Chapter 131 Plantation House
Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, there was a violent storm.
Shu Fu let go of the hand that was pulling the curtains, lay back on the bed, and rolled over in the thin quilt. The weather in the past two days was terrible. It was either heavy rain and thunderstorms, or howling winds, and the rain was sweeping across like a high-pressure gun.
In this kind of weather, she just wanted to curl up in the quilt and continue sleeping.
She did exactly that, staying in bed, playing stand-alone games, listening to a novel, and then falling asleep again. While half asleep, she felt her phone on the bedside table vibrating.
She remembered that it was her satellite phone.
Shu Fu suddenly came to her senses, picked up the phone and looked at the number. It was Chen Fa!
She answered the phone quickly. The background noise from Chen Fa's end was very noisy. In addition to the voice, there was also the sound of wind and the rattling of doors and windows. Shu Fu was startled and asked her what happened and whether she needed to rush over now.
Chen Fa laughed and praised her for being smart: "You knew something was wrong before I even opened my mouth? Why are you rushing? I'm in Kangsu County, more than 400 kilometers away from Gongmang County! Don't worry, it's not me who's in trouble, it's Shaoshan's problem... Well, I've found her, don't worry... How should I put it, I lived with her for so long before, and I didn't expect her original family to be like this, and her parents would favor boys over girls to this extent...
Let's talk about it in detail when we meet. To make a long story short, I called to tell you that I have to stay in Kangsu County for a few more days to accompany her to deal with things here and wait for her reply. If she thinks it through, my grandmother and I will bring her to find you. In addition, I informed Lu Zheng and his team last night that they don't need to go through Kangsu County, they can go directly to Gongmang County and then go to find you first.
They were a large group, and this trip was like moving. The others didn't have space for backpacks, so they needed to carry more supplies, so they drove themselves, which would be faster than traveling with a convoy. However, the weather on the entire Fengshang Plateau was very bad in the past two days. It seemed that spring had passed and the rainy summer had begun, so natural disasters were quite frequent. Lu Zheng and his group should have been blocked on the road. I don't know why, but he seemed to be in a hurry to get on the road. It was a pity that he encountered force majeure..."
Chen Fa had already stated in her previous message that she would stay for two more days, but she was afraid that Shu Fu had arrived at the waters near Gongmang County too early and would be anxious waiting, so she decided to make a phone call.
Shu Fu looked at the waters where the raft had arrived on the map panel, and thought that Chen Fa understood her well. She was really already near Gongmang County.
The Yinsha River in this area had long since become a lake, and the water area had expanded, flooding the low-altitude slopes at the junction of Xizhou Province and Xiangzhou Province. In addition, her raft could go to any water area without any barriers blocking it.
Therefore, the straight-line distance between Po'an, where she is now, and Gongmang County is only about 50 kilometers.
Because of Chen Fa's call, Shu Fu wanted to know the current situation outside, so after getting up, he quickly washed up and installed a satellite network card on the function panel without even having time to eat breakfast.
Fortunately, the 24-hour satellite network card that won the second prize in the green lottery can be removed and suspended at any time, just like the electricity card.
She currently has only two such cards, and together they can only allow her to access the Internet for 48 hours. So she will use them as quickly as possible.
She took out a tablet and two mobile phones, and amid the sound of a series of WeChat messages and missed call alerts on her phones, she opened multiple websites and checked and searched for news at the same time.
Many of the unread messages and WeChat messages on her phone were sent by the other party before she and others contacted each other using a satellite phone. Among them were messages sent a long time ago by Zhang Tian and Wu Shaoshan, who still didn't know about her satellite phone.
She didn't have time to check that part for the time being, and only read some recent disaster notifications in the official text messages.
Because the land area of Hua State is now less than one-third of what it used to be, these disaster notifications are sent nationwide regardless of region. As long as people are still on land and in areas covered by the network, they can receive them.
