"If we had enough materials, I could even build a wooden boat."
"If you had a big ship, with this flood, even if the whole building gets submerged, it wouldn’t stop you from drinking fine wine, eating gourmet food, and playing with beauties on the boat."
Liang Yuan grinned: "Oh? Like you, tying up two girls young enough to be your daughters, doing something worse than an animal?"
Huang Fu was stunned, opening his mouth as if he wanted to say something.
Suddenly, Liang Yuan struck out, the crowbar in his right hand stabbing forward without hesitation!
The crowbar instantly pierced into the other’s chest, then was yanked out in one swift motion.
In an instant, blood spurted out, and Huang Fu clutched his chest in disbelief, pointing at Liang Yuan with the other hand: "You... you... why... why?"
Liang Yuan sneered: "I don’t trust you."
"You said making the raft was easy, and now we have a half-finished one. I can just have someone else replicate it, can’t I?"
"If I let you make it, you old carpenter, what if you left some tricks on the raft?"
He coldly chuckled, reached out, and pushed Huang Fu’s head lightly.
Huang Fu could no longer stand, collapsing to the ground with a thud.
Blood spread from his chest, washed away by the rain.
Liang Yuan ignored the corpse and instead inspected the raft.
"The raft is not bad, but who knows if it can be used. I’ll have Old Ma and Cai Zhi come and study it."
Compared to the raft Huang Fu made, although Old Ma and Cai Zhi’s work was more rudimentary and less pretty,
from a safety standpoint, Liang Yuan trusted Old Ma and Cai Zhi more.
This thing will be on the water in the future, and if Huang Fu did leave something, causing the raft to fall apart in the flood, that would be too dangerous.
Liang Yuan then looked at the foam boxes and flower pots in the corner.
There was still some soil inside, but most of it was washed away by the rain.
Some plants, although not completely dead, had their roots rotted by the rain.
Liang Yuan didn’t want to waste the soil and collected it all into the inventory.
"Granny Li said last time that there’s too little soil in the plant room. This should be just enough."
"I wonder if my mutated sunflower seeds will sprout."
Liang Yuan thought as he collected the flower pots and foam boxes.
Suddenly, he paused, eyes fixed on a small flowerpot under a foam box.
In that small flowerpot, something green was still growing vigorously!
"Is this... a cactus?"
Liang Yuan was surprised and quickly moved the other plastic pots and foam boxes away.
Sure enough, this small cactus was covered by a large foam box, preventing it from being drenched by the rain.
Not only was the cactus not washed away by the rain, but it had also produced a purplish-red fruit on top!
The fruit looked like a mini dragon fruit, entirely purplish-red, not noticeable among the foam boxes.
Liang Yuan’s heart skipped a beat: "Could this be a mutated fruit?"
Currently, he knew that some plants could produce mutated fruits.
Eating them could not only awaken mutant abilities but also seemed to pose no risk of mental breakdown.
Liang Yuan carefully moved the cactus out of the foam box.
"It’s a pity that the lottery system doesn’t have an identification function."
Liang Yuan was a bit regretful. He wouldn’t eat it himself, who knew if it was poisonous?
With the system, he could get attribute points anytime, so why take the risk?
"I can let Zhao Kai try it later."
Zhao Kai’s wrist was broken, currently lacking combat power. If this continued for long, who knew if he could keep up with the team anymore?
If the cactus fruit was indeed a mutated fruit, it could help Zhao Kai awaken mutant abilities.
This way, Zhao Kai’s strength might quickly improve and become the main combat power of the team again.
With the recent battles, Liang Yuan felt increasingly that a single tree couldn’t make a forest.
It’s great to be alone, but if he wanted to build a formidable force, he absolutely needed capable helpers.
For example, with Zhou Wen and Chen Hong splitting into two teams, if he wasn’t careful, the other party could easily ransack his place.
Or when Liu Erlong had someone block him at Xiaoqiang’s house on the 29th floor while attacking his own place.
These two incidents both pointed to one problem: he couldn’t manage everything alone.
So he needed to train a few helpers who were capable fighters.
Ding Yan was certainly one option, but Liang Yuan didn’t want to get too close to her.
This woman’s control tendencies seemed strong, and she had too many ideas, unlike the obedient Yang Mei.
Perhaps just being friends would be a better choice.
As for Old Ma and Cai Zhi, Liang Yuan thought about it repeatedly and felt they weren’t quite suitable.
Both had their own small families and prioritized them in everything.
This was understandable, of course, and Liang Yuan could sympathize.
But that’s not what he wanted; he needed someone who would follow his orders.
By this count, Zhao Kai, a single man, seemed the most suitable.
"Let’s see if he dares to try it."
Liang Yuan put away the cactus, then continued gathering, collecting all the soil from the foam boxes into the inventory.
After finishing, he climbed over the wall to the top of Unit 5.
Here too, there were many sunrooms and flower pots with various crops planted.
Mainly green peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, and such.
However, these crops were already drowned by the rain, most of them rotted.
Liang Yuan stuffed them all into the inventory; the soil was precious and could be used to grow other things later.
He searched again but found no remaining mutated plants.
He then went to Unit 4. The residents at the top of Unit 4 were lazy, with no sunrooms or plants.
The rooftop only had some water buckets and pots, nothing else.
Liang Yuan was a bit disappointed. Units 1, 2, and 3 had only short walls in between, and he could see right through.
Besides sunrooms and water buckets, there was nothing else.
Liang Yuan rushed to Unit 1 to check Old Ma’s raft.
In terms of craftsmanship and appearance, it couldn’t compare to Wang Ze’s team’s raft.
But in terms of materials, they used more solid ones here.
The base was welded with steel pipes, plastic pipes, with boards laid on top and the bottom filled with foam and plastic items.
The framework was sturdy, and the foam and plastic fillings provided good buoyancy.
The central part still needed more weight to form a balance, preventing it from tipping over easily.
Liang Yuan made some comparisons and had some thoughts.
While pondering, a familiar honk came from the distance.
Liang Yuan was stunned and quickly looked up at the sky.
As he looked, his eyes widened!
In the distant sky, a plane was flying through the rain!