Chapter 132 Inn
"Oh my God! It's only been a short time! Your raft has been upgraded to this point?" The big guy was outspoken and was the first to exclaim. In order to get a clear view of the villa on the raft, he even turned around on the shore and walked towards the front deck.
Because the protective shield had been turned on, Shu Fu habitually opened all the glass walls facing the front of the villa to form a screen. Therefore, people outside could now see the deck and living room of the villa clearly through the open glass walls.
Of course, when the big guy ran to the front, in addition to the large living room in front, he also saw the infinity pool on the second-floor balcony, with a clear glass fence surrounding a pool of clear blue water. Even though the photo on New Year's Eve had revealed some information, what he saw now was beyond his imagination.
Shu Fu signaled the people on the shore to go up to the deck behind the raft first. The raft was anchored at the moment. When she walked to the side of the rear deck, all the fences on this side were automatically lowered, as if to welcome the guests.
Lu Ce was originally the first one to walk with Lan Lan excitedly, but when he saw the brand new and clean wooden deck, he stopped abruptly.
Everyone else was the same, suddenly feeling a little awkward.
Lu Ce looked down at his rain boots, which were all covered in mud. If he was boarding his brother's raft at this time, it would be fine, but he really couldn't bear to get such a luxurious raft dirty.
He thought about it and suggested that Lu Zheng take out his raft first, and let all of them take off their muddy shoes on his deck to make the transition, and then get on Shu Fu's raft.
Lu Zheng: ...
This is really my brother...
"No need, just come up. This is the deck, not indoors. The rain will wash away the water in a while. By the way, drive the two cars up as well, so it will be more convenient to get things later." Shu Fu didn't care. At that time, they were by the Yinsha River. Not to mention a group of people who hadn't taken a shower for nearly a month, even the tattered ambulance and armored vehicles covered in mud came up.
She didn't care. The raft was very sturdy anyway and would not leave any scratches. As for the mud and water, it would be cleaned up with a wash when it rained heavily, including the glass balcony on the third floor. All the windows were opened to let the wind and rain in. The rain and mud would flow down the stairs and finally flow out through the gap at the bottom of the fence.
As long as the rain is heavy enough, there is no need to even use a mop.
Although she said this, everyone took off their rain boots after stepping onto the deck.
Shu Fu observed for a while and suddenly took the initiative to ask Xu Jiechu, "Where is your cat?" She remembered that he had a very beautiful cheese cat, which he took well with him when they broke into the dire situation in Youcheng at night.
Xu Jiechu had a complicated expression. He didn't know whether he should be happy that Shu Fu took the initiative to care about him, or sad that she asked about the cat.
"He ran away." Xu Tingfeng answered on his behalf and glanced at his brother. "He found a wife and ran away several times. The last time he ran away, he never came back."
Lu Ce also nodded vigorously: "Yeah, probably he is also thinking about marrying into the family!"
Xu Jiechu: …
Perhaps everyone had teased him about this more than once, and at this moment everyone was trying hard to hold back their laughter.
Shu Fu first took everyone to the third-floor glass balcony, which is open to outsiders. There are tables and chairs where people can sit down and drink some hot water. It is also sheltered from the wind and rain, so everyone can put down their umbrellas or take off their rain gear and take a short rest.
But in fact, no one had time to rest or drink water. After taking off their rain gear, they all stood at the front of the balcony, curiously looking at the balcony and swimming pool on the second floor, as well as the leisure and entertainment area on the front deck on the first floor.
They all thought it was strange that the first floor deck and the second floor balcony were open, so why didn't they get wet in the rain? But despite their curiosity, everyone was very restrained and didn't ask Shu Fu all kinds of questions.
Yao Ruoyun came back wearing a raincoat. When Lu Ce saw her, he started crying. They had evacuated from Suicheng together and had developed a revolutionary friendship along the way. They had not seen each other for more than a year since they separated in Pincheng.
"You little brat, you're already so tall, why are you still crying?" Yao Ruoyun stretched out her hand and ruffled his hair. "You saw my raft just now, right? Isn't it amazing? Let me tell you, it's all thanks to your sister Fu Fu. From today on, you will follow your sister Fu Fu, and every day will be a good day!"
“Hmm…” Lu Ce reached out and hugged Yao Ruoyun, and a cat’s head popped out from the backpack in front of him.
Yao Ruoyun reached out and rubbed the little furry head. The skin was smooth and plump, and it looked like it was well fed.
