Chapter 181 The Last Trailer
After yesterday's heavy hailstorm, the few plants near the water's edge were all destroyed. Now there are broken branches and leaves everywhere, and some trees have even fallen down.
Therefore, the view from that place becomes extremely good, and even from a distance, you can still see the cars parked on the shore.
There was a large jeep parked on the shore. It was the kind that had undergone various processes and was extremely sturdy. It was still raining outside and the people in the car had not gotten out. The passenger seat had half of the car window closed and someone was using a telescope to check the situation in the water ahead. I guess he was looking for the person he was meeting.
Han Lan had told her that the other party was only responsible for delivering people. When he found Fang Xiwen, it was not long after she landed, about half a month later than now. He thought at that time that he should have found Cheng Yu and the others, and they should have even returned to the raft long ago. So the plan at that time was to directly pick up Fang Xiwen on the raft, while the escort would return the same way.
Now the plan remains unchanged, but the person who will be contacted has become Shu Fu.
Shu Fu was on the deck, slowly bringing the entire string of raft islands to shore, from the drifting island house at the front to the shelter house at the back, one by one. The tail of the raft where the shelter house was located was facing the direction of the jeep, but it also maintained a distance.
Shu Fu does not plan to close the protective shield of the drifting island house. In order to pick up Fang Xiwen and get on the raft, she can use the previous method to make her a refugee first and then upgrade her bracelet to become a raft resident. In this way, Liu Shuang only needs to close the protective shield of the refuge house alone, which will not affect the entire raft area.
At the same time, it will not affect Han Lan who is far away on the other side of Fengshao Plateau.
And in the next 49 days, no matter where the Drifting Island House takes the raft, no matter whether the weather is good or bad, she will not close the protective cover. This is to allow Han Lan's pharmacy raft to always have the power to open and close the protective cover at any time.
Shu Fu had changed into outdoor clothes, this time wearing rain boots and a slightly old thick coat, and also put on a hat and a mask. Then, holding an umbrella, she went ashore via the deck of the shelter.
She was still very cautious. She first rubbed some mud on the ground with her rain boots to wet the umbrella, then turned on the portable protective shield and walked towards the other party's jeep alone.
The process of picking up Fang Xiwen went more smoothly than she had imagined, because Han Lan had never seen these rescuers before, so he and their captain - his old friend agreed on an item, which he would just take out and confirm when they met. In addition, Fang Xiwen herself knew Han Lan, so there was no possibility of any mistakes.
But now, Han Lan couldn't come, so he gave the agreed items to Shu Fu, and also told her the secret code that the rescue team members said when they went to pick up Fang Xiwen.
Therefore, the other party's vigilance when they first saw her quickly dissipated because of these two confirmed pieces of information. After all, the person they were escorting was not an important person. Although the other party was a superpower, there were so many superpowers now, and he was still a volunteer. It was a simple escort mission, and the code items all matched, so there wouldn't be so many conspiracies.
The rear driver's door opened, and a woman with long hair got out. She was wearing a waterproof down jacket that was about 70% new. She had a clean face and was very beautiful, but there was a sense of alienation between her brows.
She took out an umbrella out of thin air, opened it above her head, looked outside the car, and finally found that Shu Fu was the only one around, so her indifferent eyes fell on her: "Hello, I'm Fang Xiwen, where is Han Lan, did he ask you to come pick me up?"
When Shu Fu saw the other person clearly, those distant scenes suddenly became clear. She thought of the brief and superficial encounters she had had with him in the old corridor on rainy days. At that time, to Shu Fu, she was just a neighbor she met by chance.
When Fang Xiwen followed Zhong Li and others to evacuate the community, she never thought that they would have intersections later, in the future, and even in another world in the past.
Compared with Fang Xiwen in Suicheng two years ago, she has changed a lot now. She is unusually polite, but also distant and cold. She will not affectionately call young girls she doesn't know "sister".
There were other rescue team members nearby. Shu Fu knew that they were just escorting and would leave soon, so she didn't say much. She nodded at her and said, "Well, he has something to deal with for the time being. I'm here to take you to the raft." She gestured in the direction she was coming from.
