Cave Refuge

This mentality has both advantages and disadvantages, but it's indeed a bit unusual in the bureaucratic world where the essence lies in the interplay between the two sides. During this process, both sides need to make some preliminary investment, but the frugal mentality of the Li family's patriarch meant he was destined not to put in too much before a result was achieved.

This resulted in him rarely getting the opportunity to cooperate with others again after one cooperation.

Just like this time, without Li family patriarch's instruction, Dong Tianyu and Ye Liuyun would definitely collect resources and send them to the War Reserve Warehouse. However, the resources they would collect are considered private property of both families without his instruction.

But after the arrangement of the Li family patriarch, the resources they send to the War Reserve Warehouse in the future would become public property for everyone to use.

In fact, there would be no problem if this was the case, as their families would also have the right to use public resources.

However, collecting resources cannot possibly be done without giving anything in return. If it were to be so, it would not be collection but robbery.

If the collected resources belonged to individuals, then they wouldn't mind using their own resources, as the resources they collected could be considered their own reserves.

But now, the Li family patriarch telling them to collect resources without allocating any resources to them – isn't this pulling a fast one on them!

Smith, hearing Master Ye talk about his son this way, also felt a little helpless. He had advised his son about his personality flaws more than once, and his son is very clear about his personality flaws with some changes over the past two years. However, his son always unconsciously revealed those flaws when it comes to crucial moments.

"Alright, Master Ye, let's stop talking about this. Liuyun and Tianyu should continue with their own work. There's still plenty of resources left in the War Reserve Warehouse, and it should be enough to last a while if we use them sparingly.

The problem of resource shortage is not only ours in the West City District. There should be corresponding countermeasures from the officials. We individuals don't need to worry about it."

Being his own son, although Smith often complained about him at home, he tried to make remedial actions for his son when outsiders were present.

Upon hearing Smith say that, Master Ye did not continue the conversation.

Besides Dong Tianyu and Ye Liuyun, others had no objections to the instructions of the Li family patriarch.

"Count the number of people we have moved into the War Reserve Warehouse, and see how many more we can accommodate."

Thomas might not be familiar with every corner of the War Reserve Warehouse, but he is very clear about the space inside and the state of each area.

The elders decided that these matters did not require the involvement of the younger generation, and let them leave first.

Watching others leaving in a hurry, Ye Liuyun smiled bitterly and said to Dong Tianyu: "Brother, I think you might suffer a loss this time."

Dong Tianyu understood what Ye Liuyun meant. Even though Master Ye had helped them just now, they couldn't be completely ignorant. To live comfortably, they needed to make some 'contributions' upon moving in.

Dong Tianyu didn't know about it before. As his social circle expands, things became increasingly complicated. If his parents were willing to stay in his Refuge Center, things wouldn't be this complicated.

Forget about it, all these things can be taken as a tempering of the mind and self-cultivation.

Dong Tianyu, who returned home, was a bit bored. His father was still upstairs, his mother had gone to his grandfather's house. Dong Tianyu decided to go out for a stroll, as the weather was good. Otherwise, the outside would become a hell on earth once the intense heat of summer fully arrived.

During Dong Tianyu's leisurely stroll, an invisible coating appeared on the surface of Blue Star's atmosphere.

This coating was slowly attracting surrounding objects, whether they were disorderly meteorites or satellites close to the atmosphere, all were slowly drifting towards Blue Star.

However, when these objects approached Blue Star, they gradually disintegrated while crossing through the coating, and ultimately, nothing could break through this coating.

After these objects disintegrated, they did not produce any space junk. Part of the matter was directly absorbed by the coating, integrated into the coating, and imperceptibly thickened the coating.

The rest passed through the filtering of the atmosphere and directly integrated into Blue Star, causing slight changes to Blue Star which went unnoticed by all survivors.

Dong Tianyu didn't know that the successful formation of the Qi in him would induce changes in Blue Star.

The unknown substances that penetrated the atmosphere and integrated into Blue Star mostly entered the mountains and waters, but a very small part entered the bodies of the plants, animals, and humans living on the surface of Blue Star.

Unfortunately, these invisible substances were too sparse. Not to mention ordinary people, even Dong Tianyu didn't notice the changes in Blue Star.

Walking on the street, Dong Tianyu noticed that the survivors in Pengcheng seemed to be in good spirits. After all, there was food in the fields and the factories had gradually restarted work, which gave people something to strive for in life.

Most ordinary people in China are easily satisfied. As long as they can survive, they don't want to make trouble.

After successfully forming his Qi, Dong Tianyu's senses became much sharper. He just came out for a stroll and sensed the temperature outside had risen by more than one degree.

Dong Tianyu, who initially intended to rush home to inform his parents, suddenly realized that now it was approaching noon. This time of day was always one of the hottest moments each day.

So, it was quite normal for the outside temperature to be a little hotter than when he first came out in the morning. He is just being overly worried.

That evening, the family dinner at his grandfather's house unsurprisingly became a venting session for his uncle. Although his aunt looked embarrassed throughout, it did not diminish her husband's complaints.

Unlike the Dong family, which lacked nothing in terms of food, his uncle and aunt lived in a community shelter. When they got there, the community shelter had not yet opened a passage to the nearby subway station shelter. They had to arrive at the destination by delivery of materials.

Initially, the people at the shelter were quite welcoming, but as the food gradually decreased, they became less and less approving of his uncle and aunt.

Although the purpose of his aunt going there was to take care of her father, unlike before when the disaster struck and everyone had to go to work without anyone to care for him, now everyone was holed up in the shelter, and there was no lack of hands to take care of the old man.

The arrival of his uncle and aunt not only didn't lighten their workload, but also increased their food consumption.

Although his uncle and aunt had repeatedly tried to decrease the amount of food they consumed, they were still constantly being nitpicked and complained about by his sisters-in-law.