Lu Zheng also hugged Yao Ruoyun, and then he came to Shu Fu and hugged her naturally, but this time, the hug lasted a little longer.
Since they met again, he has been very quiet. When others stood by the fence and looked curiously at the balcony deck below, he stood silently by the side. When Shu Fu was reminiscing with others, he just looked at her quietly, as if he was afraid that if he opened his mouth, he would suddenly wake up from his dream.
For him, until this moment, when he put his arms around her shoulders and felt her body temperature, he could be truly sure that all this was true. They finally met again!
"I've been waiting for this day for a long time..." Lu Zheng opened his mouth, his voice choked with sobs.
Shu Fu smiled, raised her head and patted his back to comfort him: "I have been looking forward to seeing you all again."
On the other side, Lu Ce took Yao Ruoyun to introduce Yue Dong and Jiang Dai, whom he had never met before.
As for the other three people including Xu Tingfeng, although they were from the same town as Yao Ruoyun, Pincheng was not in chaos when she left. The town was so big that she didn't know everyone. At most, she had seen them once or twice on the road, so they were like strangers.
It was not until later when Lu Zheng and Xu Tingfeng led the townspeople to relocate that everyone gradually became teammates.
Therefore, a formal introduction and understanding is also needed.
We haven't seen each other for a long time, and we are all a little embarrassed, but we are also very excited because we are meeting again after a long separation. Such a farewell may not be a big deal in peacetime, but in this end times when the land is gradually disappearing, it is really not easy to meet again alive after a long separation.
After a brief greeting, Lu Zheng brought up the matter of towing the raft.
"No hurry. Before towing, I need someone to help me do some experiments."
"I'll do it!" Xu Jiechu shouted loudly, but was quickly pulled back by his brother who grabbed his neck.
"Why are you here? Come here! Sit down!" If there weren't so many people here, Xu Tingfeng really wanted to give him a big bag.
"I'll go with you." Lu Zheng said, and the others tactfully took a step back.
"Let's go." Before Shu Fu led people down the stairs, he told Yao Ruoyun to greet everyone first, and said that the bucket, thermos and cups for washing hands were already placed on the table nearby.
"Well! Don't worry, senior sister!" Yao Ruoyun nodded and took out two plates of steaming hot fried wontons that her mother had just given her from her backpack to entertain everyone.
Shu Fu led Lu Zheng down the stairs, walked around the two cars on the rear deck, and then stepped onto Yao Ruoyun's raft. Lu Zheng followed her and walked up smoothly.
The first experimental result came out: without opening the protective shield, outsiders could still enter the deck area of the raft.
In the second experiment, Shu Fu walked into the glass greenhouse and motioned Lu Zheng to follow her.
However, Lu Zheng stopped before entering the glass greenhouse. The glass door was open, but he couldn't get in. "It feels like the last time I went to the Chenfa raft, which didn't have a visitor facility. I couldn't enter the cabin, and it's the same here."
Shu Fu nodded in relief, and the second experiment came out. The newly added non-hut building on Yao Ruoyun's deck, although not like her drifting island house, with constant temperature and complete isolation from heavy rain and other disaster weather outside, at least had the same exclusion function as the raft hut.
Next, she asked Lu Zheng to release his raft next to Yao Ruoyun's raft, which happened to be the second towing position.
This time, she returned to her raft and asked Yao Ruoyun to go with her.
She asked the two to check the panel to see if there was a question about allowing visitors.
Both of them said that they saw the visitor's inquiry on the panel, and then at Shu Fu's request, they both chose to agree. After the visitor took effect, Yao Ruoyun successfully entered Lu Zheng's cabin, and Lu Zheng also successfully entered the glass greenhouse that he could not enter before.
It seems that whether the raft is towed or not, the original function will still be retained.
The next experiment was a bit troublesome. Shu Fu himself did not expect that the previous experiment would proceed so quickly. In the end, he had to let everyone go down the stairs again and then step onto Lu Zheng's raft one by one.
Shu Fu also followed Lu Zheng onto his raft, and asked Yao Ruoyun to stay on her own raft.
Then she opened the protective cover of the drift bottle.
In an instant, the raft and villa that were originally so close became things that had no sense of existence again. Everyone knew that it was there, but they just couldn't find it.
After checking his personal dashboard, Lu Zheng gave her feedback: "After the protective shield was opened, the visitor function of Yao Ruoyun and I's raft was automatically disconnected. I can't find her raft now, and the visitor function has not appeared again."
Shu Fu nodded, feeling relieved. The function of the protective shield was more important than anything else, and it was still the most powerful one.
