Cave Refuge

Perhaps it was because the Companion Spiritual Treasure had evolved and acquired the Aquatic Affinity trait, the aquatic creatures, although they chased the bright light and approached the Companion Spiritual Treasure, did not directly attack it.

At this time, Mr. Thompson and a few others staying inside the Companion Spiritual Treasure took the opportunity of the curious aquatic creatures approaching to closely appreciate the rare sight outside the Companion Spiritual Treasure.

Zachary took Mr. Thompson and the four others for a tour underwater for some time. After fully satisfying everyone's curiosity, Zachary then controlled the Companion Spiritual Treasure to resurface.

When the sunlight from the outside world penetrated the cockpit and shone on everyone, Old Jefferson's complexion suddenly changed, and he quickly took a tablet out of his Storage space. As soon as the tablet left the Storage space, it was bombarded non-stop with incoming messages.

The reason why the tablets were still in use was because the Imperial Court had taken advantage of the safe period following the end of the natural disaster and had, at great cost, launched several satellites back into outer space right after finding out about the communication satellite damage.

Seeing Old Jefferson's actions, the other people also quickly took out their communication tablets from their Storage spaces.

Everyone's tablets, just like Old Jefferson's, were bombarded with continuous sounds of incoming messages as soon as they connected to the signal.

In fact, it was not that mobile phones could not be made at this time, but due to the reasons of the communication satellite's wireless signals, therefore satellite antennas needed to be lengthened and thickened. If the communication devices were to be made into the style of mobile phones, then they could only refer to the very early brick phone models with antennas.

Aside from the different styles, the main thing was, whether people carried mobile phones or tablets, it actually affected combat when they were carried in a battle scenario.

However, in a non-combat state, whether it's a mobile phone or a tablet, they don't really take up much space. Moreover, with the popularization of Storage Equipment, after all, the communication devices at this time, were like the earliest brick phones that ordinary people could only look at, it was nearly impossible to purchase.

Because of this, those who could afford communication devices, basically all owned Storage Equipment. So when portability was no longer important, more people gave up mobile phones and turned towards tablets instead.

After all, compared to mobile phones, tablets far surpassed them in signal reception, data storage, and processing speed.

Zachary looked at the dozen or so messages sent by Ye Liuyun on the tablet and responded with a message of safety to him, then checked the information publicly announced by the Imperial Court through the tablet.

This time, the issue that arose with the base was not a unique event; all bases in the Rabbit Zoo had encountered problems and submerged under the water.

Not only the Water Bases that housed many residents, but also some aircraft carriers and large ships basically did not escape and all sank under the water.

Although it hadn't been long since the disaster occurred, the Imperial Court had already published the cause of this disaster through the network.

According to the definition by the Imperial Court, this disaster was a type of natural disaster. After the natural disaster struck, a strange wind with fine yellow particles, like a sandstorm in the desert, swept across the surface of the water.

These strange winds did not cause harm to people or other organisms, but when this strange wind touched metal, it would cause rapid corrosion of the metal.

No matter whether it was ordinary copper, iron, tin, or various Alloy Metals that had been synthetically made, as long as they came into contact with this strange wind, they would inevitably corrode rapidly.

The speed of metal corrosion was rapid, and not only was the rusting speed fast, but it also had a very strong contagion effect. Anything that touched the rusted metal, after coming into contact with other metals, even for less than a second, would cause the contacted metal to quickly show spots of rust.

And that was exactly why this natural disaster caught people at Rabbit Zoo off guard.

After all, many people had become accustomed to living on the Water Bases, and no one had expected that the seemingly impregnable Water Bases would become so vulnerable after this natural disaster struck.

It wasn't even about resistance; there wasn't even a slight window to delay the inevitable.

Of course, if the oxidizing winds had been the first natural disaster to appear after the flood disaster, there is no doubt that this disaster would have been catastrophic for the vast majority of humans.

After all, at that time, most of the survivors had been relying on the Water Platforms previously built by the Imperial Court to continue to survive. Of course, if what appeared first was not the Mysterious Ship but instead the oxidizing winds of this occurrence.

Without getting into other matters, just considering humans not finding other footholds and just drifting on the water, it is believed that even the Martial Artists in the Inner Breath Realm might be close to death after staying in the water for a long time.

But at this time, this disaster, for the vast majority of people, while it would have a major impact on their lives, the damage to the survivors was far less severe than everyone imagined.

First of all, the rusting winds would not harm carbon-based organisms; the biggest victims of the rusting winds were all kinds of metal products.

Although the rusting winds had destroyed the Water Bases, aircraft carriers, and large ships that the Imperial Court had built with difficulty.

But now it wasn't the initial period right after the flood disaster, when the vast majority had not found suitable vessels.

Now, anyone with a bit of intelligence would use the Mysterious Core to obtain their own unique Companion Spiritual Treasure. As long as they used the Black Devil Core to activate the Companion Spiritual Treasure, even if it is the initial state (Raft) of Companion Spiritual Treasure.