Chapter 91 Boundary Line
Is that a fighter plane?
This was the first time in Shu Fu's life that she had seen a fighter plane in combat in real life. She had only seen it on TV screens before, whether in her original world or this world.
She didn't expect an explosion of this magnitude to be so loud. The raft was already far away from there, but she could still clearly hear the roar of the shells.
It seems that the authorities have finally freed up their hands to deal with the illegal organizations in the Northern Plateau?
There are also patients with ichthyosis in this city. So far, no medicine has been developed to cure this disease, and no one knows how to deal with it in the future... Somehow, Shu Fu suddenly thought of a possibility, and then this terrible idea was suppressed by herself.
It's not the end of the road yet, so I shouldn't be so desperate...
But in any case, after the north of the city was breached, the troops should also move into the south of the city at the same time. In the face of a large number of hot weapons and professional equipment, the attack power of the Hexi monster fish is not worth mentioning. The official will most likely set up a research institute at a higher altitude in Youcheng, after all, there are research samples everywhere.
If she didn't leave in the next few days, it would be very difficult to travel by land and she would be easily discovered. Fortunately, she left early because of the mission and now she has entered the completely safe waterway.
Just seeing the soldiers inevitably reminded her of the other two people. She didn't know where they were carrying out their mission now, or whether they were safe. Especially Cheng Yu, did he survive?
As they were also mission-related objects, she guessed that they would also awaken the golden finger. She hoped that the next time they met, she would have two more companions.
She put away the telescope, stopped looking in the direction of Youcheng, went down the wooden stairs and returned to the house on the drifting island.
About half an hour later, the raft began to shake slightly. She leaned over to the French window and looked out, and found that the nearby water flow had become more turbulent, and the water quality had become turbid because of this turbulence. The tall buildings on both sides of the shore were no longer visible, and the only bungalows were almost submerged in the surging river water, leaving only a shallow roof.
Large tracts of fields, orchards and various farms in the eastern suburbs have been completely submerged by the overflowing river water. The land on the shore has become a shallow wetland. Many tall trees are still half exposed above the water, looking like aquatic plants.
These shallow wetlands formed by river flooding appear calm on the surface, but are actually filled with all kinds of garbage, building debris, metal wreckage, animal and human corpses, as well as strange Hexi fish that may appear at any time and bite you hard from hiding in unknown places.
The speed of the raft was getting faster and faster, which was caused by the water current. She roughly guessed that the gap in the dam would be some distance ahead.
Sure enough, not long after, huge rubble appeared in the water around the raft. The raft flexibly passed through the rubble, automatically avoiding every obstacle. These huge rubbles were the walls of the dam that had collapsed after being damaged.
Because of these huge pieces of rubble, the surrounding water currents collided with each other, forming a large turbulent water vortex. The raft began to shake more and more, as if it was drifting in a turbulent stream in the mountains and wilderness. Because of the protective cover, this kind of shaking had very little impact on her in the drifting island house.
Comparing the feeling of that world-destroying tsunami, it was like a huge pendulum spinning 360 degrees in the air, and now this is a children's track roller coaster that can be ridden by people under 1.2 meters tall.
Having experienced the first one, you will basically have no feelings about the second one.
Shu Fu leaned back on the soft sofa opposite the coffee table, opened the book that she had thrown on the sofa, found the page she had read before, and continued to enjoy the quiet and comfortable reading time to the sound of soft music.
By lunch time, the raft had officially entered the upper reaches of the Qing River. The water in this area has a high sand content and is particularly turbid. The two banks are all barren Gobi Desert. The soil is mainly gravel and sand, which is not suitable for planting or building houses. Most of the vegetation is thorny shrubs.
Although she had never been to the Beidi Plateau and had never seen it with her own eyes, she had seen some photos and videos of this place on TV or on the Internet before. She had the impression that both banks of this water area were of some height. But now, the river bank, like the eastern suburbs of Youcheng, has become very unclear.
Qinghe River is like a canal that is constantly filled with water. The water in the canal rises too quickly and there is no time to drain the water. Or perhaps it is because the pond at the end of the canal is also returning water, so the soil on both sides of the canal has all turned into wetlands.
The water level in the wetland here should not be deep, and you can still see the tops of some shrubs, but the color of the wetland is very turbid, which is caused by the soil.
