Chapter 45 Blueprints
Lin Xi picked up Yu Shiyun at the airport. She felt embarrassed to take the designer, who had come from out of town, back by bus and public transport. It cost more than 200 yuan to take a taxi directly from the airport to the old house in Yunxiang, which made Lin Xi feel a pang of heartache.
Along the way, there were green mountains, clear waters, and vast lotus ponds. Yu Shiyun was in a good mood, as if she were taking the scenery along the way as a tourist attraction.
"This place is really nice, perfect for retirement."
The implication was that Yu Shiyun was curious as to why Lin Xi, a young woman who had just graduated, would leave Nanhua and return to Yunxiang.
Knowing the relationship between Yu Shiyun and Gu Yixuan, Lin Xi didn't directly mention the zombie outbreak as she did in her previous life. Instead, she approached it from another angle: "Do you know Miss Ziqi?"
Yu Shiyun's eyes lit up: "I've seen her videos."
"Just hint at it, give me a vague direction to think about," Lin Xi sighed. "Everyone is just like you, finding it strange that a young person like me would return to Yunxiang to develop my career. But I don't want to be remembered by everyone, so I didn't rush to invite you here."
Yu Shiyun knew that Lin Xi had more than three million yuan in readily available cash, so she believed that Lin Xi was a young, high-income internet celebrity. She stopped asking about the client's profession and started talking about the design drawings.
"By the way, regarding the wall material of the house, I hope to choose a more robust material, preferably one that is fireproof and explosion-proof," Lin Xi added.
After all, in her previous life, her fortified walls did indeed keep out zombies and people trying to climb over, but they couldn't stop others from igniting the gas and taking her down with them.
Upon hearing this request, Yu Shiyun pursed her lips, seemingly unable to suppress a smile at her overly high expectations.
Lin Xi knew that she must think that she was overthinking things. In peacetime, there was no need for bulletproof walls in the countryside, even if her studio was designed to provide security for women living alone. Making such a request was going too far.
However, Yu Shiyun will not give feedback to clients; if there are any requests, she will simply accept them.
When the taxi stopped at Lin Xi's house, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. The sun was blazing and the cicadas were chirping loudly.
Yu Shiyun subconsciously raised her hand to shield her eyes from the sun, and then walked around the house to conduct an on-site inspection. As a professional designer, she brought some testing tools.
Besides the house itself, Lin Xi also led Yu Shiyun around the front and back of the yard, and after gesturing the approximate distance, they walked up the mountain along the bamboo forest in the backyard.
Walking a short distance in the middle of the afternoon, even less than a kilometer, is enough to make you drenched in sweat.
Yu Shiyun's cheeks were flushed from the sun, and beads of sweat dripped down her hair. Her high heels were also covered in mud. She took a tissue and tidied herself up while glancing at Lin Xi.
Lin Xi didn't notice the faint disdain in her eyes. She only felt that Yu Shiyun's demeanor and mannerisms were more and more like Gu Yixuan's. This must be the tacit understanding between family members.
Little did she know that Yu Shiyun, who rarely came to such a "natural" place, was exhausted from working under the scorching sun and was eagerly anticipating being invited into her home to cool off.
However, in the blink of an eye, Yu Shiyun was driven away by Lin Xi on that secondhand electric scooter.
Under the scorching sun, Yu Shiyun wiped away her sweat and scratched her mosquito bites.
Lin Xi's voice whistled through the hot air: "I'm sorry, Engineer Yu, my house is too messy to stay in, and it's hard to get a taxi here, so I can only take you to the hotel like this."
After riding for about 20 minutes, Lin Xi and Yu Shiyun stopped in a nearby town and went into a Greenwood Inn.
After helping Yu Shiyun carry her luggage upstairs, Lin Xi explained at the door, "This is the closest chain hotel to my home. Please stay here for now."
She glanced at the time and said, "Why don't you take a rest? I'll come pick you up at 6 o'clock to go out for dinner."
Yu Shiyun had been exposed to the sun and bitten by mosquitoes, and had to ride her electric scooter all the way while wearing a helmet. She definitely needed some time to adjust, so she agreed.
Lin Xi strolled around the town, went into a supermarket, and bought some daily necessities and snacks.
Her online store hasn't opened yet, her house is under construction, and she's living off her savings. She's very frugal when it comes to buying things, completely unlike the carefree feeling of stockpiling goods and spending lavishly before the apocalypse, stuffing everything into her shopping cart.
The things in the house are old and broken. For example, the chairs are shaky and make an unpleasant "creaking" sound when you sit down. The bedding is old and pilling. Although it doesn't smell after washing, it's not comfortable to sleep on. It's also not a complete four-piece set and it doesn't look very nice.
But the house will be renovated soon, and Lin Xi will move to a new place once the construction is completed.
Before they knew it, it was time for dinner with Yu Shiyun. Lin Xi took Yu Shiyun to a local specialty restaurant near the hotel.
Yu Shiyun seemed to have taken a shower, changed her clothes, and her hair was much neater. She looked like a native of Nanhua again, just like Gu Yixuan.
But she was very different from Gu Yixuan in personality. While waiting for the food to be served, she opened her laptop and showed Lin Xi the sketches.
In the short time that followed, Yu Shiyun had already drafted a drawing based on the on-site survey of Lin Xi's house.
However, the sketch was really rough—
A large rectangle contains a smaller rectangle.
Lin Xi politely pointed out, "Is this my yard and house?"
Yu Shiyun nodded, opened the drawing tool and explained while making annotations: "If you have a homestead, you cannot expand your house after it is demolished, so the house will still be 12.6*10 meters in size."
"As per your requirements, we need a kitchen, a bedroom with an ensuite bathroom, a living room, and all the remaining space should be divided into rooms to be used as storage rooms."
"In general, the kitchen of a self-built house is located on the first floor, the bedroom is located on the second floor, and the activity room can be located on either floor."
Lin Xi watched as the flat rectangle transformed into a three-dimensional structure with the clicks of the mouse and keyboard, and the partition walls were stacked on top of each other, and a small building began to take shape.
Seeing Yu Shiyun set up the small bed on the second floor, and the bedroom was beginning to take shape, Lin Xi quickly interrupted: "The bedroom and kitchen will be on the first floor, and the activity room will be on the second floor."
Yu Shiyun had no objection and placed the small bed from the 3D drawing in the room on the east side of the first floor.
Lin Xi pointed to the blueprints: "The bedroom will have a secret passage connecting to the basement, and the door will be made of fireproof, waterproof, and bulletproof material. The basement will have a small bedroom and a bathroom. All the other rooms will be used as storage rooms."
Lin Xi had conceived the design of the doomsday fortress himself. The main activity areas were on the first and second floors. The reason for setting the bedroom on the first floor was for easy escape. The secret passage connecting to the basement was for emergency use, where one could hide in the basement for refuge.
Although Lin Xi felt that this Doomsday Fortress had learned from previous experiences and was now free of security vulnerabilities, she had died at the hands of others in previous lives when she thought so.
To ensure absolute safety, a secret passage was added to the basement to connect to the back mountain, just in case they could escape.
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