Everyone subconsciously looked over there, and sure enough, there was a log-colored raft parked on the water's edge in the drizzling rain.
It’s just that the shape of this raft… The expressions of the team members all became a little strange. They have seen many raft cabins of superpowers, but the shape of this one now looks too weird…
Is this a bowl built on top of the raft as a protective layer?
After the other party answered, Fang Xiwen felt the warmth of the necklace on her body, and her eyes softened as she looked at the other party.
She said goodbye to the team members who had escorted her all the way, and took out a box of instant meals and clean water from the space and gave them as a thank you gift.
The other party couldn't refuse, so they finally accepted it. They were all very happy when they left. Now the rescue team doesn't need to go out on missions often, and they are not very busy. This escort trip was a private job ordered by their captain. Although they knew that the captain would not treat them badly after returning, they were naturally in a better mood when others were polite and generous with supplies.
After watching the jeep leave the shore, Shu Fu pulled down her mask and said to Fang Erwen, "Let's go."
The two of them each held an umbrella and walked forward along the muddy shore that was covered with broken branches and leaves.
Because Shu Fu was leading the way, Fang Xiwen lagged behind her by half a step. Every time she looked up, she could see Shu Fu's fair and delicate profile. After a few glances, Fang Xiwen suddenly stopped and asked, "Have I seen you before?"
Shu Fu turned around, and their eyes met in mid-air. After a moment, she smiled gently at Fang Xiwen: "Long time no see, sister next door."
**
Ever since the incident that changed her entire life in Louyun City last year, Fang Xiwen had thought that nothing would make her upset again.
Even when she later awakened her special powers and discovered that she had a raft, props, and space, she had never been shocked again and again in such a short period of time like she was today.
The first time was after she knew who the other person was; the second time was when she was sure that the other person was the one who asked Han Lan to find her on land; the third time was when the white wristband she received turned light brown.
When the raft area hidden in the protective shield revealed its true appearance to her, she stood there in a daze, speechless for a long time.
At this moment, the two of them had already put away their umbrellas, taken off their thick warm clothes, and even washed the mud off their rain boots in the bathroom of the shelter.
When Fang Xiwen saw Shu Fu take out another pair of clean shoes and change into them, she even took out a pair of her own shoes and changed into them as well.
At that time, she was still amazed by the fact that the hall space inside and outside the shelter looked completely different in size. She did these things almost mechanically, following Shu Fu's movements.
Probably because of this, when Shu Fu left temporarily and quickly returned to the shelter, when he came back with the news of the wristband level upgrade sent by Liu Shuang, he found that Fang Xiwen was still standing on the deck of the shelter at the other end of the water passage, holding the fence and standing there in a daze, without taking the next step for a long time.
Shu Fu had seen this expression many times on the faces of other friends towing rafts, so she was quite experienced. She walked up the aisle and held out her hand to her: "Come on, I'll take you on a tour."
Fang Xiwen's fingers on the fence were touched by Shu Fu, and she suddenly came back to her senses and was startled for a moment. She retracted her gaze from the raft area in front of her and turned to look at Shu Fu, with alienated rejection and resistance in her eyes, but when she saw clearly that the person in front of her was her, the rejection and resistance in her eyes instantly dissipated.
Shu Fu was shorter than Fang Erwen. At this moment, she had taken off her old coat, hat and mask. She stood there, slender and quiet. Her small dark eyes staring at her were bright and clear.
Suddenly, those fragmented images that occasionally appeared in her dreams when she just woke up more than a year ago flashed through her mind again.
She should have seen him somewhere else, not in the rainy Louyun City, nor in the old residential building in Suicheng, but somewhere warmer and drier, like in a large banquet hall.
They all held exquisite wine glasses, and someone spoke to them separately and then introduced them to each other.
The scene was extremely clear. She even remembered the smile on the other person's face and the look in his eyes. She heard herself calling him "Teacher Shu". She didn't know if it was because of her makeup or clothes, but she felt very mature, at least much more mature than Shu Fu who was standing in front of her at this moment...
