Chapter 179 Mobile Safe House
Shu Fu looked up at Han Lan who hurriedly walked out of his residence on the second floor of the pharmacy, and quickly noticed something was wrong.
He did not go downstairs. After coming out of the house, he rushed to the fence in a few steps, supported himself with his hands and gasped for breath. He looked a little dazed and panicked, as if he had been frightened by something a moment ago, so that even now he was on a completely safe raft, he was still a little frightened and unable to recover.
Shu Fu quickly walked up the stairs to the second-floor terrace, looked at him from behind, and did not approach him rashly. Instead, she asked him in a low voice if something happened.
Although she had lowered her voice, Han Lan still seemed disturbed. He turned around suddenly and took a defensive posture. When he saw that it was her, he slowly relaxed.
"You're back on the raft, you're safe." Shu Fu spoke again, looking him up and down, and found that he had traces of burns on his body. There were several holes in his combat uniform, and his cheeks and hands exposed were charred by the fire.
Apart from that, he looked exhausted, and his clothes were dirty, as if he had been on the road for the past half month.
"I know." Han Lan activated the prop to "teleport" at the exact second the explosion occurred. They discovered the bomb too late and had no time to find a way to escape from the room. In other words, he and the other team members had never thought that such a thing would happen in the suburban base of Bancheng in Xizhou Province.
Like Shacheng, Bancheng is currently one of the most important and safest cities in Xizhou Province, the entire Hua Kingdom, and even the entire planet.
A month and a half ago, he and Cheng Yu thought that the "cancer" had been eradicated, but it was not until now that he realized that they thought too simply.
They are soldiers, and they deploy troops and charge into battle together with other soldiers in the army. They know how to fight, but they forget that sometimes the danger does not only come from the enemy.
People's hearts are not completely unanimous, and there is not only one voice within the officialdom. Those who were purged previously were just scapegoats who were pushed to the surface.
If he had not become suspicious because of Cheng Yu's loss of contact and returned to land to investigate, he would not have discovered the hidden truth.
Until the last moment before that person left, he still trusted him. If it weren't for trust, he would not have entered the room in the small building with others. He would never have thought that when the other person smiled and said that he had to deal with some things first and asked them to rest and wait, he was actually smiling and sending them to death.
The enemy didn't even resort to a common ambush, but used this brutal method of leaving no one alive once and for all...
Fortunately, when he and Liu Shuang registered the props information together after awakening, he was a little careful. After all, props like "teleportation" are too powerful for others. He didn't want to be the focus of attention and research, so he concealed this point at the time.
There are many kinds of people with special abilities, and not all of them have props. In addition, they were always on missions during that period and had no time to go back and deal with all these details one by one.
Therefore, no one knew that he could escape in this way.
At the moment the explosion fire appeared, he activated the prop in great pain.
The teleportation tool could not carry others away, and several teammates who were in the same room with him at the time died...
A moment later, Liu Shuang also came over. Together with Shu Fu, she took Han Lan to the pharmacy downstairs to scan the automatic diagnosis and treatment. After asking him to go and get the medicine himself, they took him to the second-floor balcony of Shu Fu's raft.
Shu Fu moved his drifting island house away from the raft area behind to ensure that no one else would disturb him. Then he filled a basin with clean water and returned to the balcony with a towel.
Liu Shuang helped clean his wound and applied medicine.
Fortunately, I left in time and only suffered minor burns.
It was not until this moment that Shu Fu realized that Han Lan's return to the land was not an official mission at all, but because Cheng Yu and the people who had boarded the helicopter on the return journey had lost contact.
This situation has happened before because new tasks have been issued.
But this time he and Cheng Yu agreed that if they were to go on another mission, he would have to give a message, even if it was nothing, a code symbol that they were familiar with would be fine. He wanted to accompany Cheng Yu, so he didn't choose to settle down on the raft immediately. Naturally, he needed to know his movements so that he could decide when to leave the raft.
But this time Cheng Yu lost contact and he did not receive any message or code. Later, he investigated and found that every team member who boarded the helicopter that day, even the pilot, had lost contact.
Everyone returns together, and after the routine report is completed, they will immediately disband and take their own vacations. There is no possibility that they will work together on the same mission again.
What's more, the last "cancer" had been eliminated at that time, so where would the task come from?
At first he didn't think too deeply about it. He was just worried that they might have encountered severe weather changes somewhere. In order not to make Shu Fu worry and fearing that he was just overthinking it, he only talked to Liu Shuang in private, and then returned to land using the mission as an excuse.