She removed the protective shield again, and underneath was the raft towing Lu Zheng!
**
Because the precautions for towing were very long, Shu Fu called Lu Zheng onto her raft alone, wanting to give him a quiet and private space before towing so that he could read the precautions carefully.
But before she asked, Lu Zheng had already chosen "confirm".
Shu Fu was speechless: "You two, are you really not afraid that I will sell you out?"
"You won't." Lu Zheng looked at Shu Fu in the villa, smiled and shook his head.
Of course, there is something else that he didn’t say. If one day she really “sold” him, for him, this incident itself would make him more desperate than the accident of the raft. At that time, the raft would not be that important...
[Towing location 2: Lu Zheng's raft (bond value: 91). [Starting shared function: Select 1 (protective shield); Select 2: (not yet selected); Select 3: (not yet selected)] [Special: None]]
This time, probably because she had two rafts, when she entered the towing page, she found that she could not only tow [Lu Zheng's raft], but also exchange the position of his raft with [Yao Ruoyun's raft].
This operation will not disconnect the towed raft. It is similar to a function of reconfiguring the towing position. That is to say, although [Lu Zheng's raft] is in position 2 now, she can exchange it with [Yao Ruoyun's raft] at any time and make it go to position 1, and [Yao Ruoyun's raft] will naturally move to position 2.
Shu Fu thought this function was great. After all, towing position 2 was closer to her, and she originally wanted to leave it for Chen Fa. She also thought about putting [Lu Zheng's raft] directly at position 3 - the left rear side of Yao Ruoyun's raft, but because position 2 was still empty, this operation was not feasible.
But now that she found out that she could exchange, she had nothing to worry about.
After the towing was successful, the two rafts were lined up side by side behind Shu Fu's raft deck, every angle and every distance were exactly the same, as if they were copied and pasted.
It's just that the distance between their two rafts is a bit far, unlike the half-step distance between her raft and theirs. This distance is about two meters, which is definitely impossible to cross.
But soon, as [Lu Zheng's raft] was completely fixed in position, a new function appeared on the screen of the towing page: raft channel.
When she clicked on the raft passage, selectable areas appeared on the floor plan. There were two selectable areas. One was between the rear end of her deck and the front end of the opponent's deck, and the second was the more than two-meter-long water area between Yao Ruoyun and Lu Zheng's rafts.
She selected the area between Yao Ruoyun and Lu Zheng's rafts, and suddenly, a passage connecting the two rafts appeared on her screen.
Shu Fu walked out of the house and stood on the deck to check. He found that not only had the distance between their rafts been shortened from two meters to one meter, but a row of decks made of logs had also appeared in the middle, connecting their two rafts together from front to back.
This deck is about one meter wide and is made up of movable wooden boards and chains. It is not only strong and dense, but also does not affect the angle when turning. It looks light and flexible.
Shu Fu thought about it, then went back and decided to cancel this passage, while also canceling the passage between his own raft deck and the opponent's deck.
When she came out again, she found that the distance between her deck and the other deck had changed from 15 centimeters to 5 meters, and the one-meter-wide movable deck in the middle of the other raft had disappeared again, and the distance returned to two meters.
Shu Fu quickly realized that the purpose of the "raft channel" was independence and access. If she removed all the channels, all the rafts would become independent areas, and it would be difficult for others to get to other people's rafts without the help of tools.
When she chooses "Pass", the distance between the rafts will be shortened and a deck will appear. The deck is not only used to connect the two rafts, but also serves as a passage for the rafts to drift on the water. It is a passage for people on the raft in front to walk to other rafts behind.
After all, the back half of everyone's raft was blocked by their own cabins, and the distance left on the decks on both sides was not enough for one person to walk around. But now this row of decks appeared between the two rafts, and everyone could walk on it if they wanted to cross the middle raft to get to the back.
In time, when her raft tows all the rafts of her friends, and such decks appear between each raft, it is conceivable that the rafts at that time will not only be rafts, but they will be connected to each other and can run parallel to each other on the water. In special circumstances, they can also be separated and independent. They will become a - huge water sports city!
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[Towing location 2: Lu Zheng's raft (bond value: 91). [Starting shared function: Select 1 (protective shield); Select 2: (not yet selected); Select 3: (not yet selected)]
[Special: Upgraded Set (Inn)] (Note: Once the raft is untethered, the upgraded set will automatically fall off and disappear, and the upgraded level will be reset to zero)]
When equipping the upgraded suit, Shu Fu reopened the protective shield to reduce interference, so this time, except for the Lu Zheng brothers, everyone else temporarily retreated to the shore. They waited quietly, expectantly, and a little uneasily.