So those hallucinations that she once thought were caused by the emergence of superpowers were not hallucinations, but real things that happened?
"I've seen you." Fang Xiwen said.
Shu Fu looked at the other person's expression and immediately understood what he said: "Well, we all have memories of another world, and we have also lost a lot of memories of that world, but we should be able to get them all back in the future."
Fang Xiwen understood: "So this is why you want to find me?"
This statement is actually acceptable, so Shu Fu nodded.
"Then let's go." Fang Xiwen stretched out her hand, took the other person's fingers, and followed her to the water raft island.
They spent more than an hour walking, stopping and looking around. The sky outside the protective shield had already darkened completely. Everyone in the raft area had also finished their work for the day and it was time for rest and dinner.
The landscape lights on every deck in the raft area lit up. After passing several unmanned energy rafts, they first arrived at the playground raft. It was the power supply period of the drifting island house, and the door of the pyramid playground opened automatically again.
Several children had just finished their afternoon reading and study time. The adults, who had just finished their work, went to the tree house to pick them up, and then fulfilled their previous promise and took them to the playground, allowing each child to choose three rides to play.
After the fun time is over, they will go to the snack bar in front to buy some cheap and good meals, such as delicious wontons, fragrant noodle soup or fried rice with many ingredients, and then choose a few dishes that everyone wants to eat. They can happily eat directly in the underwater shop, or they can use their own pots and bowls to pack the food back to the shelter, and then eat together after receiving today's free meal.
There was an empty space in front of the raft in the amusement park. Following Shu Fu's reminder, Fang Xiwen carefully walked forward along the right side of the passage. Fortunately, the passage in the middle was strong enough that even if the supporting raft on one side was missing, the passage would not shake when people walked on it.
Shu Fu told her that the empty space was originally used to place Han Lan's raft, and now she could tow her raft up there first.
The new ten-draw series will arrive in seven or eight days. After Han Lan comes back, there will be no need to worry about not having a new trailer position. If she is lucky and he comes back early, she can also draw the lottery in advance. It is estimated that the eighth and ninth draws will not be too bad.
They passed by the volcano-shaped bathing raft. On the front deck, Feng Lu and several of his teammates were drinking milk tea and fruit tea and chatting. All of them, both men and women, were single. When they were in the northern plateau, they had to fight for supplies for their team every day. They were either fighting or on the way to fight. It was impossible for them to have the leisure to sit down, eat, listen to the rain outside and chat.
After more than half a month, they have completely relaxed. Everyone was wearing slippers, and when they saw Shu Fu and Fang Xiwen passing by, they waved to them.
Shu Fu did not bring Fang Xiwen with her. She could feel that she was polite and considerate in her dealings with others, but she did not seem to like interacting with so many strangers at the same time.
So she took her forward, visited the bookstore and the hotel, accompanied her to the milk tea shop to buy her a cup of fruit tea, then went around to the other side and continued to take her to see the botanical garden and the farm, and finally went into the snack bar to have dinner with her.
Fang Xiwen did not order those main dishes. After checking today's menu, she ordered a plate of bone broth wontons and a scallion pancake. Shu Fu also ordered a plate of bubble wontons, and added a plate of cold cucumber and a tomato scrambled egg.
"Try it, they are all produced by plantations and breeding farms."
The two of them chose a seat in the corner. Not long after Fang Xiwen sat down, she reached out and pulled up the blinds of the floor-to-ceiling glass next to her, and found that this was indeed an underwater space.
The last ray of daylight outside turned dark, and the water outside the glass was gray and gloomy. Fang Xiwen did not like water. Like every living person on Fengshang Plateau, she particularly disliked water because of the heavy rain that had lasted for more than two years.
But now she was in an underwater space. The seemingly thin glass completely blocked the danger and dampness outside. It was warm all around and the air was filled with the aroma of food.
There are many customers in the store, but now there are enough employees. After everyone lines up and orders their meals on the electronic screen outside, the employees will naturally deliver the prepared meals to the table one by one.