But the more they tracked down, the more things seemed wrong, and they even encountered several ambushes along the way.
They finally reached Ban City, thinking they would be safe once they got to their home place, but they didn't know at that time that this trip would actually be a death sentence.
"Who is that person?" Liu Shuang looked at the other person. She could understand Han Lan's feelings at the moment. In the moment before death, he was forced to abandon his teammates and leave alone. This feeling must be extremely painful.
However, she also knew Han Lan very well. If the other party was not someone he trusted very much, he would not have stepped into the trap so unprepared.
Han Lan glanced at Liu Shuang, then looked at Shu Fu beside him, and finally said: "That person - is Zhou Jianwei."
Shu Fu had never heard of this name, but Liu Shuang's face changed drastically when he heard it.
"What's wrong?" Shu Fu looked at Liu Shuang.
Liu Shuang turned around to look at her, frowned and spoke slowly: "That man is Cheng Yu's father."
**
An hour later, the tiny drifting island house, towing a long string of rafts behind it, was skimming across the water at an incredible speed.
The original residents of the raft were somewhat accustomed to it. They knew that unless they encountered a tsunami or waterspout hundreds of meters high, such high-speed travel would not cause too much turbulence to the people on the raft. They just needed to avoid standing on the raft deck at such times, and did not need to deliberately find a place to sit down. They just did what they were supposed to do.
In the shelter at the back, everyone who had temporarily returned to their respective rooms had their heartbeats speeding up. They looked out the glass window at the water and islands that sometimes flew past them, and sometimes completely submerged the shelter. They started to feel seasick as they watched...
During this half month, the other refugees in the shelter were divided into four groups, and their wristbands were lifted one by one and they were shown to the raft area.
The more time went by, the less shocked the crowd was, because people who had been to the raft area before would describe it in various words and occasionally share food, so everyone was more filled with anticipation and excitement after actually seeing the raft area.
They were happy to think that as long as they obeyed the rules and order and did not do anything illegal, they would be able to live on this safe and resource-rich water raft drifting island forever.
Before starting to upgrade the wristbands for the refugees, Shu Fu and Liu Shuang calculated all the employee positions on the raft. It was impossible to find jobs for all the other people. Even if the children and a few elderly and infirm people were removed, there were still more than fifty-five adults who were able to work.
So from the beginning, Shu Fu held a meeting with the partners from all the rafts, and eventually everyone proposed a rotation work plan. The so-called rotation work plan is to divide the original five to six days of work for each person into four or three days of work per week. The advantage of this is that one job position can be used as two.
Although there are regulations on the number of employees to be hired on the Functional Raft, as long as you select the "rotating division of labor" option above, and the total working hours of the two people per week do not exceed 7 days, it is recognized that the two employees are completing one job, but the work form is rotating, and the two people on duty work one day and rest one day.
If this form is adopted, the raft area can accommodate twice as many employees, but the staff allocation must be reasonable to ensure that there are old employees in every place every day, so that they can guide the new employees to work. And with the old employees watching over them, it is not easy to cause problems.
This has its advantages, as it means that every position and every job will be done seven days a week, and the workload of the raft owner will be greatly reduced. He no longer has to run around to help out due to lack of manpower, and only needs to spend some time every day patrolling around.
Most of the refugees who come to the raft area will still stay in the refugee houses every night. Compared with working four or five days a week, they only lose one or two days of work points, which does not have a big impact.
To be honest, many people are very good at calculating. The shelter provides free food, clothing and accommodation. They can not only save the points they earn now, but also buy some fresh vegetables and meat for themselves from time to time. They even think that as long as the shelter does not drive them away or require them to vacate beds due to full capacity and acceptance of new refugees, they can live like this forever.
The children, led by the adults, went to the playground and the bathing beach respectively. Their faces were flushed with excitement, and they were all determined to perform better, grow up quickly, and work to earn points.
Of course, at their age, the place they are most often taken to is the Tree House Bookstore. Reading habits also need to be cultivated. Before they truly grow up, they must study hard and make progress every day.
During this past month, conflicts had occurred among the refugees, but as they were minor matters and happened in the shelter, Shu Fu and Liu Shuang did not intervene and let Feng Lu and the others handle them.
It was mainly caused by some past events between the Fire Dragon Team and the Ice Dragon Team. However, Shu Fu had said early on that there was no distinction between teams on the raft, and she would treat everyone equally, so they shouldn't dwell on the past.
