Chapter 178 Bathing Raft
In the few hours from dusk to now, Feng Lu has been busy since he stepped onto the raft area. He first exchanged the only gold chain he had left on his body for some raft points, and then, accompanied by Shu Fu, he went from raft to raft.
With Shu Fu as his tour guide, Feng Lu did not miss any place. When he encountered some points that needed to be recorded, he even took out a notebook and a pen from his backpack and wrote down some of what she said so that he could go back and review it.
He visited the plantation hall. Although it was not off-limits to employees, Shu Fu was able to open the door. He stood outside the open door and looked inside for a long time. He was shocked by the various vegetables, fruits and crops growing thrivingly inside. And this was just one floor of the plantation hall.
He was very surprised when he found out that the black cylindrical building he had previously mistaken for a lighthouse was actually a milk tea shop. The milk tea shop happened to be open during business hours, so he followed Shu Fu up the spiral staircase outside the building, entered the shop, ordered a cup of plain pearl milk tea, and asked for a takeaway.
"Do you have a larger water cup or thermos? Preferably one with a lid." Chen Fa stood at the bar, making milk tea while looking at Feng Lu.
"Yes." For survivors of the Northern Plateau, a large-capacity water cup with a lid that can be carried around and will not break is standard equipment.
Chen Fa took the slightly old cup, poured the bubble tea into it, and handed it back: "Sorry, straws are scarce, just make do with this."
"I have one." Shu Fu spread her hands and took out a straw with a wrapper, "Your first cup of bubble tea after entering the raft area is still worth a straw."
Feng Lu looked at the cup in his hand. The drink inside had a rich milky aroma. There were some ice cubes floating on the light brown liquid. As his hand moved, he gently shook and tapped it, making a tiny sound that was extremely pleasant to the ear.
He didn't have time to use a straw, so he just tilted his head back and took a big sip from the cup. When he looked at Shu Fu again, his eyes were as if he was looking at God.
After that, he visited the breeding farm, the hotel, the snack bar, the tree house and the pharmacy. Because it was just before and after dinner, everyone got off work and had to eat and rest, so there were lights on every raft.
Shu Fu also took him to the snack bar for dinner and ordered all ten dishes served tonight. He was asked to put the leftovers in his backpack and was provided with a take-away box.
Feng Lu was actually a little numb at this moment. Following Shu Fu's signal, he packed up the food mechanically, and then left two dishes he wanted to eat: seafood fish soup noodles and fried chicken wings. Then he ate his meal mechanically.
There were quite a few customers in the snack bar, most of them were people who had no elders at home, such as Jiang Dai and Yue Dong, the Lu Zheng brothers, the Xu Tingfeng brothers, Long Sheng, Qiu Wang, Tang Li, Zhang Jun and others, and Wu Shaoshan and Zhang Tian were also frequent customers here.
Due to the lack of manpower on the raft, the snack bar is still a place where customers have to clean up after eating. Everyone knows that a new group of "immigrants" will be coming tomorrow, and they are discussing how to write the job recruitment notice.
There is a long-term shortage of staff in plantations, hotels, snack shops, breeding farms, and there is an extreme shortage of staff. Milk tea shops and tree houses actually also want to hire people. In short, except for pharmacies, there is a shortage of staff everywhere.
They knew that there were only ten people in the first batch, and they always felt that it was not enough. Moreover, it also depended on the other party's willingness to work. Each company secretly decided to write its own recruitment notice more attractive than others.
When everyone saw Feng Lu, they greeted him, but they didn't say their names for fear that he wouldn't remember them. Anyway, they would become familiar with each other sooner or later after his raft was towed.
After Feng Lu followed Shu Fu out of the snack bar, he couldn't help but ask her, what if among the ten people coming tomorrow, someone was unwilling to work on the raft?
Shu Fu had never mentioned this to him before, but she felt that Feng Lu should be able to guess the result of such a thing, so she didn't say anything and just smiled at him meaningfully.
Those who are unwilling to do such an easy job on the raft and make no contribution to the raft will naturally be disqualified as raft residents and will have to leave the refugee house and continue to be refugees who only eat bread for three meals a day!
After some time, when new and more hardworking people come to the shelter, these old hands will naturally have to "ask" to leave.
Feng Lu's face suddenly darkened, but he was thinking that after towing tonight, he would still have to go back to the refugee house and get up early tomorrow to tidy up the team members there.
With Shu Fu's guidance, Feng Lu understood everything on the raft in a very short time, and also knew that the empty seat No. 8 was reserved for him.