She found that the disaster warnings in the entire Xizhou Province were very frequent recently, which meant that the frequency of severe weather was increasing. In many news reports, it was also found that some areas would experience some small-scale chaos due to accommodation and supplies...
Not to mention small counties like Dari County and Cham County, even Zhicheng had experienced several chaos. Lu Zheng and Yao Ruoyun probably did not want to worry her, so they only reported good news and not bad news, and never mentioned these terrible situations.
In addition to these news, the news that surprised her the most was a notice that was posted on the most authoritative official website and was pinned on the top for a long time.
The above content shocked her. The country had actually announced the appearance of people with special powers in Hua State a month ago. It acknowledged the existence of special people and special abilities, told the public that a group of people with special powers were currently working for the government, announced the generous treatment they enjoyed, and continued to recruit people with special powers across the country.
At the same time, there is another long-term top notice displayed below this notice, which contains a list of people with special abilities, including their appearance, age, name and possible places of appearance.
The notice stated that these were people with special abilities who had committed illegal crimes by relying on their special abilities.
They have been officially recorded as criminals, so a long-term reward is offered. Once someone provides reliable information, they will receive a generous reward. The following are some specific contents of the reward, and different levels of rewards are divided according to the degree of violation of each superpower, as well as how to provide information...
Both notices were released a month ago, which caused a stir on the Internet at the time. Even though not everyone has access to the Internet now, those who can see the two notices couldn't help but come and watch.
Although almost everyone knew about the news about the supernatural being before, folk rumors and official confirmation are two completely different concepts.
Acknowledging the emergence of people with special powers is equivalent to acknowledging that the planet is undergoing a leap forward in evolution. Ordinary people without special powers will inevitably become more anxious and uneasy, and the peace that has been hard-won under natural disasters will also be more prone to chaos and conflict.
No wonder. From the month since then until now, there have been so many news reports of small-scale conflicts and chaos in Xizhou Province. Although we knew that publicly acknowledging this matter would definitely cause some turmoil, we still made it public.
Why?
The authorities clearly knew about it a long time ago and had been acting in private, so why did they choose to make it public a month ago? Shu Fu thought of something. A month ago, words like border and naval battle seemed to be mentioned more frequently by the survivors of the Northern Plateau.
The Northern Plateau and Xizhou Province are too far away from each other, so whether the official authorities acknowledge the existence of people with superpowers has little to do with them. Instead, a real war will attract their attention and discussion.
Shu Fu searched for words related to border and naval battle again, and indeed found several messages, all of which were official announcements. There was no real-time follow-up, but only a general announcement of which areas people needed to be careful and which areas near the border needed to evacuate.
Because they were all official announcements, there were almost no live scenes of naval battles. The occasional pictures were all photos of China's giant ships and submarines setting off from the shore.
The size of those huge ships was beyond Shu Fu's imagination. They included submarines, both ordinary and giant ones. When they floated on the water, they looked more like an all-inclusive floating fortress on the sea, which could probably withstand extreme climates.
These giant submarines can safely escape even if a tsunami of annihilation level comes, as long as they are in deep enough waters and dive more than one thousand meters underwater...
Compared with these sea giants, her raft is really tiny. The country's strength and technology are indeed beyond the reach of any golden finger!
Fortunately, she had no ambitions. Her original intention was just to survive, and she would lie down if she could. Now she wants to survive with her friends, and they can lie down together.
For her, this is her ultimate dream.
Shu Fu removed the satellite network card, ate a sandwich and went to the raft at the back to find Yao Ruoyun.
**
As soon as she opened her mouth, Yao Ruoyun admitted it, saying that this was a unanimous decision reached between her and Lu Zheng, and that she would not be told about the official public recognition of the psychic for the time being.
"Why? Are you afraid that I'll get carried away and turn myself in?" Shu Fu laughed. "If I had that awareness, I would have turned myself in long ago. Why would I wait until today?"