Because the water flow nearby was gentle, Shu Fu moved her lunch to the terrace and had a light and stomach-nourishing beef hotpot. She used oxtail bones to make the soup base. Half of the pot was original soup and the other half was water. She took out several plates of beef slices from different parts, as well as refreshing chrysanthemums, sliced shiitake mushrooms, and a dish of her own secret sauce made with soy sauce, sesame sauce, and garlic sauce.
She had some fruit before the meal so she wasn't too hungry. She ordered the hotpot to match the scenery along the coast and create an atmosphere. She ate slowly and leisurely.
For Shu Fu, the more than 30 hours of rafting on the Qinghe River was very similar to cruising the river on a cruise ship in the past.
Along the way, the raft started from Youcheng, the uppermost part of Qinghe River, and first headed east. After passing the gap in the dam, it turned to the northeast, passed through Lucheng and Hexi towns, and then meandered east. After traveling for a distance, it changed direction to the southeast, taking an inconspicuous curve, and finally left the Beidi Plateau area and merged into a large body of water from the river outlet.
If everything goes well, we will arrive at the old site of Yuncheng around four o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Shu Fu took out her cell phone and took some photos and videos of the hot pot, the terrace and the river from different angles. She planned to show Chen Fa and Lu Zheng the scenery next time she met them, and to show them where her raft had drifted.
In the future, this kind of scenery will completely disappear as the water level of Qinghe River continues to rise sharply. By then, there will be no Qinghe River in the Northland Plateau. The river will expand and become swamps, wetlands, lakes, and finally a boundless ocean.
However, the entire transformation process will not be as fast as Suicheng which was submerged by floods or Louyun City which was swallowed by the world-destroying tsunami. It will probably take a long time. During this period of transformation, large areas of land on both sides of the Qinghe River will turn into wetlands and swamps.
As for the means of transportation she currently has, cars can drive on land and rafts can drift in waters, but if they encounter endless wetlands and swamps, cars cannot pass through wetlands and rafts are likely to run aground. As for swamps, no means of transportation can do anything.
She guessed that this was one of the reasons why she was given this mission. She had to leave here before the situation in the Northland Plateau got worse and return to the deep water area where the raft could move freely.
Before, she came here through the temporary waterway like an expatriate job, and now the work period is over, she has to go back.
She may not be able to stay there for long, as there will be a new job location where she will need to rush to.
Therefore, this return trip may very well be her last encounter with the Northern Plateau.
She planned to record every different scenery along the coast. Whether beautiful, desolate, dilapidated or chaotic, they were all proof of the existence of this plateau.
Although there are no people around, it is desolate and lonely, but this desolation is also an extremely shocking and attractive aspect of nature.
Before long, the heavy rain turned into a storm. Countless lightning bolts streaked across the sky far away from the river bank and exploded at the end of the vast Gobi Desert. It was a rare scene. The thunderstorm and the desert unfolded a magnificent creation of nature before her.
She hid in the safe protective cover of the raft, sat next to the fence, and watched the scene with shock on her face, filming it all with the mobile phone in her hand.
**
At around three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, the raft crossed the intersection of the river and the large body of water and officially left the Northland Plateau.
The hills that she had previously crossed through the makeshift waterway had completely disappeared under the surging water level, leaving only scattered "islands", some of which still had trees growing on them, while others were left with only bare rocks.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the raft stopped at the destination. At the same time, the bracelet vibrated, and the reminder that the mission was completed came very quickly.
[Complete the Yuncheng check-in task within 3 days, and obtain a 5% progress bar for level 4 of the raft; obtain 10 wheel draws. (Current progress of level 4 of the raft: 100%)]
[Congratulations! The raft has been upgraded to level 4! ]
[You can view the raft level 4 function in the "Unsinkable Drifting Island House". 】
Another ten-draw streak!
Shu Fu was overjoyed, and then she felt the light and shadow drifting into the house change for a moment, which meant that something had changed inside the house. She immediately began to check the house and found that the internal structure had not changed, but the overall size seemed to have increased, especially the two floor-to-ceiling windows, which were more open on both sides, and the view outside when people were in the house became better.
The front and rear doors have also changed from pure wood to wooden frames with inlaid glass. Like the floor-to-ceiling windows, they are clear when viewed from the inside out, and frosted glass when viewed from the outside in.
