Chapter 184 Blue Galaxy
In the starry sea of changing light and shadow in the memory scene, Shu Fu looked down at the bracelet on his left hand, feeling a mixture of emotions in his heart.
No wonder every function and every prize of this golden finger are so in line with her wishes. How could something designed by oneself not be in line with her wishes?
She felt like she had had a long dream, and everything in the dream was extremely clear.
Fortunately, she did not die in her "dream".
The blue galaxy icon on the last grid of the bracelet is a galaxy map of her real world, where her memories of the past three years are sealed. It will be triggered after she has "connected" enough world-saving taskers, and her memories of the past three years will be unlocked in the form of a reward.
When she regained her memories, this icon became the gateway between the two worlds.
She can return to the real world through the icon of the Blue Galaxy, and after returning to the real world, she can continue to enter the disaster mission world of "Water Planet" through this icon.
But because the time in the macroscopic world and the microscopic world is fluid and unequal, it is very easy to go back. As long as it is later than the time when she came in, any time thereafter will do. It does not have to be too precise - because it cannot be precise, and she has no family around her, so as long as she is not so late that even other people who are not familiar with her think she is "missing", it will be fine.
When she came back, it would be difficult to be perfectly accurate to the second she left. At the beginning of this mission, when she threw herself into it, she only chose a time point before the disaster, and there was no way to fix the date and time.
If you come back too early, you will bump into "Shu Fu" who is still in the "Water Planet" and has not left, causing chaos in time and space. If you come back too late, you may miss some key things.
After all, she had finally successfully "docking" ten taskers. This was a critical moment in the development of the raft. Naturally, she would not do anything risky at this juncture.
After Shu Fu recovered all her memories, she realized that after all her efforts, she had only just reached the initial stage of the plan when she designed the backup system - that is, to allow the taskers who only had the incomplete System T to start upgrading through her "connection".
Afterwards, the tasker will become stronger little by little and finally prevent the destruction of the world.
In the disaster world, the main cause of the extinction of all mankind is still mankind itself. Looking back at the plot in his own script, the incident that caused Han Lan to lose his teammates and was forced to teleport alone to escape was actually a pre-plot in the main storyline, which happened in the early stage of the main storyline of "Water Planet" and had little to do with the protagonist group.
In terms of importance, it is about 20%. Zhou Jianwei is the leader of this incident and a supporting character in "Water Planet". In terms of importance, he is about the ninth or tenth male.
She wrote a brief biography of Zhou Jianwei, but because he was not an important character, she barely mentioned him briefly. It mentioned his family, how his wife died early and his son was killed in a mission, which led to his extreme and gloomy personality and his ruthless actions.
Shu Fu would never have thought that the son who died in the mission mentioned in a hasty note would actually be Cheng Yu!
In other words, I don’t know which of the previous times, the shelter outside the Louyun city wall was hit by a huge wave, or the avalanche in Wei County... If she hadn’t intervened, Cheng Yu would really have died...
This time, Cheng Yu clearly did not die in the mission, but Zhou Jianwei still embarked on the same path. It turns out that the evil of human nature does not need any reason or excuse.
It was precisely because Cheng Yu was alive that Han Lan was able to search for him. In addition, she had already towed Han Lan at the time, and she accidentally told him to put the props on the raft, which enabled Han Lan to escape from certain death...
To continue with the story, it is precisely because Han Lan escaped that he was able to immediately take the golden finger that had become powerful after his "connection" with her - a limited-time safe house raft and a portable pharmacy, return to Xizhou Province, and join this pre-plot.
In the script, this prelude plot does not account for a large proportion, and Zhou Jianwei ultimately fails, but it is delayed for a long time, so the world is one step closer to the ending of "civilization collapse and human extinction."
If Han Lan can use the "limited-time safe house" and the time difference to end the Zhou Jianwei incident ahead of schedule this time, to some extent, she can be said to have set off a butterfly effect, but it is a good kind, and it is still some distance away from the main line.
In short, after entering this world, she has been away from the crowd and has not even set foot in Xizhou Province, basically avoiding the main storyline perfectly. The most important thing is that she has now completed the most difficult "connection" part in the early stage. In the later stage, she just needs to not interfere too much with the protagonist group and stay hidden to upgrade.
After the natural disaster, crop yield reduction crisis and food crisis will come one after another.
By then, the development of the highest level of water and land technology plantations and the highest level of multifunctional water and land breeding farms should be able to solve a large part of the problems.
In addition, the final form of the shelter should be the most powerful one among these raft functional sets... She is also looking forward to that day, and before that, she will not leave this world.