As long as Shu Fu tows his raft, the cabin on his raft can be upgraded into a functional raft and he can truly become a member of this place.
There were not many options left for him, only "convenience store" and "bathhouse", but as soon as he heard the word "bathhouse", he immediately chose it.
There was no other way. The Northern Plateau was in such a severe shortage of clean water. When he thought that his raft could be upgraded into a bathing place, there was nothing else to think about!
However, after the upgrade, the shape of the new building really surprised him.
**
Is this a—a volcano?
Shu Fu looked at the building in front of him, touched it, and found that the mountain-shaped exterior wall was still made of wood, but it was made to simulate the outline and effect of a mountain.
The building occupies most of the raft deck and has an overall shape of a short, fat, truncated cone. Although it has a wooden exterior, the shape is very realistic.
She took two steps back and looked up, only to find that she had mistaken it for a volcano because the terrace fence above the second floor was red. The log exterior and the red fence on top really looked like a volcano at first glance at night when the light was dim.
Feng Lu was leaning against the fence, resting his elbows on it, looking down at her with a smile on his face. He seemed calm, as if everything was under control, but there was a gleam of excitement in his eyes. It was just that he had seen many storms, so he was able to restrain himself very well at this moment.
He called Shu Fu to go up and take a look. Shu Fu quickly found the stairs to the upper floor. They were on the side of the "mountain". They were stairs opened on the "rock wall". After turning another corner, they reached the upper level of the mountain. The red fence facing inward was the color of natural wood. The entire platform was about 30 square meters and simulated the landscape of a mountain top.
The living space is built on a slightly higher wooden platform in the middle. It is a single-story log building with a slightly rustic feel, lattice windows and eaves.
When Shu Fu was looking at it, Feng Lu spoke up and said that he would show her something good, and then he started clicking on the electronic screen in his hand.
Soon, the sound of rushing water came. It turned out that there was a flowing water channel on this terrace. The water channel was not completely open to the sky, but was sealed with glass on the upper layer. After it was activated, clean water flowed into the channel from one end, and the faint blue lights under the glass also lit up one by one, like a stream flowing through the top of the mountain.
The "stream" meanders, flows through the wooden platform, and finally flows to the fence. There should be a drain outlet downwards here, so the endless flow of water will never fill up the canal.
"This is..." Shu Fu roughly understood that the water should eventually flow into the bathroom, just like a beautiful landscape made with the water inlet on the top.
A moment later, she confirmed her guess.
The bathroom is on the first floor, which is inside the "fat mountain". The entrance walkway is also made to look like a cave. There is a point redemption machine on the left side of the gate, and on the right is a recharge machine similar to those in an amusement park. There are ticket purchase instructions for the bathhouse, including single tickets, weekly tickets and monthly tickets, and the point prices are equally affordable.
At present, the bathhouse cannot operate 24 hours a day due to power supply reasons. Of course, the residents on the raft are busy now and it is impossible for them to bathe in the bathhouse for a whole day.
After a short corridor, there is another door inside. Inside the door, there is a corridor to the left and right. Although it simulates the interior of a cave, it looks very warm because there are small lights under the feet and on the sides, and the walls are made of warm-colored logs.
The left passage leads to the girls' locker room, and the right passage leads to the boys' locker room. Now that no one is around, Shu Fu looks at both sides. The structures inside are completely symmetrical, with semicircular bathing areas.
The temperature inside is higher than outside, about 28 degrees. At first glance, it doesn't look like the inside of a cave, nor does it look like an ordinary building, but rather like a bamboo forest in the mountains. The changing room, toilet, shower head and hot spring are all perfectly integrated into this area.
Clusters of green bamboos, curling water vapor, wooden floors and gray hot spring pools, the entire bathroom scene is very similar to the previous public facility raft park, it is a simulated bathroom, and the simulated theme is bamboo forest hot springs.
There are not many hot spring pools, only three, built against the wall. The pool is made of gray rock wall texture. Shu Fu touched it and didn't know what material it was made of, but it felt exactly like a real rock wall.
At this moment, the warm pool is half full. There are several waterfalls on the gray "mountain wall" on the side, falling into the pool from top to bottom, stirring up bursts of water mist. The water temperature in the hot spring pool is relatively high, and hot air is filled around. The whole space is not particularly large, but very warm and unique. Taking a bath here is like being in a bamboo forest. It must be very comfortable and leisurely.
On the side, Feng Lu checked the electronic screen and said that after the bathhouse opens for business and has points and turnover in its accounts, it will be possible to unlock the self-service vending machines for toiletries in the mall system, as well as unlock the purchase of different hot spring medicine packages. The simulated theme scenes inside the bathroom can also be unlocked for purchase and change... After operating for a certain period of time, the entire bathhouse will be upgraded as a whole.
