Chapter 121 The Last Five Percent
At nine o'clock in the morning, the huge S-class villa raft began to drift along the route on the map panel.
The weather is not very good today. In addition to the heavy rain, there has been thunder outside. Looking out from the floor-to-ceiling windows, there are lightning and thunder. The weather, which had been quiet for a short time, started to act up again.
Well, just like the "little fairy" in her family.
Because this time she was rafting with a purpose, she adjusted the rafting speed to the highest 80. Drifting through the waters ravaged by thunderstorms and waterspouts, she didn't feel much even though the current of the Silver Sand River was turbulent.
This week, Shu Fu had different ways of being happy in the S-class villa every day, like a nouveau riche who had suddenly won a super jackpot. He swam three times a day, took a bath twice, and went to the gym once a day. Before going to bed, he would go to the entertainment and reading room, dim the lights, turn on the projector with the entire wall as the background to play a movie, and occasionally take out his SUV from the rear deck to clean it, add oil, and check the tires. He even found an electric scooter that he had put away in the space at some point, and rode on the scooter to circle around on the spacious rear deck...
Through this, she also tested the retraction rules of the automatic fences on the rear deck. When the raft is drifting, no matter how fast or slow the drift is, the fences on the rear deck will remain raised. Conversely, as long as the raft is moored, when someone or a car approaches the rear deck, the fences will automatically retract, somewhat like an automatic glass door.
In addition, she was a little worried about the water replacement problem in the swimming pool and jacuzzi before. After using it several times, she realized that the water in these two pools was all provided by the classic S-class house type and did not need to be replaced later. Because when she used the "one-click dust removal" function, the villa in the owner protection mode, including the two pools, were within the one-click dust removal range.
After a week, she finally couldn't play anymore and went back to lying down.
At this moment, she was lying on the sunken sofa booth on the front deck, watching a talent show variety show that didn't require too much involvement, while occasionally looking up to check the situation in the surrounding waters.
Although the area where the raft had docked was the closest to Dari County, the water there was also famous for its rapid currents and many bays. Her raft had a shallow draft and could drift and anchor regardless of the water conditions, but other ordinary ships did not have the conditions to dock in that area.
This is also the reason why she chose to go ashore there, so that she would not encounter other ships when docking.
Perhaps because of this reason, during the more than ten days she stayed in those waters, she never saw any other ships passing by.
Until now, after the raft drifted southward for an hour or two and entered a wider river with less turbulent water, she gradually saw the shadows of ships. There were medium-sized fishing boats and small two-story speedboats, all anchored near the slope of the shore.
Most of these ships are old and rusty, and it is not known whether they are anchored here because of today's thunderstorm or have been anchored here for a long time.
When she checked, she always felt that the way these boats were moored was a little strange. Later, she realized that the slope they were leaning against was not the original river bank. Many trees on land on both sides were now submerged in water. These boats were barely squeezed among the trees, which was particularly abrupt.
It seems that the water level upstream has also risen.
It was at night when they came from the south that day. The surrounding waters were too dark and there were no lights on the raft. In addition, she fell asleep later, so she didn't really know much about the situation along the way.
Looking around at this moment, although the river surface is wide, the surrounding mountains are high and the valleys are deep, the land is vast and sparsely populated, which is completely different from the scenery in the middle and lower reaches.
Eight hours later, the raft stopped at the end of the route.
During these eight hours, the raft drifted over 600 kilometers of waterways, but along the way, the thunderstorms seemed to be chasing the raft and never stopped, which shows that this thunderstorm covered a very wide area.
Now the climate is in disarray, and extreme thunderstorm disasters like this, which used to occur only in deep waters, are gradually shifting to the few remaining landmasses on the planet.
Shu Fu compared the map panel in his hand with the previous map of Hua State on the tablet, and confirmed once again that this was the area near where all the survivors boarded the raft that night, but now the surrounding terrain has completely changed.
Xiangzhou Province is almost gone.
