Chapter 86 Boundary Line
Chen Fa glanced out the window, found a camping lantern and turned it on. The light didn't look very bright, as if it was running out of power. Shu Fu took this opportunity to take out the home generator that she had wanted to give to Chen Fa before, placed it in a corner of the cabin, turned it on, and indicated to Chen Fa to use it to charge it in the future.
"Although it consumes some fuel, we can't live without electricity. I'll leave this one with you. If Lu Zheng and the others need to charge it, they can use it together." Seeing that Chen Fa was about to refuse, she told her that her raft really didn't need this at the moment, "After all, it's an advanced version that is backward compatible!"
Moreover, she didn't know that the drifting island house would have its own electricity. She bought four such generators in total, gave one to Chen Fa, and had three as spares.
At the side, Lu Ce's voice came: "It turns out it's hail, no wonder the roof makes such a sound!"
He stood in front of the lattice window. Because of the severe storm, he could not see clearly outside. However, at such a close distance, he could feel the crisp sound of hail hitting the window glass. Especially when he put his palm against it, he could feel the vibration from the hail hitting the glass in his palm.
Lu Ce took a closer look, and after a moment he turned back to say to the others: "It's raining hailstones bigger than eggs outside!"
Shu Fu was the first to react. He said, "Your car." He stood up and opened the protective shield. He quickly opened the back door of Chen Fa's raft cabin and walked out, then closed the door behind him.
"Why is she going out now—" Lu Zheng stood up subconsciously, and was stopped by Chen Fa when he wanted to chase her out.
"Don't go out, she's fine." Chen Fa had been protected by Shu Fu's shield before, and knew that she would only do this if she was sure that she could go out. But these were the details of Shu Fu's golden finger. She let her know because she trusted her, but she couldn't tell others about these things casually, just like her gun. She knew that Shu Fu couldn't tell others the specific functions casually.
Outside the cabin, Shu Fu quickly boarded Lu Zheng's raft, passed through his cabin as well, and then arrived at the place where the jeep was parked on the shore. He put the jeep, whose window glass had been cracked by hail, into the last space of his "compressed display cabinet".
There was a severe storm outside. Dark clouds hung in the sky and hail fell along with the wind and rain.
She stopped and felt it, and found that she could feel the touch of hail falling, but the protective shield perfectly absorbed all the impact of the hail, as if countless naughty water droplets fell on her and quickly bounced off.
This protective shield really has a first-class defensive effect.
Shu Fu was very happy to think that once the raft was upgraded to level 4, the function of the portable protective shield would be completely unlocked. Then she would no longer need to rely on luck in the lottery, and she would be able to obtain a stable amount of usage time for the portable protective shield.
Shu Fu closed the door of Lu Zheng's raft cabin and returned to Chen Fa's raft cabin. She came back the same way she had left before. Not only was her body not wet at all, even the slippers on her feet were not dirty.
However, apart from Lu Ce shouting "Sister Fu Fu" and expressing various compliments, no one else said much.
After all, everyone has a golden finger now, and compared to the abilities displayed by Shu Fu, their attention is more focused on the raft cabin at the moment.
The cabins on the two rafts are the same, so the defensive functions that Chen Fa's cabin has are also the same as Lu Zheng's cabin.
They all stood up. Chen Yuezhen went to the corner to check for water leaks, Lu Zheng went to the small lattice window to see if the glass was damaged, and Chen Fa was the most direct. He walked to the door and opened a small gap.
Inside the house, people who had originally only been able to feel the storm and hail outside, immediately felt the obvious shaking and swaying of the raft. If expressed in numbers, the disaster value suddenly rose from 2 to 6.
The rain was blown into the house by the strong wind, like a high-pressure water gun, instantly wetting the area near the door.
Chen Fa quickly closed the door again, and the raft house that had been swaying suddenly became calm again, as if the shock absorber system had been turned on. However, this was different from the shock absorber system, because the people staying in the house did not feel dizzy, but had a more down-to-earth feeling, as if they had suddenly entered a sturdy building from a thatched house that was swaying in the wind and rain.
Soon, Chen Yuezhen and Lu Zheng also finished checking other places.
“The roof doesn’t leak, and the corners don’t seep.”
