Chapter 173 Drag 8
“It’s so big here!”
"So the hut of a superpower is so big?"
"No, there is just an ordinary wooden house on the raft of the superpower..."
"Yes, we had a chance once before and stood outside the door and looked inside. It was really just a wooden house of 20 to 30 square meters. Not to mention such a large place, it was pitch black and there was not even a light."
"Wow, can I really get a free meal after getting this wristband? This is amazing!"
"There's actually a TV screen here? This room is bigger than the rooms on the ship, and each room has a private bathroom..."
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As Shu Fu and Liu Shuang walked along the waterway, holding umbrellas, to the deck of the shelter, they heard the suppressed exclamations and sighs of the new residents inside.
The team members who had lived in the shelter for many days first helped their new companions enter their biometric information one by one and receive wristbands. Then they took them to the big TV screen and carefully read the "Drifting Island Shelter Check-in Instructions".
Afterwards, they led them into their respective rooms and taught them how to take bedding and clothes from their personal belongings lockers. Some people also took the new teammates and their families to familiarize themselves with the food dispenser and the public restroom with shower room outside.
Although there are many new people joining, everything is going on as planned at this moment because Feng Lu and Ke Chen made arrangements in advance and divided the tasks among them.
Shu Fu and Liu Shuang were both quite satisfied with this. On the other side, Han Lan, who was still on the shore, called Shu Fu and asked her to pick up the passenger truck they drove when they came here.
Because they had to carry fifty-seven people at the same time, plus two of his team members, they drove a very large truck. He couldn't put it on the deck of the raft and then fold it up together with the raft, so he needed Shu Fu's help.
Shu Fu handed the umbrella to Liu Shuang, opened her own protective shield, walked down the deck in slippers, and stepped onto the mud on the shore.
Under the effect of the protective shield, neither rain nor mud could touch her at all. Han Lan also had his own special props. Seeing this, he just thought it was her props and sighed, "A waste of talent." Shu Fu smiled at him and said nothing.
She is now on the raft 24 hours a day, and the time she has spent with the protective shield has accumulated to a length that allows her to use it at will. Only a fool would not use it.
The truck they drove over here was parked on the cliff above the shore. Shu Fu followed him up the cliff and then parked the truck.
One of the two team members following him was an acquaintance, one of the team members who had been with him in Wei County before, and she also remembered the other one, who had ridden on her raft the last time she went to Zhashui County.
So when they saw her collecting the truck, they didn't show any surprise, but greeted her politely.
"How many days will you stay here this time?" As the four of them walked towards the shore under the cliff, Shu Fu, who was walking behind, asked Han Lan curiously.
Han Lan glanced at the direction of the raft and replied, "This time we came here mainly to tow the raft first. Also, these two people are the personnel Liu Shuang requested. Now they have retired. They will not leave after coming here this time."
Both the towing of the raft and the application for manpower were carried out at Liu Shuang's request. Because the upgrade set Han Lan wanted to equip was the "Pharmacy", and for a raft island independent of the land and the government, the existence of a pharmacy was too important. The earlier it was towed, the earlier it could be operated and upgraded.
Anyway, the pharmacy can hire employees. Even if Han Lan leaves after towing, the raft will not follow him. So even if he leaves later, the pharmacy raft can continue to develop steadily under the management of the employees.
As for the candidate for the executive officer, Liu Shuang originally wanted Wen Rou to get on the raft, but Wen Rou had already boarded the return helicopter with Qi Kai, A Wen and others along with Cheng Yu, so in the end Han Lan found another teammate who had experienced the low temperature blizzard in Wei County with them.
One of these two people has already registered his information and received a raft resident wristband. This time, as long as he familiarizes himself with the situation on the raft, he can go directly to Liu Shuang's place to start work.
As for the other person, Liu Shuang, she is a little worried because she knows the mechanism of Shu Fu's raft protective shield. If the raft area is not closed, newcomers cannot see the raft or enter the raft area.
But now there is a shelter and a room full of refugees behind. If the protective shield is closed directly, everyone will see the raft area in front. Their plan to take it slow and select people one by one to upgrade their wristbands would be ruined.
However, after today, as the executive officers frequently travel back and forth between the raft area and the shelter area, the people living in the shelter will definitely find that they are walking through a passage that theoretically does not exist, and will definitely guess that there is another hidden area outside the shelter raft.
But guessing is different from seeing with your own eyes the connected raft islands. If the various buildings, technologies or novelties in the raft area are revealed too quickly, it will not be a good thing for the people in the shelter.