Each of the ten raft upgrade sets currently acquired was designed by her personally, and each can be upgraded approximately three to four times.
According to the plan, Han Lan had already used the raft after it was upgraded to the later stage. The only difference was that he went to the land this time, while the other friends only needed to stay on the shoreline.
The importance of the "Raft Holiday Card" will be more evident later.
She is still in the disaster world of "Water Planet". Limited by the main line logic, backup system logic and rules, she has to upgrade step by step, and it is impossible to reach the sky in one step. But the hardest part is over, and it will only get better day by day.
All around her, the changing light and shadow of memories and the sea of stars faded away, and Shu Fu found herself still standing in her drifting island house.
Looking out through the glass on the door, the sky outside was still dark. Shu Fu opened the door, stepped onto the back deck, and went up the stairs to the glass balcony on the second floor. The sound of rain filled her ears.
She leaned against the front fence and looked out at the empty water around her.
Even though she had regained all her memories and knew that this world was created by her word for word, she still felt unbelievable standing here, looking at the wind and rain outside.
Although she called it a weak system, it was just a tiny fragment of the main body of the system that could activate a virtual text world into a real low-dimensional world. Such an ability would still be unattainable in her real world even if technology developed for hundreds of years...
That System T must be an extremely terrifying existence. Fortunately, it has been shattered. I don’t know what kind of existence it is that can destroy it with one blow...
Shu Fu stared at the night sky for a long time, as if his mind could escape from this world at any time and be projected into the vast universe, becoming an eternal existence beyond carbon-based creatures, staring at the emergence and extinction of galaxies.
At a certain moment, she felt as if her sight had really penetrated the heavy rain and the dark night sky in front of her, and she saw the universe beyond the sky, and the galaxies slowly moving in another dimension.
It was a bright galaxy with a blue tone. Her and other taskers' native worlds were there.
According to the settings, the taskers can go back after completing the tasks given by the backup system, which is almost after they have upgraded the functional kit of the raft to the maximum. By then, the fragmented memories of their original world should have been almost restored. The functional raft can operate on its own and provide an endless supply of life supplies even without their care.
I don’t know what choice they will make when that time comes.
**
The entire process of Shu Fu regaining her memory took about an hour, but to her, it was like she had lived those three years all over again.
Although she was not physically tired, she was extremely exhausted mentally, so she finally opened the function screen and sent a separate message to Fang Xiwen in text form, saying that she would be there the next morning so that she could rest early after exploring the convenience store.
The next day, it rained lightly.
Shu Fu got up a little later than planned, so after washing up, she drank some water and went straight to the raft at the back.
When I stepped onto the convenience store raft, there were already quite a few friends gathered there. Just like every time a new functional set appeared on the raft, everyone came over out of curiosity.
The raft residents in the shelter at the back are a bit far away from here, so they haven’t noticed the new functional rafts here yet.
Lu Zheng and Lu Ce were also there. The reason why Shu Fu noticed them at first sight was mainly because of Lan Lan in Lu Ce's arms.
When she first saw this wet tabby cat under a car in Suicheng Community, she would never have thought that this innocent-looking cat would be the culprit of all this.
No wonder it always followed her in Suicheng. Later, when she gave the order, it followed Lu Ce obediently.
Although she couldn't figure out its origin at that time, she subconsciously felt a little repulsed and didn't want to carry it with her.
Now think about it, when they were on the Northern Plateau, it suddenly jumped out to block the attack for Chen Fa. Was it because Chen Fa was one of the "docking" taskers assigned to her by the backup system, or was it because it had discovered that Chen Fa was very important to her, so it showed its goodwill in advance?
Through several people, the tabby cat seemed to be aware of her gaze.
It turned its head, its blue eyes met hers, and out of habit it wanted to tilt its head to strike a cute pose, but the next second the whole cat froze.
Did it discover it? Shu Fu looked at it, and raised the corners of his lips with a smile.
The cat in Luce's arms froze for a few seconds, then suddenly jumped onto the deck with a snap, spread out its four paws, and ran quickly towards the direction of the hotel's raft, and soon disappeared.
"Lan Lan? What's wrong? Are you in a hurry to pee?" Lu Ce muttered in confusion, but Lan Lan would often run away and find a place to be alone. So Lu Ce didn't wonder for too long, his attention was now on the convenience store in front of him.
This is a convenience store with a very cyberpunk style. The walls of the store are transparent. It is a square store with all glass walls, and it is equipped with the unique neon light strips of cyberpunk. It looks very much like a store in a game scene.
