Cave Refuge

When Dong Tianyu learned from Mrs. Thompson about the matters at hand, he understood why the Imperial Court would offer such compensation this time.

Considering the most severely affected area is the city center, the closer to the edge, the less it seemed affected by the disaster,

After all, most people are not bothered by the scarcity but rather the unfair distribution, but Dong Tianyu belonged to the advantaged side and thus naturally did not say much more.

As a beneficiary, it would not be appropriate for Dong Tianyu to comment excessively.

It's like when driving, one hopes pedestrians will yield, but when walking, expects drivers to give way.

What one thinks depends entirely on which side they are on.

However, when Dong Tianyu heard from Mrs. Thompson that the reconstructed houses would have running water and electricity, he guessed that the rebuilding of the central buildings of the Magic Capital Base might also have received resources allocated by the Imperial Court.

Ever since there were issues in the Imperial Capital, the office area where the Imperial Court was located had moved out of the Imperial Capital. Dong Tianyu was wondering where the Imperial Court would move to, but after hearing about the Secret Realm from Grayson Todd, Dong Tianyu naturally deduced that the Imperial Court must have already moved to somewhere within a Secret Realm.

Based on the Secret Realm information revealed by Grayson Todd, Dong Tianyu estimated that the Secret Realm should be similar to a Cave mansion before it was upgraded; though the entrance is fixed in a certain area, its internal space has no connection with the outside world.

This means that no matter how dire the conditions outside, it would not affect the interior of the Secret Realm.

Only in this way could the Imperial Court secure a stable work area, and the preservation and research of recorded technologies could be resumed.

It's actually quite good, although the concentration of Spirit Power in the air has stopped increasing, the continuous appearance of Space Transmission Channels has brought crises to humanity and other life on Blue Star which are even more dangerous than various Natural Disasters.

At this time, aside from humans, only a very few of the pre-disaster animals and plants have managed to survive until now.

And most animals and plants encountered in the wild now are either those that appeared during the various Natural Disasters or those that came from Different Dimensions to Blue Star, whether actively or passively, after the opening of the Space Transmission Channels.

Because of this, Blue Star now has more varieties of plants and animals than before the Natural Disasters.

Unfortunately, humans, who once roamed any corner of Blue Star, now have explored less than ten percent of Blue Star. Dong Tianyu is not very clear about the situation outside of China, after the Natural Disasters and invasions from Otherworldly Creatures.

But for the survivors in mainland bases within China, their activity radius is basically limited to the areas around the bases, and everyone will return to the cities before dark, not staying outside the bases overnight.

It's only coastal bases like Magic City that would send personnel to explore external conditions.

After all, at this time, China is very much like a once powerful feudal dynasty; even in times of great national strength, it gradually became backward due to a lack of interaction with the outside world.

Being backward means facing consequences, so even though there is now a shortage of population, the Imperial Court still formulated plans for external exploration, and although it is not mandatory for others to explore, the Imperial Court has provided generous rewards to encourage people to venture out on their own.

However, compared to pre-disaster times, many of the infrastructure constructions now not only do not require bulky engineering machinery but can be easily completed by a few Artifact Masters or Awakeners doing what was hard to achieve before the disaster.

Like the Civil Engineering Sect exhausted the last of its Sect Destiny with a final swing: they completed the construction of Fire God Mountain Hospital in just ten days.

After that, the Civil Engineering Sect, as if all its Destiny was consumed, slowly started to decline in all related matters.

Perhaps the Natural Disasters had reshuffled the Destiny, and the Sect's Destiny began to recover gradually.

From what Dong Tianyu knows, initially, Martial Artists could only serve as a partial substitute for some construction machinery, slightly accelerating the building process.

But as time passed, more and more Artifact Masters joined the Civil Engineering Sect.

With the addition of these Artifact Masters, tasks previously unsuitable for Martial Artists to replace were gradually taken over by various Artifact Masters.

And when Awakeners who could directly manipulate various elements appeared, the Sect's Destiny once again peaked.

Dong Tianyu thought that since the residential area they lived in had become ruins, they needed to find another place to live temporarily.

But Dong Tianyu never expected that the construction team arranged by the Officials would enter their neighborhood before nightfall.

With an Awakener invoking their power, the various piles of building debris immediately turned to yellow mud and merged into the ground.

After the person completed the Spell, the ground had become spotless and empty - if Dong Tianyu had not witnessed the whole process, he might have thought that this place was always a vacant lot.

After all, if we adhere to the law of conservation of Energy, even if the opponent used a spell to turn building debris into mud, the height of the land inside the neighborhood should be much higher than the outer ring.