Cave Refuge

At Rabbit's Home zoo, although there was also considerable loss, the management structure remained fundamentally stable, unlike the situation at other zoos on Blue Star, which could only be described as existing in name only.

The ones who fared relatively well were Northern Stick, who were the first to make contact with Rabbit's Home, although they did not acquire the Martial Arts Cultivation Technique from Rabbit's Home.

However, because they made contact early and the relationship between the two zoos was decent before the natural disaster, Rabbit shared information related to the Mysterious Core with Northern Stick.

If we say that Rabbit's Home Zoo was managed in a manner characteristic of Rabbit's Home, then the Northern Stick Family's Zoo was managed according to the original version of the management rules.

Nevertheless, since the two zoos belonged to the same lineage, although Rabbit's Home had little contact with Northern Stick, there was not much hostility between them. If there were small favors they could do for each other, they would help out.

Being self-aware, Northern Stick appreciated Rabbit's help and did not cause any trouble, and they continued to manage their zoo according to the original management rules.

But it must be said, Northern Stick Family's current situation was exactly the kind of following advice and ensuring fullness, exemplified by their huge losses after the disaster struck. However, at least the zoo's management structure remained intact, and the zoo could still operate normally.

Even when a new natural disaster occurred, because they had mobilized their entire staff to support a Water Base, they confirmed that gunfire could annihilate Dragon Siphon, so this disaster could no longer pose any threat to them.

However, the situation at Southern Stick was not so good. Before the calamity, their zoo was completely under the control of the Financial Conglomerate, and even the director of the zoo was just one of the many retainers of the Financial Conglomerate.

But those in control of the Financial Conglomerate were mostly from the older, traditionalist group. These people were very slow to accept anything other than making money and enjoying themselves.

Thus, some of the young people in Southern Stick, after acquiring Companion Spiritual Treasures from the Mysterious Core, began to resist these conservative old faction members, and the result, as everyone probably knows, was that they, along with the Basin Chicken from afar, first eliminated those old faction members.

Then they joined forces with Basin Chicken to wipe out the old faction members from Basin Chicken's side.

Although Southern Stick's youth allied with Basin Chicken Family managed to eliminate the old faction members who had controlled them,

The new faction members, being young, did not think of unifying Southern Stick. This resulted in most new faction members, after eliminating the old members and seizing the old members' leftover resources, starting to enjoy life with the resources they received.

However, the appearance of Dragon Siphon turned their negligent behavior into a complete joke. Despite obtaining a final victory, their spoils in terms of firearms were minimal.

Let's not forget that Southern Stick hosted the fleet of Eagle Sauce Family. After the flood, the ships that originally belonged to Eagle Sauce Family simply took away most of Southern Stick's firearms.

The rest, in order to prevent others from using these weapons against them, detonated the Ammunition Depot before leaving, destroying all remaining weapons and ammunition.

So, after the appearance of Dragon Siphon, Southern Stick had no firearms capable of eliminating Dragon Siphon. Therefore, in order to survive, some reluctantly abandoned the resources in their Companion Spiritual Treasures and hid in deep waters.

Others blindly trusted the durability of their Companion Spiritual Treasures, preferring to let Dragon Siphon send their Spiritual Treasures into the sky rather than abandon the resources within them.

Of course, the final outcomes of the two choices were quite different. The first choice, while resulting in the loss of resources they had hoarded for a long time, at least preserved their Companion Spiritual Treasures. Once Dragon Siphon diminished, they could still rise again relying on their own Spiritual Treasures.

Those who chose the second method truly suffered a great deal. Blindly trusting in the durability of their Companion Spiritual Treasures, they ultimately faced the moment when these treasures shattered into pieces upon hitting the water from the air. Not only did the resources within the Companion Spiritual Treasures fall into the water, but the fragmented treasures also turned into streams of light and returned to their Sea of Consciousness.

Although the fragments of the shattered Companion Spiritual Treasures returned to their Sea of Consciousness without missing a single piece, they were unable to summon those fragments back from the Sea of Consciousness.

Luckily, the fragments informed them of the methods to repair them upon returning to the Sea of Consciousness, but looking at the number of Mysterious Cores, which was twice as many as before, they felt extremely regretful about their impulsive behavior.

By this time, the zoo at Southern Stick's area was practically in name only, on the brink of nonexistence.

The situation with Basin Chicken wasn't much different from that of Southern Stick. Largely because members of the New Faction seldom possessed firearms, these members either helplessly abandoned the resources in their Companion Spiritual Treasures or blindly placed their faith in them, leading to outcomes not much different from those in Southern Stick's area.

However, in Basin Chicken's area, apart from those New Faction members, there were also Old Faction families focused intently on cultivating Martial Arts Manuals. Those families rarely bothered with trifles outside their practice.

But whether it was cultivation or anything else, their ultimate goal was actually quite simple: to become stronger, though they themselves had no clear target for how strong.

Nevertheless, this wasn't important. What was important was that they were keenly aware of the significance of combat power at this time, so the big ship they were on wasn't only stocked with many missiles, making this disaster of Dragon Siphon not a severe threat to them.

Because of this, compared to the Southern Stick Family zoo, which was on the verge of closure, the zoo at Rabbit's Home still had several treasures of the zoo, who were now enamored with cultivation and indifferent to external trivial matters.

The situation in the east was roughly as follows; next, let's discuss the north.

There is not much to say about Yak. Mentioning the navy that had only seven elderly soldiers even before the disaster, and the 'ship full of holes,' it's clear that after the flood catastrophe hit, they had already lost any hope of survival.

Compared to the vanished Yak, the situation at Big Hair's place was much better. Known as the Fighting Nation, their native environment was extremely harsh, so even with successive natural disasters, it was only like shifting them up a difficulty level in terms of survival.

Moreover, their zoo was quite large, so after the earthquake ended and Blue Star began to expand, their resources ended up being much more abundant.

Even when the flood struck, compared to Rabbit, who only showed greed at the sight of benefits, Big Hair was able to transform into a Berserker immediately in combat.

Compared to East Asia, which was influenced by Confucianism and began to cultivate refined living habits, Big Hair's habits were cruder due to the climate.

Thus, after obtaining Companion Spiritual Treasures, they leveraged their geographical advantage to recklessly hunt Mysterious Ships, rapidly enhancing their Companion Spiritual Treasures.

If it weren't for Rabbit's Home, where everyone's physical condition had drastically improved due to the practice of Martial Path,

If, like other zoos, physical enhancements were solely dependent on the upgrades from Companion Spiritual Treasures, then in a ranking, Big Hair would certainly be at the top.

This natural disaster, for those who believed in the miracle of brute force like Big Hair, was merely a trivial issue; after all, for them, bigger was synonymous with stronger.

And the larger the explosive device, the easier it was to disrupt the air vortex formed by Dragon Siphon during an explosion.