Chapter 84 Boundary Line
After several days of driving and half a day's journey, the waterproof boots on her feet were covered with all kinds of mud and stains that could not be washed away even by rain. She walked on the wet and soft ground to the side of the raft, first threw the backpack in front of her onto the raft, and then climbed up in a very ugly posture.
Although the action was ugly, it kept the raft deck clean. She turned around and sat on the edge of the deck, took off her boots directly, took out an old brush, and began to brush her boots vigorously using the rain outside the raft's protective cover.
A moment later she put her clean boots and brush on the deck, picked up her backpack, and walked into the front eaves.
After being used for a while, the backpack has begun to emit various strange smells. She plans to empty the contents today and throw it directly into the washing machine to wash.
And her raincoat also needed to be rinsed in the shower room. The waterproof sports suit had been worn for nearly a week and already smelled of sweat. After last night, there were some other strange smells. Not only did it need to be washed, but it had to be washed repeatedly.
Shu Fu unmoored the raft and let it drift freely on the huge lake. He then equipped it with an electric card, turned on the washing machine, and began to clean itself.
Half an hour later, Shu Fu, who was fragrant and clean from head to toe, came out of the bathroom in slippers, and then used the "one-click dust removal" function on the function screen. The almost non-existent dust in the raft and the dirt that she might have brought in when she entered the house were all cleaned up.
She walked barefoot to the living room in front, leaped somersault, and threw herself onto the soft sofa, flapping her arms and legs with joy.
For her, at this moment, it was like the long period of overtime work was finally coming to an end, and the wonderful time of lying down had begun again!
And this time, she is not the only one left in the world.
Although we don’t know when the last mission will come, and how long Chen Fa, Lu Zheng and others will stay in the nearby military academy shelter, there is a time to meet, a time to part, and a time to meet again. No matter what the current situation is, living well in every moment is the most important thing.
She has guests coming to her house tomorrow, and she plans to treat them to barbecue, so she won’t eat today. After thinking about it, she finally decided to have hotpot, and it’s the kind of bone soup and spicy hotpot!
A moment later, Shu Fu opened the front door. Outside the protective cover, the rain had gotten heavier. The raft had drifted to the center of the lake. From this angle, the raft was located between the mountains, surrounded by large tracts of dark green slopes. The rain splashed countless water splashes on the clear dark lake surface, and even stirred up a light mist near the lakeshore.
The surrounding land was looming among the water splashes and mist, a distance that was both far and near. She could let the raft drift there at any time, and could always maintain this distance. This was her favorite way of getting along with the world.
She first cast the automatic water fishing rod. Although she knew that this was a lake and she could only harvest some aquatic products at most, this golden finger had not been used for a long time, so she still wanted to use it to make it have some presence.
Afterwards, she set up an extra table next to the small camping table under the eaves, and began to put things on it: an electric rice cooker with two kinds of soup bases, beef and lamb rolls, tripe, baby cabbage, kelp seedlings, shrimps, cuttlefish, oyster mushrooms, vermicelli... and several of her favorite seasonings and chopped green onions, garlic and coriander.
Compared to the hot pot gift pack I had won before, there weren’t many types of dishes here. But for someone who had been eating instant food for more than a month, each of the fresh ingredients in front of him had an extremely tempting luster.
Of course, hot pot should be accompanied by a glass of Happy Fat House Water, and paired with a light-hearted and funny variety show. Shu Fu poured Coke into a cup filled with ice cubes, listened to the sizzling sound made by the collision of soda and ice cubes, and unconsciously curled up the corners of her lips.
The fatty beef and mutton are fresh, salty and spicy, the tripe is crispy, and the vegetables and mushrooms are put in the non-spicy bone soup pot. You can also drink a bowl of delicious bone soup while eating.
If you don’t want to eat some dishes halfway through, you can just put them on the storage shelf in the space. If you suddenly want to eat some other stir-fried or braised dishes, you can take them out, eat a few bites, and put them back in.
