Chapter 140 The Last Piece of Land
Yao Ruoyun set up a simple stall on the raft. In addition to tables and chairs, there was also a parasol set up on the outer wall of the glass greenhouse facing Lu Zheng's raft.
There are simple seasoning jars, chopstick holders, spoon boxes, and tissues on the table. There is a menu posted on the corner of the table, which lists the snacks currently sold by the stall: currently there are bone broth bubble wontons, fresh meat dumplings, vegetable and pork fried wontons, and pepper and salt fried chicken steaks.
Below the menu, there is a printed QR code. It is the QR code on the Huaqiong wristband for collecting raft points. Yao Ruoyun took a photo of it with her mobile phone and printed it out by connecting it to a printer.
Guests who come to eat can pay points themselves after ordering. The wristband looks simple, but after activating the dial part, there is not only a QR code for collecting points, but also the ability to scan other people's QR codes to pay points. It is somewhat similar to a children's multi-functional electronic watch.
When she came out, she saw Xu Tingfeng and Xu Jiechu sitting under a parasol eating. They ordered two servings of bubble wontons, a serving of salt and pepper fried chicken and a serving of fried wontons, and they looked very happy eating. Xu Jiechu smiled happily when he saw her, and even stroked his hair with his hand, with an expression that said "I'm very handsome, please support me, please support me" on his face.
Obviously, after so many days of "education" by his brother, he no longer said strange words when she appeared, which would cause him to be severely beaten by his brother. But even if he didn't say anything, it couldn't stop him from trying hard to fight for "happiness in the second half of his life" for himself.
Xu Jiechu's smile and expression are really silly, but full of vitality.
In my impression, Shu Fu rarely sees this person having internal conflicts. He is simple-minded. He will curse when he is unhappy and laugh when he is happy. Maybe some people don't like his personality, but most of the time, it is people with this kind of personality who live the most comfortably and freely.
Shu Fu waved at them and walked into the glass greenhouse to take a look. Yao Ruoyun was busy in front of the flower bed, transplanting the orange seedlings that had sprouted and grown roots into the soil.
This piece of soil flower bed is quite large and deep enough. There are already quite a few transplanted mulberry seedlings on the side, which are neatly arranged at a certain distance, and it looks thriving.
Yao Ruoyun was also a novice. She listened carefully to what Yao Guofan said and did it seriously. Occasionally, if there were any non-standard movements, Yao Guofan would point them out in detail and then demonstrate them himself.
When she turned her head, one side of her fair, round face was black, as if there was a large piece of mud on it.
Lu Ce was there too, he was also studying seriously, and would occasionally take the initiative to ask Yao Guofan for advice.
From their conversation, it seemed that the first batch of vegetables in the planting house would be ready for harvest. After all, the planting house was produced by the drifting island house, so the growth cycle would be slightly shorter than the normal outside world. When the first batch of vegetables was harvested, Lu Zheng would buy some, so that he could quickly unlock the vending machine. After unlocking the vending machine, the hotel could hire another employee.
Here in the grow house, as long as you successfully sell the first batch of harvest, you can hire a second helper.
Now Lu Ce is so well-behaved and hardworking to come here to study, just to reserve the second assistant position in the future. At present, there is nothing to do in the hotel. His brother will continue to upgrade the hotel in the future and will definitely continue to hire employees. It is definitely impossible for his own hotel to hire him as an employee, and he actually likes planting, so he wants to get this job for himself.
Compared to others, he has not fully grown up yet, and his strength is definitely not as good as Xu Tingfeng and Long Sheng. In addition, he was unable to continue his studies, and his knowledge reserves in various aspects are insufficient. So if he wants this job, he has to work harder than others.
Shu Fu just came over to take a look, and seeing that they were busy, she said hello to Yao Guofan, waved to Yao Ruoyun and Lu Ce, and went to Lu Zheng's hotel.
**
The hotel has also changed. On both sides of the stairs leading to the terrace on the third floor, there are the "laundry and drying rooms" mentioned by Lu Zheng before.
This is the easiest to unlock among all the new facilities. The unlocking conditions include: the inn must have at least one employee, the inn must be in business for a certain number of days, and the inn's income must reach a certain number of raft points, etc.
This new functional area is divided into two long and narrow compartments on the left and right sides, making full use of the space around the stairs. The doors of the two compartments are different colors and have different markings, one for black pants and the other for white dresses. Shu Fu studied it for two seconds and realized that this is to distinguish between the boys' laundry room and the girls' laundry room!
Indeed, many people keep the laundry facilities separate for men and women at home. Now that everyone lives with their companions, it is naturally more convenient to be able to distinguish between them!