The once wide river channel has turned into a huge lake. The narrow and winding mountain roads they walked on foot, as well as the tunnels and bridges where they sheltered from the wind and rain, are now completely invisible.
Most of the cliffs that once stood beside the mountain road and were difficult to climb were now submerged in water, leaving only sparse isolated islands on the water. Those were the peaks of the mountains. She did not expect that the water level downstream would rise so quickly.
The severe drop in temperature and snowstorm accelerated the rate of sea level rise.
In time, the border of Xizhou Province, which was once deep inland, will become a coastline.
Shu Fu stood on the third-floor terrace, looking out at the huge lake. The water was not calm because the water flow had been changed. There were whirlpools everywhere on the surging waves, and there must be more undercurrents underwater.
She has been living in the S-class villa for more than ten days. Because the house is too eye-catching, she has been keeping the protective shield on for the past ten days. To be honest, it is quite time-consuming to use the protective shield. After all, she is alone and does not need such a large villa to live in. After satisfying her desire, it is time to return to the simple and low-key life of lying down.
After a while, the light and shadow changed, and Shu Fu returned to the small and warm Drifting Island House. Everything around her was normal, her usual items were still in their original positions, and the snacks she had eaten halfway and the tablet computer that she had thrown on the sofa seat area on the deck also appeared on the coffee table.
Shu Fu walked to the front door and removed the protective cover on the drift bottle on the function panel.
The small raft appeared silently in the shadow of the isolated island on the mountain. The starting house-type raft was exquisite and small, with a low-key appearance. In addition, many people now knew about the superpowers, so it didn't matter if a raft house like hers was seen, and it was not too conspicuous.
What's more, are there any survivors in this newly formed huge lake?
As it turns out, there really is.
**
This was her third day in the nearby waters.
Even though they were both lying flat, the days when they were stuck in missions were always a little more anxious than the rest time after upgrading. However, there was really only one thing, after all, now she had enough time to delay the raft, and she also had enough supplies. Not only did she have everything, she could also occasionally open the shield for two or three hours, then change the house type and go to her big villa for a swim.
At noon, Shu Fu squatted in front of the automatic water fishing rod, looking at the several ugly and still bouncing black live fish in the metal basket, and felt a little reluctant to catch them. The fish looked too much like snakes, but they were not eels or loaches. The scales on their bodies were ring-shaped, with layers of black and gray, and the visual effect was no different from that of a snake.
She didn't understand why the fishing rod would catch such a fish. Did he think she had the courage to handle it herself and then eat it?
She had no shortage of food, especially seafood and fish, so she simply pressed the throw button and released the basket of black snake fish.
At noon, she had curry rice. She cooked a big pot of curry with potatoes, carrots, onions, diced chicken and curry cubes. There was space for the cooked hot rice, and the curry had also been prepared in advance.
Just serve an appropriate amount of rice, scoop two spoonfuls of curry on the rice, and finally put a few pieces of fried chicken wings on it, and you will have a perfect curry rice.
She got a bottle of coconut water and sat at the small dining table next to the floor-to-ceiling window to eat.
The weather outside is okay today, just raining, without any thunderstorms or strong winds, which is considered good weather nowadays.
As she was finishing her lunch, she saw a boat.
The boat was not big, it was a small fishing boat with various patches on its hull. It was moving from south to northwest, and judging from its appearance, it should have come from the southwestern plateau.
The southwestern plateau is higher in altitude than Xiangzhou Province. The area near the Yinsha River must have been flooded a lot on the night of the flood, but the situation is definitely better than that of Xiangzhou Province, which has become an isolated island in the water.
The ship probably saw that the weather was good today, so it planned to move to Xizhou Province. The ship did not take the old route of the Yinsha River, but headed directly northwest, intending to pass through the flood area.
It would definitely be closer if they went in that direction, but these areas were originally hills on land, the underwater terrain was complex, and there were undercurrents. Seeing the ship swaying on the water, Shu Fu always felt that something was not good.