It was pouring rain in the mountain lake, and she was sitting on a raft that was isolated from the rain. While enjoying the pure natural scenery, she was in a safe house that was beyond real technology and had space for supplies. Therefore, even if she was trapped in the suburbs of Youcheng and couldn't get out, it was not a big deal for her.
After the meal, she cleaned up the pots and pans, dealt with the garbage, and closed the raft's protective cover. This was on the lake, and a small, slowly drifting raft was not a strange or out-of-place thing.
Shu Fu had been wandering outside for a while and had just returned to a safe home. She didn't want to think about anything or do anything for the time being. She just wanted to lie down and read a book, play stand-alone games, listen to music, and watch movies, TV series and variety shows.
She put a lounge chair under the eaves of the front door, and placed a cup of coconut iced latte she had just made, a portion of matcha and red bean snow meringue, a box of jackfruit, and a box of crispy fried duck tongues on the table next to her. Then she turned on a refreshing drama about rebirth and revenge, and began to lie down and live her daily life.
Because the raft's protective cover was turned off, when she occasionally adjusted the position of her feet on the lounge chair, they would accidentally extend outside the eaves and be exposed to the heavy rain outside the eaves.
The temperature outside is around 15 degrees, which is 10 degrees lower than under the eaves. The rain is clear and cool, and it feels quite comfortable to get wet barefoot.
Shu Fu moved her toes, then retracted her feet under the eaves where the temperature was just right. After a while, she stretched her feet out again to feel the cool rain, enjoying it never tired.
Lu Zheng was right. These annoying, incessant rains were indeed a source of inspiration for her in the past, especially when she sat in front of the glass of her apartment, looking at the bustling city with neon lights on through the floor-to-ceiling windows covered with water marks, various scenes would always flash through her mind.
To some extent, she is a contradictory person. She likes traveling and seeing the scenery along the way, but at the same time she hopes to return to her comfortable home every night and sleep in her familiar bed.
So she has always wanted to have a portal, to work at home for three hours in the morning, to have lunch at an ecological restaurant in the mountains at noon, to have a fine afternoon tea in the city in the afternoon, to watch the sunset and have a barbecue at the beach in the evening, and to rest at home at night...
Now, she has a "door to anywhere" in another sense. When she is on land, she carries her home with her. When she is on water, her home carries her. It is perfect!
Shu Fu ate, drank and lay down all afternoon. She was not hungry at dinner time. Finally, she found a pot of silver carp head and vermicelli soup on the shelf. This was the soup she cooked in Suicheng last year. Because she ate too much, she didn't finish it.
She scooped out a bowl, put the rest back into the space, then took out some sea urchin and salmon sashimi and had a healthy dinner that wouldn't make her gain weight.
At night, she closed the front and back doors and went back to lying on the cushion next to the floor-to-ceiling window. During that time, she suddenly remembered her three new chances to win the lottery.
She originally wanted to wait until the next task was completed, then accumulate more draw times to draw together. It would have been fine if she hadn't thought about it at first, but once she thought about it, she started to feel itchy.
On the one hand, her mind told her that the more times she drew the lottery, the easier it would be to get a high-level prize. On the other hand, she felt like a hundred ants were crawling in her heart, and she persuaded herself that three consecutive draws were considered a relatively high number of draws, so she could try her luck...
Finally, she gave herself a reason to use up these three draws: tomorrow is the first time that "Little Cutie" entertains guests, and normally as the host, she has to buy some food in advance. Now conditions do not allow for it and there is no supermarket to go to, so she will draw a prize to see if she can get some supplies...
Shu Fu convinced herself, washed her hands and applied some perfume, then lit the scented candles and started the ritual lottery.
First turn, green second prize: raft extended use card (one week).
Shu Fu: ...
The award was a good one, but she was a little disappointed.
Seeing that the raft was about to be upgraded to level four, with every upgrade, the daily usage time of the raft would definitely increase. Now it could be used for 20 hours a day. When it reached level four, she guessed that the daily usage time should be able to reach 24 hours a day.