Inside the convenience store, there is a square column neon screen wall in the middle, on which the types of goods, their introductions and raft points are scrolling.
Because the exterior wall is made of pure glass, no matter which direction you look at it, even if you haven't stepped onto the raft, as long as you glance from afar, you can see the products on the neon screen wall, which is extremely eye-catching.
Fang Xiwen's living space is on the second floor of the convenience store, and the stairs are also on the outer wall. Compared with the convenience store downstairs, it looks more low-key, but the exterior wall of the building still has the dark tones unique to cyberpunk. There are blue and purple light strips dotted on the wall, which is very sci-fi.
Fang Xiwen spent last night researching convenience stores alone until late at night. After returning to her living space, she was shocked by the two-bedroom, one-living room and the modern home furnishings. It was already late at night when she went to bed.
At this moment, she heard the noise and walked out of her second-floor residence. Seeing the people on the raft below, she was slightly stunned. She really didn't expect that there would be so many people on the raft so early in the morning. Although she didn't like to meet too many strangers at the same time, she could immediately adjust her state and show a polite smile when necessary.
She told everyone that this is a fully automated convenience store. There are no physical goods in the store, but there will be a list of currently available goods. The store has just opened and can only carry eight kinds of goods at a time. Each item will have a picture description and price that will scroll on the square screen in the middle of the convenience store.
This scrolling playback is 24 hours a day, and if new goods are available, they will be replaced immediately, so everyone can know the current shelf list of the convenience store just by taking a look.
As for the purchasing method, it is also fully automatic. You will know it just by walking into a convenience store and trying to buy it once.
Fang Xiwen's statement is very clever and creates a bit of suspense. Even if the residents do not lack anything, they will go in and take a look. If they find something they want, they may buy it directly.
Shu Fu also followed him into the convenience store.
Although these functional sets were designed by her, it was impossible for her to go into detail about the types of goods in a single functional set when designing the text. She would only design a rough outline, such as the style. For example, for a book house, the keywords she wrote down were: fairy-tale style, double-decker tree house, extremely compressed space, a large number of books, automatic return of books, etc.
As for the elementary convenience stores, she wrote: sci-fi cyber style, fully automatic purchase, virtual shelves...
Therefore, her mentality at this moment is different from that before she regained her memory. At that time, she was always full of expectations when checking out the new functional raft, and everything she saw would give her a sense of surprise. Now she is more curious, because she wants to see what the real entity that appears after the simple text description will look like.
Probably because the four walls of the convenience store are made of pure glass, the internal space is not compressed. It is only about 30 square meters, and there is indeed no goods on the shelves.
The layout of the shelves is different from that of ordinary convenience stores. The area around the square screen in the middle is empty, with only a raft point redemption machine. The shelves are placed against the glass wall, and they are all electronic virtual screen shelves. Each grid is separated by purple, cyan, and magenta light bands, and each grid corresponds to a product.
It is extremely simple for residents to purchase goods. They just need to click on the corresponding shelf to buy, select the number of items, and then swipe the wristband on the screen. After the raft points are deducted, the goods will appear on the shelf below the electronic virtual screen.
Currently, only eight grids of this virtual shelf have lights on, and the other shelves probably have some restrictions that have not yet been unlocked.
Some of the eight products currently on offer overlap with those in the hotel’s vending machines: bath shampoo, tissue paper, and buckets of instant noodles.
Others were brand new items: sanitary napkins, soap, lollipops, chocolate biscuits, cans of Coke.
When the raft residents saw these products, their eyes lit up. These were all what they wanted! So they started buying them right away.
Unfortunately, the goods are limited in purchase, and currently each person can only buy two of each item.
However, when they were making the purchase, a prompt appeared on the screen stating that if they had reached the purchase limit for the day, they could buy again after 24 hours, which immediately put their minds at ease.
But some people also thought that their family or friends could also be counted as one, so they bought the ticket and left quickly, preparing to ask someone to come and buy again.
Shu Fu watched for a while and then went upstairs to find Fang Xiwen. In her opinion, although there were many more goods that were currently lacking on the raft, overall, she found that the convenience store currently only had two major categories of goods: daily necessities and instant food.
Fang Xiwen had just finished washing up and was about to have breakfast. Her breakfast was a homemade sandwich. When she saw Shu Fu coming over, she immediately took out another one. "You probably haven't eaten either. You went to bed so late last night and got up so early today."
Shu Fu nodded, telling her not to pour water for herself, and took out two cups of hot latte from the space, as well as a large portion of salmon, avocado and vegetable salad and placed them on the table.
The two sat down to eat breakfast together and chatted about convenience store matters.
