Chapter 50

First Spin: Green, Third Prize: One-Month Electric Card.

Shu Fu happily accepted it.

Second Spin: Red, Third Prize: Seafood Sashimi Gift Set ×10.

Shu Fu’s heart leapt with excitement. It turned out that the red third prize multiplied the fourth prize’s material resources by ten!

Unlike previous gift sets, this seafood set was half ready-to-eat and half required cooking.

Especially the ready-to-eat portion, which was a dazzling array of sashimi and sushi: salmon slices, snapper slices, Arctic surf clams, sea urchin sashimi, lobster sashimi, salmon nigiri, wasabi octopus sushi, sweet shrimp sushi, crab leg sushi, and even special sashimi soy sauce and wasabi were included.

There were also several boxes of oysters, scallops, and abalone, neatly arranged in their containers. The largest box held a fully prepared king crab, with its body and long legs filling the container to the brim.

This kind of king crab could be steamed with garlic, but the freshest and simplest way to enjoy it was plain steaming. No seasoning was needed—just steam and eat. The crab meat carried a natural salty flavor from the seawater. Cracking open the crab legs and pulling out the tender meat was an incredibly fresh experience.

Alternatively, some crab meat could be used to make congee—crab meat seafood porridge was also divine.

Although she had never cooked it, she had eaten it before.

In her original world, Shu Fu often enjoyed such treats. But since arriving in this world and spending four years as a student, seafood sashimi had been a rare luxury due to its high price. After the disaster began, fresh and safe sashimi became nearly impossible to find.

She checked her storage space and immediately stuffed all ten gift sets inside.

Third Spin: Green, Second Prize: Raft Extension Card (One Week).

She hadn’t expected to win such a precious extension card with a whole week of usage!

This card, combined with the one she previously had, allowed for a total extension of 192 hours. Based on the current daily usage limit of the raft, this would conservatively maintain continuous raft use for 49 to 50 days, assuming the time could be paused and resumed at will.

This wasn’t urgent—she could save it for when it was truly needed.

Fourth Spin: Blue, Fourth Prize: Raft Fencing ×5.

Shu Fu: …

Fifth Spin: Red, Third Prize: 20L Bottled Purified Drinking Water ×100.

Shu Fu didn’t even dare claim this prize. The quantity was overwhelming, and the space required was enormous with nowhere to store it. When prompted with “Would you like to claim this prize?”, she clicked “No”, temporarily leaving the prize in the prize wheel’s storage.

But the good news was, she never had to worry about running out of drinking water again.

Sixth Spin: Red, Third Prize: Fried Food Gift Set ×10.

Each fried food gift set was about the size of a cardboard box and included: 2 boxes of spicy fried chicken wings, 2 boxes of crispy fried squid tentacles, 2 boxes of crispy pork bites, 2 boxes of salt-and-pepper fried ribs, 2 boxes of mixed fried oyster mushrooms and king oyster mushrooms, 3 boxes of golden fried chicken feet, 3 boxes of cumin-flavored chicken cartilage, 3 boxes of cumin-fried wing tips, and 3 boxes of crispy fried duck tongues.

The sheer amount of food in a single set was jaw-dropping—it felt like she had unlocked unlimited fried food freedom!

Shu Fu quietly removed some large, infrequently used items from her storage space and then crammed in the ten fried food gift sets.

Seventh Spin: Blue, Third Prize: Floating Island House Blueprint.

Shu Fu’s eyes lit up—she had actually drawn a blueprint! But since it was a blue third prize, it wasn’t as high-level as the Auto Fishing Rod she had won before. She had a feeling…

Sure enough, after claiming the blueprint card, it read: “Congratulations on winning Third Prize: Floating Island House Blueprint (Grade C, Primitive Style Thatch Hut). (Note: Must be used on Level 3 Raft)”

Shu Fu: …

Just from the name alone, she could tell this house wouldn’t be much to look at.

Eighth Spin: Green, Third Prize: One-Month Electric Card.

In addition to a half-used week card, she now had two brand-new week cards and two brand-new month cards. It felt like she was gaining electricity freedom too!

Ninth Spin: Blue, Second Prize: Underwater Bedroom. (Note: Must be used on Level 3 Raft)

Shu Fu stared at those four words, thinking she must have read it wrong. A bedroom? Underwater?

