Chapter 157 Swimming Pool and Park
This is a semi-open-air T-shaped swimming pool with a changing room. Perhaps considering that the protective cover of the raft may be closed occasionally, a glass wall and roof are built on one side of this "T"-shaped swimming pool to protect against wind and rain, similar to a room missing a wall.
The other end of the glass room is connected to two changing rooms with log exterior walls. People who come to the pool raft can change into their swimsuits in the changing room and directly enter the glass indoor area of the swimming pool from the door behind the changing room.
The sunken blue swimming pool, which is level with the deck, extends from this half-open glass room. Swimmers can swim directly from one end of the pool to the end of the deck. The upper half of the "T"-shaped pool is just horizontally embedded in the tail end of the raft, forming an infinity pool here.
Although the supporting facilities of this swimming pool are not as complete as the swimming pool on the second-floor balcony of Shufu Villa, it is already very luxurious for our friends!
Shu Fu looked around and found that there were no other management rooms on the swimming pool except the changing rooms, so if the water in the rooms on the raft and in the swimming pool was dirty, how to clean it?
She tried it and finally found that she could manage these ownerless rafts directly on the function screen of the Drifting Island House. When she chose "one-click dust removal", all the unmanned rafts would become clean.
The park raft connected to the swimming pool raft is somewhat similar to the green activity area in the former community, with green lawns, low shrubs, blooming wild flowers, and green trees dotted in between. Beside the stone slab path that winds through the lawn, there are stone benches and chairs for people to rest and sit, as well as a small open space with some fitness facilities.
What’s more interesting is that once they step onto the park raft, they will hear the clear and melodious sound of birds singing, as if they are really in a green park in the city.
However, they soon discovered that the bird singing was simulated, coming from hidden speakers standing on both sides of the trail. The shrubs, lawns, wild flowers and green trees were also simulated in kind, infinitely close to real plants. But someone who knew - Yao Guofan discovered at a glance that these were not real plants.
"But it doesn't matter whether it's real or fake, as it can be simulated to this extent. After all, we are on a raft." After identifying it, Yao Guofan sighed again and again, "Fortunately, everything in the plantation is real..."
"Dad, look at what you said. We planted those with our own hands. How could it not be true?"
Hua Qiong: ...
What nonsense are these old man and young talking about?
After visiting the two public facility rafts, everyone was a little distracted from work. The younger ones wanted to swim in the swimming pool, the older ones wanted to take a walk in the park, or sit on the stone benches to listen to the birds singing, or exercise in the fitness area.
But no matter what I think, everyone has a strong sense of responsibility now, especially the owners of the cultivation halls and breeding houses, as well as the colleagues who work there. They feel that they have a great responsibility on their shoulders, and do not want to be careless when it is time to work.
After the grow house is upgraded to a grow hall, you can hire another employee. This employee will work more days a week, five days a week, and is more formal than the previous helper.
This time, Xu Tingfeng finally got the job, and the dark brown wristband on his hand was finally upgraded to orange.
The main reason is that apart from him, there is basically no idle labor on the raft. Even Chen Yuezhen put away the tables and chairs, laid thin cushions on them, and set up a fighting training class when the Lighthouse Milk Tea Shop was not open. He symbolically collected some raft points and then taught those who wanted to learn.
Therefore, no one can take this job except Xu Tingfeng.
However, Xu Tingfeng himself refused to admit this. After all, besides him, there was also a resentful younger brother who had been doing nothing until now.
But... it can't be said that he has nothing to do. He now goes to the milk tea shop three days a week to learn fighting from Chen Yuezhen. At first, Xu Tingfeng thought that he still wanted to marry into the family, and the main purpose of going to the milk tea shop was to get close to Chen Fa.
So he went with him twice, mainly to supervise him and prevent him from doing anything too embarrassing.
But in the end, he actually followed Chen Yuezhen and learned from her. He didn't even say he wanted to stop even after being repeatedly beaten by her. Is this a change of character? But now everyone is on the raft, and there is no place for him to show his fighting skills.
But no matter what, being studious is a good thing. At least he is willing to work hard and persist in doing something to make himself grow. Regardless of whether he can put it into practice after learning, he will support him.
However, Xu Tingfeng didn't know that the reason why Xu Jiechu was determined to study fighting seriously was related to the last operation in Zhashui County.
That time, everyone else who stayed behind had their own reasons, except for him, who was not allowed to go simply because they felt he could not help.
Especially when his elder brother told him the fact that he couldn't even beat Lu Ce, he couldn't even find the words to refute it.
