Cave Refuge

Several months have passed, and the weather outside is still suitable for life. With everyone's efforts, Pengcheng is rapidly recovering.

Pengcheng, originally a plain area with ample cultivable land, has surprisingly had two harvests under the arrangement of the officials. Although the crops planted are all short-term, this has nonetheless boosted the confidence of the survivors.

The urban order has gradually begun to resume, and some city wartime plans have also slowly been lifted. The entire continent seems to have been reborn.

Electronic components destroyed by electromagnetic pulses are slowly becoming commonplace, thanks to repairs by the talented artisans.

The power system is slowly recovering, and some industries are flourishing like bamboo shoots after spring rains, making the disasters appear to be a thing of the past.

Interestingly, the West City District Command Post quickly repaired the elevators after supplying power, and the Command Post office was once again moved to the top floor.

However, this time many members chose not to reside in office buildings but moved back to their own homes.

"Mom, why are you still angry?"

Although Dong Tianyu showed a flattering smile, Mrs. Thompson did not want to pay any attention to her son.

Several months had passed, and Mrs. Thompson had arranged dozens of blind dates for her son.

Every time a blind date was arranged, Dong Tianyu happily agreed. He always met the women as his mother requested, but not a single blind date was successful.

This wasn't like before the disaster when women on blind dates were not very proactive.

Now, to avoid working in the fields, the blind dates tend to end in marriage within a month as long as both parties had similar conditions and after two or three encounters.

Seeing the girls who had once dated Dong Tianyu getting married one by one, Mrs. Thompson's resentment towards her son grew.

However, Dong Tianyu felt helpless. He was still in the Qi Refinement Realm, and although his cultivation had advanced to the 12th level over these few months, he had not yet successfully formed his foundation. If he were to damage his body and lose his vitality, his future cultivation could be affected.

So no matter how excellent the girls Mrs. Thompson introduced to him were, Dong Tianyu would always clarify at the outset that he had no plans to have children in the near future.

The girls who were eager to get married mainly wanted to have children quickly to avoid physical labor in the fields.

So after hearing Dong Tianyu's thoughts, they immediately lost interest in continuing to talk to him.

They naturally told their matchmakers about this following their return, so the reason for the blind date failures ended up falling on Dong Tianyu's shoulders.

Mrs. Thompson initially thought the women were just saying this because they didn't see anything in her son, but after a few months, when every woman who had gone on a blind date with Dong Tianyu said the same thing, Mrs. Thompson began to realize that her son might be the problem.

As a woman who had lived through the information explosion era, if she had not investigated and found out that her son's frequent interactions with the young son of the Taylor family were for business purposes, Mrs. Thompson would have even doubted her son's sexual orientation.

Although she confirmed that there was no problem with her son's sexual orientation, her son's non-cooperative attitude made Mrs. Thompson very angry. Since then, every time Dong Tianyu came home, Mrs. Thompson would become very angry whenever she saw him.

In fact, Dong Tianyu didn't want this to happen. After all, which man doesn't want to ride a horse at full speed? But for the sake of his future happiness, Dong Tianyu had to restrain himself.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu was desperately hoping for the disaster to come soon, because only when the disaster struck, his mother would shift her attention from the issue of whether he was married or not.

However, unfortunately, after the flood receded, for some unknown reason, the climate of Pengcheng, which originally had distinct seasons, remained at about twenty degrees throughout several months.

Although this temperature was very friendly for the survivors, many astute people could see that this wasn't normal. But, everyone prayed, hoping that these peaceful days would continue.

With the harvest of the first two short-season crops and the confirmation of the stable temperature, the officials began to arrange for the planting of a variety of agricultural crops and initiated large-scale livestock farming.

Industry currently only maintains the capacity to sustain the city operation, with everything else giving way to agriculture.

However, because of this, some of the war reserve materials originally expected to be depleted still remained.

As a nation that likes to be safe rather than sorry, everyone unconsciously began to conserve resources. Even if the current production was gradually increasing, everyone was still living conservatively.

New clothes for three years, old clothes for three years, patch up and wear for another three years.

During this time, in addition to the variety of food becoming richer, survivors gradually started to wear new clothes.

Before the disaster, it was quite normal for regular families to wear a piece of clothing for two or three years. But after the disaster, wanting a piece of clothing to last for two or three years became difficult.

The reason why clothes before the disaster lasted longer than those after was simple. Prior to the disaster, usually going out did not cause much wear and tear to the clothes. After the disaster, even those sheltering in the refuge centers, due to living conditions, could easily damage their clothes with a slight mistake.

Furthermore, needle and thread for mending were not as various as before the disaster but were replaced by whatever was available. So after the clothes were damaged, the day they became cloth was not far away.

The new clothes that the survivors in Pengcheng were wearing now were mostly olive-green uniforms. These uniforms were reserve clothing from the War Reserve Warehouse. Despite being uniforms, the material was better than ordinary clothing materials before the disaster and were highly durable.

It was not only Pengcheng, but once the floodwaters receded, the entire continent gradually began to recover. Unlike other countries, the continent had a complete industry chain before the disaster.

Although several disasters have caused various degrees of damage to most machines, never underestimate many professionals.

Some experts could even do things that machines couldn't.

With these experts' efforts, the machinery in the factories was slowly being repaired, gradually bringing the entire continent to life.

At this time, Dong Tianyu also felt that his cultivation at the 12th level of Qi Refinement was gradually reaching perfection. He could now strive to break through to foundation formation, or continue to consolidate his current foundation.

Dong Tianyu, who was being nagged to death by his mother, definitely wouldn't stay in the Qi Refinement Realm at this point. Although it was mentioned in some novels that training to the 10,000th level in the Qi Refinement Realm would result in a strength comparable to that of the Golden Core Realm.

Reality, however, was similar. With the improvement of cultivation, the speed of cultivation would also increase. If others didn't breakthrough and trained till they reached the 10,000th level in the Qi Refinement Realm, while he used the same amount of time, he could even cultivate to the Nascent Soul Realm.

At that time, who was strong and who was weak would be clear at a glance.