She turned her head and watched the fishing boat going farther and farther in the water, and then when it reached a certain area of water, it suddenly started to spin in place. The people on the boat screamed and ran out of the cabin. They tried hard to control the boat and wanted to pass through that area of water, but in the end a high wave came and the fishing boat capsized.
Shu Fu sighed, called up the map panel from the bracelet, set the direction, drove out from the shadow of the depression near the mountain wall where he was originally parked, and quickly activated the drift bottle protective shield on the bracelet.
She opened the back door of the cabin, put on her slippers, and took out three lifebuoys from the space. These lifebuoys were rescue supplies harvested from the water. Each lifebuoy had a matching life rope. She fixed one end of the ropes of the three lifebuoys to the stairs, and then pushed the lifebuoys directly off the deck.
She returned to the house on the drifting island, closed the door, and went back to the front door. She leaned against it and looked through the clear glass on the door to see the position of the raft. She cancelled the protective shield on the drifting bottle and called up the map panel, on which she kept correcting the direction of the raft's drift.
She opened it temporarily just now so that she wouldn't be seen by others when she was tying on those life buoys.
The raft soon arrived at the place where the fishing boat capsized. The nearby waters were full of waves and swirling undercurrents. Once a person fell into the water, even if her raft was parked nearby, it would be difficult for the person in the water to get close to the raft for a while.
The role of the lifebuoy was reflected at this moment. Unlike the raft, the three lifebuoys would be carried by the waves to the place where the water was the most turbulent - which was also the place where the people on the fishing boat fell into the water.
As long as they grabbed the lifebuoy, they could climb up the life rope on the lifebuoy and swim all the way to the rear deck of the raft.
The glass balcony on the second floor of the cabin had been vacant ever since she rescued someone there. She didn't put a bar table or a coffee machine in there, but instead put a few old benches and armchairs in there.
A moment later, the first person who grabbed the lifebuoy in the waves climbed onto the deck along the life rope. At this time, more than three months had passed since she first rescued people in the waters near Guancheng County, Xiangzhou Province.
She believed that by today, more survivors would have known about the superpowers and the raft, and when they saw the raft again, they probably would not show expressions of extreme surprise and disbelief like the first group of people who boarded the raft.
Sure enough, when the survivors on the fishing boat climbed onto the deck of the raft one by one and saw clearly that they were on a raft, no one looked overly surprised.
Some of them were glad that they could actually meet a person with super powers here, but some of them were wary, apparently because of the not-so-good reputation about people with super powers on the Internet.
But whether they were thankful or cautious, they had no other choice at this time and place.
Those who were feeling lucky soon discovered that although they could not get close to the eaves, they could go up the stairs, so they all went into the glass balcony on the second-floor terrace to shelter from the rain. After entering, they found that there were chairs inside, which made them even more surprised.
The vigilant people, ignoring the heavy rain that was still falling, stayed on the rear deck, either standing or sitting, with the lifebuoys that had rescued them placed beside them, as if they were ready to jump off the raft again if they realized something was wrong.
Shu Fu didn't care where the other person was on the raft, nor did she care whether the other person was grateful or wary of the appearance of the raft. To her, it was just because she happened to see it, so she just fished her own kind out of the water.
Anyway, no matter whether they were grateful or vigilant, they had no way of getting under the roof, let alone seeing her in the house.
Afterwards, she adjusted the direction of the raft and headed towards the higher land in the west, which was the southwest corner of Xizhou Province, where they were originally going.
Anyway, it didn't matter to her. The raft didn't matter where it drifted. But to these people, it had a completely different meaning.
Shu Fu sat down at the dining table, compared the map panel with the electronic map, and finally selected a location in the western waters closest to the land. This location was basically within the territory of Xiangzhou Province on the map, and her raft should be able to reach it.
At the raft's current speed, it will arrive in about half an hour.
Shu Fu set the route and continued to do what she had to do. She cleaned up the dishes and cups from lunch, washed and disposed of the garbage, and then went down to the underwater bedroom, where there was now an additional home exercise bike.