Thanks to the timely handling by Feng Lu, Ye Zi and Ke Chen, the conflict was resolved on the spot without leaving it overnight. Also, because it was not a big deal, no one violated the rules and was punished.
Everything was going according to plan, and the refugees thought they were very familiar with this drifting raft island, but now they realized that they didn't understand anything at all!
Is this a raft, an island, a ship, or a submarine?
A moment ago, a familiar and clear female voice was heard from the electronic loudspeaker of the entire raft area, saying that she was the owner of this raft drifting island. An emergency had occurred and the raft would enter high-speed driving in the next few hours. They were asked to return to the shelter at the back immediately, close the door, and stay inside during the high-speed driving...
But apart from some precautions, she did not explain what exactly happened or why the entire raft island was moving at such a high speed.
This submarine - no! This island, where is it going now?!
**
At the same time, on the balcony of the drifting island house that was towing a long string of rafts of various sizes, Liu Shuang was taking out the gun, bullets, grenades and a heavy weapon that she had secretly stored in her backpack from the backpack compartment, and asked Han Lan to put them into his backpack compartment.
A few of these weapons have been modified by her. Some have a longer range, and some look like pistols, but can actually fire more powerful shotgun shells... and her modifications all rely on her special prop, which is a wrench that can only be used once a month.
Weapons that have been reassembled with a wrench will change, but whether they become stronger or weaker depends on luck.
The most unfortunate time was when I converted a large-caliber semi-automatic pistol into a bubble-blowing gun...
The luckiest time was recently, when I modified an ordinary submachine gun into an explosive submachine gun that has a 10% chance of releasing an incendiary bomb every time it is used. In other words, when the special bullet hits the target, it will explode and cause group damage.
Because she had only been a psychic for a few months, she had only had a few opportunities to transform. She had not even had a chance to use the Explosive Charge Gun herself, but now she was giving it away.
They were now planning to bypass the northern part of Fengshang Plateau and reach the plateau basin they had visited before, which was near the shipbuilding base.
That is the closest shoreline to the Sand City that the raft can reach at present.
Han Lan said that if Zhou Jianwei was really the mastermind behind all the incidents, then Cheng Yu's disappearance must be related to him, and there is a high possibility that he is still alive. After all, they are father and son, but because Cheng Yu took his mother's surname and was not ostentatious since childhood, not many people knew that they were father and son.
Han Lan didn't know why Zhou Jianwei attacked Cheng Yu this time, and why he wanted to kill him and several team members. In short, it couldn't be a good thing, otherwise he wouldn't deal with them so blatantly, but would hide behind the scenes like before.
So this also means that if he wants to stop something or rescue Cheng Yu, he doesn’t have much time.
He escaped from Ban City via teleportation not long ago, and the other party should think that they are all dead now. They have to wait until they find human remains in the small house and may have to piece them together before they will realize that one person is missing.
And now, he just wants to create a time difference.
He definitely couldn't go to Bancheng, as he didn't know which side the people there were on. Shu Fu had said before that she could connect to the network and allow him to contact the people in Shacheng immediately. But Han Lan had stepped into the trap after several contacts and step-by-step investigations. Now that he thought about it, there were teammates there who had fought for their lives with him. He didn't believe that he would be so unlucky that everyone he knew would betray him, so there must be fake teammates mixed in.
After all, if you haven't met in person, it's very easy to fake it with just audio or text.
So he planned to go to Sand City in person to find someone who once held real power in the army and would never betray.
That person was Cheng Yu and his former captain, and also Cheng Yu's mentor. He had to meet him in person and tell him everything. On the one hand, he could not stop Zhou Jianwei from doing what he wanted to do and arrest him. He had to ask the army for help.
Secondly, with the help of the other party, they could reorganize a team to rescue Cheng Yu and other team members - if they are still alive.
He didn't need Liu Shuang or Shu Fu to accompany him. He just needed Shu Fu to send him to the vicinity of the shipbuilding base, and then he would have a way to go to Sand City.
Given the current situation of the drifting island house, Shu Fu simply couldn't stay on land for a long time. Although Liu Shuang could walk, she also understood that Han Lan had just teleported back, and he had lost his teammates who had fought side by side with him and had to escape alone. At this moment, he didn't want anyone to accompany him on the adventure.
Liu Shuang understood this, so he did not insist when the other party refused with an unpleasant look on his face.
Since we can't go together, we naturally have to hurry up, equip him well, and ensure that he has enough backup supplies.
There was a jeep with good performance in Shu Fu's space, and there was enough fuel for him. Liu Shuang was not getting off the raft now, so he only needed to keep a small gun as a backup. All the other weapons were given to him.