Feng Lu was amazed. He had played similar mobile games before, but when the things in the game became reality one day, he still felt it was incredible. Especially the simulated theme scenes, which could be changed by purchase. It was too exciting.
However, the current bathhouses are still of the most basic type, providing only lockers and water in the lockers rooms, and everything else needs to be brought by yourself.
Feng Lu also understood that everything is difficult at the beginning, so he immediately told Shu Fu that he would write a job advertisement, run the business well after opening, and strive to upgrade as soon as possible.
Shu Fu calculated in his mind the number of "immigrants" coming tomorrow and the number of workers needed by each company, and he doubted whether he would be able to successfully recruit employees tomorrow.
**
The next day, Shu Fu got up early again, and at about seven o'clock, he approved the ten wristband upgrade applications sent from the shelter on the function screen.
Afterwards, under the watchful eyes of Liu Shuang and two executive officers, Feng Lu led the first group of immigrants onto the water passage.
It was very useful that Shu Fu personally acted as Feng Lu's guide and took him around the raft yesterday. Now he knew the raft very well and was well aware that the team members who had just boarded the raft must be very confused and dazzled. So he took them for a brief walk and introduced each building while standing outside it.
Especially for several rafts that needed to recruit workers, each company had already written a recruitment notice and posted it in a conspicuous place outside the building. The wording was concise, mainly explaining the work content, time and raft point remuneration.
Compared with other functional rafts, Feng Lu mainly took them to visit the hotel raft. There are still many empty triple and double rooms in it, and the price is low if you share the room.
Afterwards, they were introduced to the redemption machine. Someone tried to take out a piece of compressed biscuit that he had not eaten in the morning from his pocket and put it in to try to redeem points, but soon the metal door opened again, and the biscuit was still inside. A line of words appeared on the screen: All items and food in the shelter belong to raft supplies and cannot be exchanged for raft points.
Lu Ce saw this from the side and made a worried expression towards his brother.
Very good. If resale cannot take place, theft will not occur, thus preventing the problem at its root.
Of course, that person was just curious and wanted to give it a try. After all, these ten people were selected by Liu Shuang and others. They are more reliable, hardworking and capable. Feng Lu and Ke Chen are watching over them, so they will definitely not cause trouble as soon as they arrive.
It was quite easy to arrange the tasks for ten people. By almost nine o'clock in the morning, everyone had already decided on their respective tasks.
Four employees have joined the breeding farm, which is a major recruiter. This farm is also the most popular among everyone because the recruitment benefits are clearly written, and a portion of meat (weighing 500 grams, random type) will be delivered regularly every week.
Although there is no kitchen in the shelter they are living in now, they can temporarily stay here at the farm. When they have enough raft points and move into the hotel, they can use the big kitchen there to cook!
This is meat! Fresh meat! Who can refuse it?
To this end, the breeding farm reproduced the recruitment boom that it had when it first opened, and ten people went straight here. This time, Zheng Feifei invited old employees to take charge and interviewed them one by one, and finally selected four people.
After all the employees were recruited, a new position automatically appeared on Zheng Feifei's electronic screen: team leader.
The leader of the breeding area was naturally Yue Dong. His wristband also changed from orange to purple, and he was at the same level as Xu Tingfeng. His points also increased a lot. Zheng Feifei transferred all four of them to the breeding area to work with the experienced Yue Dong.
Longsheng was also promoted to team leader and was transferred to the processing room. He was strong, so when the meat was harvested, he had to transport the processed and bagged meat to the specialty store warehouse nearby, and then Zheng Feifei would store it in the space cabinet. This cabinet was the same as the one in the planting house, and only the raft owner could use it.
At present, the breeding farm cannot achieve a daily harvest like the plantation, and the work in the processing house is not very busy. When he is free, he can go to the specialty store to look after the store so that Wu Shaoshan can go back to manage the bookstore.
In addition, the hotel raft, the plantation raft, and the snack bar raft each hired one employee, and the bathhouse recruited two people because it was separated by gender.
Finally, there was a female team member in her thirties left. She originally wanted to go to the milk tea shop because she loved drinking milk tea the most before the end of the world. However, after entering, she saw Xu Jiechu standing in the corner with a dark face looking at her. She frowned, changed her mind and went to the bookstore.
Chen Fa: ...
The work in the library is not busy, so Wu Shaoshan will provide benefits to internal employees - free library cards. As long as she completes the cleaning work every day, she can read books at other times.