This bicycle does not require electricity, is exquisite and compact, and is basically silent when in use. She found it in the space to make the villa's gym more presentable. It was originally collected from the hotel buildings in Suicheng.
She fixed a platform to the flat-panel clamp in front of her, picked and chose from it, and finally played the first part of a universe series of movies.
This series of movies is quite famous in this world, but she had never seen it before. She counted and found that there were about a dozen films in the whole series, and each one was two or three hours long.
She plans to finish the entire series in the near future.
She read the introduction and found that these movies also involved some concepts of space and time travel. She planned to look for inspiration to see if she could make the edge of the mystery she had just found clearer.
Although the waters nearby are not as deep as those in the deep water area, there are many turbulent currents underwater and the water is turbid. She can hardly see the situation outside from the underwater bedroom, so most of her attention is on the plot of the movie.
Another small part is on spinning bikes.
Half an hour later, the alarm on her cell phone rang. She wiped the sweat off her forehead, paused the movie, and went back to the cabin upstairs. She checked the location of the raft from the floor-to-ceiling window and continued to adjust it manually on the map panel until the front of the raft hit an invisible barrier.
The water area was about one kilometer further west than she had expected, and about one or two hundred meters away from the land that emerged from the water to the west. If she searched along the north and south sides of this barrier line, she might be able to find land within the barrier that she could directly dock at, just like she had done before when she docked at the upper reaches of the Yinsha River.
However, there were no children among this group of survivors, all of them were adults, and they all seemed to be able to swim, so Shu Fu quickly activated the protective shield of the drift bottle.
The next second, all the people who were originally on the deck or on the second-floor balcony were ejected by the raft.
Those people fell into the water again, confused and not knowing what had happened. Shu Fu opened the back door and stood on the deck to check on the survivors soaking in the water next to the raft. After confirming that everyone could swim, he shortened the rope of the lifebuoy on the deck and fixed the three lifebuoys to the side of the stairs for easy use next time.
She returned to the drifting island house, turned on the autonomous drifting mode, then returned to the underwater bedroom and continued to watch movies on her bike.
By the time she finished her exercise, wiped the sweat off her face and came out of the underwater bedroom, planning to take a shower, the survivor who had been soaking in the water had already swam to the land a hundred meters away.
At this time, they finally came to their senses and realized that not only were they rescued, but they were also sent directly to the border land of Xizhou Province by raft. The psychic in the house never showed up from beginning to end, as if he was completely uninterested in them and simply reached out to help them.
They were glad to be rescued, but also regretted being too vigilant and losing a great opportunity to make friends with people with special abilities.
In today's world, a person with special abilities who has no intention or ill will and is willing to provide free help when they are in trouble is extremely precious.
It’s a pity that it’s too late to regret now.
Shu Fu did not stay in this area of water any longer. The raft had just appeared here, and she planned to stay somewhere else for the next few days.
After she finished her bath, she continued to compare the map panel with the water map.
The plan was the same as when she had just upgraded the raft to level 4. She would walk along the boundary line of the water area where she could currently move, and then head towards the deep water area. There was no land and no people there, so it was safer. She also didn't need to open the protective shield often, and could accumulate more protective shield modes for use when needed in the future.
From the water map, we can find that compared with before going to Weixian, the biggest changes are in the west and southwest of Xiangzhou Province. These two places are close to the Yinsha River. Now a large area of land has fallen, but there are still some peaks as high as two or three thousand meters in the west of Xiangzhou Province. These steep peaks are still above the water.
What appeared on the map was a large area of light green with various dark green blocks dotted in the middle. Further west from this area was the original Yinsha River where she had sent the survivors north.
Starting from the middle reaches, the Yinsha River expands from a river to a lake. The light green is also densely interspersed with a large amount of dark green. After turning around the southwest corner of Xiangzhou Province, it merges with the deep water area and completely turns from a lake to a sea.
She planned to first walk along the waters of the middle reaches of the lake, then head east along the border of the southwestern plateau and go directly to the deep water area.
