Chapter 81 Northland Plateau
The raft floated on the surface of the river, rising and falling with the waves. With the help of the boat motor fixed at the rear, it was slowly moving against the current towards the other side of the river.
This river is at the uppermost reaches of Qinghe River. In fact, it is the source of Qinghe River. Due to continuous rain, the river water has risen sharply, the water flow is very fast, and the river surface has become much wider. It is not easy for ordinary boats to cross the river. If you are not careful, you will be carried downstream by the extremely fast current.
After the river flows out of Youcheng, it passes through an area with a large height difference, forming a large waterfall, and then merges with another river, eventually forming the Qinghe River that flows through the Beidi Plateau. The terrain around the waterfall is dangerous, and the dam built earlier has not been repaired since it was damaged in a natural disaster last year, resulting in the complete isolation of Youcheng's waterway from the outside world.
This area has now become a death gap. Once a ship fails to cross the river smoothly and is carried all the way here by the current, it will fall into the gap of the destroyed dam and die.
After all, the raft is a golden finger. Even if it is not as disaster-resistant as Shu Fu's drifting island house, it is more stable than ordinary boats when drifting on the water. However, because the water flow is too fast, the raft cannot go straight across the river bank, so it is now going diagonally.
The rain got heavier. Yue Dong and Xu Tingfeng were sitting on the deck without any shelter. They looked at each other and looked at the cabin behind them. It was okay for Yue Dong, but Xu Tingfeng rarely showed such an expression. He looked a little dumb and wooden. He didn't know how to react.
As the two were staring at the door of the cabin in a daze, the door opened and Chen Fa came out. She handed them a piece of waterproof plastic tape, two bottles of water and two pieces of chocolate, said "Sorry, just make do with it", and turned back to the cabin.
Chen Fa's raft and Lu Zheng's raft were almost like copies and pastes. The cabin was at the rear end of the raft, and the front end was a larger deck. The cabin only had front and back doors and a small lattice window on the side. Chen Fa and Shu Fu could enter, but Yue Dong and Xu Tingfeng could not.
Chen Fa originally didn't want to waste time and energy explaining where they found the raft and where they found the boat motor, but he still followed Shu Fu's advice and accompanied her to the side of the two vehicles. He watched her put away the SUV, and then, using the pickup truck as a cover, he took out the raft in the dark and placed it on the river. He fixed the boat motor at the tail of the raft, and then drove the raft slowly towards Yue Dong and Xu Tingfeng.
But neither of them expected that Yue Dong and Xu Tingfeng could not enter the cabin.
It was as if they had encountered an invisible barrier. The two men could clearly see them in the hut, but they could not step into the door no matter what.
Shu Fu then realized that it was not that the other people's rafts had no protective function at all, but that this protective function was ineffective against her.
At this point, some special circumstances seemed to be unable to be concealed, but Chen Fa did not explain much about it. The four people had just walked through the line between life and death. Without saying too much, she still trusted and understood them.
Yue Dong and Xu Tingfeng were not the kind of people who would abandon their companions in an emergency, nor were they the kind of people who would turn against each other when something unexpected happened. Chen Fa thought it was okay to let them discover this peculiar situation, but she would not explain it, and it was even more impossible for her to directly tell the other party her trump card.
Finally, she simply closed the front door so that the two people outside could not see anything.
In the cabin, Shu Fu had already taken out a small camping table and two chairs and asked Chen Fa to sit over there. She had enough furniture in her space to help Chen Fa decorate the cabin a little, but the distance across the river was too short, so it was not suitable to do these things for the time being, so she only took out two cups of hot milk tea, one for each of her and Chen Fa, to replenish their energy.
But just a cup of milk tea made Chen Fa surprised and happy.
"Are the things in your backpack something you saved before?" Chen Fa understood after looking at her backpack. In addition to the raft and weapons, she only had a water purifier and a fishing rod. Not to mention the cup of taro, mochi and pearl milk tea in her hand that was obviously from a milk tea shop before the chaos, she couldn't even make half a table leg.
"Well, my golden finger appeared a little earlier." Shu Fu said modestly.