Because that was the truth. He was afraid of falling, getting hurt, and being beaten, and he was not very persistent in doing things. So when everyone was in Cham County, they were given the same opportunities, but he was the only one who performed the worst after half a year.
So this time, he decided to get up from where he fell. He would first learn fighting well and improve his strength, and then - find a way to show up on other rafts!
After all, there are more and more towed rafts now, and most of them are girls. I heard that after returning home this time, two more companions will be added!
As long as he becomes outstanding, he will definitely find a girl who is willing to let him marry into her family!
If Xu Tingfeng heard his brother's voice at this moment, he would probably vomit three liters of blood...
**
In the evening, people who had worked hard all day did not rush home to cook, but went back to get swimming clothes and rushed to the swimming pool raft at the back.
In times of floods, almost every kid has a swimsuit with them. Of course, these are not the beautiful swimsuits they wore on vacation in peacetime, but more practical full-body swimsuits that they can use when encountering floods to better protect their bodies.
On the swimming pool raft, a few friends who were on vacation today had been swimming for a long time, but were still reluctant to leave. Even though they couldn't swim anymore, they still stayed in the water, lying on the infinity pool bank at the end of the swimming pool, looking at the sea outside the protective cover where it was drizzling.
Now the planet has almost entirely turned into water, but those waters are dangerous for them. There is everything underwater, including various construction waste, human corpses, and mutated dangerous creatures. It is impossible to swim there like in peacetime.
On land, clean water is too precious. Even daily water use is limited, and it is impossible for them to use it for meaningless things such as swimming.
But they have been drifting on the sea for so long, sometimes looking at the pure blue sea in the deep sea, they can't help wanting to swim in the sea. Now, this water swimming pool built on the raft has satisfied all their wishes.
Especially when they were lying on the bank of the infinity pool at the end and looking at the sea outside, they seemed to have merged into the ocean.
The raft has returned to the original land area and is heading north along the sea east of Xizhou Province, preparing to meet Liu Shuang, Han Lan and others near Dari County.
On the horizon west of the raft, the shadow of land could be vaguely seen. That was the Fengshang Plateau. The shadow of the land was very long and larger than any small land they had passed by before.
Shu Fu was also one of the people lying on the edge of the swimming pool, looking sideways at the sea outside and the land at the end of the horizon.
Wu Shaoshan and Zhang Tian, who was on the early shift, also joined the water-soaking team after finishing their work. They had rarely encountered disasters, so their swimming skills were average, especially Zhang Tian, who could only splash around a few times.
So she soon lay down on the edge of the swimming pool with Shu Fu, Chen Fa, Jiang Dai and others.
"In fact, there has always been a saying that we humans actually live on high mountains, and the so-called plains are actually plateaus." Wu Shaoshan spoke slowly, "Because many, many years ago, when this planet was just born, the surface temperature was very high, there was no ocean, and the entire planet was covered with a thick layer of primitive atmosphere.
Many years later, the planet's temperature began to drop, and the water vapor in the atmosphere condensed into water droplets, which fell to the ground and formed the first ocean. But this process was very long, and there were only scattered lakes and rivers on the ground at the beginning. So the land at that time was in our impression the deep sea abyss that is difficult to reach now, and the land where we built cities was relatively unreachable at that time. Mountains and plateaus that were impossible to climb..."
Wu Shaoshan turned her head to look at the Fengshang Plateau to the west of the raft, and said in a light tone: "You say, in a few thousand or tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years, if there are still humans or another new intelligent body on this planet at that time, in their cognition, will the plain city where we once lived become a mysterious underwater ruins that they want to study in depth? They may not know that the land they live on was once our mountain, and the plateau where we would be out of breath if we ran on it... Think about it this way, don’t we who are experiencing all this at this moment seem particularly insignificant?"
Zhang Tian sighed and continued, "Humans are indeed very small. A lifetime is only a hundred years, and human writing has only been around for over 6,000 years. Even if we trace back to the origin of human existence, it has only been around for over 7 million years, but this planet has existed for 4.5 billion years, and even dinosaurs have existed on this planet for 145 million years!
Who knows whether the dinosaurs developed wisdom and civilization before they became extinct? Maybe some dinosaur species also developed wisdom and civilization, with their own language, writing and cities, but everything disappeared in the catastrophe 66 million years ago...
After such a terrible disaster and such a long time, any traces of written cities that could prove that dinosaurs developed intelligent civilization may have been reduced to ashes, and all the arguments scientists now make about that period are based on archaeology and inference.