The blue one, who was quietly staying in the backpack in front of Lu Ce, was also thrown to the shore outside with a meow when the protective shield was opened. This was something that neither Lu Zheng nor Lu Ce had expected, after all, it could freely enter and exit the raft cabin of everyone except Shu Fu.
But obviously, within the range of the protective shield, even Lan Lan who was hanging on couldn't "hang on" this time.
Lanlan jumped onto the shore, all wet, and meowed a few times, looking so pitiful. Jiang Dai, who was standing by, handed the umbrella to Yue Dong, bent down and picked it up. Yue Dong took out a piece of dry clothes from his backpack and wrapped it up.
On the raft, after the changes of light and shadow, Lu Zheng's original single-story raft hut became larger and turned into a three-story log building with a terrace. If the terrace is also counted, it can be said to be a four-story building.
Several open-air seats and round tables appeared on the deck in front, which was originally empty. Some of them were similar to wooden benches with backrests in the park. There were two on both sides, which seemed to be provided for guests waiting to check in to rest. They could also be used as viewing tables and chairs.
The log building looks like a single-family villa from the outside, with clear log lattice windows. The interior is also a compressed space. The original raft cabin had a single-story area of only a dozen square meters. After using the "planting kit", Yao Ruoyun's raft increased its single-story area to 80 square meters. At this moment, Lu Zheng's building has a single-story area of almost 120 square meters.
The small building still has a horizontal rectangular layout, presenting a short and fat "中" shape, with a double glass door in the middle. Opposite the door is the hotel lobby and the check-in front desk counter. There is an electronic screen on the small counter and against the wall behind it.
The big one on the wall is for guests to see, and the smaller one on the counter is probably for the hotel owner to see.
The entire check-in area is not large. There are several wooden benches with backrests in the foyer. Next to the benches is a metal cabinet with sliding doors and a display screen. I don't know what they are used for.
There is a corridor on each side of the check-in area.
It's a bit too optimistic to say it's a corridor, because there are only two room doors on each side of the corridor, and they are not side by side, but opposite each other.
The room is about 20 square meters and has a 1.5-meter single bed, a window with curtains, a wardrobe, a matching wooden table and chairs and a single sofa by the window, and a flat-screen TV on the wall opposite the bed, which looks like it can be connected to a mobile phone or tablet. There is also a water bar with an induction cooker against the wall of the entrance corridor, where you can cook some simple meals.
The four rooms on the first floor are almost identical except for their different orientations, and each room has a separate bathroom with a simple shower, flush toilet and sink, as well as a shelf for placing items.
Although this configuration cannot catch up with a four- or five-star hotel, perhaps because the hotel is brand new, the interior furnishings are new, clean and tidy. In addition, each room has windows, and the entire building is decorated with warm wood tones inside and out, so it looks particularly warm and comfortable.
Not just good, it's great!
The hotel's stairs are located behind the wall of the counter area. It is a small two-way staircase that takes up a considerable amount of space, so the stairs are not narrow or crowded, and two or three people can walk side by side without any problem.
The layout of the second floor is exactly the same as the first floor. The original lobby and counter area in the middle has been made into a rest area. There is a row of windows on the wall facing the same direction as the main door, so even if the lights are not on indoors, the lighting is good.
There are several lockers against the walls on both sides, and wooden tables and chairs and a single sofa with a wooden coffee table on the side. Books and entertainment items such as chess and cards can be placed on the lockers. Guests can rest and chat in this area, read books, play chess and cards, and eat something here.
The corridors on the left and right sides of the second floor are different from those on the first floor. The corridors and rooms on the right side remain the same, except that the two rooms facing each other are slightly larger, about 30 square meters. The furniture inside is exactly the same, but the beds have changed from a 1.5-meter single bed to two 1.2-meter single beds, and the single sofa has become a double sofa.
This is a double room, and judging by the beds, it can accommodate two people.
The corridor on the left disappeared completely, replaced by a wall and two wooden doors. Inside was a suite of about 50 to 60 square meters, which should be the living space for the Lu Zheng brothers.
This suite is similar to the one Yao Ruoyun has, with a dining area with an open kitchen, a bathroom, and two separate small rooms. The interior is simply furnished with everything you need. There is also a removable electronic functional screen on the wall next to the door.