Drawing a one-week extension card at this time seems a bit useless.
It would be great if it was a red or blue reward of the same level. The blue second prize is not given out often, but it is super useful every time.
Second turn, red third prize: Sichuan cuisine gift pack x 10.
This was a good luck. The last time she drew this Sichuan cuisine gift pack was when she was in Suicheng. There were more than 30 dishes in it, and she had already eaten them all. The dishes were all delicious. Although she also bought a lot of delicious stir-fried dishes when she was in Louyun City, she would eventually run out of them if she only spent money.
The planet is in chaos now, and major cities are gradually collapsing. In the future, even if she wants to stock up on ready-made dishes like this, she will have nowhere to buy them. In some places, she is not even sure about the source of the ingredients for sale.
Now the gift packs are available, delicious and safe.
Third turn, blue fourth prize: external wooden ladder.
Shu Fu felt like her dream had come true. Although this was only a fourth prize, it was also on her list of home furnishings.
After she received the prize, she opened the front and back doors to check. The wooden ladder appeared on the deck on the left side of the front door eaves. There was a wooden staircase with handrails on both sides, leading directly to the platform above the roof.
However, this staircase, like the deck of the raft, is located outside the eaves, so if the protective cover is not turned on, it will be wetted by the rain outside.
Now that there are stairs and enough wooden fences, Shu Fu decided to decorate the terrace area.
She immediately opened the raft's protective cover to isolate the entire raft from the rain, then returned to the function screen and clicked "Manual Reconstruction", opened the 3D stereoscopic image of the drifting island house, and arranged the raft fence that she had drawn earlier along the upper floor of the cabin and the eaves area. Finally, she left a hole in the lower left corner of the back door's eaves, and then moved the wooden ladder that was originally connected to the front door's eaves to the left side of the back door's eaves.
In this way, the view of the front door eaves will still not be blocked, and the opening will be left at the back door eaves. When the raft is moving, the upper space will be more like the upper observation deck of a yacht.
After the renovation was completed, she exited the function screen, found a pair of plastic slippers from the shoe cabinet next to the back door, and went up to the upper floor of the wooden house via the wooden stairs that had been moved to the right position.
Sure enough, with stairs and sufficient fences, the entire upper roof is like an exquisite small terrace. The compressed space is not effective on the roof. The entire terrace plus the top of the eaves of the front and back doors is only nine to ten square meters, but it is enough to use.
Shu Fu immediately took out the lounge chair and round table and tried out the terrace.
As she lay there looking at the night sky, she could see the rain falling on the protective cover, as if there was a layer of invisible glass covering the entire terrace. It must have felt better to lie here and look at the stars when it wasn't raining.
It’s a pity that when the protective cover is closed, this place will be surrounded by heavy rain, and strong winds will blow things away, so no furniture or anything can be left here.
But she has space and can take it at any time, which is quite convenient.
Shu Fu lay on the terrace for a while, the raft carrying her slowly drifting on the lake. The lake was very empty, and the surrounding mountains and fields were dark and silent, which made her feel unsafe. She quickly packed up the table and chairs and returned to the house on the drifting island.
The room was lit with a cozy and peaceful warm orange light. After Shu Fu finished washing up, she climbed up to the small wooden bed and buried herself in the comfortable and soft quilt. Then she picked up the book on the bedside table, turned on the bedside lamp, and began her reading time before going to bed.
**
During the days she lived in the salt lake, although she would quietly place the raft into the drifting island house to rest and cook every night, the golden finger was still a secret at that time, so she would set the alarm every day and return to the container house early.
And today, it was like the first holiday in a long time that belonged entirely to her without an alarm clock. At around six in the morning, she woke up due to her biological clock, went to the bathroom, and then climbed back into bed and fell asleep.
She slept until after ten o'clock. She thought that there were still two hours until noon, so she could watch the variety show while washing up and eating breakfast. Just after brushing her teeth, she heard the sound of a horn coming from the lakeshore.