"The glass windows are fine too. They are stronger than I thought."
Shu Fu also said, "One of the windows of your jeep was cracked by hail."
Lu Ce was a little anxious: "What should we do? With such a big storm and hail, we definitely won't be able to get back before the curfew."
"If you can't make it in time, just stay here. Isn't this a ready-made house?" In Shu Fu's opinion, a shelter is not a home. A raft that can be carried with you all the time is a home. No matter how simple the internal conditions of the hut are at the moment, as long as it can shelter from wind and rain and resist disasters, it is the safest and warmest home.
"That's right." Chen Fa nodded. She had thought wrongly before, thinking that the raft could only play its best role in the water. But in fact, whether on land or in the water, as long as there is enough space, the raft can be placed. Once placed, isn't it a ready-made house?
What's more, today they discovered that as long as the front and back doors are closed, the raft's ability to resist disasters will be improved. This is not just a house, but also a safe house!
"So..." Shu Fu brought the topic back, "Do you want to have a barbecue together tonight?"
**
Half an hour later, Shu Fu took out the kerosene stove that had not been used for a long time. A baking tray was placed on the top. The lamb skewers on it were oozing oil and the color was gradually turning brown. With the sprinkling of cumin powder and chili powder, the unique and tempting barbecue aroma that struck the soul also spread.
There was a storm and hail outside today, and the temperature dropped to eleven or twelve degrees. The hut is disaster-resistant but the temperature is not constant, so it felt a little cold. But at this moment, several people were sitting around the kerosene stove, and their faces were rosy from the warm fire.
On the camping table nearby, grilled meat, vegetables and seasonings were laid out.
Shu Fu didn't have too many fancy dishes. It mainly had lamb skewers, chicken wings, pork belly, steak, squid tentacles skewers, and scallops, which were some of the kinds of meat that people could eat in big bites. The vegetables were lettuce leaves, as well as eggplant, shiitake mushrooms, and enoki mushrooms that could be grilled.
But even so, they were greatly shocked, especially Chen Yuezhen and Lu Ce. They thought that the milk tea and cake they drank in the afternoon were the end of the universe...
Lu Ce even began to feel a little embarrassed. When the cooked lamb skewers were placed on the disposable paper plate in front of him, he did not rush to eat them. Instead, he ran to his brother's side, leaned over and whispered in his ear, asking him to look in the backpack to see if there was anything edible that he had found at the school market yesterday. His sister Fu Fu had already spent all her money to treat them to dinner, so they couldn't be stingy!
"Brother, where's the soda? I saw you had some soda when you were sorting your supplies last night!"
"That was given by Shu Fu..."
"Then...what about that frozen pizza? That's good too, we can just heat it up and eat it!"
"Shu Fu gave it to me."
"What about... candy?"
"…It was also given by Shu Fu."
"..." Lu Ce was very confused. He didn't ask about the other fried chicken, Sichuan dishes, hamburgers and sandwiches. They were all instant food, some of which were still hot. It was obvious that they were given by Shu Fu. By this calculation, most of the delicious food at his brother's place was given by Shu Fu! He looked at Lu Zheng with a bit of resentment, "Brother, why do you look a bit like the little white face who has no ability and is kept by Sister Fu Fu?"
"Puff——" Shu Fu sprayed a mouthful of coconut milk.
Lu Zheng's cheeks were a little hot, half of which was because he was angry at his unreliable brother, and the other half was naturally because he was annoyed by the phone being pressed against his face.
But in the end, Lu Zheng did take out something good, a bottle of wine bought from the trade fair, a very expensive vintage in the past. The owner brought it with him when he took refuge here, and he originally wanted to drink it himself, but his wife had a premature birth recently, and the baby was born and there were various shortages, so he needed more points to exchange for other things, so he took out the wine.
This bottle of wine used to cost more than 100,000 yuan, but now no one is willing to exchange it because the exchange points are slightly more, and the wine is not filling, and it is not white wine or yellow wine. White wine can disinfect and sterilize, and yellow wine can cook, but what can wine do? For facial care?
Finally, Lu Zheng replaced the bottle of wine.
Because when he saw the wine, some memory fragments flashed through his mind. It seemed that Shu Fu was standing diagonally opposite him, smiling triumphantly, as if her long-term efforts had finally been noticed. At that time, her slender white fingertips were holding a red wine glass...
