mousse cakes, she saw a young couple hugging each other. The man was handsome and the woman was beautiful, very pleasing to the eye, but they spoke a little loudly and from their expressions it seemed that they were arguing.

"Can you please stop making trouble? I'm already very tired..."

"Of course you are tired. How can you not be tired? Tell me, are you really in love with her?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could I possibly like her?"

…

Although the content of the conversation was somewhat explosive, Shu Fu was embarrassed to stare at others arguing, so she quickly walked back to the car, put the shopping items in the car as usual, then got in the car herself, and used the cover of the car to directly put the items into the bracelet space.

When she returned and passed the entrance, the young couple who had quarreled before were hugging each other and kissing.

Shu Fu: ...

The girl in the couple probably realized that they were still in public, and she was a little embarrassed to refuse. The boy in the couple was reluctant to let her go, and hugged the girl's waist tightly, coaxing her: "There is a new karaoke upstairs, and I heard that the private rooms there are very special..."

The girl said coquettishly: "You are so bad..."

Shu Fu passing by: …

She really doesn’t want to understand immediately…

**

By the time Chen Fa, Wu Shaoshan, Zhang Tian and others arrived one by one at noon, Shu Fu had already made the car back and forth seven or eight times.

A variety of ready-to-eat prepared foods, a variety of sweet and salty snacks, a cart full of vegetables and fruits... In addition, she also placed an order for forty boxes of goods at a store that specializes in selling all kinds of canned dishes, rice bowls and dehydrated vegetables, and agreed to have them delivered to her door the next afternoon.

The next afternoon, as long as it wasn't raining too hard, the people from the window and door store would come over, so she would definitely be at home by then and could receive the goods in the garage.

Afterwards, she again stocked up on sanitary napkins and underwear for day and night use, replacement underwear, and comfortable cotton short-sleeved T-shirts, hoodies, and sweatpants.

Considering the normal needs in high and low temperature weather, I bought a lot of facial cleansers, lotions, anti-crack moisturizers, moisturizing masks, several large bags of insecticide sprays, cooling oils, mosquito repellents, mosquito coils, electric mosquito repellent liquids, several sets of bed sheets, several thick blankets of varying thicknesses, some thick sweaters and wool hats with strong warmth retention function...

Later, thinking about the signal problem during a disaster, she also bought two satellite phones, taking all aspects into consideration.

All the things were put into the bracelet space under the cover of the car.

Shu Fu was in a good mood because of the stockpiling. Even when Chen Fa complained that Zhang Tian, ​​the initiator, was twenty minutes late, he still maintained a happy smile.

"Why are you grinning like an idiot?" Chen Fa was speechless. "Did you become stupid at work?"

"No, I plan to quit next week."

Chen Fa: ...

"Really, I want to move to Shacheng and settle down. Do you want to come with me?" These words were mainly said to the other party. Shacheng is a big city in the plateau area west of Hua State, and it is also her ideal migration city.

It’s a pity that she was trapped in Suicheng and could only think about Shacheng.

But this restriction does not apply to ordinary people in this world. If Chen Fa and the others want to leave, they will definitely be able to leave smoothly.

However, after the last time, Shu Fu can now distinguish what words can be said and what words cannot be said, and too direct reminders are not allowed.

"Really? Sand City is nice, and has a great location. You guys should consider it!"

"You should drink some juice..." Chen Fa held his forehead with his hand.

Wu Shaoshan didn't say anything, but there was more curiosity and inquiry in her eyes when she looked at her.

The topic continued to revolve around work and life. After graduation, everyone had stable jobs and consumption concepts changed. Things that they had no use or money to buy before were now included in their shopping lists.

Chen Fa said that she would go shopping in some jewelry stores after dinner. A popular brand has launched a new bracelet which is very delicate and beautiful and not expensive.

"You come with us, we'll buy sister pairs." She held Shu Fu's hand, looked at her empty slender wrist and delicate white skin, and lamented that it was a waste not to wear a bracelet on such a beautiful wrist.

Shu Fu looked at her wrist and was stunned.

Her sleeves were pulled up a little because of Chen Fa's action, and the inconspicuous silver frosted bracelet was just right on her wrist. Can't they see it?

The author has something to say:

Did Shu Fu lie down comfortably today?

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