There was just some time left before crossing the river, so she quickly explained some details of the golden finger to Chen Fa, saving Chen Fa the time of trying them one by one.
Chen Fa's cheat code is basically the same as Lu Zheng's, the only difference is the weapon. Shu Fu previously thought that the axe was standard, but now after seeing Chen Fa's gun, he realized that everyone's weapon should be different.
Chen Fa's rifle can ignore obstacles and darkness and shoot at long distances. It also has automatic silencing and aiming functions when shooting. Compared to a hand gun, it is more like a sophisticated and mini automatic sniper rifle.
However, this gun cannot be loaded with ordinary bullets. According to the prompt, three bullets will be automatically refreshed in the gun every day, and they will be gone once they are used up. Of course, you can take out the accumulated bullets when you cannot use them up.
In addition, regarding the raft, she had only seen Lu Zheng’s raft last time, but had never sat on it and drifted through the waters, so she didn’t have a real feeling.
Although this raft is incomparable to her temperature-controlled and highly protected drifting island house, its stability is still good - at least it is more stable than an ordinary large ship when sailing. Even though it is windy and rainy outside, with fast currents and turbulent waves, it can still move forward steadily.
But apart from this, there seemed to be no other disaster-resistant functions. In order to be able to control the marine engine at the tail of the raft at any time, they opened the back door of the cabin. The wind and rain outside entered the house unhindered and wet the ground at the door.
If the waves were bigger, or if there were thunderstorms, hail, waterspouts, huge waves... the raft and the cabin would probably be damaged and might even capsize.
However, there are gains and losses. Chen Fa's raft has no so-called usage time. In other words, it is like an ordinary means of transportation stored in her backpack. She can take it out and use it whenever she needs it, no matter whether it is a few days or months. As long as it is not broken, she can use it as long as she wants.
If Chen Fa's raft had not been able to withstand extreme natural disasters, Shu Fu even thought that after completing the mission this time, she could keep Chen Fa and her grandmother and live with her in the uninhabited waters for a few months.
Of course, the prerequisite is that Chen Fa’s grandmother can enter the cabin without being blocked.
In addition, there is another problem. Her drifting island house has an "exclusion" function. At present, she is not sure whether this "exclusion" is aimed at everyone or ordinary people excluding awakened people.
If "xenophobia" is directed at everyone, without opening the drift bottle protective shield, Chen Fa can board the raft, but cannot enter the drifting island house, and may not even be able to enter the eaves.
If they encounter extremely bad weather, they will not be able to take shelter in her drifting island house, not to mention that when she opens the protective cover of the raft, they who are on the deck will even be ejected from the raft in an instant...
**
While Shu Fu was thinking quietly, Chen Fa studied her panel and also found the main and side quests of the world with garbled content. After she clicked on them, the words "System TKSE-21S is missing and there is an error. There are no quests yet" would also appear.
Chen Fa guessed that if the system had no errors and the mission could proceed normally, the raft would likely be upgraded little by little. After all, the hut was now bare and looked a bit desolate.
Shu Fu didn't have time to decorate and arrange the furniture, tables and chairs for Chen Fa, but he could do other things.
She found a storage box in the bracelet space that was less than one cubic meter in size and began to put things in it.
A large bag of dehydrated vegetables, 10 gas cylinders suitable for gas stoves, several unopened boxes of braised duck, husband and wife lung slices and mouth-watering chicken, several boxes of fried pork, several boxes of chicken and mushroom fried rice she made herself, several boxes of dumplings, steamed buns, fried noodles and porridge, several servings of spicy beef rice noodles and braised beef noodles, two boxes of unopened disposable underwear, a bag of paper towels, a bottle of mosquito repellent and insecticide, a bottle of sulfur soap, shower gel and shampoo, two sets of replacement clothes, several packs of sanitary napkins for day and night use, several bags of fruits such as apples, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, oranges, several cups of packaged coffee and milk tea, basic seasonings such as salt, sugar, oil and soy sauce, a bottle of Coca-Cola, boxed milk and coconut water.
As Chen Fa stared in amazement, the glove box quickly filled up.