The wooden door has been replaced with a glass door, which not only provides better lighting but also a better view. Even if the door is not opened, one can check the front and rear directions of the raft at a glance by standing inside the door. It will also be more convenient to temporarily change the direction of the raft while it is traveling in the future without having to open and close the door.
The bathroom and kitchen, along with their existing furnishings, have also become larger. The furniture and appliances she placed in these two spaces were originally a bit crowded, but now there is some free space, making them look more comfortable.
The original furniture of the Drifting Island House has undergone some subtle changes, becoming larger, with more cabinets and better-looking shapes.
Especially the wooden tub in the shower room, which was automatically placed because it was a lottery product, has also grown along with the bathroom, from a small circle to a large oval. In addition to wooden steps for sitting and pillows for the head when taking a bath, there is also a mobile bathtub shelf with an operating screen on the side.
This shelf is bigger than the one she bought herself. It has a special area for clipping plates, which can hold more things. The wooden barrel can also be adjusted to various modes, such as hot spring mode, bubble bath mode, tidal mode...
You can imagine how comfortable it will be to take a bath in the future.
In addition, she found that the wooden walls and floors of the entire Drifting Island House had subtle color changes. The original wood-colored wall panels and floors seemed to be coated with a layer of transparent glaze, and felt smoother and harder to the touch.
This change is not obvious, but the texture and strength of the entire room have undergone a qualitative leap silently.
Compared to the last time he upgraded the raft to level 3, Shu Fu was much calmer this time. He did not rush to open the function screen to check the list of upgraded functions. Instead, he carefully checked every corner of the drifting island house.
The small split-level living room has better lighting because the floor-to-ceiling windows are wider, and the underwater bedroom remains the same as before, with basically no changes.
A surprise appeared outside the Drifting Island house. Under the eaves outside the front door, the more than one-meter-high wooden fence was originally a hollow wooden fence, but now there is glass in the middle of the wooden fence, alternating between glass and log-colored wooden strips, and the texture is immediately doubled.
The same goes for the fence under the eaves of the back door. Glass appears between the wooden fences to better protect the left and right sides of the eaves.
In the past, when the protective cover was not turned on, she had to be careful not to drop anything on the ground when she ate under the eaves, because the fence was a hollow wooden fence. If something rolled, it would roll directly from the middle of the wooden fence onto the raft.
Now the appearance of glass fills the hollow parts, making the entire eaves feel more secure.
There were also smooth, new inlaid glass between the wooden handrails on both sides of the wooden stairs outside the eaves of the back door. She quickly thought of the roof terrace and walked up the stairs quickly. After only a few steps, she noticed the changes in the roof.
I don’t know if it has something to do with the fact that she fenced off the entire roof terrace, but this upgrade now has a fully glass balcony on the back half of the terrace.
The glass first fills all the hollow parts of the fence, and then continues upward along the top of the fence at the rear end of the terrace, forming a glass wall, glass roof and glass sliding door behind the entire terrace.
This glass balcony is about 2 meters high, just like a glass cover is added to separate two-thirds of the space on the terrace. The entrance door is at the entrance of the wooden staircase. It is a glass sliding door with the same width as the stairs. On the other side is a double-opening glass sliding door. After going out, you will see the front of the terrace.
Because the entire balcony is made of glass, it will not affect the surrounding vision at all. However, Shu Fu suddenly thought, will the glass balcony have the protection function of the house because it becomes a part of the drifting island house?
This didn't affect her, but if the house also had the protective function, next time they met Chen Fa and Lu Zheng, they would not be able to stay on this terrace, the only place they could stay.
She looked around the water. Yuncheng had completely sunk into the water. The surrounding area was like a vast ocean. There were no buildings or people, only some remaining floating objects. She quickly closed the protective shield on the bracelet.
The heavy rain that was originally blocked by the protective cover immediately fell on the glass roof of the terrace, making a crackling and noisy sound. The wooden stairs were wet, and the front half of the terrace was also wet. She stepped forward and opened the glass sliding door, and the rain outside immediately poured in. She was caught off guard and was splashed in the face. She quickly closed the sliding door again.
Although she was soaked, Shu Fu was very happy. It seemed that although there was a glass balcony here, it still did not belong to the interior of the drifting island house and did not have the protection against disasters, constant temperature and xenophobia.