As for the task, there was no point in her being anxious. She should first arrange her life for the next period of time and wait for the task to appear.
**
Shu Fu kept the protective shield of the raft open and quickly crossed the border of the entire lake area. There were more restrictions on the west, and she could basically only walk along the border of Xizhou Province. Even though some low-altitude slopes in Xizhou Province were flooded, she still could not go deep into those areas.
The Southwestern Plateau is slightly different. She can basically walk along the boundary between water and land. The entire northern area of the Southwestern Plateau has the highest altitude, so most of the water-land boundary lines are cliffs with a certain distance between the water surface and the land, and occasionally there will be slopes where she can approach the shore.
Shu Fu did not try to land. Her friends were all in Xizhou Province. Even if she could enter the land of the southwestern plateau, it would not mean much to her.
What's more, she would face various restrictions on land and would have to keep a low profile, which was far less free than being in the water.
Apart from these expanded waters, the boundaries of the waters in other directions were the same as before. The barrier of the deep water area in the east was still there, and the climate in that area was still as terrible as when she came here before. Sometimes extreme disasters would actively trigger the drifting bottle protective shield.
But in the deep waters, one can also see the most extreme beauty of nature: a brief two-color rainbow after a heavy rainstorm, a dozen waterspouts surrounding the raft, the rotating water columns from bottom to top made her feel like she was in an alien world, dozens of thunderstorms flashed at the same time, reflecting the sea surface into a fantastic purple-blue, and the howling hurricane rolled up huge waves hundreds of meters high. The small raft was sometimes rolled up to the top of the waves and sometimes taken underwater...
This time, she spent about ten days making the raft move and stop, and occasionally once or twice she would meet other survivors of capsized boats near the land.
She did not deliberately look for and help survivors, but if she happened to see one, she would lend a hand.
However, this situation is extremely rare. After all, the disaster lasted for more than ten months, and the survivors are very cautious. Unless the survivors are extremely unlucky, they will encounter severe extreme weather changes while on the water and have no time to escape.
Another week later, the sky was as gloomy as ink, with howling winds mixed with heavy rain. The rain was so heavy that even the scenery several meters away could not be seen clearly.
A small raft was anchored near the slope of the southwestern plateau. Three survivors who had gone out to fish and encountered severe climate changes stumbled off the raft, still a little dazed.
Despite their family's dissuasion, they insisted on rowing the boat to the water, hoping to bring back some big fish for their family on this special day, but they almost lost their lives in the end.
The moment the boat capsized, they really thought they would never be able to go back today. Overwhelming despair and the desire to survive came over them at the same time. They wanted to survive, no matter what, and no matter what the cost, they wanted to go back alive.
As a result, a miracle really happened. They touched the hard and solid deck in the howling wind and waves and heavy rain. It was a small raft, tiny and fragile in the huge wind and waves. They took shelter in the glass balcony of the raft cabin and avoided being swept off the raft again by the wind and waves.
They thought they would drift in the water with the raft for a long time, but just twenty minutes later, their feet were back on land.
The three survivors who had escaped death lay on the shore in the wind and rain and looked back, but there was no trace of the raft in the water behind them. Instead, there were several motionless big fish on the shore behind them.
Although the fish was dead, it looked very fresh and had no external injuries, as if it had suffocated to death just a second ago.
"Are these fish for us?" They couldn't believe it, but they subconsciously picked up all the fish on the shore.
"Are you... dreaming?"
"I know! That's the raft of the superpower! Ah - do you think the superpower in the raft house heard our conversation just now, so he -"
"Then this fish is really for us! That's great!" They wanted to say thank you, but they couldn't find the raft on the water.
…
Above the stormy waters, in the drifting island house with the protective cover reopened, Shu Fu leaned against the door panel to set the drifting direction on the functional screen, and returned to the small kitchen to make dinner for herself.
The twenty minutes of rescuing the man from shore were like a small interlude in her cooking.
However, when she was about to step into the kitchen, the bracelet on her wrist, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly vibrated slightly.
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