But what if the giant dinosaur fossils they found were just traces of a certain group of low-IQ creatures of that era? Just like we have gorillas and monkeys in our zoos, what if in the future, another new intelligent civilization excavated the gorilla skeletons that became fossils by chance, and regarded them as the common biological group of our time?
Would you also sigh and come to the conclusion that they are indeed the only intelligent life forms on this planet, and that we live in an era where no civilization has ever appeared... Once you think about it this way, it seems that what is happening to us at this moment is nothing at all..."
After Zhang Tian finished speaking, she noticed the silence around her. She turned around and found that not only were several girls looking at them, but even the boy who was originally struggling in the water had swam behind them at some point. They were all standing there listening to them in a daze. Lu Ce, in particular, looked completely fascinated, as if he had entered the world described by Wu Shaoshan and Zhang Tian, and saw the distant past and the distant future.
Wu Shaoshan didn't think much of it, but Zhang Tian had been living on the raft for so long and this was the first time she became the focus of everyone's attention, so she couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable.
It’s not that she hated this feeling, it’s just that she hasn’t felt the center of attention for a long time, so she suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, but it wasn’t a bad thing.
"Wow! They are worthy of being the girls from the bookstore! What they said is so awesome!" The one who was flattering and applauding was Yao Ruoyun. Although she had been reading books after the bookstore opened, they were all romance novels and rebirth novels. So what Wu Shaoshan and Zhang Tian said just now made her worship.
Yao Ruoyun's words made Zhang Tian and others laugh.
Everyone laughed and started splashing around in the pool again. Lu Ce swam to the glass indoor area, climbed up the deck from the handrail on the side, and told the others that he didn't want to swim anymore, and that he wanted to go to the library to read.
Study hard and make progress every day.
**
Because it was not yet the time agreed upon by Shu Fu and Liu Shuang, the raft drifted very slowly along the way.
Yao Ruoyun and Lu Zheng have been counting the days these days. There are only a few days left before their raft reaches 100 days of towing, and they will soon add a sharing function to their raft. In the past two days, they have been repeatedly studying the functions that Shu Fu gave them, thinking about which one to choose next.
Now that she has a water raft, a big problem for Yao Ruoyun has been solved, so she is more inclined to choose "one-click dust removal" in the future. When planting vegetables, fruits and grains, it is inevitable that the ground will be dirty because of mud in daily life.
Now the grow house has been upgraded to a large grow hall. Although the automated part has been increased, there are still many tasks that require manual work. Manual work is not as precise as machines, and it is still easy to dirty the floor. It is really tiring to clean. If there is "one-click dust removal", you can imagine how cool it would be.
But she also wanted to "dispose of garbage". Every day, she would collect and tie up the solid garbage, throw it into a large cardboard box, and finally put it in the backpack. After that, when the raft drifted to an uninhabited small island, she would go ashore to dig and bury it. This process was too tiring...
Lu Zheng was also struggling, but he was struggling with "garbage disposal" and "manual modification". Now the hotel has unlocked the second vending machine, but like the other rooms, it is in a fixed location. He really wants to redesign and adjust the hotel's internal building structure and room types.
Jiang Dai studied architecture. Although she is an urban architect, she also knows something about interior design of buildings. So we can ask her for help to arrange the layout of the entire hotel more reasonably.
However, what Lu Zheng did not expect was that before he made a decision, his hotel, like Yao Ruoyun's farm house, was also upgraded.
The raft hotel has become the raft hotel!
The author has something to say:
Popular Science: In reality, scientists have already made an accurate inference about why dinosaurs did not evolve into intelligent civilization: dinosaurs do not need intelligent civilization to reproduce and survive well, so they do not need the evolution of brain capacity, which is reflected in the evolution of teeth, claws, muscles, etc.
Intelligent civilization is not necessarily a good evolutionary direction. It is determined by complex biological and environmental factors.
In the article, because global floods are a disaster that is impossible to happen in reality, many things have long been beyond scientific cognition, so Zhang Tian made such a speculation~
This speculation is just my little idea, which is not in line with the mainstream of real science~
For example, many science fiction movies also conceive that there was a highly intelligent civilization on Earth, such as "Transformers" and "Atlantis". That is, intelligent civilization existed, but because the disaster it encountered was too huge, the civilization collapsed too thoroughly and disappeared without a trace, leaving only a very small part - which is called an unsolved mystery by later generations.
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