"Don't say that, I always thought you were very aware..." Yao Ruoyun was hinting at something, probably referring to the matter of secretly taking out food in the tunnel and releasing the huge raft to rescue the survivors.
"I just got carried away once or twice. Strictly speaking, I am a self-centered person. Do you have any misunderstandings about me?" Shu Fu replied indifferently while continuing to chew his sandwich. Unfortunately, there was food in his mouth, so he couldn't sound serious even if he wanted to.
"Yes, yes, you are a cool heroine with a sacred mini raft!"
Shu Fu: ...
Yao Ruoyun giggled, hooked her arm, and pulled her to sit down in the glass greenhouse.
Yao Ruoyun's family worked so quickly that in just one morning, half of the planting boxes, planting grids, and hydroponic boxes in the glass greenhouse had been planted.
The first vegetables planted were: lettuce, greens, Chinese cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, cucumbers, and eggplants; the fruits were: cherry tomatoes, strawberries, grapes, oranges, mulberries, loquats, and blueberries, which are all relatively easy-to-grow vegetables and fruits with strong adaptability and are easy to grow.
They are mainly afraid that haste makes waste, so they try to choose these basic entry-level ones to plant first.
In addition, they rearranged the shelves, organized the planting boxes, reorganized the layout more rationally, and left a space in the middle by the glass wall, where they placed a set of log-colored tables and chairs.
I believe that in time, when those seeds sprout, this place will become green and full of vitality.
At that time, sitting on the tables and chairs on the floor-to-ceiling glass walls and drinking afternoon tea and eating snacks will be a completely different experience.
Hua Qiong wanted to keep her for lunch, but Shu Fu finished a whole sandwich, drank a cup of latte, and took out a box of kumquats and ate them while chatting with Yao Ruoyun. As soon as Hua Qiong mentioned lunch, Shu Fu burped, and Yao Ruoyun followed suit.
Hua Qiong: ...
Not only did he eat Shu Fu's fruits, but he also ate them until he was full?
She stretched out her hand and wanted to give her daughter a big stomach, but Yao Ruoyun dodged it skillfully and called her mother in a coquettish manner, saying that her stomach was only full of fruit and the other stomach was still empty.
Hua Qiong looked at Shu Fu with some anticipation.
Shu Fu raised her hands in surrender: "Both my stomachs are full!"
Mama's girl Yao Ruoyun followed Hua Qiong back to have lunch, and Shu Fu also returned to her raft and continued to lie down, watching TV series and eating snacks.
There was nothing he could do now and he could only continue to wait in this area for his friends to come, so Shu Fu was happy and relaxed and decided to lie down for a few days while waiting.
**
We stayed in this area of water quietly and comfortably for four or five days. During these days, the weather was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Sometimes it just rained and the rainfall was not too heavy, and sometimes there were strong winds and heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms and hail.
On the afternoon of the fourth day, Shu Fu released the classic S-class villa at Yao Ruoyun's request. The last time Yao Ruoyun saw this luxurious water villa was at night. At that time, her attention was on Shu Fu and she didn't take a close look.
That day, under the daylight, she finally got a clear look at this luxurious villa raft, and she became even more envious.
What made her particularly sad was that, even though her raft had been towed and was protected by the protective shield, she was still confined to the rear deck and the third-floor glass balcony, just like last time, and felt no different from those strangers outside.
But Shu Fu was very cooperative. Because she was curious, she opened the glass door at the back of the villa so that she could look inside the villa through the door. Although from her angle, she could only see the entire dining area, the stairs leading to the second floor on the left, and the glass corridor on the right, she knew more than others.
Afterwards, Shu Fu suggested that the empty glass balcony area could be decorated. Since the rear deck is so large and empty, it can be fully utilized to do some sports that can only be done in an open space.
