Cave Refuge

Luckily, although it was raining outside, the weather was still relatively suitable. Therefore, many people who moved in the rain did not get sick with cold.

However, the appearance of the flood, not only overwhelmed the emergency supplies stored by survivors living in the middle and lower floors, but also engulfed the supplies reserved by the officials.

Let alone places like the granary or the material reserve warehouse, the flood engulfed them all. At this time, the materials that the officials could use were nearly equal to the amount the common people had.

Even though the flood was not sudden, no one paid much attention at the beginning. When the water level rose, the officials did take some preventive measures in advance but were still caught off guard by the steadily rising water level.

At the point, the officials could only reluctantly abandon the materials in the warehouse and transfer as many materials as possible that could be taken away.

However, even so, for a city with a large population like Pengcheng, it was still like a drop in the bucket.

With the continuously rising water level, the warehouses that originally stored emergency supplies were gradually submerged.

These warehouses were set up by the officials to collect and store supplies before the Cold Catastrophe arrived after the electromagnetic pulse. Besides storing a small number of main grains, there were also a large number of food, medicine, and daily necessities inside.

Originally, without the occurrence of floods, even if the extreme cold did not end, these materials stored in the warehouses were enough for the survivors in Pengcheng to consume for one to two years.

However, the appearance of the flood directly submerged these material warehouses. Although some materials were waterproof packaged, when the water level rose by twenty or thirty meters, it was very difficult for ordinary people to dredge these materials from the water.

Although Pengcheng had a river port, there was no professional salvage team. It was difficult to dredge the supplies submerged underwater.

With the passage of time, the terrifying heavy rain gradually diminished. Even though it had already submerged Pengcheng, the dark rainy days never ended, and there was occasional rain from the sky from time to time.

The gloomy sky completely blocked the sun. For some reason, it can be clearly felt that the flood that submerged Pengcheng always flows in one direction, but the water level that submerged the city never decreases.

After a few days, the continuous heavy rain finally stopped, but the occasional random rain seemed to constantly tell the survivors that the flood was not over yet.

As the rain gradually stopped, Dong Tianyu also felt like going to the city area to have a look.

Since the appearance of the system, Dong Tianyu's mentality gradually shifted from a survivor to a gamer. With enough material reserves, Dong Tianyu has always been observing the changes in Pengcheng with the idea of an outsider.

He prepared supplies for his parents proactively, and the rest of the time did not intervene and only silently observed the changes in Pengcheng under natural disasters.

This mentality is very similar to how people watch movies. Even though they may empathize, they cannot change the plot.

Maybe Dong Tianyu inadvertently made some changes to Pengcheng, such as collecting materials, affected the official reserves for emergency supplies.

But these changes, on a larger scale, had no impact. For example, the materials absorbed by Dong Tianyu, even if they were not taken by Dong Tianyu, would still be submerged by the flood, and eventually rot and deteriorate under the water.

As for the vessels Dong Tianyu collected in Pengcheng port, it does not affect Pengcheng's current predicament.

The specific reason had already been explained in the beginning. The rising water level would allow the vessels that were docked in Pengcheng port to experience two situations.

Because the length of the iron chain that connected the anchor to the ship was not long enough, those ships either were dragged into the water by the anchor or, because of the rising water level, the anchor could not function to fix the ship. Hence, the ships began to drift away from Pengcheng port.

That's why Dong Tianyu unscrupulously absorbed and decomposed all the ships lying on the ice surface.

As the rain in Pengcheng gradually stopped, the officials took action again. Compared to the Cold Catastrophe that appeared last time, communications were not destroyed by the flood, even though Pengcheng was submerged.

It was precisely because of this that the officials could always have control over Pengcheng.

Besides, the presence of the inner harbor in Pengcheng made setting up port authorities essential. Although there may not have many ships in the unit, some smart people boarded the ship and lifted the anchor in advance when the water level rose.

However, due to the electromagnetic pulse, several of the more advanced new ships are already paralyzed. Except for being able to rise with the water level to avoid being submerged, they have basically lost the ability to actively navigate.

But even so, the whole ship is still intact, it could still be used as a temporary refuge after the flood.

The situation in Pengcheng was average in Daxia. In coastal cities like Magic City, the rise in water level far exceeded that of inland cities. However, these cities were generally more developed, with tall buildings everywhere, making it easy to find a place that was not submerged.

As for some less developed coastal cities, they mostly depended on sea farming. There were often large-scale near-sea farming areas around these cities. The pontoons in these farming areas could rise continuously with the water level, never to be submerged by the sea.

Moreover, many people lived on the pontoons for a long time, which led to various living materials left on many pontoons. Although it might not last for long, it was much luckier than the survivors who escaped empty-handed in the inland cities.

Besides, the luckiest might be the survivors near the desert. For many days, the heavy rain nourished the originally dehydrated desert. A lot of rainwater flowed into the ground along the dry sand, and there was no standing water on the ground.

Even if there was prolonged rainfall, it would only make the originally dry desert a bit moist, but there was no standing water on the ground.

If to talk about the city in Daxia that was least affected by the flood, one has to mention Doyle City, a city built in the mountains. The mountain city, which has excellent drainage facilities, was not affected when the snow melted. Further, it wasn't greatly impacted during successive rainy days either.

In this flood, the mountain city seemed to be treated as a chosen child by the heavens.

If the Cold Catastrophe was impartial to all the survivors, then the flood had a special preference for some areas. Unfortunately, Pengcheng was not among the cities preferred by the flood.

As the rain gradually stopped, no matter whether it was favored by the flood or not, all the cities in Daxia, not only carried out rescue operations for the residents in the city, but also began to contact the surrounding cities through communication equipment to inquire about their disaster situations.

Even if the water level had not started to drop, the officials had already begun to prepare for post-disaster reconstruction actions.