Shu Fu finally found an opportunity to throw in the bag of gold she had given her before, and added a few more gold bars and gold rings, and finally stuffed in a few cup noodles and a few bags of self-heating rice. At the end, she sighed: "Except for instant noodles, the rest are ready-to-eat foods. Your hut is bare now, and there is no place to cook, so just make do with it. As for this set of camping tables and chairs, leave them here for now. They should be able to be put into the backpack compartment with the raft, so you don't have to sit on the floor next time you come in. And this box, there are too many cooked foods, so you have to put them in the backpack compartment to keep them fresh, and it will also be convenient for taking things out at other times. If you still find it inconvenient and want to separate them, you can sort them out yourself later."
"..." Chen Fa opened his mouth but couldn't say anything for a moment.
She urged Chen Fa to put away the box, and then took out a box of bottled mineral water and asked her to put it in the backpack. A box of water has 24 bottles, all 550 ml. She also has a lot of 5L purified water in her space, but the barrel is too big and not suitable for daily drinking. Bottled water is more low-key.
"Enough, enough!" Seeing that she still wanted to take things, Chen Fa hurriedly stopped her, "We will soon reach the south of Youcheng. I can go there to replenish supplies. It's not easy for you to save these things. Don't give them all to us."
As she spoke, she suddenly realized something and asked, "Will you still be with us when we get to the south of the city?"
If it was before, Chen Fa would never have such a guess.
But after tonight, it was clear that everything was different.
With the appearance of the panel and the golden finger, she suddenly realized that there were some memory fragments in her mind that she had never paid attention to before, and those memories did not belong to this world.
Before the appearance of the golden finger today - that is, before the awakening mentioned by Shu Fu, she never felt that there was anything unreasonable about these memory fragments, until the panel appeared, it was like an epiphany.
She couldn't see her appearance clearly in the memory, only some ordinary fragments of life: she sat on the sofa in the apartment, enjoying the quiet time of reading alone;
She had a dinner with her friends, eating barbecue, and everyone toasted to congratulate her, and seemed very happy;
She was driving at the intersection waiting for the red light, watching the drama trailer on the large advertising screen across the road. It was a popular TV series recently, and it seemed to be a disaster animation. Because the special effects were so realistic and grand, it caused a heated discussion as soon as it was released... But she had never watched the show, and now she couldn't remember what kind of disaster the show was about...
Awakening seemed to make her more perceptive in some ways. She could clearly distinguish which memories were from another world. She didn't know what happened exactly or which world she was from, but she could feel that as time passed, she would definitely get all her memories back bit by bit.
It was an intuition, as if she had sensed something from Shu Fu at this moment.
Shu Fu didn't want to lie to Chen Fa, but she hadn't completed the clocking in yet, and she didn't know if the progress bar would be full this time. If it was full, it would be hard to say how far she could follow them, and she might be left behind at any time.
Finally, she told the truth: "We can only be sure after we get Chengnan."
When she was fixing the boat to hang up, she used her mobile phone to check the downloaded map. Lixiang Wharf was just on the opposite side of the river, so she slightly adjusted the direction of the hang up. After crossing the river, she could go ashore directly from there, which was equivalent to indirectly completing the check-in.
"So, this is a game world?" Chen Fahui asked this because when she was in college, the four girls in her dormitory all played a similar survival game. They started with a backpack and some tools, and then survived in a disaster world. It was too similar to the cheat code she had now.
"I'm not sure, but there's a good chance this answer will work. It's just... you should also have memories of another world, right?"
"Yes." Chen Fa nodded. "Some very ordinary memory fragments, without any useful information. They existed before today, but I only realized today that they were memories from another world."
"I also have memories of that world. Judging from these memories, the gaming technology in that world is far from this level." She stretched out her hand and pinched Chen Fa's face hard. "It hurts, right? That world doesn't even have holographic games, how can it possibly have this kind of technology?"
Chen Fa: ...
**
Fifteen minutes later, four people quietly landed on the land south of the city.
The water level in the south of the city is higher than that in the north. The river bank is gone. The original positioning showed that part of the Lixiang Wharf was already submerged in water. Shu Fu adjusted the boat engine for a long time before he got the raft as close to the land as possible.