Did it mean what she thought it meant?

She immediately claimed it. The light and shadows inside the floating island house shifted instantly. She stood up to look around and finally noticed a change at the corner near the dining table, to the left of the front door. The previously seamless, natural wood-colored floor now had a clearly defined square outline, with a smooth metal button on top.

She reached out and pressed the metal button. The square section of the wooden floor slowly sank a few centimeters and then slid aside, like an automatic trapdoor installed in the floor.

Once the floor panel moved, it revealed a small spiral wooden staircase beneath. Shu Fu peered down—it was pitch black, but faint, flickering water reflections danced below. She took out her phone and turned on the flashlight, shining it down to see the wooden stairs spiraling downward, with delicate railings on both sides. The staircase wasn’t very tall, about 2.5 to 3 meters.

As the flashlight beam shifted, it reflected off a bright, dazzling surface below. She realized the floor at the bottom of the staircase was entirely transparent glass.

Shu Fu descended the spiral staircase. As she entered the space, she quickly discovered that not just the floor, but the entire space—aside from the ceiling—was made of seamless, transparent glass for the walls and floor.

Standing in this space, it felt as if she was completely submerged underwater.

Since it was nighttime, the light under the water was dim and murky. But thunderstorms were still rumbling within the clouds, and as lightning flickered across the water’s surface, the space was occasionally illuminated by the reflected flashes of lightning.

Just now, she realized the shimmering light in the water came from this.

The size of the underwater bedroom differed from the space above in the floating island house. This room was about twenty square meters, with no partitions—it was a single open space. Perhaps because it was called a bedroom, there was a bed positioned centrally at the back of the room, a low, soft, round bed.

The round bed came with a matching circular mattress but lacked pillows and blankets. Besides that, there was a chaise lounge by the glass wall, but nothing else.

The entire room felt empty, giving off a sense of insecurity. Anyone with thalassophobia wouldn’t last long in here.

At first, Shu Fu hesitated to step onto the all-glass floor, but after a while, she got used to it. She walked around the room with her flashlight, marveling at the experience, before heading back to the wooden house above.

She had stayed in an underwater glass bedroom in the real world before—many famous islands promoted them as a highlight.

Underwater rooms, underwater restaurants, underwater bathrooms…

But those were all stationary structures, with the surrounding waters either being the ocean or giant aquariums.

A glass bedroom like this, fixed beneath a floating house, was truly astonishing.

She was starting to understand the real purpose of this underwater bedroom. It was essentially a scenic viewing room. But for it to shine, it shouldn’t be surrounded by the ruins of a recently destroyed city. It should be in the open sea.

The kind of sea with clear blue or turquoise waters, colorful coral reefs, and beautiful schools of fish swimming by.

Shu Fu calmed herself and returned to the coffee table. She still had one more spin left in the lottery. Today’s haul had already been quite generous—mostly third prizes, with just one fourth prize.

It felt like the chances of getting higher-level prizes increased with the raft’s upgrades. Would this final spin land her a golden reward?

She clicked on the lottery wheel and focused on the pointer as it gradually slowed, inching closer to the gold section. But then it moved past gold, into red, slowly drifting away from red, passing a green section, then blue, before finally stopping on an incredibly thin sliver of gold.

The golden sliver was so narrow she couldn’t tell with her naked eye whether the pointer had landed on it or not.

But the text soon revealed the answer.

[Congratulations! You’ve won First Prize: Raft Hitch Slot ×1 (Note: Requires Level 5 Raft to Use)]

Shu Fu was stunned.

It felt like she had won something incredible!

But at the same time, it felt like… she hadn’t won anything at all.

A brilliantly shiny gold card dropped into her palm. As expected from a first-prize gold card, it even had a beautiful embossed design in gold, making it look far fancier than the gold second-prize cards.

It had a small line of text on it: Raft Hitch Slot ×1, Requires Level 5 Raft to Use.

Shu Fu, who had just upgraded to a level 3 raft, was left speechless.

She boldly speculated that the so-called hitch slot might mean that once the raft reached level 5, it would have the capability to tow other watercraft.

She imagined her little raft towing ten big boats behind it—she wasn’t even sure who would be towing whom at that point…

After spinning the wheel so many times, she was starting to understand that some of the higher-level rewards, like the electric cards, the raft shield card, and now this hitch slot, were just carrots dangled in front of a donkey.