They ate slowly while chatting, enjoying the delicious meal after a day's work, and did not pay too much attention to the fact that there were new people on the raft on Shu Fu's side.
Fang Xiwen took a bite of the bowl of bubble wontons, and her expression gradually became complicated: "The taste of these wontons... is very similar to what I ate in Suicheng before."
Shu Fu raised his eyes to look at her: "Yao Ji?"
Fang Xiwen nodded: "Have you eaten it too? My previous workplace was nearby, and I... I often went to eat wontons from that shop after get off work. They were cheap and delicious... I didn't expect that after such a long time, I would eat almost the same wontons on your raft island..." Her voice was filled with emotion, as if she was recalling a memory from long ago.
Shu Fu smiled slowly: "Not almost, this is Yao Ji's bubble wontons. Yao Ji's boss lady and her family are also on this raft island - this snack bar is her raft."
Fang Xiwen looked at her in astonishment. After a moment, she also laughed and said, "That's great."
It’s great. This raft island far away from the land is like a water park.
And Shu Fu, she is also very good.
**
The process of towing Fang Xiwen's raft went smoothly. There was only one upgrade set left, so she didn't have to think hard about choosing.
Although Shu Fu knew from Han Lan two days ago that the towing of the last raft would be completed soon, she was still a little nervous when the moment really came.
After towing is completed, the hidden task "Unlock the Bracelet" is also about to be completed. Will that "special reward" be what she guessed?
Shu Fu didn't know whether the hidden task would be unlocked immediately after towing Fang Xiwen's raft, so after dinner, she used the snack bar as an example to explain to her in advance the changes after towing the raft and how to view these new functions.
Afterwards, Shu Fu said that she might have some things to take care of first after the towing was completed, so Fang Xiwen could explore the convenience store and living space on her own. If she had any questions, she could ask them after she came over.
When Fang Xiwen saw so many different kinds of buildings on the raft island in the evening, she was already very surprised about this water base where she would live in the future. Later, when she learned that she would also own these rafts and the functional buildings on them in the future, she was even more shocked.
Towing?
Towing, of course!
To be honest, at the beginning she did not have any expectations for the water base that Han Lan mentioned, and she was already prepared to live in her own raft cabin in the future.
She had stored a large amount of supplies in her backpack and raft cabin over the past year and a half. She had originally thought that even if the conditions on this water base were poor, she could rely on her own supplies to live without a shortage of food and water for several years.
Of course, relying on the supplies she had stockpiled, her quality of life would surely plummet.
But she didn't care, because she was originally here for the people.
But now, this "water base" gave her such a big surprise.
[Towing location: Fang Xiwen's raft (bond value: 81).] [Starting shared function: Select 1 (protective shield); Select 2: (sewage treatment); Select 3: (electrical energy)] [Special: Upgraded suit (convenience store)] (Note: When the raft is untethered, the upgraded suit will peel off and disappear, and the upgraded level will be reset to zero)]
Inside the Drifting Island house, Shu Fu stood in front of the functional screen and completed the towing of the last raft.
Then, she felt the long-lost vibration of her bracelet.
She adjusted her breathing and tried to calm herself down. She reached out and opened the bracelet, then long-pressed the flashing "notebook" icon.
A small mini black notebook appeared in her palm. She opened it and saw new content on it.
[Current unlocking progress of the bracelet: 100%]
[Congratulations! You have completed the hidden task "Unlock the Bracelet"! ]
[Please click the "Hide" icon on the bracelet to receive the "Special Reward"]
She put away the notebook and checked the bracelet again, and found that an "ellipse" icon had been added below the ninth icon "compression cabinet".
Unlike the previous nine icons, this icon is not silver like the bracelet, but blue. It is the kind of blue that shines with a flowing luster. The outer circle is a dark dark blue that flickers. The closer to the center of the oval, the brighter the blue. Countless tiny light spots are slowly rotating and flowing on it.
Shu Fu came forward and looked at the icon carefully for a long time, his expression suddenly became shocked.
This is not some "oval" icon!
This is - a galaxy?
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