Chapter 51 No Lou Yuncheng
Shu Fu sighed, slowly moved the raft closer to several floating buildings on the water, turned off the protective cover, and then "anchored" the raft.
With these floating objects as a backdrop, the low-key appearance of the raft is unlikely to attract the attention of a helicopter passing by even without the protective cover - of course, the premise is that there is a helicopter passing by.
For the next two days, this area of water remained very quiet. Perhaps because it was too far from the land to the west and the tsunami was too strong, it was assumed that there would be no survivors. Even a helicopter only appeared once.
This was the only time she saw a helicopter passing by in the distance. She had to look through the telescope for a while before she realized it was a helicopter. The people on the helicopter paid even less attention to the water.
In the past two days, there were sometimes heavy rains with thunder and lightning, and sometimes hurricanes with surging waves, but most of the time it was just ordinary strong winds and heavy rains, and the wind and rain would subside for an hour or two.
Because these one or two hours happened to be during the daytime, Shu Fu released an inflatable boat that had been fully unfolded and had a rainproof tent erected on the water. She even installed a boat motor in advance in case of emergency.
The inflatable boat was originally a bright orange color. In order to make it less conspicuous, she added a layer of smoky gray fabric on the outside of its tent, which was similar to the color of the water surface. She used the curtain fabric she had bought before.
When she climbed onto the inflatable boat for the first time in such a vast expanse of water, Shu Fu was a little nervous. After all, the safety index of the inflatable boat was much lower than that of the raft. She was worried that if the weather suddenly changed, she would not be able to release the raft and return to the drifting island house in time.
But then she thought, she still has a portable protective shield. If the weather really deteriorates rapidly in a short period of time, she will open the portable protective shield, and the wind and rain will not affect her speed of getting on the raft.
Thinking of this, she felt relieved. After entering the inflatable boat, she took out two soft cushions and placed them in place so that she could sit more comfortably.
Being in the inflatable boat feels more like being on the sea. The hull will sway up and down with the waves, and the rain will fall on the tent, making a crackling and noisy sound.
Because there was no destination and no need to control the direction, she zipped up the tent to ensure that rain would not seep in. Then she opened the two zippered windows on the left and right sides of the tent. The small windows were made of plastic waterproof film, which allowed people inside to observe the situation outside at any time.
When she used smoky gray fabric to cover the color of the inflatable boat, she also deliberately cut out two small square holes to avoid blocking the "windows" of the inflatable boat.
The first time, she stayed on the inflatable boat for more than three hours. The weather didn't deteriorate, but it was getting dark and it was dangerous on the water, so she returned to the raft. The second time, she only stayed for an hour before quickly fleeing back to the raft amid thunder and lightning.
In two days, the raft delay card saved more than 4 hours. A little bit adds up and is better than nothing.
For the rest of the time, she lay completely flat in the house on the drifting island, sleeping peacefully until she woke up naturally every day. After waking up, she didn't have to rush to get up because there were no tasks and no need to worry about the usage time of the raft.
Sometimes she would not get up until around ten o'clock, first open her tablet to find the variety show she had watched halfway, then wash up while watching the artists in the variety show trying hard to be funny, and occasionally she would laugh out loud when she saw something funny.
When she feels lazy, she just chooses from the ready-made foods. When she has difficulty making decisions because there are too many foods, she will prepare a few small pieces of paper, write down several breakfasts she wants to eat, then crumple them into a ball and draw lots herself.
Eat whatever you catch and never regret it.
Sometimes when she feels like cooking, she equips herself with an electric card and goes to the small kitchen to cook. Now there are abundant ingredients in the wristband space, and she has downloaded a full range of recipes, so she will try some dishes that she has never cooked before.
For example, for the king crab seafood porridge, in addition to the cut crab leg meat, she also hand-peeled a lot of prawns. Both are first boiled with water with scallions and ginger, and then the scallions and ginger are removed, and then the vegetables you want to eat are added. After they are cooked, the last step is to add the cooked porridge.
This is a lazy way. The porridge can be cooked in advance in an electric rice cooker, but if you put raw rice and water directly into the pot to cook the porridge, it will easily become mushy for novices. The seafood also needs to be soaked in advance to remove the fishy smell, so she chose another more convenient method.
After the porridge, seafood and vegetables are fully stirred and boiled again, add salt and sprinkle with chopped green onions, black pepper or white pepper, and you're done.
Facts have proved that as long as a person has a good brain, he can cook a dish successfully at the first try even if he has never cooked before.
Of course, it may also be because the ingredients are good and they taste good no matter how they are cooked. The seafood porridge is salty, fragrant and fresh, the shrimp meat is chewy, and the crab meat is extremely fresh.
She drank two large bowls in one breath, leaving some room for next time.
