Cave Refuge

Gazing at the trees already laden with fruit on their branches, Dong Tianyu broke into a happy smile.

Honestly, Dong Tianyu's meals weren't bad. Once he had moved out and started living on his own, his cooking could not be said to be delicious, but in order to satisfy his taste buds and achieve higher cost-effectiveness, he learned to cook many dishes he loved on his own.

While it couldn't be said that the taste was perfectly recreated or even surpassed, it tasted quite good in all conscience. At least it motivated him to cook again the next time.

Since having the Shadow Space, he didn't worry about wasting too much food. He could spent a day cooking seven or eight big dishes, and with the time stasis capability of the Shadow Space, they tasted as fresh as when they were just cooked each time he ate.

Whether it was Happy Water or canned fruit, there was hardly a shortage. Given Dong Tianyu's current stock, if he was the only one eating, as long as he didn't waste too much, it would take ten to eight years to finish all the things in the Shadow Space.

The only food Dong Tianyu couldn't enjoy now was fresh fruit.

Dong Tianyu, who rarely bought or ate fruit in the past, didn't expect to crave fresh fruit so much now.

After all, in the old days, compared to fresh fruit, Dong Tianyu liked canned fruit more.

Perhaps it's the cunning of human nature, as the song goes: "The things one cannot get are always restless; the loved ones are fearless."

Since the expansion of the Shadow Space, Dong Tianyu no longer processed and preserved Lutin chicken eggs. He stored fresh eggs directly in the Shadow Space.

But looking at tens of thousands of pickled chicks, Dong Tianyu was also contemplating how to deal with them.

Eating them was definitely not an option, as the last time he left the cave for more than ten days, came back and pickled those chicks that had been left for more than ten days and mixed them together.

As for trading them with others, Dong Tianyu felt it was not the time yet.

Forget it. After all, the Shadow Space has expanded quite a bit following the upgrade of the cave. Though Pengville Port was swept clean, there was still a surplus of vacant space to store the chicks.

This batch of Lutin chickens is presumably nearing the end of their egg-laying period. Just send them to the automatic slaughterhouse, there's no need for Dong Tianyu to do the slaughtering, plucking and partitioning himself.

Whether it's a case of getting used to it over time or seeing through things after cultivation, Dong Tianyu had but to form a thought and the waste that could no longer be reused was absorbed and broken down by the cave.

On the morning of Lunar New Year's Eve, he packed the prepared stuffs and planned to have a reunion with his family at the subway station shelter.

He was planned to stay overnight with his parents tonight, stay another day tomorrow, and return the day after. Although this plan would waste three cultivation opportunities, Dong Tianyu came to accept that family should come first.

As Dong Tianyu left the main gate of the Cave Mansion, snow began to sparsely flutter in the sky outside. Seeing this, Dong Tianyu knew that winter was about to pass.

In his memory, although he had never left the shelter in winter, he knew that it was the escalating snowfall that led to the inability to promptly deliver resources to the Community Shelter.

Exactly because of this, the officials, when delivering supplies for the last time, determinedly distributed hoes and shovels to each shelter, instructing them to dig roads connecting to the subway network on their own, otherwise they would have to bear the consequences.

Not long after they dug the connection between the shelter and the subway network, the temperature began to slowly rise. Then, the accumulated snow turned into a torrent, pouring into the underground shelter and gradually flooding it.

As the temperature increased, the rainy days that didn't occur throughout the whole winter reappeared. And because of these incessant rains, a flood outbreak quickly swept across the Divine Land.

However, that was in the future. Right now the snow had just started, and it was a while before the roads would be blocked with snow, so the most important thing now was to go to the underground shelter and celebrate the Spring Festival with his family.

Even though the outside temperature was dropping continuously, Pengcheng was slowly recovering its old vitality.

If the disaster was merely a drop in temperature, officials would take action to solve the problems for Daxia, although there might be some trouble.

If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the electromagnetic pulse, which destroyed 99% of Daxia's electronic equipment, the impact of the winter alone on Daxia would not be significant.

Due to the increase in transport vehicles, some previously unused shelters were reopened, and many capable individuals moved out of the subway station shelter; some even established new shelters on the surface.

Being responsible for the distribution of supplies in the nearby Community Shelters, every subway station shelter is bustling. As they say, the more difficult the living conditions, the stronger the New Year atmosphere.

This statement may seem sarcastic, but it is also the reality. Consider the past when the living conditions were not as good as now, the New Year atmosphere was strong. Even now that life has improved, the old times are still missed.

This was because conditions were poor back then, and only during the New Year could they improve.

For people born in the 80s and 90s, although they had meat in their childhood, it was hard to have it in abundance. They might not have kept clothes new for three years, mended for three years and patched up for another three years, like the older generation did, but usually they only got new clothes just before the Spring Festival.

Compared to the current time where you can feast whenever you like and buy clothes whenever you want, such things could only happen during the festival in their days.

Because of these conditions, everyone looked forward to the New Year with full anticipation. That's why people used to say, "The New Year is just around the corner; let's talk about it after the New Year."

The speaker might say it casually, but the listener believed it. However, nowadays, if you say the same words before the New Year, others simply won't believe it and would take it as a lame excuse.

The fruit trees matured yesterday ,and Dong Tianyu sent all the fruits on the branches into the Shadow Space with a wave of his hand.

While packing his bag, he had originally planned to take some of each kind of fruit back for others to taste. But after thinking, he only packed a watermelon and some apples, and replaced the fresh grapes and strawberries with canned ones.

Although he initially planned to visit his parents in the shelter every three months, Dong Tianyu made the trip about every month and a half. Other than the first time when he brought a lot of things, he hardly brought anything afterwards.

The backpack on him was about the size of a primary school student's school bag. Since food was not scarce in the subway shelter, Dong Tianyu basically only brought a few packs of cigarettes, a bottle or two of grain alcohol, some peanut products like peanut beans, salt-baked peanuts of vacuum packaging and such.

These things looked as if they were produced before the disaster, bringing them into the subway station shelter in a small quantity won't attract other people's attention.