She did not put away the boat engine, and was going to give it directly to Chen Fa. The other party's raft had no power and could not move on its own. When it drifted on the water, it was truly drifting with the current, which was much more miserable than hers.
After Shu Fu and Chen Fa went ashore, no one paid attention to the raft anchored on the water. Yue Dong and Xu Tingfeng looked back at the raft several times, but the two people who could enter the cabin did not react. Naturally, they had to give up as they could not even enter the house.
Too many things happened tonight, and they seemed to have symptoms of concussion. They felt very dizzy and even began to suspect that the inability to enter the cabin on the raft just now was an illusion.
Looking around, it was very dark near the river bank, almost the same as the north side of the city, and there were no guards to be seen.
Along the way, they all felt that as long as they reached the south of the city, they would have entered a safe area because there were troops here, even if it was just a small team.
But not long ago, as the raft got closer and closer to the other side, this hope was gradually fading.
It's too dark on the other side of the river. If there are troops and survivors here and it can maintain normal operations, why is there no light at all?
The four of them felt heavy-hearted, but the most important thing at the moment was to find their companions.
They walked along the shallow water along the river bank for a while, and Xu Tingfeng couldn't help but turn around and ask Chen Fa: "Are you sure they have crossed the river?"
Before Chen Fa could say anything, there was a rustling sound coming from the grass in the green area nearby. The four men immediately raised their weapons. The calf-high lush grass not far away trembled, reminding them of the days when they were chased by the strange fish.
Shu Fu quickly took out a flashlight and shone it over. In the rain, among the shaking grass, a wet cat poked its head out, saw them, and meowed at them twice. The four people breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. It wasn't a strange fish, but Xu Jiechu's black and white American shorthair cheese cat.
Sure enough, a moment later, a low voice came from the bushes: "Zhaocai, where are you going again...Brother, is that you?...It's them! It's really them! They made it here alive!"
In the green bushes, someone came running quickly, passed through the others, and accurately hugged Shu Fu, who was walking at the end.
"You made it safely!" Lu Zheng's voice came from above her head, trembling with joy and fear, "I was worried about you..." He was very worried, but because of her instructions, he had to take the others across the river first.
Every second of waiting for her here became especially long. In the newly emerged fragments of memory, he seemed to have waited for her like this before, with trepidation, and more than once.
The images of the memory fragments are still incoherent, but certain emotions overlap and are amplified because of the overlap, making every second of waiting more tormenting.
Fortunately, she was safe.
"I'm fine! Where's grandma Chen Fa?" Shu Fu patted Lu Zheng on the back.
"She's fine, not injured. She's with Xiao Ce and others, taking a break on the second floor of a nearby restaurant. The three of us are waiting for you." The other party let go of her at the right time and turned to check on Xu Tingfeng and Yue Dong.
Xu Jiechu and Jiang Dai were also waiting anxiously. At this moment, they dragged their families to check up and down, and then hurriedly thanked Shu Fu and Chen Fa.
Especially Xu Jiechu. This was the first time since they met. Shu Fu saw him standing respectfully in front of Chen Fa, saying thank you while bowing to her.
"You've changed your personality." Chen Fa laughed.
Xu Jiechu seemed to have really changed. In the past, she would have been furious at Chen Fa's smile, but now she was still respectful: "You saved my brother's life, so you are my sister from now on!"
Chen Fa: ...
That's not necessary, she's not that old.
Jiang Dai on the side could understand him. The bus exploded, her teammates died in front of her, other team members were injured, and most importantly, her family was missing. At that moment, she absolutely did not want to experience that anxious but helpless feeling again.
"It's okay, I'm fine, I was just blown away by the gust of wind." Yue Dong hugged his wife to comfort her. In fact, he had many scratches and bruises on his body. In addition to the concussion, dizziness and nausea, his hands, feet, joints and waist and back were all in great pain, but he would definitely not show these to make her worry.
While they were reminiscing about the past, Lu Zheng quickly told Shu Fu and Chen Fa about the situation over there.
They were driving fast, and when they were about to reach the river bank, they were attacked by snipers at a similar position on another street.
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