Out of boredom, she turned on the "manual reconstruction" mode and rearranged the eight raft fences she had drawn, intending to arrange them neatly while minimizing the impact on her position on the raft.
Finally she discovered that these fences could be placed on the roof of the Castaway Island House in addition to the raft deck.
Because the roof is also completely flat like the deck, when the fence is placed on the roof, the Drifting Island House is equivalent to having an external second-floor terrace. In this way, this prize that she once regarded as the most useless immediately increased its value and became more elegant.
She placed all the fences on the wooden roof. Because the roof was not a compressed space, the eight fences almost surrounded half of it, and the prototype of a terrace had already appeared. However, there was no external staircase, so it was not very convenient to go up. She estimated that she would have to rely on the subsequent lottery to get the blue.
Because the fence gave her a surprise, she took out the "Primitive Style Thatched House" blueprint and swiped it on the screen to see the effect.
Just like "manual renovation", after the blueprint is equipped, a 3D graphic of the drifting island house will appear. You can check it out to see if you like it and then decide whether to change it.
Obviously, surprises don't happen often, and she felt a little confused when looking at the 3D picture of the wild and unrestrained cottage.
The interior area is indeed much larger than it is now, and after the equipment is installed, the existing staggered floors inside and the second-floor terrace on the roof will show the unique features of the original thatched house. The internal structure has changed, especially the staggered floors made of logs, which are presented in the form of an indoor tree house, which is quite creative.
But, weed floors and mud walls… seriously?
Does this style really take into account the psychological endurance of the homeowner?
Shu Fu felt that this style was not suitable for her, and finally quietly exited the "one-click room change" function.
She still prefers a more modern and clean architectural style, and hopes to draw out other blueprints next time.
Although the electricity card reserve is sufficient now, Shu Fu still strictly adheres to the principle of being frugal as before. Whenever the electricity in the house is turned on, charging, making soup, grilling in the oven, making ice, washing clothes, drying clothes... all are done at the same time.
Every time at this time, the house on the drifting island is very lively, with the sounds of various electrical appliances, plus the sounds of TV dramas and variety shows, full of the atmosphere of fireworks.
Three days passed like this, I lay down aimlessly every day. It turned out that creative people will not be bored because of their strong and rich inner world, even if they are alone in the vast and boundless waters.
She will definitely feel lonely, but she also enjoys this loneliness because loneliness also represents the ultimate freedom.
Especially in the evening when it was getting dark, she would lie on the cushion in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the outside world, wondering what she would be doing at this time if she were still in her original world.
Working hard with the crew members on the same film set, and then swearing to have a good midnight snack?
When a certain actor with connections has to NG for the Nth time, he has to change a very long line at the request of the director with a gloomy face?
Or when she hides her work badge and goes outside to slack off, she is mistaken for an extra in the crew for the Nth time by some young hunk who doesn't know her and then strikes up a conversation with her?
…
For so many years, she seemed to always be busy with work, working hard every day to make more money and gain higher status and recognition in the industry.
But what is the result?
When she had just become the chief screenwriter, when she had just paid off the mortgage on her new house, when she thought she could gradually start to enjoy life, she plunged into this completely unfamiliar apocalyptic world and remained in a daze for four years.
If the time in this world is the same as her own world, she has been missing for so many years, and she doesn't know if her job, house, and car are still there...
These things are unbearable to think about. Thinking about them hurts her heart and will make her want to lie flatter and mess up even more...
**
At noon on the sixth day, the rain began to subside and eventually stopped.
This was the first time the rain stopped after the super tsunami. Not only did the wind and rain stop, but the dark clouds in the sky also dispersed a lot, and the light blue sky that had not been seen for a long time appeared in the gaps between the clouds.
Shu Fu walked out of the eaves, stood on the deck of the raft, and stretched his arms in the rainless air.
Although the rain has just stopped, it is not too cold outside. The temperature is estimated to be around 15 degrees. It is already late March, which is spring according to the season, so the temperature should be about this.
Shu Fu didn't want to miss this rare good weather, so he launched the inflatable boat before having lunch, and folded up the raft after getting on the boat.
It was not raining outside and it was not too cold, so she opened the zipper of the tent, half leaned inside, looked through the half-open tent door, and leaned her head against the side close to the tent door. She could look at the water and sky outside just by turning her head.
When on the inflatable boat, Shu Fu always felt that she was infinitely close to this world, and occasionally she would have the illusion that she had reached the end of the world where few people had been.
Probably because of the good weather, the surrounding waters were much clearer. Shu Fu leaned there and read a novel for a while. Feeling a little hungry, she took out a cup of mochi and taro milk tea and a box of golden fried chicken feet.
