Cave Refuge

Although the queue for entering the city at the gate was somewhat long, based on Dong Tianyu's observations of the pace at which the line moved, the entry inspection process should not be complicated, otherwise the movement of the queue would not be so swift.

After the three of them reached the end of the line and started queuing, it further confirmed Dong Tianyu's earlier speculation.

It took less than a daytime for the Thompson family of three to have their turn for the city entry inspection, which was very simple. A dedicated instrument was waved around each person's throat, and as long as the instrument showed green, then the person could easily pass through.

When the machine displayed a red light, the nearby government officials would immediately take action, subdue the person being inspected, and after securing and binding them without delay, they would take the subdued person away.

Seeing that the site for inspection was the throat, Dong Tianyu immediately understood that it seemed the monsters that had infiltrated their previous camp had also invaded the Magic Capital Base. Since Ye Liuyun could get the instruments to detect those monsters, it was not surprising that the Imperial Court also possessed such devices.

After all, at this time, only the Imperial Court could have preserved those scientific technologies in their entirety.

The Thompson family, not controlled by monsters, naturally passed the entrance inspection very smoothly. As soon as they left the deep city gate, they were greeted by the bustling and spacious streets.

Dong Tianyu glanced back at the base's city gate and, estimating the close distance of the gate tunnel by steps, surprisingly noticed that it was about fifty to nearly sixty meters long.

For this estimated result, Dong Tianyu was somewhat incredulous for a moment, as the length of a gate tunnel is also indicative of the thickness of the city walls, which are normally around ten to twenty meters thick. A thickness of thirty meters was already extremely rare.

However, after Dong Tianyu used his Divine Sense to verify again, he found that the distance he initially estimated with his steps was not wrong; the thickness of the Magic Capital Base's city walls did indeed have a thickness close to sixty meters. With this thickness of the walls, using ordinary missiles to penetrate them would not be easy.

Let alone these walls, even the ancient walls that were ten to twenty meters thick, to directly destroy them using explosives would require a significant amount of Explosives.

In novels where the protagonist travels to ancient times, relying on making black powder to besiege cities, they could easily destroy city gates, but toppling the walls directly was also not impossible; it just needed a significant amount of Explosives.

However, since ancient sieges had reached the point where ladders were used to climb the walls, getting a large amount of explosives to the base of the wall was not too difficult.

Although the thickness of the walls does not necessarily represent the city's defensive power against external threats, the robust walls still have the reassuring effect of protecting the survivors within the city during times of danger.

Compared to the desolate scenes they encountered along the way, the lively crowd-filled streets within the city indeed brought a great sense of contrast to the Thompson family.

Just as the three of them were unsure what to do next and were about to discuss it, suddenly, the communication devices on all three of them rang at the same time.

The communication devices of the Thompson family were all top-of-the-line communicators that Dong Tianyu bought at a high price in the base during the flood disaster. The biggest difference between their top-of-the-line communicators and ordinary ones is that ordinary communicators can only receive information emitted from signal towers built in the base.

Whereas the communicators in their hands could receive information disseminated from special satellites, which China had taken advantage of the intermittent periods of the Natural Disaster to integrate and build using technological means and Awakening Skills and sent into space.

To put it in simpler terms, it's like the difference between ordinary mobile phones and satellite phones before the Natural Disaster.

Aside from a different source of receiving signals, there is actually another key function, which is the satellite positioning feature commonly used by everyone before the Natural Disaster occurred. Ordinary communicators, although they also have a navigation function, can only be used within their own base settlement. Once leaving the base, the navigation function will inevitably fail.

It is because of this that Dong Tianyu spent a lot of money to purchase top-tier communicators for himself and his parents. Because these communicators receive satellite signals, they can maintain the same global navigation functions that the common smartphones had before the Natural Disaster.

On this journey, the reason why Dong Tianyu was able to accurately locate the Magic Capital Base after bypassing all the forests is due to the global positioning navigation feature on his communicator.

Although at this time the navigation function on the communicator can only lock on to the target area without the ability to plan a route, having a clear location still allowed Dong Tianyu to accurately find the Magic Capital Base despite having changed his route countless times.

Therefore, the importance of the communicators in their hands is absolutely no less than the Storage Equipment that Dong Tianyu gave to Father Dong and Mother Dong.

After all, the most dangerous things in the wilderness are losing all supplies and losing one's way. Possessing a top-tier communicator means never losing direction in the wild.

However, creating a top-tier communicator is not simple. Just like the satellites launched into space initially, their manufacture involves a perfect blend of scientific approaches and Awakening Skills. Precisely because Awakening Skills are needed during production, the yield of these top-tier communicators is actually not high.

Dong Tianyu was one of the earliest customers to buy a communicator. At the time, most people did not value the location navigation function that all phones had before the Natural Disaster, so only a very small number of people were willing to purchase top-tier communicators.

Most chose to save money by buying communicators that could only be used within the base, since, barring any accidents, most would never leave the camp.

Because there were few buyers at that time, Dong Tianyu was able to directly purchase three top-tier communicators. When the Hunting Team going out to hunt realized the global positioning capability of the top-tier communicators, these communicators sold out instantly. Afterwards, due to difficulties in manufacturing, it gradually turned into a queued purchase system with limitations.

At this time, whether sending or receiving messages, you had to pay a fee, and this fee was not cheap. So, unlike the smartphones before the Natural Disaster, you wouldn't receive spam texts or harassing calls from time to time.

At this moment, the communicators of the three individuals simultaneously rang. It couldn't possibly be such a coincidence that it was a contact message from a friend. Judging from the act of ringing at the same time, it should be a kind of mass message.

The three of them took out their communicators with some curiosity and started to read the message they received.

The content of the message is very simple. First, it welcomed them to the Magic Capital Base, and then it briefly introduced the rules they need to abide by within the Magic Capital Base. Next, it informed them that if it was their first time coming to the Magic Capital Base,

and they were not familiar with it, they could first go to the Magic Capital Base Office. There, not only could they get detailed information about all aspects of life in the Magic Capital, but they could also register and settle down in the Magic Capital Base.

The Magic Capital Base now is not like the Magic City before the Natural Disaster, where population explosion meant you needed to meet a variety of difficult conditions to settle down. Although Dong Tianyu and his party saw the very prosperous scene inside the Magic Capital Base when they first entered,

the population settled in the Magic Capital Base hasn't even reached half of the theoretically allowable number of settlers. Precisely because of this, leveraging on its desire to attract a large population, the Magic Capital Base made settling in not difficult.

Not only the Magic Capital Base, but almost all bases controlled by the Imperial Court have the same situation. Therefore, as long as you have a top-tier communicator, no matter which base controlled by the Imperial Court you enter, you will receive the same message.