This suite occupies the left half of the second floor and has windows on both sides, so the interior is well lit. This should be the original space of the raft cabin, so some of the tables, chairs, furniture, travel bags, generators, and large cardboard boxes for storage that Lu Zheng placed in the raft cabin are now all stacked in the house. The old furniture looks a bit messy and abrupt compared to the brand new and clean log-colored house.
Lu Ce, who had been holding back his tears, finally couldn't hold it in anymore. He screamed, looked in and out of several rooms, then ran to Shu Fu, hugged her, and cried loudly.
It was not until this moment that he understood what Yao Ruoyun had said before.
——From today on, follow your sister Fu Fu, and every day will be a good day after all the hardships!
Now, he really felt it very clearly!
The overall structure of the third floor above the second floor is almost the same, with a leisure area in the middle and two doors facing each other on the corridors on both sides. The interior size is the same as the guest rooms on the second floor, both of which are double rooms.
Going further up, there is the top terrace. This terrace is different from Shufu’s terrace. There is no glass on it. It is truly open. Because it is not part of the interior of the small building, it is not a compressed space. It is a rectangular terrace of about 20 square meters.
The terrace is surrounded by a fence more than one meter high, and there is a metal box fixed to the ground on each side of the terrace.
Lu Zheng went to check and found that the two were water tanks. The inside was much larger than it looked from the outside. Each tank could hold 10,000 liters of water, or 10 tons. The two tanks together could hold 20 tons. There was also a display screen on top, showing the total water storage and remaining water.
They checked all the way upstairs and tried the bathroom faucet and the lights, but there was no electricity or water in the entire hotel building. In addition, the situation was the same as Yao Ruoyun's. After the special kit was installed, a centralized sewage tank appeared under the stairs on the first floor, so "sewage treatment" was an inevitable choice.
After all, other domestic waste can be tied up and gathered together and thrown onto the shore at about the same time as before, but sewage treatment is imminent.
In the end, there was only one shared function left for Lu Zheng to choose. Water and electricity are both necessities, but he could only choose one of them.
If they choose electricity, they can go to the terrace themselves and fill the water tank. The water filling process is the same as the water tank in Shufu Drifting Island House. When the purified water approaches the water tank, the display screen will automatically ask whether to store it.
If water is chosen, he can also put a generator in the rest area on the second floor, so that anyone who needs to cook with an induction cooker or charge their batteries can go to the rest area on the second floor.
No matter which one you choose, there will definitely be their own conveniences and inconveniences, but the good news is that as long as you stick with it for 100 days, after towing for 100 days, you can add another sharing function.
Finally, Lu Zheng decided to give the choice to everyone and let everyone vote. After all, this is a hotel. The hotel currently has three floors, six double rooms and four single rooms.
It was enough room for the six of Xu Tingfeng to live in.
So, Shu Fu and Lu Zheng returned to the first deck. Shu Fu opened the protective shield and allowed his companions who had been waiting for a long time to get back on the raft.
"It really is a hotel!" Jiang Dai held Lan Lan in her arms and looked at the three-story wooden building in front of them with her mouth open, shocked to the point of losing her composure.
The others were so shocked that they were speechless, and everyone soon learned the situation from Lu Zheng.
The group of grown men didn't really care. They were all used to living a hard life. They had originally decided to build a container house on Lu Zheng's raft, but now that they knew they could live in the small building, they felt that they could sleep anywhere, even in the living room.
Finally, it was Jiang Dai who was thoughtful and proposed a solution, suggesting that everyone should first take a look at the room facilities before deciding whether to choose electricity or water.
However, everyone entered the double doors of the hotel and walked into the counter area, but except for the Lu Zheng brothers, Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun, no one else, including Lan Lan, could step into the corridor area, let alone go up the stairs.
Yao Ruoyun was most familiar with this situation. She said that it was probably because everyone had not checked in and became hotel guests, so they were blocked by the invisible air wall. As for her, probably because she was also a raft towing person, she did not have this restriction.
Upon hearing this, Lu Ce suggested: "Why don't we check in first?" It just so happened that he also wanted to see how this high-tech hotel was run, and whether it was similar to the simulation business mobile games he played before.
Then, the most embarrassing thing happened. As the hotel operator, neither Lu Zheng nor Lu Ce could turn on the operating screen on the cabinet or the large screen on the wall because there was no electricity...
In the entire building, only the electronic function screen next to the door of Lu Zheng and Lu Ce’s residence on the second floor and the display screen of the water tank on the roof have their own power.
Shu Fu: ...
Tsk, this miserable start is much worse than her original one...
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