A little treat, a little hope, to keep this “donkey” motivated and cheerfully upgrading the raft.

After all, when she saw the daily usage time had increased to 20 hours, she did briefly consider whether she could survive just fine by coasting for 4 hours a day without upgrading further…

By the time all the lottery spins were over, it was almost 8 p.m.

Maybe it was the adrenaline from today’s super tsunami, but she wasn’t feeling hungry at all. Shu Fu didn’t want to force herself to eat, so she equipped an electric card on the function screen, took out all the devices that needed charging, and reopened the underwater bedroom’s floor hatch to move some of the bulky, less-used items from her storage bracelet into the underwater bedroom.

She had been ready to turn on her phone flashlight, but the moment she opened the hatch, a soft blue glow rose from below.

She descended the stairs and discovered that the dim blue light was coming from around the circular bed. There must be hidden light strips installed there that automatically turned on when the floating island house had power.

The blue light wasn’t harsh or abrupt—it was faint, casting a soft blue hue over the entire underwater bedroom. It made the room feel like it was truly submerged in the ocean, giving it a slightly dreamy, magical quality.

Shu Fu took another look around but didn’t stay long. After placing the items in a corner, she headed back upstairs.

No matter how carefree she usually was, there was no way she’d feel comfortable sleeping in that underwater bedroom at night for the time being. But she could come down during the day, when the lighting was better, to check out the underwater view.

After closing the hatch, she went into the bathroom and started filling the wooden tub with water, adding a lavender-scented bath salt ball.

She hadn’t soaked in a bath for months. Even after moving to the guesthouse family building this past month, she mostly stuck to quick showers to save water in the wooden house.

The clean, chemical-free water filling up the entire wooden tub felt almost like a luxury to her.

As the water level rose, the lavender bath salt ball gradually dissolved, releasing rich, delicate bubbles, and a light, elegant fragrance filled the space.

She quickly started two washing machines, separating her accumulated laundry into homewear and outdoor clothes, washing them simultaneously. Then she brought the Bluetooth speaker into the bathroom, placed it on the shelf, selected a playlist of soothing instrumental music, dimmed the bathroom lights, and began her bath.

The small window beside the wooden tub in the shower had long been upgraded to a large floor-to-ceiling glass window. She had complained when she first won this reward, but now she realized that having a clear view outside while enjoying a quiet, relaxing bath elevated the entire experience several times over.

Outside the window stretched an endless, undulating body of water. Rain continued to pour, and purple-blue lightning occasionally lit up the night sky, cracking it with vibrant streaks.

Not long ago, this same natural scene had sent chills down her spine, but now—perhaps due to the soothing piano piece “Starry River Realm” playing in her ears, or maybe the calming scent of lavender lingering at her nose—she found herself feeling unexpectedly at peace.

Leaning back in the tub, she let herself close her eyes.

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That night, after her bath and hanging up the laundry, Shu Fu felt a wave of drowsiness. She only drank a glass of milk before climbing into the bed on the small upper loft, pulling a thin blanket over herself, and falling asleep.

The raft was set to anchoring mode, keeping it stationary in this deserted stretch of water. With the automatic protection shield engaged, she didn’t need to worry about any sudden disasters in the night, allowing her to sleep soundly.

With no cell signal, she didn’t bother setting an alarm, sleeping deeply until she woke up naturally.

By the time she awoke the next day, it was already 9 AM. She had slept for nearly 12 hours. Rolling over to her right, she pulled back the floor-to-ceiling curtains she’d specially installed upstairs.

It was still raining outside—not the terrifying thunderstorms and heavy downpours of yesterday. Visibility was better, but the sky remained overcast, and the surrounding waters were just as vast and empty. She still couldn’t see any buildings or ships.

There weren’t any landmarks where she was, so she couldn’t tell if the tsunami had caused the water levels to recede at all.

Shu Fu lay in bed for a little while longer, playing offline mobile games on her phone until hunger finally nudged her out of bed. She lazily got up to wash up.

For breakfast, she had potato salad, an egg, ham, and cheese sandwich, a cup of matcha milk, and a bowl of freshly washed, crispy kumquats.