Just as Shu Fu guessed, although the convenience store has its own merchandise, it has currently only unlocked instant food and daily necessities, with a total of about ten kinds of goods.
The difference between convenience stores and drug stores is that drug stores can have all kinds of medicines on the shelves at the same time, and as long as there are stocks, no matter how many there are, they can be sold at the same time.
Convenience stores are different. Their shelves are limited, with only eight grids at the moment, and there are purchase limits in the initial stage. Shu Fu just saw that each person can only buy two items per item in 24 hours, which is the current maximum purchase quantity.
Fang Xiwen visited the raft yesterday and has a better understanding of the current output of the raft. After careful consideration, she chose the current eight products. In order to unlock new shelves and sell more products at the same time, a certain turnover must be achieved.
As for the goods in the two major categories, many of them have not yet been unlocked. These require certain conditions to be met before they can be unlocked slowly.
Once new shelves are unlocked and the variety of goods increases, convenience stores will be able to add new facilities, such as oden counters, sausage ovens, etc.
However, although the convenience store's business model is fully automatic, it still needs to hire employees to be responsible for daily cleaning work. After she selects more sales items than the number of shelves, she will put these items on the shelves in a certain order every day on the screen that can be operated by the store employees... After that, when facilities such as the oden counter that require someone to take care of them are unlocked, these are also the tasks that the employees need to be responsible for.
After listening to this, Shu Fu felt that although convenience stores have many restrictions, they still have good prospects. The fact that they can bring their own goods is already exceptionally good. Therefore, she was very satisfied with the details filled in by the backup system.
**
When Shu Fu left Fang Xiwen's house and went downstairs, a new day had already begun on the raft island.
The residents of the shelter at the back also came to the raft area. After some of the people who needed to work today discovered this new functional raft and the items for sale inside, some of them couldn’t help but turn in, while others just stopped and took a quick look because the work time was about to begin. At the same time, they secretly decided to come over and have a good look after finishing their work today.
Shu Fu also had her own plans today. She planned to run all the towed rafts of her friends and talk to each of them individually, telling them that she had learned the truth about this world and the other world, but that this truth was actually a bit cruel. As for whether they wanted to know this truth, or wanted to wait until someday in the future to learn the truth from her, it was up to them to decide.
The decision to talk to friends separately was indeed the right one, because everyone’s situation and ideas are different.
People like Chen Fa, Lu Zheng, Zheng Feifei and Liu Shuang, when they learned the purpose of her visit, the first thing they thought of was their family, who were the most important to them now. So Chen Fa asked about Chen Yuezhen first, Lu Zheng asked about Lu Ce, and Zheng Feifei and Liu Shuang did the same.
"This is the real world. They should all be real people in this world. But as long as they are not taskers, they have nothing to do with the other world before we came here... The lack of System T has caused you to be unable to obtain tasks. If you cannot complete the tasks, you cannot upgrade and become stronger, and you cannot leave this world.
I represent another backup system. You can think of me as a 'system patch'. Through my 'trailer', you have a mission - to manage and upgrade the functional raft. Later, when the functional raft reaches the top level, all the memories of your other world will be restored. At that time, you can choose to go back to the other world, or stay..."
Although the time in the two worlds is not equal, they are flowing forward at the same time. Things that have happened in the original world cannot be changed. She has worked so hard for so long, but what she has saved is the uncertain ending of the disaster world and the future of the original world.
The reason why she could choose the time of entry into this world before the disaster began was because she possessed a reality simulator that could make words come true in this world, which is a dimensionality reduction operation of high-dimensional space to low-dimensional space.
To do the reverse operation, they can only choose to return to a certain point in time after they disappeared in the original world, and it is still random.
Therefore, even if the friend recovers all his memories at this moment and finds out that he has lost some people in the disaster in the original world, and wants to go back to the past of the original world to save and stop it, it is simply impossible to do so.
So while accepting the truth, they may need to consider: their identity and background in their native world, whether they have family members, whether their family members have died in the previous disaster, and whether their family members are still anxiously waiting for them to return...
Finally, a few friends got together for a meeting to discuss the follow-up matters. After that, they reached a unanimous decision and told Shu Fu that since what had happened in the native world could not be changed and they could not go back now, they would not intend to find out the truth of the world for the time being, as that would only add to their own troubles.
After all, for them, this disaster world is their home. They have complete memories of growing up here, and they also have family and friends who they cannot give up... When their memories are slowly restored, all tasks are completed, and the conditions for going to another world are met, they will consider how to make a decision again.