Because of the appearance of this area, the original exterior walls of the compartment have been changed from walls to fully transparent floor-to-ceiling glass. Although it is raining and there is no sun now, once the rain stops and the sun comes out one day, the row of clothes racks placed in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass will be able to get sunlight first.
Each compartment has its own surveillance system that can be connected to the operator's electronic screen. There is a drum washing machine, a pulsator washing machine and two dryers in each compartment.
Of course, this is just the initial stage. Such separate functional areas can be upgraded and added later as long as the conditions are met.
In the laundry and drying room, there are laundry detergent, laundry beads, softener, clothes drying rack, clips... all the necessary laundry and cleaning supplies. However, once these supplies are used up, the innkeeper will have to spend raft points to replenish them.
Therefore, hotel guests naturally need to spend points to use the laundry room.
Whether it is a washing machine or a dryer, if you want to start it, in addition to using it during power-on hours, you must use a wristband to scan the electronic screen on it before use. After the corresponding points are deducted, the machine will start operating.
Of course, the points charged for this type of service are very low and everyone can afford it.
When Shu Fu went over, the leisure area on the other side of the stairs on the third floor was quite lively. Everyone was gathered there, and the eight machines in the two compartments next to the stairs were also working.
Obviously, the washing machine and dryer are automatic, and you only need to turn them manually when hanging clothes. But everyone probably had nothing to do, so they didn't go back to their rooms and would rather sit nearby and chat and wait.
Lu Zheng told her that it was just unlocked this morning. Probably because it was new to him, he stood by and watched it for a while while washing clothes.
Moreover, the washing machines in the hotel are different from those in real life. Not only does it take very short time to wash and dry clothes, but they also wash clothes very cleanly. They chatted while waiting and it would be done in a while.
Lu Zheng introduced her to the laundry room, and Shu Fu gave her a general account of the situation at Chen Fa's side, saying that they would leave in a day or two.
Therefore, the raft will continue to drift slowly southward across the entire Silver Sand waters, returning to the place where they left the shore, and reuniting with Chen Fa and his group.
Yue Dong and Jiang Dai were the happiest to hear the news. Jiang Dai didn't have to help out today, so she was very free. She was drinking tea and eating walnuts. Yue Dong helped her peel the walnut kernels. She liked to eat this kind of nuts, so she would buy them whenever she saw them. Food has a shelf life, but at that time there were two mobile warehouses in the team, and everyone would ask them to store the food and supplies they had stored.
Along the way, we have supported each other and stayed together.
So after Chen Fa took her grandmother to Kangsu County, they were all very worried about her. Although they both had high fighting power, natural disasters, man-made calamities and strange diseases were happening frequently in Xizhou Province. The longer the time dragged on, the more worried they became.
Fortunately, good news has finally come.
If everything goes well, Chen Fa will set off in two days and will be able to reunite with them in 4 to 5 days at most.
So everyone started to speculate excitedly what the raft would look like after Chen Fa arrived. As for the snack bar, Shu Fu would probably leave it to Hua Qiong, and the only thing left was the breeding house.
But Chen Fa opened a breeding house to raise animals, which was a very awkward scene. After being together for so long, everyone knew that Chen Fa didn't like small animals very much. Even when the cute "Lan Lan" and "Zhao Cai" ran to her and acted coquettishly, she could ignore them with a straight face.
Shu Fu didn't say much, and no one knew that she had won two new sets. She had heard Chen Fa say before that he wanted to open a milk tea shop, and she didn't expect that she would be so lucky to win the milk tea shop set this time.
She wanted to keep this little surprise for her daughter Fafa so that she could be the first to know.
After visiting the friends, Shu Fu returned to his raft.
It was already evening, another day had passed, and moderate rain continued over the Silver Sands waters.
However, this amount of rainfall can be considered good weather nowadays. The sky is not as gloomy as in the past few days. The surrounding sky is half lit, with a blue-gray light.
The surrounding waters were spacious and there was enough space. Shu Fu changed the house type and released her big villa. She changed into a swimsuit, opened all the glass doors of the dining area and the living room, and went to the terrace on the second floor to burn some calories before dinner.
In the hotel behind, Lu Zheng stood in front of the window of the leisure area on the third floor, looking at the villa in front and smiled. He roughly concluded that although Shu Fu could not tell whether she was in a good mood or not, she could tell just by looking at the shape of her house.
Under normal circumstances it is a cabin. When I am in a bad mood, I will move away and be alone. When I am in a good mood, I will live in a villa, just like now.
On the bench on the front deck of the hotel, Xu Jiechu, who had finished his snack on the raft next door, did not go back to the house. Instead, he sat there with a complicated expression looking at the luxurious and beautiful villa in front of him. At the other end of the bench, Lan Lan was also lying there, wagging her tail lazily.
He took a look, sighed, and then looked at Lanlan again. He seemed to remember his "Lucky" that had run away, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand to grab some. As a result, as soon as his hand stretched out, Lanlan gave him a claw.