This means that her friends can still come up to visit, and compared to before, there is a glass balcony to protect against the rain. Even if it rains outside, they can gather in this small space to drink afternoon tea and eat some barbecue.
It is also very convenient for her. After all, she had to open the protective cover when she wanted to go to the terrace before, but now she doesn’t need to do that because this place has become half an indoor space.
But in just a moment, Shu Fu had already figured out how to decorate this place. She wanted to put out a standing water bar and taller bar tables and bar chairs, and turn this place into a coffee and beverage leisure area, which was probably equivalent to a second-floor leisure water bar on a yacht.
But now, she had to go downstairs first, check out the new functions on the function screen, draw the prize, and then come up to arrange it.
There were many things to do, but each one made her feel happy physically and mentally. Shu Fu turned on the protective shield again, walked down the stairs and returned to the first floor.
**
[Raft Level: Level 4
Size of Drifting Island House: 60 square meters (two-story starting house; one-click dust removal)
Building mode: 1. One-click house change (unlocked blueprint: 1); 2. Manual reconstruction.
Level 4 protection:
1. Wooden house area owner mode (the interior of the owner area is a disaster-resistant, constant temperature, and exclusive safe living space);
2. Raft area firmness: advanced;
3. Drift bottle protection cover (automatic/manual): ① Daily usage time: 6 hours; ② Stored time (automatically stored at 0 o'clock for the remaining time of the day): (389:12:67). ③ Wristband remote control.
4. Master protection cover (automatic/manual): ① Daily usage time: 10 minutes; ② Stored time (the remaining time of the day is automatically stored at 0 o'clock): (00:54:23).
Raft functions: 1. Parking; 2. Drifting; 3. Stealth (only in the state of drift bottle protection cover, daily limit: 2 hours, today's remaining time: 02:00:00)
Driving modes:
1. Directional drifting (flow rate adjustment range: 10-80 km/h;)
2. Direction selection (automatically bypass obstacles): east, south, west, north;
3. Water area map.
Daily usage limit: 23 hours (remaining today: 6 hours and 47 minutes)
Wastewater collection and filtration (0/10000L): 1. Automatic discharge when full; 2. Manual discharge.
Water source options: 1. Purified water (100L per day, the remaining water is automatically stored in the water tank), used today: 42L. 2. Water tank storage (5000/10000L).
Trash Shredder and Sanitizer: Sink (activated); Toilet (activated)
Whole house electricity source: No electricity card is equipped. 】
[The maximum distance for placing rafts: within 100 meters]
In addition to the upgrades to existing functions such as the size of the drifting island house, the protective cover of the drifting bottle, the sturdiness of the raft, the drifting speed, and the water tank capacity, what caught her attention most was the usage time of the raft.
However, the number "23" made her breath stuck in her throat. She really thought that the raft would be used 24 hours a day. After all, it was only four hours away, so she should rush up in one go.
But now——is this a disease? ?
What's the point of owing this hour?
To be honest, she now has a weekly delay card, a total of 168 hours, which means she can delay for 168 days, about five and a half months. This means she can drift freely in the water for five and a half months in a row, so what is the difference between that and using the raft all day?
Shu Fu complained a lot, but after a while she roughly understood that the raft could be upgraded to level 5, and the level 5 raft could use the towing function. The remaining one hour was probably to ensure that she could continue to complete tasks to upgrade the raft and would not completely break down in the water.
After all, being able to drift for five and a half months is just five and a half months, and she is not going to die, so the raft still needs to be upgraded and the mission still needs to be completed.
However, she already has a general direction and goal in mind, so even if this upgrade allows her to use the raft all day, she will still do the subsequent tasks.
But there is indeed a variable in this matter. Her decision and intention are this variable. The purpose of this one hour should be to prevent her, this variable, from completely rejecting the task and no longer upgrading the raft.
If she defined it as a part-time job, she could lie down for 23 hours a day, only need to work for one hour, and still have five and a half months of voluntary vacation. After analyzing it this way, she was not dissatisfied, so she began to pay attention to the two new features.
One is the portable protective shield that I had drawn twice before for the experience card.
It turns out that this shield is called the "Master Shield". Like the raft shield, it also has a fixed usage time every day. Like the raft shield, the time not in use can be accumulated and stored. The remaining 54 minutes are the remaining amount of her previous experience card.