So, Yao Ruoyun marked the center line and boundary on the rear deck with stickers, and Shu Fu found a brand new badminton racket and badminton from the space, then started the drifting state of the raft, and the two began to play badminton on the rear deck.
Because the fence of the rear deck will remain raised only when the raft is drifting, so that people playing ball on the raft can be safer and will not fall into the water after chasing the ball for a few steps.
The rafting speed started by Shu Fu was very slow, only 5. When they were playing ball on the back deck, they could hardly feel the movement of the raft, and they had a lot of fun playing back and forth.
When they don't want to play ball, Shu Fu will put out electric scooters, roller skates, spinning bikes and other interesting sports equipment on the deck so that they can play in different ways.
The protective cover keeps the strong wind and heavy rain out, and the deck is always calm.
If we have to point out a disadvantage, it would be that when playing badminton, if someone accidentally uses too much force or hits the ball crookedly, the badminton will easily fly over the fence and fall into the water.
The protective shield is the same as before, it only protects against the outside and not the inside. People inside can still penetrate the protective shield and reach the outside with just a hand.
On the first day of playing, because of the strong wind and rain outside, the badminton flew out and disappeared, and they had no way to pick it up. At first Shu Fu didn't care, saying that there were many badmintons. As a result, in just one hour, the two of them hit five balls in a row, four of which were hit by her.
Shu Fu: ...
In the end, the two of them unanimously decided to wait until the weather outside was better before playing. At least if the wind and rain outside were not too heavy, they could use a net to scoop up the badminton if it fell into the water.
The next day, the weather really got better. Shu Fu received a message from Lu Zheng in the morning, saying that he was continuing on his journey. Just as Chen Fa had said before, Lu Zheng seemed to be in a hurry to travel. Even though it was a message, she could feel it between the lines.
So, Shu Fu used a satellite phone to send her location to the other party, and at the same time reminded him not to worry, after all, she was not in a hurry and would wait for them as long as it took.
A moment later, Lu Zheng sent a reply: Yao Ruoyun has arrived, right?
Shu Fu: Yes, I went to pick her up first.
Lu Zheng did not continue the topic. He compared his current location with the route to the water, and finally gave Shu Fu a revised address. He also reassured her that it was a relatively remote location and survivors usually would not park their boats there, so there would be no problem placing the raft.
Shu Fu is not very clear about the situation on land now, so the specific meeting place of the two sides has to be determined by Lu Zheng. After all, her raft is on the water, so it doesn't matter where she drifts to the shore. But Lu Zheng can't do that. The car is on land, so it can't get through if it encounters a place that it can't get through.
At noon, Hua Qiong sent Yao Ruoyun to call Shu Fu over for lunch. This had been happening for the past few days. Every two or three days, if the Yao family cooked a rich meal, they would come and call Shu Fu. Yao Ruoyun would tell them the names of the dishes, and then Shu Fu would decide whether to come over or not.
At first, Shu Fu was a little embarrassed and tried to find a way to politely refuse Hua Qiong. She would occasionally go over, but after getting to know Hua Qiong, she started to refuse directly. After all, she had so many cooked and raw foods in her space that she couldn't finish them all. She was still thinking about how to send some meat and seafood to the other party...
However, Shu Fu agreed to go there at noon today, because the Yao family had hot pot for lunch, bone soup and spicy shuangyuan hot pot. Shu Fu took out a hot pot gift pack and directly added dishes to the Yao family.
She hadn’t eaten hotpot for a long time, because she had been on the raft for several months and couldn’t eat it all the time, or she would get tired of it…
Today is a good day. I was thinking of eating while waiting for Lu Zheng and his group at the agreed meeting point in the waters.
As a result, when they finished lunch and cleaned up the pots and dishes together, when Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun were sent out to play by Hua Qiong and Yao Guodong, the other party had not arrived yet.
Finally, because the weather conditions were good, the two decided to continue yesterday's badminton game.