With a beef and egg sandwich in her mouth and a cup of latte in her hand, she hurriedly opened the front door and looked toward the lake. She found an old jeep parked there. The driver's and passenger's doors were opened at the same time. Lu Zheng and Chen Fa got out of the car and waved to her in the heavy rain.
Shu Fu also stood under the eaves and waved at them, then took out the map panel, set the lakeshore where they were as the destination, and adjusted the raft's current speed to the highest 60 kilometers.
When Lu Zheng and Chen Fa got back into the car, they thought they would have to wait for a while, but they found that the raft that was originally floating in the center of the lake was riding the wind and waves towards the shore at the speed of a speedboat, and it would arrive in a moment.
The lakeshore was all wetlands, and Shu Fu's raft could not reach the shore completely. Chen Fa and Lu Zheng had already anticipated this situation, so when they saw Shu Fu's raft coming quickly, Lu Zheng got out of the car, took out the raft, and placed it on the muddy wetlands.
The two men walked onto the raft, took off their shoes, and placed both pairs of shoes in a corner of the hut. Then they walked barefoot through the hut to the front of the raft. Chen Fa then took out the raft and placed the tail end against the front of Lu Zheng's raft. In this way, the front end of Chen Fa's raft could just reach the lake. They had essentially built a raft bridge using two rafts.
Shu Fu's raft had slowed down. She stood inside the house, manually adjusting the direction of the raft on the function screen, and moved the front end of her raft closer.
She watched the two men step across two rafts and pass through two huts when she suddenly realized something. She immediately left the hut and shouted to the two men standing barefoot at the front of the raft, "Can awakened people enter other people's raft huts at will?" Although she could enter before, she was different from them after all, so her situation could not be used as a benchmark.
Chen Fa smiled at her and said, "No. We found an open space to take out the raft and study it because it was too early after we entered the mountain. We found that there are still restrictions. However, when the distance between the two rafts is less than a certain distance, our panel will pop up a prompt to ask whether visitors are allowed. If one party agrees, the other party can enter and exit the other party's cabin freely. Now we have both agreed, so both sides can enter."
"This feature is great, but when will the visitor become invalid?"
"The raft will become ineffective if it exceeds a certain distance or is directly folded up." Lu Zheng replied. When he saw the person standing under the eaves of the raft in the heavy rain, he was stunned for a moment, and then his cheeks subconsciously became hot.
Since we met again, we have been running around outside all the time, wearing dark waterproof clothing every day and loose raincoats on the outside. We often have wet hair and look disheveled. Occasionally we encounter danger and are exhausted and covered in dust.
This was the first time in a long time that he saw her with her hair loose and in her home clothes, and it suddenly reminded him of the first time he saw her last year.
She was like this at that time, with fair and clean cheeks, long hair falling on her shoulders, looking soft and smooth, and a lazy and leisurely look.
The front end of Shu Fu's raft gently leaned against the front end of Chen Fa's raft. Compared with their rafts, her raft looked particularly mini, almost half as small in both length and width.
"Come on!" She waved at the two of them and shook the latte in her hand, "Let's have a coffee together!"
"You didn't just get up, did you?" Chen Fa said, and was the first to step onto Shu Fu's raft. "Your raft looks quite new, but it's a little small..."
However, a moment later, the three people discovered a serious problem. Chen Fa and Lu Zheng could not enter Shu Fu's hut, and could not even step into the eaves.
Shu Fu carefully searched the function screen and bracelet several times, but did not see any pop-up asking "Do you want to allow visitors?"
Chen Fa and Lu Zheng looked at Shu Fu, who was busy going in and out but was doing nothing. Shu Fu was also looking at the two guests standing in the heavy rain outside the eaves wearing waterproof jackets. The expressions of the three of them were a little dazed.
The host wanted to entertain the guests, but found that the guests could not even enter the door, no! They could not even enter the eaves.
"Why doesn't my raft have an 'allow visitors' function?" Shu Fu didn't understand.
Chen Fa sighed: "Your raft looks so small, maybe it doesn't have all the functions yet."
Shu Fu: ...
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