Chapter 26 Suicheng
After making up his mind, Shu Fu began to make preparations. First, he compared the map with the water map, took the commercial district in the east of Suicheng as the destination, and marked the route along the way.
We chose three or four high-rise buildings with more than 15 floors and abundant supplies nearby as transit points. For example, there were large supermarkets, shopping streets, or even gas stations below the high-rise buildings.
If conditions permit, she might spend a few nights in these tall buildings, and use the automatic water fishing rod to collect as many supplies as possible before Suicheng is flooded and only a few isolated islands remain.
This type of high-rise building is actually very easy to find. Many of them are hotels, or several floors inside have been converted into hotels, so there are usually shops downstairs where you can get supplies.
After planning the route, Shu Fu broke a piece of floor-to-ceiling glass in the large office area outside the small meeting room where she was staying, just in case, to leave herself a gap for escape, because she would be staying indoors tonight and would use the limited time of using the raft tomorrow until after departure.
At eight o'clock in the evening, she launched the raft in the large office area on the tenth floor and turned on the power card as usual.
The first 24-hour electricity card was just used up last night. She is now using a one-week electricity card. She does not need to use electricity for more than an hour every day, because she does not need to wash clothes every day. A simple bath and washing of dishes will take more than half an hour.
Sometimes when power banks, electric lights, mobile phones, tablets, electric water bottles and other electrical appliances are fully charged, she doesn't have to take a shower. She can just use the hot water in the space for simple cleaning and washing without turning on the power card.
She stayed in the drifting house until midnight and then returned to the office building.
It was dark and cold outside, with the temperature at night ranging from about 0 to 3 degrees. She still felt a little cold even in her thick cotton home clothes.
She entered the small conference room with the dim light from her mobile phone screen, locked the door, closed all the blinds on the floor-to-ceiling windows, took out a rechargeable energy-saving desk lamp, adjusted it to the dimmest light, and placed it behind the table to ensure that not a single ray of light would leak out.
Then, she took out an automatic tent used for ordinary camping, placed it on the carpet and let it open automatically, laid out a moisture-proof mat and a thermal pad, took out a sleeping bag and an electric hot water bottle, and lay down in it with her clothes on.
The electric hot water bottle emitted warm heat through her clothes, warming her whole body.
When spending the night indoors, a tent, sleeping bag and a hot water bottle are enough to keep you warm.
Recently, in order to schedule the use of the raft, her schedule has been more regular than ever. She goes to bed at about 11 o'clock every night and gets up at six in the morning, so that she can wash up and have breakfast in the cabin.
She originally thought that she would not be able to sleep as it was her first time to spend the night in an unfamiliar building, but in fact, just a few minutes after she closed her eyes, she fell asleep to the familiar sound of rain.
She had a dreamless night. When she woke up, she checked her phone. It was 6:18. Her biological clock was very accurate. Even though the alarm hadn't gone off yet, her body woke up on its own at about the same time.
But just because her body got used to it, didn't mean her brain got used to it too.
She really didn't want to get up so early every day. She wanted to sleep peacefully until she woke up naturally, without having to worry about anything. She could really relax, empty herself, lie down comfortably, and let the drifting island house drift freely on the water with the waves without having to calculate the usage time hour by hour.
After all, now that she has an automatic water fishing rod, there is no shortage of supplies for the time being. As long as the raft can be used continuously for 24 hours a day, she can really lie down.
Shu Fu listened to the sound of rain outside, set the alarm for herself for two hours, and fell asleep again.
At 12:05 noon, after packing up all her things, Shu Fu put on shoe covers, stepped on the thin layer of water on the ninth floor, stepped out of the floor-to-ceiling glass window frame that was missing glass, got on the raft, and started heading for the first stop on her planned route - Hengyu Hotel.
Shu Fu was in a good mood when he thought that he could spend the remaining twelve hours of the day in the Drifting Island House.
Her plan today was to arrive at Hengyu Hotel and confirm that she could enter the hotel building and stay there.
At present, the water level in Suicheng is between 22 and 24 meters, which varies slightly due to the different terrains in different blocks of the city. However, at this height, trees, street lights, large and small shops, and ordinary civil buildings are basically submerged.
All that remains are small high-rise residential buildings, various commercial buildings and iconic buildings such as the TV tower.
As the water level rises, the color of the water gradually darkens, from the original light gray to the current dark gray. When the wind is stronger, the waves surge, and it feels like being on the sea.
Recently, as the number of buildings above water in Suicheng decreased, she found that the water map was also changing. The once densely packed dark green dot and block icons were slowly disappearing.
Shu Fu quickly realized that it was because the buildings represented by dark green had sunk below the waterline. Every time a dark green dot or block icon disappeared, it meant one less straw that could save her life.
There was an external escape staircase on the side of the stairs at Hengyu Hotel. She didn't need to knock on the glass. She climbed the stairs to the ninth floor and found that the security door on this floor was locked. So she continued to walk up, looking for other security doors, and finally entered the hotel building from the eleventh floor.
There are a total of fifteen floors here, and there are signs that they have been used by refugees. The people evacuated in a hurry, and the doors of many rooms were open.
The twelfth floor of the hotel is the executive suite, which has one bedroom and one living room. The interior is luxuriously decorated, with a simple induction cooker and a bar. The doors and windows are intact. Except for the lack of water and electricity, this place is simply perfect!
Shu Fu felt it was a pity. It would be great if the daily usage time of the raft could be paused and accumulated like an electric card. In this way, when she temporarily stayed in a relatively safe and comfortable building, she would not have to go back to the Drifting Island House to spend the night and could save as much time as possible on the raft for future use.