As she bit into her sandwich, she opened the curtains on both sides of the living room’s floor-to-ceiling windows, then went to check the water map on the function screen.

Neither the map panel nor the water map on the function screen allowed her to save images to her devices, so she had to rely on memory to compare today’s map with yesterday’s.

It seemed like there were more dark green dotted patterns in the southwest part of the water area, but it was also possible she was misremembering.

Around the raft, there was still nothing.

Lou Yuncheng had completely vanished.

On the raft protection shield panel, the stored time now read 16:20:05. Judging by the accumulated time, the shield hadn’t activated automatically since she fell asleep last night, which meant there hadn’t been any severe weather.

Even though it was still windy and rainy outside, Shu Fu used a 24-hour raft delay card on the function screen after noon.

The raft’s countdown timer paused, and a message popped up on the screen: Raft Delay Card Equipped (23:59:57).

She tested it and found, like the electric card, the delay card could be unequipped at any time.

She quietly sighed in relief. This way, not a second of the delay card would go to waste.

After all, in the current situation, from the starting point of Suicheng to the waterway from Suicheng to Lou Yuncheng, and then to Lou Yuncheng’s waters, there were very few dark green icons on the map—meaning there were hardly any lands or buildings to go ashore.

The highlands and mountainous areas to the southwest and northwest of Lou Yuncheng were now the closest patches of land to the water. If the residents nearby were lucky, they might have escaped there before the tsunami hit. Those places were likely overcrowded now, with some rescue operations starting from there, and rescue stations and temporary shelters set up nearby.

At a time like this, she definitely couldn’t head west to find a place to go ashore during the day. On the contrary, it would be better to continue drifting east, deeper into open waters, completely avoiding areas where rescue boats might be patrolling.

Otherwise, if a rescue team found her and brought her back, whether or not the raft’s protection shield was active at the time, someone might notice something strange. And when the rescue team moved her during relocation, she’d probably be forced to demonstrate some “glitching barriers” or perform a “live magic trick” of disappearing and reappearing on land…

But thinking about it from another angle—the delay card offered a total of 192 hours, equating to 48 delay opportunities, or 48 days.

Many of the prizes from the spin wheel often matched her current circumstances. This time, giving her so many delay chances to stay on the raft—did it mean she was going to be stuck in these waters for even longer?

Shu Fu set a four-hour alarm on her phone, planning to remove the delay card as soon as the time was up. Then she manually activated the protective shield, stepped out of the cabin, and sat under the eaves to start setting the drifting route using the map panel.

Her destination was near the original No. 1 Dam. From the water map, the waters east of the raft were all a vast light green expanse. She had roughly pinpointed the dam’s location after comparing it with Lou Yuncheng’s electronic map.

Previously, when she drifted past Suicheng with the protective shield on, the varying heights of the buildings were submerged in the floodwaters. Even though the rain-soaked city was desolate and barren, at least the outline of the city could still be seen.

But now, as the raft began drifting, the surrounding waters showed no signs of change.

All the life, separations, pain, and despair had been buried beneath this cold expanse of water. The surface appeared calm, but she knew this was true deathly stillness.

A vibrant, hard-working city had completely vanished from history’s stage, reduced to an underwater ruin. Hundreds or even thousands of years from now, this place might become another Atlantis in legend…

The raft drifted across the water at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. Shu Fu sat under the front eaves for a while before moving to the back eaves, using her binoculars to scan the waters from multiple angles.

The surface of the water wasn’t entirely empty. As the raft drifted, fragments of broken buildings and tree debris occasionally appeared nearby. Some of these fragments were quite large, but they were just meaningless floating debris and wouldn’t be marked with dark green icons on the water map.

The raft automatically navigated around these floating obstacles and continued heading east, quickly reaching the destination.

Shu Fu once again compared Lou Yuncheng’s electronic map with the raft’s position on the water map and confirmed that she had arrived at No. 1 Dam. But, just like in other parts of the waters, there was nothing here. The water surface was even cleaner than the places she had passed before.

That tall, massive, rock-solid safety wall—once regarded as a savior by the people of Lou Yuncheng—had not only been destroyed by the super tsunami but was now completely submerged beneath the water.

Standing on the raft, Shu Fu looked around. There was nothing but dark clouds, heavy rain, rough waves, and the dark, undulating surface of the water. Other than that, there was nothing at all.