Shu Fu respected their choice, but there was one thing she thought they had to remind them of: the cat, Lan Lan, was a small fragment of the missing System T. Although she had surrendered to her before and had performed well when she had lost her memory, they still needed to know this.
Shu Fu couldn't be sure whether it had been 100% tamed, so everyone had to be vigilant, which also served as a role of joint supervision.
It can't do anything for them in its current state, and it does play a significant role in computer networks.
She has discussed with Chen Fa, Lu Zheng, Liu Shuangfenglu and others to create an exclusive website for the "Drifting Island Shelter".
There will be some introduction to the shelter above. When the time is right, she will open online registration. At the same time, she will need to deploy the personal criminal record list embedded in the official big data. For the time being, it will only be open to registration for those with no criminal record.
In the future, she plans to send out a certain number of online invitations every week, and then take the raft island to different waterfronts to pick up people, just like a chocolate factory. After a period of observation, she will select new occupants of the shelter and send those who are not suitable back to the land.
This cycle repeats itself, and new habitable people are gradually added to the raft island.
And these tasks would require a lot of Lanlan's use, so she had no plans to throw it out of the raft area for the time being.
Upon learning about this, Chen Fa's emotions were the most complicated, because she had really been saved by it once. However, even though it was difficult to judge her emotions, she still had to exercise due supervision and vigilance.
Therefore, after this day, Lan Lan would soon discover that the raft owners who once took its existence for granted and usually paid little attention to it began to look at it more and more often, and their eyes had a meaningful look that made it want to run away at any time...
**
A few days later, Shu Fu had a new ten-draw streak.
This time, because she got her memory back, she knew that these rewards were calculated by the backup system based on the algorithm, so she was no longer as anxious as before. Instead, she closed her eyes and silently recited the rewards she wanted for a long time before drawing the lottery, hoping that this method would allow the backup system to sense her needs.
Finally, the ten rewards are:
Three golden first prizes – raft towing positions;
Two blue second prizes – attached raft holiday cards (one month);
Green third prize: temporary acceleration card (2 hours, speed: 300 kilometers per hour);
Two red first prizes – Upgraded set matching gift packs (universal);
Green First Prize: Energy Raft (Electric Energy);
Red third prize: 10 seasoning gift packs.
The last seasoning gift pack was quite unexpected to her, because it was a reward that had never appeared before and it was something she had subconsciously wanted. The dozen or so seasonings in it, such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, sugar, pepper, cumin, etc., were not currently able to be produced or made on the raft, but at the same time they were very much needed by everyone.
As for herself, because she stockpiled a lot in the early days, and later stockpiled various cooked foods, and also received a lot of ready-made food rewards, she didn't need it so much. She didn't need to keep the whole box, just some that might be used up.
Afterwards, she moved a few boxes to Hua Qiong's snack bar. This was what she needed most when she opened the shop. The batch of seasonings that currently supported her business was the one that Cheng Yu and his friends brought over last time.
The snack bar is doing good business every day now, and that batch of seasonings will soon be used up. Shu Fu had originally planned to trade resources with the land, but the land has been a little unsettled recently, so she wanted to wait until Han Lan brought Cheng Yu back to do this.
Well now, another problem has been solved.
She moved the remaining seasonings to the hotel and asked Lu Zheng to add them to the vending machines for sale as appropriate.
His vending machine can sell thirty kinds of goods at the same time, but the machine only provides five kinds of goods, so the others need to be purchased from his friends. These seasonings can all be put on the shelves after setting a purchase limit, so it is just right for him to be responsible for selling them.
There were three more raft towing positions, so she immediately towed back the two public facility rafts, the swimming pool and the park, which had been untethered due to insufficient towing positions. She placed them at towing positions No. 10 and 11, next to and behind the amusement park raft, and the other rafts were placed thereafter.
The remaining trailer space is just reserved for Han Lan, and when he comes back, he can tow it back again.
A few days after the ten consecutive draws, she received a satellite call from Han Lan.
When Shu Fu saw the name jumping on the screen, she was stunned for a moment. Thinking of the situation when Han Lan returned to the land again this time, her heart beat a little faster.
She slowed her breathing and quickly answered the call.
"Hello?"
A familiar male voice came from the other end of the phone. It was not Han Lan: "Hello, Xiao Fu, it's me..."
Shu Fu was stunned again, then smiled: "I knew you were not dead."
"Well, I'm still alive. Sorry to have worried you..." I don't know what he went through before making this call. His voice was hoarse. He paused for a few seconds, as if he had too many things to say. In the end, he only said slowly: "...I will come back alive to see you."
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