As for now, compared to staying alone in a strange, empty, dark building at night, her temperature-controlled drifting island house is naturally safer, more comfortable, and warmer.
The first harvest of the automatic water fishing rod here was thirty bags of well-packaged snail noodles. Snail noodles are room temperature food. After being "disinfected" with one click, they were still put into her space.
After harvesting a large amount of snail noodles, Shu Fu thought that the second and third poles would yield other different kinds of supplies, just like in the previous supermarket area.
As a result, she cast the fishing rod for two consecutive days and harvested nearly 300 bags of snail noodles and potato noodles, which was... outrageous!
This thing is convenient and easy to cook, so why wasn’t it bought out when the flood first started?
Or is it that there is a noodle soup shop on the street below this building, and because there is too much inventory, this amount is just the leftover?
On the third day, Shu Fu had to move the raft to a new location, and then he began to collect other different supplies. During the two days, he salvaged a bunch of gold bracelets, necklaces and rings three times a day. Then there was another day when he salvaged all medicines, various boxed medicines, bottled health products, canned protein powder...
Living alone without the internet was a little difficult at first, but it got better over time.
Fortunately, she was well prepared and downloaded almost all the movies, TV dramas, variety shows, novels, music, fitness videos, food information, and disaster information on the Internet. It was easy to kill time when she was bored every day.
Daily life enters a stable regular period, time flies quickly, and a month passes quickly.
Shu Fu had already successfully passed through several planned transit buildings and arrived at the planned destination - a thirty-six-story office building.
A few hundred meters south of this building is Suicheng’s tallest building - the 66-story Suicheng Mingyue Building.
This building is not just a commercial building, but a super complex building with a garden, international super-A-class office buildings, a six-star hotel, cloud-top apartments, cloud-top sightseeing and a city exhibition hall. It is a landmark building in Suicheng.
Shu Fu planned to move there when the water reached the 30th floor, because the 30th, 31st and 32nd floors of Mingyue Building formed a hollow vertical garden with a large external terrace, which allowed direct access to the interior of the building.
Of course, the office building where she is now is not bad either, with a commercial center, serviced apartments and office areas inside.
It is now mid-December. During this month, the heavy rain in Suicheng has stopped three times, and each time the rain stopped for no more than twelve hours. Moderate and heavy rain are the most common rains on weekdays, with occasional torrential rain.
Compared with before, the rainfall seemed to have decreased a little, but the water level in Suicheng still slowly rose to the level of a 20-story building.
According to the current rate of water level rise, Mingyue Tower, the tallest building in Suicheng, will be completely submerged in about five months.
This time was much shorter than she expected.
The level 3 progress bar of the raft remained motionless, and she even began to feel that the new mission might never come.
She had to start planning her daily survival routine after the last building in Suicheng was flooded. Fortunately, she still had two inflatable boats, both of which were self-inflating models with rainproof tents.
The 12 hours a day when the raft cannot be used have to be spent drifting on the water in an inflatable boat.
She has to plan the time to use the raft reasonably every day. Suicheng still occasionally has thunderstorms, hail and strong winds. When such weather comes, she naturally has to hide in the drifting island house. It is important to get a good night's sleep at night, but there is no need to use it continuously for 12 hours. This time can be compressed to 8 hours, and the remaining four hours can be reserved for use during the day.
If everything goes well on the day, these usage times will be used up that evening; if something really happens during the day, such as diarrhea or bad weather, these usage times can be used to cope with the situation.
I think I can definitely survive, but the daytime living space is compressed from the safe inside of the building to the inside of the inflatable boat, which causes various inconveniences.
After the plan was made, Shu Fu's originally uneasy heart calmed down again.
That afternoon, she was sweating on the manual rowing machine in the suite of the hotel-style apartment. When she was exhausted and out of breath, she suddenly felt a vibration on her left wrist.
This subtle feeling like an electric shock was like a thunderclap, which made her stand up.
Is the raft level 3 progress bar mission finally here? !
She turned on the bracelet and wanted to take out the black mini notebook, but she found that below the fifth graphic "Lottery Wheel", a new icon appeared. The icon was square and was flashing.
New features of the bracelet?
Shu Fu long-pressed the flashing icon, and in an instant, a thin, light, translucent panel appeared in her hand. The panel was about the size of a tablet, almost without thickness, and the words appeared on it: [It has been detected that the waterway between Suicheng and Louyuncheng is unblocked. Please click to activate the waterway map. ]
Lou Yuncheng?
Shu Fu clicked the translucent panel with surprise, and the font on it changed: [The waterway map has been activated. You can check your current location at any time through the map panel, and you can set your destination through the map panel. ]
She clicked on the panel again, the font on it disappeared, and then a familiar water map appeared, which was exactly the water map she had seen on the cabin's function screen.
But what is different from the original water map is that a hole appeared at the nine o'clock position on this map, on the far left side of the original map boundary line.
It was as if the originally sealed shape now had a gap facing outwards.
Shu Fu suppressed her inner excitement and gently moved the map. Sure enough, just as she had guessed, there was a winding waterway on the left side of the hole, as if a passage had appeared on the surface of the originally stagnant lake.
The waterway connects to the outside world and goes hundreds of kilometers west of Suicheng.
Does this mean that she can use this waterway to leave Suicheng?
Just as she was guessing with surprise, the bracelet vibrated again, and this time the icon that lit up was "Notebook".
On the black mini notebook, a long-lost font appeared——
[Within one week, check in at any shelter in the suburbs of Louyun City to get a 15% progress bar for level 3 of the raft. (Current progress of level 3 of the raft: 0%)
Note: Failure to complete this task will deduct 15% of the progress bar. 】
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