When a car appeared on the bend of the hillside near the water, Shu Fu's smash failed and the badminton fell into the water again. Yao Ruoyun shouted "I'll do it, I'll do it" and excitedly took a long-handled net and lay on the fence to fish the ball out of the water.
The direction of scooping the ball was facing the bend of the hillside. Half of Yao Ruoyun's body and head stuck out of the protective shield. In the eyes of people outside, it was like half of a person suddenly appeared out of thin air, growing on a rock or a tree trunk. That person was still alive and could move.
Xu Jiechu, who was vying to be the first to get out of the car, howled and fell to his knees: "Oh my god! Ghost——"
Yao Ruoyun frowned and looked at the man kneeling down towards her on the shore with an expression of an old man looking at his phone on the subway. Suddenly she realized something and shrank back.
Xu Jiechu on the shore howled again: "Oh my god! The ghost has retreated!"
Shu Fu: ...
What's all the fuss about?
"Senior, I was seen just now!" Yao Ruoyun felt a little guilty, "Will I expose your raft?"
"Don't worry, you won't be exposed. After all, they think you're a ghost, and..." Shu Fu paused, looked at a jeep and a pickup truck parked not far from the shore, and the people getting out of the cars one by one, and smiled, "Friendly troops are here, don't be afraid."
Shu Fu was also lying on the fence, sticking half of his head and one hand out, and waved to Lu Zheng, Lu Ce and others who had just got off the car.
Lu Ce got out of the car a step too late and did not see Yao Ruoyun sticking out of the protective shield. At the moment, he was beside Xu Jiechu, laughing at him. As a result, he looked up inadvertently and saw half a face and a hand exposed above the water. He immediately let out a howl and instantly hugged the waterproof backpack in front of him. After he cried out, he realized that the person was Shu Fu.
Perhaps Luce used too much force, and Lanlan, who was curled up in the backpack and sleeping, also meowed.
"Sister Fu Fu!" Lu Ce's voice was tearful, as if he had met a long-lost relative.
Shu Fu smiled at him, then looked at Lu Zheng who had walked to Lu Ce's side. His gaze was fixed on her face, and besides the smile, there was a longing so strong that it could not be concealed in his eyes.
Behind her were the big guy, the braided guy, Yue Dong, Jiang Dai, and the pale-faced Xu Tingfeng who was pulling his disappointing brother. When everyone saw her, they stretched out their hands and waved at her.
At this moment, Shufu felt as if he had traveled through time and returned to the lake in the mountainous area outside Youcheng on the Beidi Plateau.
At that time, Lu Ce was crying like he is now, and everyone waved to each other.
It's just that at that time, they said goodbye to each other, and this time, they met again.
It turns out that this is what it feels like to meet a companion who has been through life and death together again. Shu Fu smiled and said, "Wait for me! I'll close the protective shield!"
As she spoke, she shrank back and asked Yao Ruoyun to inform her parents that she would temporarily close the protective shield for a while and asked them to stay indoors to avoid getting wet in the rain. She also told Yao Ruoyun to wear a raincoat when she came over again.
The wind was not strong today, and there were no catastrophic thunderstorms or hail. In addition, with so many people coming, she could use them to do a few experiments before towing the raft.
Yao Ruoyun responded, packed up the things on the deck, and ran back.
Shu Fu also took out a front-button raincoat from the space and put it on, pulled up the brim of his hat, and then removed the protective cover of the drift bottle on his bracelet. Suddenly, the rain that had been isolated outside came down with a crackling sound and landed on the deck.
She manually steered her raft on the map panel again, bringing its side gently to the shore, and then pressed "Moor".
Everything was ready. When she looked up at her long-lost friends again, she found that their eyes were fixed on the big raft she was on, with shock and disbelief on their faces.
Oh, she remembered that although she had taken photos for the other party before, she only took photos of a corner of the balcony swimming pool at that time. It seemed that this was the first time for her friends to officially see this type of drifting island house.
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