The sweet and sticky taro mochi and the salty and crispy chicken feet are a perfect match. Shu Fu leaned there while reading a novel, feeling the slight swaying of the water, enjoying the comfort and solitude of being isolated from the world.
She thought that this half-cloudy and half-sunny weather would not last too long, after all, the clouds in the sky had not completely dispersed, but in the end, she actually spent four hours on the inflatable boat smoothly.
Around four o'clock in the afternoon, after finishing her milk tea and eating the chicken feet, the four-hour alarm she set rang. Shu Fu then realized that today's four hours had been successfully completed, and she had bought another day for the raft to use the delay card.
She put away her cell phone, turned over, and released the raft on the water. She leaned over and climbed out of the inflatable boat tent. As she was climbing onto the raft deck, her foot accidentally touched the box of chicken feet placed at the entrance of the inflatable boat tent.
The chicken feet in there had been basically eaten, and most of them were broken bones. She had originally planned to wait until she got on the raft, and then take the box and the empty milk tea cup into the house and dispose of them in the sink before collecting the inflatable boat into the space. Unexpectedly, in this area, the entire box turned over into the water, and the chicken feet and broken bones inside immediately scattered in the water. It was too late for her to fish them out.
Although she knew that there was all kinds of garbage under the water, she had the black technology of "garbage crushing and purification", so she never thought of throwing garbage into the water.
At this moment, a box of broken bones accidentally fell in. She stared at the water for two seconds.
In those two seconds, she suddenly saw waves stirring in the water where the broken bones were scattered, as if something quickly swallowed up the broken bones, and then quickly sank into the water and disappeared.
The garbage that had originally bothered her was completely eliminated.
Shu Fu looked at the swaying water surface, thinking about the shadow that just passed by.
Is that a fish?
How can it swim so fast?
Moreover, it seems to be quite large. Is it a freshwater fish?
Now that the sea level is rising, seawater is pouring into the inland, and heavy rains are turning land into water. The boundary between the two is unclear. In fact, she is a little confused. Is this area of water now considered seawater or fresh water?
Are all the fish in the water freshwater fish, or are there aquatic creatures from the original ocean areas?
Shu Fu stood on the deck of the raft for a while, trying to look for other fish, but after waiting for a while, there was no other movement. Instead, she waited until the clouds dispersed, the sky became clear, and the blue sky that had been half-covered by the clouds for a long time was completely revealed.
It was a spring evening. The air was fresh after the rain. The sun was setting in the west, falling on the entire body of water, reflecting fine, light golden rays of light among the rippling waves.
Nature can be cruel at times, but can also be breathtakingly beautiful at others.
She hadn't seen such an evening at sea for a long, long time. The boundless waters became a beautiful scenery that only existed in dreams.
Shu Fu collected the inflatable boat, transferred it through space to the railing of the eaves of the front door, fixed it there with a rope, and let it dry automatically.
She was reluctant to miss such a rare beautiful view, so she decided to have dinner outside. In order to make the most of the time to get on the inflatable boat at noon, she didn't have a good lunch, but she could make up for it in the evening.
She decided to eat barbecue and sat under the eaves of the front door. That was the wooden house area and belonged to the owner. No matter how delicious the barbecue was, the smell would not spread out.
But before that, she wanted to take advantage of this rare sunshine to do one thing.
Shu Fu turned around reluctantly, entered the house and directly opened the sliding door leading to the underwater bedroom.
Sure enough, during the day when the light was good, the underwater visibility became very high, and after a few days, the surrounding waters began to become clear. So when she stood in the underwater bedroom again, she found that she could vaguely see the dark gray stone wall in the deep water below through the glass floor under her feet.
She took out her binoculars and a powerful flashlight, and lying on the glass floor, checked again.
There was only one section of the stone wall, and the cross-section of the broken part was huge. It looked very much like the broken tiles and ruins left after the dam was collapsed by a tsunami. Judging from the location where her raft was currently moored, this was originally the edge of both sides of the dam, and these broken tiles and ruins should be the top of the dam.
She remembered that before the No. 1 Dam was collapsed by the tsunami, it had been raised to 140 meters, making it the tallest dam built in the entire Muc Chau Province and Xi Nhan Province.
Therefore, from the remaining broken walls of the dam, we can roughly estimate that the water level in this area is now between 190 meters and 200 meters. Adding the original altitude of this area of 70 meters, it means that the overall water level is about 270 meters.
She was not sure how high the water level was in Louyun City when the tsunami first occurred, but according to the water map at the time, there were no buildings above water in the central part of the city.
The land altitude of Louyun City is between 120 and 350 meters above sea level. The buildings there did not appear on the water map at the time. They might have been washed away or submerged. In any case, the water level of Louyun City at that time must have been higher than the basic altitude value, so there was no dark green mark at all.