Yes, she had appeared more than once in his memory fragments, and her clothing had also changed significantly.
Most of the time she was dressed very simply, with her hair tied up casually, no makeup, and always wearing a baseball cap. There were many people around her, and the noise was very noisy. She was in and out, blending in with the crowd, but her overly white cheeks and arms still made him recognize her at a glance...
He seemed to have been staring at her for a long time. He didn't know why. He could only watch her and couldn't get too close. The reason was not because of her, but because of himself...
He also kept hearing a stern voice warning him in his ear, saying "Rising period, rising period, absolutely not!" "No to what?" He couldn't remember.
But obviously, compared to the scenes in those memory fragments, being able to sit beside her, chat and eat with her, and do some very ordinary things like this, was once out of his reach...
Shu Fu knew a little about wine, and said that if we wanted to drink from this bottle, even if we didn't use a wine glass, we couldn't use a disposable cup, so she took out a few glasses as a token of her respect.
Lu Ce breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Shu Fu seemed to like the wine that Lu Zheng brought out.
A few people had eaten and drunk in the afternoon, so they were not that hungry at the moment. They were just greedy. The aroma of the barbecue was too tempting. Even Chen Yuezhen, who had rarely eaten barbecue before at his age, couldn't help but eat some steak and lamb skewers.
Lanlan also got some barbecue, which was given to it by Chen Fa. But it was the cat that once blocked bullets for her, so it was naturally treated differently.
Finally, Shu Fu removed the baking tray, replaced the top cover of the kerosene stove, and served a small pot of light bamboo fungus and chicken soup. She turned down the heat, and let the soup simmer slowly. Those who wanted to drink it could use disposable brown paper bowls.
The hail and storm outside lasted for several hours. They could hear the whistling wind, the sound of heavy rain falling on the lake, and the sound of large hail hitting the raft and the cabin. The crackling sound was enough to be considered white noise without affecting the people inside the house.
By nine o'clock in the evening, the hail had stopped and the storm had become much smaller. After finishing a bottle of wine, Chen Yuezhen was drunk and felt sleepy. She went to the cubicle and scooped water from the folding bucket with a newly replaced basin. She washed herself simply and went to sleep on the floor on the other side.
There was still half of the chicken soup left, and Shu Fu asked Chen Fa to put it directly into the backpack. The soup could be added with some noodles to make a bowl of chicken noodle soup tomorrow morning, or the dumplings could be fried and eaten together.
"You should go back and have a rest. You have been with us all day. Even if we come over in the future, you don't have to spend time with us. After all, it is more comfortable to stay in your own room." Chen Fa asked Shu Fu to put away the kerosene stove and go back first. He and the Lu Zheng brother cleaned up the garbage.
Shu Fu drank a few glasses of wine and felt sleepy. Because the hail had stopped and the rain had subsided, she went to the other end of the raft and released the jeep toward the shore. She told them that if the weather got worse again in the middle of the night, they should call her on the satellite phone and she would come to collect the car.
Afterwards, she held up an umbrella and released her raft, and returned to her home.
As she stood under the eaves closing her umbrella, she turned around to look at Chen Fa and Lu Zheng's raft. This time, because the angle at which she placed her raft just happened to form an L-shape with their two rafts, she could clearly see inside the other hut through the lattice windows on the side of the hut.
At first, only the raft hut in front was lit with a faint warm yellow light. Then, she saw Lu Zheng and Lu Ce running quickly back to their own raft hut, and Lu Ce even waved at her on the way.
After the two entered the house, a faint orange-yellow light soon lit up inside.
The light coming through the windows of the two raft cabins was very dim, small but warm in the dark mountains.
Shu Fu put her umbrella under the eaves, smiled, and went back to her own house on the drifting island. She took a hot shower, changed her clothes, climbed into bed, watched a TV series for a while, and soon fell asleep.
When she woke up the next day, she was the only raft left on the lake. Chen Fa, Lu Zheng and the others must have woken up early and discovered that it was raining light, so they packed up and went back to the shelter.