Although the 10 minutes of portable protective shield time per day is short, she has been staying on the raft recently, so the daily duration will be stored. By the next time she leaves the raft to do a mission, the portable protective shield should have reached a reassuring usage time.
As for the protective cover of the raft bottle, because it had spent a lot of time "working and moving bricks" outside before, and it had stayed on a mountain lake for nearly two months with no one around, it was reasonable that the protective cover would not open automatically except in extreme weather, so the protective cover time of the raft has accumulated to 389 hours.
The second new function is in the raft function. In addition to mooring and drifting, there is a stealth function.
sneak?
Is that what she understood?
The protective shield of the Drifting Island House happened to be on, so she immediately clicked on the screen to try out the new function.
After clicking on stealth, the screen is divided into three parts. A flat map of the water area where the raft is located appears on the left, a side map of the water area where the raft is located appears on the right, and in the middle is a control screen for adjusting the raft to sneak or rise, as well as the east, south, west and north directions.
She was familiar with the plan view of the water area, but it was the first time she had seen a side view of the water area. Visually, it was like cutting the entire water area in half from top to bottom, and then presenting a depth profile. The top quarter of the picture was light blue, which should represent the water surface, and the bottom three quarters were light green, representing the water surface.
The parts of hills that remain above the water, underwater buildings, submerged mountains, or the remains of some construction vehicles, ships, and plants that sunk to the bottom are all marked with dark green of different shapes.
The raft is also marked with a red dot, which is now flashing on the dividing line between light green and light blue, indicating that it is floating on the water.
The maps on both sides can be dragged and enlarged, and the side water map can not only be enlarged, but also rotated left and right.
After zooming in and adjusting, the shapes of the submerged city buildings will gradually become clear. Even though the overall image is still dark green, the appearance of the former city can be identified based on the outlines of the buildings, just like the underwater city of Atlantis. Those solid buildings may have to be submerged in water for many years before they are slowly damaged...
Shu Fu checked the side water map and felt that his vision suddenly became wider. Isn't this a disguised underwater radar 3D imaging map?
Moreover, compared with the underwater 3D imaging in reality, there is basically no difference in display speed. It is all instant imaging, which is many times clearer and more intuitive.
Shu Fu began to control the raft to dive underwater. The raft moved and slowly descended like an elevator. She looked out through the glass of the front door and saw the deck slowly and evenly sinking into the water, as if it was being swallowed by the gradually rising water level.
Because of the existence of the protective cover, there is a cocoon-like isolation layer around the entire raft. As the raft dives, the side water map begins to stretch automatically until the red color representing the raft is enlarged to the point where the shape of the raft can be seen.
The two-story cabin with a half balcony, the front and rear decks, and the underwater bedroom that looks like a metal box from the outside are all clearly recognizable.
At the same time, a number appears in the upper right corner of the side water map: -1, which should represent the diving depth.
Soon, the water level exceeded the upper balcony and the entire raft sank to the bottom of the water. This reminded Shu Fu of the day of the tsunami when the raft and the drifting island house were swallowed by the waves. However, she was in a completely passive mode that time, but this time the control was in her own hands.
She wanted to test how deep the raft could dive, so she continued to go down.
10 meters underwater, ordinary non-professionals can dive to such a depth without any equipment, and it is not too dangerous.
25 to 40 meters underwater, a professional diver can usually dive to a depth without equipment, which is slightly dangerous.
The raft continued to descend with the drifting island house until the number on the water map on the side turned to -100, and the raft finally stopped, which meant that the entire raft had reached the limit of its diving depth. But at this depth, she could still control the raft to move forward underwater and adjust the direction of the east, south, west and north.
100 meters underwater, the height of more than 30 floors. Professional divers have created a diving depth of 130 meters underwater without any equipment, which is already a very scary depth.
At such a depth, the human body's skin has to withstand a pressure of 22 kilograms per square centimeter. The teeth will feel pain, the eardrum may rupture due to the huge water pressure, the chest will collapse, air embolism will occur in the lungs, and there is even a risk of oxygen or carbon monoxide poisoning...
Shu Fu kept the raft where it was, maintaining a depth of 100 meters, then opened the front door, carefully held the door frame, took a step outside, and stood under the eaves.
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