Xu Jiechu: …
Damn it, even cats bully him.
Xu Dashazi, who had just been happy because of eating bubble wontons, was in a bad mood again.
**
The next day, Shu Fu did not receive any news from Chen Fa or Zheng Feifei.
The raft has successfully arrived at the waters closest to Gongmang County. The wind and rain are not too strong today. Shu Fu changed back to the original house type, and then ten minutes after issuing the voice announcement, he opened the protective cover to store water in the filter and folding buckets on the terrace of the hotel behind.
On the deck of Yao Ruoyun's raft, Hua Qiong quickly put away the tables, chairs and balcony, and Yao Ruoyun also put out a folding bucket. This folding bucket was given to her by Shu Fu. Because she saw that Lu Zheng's filter interface and bucket waterproof cover were very well made, she also searched for materials in her backpack and asked him to make one for her.
This way of self-filtering and storing water is more convenient than pouring water from under the filter yourself. Just place it in the rain and put it away when it is full of water. Such a large bucket of water can be used for a long time.
After dinner, Shu Fu’s satellite phone was still silent. Not only Cheng Yu and Liu Shuang, but also Chen Fa and Zheng Feifei did not contact her.
She always felt a little uneasy. Although it hadn't been two days yet, Zheng Feifei was so meticulous now that she would definitely send a message to let her know after meeting Chen Fa. If they hadn't met yet, she would also send a message to let her know.
She thought about it and decided to send messages to both of them.
After waiting for an hour or two, she couldn't help but call Chen Fa directly. She called Chen Fa's satellite phone, mainly because she thought that if the signal was not good, Zheng Feifei might not be able to get through.
But satellite phones are different. What’s more, it’s only a little after eight o’clock in the evening. Chen Fa must not be asleep yet. He will answer the call as soon as he hears it.
However, the satellite phone, which can be reached from anywhere on the planet, failed to go through this time.
Shu Fu only felt her heart skip a beat, although she knew that satellite signals would also be affected by surrounding buildings. For example, the signal would be better in open areas outdoors, but would be affected indoors.
Especially for reinforced concrete walls without windows, the signal may not be able to be connected, unless a satellite antenna receiver is installed outdoors to transmit the satellite signal into the room through a signal cable. At this time, the satellite phone signal will not be blocked.
But normally, buildings would not be equipped with satellite antenna receivers. Moreover, Chen Fa was in Zhashui County now. He might be in a clinic or in a temporary safe house. It was even less likely that satellite antenna receivers would be specially installed in those places.
Shu Fu knew that Chen Fa might just have a bad signal, so she might not need to worry so much, but she always had a bad feeling in her heart.
After she called Chen Fa several times, she started calling Zheng Feifei's cell phone, but her phone was also unreachable.
Failure to connect means there is no signal.
Somehow, she suddenly remembered that when she was in Wei County, Cheng Yu decided to return to the hotel to find Wenrou and the others because there was no response to the intercom call.
It was also from then on that she learned about the existence of signal blockers.
But it happened outside the non-safe zone, in a hotel building that had been trapped for a long time by the blizzard and low temperature. And now, they are all in Zhashui County.
Zhashui County is not only located in a safe zone, but also on the outskirts of Shacheng. If something happens to Zhashui County, then Shacheng—
She didn't think about it any further, but quickly got up, equipped herself with a satellite network card, and started to check all the news she could find online. She just hoped that she was just overthinking...
**
At the same time, in Zhashui County, more than a thousand kilometers away.
Night finally fell.
Although it was already nine o'clock in the evening, due to the time difference, the sunset in this area was always very late, and the people of Hua still used the time of the Eastern Time Zone 8 - even though the land where the city that originally stipulated the Eastern Time Zone 8 as the unified time for the entire Hua country was located had sunk a thousand meters underwater.
In a short-term rental house in the south of Zhashui County, Chen Fa gently closed the thick curtains, walked away from the window quietly, and walked back to the sofa in the room.
There was no light in the room, and the curtains were drawn, so the light was extremely dim.
But Chen Fa's eyes had long since adapted to the darkness, and he did not bump into anything while walking.
Sitting on the sofa was Zhang Tian, who had just recovered from a serious illness. Next to her was Wu Shaoshan. On the other side sat Zheng Feifei and her daughter. A moment later, Chen Yuezhen, who had been checking the situation from the bedroom window, also came out.
This short-term rental house is more expensive than the official safe houses. The walls and windows have been reinforced later to withstand wind, rain and hail. It has one bedroom and one living room with a separate bathroom and kitchenette.
Also because the supporting facilities here are complete, when Zhang Tian recovered and left the clinic, Chen Fa decided to bring people here directly, first meet up with Zheng Feifei and her daughter, take a break for a while, and then set off for Gongmang County together.
