Cave Refuge

After all, for Dong Tianyu, efficiently executing tasks actually just required himself alone; more people involved would only mean that he lacked experience in commanding large-scale battles.

Therefore, precisely because Dong Tianyu will likely spend most of his future time wandering alone like a Lone Wolf, it's certain that the more Explosives he purchases, the better, and the more powerful the better.

As for Dong Tianyu's ability to produce so much fruit in one go, the supplier was secretly delighted.

After all, compared to the delicious fruits that Dong Tianyu brought out, which also assist in Cultivation Level, the supplier's Explosives were hard to sell most of the time, especially as the number of Awakeners continued to increase, leaving fewer and fewer scenarios suited for Explosives. Otherwise, the supplier would not have accumulated so much stock.

Returning home with a full haul, the first thing Dong Tianyu did was find a bed to rest, as traveling back and forth had drained a lot of his Spirit, and a good sleep was the most effective remedy for spiritual exhaustion.

When Dong Tianyu woke up, he discovered that the two suns were still hanging high in the sky.

Wait a minute!

That's not right!

Standing in front of the window, Dong Tianyu rubbed his eyes, wondering if he was groggy from sleep and hadn't woken up properly, questioning how there could possibly be two suns in the sky.

But as Dong Tianyu shook his head to clear it and looked up again, his gaze through the window still saw two suns suspended high in the sky.

After confirming three times that there was nothing wrong with his eyes and he was indeed not seeing things, Dong Tianyu immediately picked up the internet device and logged onto a website to check the information online.

At this point in time, because it is strictly real-name system and even detailed to the residential bases, there are no paid internet commentators or other kinds of online trolls.

Therefore, the information on the internet is relatively accurate and trustworthy, and issues like two suns hanging in the sky would have already been discussed by people.

Just as Dong Tianyu thought, the internet was already in an uproar, as not just now with the double suns – even if ten suns had suddenly appeared, the Chinese People would have historical records.

Of course, if indeed ten suns were to appear simultaneously, then, unless some accident were discovered, perhaps finding a suitable place to lay down might allow one to die more comfortably.

After roughly browsing the messages online, Dong Tianyu realized he had not slept very long, at most just over ten hours.

Last night at midnight, the dark night was suddenly dispersed by sunlight, and many night owls who hadn't gone to bed felt as if they had stayed up all night.

But when they checked the time, only to realize it was actually midnight, the brightly lit sky outside nevertheless reminded them that a new day had come.

So at the beginning, the most discussed topic online was about the reversal of day and night.

But when it reached about six o'clock in the morning, someone suddenly noticed that a second sun was slowly rising from the distant horizon.

Facing the sudden appearance of two suns, many people's sense of disaster awareness was aroused.

Facing such a Natural Disaster, many people would guess in their minds whether new suns would continue to rise, as almost every Chinese person should know the mythological tale of Hou Yi shooting the suns.

But now, with just the double suns, the outdoor temperature had already increased slightly, and should ten suns hang in the sky, no one knew how much the temperature might soar.

Just as Dong Tianyu was speculating whether they would encounter worse situations, he suddenly received a text message from the Officials.

The content of the message was simple: if the outdoor temperature continues to rise in the next few days, residents who lack cooling measures inside the base could try to seek relief from the heat in the newly constructed underground drainage channels.

When the Officials rebuilt the residential areas, they dug an exclusive underground drainage channel beneath each building.

The initial reason for digging such large underground drainage channels was, of course, for drainage: in case of heavy rainfall in the future, having sufficiently large underground drainage channels would help minimize water accumulation within the base to the greatest extent.

Besides, because the Magic Capital Base was newly replanned and constructed, and for some reason, the scrutiny of the construction plans was not as detailed.

Therefore, when designing the base, because there was no threat from other countries, no air-raid shelters were included in the plans.

However, by the end of the reconstruction, the survivors who had relied on air-raid shelters to save their lives found that not only were no new air-raid shelters built, but the existing ones were also filled in, leading to many protests and a commotion among the people.

After all, times have changed. In the past, negligence might at worst lead to some financial loss, but now, any oversight might pose a threat to life.

So, when the survivors who had survived a disaster by hiding in air-raid shelters learned that the reconstruction did not include any, they immediately stirred up trouble.

However, as the construction of air-raid shelters is quite difficult, to appease those people, a more spacious underground sewer was specially created. Under normal circumstances, it could serve the daily sewage drainage, and in an emergency, it could also act as a temporary refuge.

Although this solution still did not satisfy the majority of people, since the entire base was under reconstruction and there were only a few capable construction teams, the protests did yield some results, but ultimately only led to the development of a large drainage channel similar to those seen in foreign countries before the natural disaster.

Originally, it was thought that this underground drainage channel might not be used for a long time, but to everyone's surprise, an invitation to occupy it was issued just a few days after its completion.

After receiving the message, Dong Tianyu immediately left his room to check the situation in the underground drainage channel.

As he walked down the stairs, Dong Tianyu found that most residents at home shared a similar mindset: although unsure about where they might temporarily evacuate to later, it was best to go down and inspect the environment below now.

Because the infrastructure team worked on it together, there were stairs that led directly to the underground drainage channels from the stairwells.

The residents of the building together opened the big door leading to the underground sewage channel, turned on the stairwell lights, and walked down together.

The stairs zigzagged ten times, and under normal circumstances, with two bends for each floor and approximately three meters per floor, the underground sewage channel should be located around fifteen meters underground.

This depth is not particularly deep but also not shallow; it's generally sufficient for most natural disasters, as long as there's no internal flooding.

As previously mentioned, the design of the underground drainage channel was circular, and at first, Dong Tianyu was somewhat puzzled by this choice. Before natural disasters, underground passages were circular because shield tunneling machines could only create round tunnels underground.

However, as their construction this time relied on superpowers to excavate the channels, he couldn't understand why a circular shape was necessary when a square tunnel would offer higher utilization.

Yet, when Dong Tianyu and his group actually arrived here, they saw hooks protruding like hoops on both sides of the circular passage. Initially, no one understood the purpose of these hooks.

But when they found an introduction chart showing that those hooks were actually anchor points for installing hammocks, that's when Dong Tianyu and the others realized, the Officials had made use of every bit of space in the circular channel design—they truly are professionals, unlike amateurs like them.