It just so happened that this female team member was engaged in education before the end of the world, and work related to books was more suitable for her.
All the rafts that wanted to recruit employees were recruited, and only the world where Chen Fa was injured was reached.
Chen Fa was in a bad mood. He packed up the tables and chairs in the shop, spread out a yoga mat on the floor and decided to suspend business today to conduct combat training. The only person being "trained" was Xu Jiechu.
The first ten people were all elites in the team, so they had some spare gold with them, which was one of the life-saving supplies they carried with them. After entering the raft area this time, they also exchanged it for raft points, but in the initial stage, they decided to stay in the refuge house at night.
Just like Feng Lu, this is to alleviate the uneasiness and anxiety of other team members while waiting for "immigration".
After the first day of work, they went to buy some food that did not require processing: fruits, vegetables such as cucumbers, tomatoes, and lettuce that could be eaten directly after washing, canned luncheon meat and buckets of instant noodles in the hotel vending machine, and the snack shop's cheap and plentiful scallion pancakes, noodles, and fried wontons. Each of the ten people also bought a cup of milk tea.
They returned to the shelter with the food and shared it with everyone.
On the first day of immigration, they all felt that they should share the situation in the raft area with others, use food to ease their worries and anxieties, and reiterate that both the shelter and the raft area are a completely peaceful world. As long as everyone relaxes, does what they should do every day, and abides by the rules and order of the shelter, they will soon get an "immigration" quota.
Two days later, the second group of eight people entered the raft area. Shu Fu took special care of the wristbands of several children and used some small things to exchange some raft points for each of them.
I deliberately didn't give them much, maybe twenty or thirty, enough for them to buy a cup of milk tea or go to a snack bar to order some food to satisfy their cravings.
When the children first entered the shelter, they were skinny and dirty, and although they would not fight for food, they would always wolf it down. After living in the shelter for a while, they got used to the fact that everyone had food to eat slowly every day, and gradually changed their old habits.
A few of the younger ones even got together and planned to have meals just like they did in the shelter: who would buy milk tea, who would buy canned meat, and who would go to the snack bar to buy a dish or noodles that everyone wanted, and then share the meals together.
The amusement park is very attractive to children, but playing video games in the amusement park also costs points. For children who have experienced hunger, every point is precious, and they all agree that the points should be saved to buy food.
They also have their own ideas. Although they can't play, they can stay inside and watch. There are beautiful music and colorful lights in the amusement park. They feel happy even if they just sit inside and listen and watch.
Shu Fu did not provide them with free game cards. She had already given them an appropriate amount of points. It was up to them to decide whether to use them or not, and whether to play or not.
The families of several children also found jobs smoothly. After all, except for the breeding farm, all other rafts were not fully staffed.
Before starting the work, they sent the children back to the refugee house and handed them over to other family members or other members of the team, and then promised to bring them to the raft area to play after the work was completed.
This is also what Liu Shuang, Shu Fu and a few friends mean. They only provide a safe environment and their life is their own, so they will not provide them with childcare jobs. All these things should be arranged by themselves.
Although the raft area is safe, not all rafts have guardrails, especially some energy rafts. If children are not watched and educated by adults, it will be dangerous if they accidentally fall into the water.
They should avoid such risks themselves.
The female team member who worked in the library saw that several children stayed in the shelter during the day and always stared at the direction of the raft area, so she used her library card to borrow picture albums, story books and teaching books suitable for them. She also found some paper and pens here and there, and taught them to draw when she was free in the evening, and let them read and draw on their own during the day.
After Liu Shuang learned about this, he told Shu Fu. Shu Fu found a small standing whiteboard, various colored pens, whiteboard erasers, as well as notebooks, pens and other stationery that he had collected from the office rooms in various commercial buildings in Suicheng and sent them over.
Everyone agreed that educational supplies like this could be sent as gifts.
Moreover, based on the current upgrade status of each raft, she always felt that the upgraded library would move towards the direction of education. Now that there is a prototype of educational teachers, it is natural to give it a push.
Life on the raft island went on as usual again. One morning more than half a month later, Shu Fu, who was conducting daily inspections on the raft as usual, suddenly heard some noise coming from the pharmacy raft.
After she walked over, she saw Han Lan walking quickly out of the living space on the second floor.
How did he - Shu Fu's doubts arose subconsciously, because at this moment the raft was drifting in the waters far away from the land, but almost as soon as this thought came to her mind, another thought gave her the answer.
Oh, right, teleport.
Han Lan should have teleported back after using the props.
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