Shu Fu was worried about his drinking water, so she filled the largest cardboard box in her backpack with a bunch of simple instant food and clean water for him. When she wanted to stuff the medicine in, she was stunned for a moment, then reacted and said to Han Lan: "When the raft arrives, just put your pharmacy raft into your backpack and take it with you! I probably have -" She calculated that in addition to the "Attached Raft Holiday Card" that she had used for two days in the early stage, she also had two weekly cards and a monthly card, "a total of forty-nine days that your raft can be away from me!"
Han Lan frowned and wanted to refuse. He knew that once the raft left her side and exceeded the time limit of the holiday card, the newly upgraded pharmacy set and the medicine gift packs inside would disappear together.
The pharmacy is too important, otherwise it would not have been towed ahead of time under Liu Shuang's urging so that it could be upgraded as soon as possible.
Especially now that he has seen the functions of a pharmacy, he cannot afford to take any risks.
But what Shu Fu was thinking now was something completely different: "No, listen to me, listen carefully. The rafts that use the holiday card will have some minor changes in terms of sharing functions, both good and bad. First of all, the water and electricity will be cut off.
Secondly, during the forty-nine days, as long as the protective cover is always open, you can choose to open or close the protective cover anywhere on your raft. After being towed, the raft's own strength has been greatly improved. At least large thunderstorms and hail will not cause any damage to the raft and the pharmacy. The raft with the protective cover open is almost invincible!
You haven't seen it, but I can tell you now that I was actually there when the tsunami hit Louyun City last year after you left. I was hiding in the raft hut under the protection of the shield, unscathed. The entire Louyun City was destroyed, and I was the only one who survived. Do you understand what I mean? Now take it with you, and you will have a mobile safe shelter for 49 days!
In addition to yourself, you can also protect your comrades. As long as it is safe, you can have everyone enter their biometric information on the exchange machine, exchange for a wristband, and then have everyone carry the wristband with them. After that, you can let all your comrades hide in the protective shield at any time when a crisis occurs..."
When Shu Fu said this, she knew that he might think of the tragedy that happened not long ago because of her words, so she gradually fell silent.
The truth is indeed cruel. If Han Lan had this safe shelter with him when they discovered the bomb in Ban City not long ago, perhaps everyone could have been saved.
But who can predict these things?
Sure enough, Han Lan's expression changed, and his face, which had just recovered a little, turned pale again in an instant.
Shu Fu sighed and continued, "The raft is very large, and the pharmacy is a compressed space with two floors. Many people can stay inside, and your living space can also be used to allow your comrades to rest in the personal "visitor mode". The most important thing is that the pharmacy can still operate normally. With the raft, you and your teammates have a portable rescue pharmacy with a large number of medicines and automatic diagnosis and treatment machines. Except for the water and electricity being cut off, it has everything..."
At this point, Shu Fu took out two generators and asked him to put them into the backpack. He then said that after the raft docked, these things that had no shelf life and did not need to be taken at all times could be temporarily moved to the pharmacy for storage.
Afterwards, she thought that he and his comrades might not have enough supplies to exchange for enough raft points, so she found a small suitcase in the space, about the size of a makeup box, which was empty. She raised her hand, and gold flowed out, and the sound of tinkling was endless.
Soon, the suitcase was filled with a large amount of gold.
Shu Fu looked at Han Lan, whose expression had become a little subtle, and said, "Put it away and exchange it for points. You can buy whatever medicine you need when the time comes! It doesn't matter if all the medicines are used up. I still have the same gift packs here. As long as you come back, I can fill your warehouse again!"
Two hours later, the raft, which had been speeding all the way, gradually slowed down and finally found an inconspicuous place to dock in the bay opposite the huge shipbuilding base.
Shu Fu had used up all of his raft vacation cards, and Han Lan had put the pharmacy raft back into his backpack. Liu Shuang stood aside, holding a carton of various commonly used medicines that Han Lan had just purchased through his wristband. That was the reserve he left for the raft after taking the pharmacy away.
Before Han Lan left, he thought of another thing he almost forgot.
"Oh, right, I found Fang Xiwen." He took out the satellite phone that Shu Fu had just charged for him to check the date and time. He breathed a sigh of relief after confirming the date. "Fortunately, it's not time yet. After I leave, you must also leave immediately, because you have to rush to the vicinity of Gongmang County. Fang Xiwen and another team escorting her will be waiting there to meet you."
Shu Fu: !!
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