Shu Fu found a message from the other party on the satellite phone. The main meaning was similar to what she guessed. Because the weather conditions were still good, she would return to the military academy shelter first. If she had any problems, she should remember to call them directly.
**
The days that followed became very peaceful.
Lu Zheng and Chen Fa would visit her every two to three days, but not always together. Lu Zheng came to see her alone and mentioned some scenes in the memory fragments to her.
Shu Fu has basically confirmed that he is one of the artists she has worked with before, and it was when she was writing a movie script for real-life shooting.
But who exactly is he and why did he come to this world? Since he currently cannot remember his name and appearance in that world, he is still confused about a lot of important information, and Shu Fu is even less likely to know.
Especially the occasion he was talking about, she had no impression of her high-spirited smile at all.
As far as I can remember, she has always been a third-tier screenwriter. She had just finished writing the outline for her first independent project when she traveled through time. How could she be so high-spirited and energetic?
Most of Chen Faxin’s memory fragments are repetitive. Or maybe they are not repetitive, but because he lives a similar life every day, going between the company and home, so it feels like repetition.
However, neither of them could remember any specific information, and they couldn't find many useful clues based on these fragments of memory that couldn't be put together.
Every time they came, they would launch a raft and spend the night by the lake, and Shu Fu was happy to have a place to stay for four hours a day. She didn't have to use her time-delay card or hide in a small hut with broken doors and windows on the slope.
Sometimes when it rains lightly, Lu Zheng will go fishing with a fishing rod.
Shu Fu knew how to use a lure rod. I explained the details to him for the first time and taught him the technique of casting the rod, and he quickly mastered it.
He had no psychological barriers to fish, and since the fish were caught with the Gold Finger tool fishing rod, he felt more at ease. So he put all the fish he caught into a cardboard box, and then put the cardboard box into his backpack to keep it fresh, and used it as a food supply reserve for him and his teammates.
However, this kind of fishing rod is far slower than her automatic water fishing rod in catching fish, and it can only catch one fish at a time. If it is not operated properly, the fish will escape. When Shu Fu can't stand it, she will secretly throw a few fish into the cardboard box where he puts the fish when he is fishing.
Of course, fishing with a lure rod is a full experience.
Shu Fu watched it several times and felt a little itchy, so she took Lu Zheng's fishing rod, but found that it was impossible to use it. Not only that, she also tried to use his axe and filter, but the axe was so blunt in her hand that it couldn't split anything, and the filter didn't work at all.
It seems that the only thing that she, a backward-compatible manager, can be compatible with is their raft cabin.
Chen Fa still had a psychological barrier towards fish, but it was a pity for her not to use the fishing rod, which was her golden finger tool, at all, so not long after, she also started fishing, and similarly stored the fish she caught in cardboard boxes, preparing to take them to the market in the shelter to exchange for other things later.
About half a month later, Chen Fa, Lu Zheng and Xu Tingfeng came together. This time there were more people, so they drove two cars in total. The new car was a pickup truck, which was said to be a reward from the army. There were also a lot of things wrapped in waterproof tarpaulin in the truck bed.
The two bottles of red liquid they handed in were indeed sent back to the large force in Xiangzhou Province by the troops using drones. The research conditions there were better, and they actually managed to develop something.
The red liquid seemed to be a gland produced by Tang Ping after he experimented with various drugs on patients with gray scab, but this method of obtaining the gland would double the patient's pain.
As for why the strange fish hates and fears this liquid, it is speculated that it should be related to the species hierarchy suppression in nature. For example, tiger urine contains a special smell and chemical composition that can effectively drive away other wild animals. And the glands produced by gray scab patients also have a similar effect on strange fish. But this is only a guess at present, and the specific situation is still under study.
The breakthrough was that just two days ago, they used the blood, cells and pus samples of gray scab patients at hand to simulate the production of a red liquid with similar effects, and officially named it fish repellent.
However, due to the small number of samples from patients with gray scab, the number of samples produced is limited and is not enough for use.
The reason for the formation of that strange fish is also under study. Currently, researchers have two theories: a new species and a mutation of the original species.
They also have a new name, called the amphibious man-eating jumping fish, which is a very straightforward name. In addition, they have another nickname - Hexi strange fish. Because tracing back to their origin, the place where they first appeared and landed was the Hexi town.
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