Shu Fu thought for a moment and came to the conclusion that the water level in Louyun City, which had risen sharply due to the tsunami, was slowly decreasing.
The waters are all connected, and if the water level here drops, the water levels in the entire Louyun City, the waterway between Louyun City and Suicheng, and the original site of Suicheng will also drop slightly. She might be able to find a landing place with good conditions in all aspects in these areas where she can now move.
After all, the duration of extreme weather is much longer than that of sunny weather. In the case of heavy rain, lightning and hurricanes, she cannot stay in the inflatable boat for four hours. The delay card will run out sooner or later. She can drift on the water for a month, two months... or even longer, but sooner or later she will be forced to go ashore.
So, instead of being passive, it is better to pay more attention to the water level and make plans early.
**
As Shu Fu was thinking, he went back to the upper floor through the spiral staircase, planning to take advantage of this rare sunset to have a barbecue dinner on the water, and then continue to study the plan to go ashore.
There was no large demand for electricity today, so she didn't equip the electricity card, but placed a gas stove and a marble slab for barbecue on the camping table.
There is a bracket under the stone slab, which can be placed on the gas stove. There is a circle of oil leakage grooves around the stone slab. When there is too much grease on it, the excess oil will automatically slide into the grooves, and finally drip into the oil cup below through the small holes on both sides of the grooves.
You can save these fats for cooking next time, or just throw them away.
It mainly depends on what kind of meat she is roasting. If it is pork belly, the lard will be very fragrant when stir-fried.
The camping table is not big. After putting the barbecue board and the flat board on it, only half of the space is left on the table. Shu Fu first took out a portion of thick-cut pork belly and a platter of oysters and scallops, as well as garlic slices, lettuce, barbecue sauce, sea salt, black pepper and other condiments, intending to change them as he eats.
People who have space are so willful that they can perform the act of taking things out of thin air at any time.
She had drunk milk tea and ate chicken feet in the afternoon, and was a little hungry but not too hungry. This meal was purely to match the rare sunset at sea, so she turned down the fire of the gas stove and only put a piece of pork belly and two scallops on it, grilling them slowly.
Ten minutes later, the scallop meat was cooked first. She sprinkled it with sea salt and crushed black pepper, put it into a bowl, and added a little garlic and chopped pepper sauce. The tender grilled scallops with garlic and chopped peppers were absolutely delicious!
Twenty minutes later, the thick pork belly slices were finally golden on both sides, oozing with oil. Shu Fu propped up his chin, leaned back in the camping chair and looked at the sunset calmly, without rushing to process the meat.
In the water in front of the raft, the sun was slowly approaching the water surface. The surrounding clouds were dyed a soft orange. The blue sky was boundless, and the water surface seemed to be sprinkled with countless pieces of gold, which were slightly shimmering with the wind blowing across the water.
The tablet on the table was still playing the variety show that he hadn't finished watching. This variety show had a total of ten seasons, twelve episodes per season, and each episode was two hours long.
She had never watched it before, but just started watching it from the first season. It was surprisingly funny and good for eating, and it felt like it could kill some time.
She took the scissors and slowly cut the roast meat into small pieces. She then sprinkled some sea salt and crushed black pepper on it with a grinder, then sprinkled some cumin powder on it, and continued to bake until both sides turned a beautiful brown color. Then she put them into the bowl one by one.
She put two more oysters on the plate, then put the unroasted pork belly back into the space, took out a box of cleaned mushrooms, picked up four or five of them, and placed them upside down on the marble baking sheet, letting them roast slowly.
The pork belly is fat and lean, crispy and fragrant, and paired with garlic slices and lettuce to relieve the greasiness, it is a delicious dish that you will never get tired of.
While eating, she put away the box of mushrooms, took out a clean sticky board, a knife and a washed eggplant, cut the eggplant slices on the spot, and placed them one by one, slowly roasting the eggplant slices with the oil from roasting the pork belly.
In the past, she had eaten barbecue at the beach. In fact, islands and beaches have always been her first choice for vacation. However, in order to make time to go to the beautiful beach and ensure that there is enough money in the card to pay for the expensive island expenses, she usually has to work hard for a long time.
Sometimes, even if you have the money and time, you still have to gather together like-minded travelers.
After all, in the normal world, there are people everywhere, and she doesn't want to be alone and seem out of place.
But now, I am forced to play alone, and I don’t think it’s a problem.
Thinking about it this way, this kind of life where she can just lie down every day after completing her mission is actually what she has been wanting all her life...
Unparalleled sea views, an unsinkable drifting island house, various black technologies to assist life, and various supplies in the space. To be honest, at this moment, she suddenly felt that it was okay for her not to go back to her original world...
Five hours after this thought appeared in Shu Fu's mind, reality slapped her in the face.
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