Cave Refuge

At this time, instead of staying safe at home, they were actually taking the initiative to leave their homes, which Dong Tianyu found quite strange.

Anyway, since there was no way to track down that inexplicably vanished guy from his Divine Sense, Dong Tianyu simply decided to pause for a moment, to see what those people, who were leaving their rooms with their families at this time, were really up to.

Right now, under Dong Tianyu's constant Divine Sense observation, those people continued to head downstairs, and even when they reached the ground floor, they showed no intention of leaving the building. Instead, they kept heading further down the stairs.

The stairs led down to the underground drainage system Dong Tianyu had just toured not long before. He really didn't know what to make of that family's actions at the moment.

In fact, Dong Tianyu was unaware that the ten suns in the sky kept every outdoor location constantly under unobstructed illumination.

If the sunlight had been softer, perhaps it wouldn't have caused any problems, but right now every inch of land outside was bathed in blinding light.

For anyone stepping out of their rooms, not to mention that most people did not have sunglasses at hand.

Even if they did have sunglasses, the light outside was so intense at the moment that stepping outdoors was like facing a 400,000-lumen bulb head-on. With sunglasses on, one could only see a blob of white light, unable to adjust the brightness seen by the eyes.

Even the sunlight shining through the windows into the rooms, for some reason, seemed to turn the floor and walls into mirrors, capable of reflecting the dazzling light indoors continuously, ultimately transforming the indoor environment to be the same as outdoors.

Now, the dazzling rays outside, much like what Dong Tianyu had originally described as light pollution, where any sliver of space allowing the light to shine directly into a house, would soon be overflown with blinding light, filling every inch of the room like flowing water.

Facing this situation, normal people couldn't endure, so there arose situations like the one Dong Tianyu just observed with his Divine Sense; since staying at home had become untenable, it simply made more sense to take refuge in the underground drainage system.

No one could have imagined that what was originally just a measure to soothe people's emotions would now become a rather reliable Refuge Center.

Because Dong Tianyu had already covered all the windows of this house with thick curtains, although through his Divine Sense he could sense that other families within the building were leaving their homes to hide in the underground drainage system.

But Dong Tianyu couldn't fathom why those people would abandon their comfortable homes to instead live in the underground drainage tunnels.

At the moment, Dong Tianyu did not realize another drawback of his Divine Sense: it couldn't grasp the true condition of the outdoor light.

In fact, Dong Tianyu didn't even need to leave the building now; if he just opened the door to his room and observed the hallway, he would understand.

At this moment, the hallway was completely filled with white light, and when most people opened their doors, all they could see was a vast expanse of whiteness, unable to discern any of the surroundings.

The outside world was now like a pitch-black night where one couldn't see their hand in front of their face, and no one would have thought that pure brightness could obscure human vision as darkness does.

While Dong Tianyu was focused on probing the surroundings with his Divine Sense, he failed to notice that the curtains, made from thickened fabric, were beginning to glow faintly.

Logically, the thickened fabric of the curtains should have been enough to block any light, but it wasn't long before Dong Tianyu hung them up that the outdoor light seemed determined to pierce through the curtains, causing him some concern.

Furthermore, the sudden appearance and mysterious disappearance of something in Dong Tianyu's Divine Sense only added to his sense of unease.

After thinking it over briefly, Dong Tianyu decided to follow suit with the rest, although he wasn't sure how long the thick curtains would hold, but he supposed they wouldn't last very long.

So Dong Tianyu immediately got up, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw the stairwell was filled with dazzling light, a common stairwell that normally had only one window for ventilation on each floor.

Yet in this ordinarily unremarkable environment, at this moment, every spot was filled with white light without a single blind corner.

Logically speaking, due to the design structure, no matter how good the sunlight outside is, there would inevitably be some shadows after it shines into the stairwell.

But the light at this time was like ubiquitous water, wherever it appeared, as long as there was enough of it, it would inevitably submerge every inch of space.

Opening the door to the stairwell that had become a vast expanse of white, even though Zachary stood inside the room with sunglasses on, he was already unable to see the front door of his parents' house across from him.

Although the distance between the two doors was less than ten meters, under the illumination of the white light, there was a situation of not being able to see one's own hand when stretched out.

And just in the less than a minute since Zachary opened the door, the white light that was originally confined to the stairwell started to gradually enter the room behind him.

The light entering the stairwell from the outside world was indeed like the light pollution Zachary mentioned; even without direct exposure, as long as there was a tiny gap, it would eventually fill the entire room with light.

Fortunately, even though the white light completely obscured Zachary's vision, with the help of his Divine Sense, the dazzling light had some impact, but the impact was not too severe.

However, even if the light had no effect on Zachary, it was not a good thing for the elderly couple.

Therefore, before encountering other problems, Zachary decided to first send his parents to the underground drainage channel.

After this idea came to mind, Zachary immediately stepped out of the room and went straight to the door across, and though he didn't have the key to the opposite door, facing such sophisticated locks had little impact on him.

Just as he got to the doorway across, Zachary's steps paused briefly before he pulled the door open with a casual tug.

Mr. Thompson, who was inside the room, hearing the sudden opening of the door, immediately took out a dark golden pistol. Although the appearance of the gun was very cool, its power was also significant.

This pistol not only had the ability to switch between single-fire and automatic firing modes, but it also had the capacity to shoot special bullets.

With the overall Realm of Martial Artists in China gradually increasing, small-caliber weapons like pistols, with their relatively weak power, now pose little threat to Martial Artists.

But the pistol in Mr. Thompson's hand was different; it was cast from a special alloy. This alloy had many downsides, but its only two advantages made those downsides negligible.

The two advantages of this alloy were that it was exceptionally sturdy and that it could absorb recoil, releasing it all at once when a certain threshold was reached.

When Mr. Thompson first got the gun and showed it to Zachary, upon learning about its abilities, he suddenly felt a very familiar sense of déjà vu.

The first advantage of sturdiness doesn't need much explanation, but the second advantage, under normal usage, once the trigger is pulled and the bullet leaves the barrel, there is a strong recoil, which anyone who uses guns for a long period is aware of.

However, with a gun made from this metal, after firing, it can directly absorb the recoil produced by the bullet's ejection, turning the gun into a weapon completely without recoil.

But that's not the key; most importantly, after absorbing enough recoil, the user can convert the stored recoil into impact force on the next shot, increasing the bullet's velocity and penetrating power.

This is like the passive ability of Caitlyn, the Sheriff of Piltover, in League of Legends: after firing several regular bullets, one receives an enhanced shot.