But Shu Fu thought quickly, and she had already come up with a solution after the four of them stepped onto the deck of the shelter raft.
She asked the team member without a wristband to go to the shelter to register and receive a white wristband. Then she asked Liu Shuang to go back to the attic monitoring room, retrieve the team member's information, and then send an application to "upgrade the wristband level."
Afterwards, Shu Fu went back to the room and approved the application on the function screen.
The team member stood on the circular deck outside the shelter and watched the wristband on his wrist change from white to light brown. Then, in front of his left, in the water outside the deck fence, the water passage and raft island that had existed but he had never paid attention to before seemed to be revealed, and for the first time they were officially and clearly presented in front of him.
Han Lan patted him on the shoulder, looked back at the refugees who were still busy registering information and touring the shelter, then took two team members and set foot on the passage leading to the raft area.
Inside the shelter, the people who were visiting were delighted and their attention was focused on the interior. In addition, the lobby of the shelter was designed to be slightly sunken, so the entire lobby was lower than the deck outside. Without paying special attention, the people inside would not notice what was happening on the deck.
But Feng Lu noticed it. He was standing near the door. When he looked back, he saw the three people who were originally standing on the deck taking steps towards somewhere in the direction of the water, and then quickly disappeared from his sight.
This "disappearance" was a very strange feeling. His eyes told him that the three people had not really disappeared, but his brain made him no longer able to feel their presence.
So, Shu Fu and the others didn't actually go very far away from them after leaving the shelter, right?
For some reason, although he was curious, he did not feel lost. It was as if he had a feeling that in the near future, he would soon get answers to all the unclear questions at the moment.
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Because the two team members were going to work on Liu Shuang's raft later, Liu Shuang took them to familiarize themselves with the raft procedures and hotel check-in matters in advance.
Before Liu Shuang took them away, he told Shu Fu a piece of news.
Just now, after Shu Fu approved the team member's application for "upgrading wristband level", an additional raft point appeared on Liu Shuang's wristband, followed by the suffix: Shelter Profit.
This amount of points was not much, probably slightly more than the cost of a day's accommodation at the hotel. Liu Shuang was stunned for a moment, but soon realized that this was the true business model of the shelter - just like what they had discussed jokingly before, the significance of the shelter's existence was to produce "people" for the raft area.
Moreover, this person was recognized by the owner of the Drifting Island House after a period of observation.
That is to say, in the future, when Liu Shuang has used up all the gold and supplies that his family brought with them to exchange for raft points, he will not have to worry about his life on the raft thereafter.
Because for Liu Shuang, the shelter is not just a functional raft that only does good things. As long as she continues to save and help people, and at the same time sends "talents" to the raft area after screening, she can also make a profit.
Liu Shuang even began to speculate that if the shelter wanted to be upgraded in the future, one of the upgrade conditions would definitely be related to the number of people she transported to the raft area.
Shu Fu was also very surprised by this, and once again felt that Liu Shuang's previous choice of "Shelter House" as an upgrade set was really perfect.
After Liu Shuang left with two team members, Shu Fu first let the shelter raft leave the shore, and then switched the drifting island house to autonomous drifting mode.
After she left the drifting island house, she saw Han Lan who was visiting the snack bar raft. Han's father and mother hadn't seen their son for a while and were accompanying him. When they saw her, they asked her if she was going to tow the raft now.
Shu Fu waved his hand, indicating that he would wait until it was completely dark in the evening.
At that time, everyone in the last shelter should have rested, and no one would pay attention to the water ahead. She needed to first moor the entire raft island on the water, adjust the raft towing position, and finally let him place the raft and tow it.
There is exactly one towing position left - position 11, but due to the special nature of the shelter, it must be at the end, so she cannot directly tow Han Lan's raft at position 11, and has to adjust it first.
Now the towing positions 7, 8 and 9 are all unmanned energy rafts. If Han Lan is arranged at position 10, it will be a bit far from the functional rafts where the other friends are, so she plans to make a comprehensive adjustment.
First, clear out trailer space No. 7 and place Han Lan’s pharmacy raft there.
Trailer No. 7 is located behind the snack bar, which is also convenient for friends living on the raft to visit.
An hour later, everyone in the shelter completed the information registration and received the wristbands. It was lunch time, and everyone got the food they wanted and sat around the dining table to eat. Feng Lu reported the situation to Shu Fu using the intercom.
"Okay, you guys will have to work hard today and take care of the management and arrangements. Starting tomorrow, there should be shelter staff on duty during the day, and you will only be responsible for the night."