It is because of this action that they can gather together now. Otherwise, with no signal on all communication tools at present, they would probably be trapped in two places in Zhashui County.
"How is it?" Wu Shaoshan asked Chen Fa in a low voice.
Chen Fa was checking the south side. The house faced the street, and to the south was a street with space for two cars. There were street lights on the street, so even if it was raining heavily outside, one could still see the situation on the street clearly.
"There are quite a few patients wandering around. They must have been released intentionally." Chen Fa was very familiar with the current situation. A year ago, when they were in the Northern Plateau, they had seen the same situation in Youcheng at night.
But at that time, they were sitting in the car with other friends and were very familiar with the situation in the entire Youcheng. They also had a clear goal and knew that as long as they reached the river and crossed the river, they would be safe.
But now, things happened so fast that they didn't understand the situation at all.
A few hours ago, not long after the air raid alarm was sounded, all the residents of Zhashui County skillfully hid indoors.
The air raid alarm only sounded once that day and then stopped. No one rushed out, but remained inside the building, waiting and complaining, saying that it was a rare and nice moderate rainy day, so how come there was another sudden extreme natural disaster? Didn’t the weather forecast say that the rain would subside in the next two days?
However, after everyone waited for a while, the hail, thunderstorms, severe storms... all possible catastrophic weather did not come. After a while, people who took out their mobile phones to check the Internet for messages found that all signals were interrupted. They could not make calls or go online.
The inability to access the Internet also means that people cannot learn from their mobile phones what disaster triggered the air raid alarm. Everyone is trapped indoors, not knowing what is happening outside.
At that time, Wu Shaoshan wanted to go out to check the situation, but was stopped by the experienced Chen Fa, who asked her to stay indoors and observe for a while.
Not long after, the voices of other tenants could be heard in the corridor outside the short-term rental house. Everyone came out because of similar situations. They first gathered in the corridor and asked each other a few questions.
Afterwards, someone went downstairs to check the situation outside.
Zheng Feifei has worked in property management for a long time and has a lot of experience in renting houses. The house she rented is located in a relatively busy area in the southern district of Zhashui County. Although the house is old, it is right next to the street. The first floor is full of shops along the street, and the upper floors are all rental houses.
Because the price was a bit high and the building was old, it was not cost-effective compared to the newly built safe houses, so it was always not fully rented. That was why she was able to entrust a friend of Zhicheng to rent the place for her online in his name when she was in Zhicheng.
The short-term rental apartment is on the fourth floor. Standing in front of the south-facing window, you can clearly see what is happening on the entire street.
It was still raining outside, but the rain was not heavy. It was the kind of moderate rain that was very common in Xizhou Province nowadays. Everyone was used to this level of rain. Some people came out of the building, not even wearing raincoats. They just pulled up the hoods of their jackets, walked a few steps to the street, and looked around to check the situation outside.
After a while, some people came out of the building across the street. Because it was dinner time, many people had just got off work and were rushing home. Some people had no one at home to cook, so they prepared to go to a nearby shop to eat a bowl of noodles for dinner.
Many people hid in the nearby corridors because of the sound of the air raid alarm. Unlike the people who originally lived in the nearby buildings, they did not go back to the building when they saw that nothing was happening outside. Instead, they rode their electric scooters or walked to resume their respective itineraries.
However, when they crossed the street and reached the intersection, a loud bang suddenly came from the horizontal street entrance.
With the sound of explosions, pedestrians who had just reached the intersection were blown away by the explosion of fire and air waves. Many of them closed their eyes forever before they could figure out what was happening.
There were screams all around, and the crowd suddenly became chaotic, starting to push and shove and run away randomly, but many people couldn't tell the direction at all for a while.
In the rising flames, bricks and stones on the buildings and roads exploded, and the heat from the explosion splashed onto other pedestrians running around.
Some people were hit in the legs by sharp objects and fell to the ground with a scream, while others were hit in the head and fell to the ground without a sound. Some people were lucky and were only scratched or burned by sharp objects. They ignored the pain and rolled and crawled in the opposite direction of the fire and explosion.
But some of them didn't get far, as several objects with flaming tails were thrown heavily at them from the other side of the intersection. The moment they hit the ground, they exploded with dazzling flames, leaving the pedestrians who were trying to escape with flesh and blood torn apart.
It's a Molotov cocktail!
Chen Fa and Zheng Feifei, who were standing behind the fourth-floor window in a street building some distance away from the intersection, almost instantly recognized what it was.
Both of them had experienced riots and witnessed the madness and malice of their own kind, so they quickly realized why the air raid alarm had just sounded.
It's a thug attack on the town!
There were thugs - no, there were a lot of thugs that raided this town!
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