"There's no need to use the word 'hard work'. Everyone is very happy today. They said they thought the two team members who went back to report their safety were afraid that they would worry, so they exaggerated the situation. They didn't expect the environment and conditions here to be better than what they described."
Although the room was similar to a dormitory with eight people in it, the bed boards, beddings and spare clothes were all brand new and clean. They had not seen such neat, dry and faintly fragrant clothes and bedding for a long time.
There are so many survivors rescued by the giant ship this time that even the authorities cannot provide them all with new bedding and clothes. It is already very good if everyone has a blanket and a set of clothes to change into. No one will care whether the clothes are new or old or moldy.
Each room here has an independent bathroom, which not only has a faucet that can release clean water when turned on, but also has all the necessary toiletries and cleaning supplies.
They have been left to fend for themselves on the northern plateau for so long that the buildings they live in are always damp and moldy. Not to mention using clean water for bathing, even for drinking they have to calculate the milliliters of water every day.
The food they eat is always hard-to-swallow fast food, also compressed biscuits. The compressed biscuits they get from the food machine in the shelter surprise them with both the taste and the quantity.
What's more, there are mashed potatoes, fish buns, multi-grain steamed buns and bread to choose from. People with small appetites can take one portion each and then share it with everyone, not to mention that every meal comes with juice or vegetable soup.
To them, fruits and vegetables have basically become memories of the previous life. In the northern plateau, a can of fruit can be sold at a sky-high price.
When they lived on the ship before, their meals were simple steamed buns, porridge and ham sausage. The ham sausage now is different from the past. In the past, when you bite into it, you can feel the meat mixed with starch, but now it is the starch mixed with a little meat flavor.
And in the shelter, it is said that there are fish patties and fried fish fillets for dinner.
In the earliest times, fish was not a rare food in the Northern Plateau, which had many mountains. However, after the water level rose, rivers also crisscrossed. People with boats could catch a lot of fish in one trip.
But later, the appearance of amphibious man-eating jumping fish and ichthyosis patients changed everything. No one dared to go fishing in the waters where fish gathered by boat, because it was very likely that they would catch a group of jumping fish that would bite and eat people. If they were even more unlucky, they might catch an ichthyosis patient in his ultimate form who could only bare his teeth at people on the Internet...
Some people would fish near the shore, but fishing is different from catching fish. The former is difficult and slow, and requires a fully equipped fishing rod. The superpowers have a fishing rod, but that depends on personal ability. Some clumsy people can't catch a fish in a whole day...
Unfortunately, the fishing rods of the psychics cannot be rented out to others, so gradually, fish meat has become a rare commodity in the northern plateau.
Here, they don't need to work hard, and everyone has a supply. To be honest, happiness comes too much and too full. They are always afraid that they are dreaming, and they will wake up and find themselves still sleeping in a damp and dirty building that smells of mold...
"...Everyone asked me to express my gratitude to the raft owner who took them in. They are really grateful and have promised to live in the shelter in a law-abiding manner. Please rest assured."
After listening to Feng Lu's report, Shu Fu put away the walkie-talkie.
She stood on the glass balcony on the second floor of the Drifting Island House, looking at the back of the house. Once, there was nothing behind her raft except the vast water, but now, there were rafts of various shapes lined up and towed, and her friends and acquaintances lived and worked on them.
The shelter at the end not only rescues the survivors, but also does not bring any unstable factors to the friends in the raft area.
To be honest, she was looking forward to the upgrade of the shelter. The primary shelter could accommodate more than a hundred people and had complete living space and facilities. So what would the upgraded shelter look like?
At ten o'clock in the evening, the Drifting Island House stopped somewhere in the waters on the northern shore of the Northland Plateau. Shu Fu first changed the positions of several unmanned energy rafts on the function screen, and then notified Han Lan using the walkie-talkie.
Han Lan was sitting on a bench on the front deck of the hotel's raft, chatting with Liu Shuang, Tang Li, Zhang Jun, and the two team members who were on the raft today.
After receiving Shu Fu's notification, Han Lan was shocked and immediately got up and went to the No. 7 trailer position at the back to release the raft in the vacant water area. After placing the raft, he also notified Shu Fu via the intercom.
[Towing location: Han Lan's raft (bond value: 83).] [Starting shared function: Option 1 (protective shield); Option 2: (); Option 3: ()] [Special: Upgrade suit (drug store)] (Note: When the raft is untethered, the upgrade suit will automatically fall off and disappear, and the upgraded level will be reset to zero)]
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