Cave Refuge

Although they hadn’t planned on reconstructing the City Center of Original City, the Officials still reopened the two main roads that originally traversed east-west and north-south through Pengcheng.

After all, due to the earthquake, the survivors who once lived within the City Center had already relocated outward. Despite Pengcheng being small, the survivors now residing there have been divided into four different camps.

As Dong Tianyu and Ye Liuyun crossed the east-west road that ran through the Pengcheng urban area, they noticed a giant tree at the location of Pengville Plaza in the City Center of Pengcheng.

In fact, ever since the earthquake ended and giant trees burst forth from the soil, the trees that appeared on the once barren land were those kinds that couldn’t be encircled by three or five people together, like in an animated cartoon.

However, the giant tree that appeared in the City Center of Pengcheng had not been measured carefully, but just by looking at it, they could tell that it couldn’t be encircled by a dozen people.

The giant tree located at Pengville Plaza in the City Center of Original City had become a forbidden zone for humans.

Near that giant tree were several Bug Nests, which were among the first to start preying on small prehistoric creatures and also the first to mutate, preying on Martial Artists in the Body Tempering Realm.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Dong Tianyu suddenly asked Ye Liuyun while chatting casually, "Don’t you think Pengcheng seems to have gotten a bit larger now?"

Hearing Dong Tianyu’s question, Ye Liuyun understood instantly, "Are you suggesting that Blue Star might’ve expanded?"

Upon hearing Ye Liuyun’s response, Dong Tianyu nodded and continued, "The last catastrophe caused many new fissures to appear on the ground, isn’t that just like stretching and pulling a piece of paper to increase its coverage area?

And after the earthquake, countless giant trees continued to break through the soil, conveniently covering up the traces of the torn landscape."

Because the giant trees obstructed everyone’s view, so at the time, they were unclear whether Blue Star had expanded or not.

But this time as we drive across Pengcheng, you know the speed of the car and how much distance we’ve covered.

Originally, the main routes within the third ring road from east to west were at most about ten-plus kilometers, and that wasn’t even a straight-line distance.

This time, the newly opened roads within the third ring should follow a straight line and normally shouldn’t exceed ten kilometers in length.

But look, we’ve already driven about thirteen or fourteen kilometers and still haven’t left what used to be inside the third ring road.

From the abandoned objects on both sides of the road, I saw many familiar landmarks, plus I used the giant tree at Pengville Plaza in the distance for positioning.

According to the situation before the catastrophe, we would only be just past the City Center now, not yet reaching the children’s Hospital that was in Pengcheng before the cataclysm, meaning we’re still some distance away from People’s Square where we used to live."

Hearing Dong Tianyu say this, Ye Liuyun subconsciously glanced at the odometer on the dashboard, but since he hadn’t paid attention to the numbers on the odometer when they got into the car, he now couldn’t confirm if what Dong Tianyu said was true.

However, Ye Liuyun had just seen a familiar landmark and had made a rough estimate of their location, so paying attention to the numbers on the odometer here and seeing how far they had driven by the time they reached Saxon County Camp would tell them if Dong Tianyu was correct or not.

With that thought, Ye Liuyun’s foot unconsciously pressed down harder, and the speed of the car suddenly increased significantly.

However, when the road was being opened, knowing that it was the main east-west thoroughfare, they made it very wide.

Plus, there weren’t many private cars running on the road now, so even with the increased speed, it wouldn’t cause any issues.

Along the way, the two men saw the Refuge Center where they had once lived now turned into ruins. Some survivors were still sifting through the rubble, trying to find something that could still be used.

But it had been a long time since the earthquake ended, and even if there were useful things left, likely, other survivors had already picked them up. The chances of finding something useful now were probably slim to none.

Ye Liuyun quietly calculated the distance they had just covered and found that they had indeed traveled much farther than before the disaster.

When they reached the position of the western third ring road, this feeling became even clearer.

Upon their arrival at the Saxon County Camp, Ye Liuyun made a point of checking the odometer on the dashboard. What used to be a maximum journey of fifteen kilometers before the disaster, according to the actual distance on the odometer, now stretched close to thirty kilometers.

That was far more substantial than the modest expansion Dong Tianyu had mentioned; it was practically doubled.

But then Ye Liuyun reconsidered, what did it matter to him? The world had already deteriorated to this state; the size of the land had little impact on him now.

During the time they had been away, the camp in Saxon County also underwent quite a few changes, with the most visible being that the camp had grown larger, or you could say another wall had been built.

Strangely enough, whether it was due to Mr. Luo’s trip to Kyoto or not, on their third day in Kyoto, the Pengcheng Government sent a satellite phone to the camp.

Moreover, the military camp that had been living far away had somehow merged with the camp, and the most incredible part was that after the merger, the members of the elder’s group had become the highest leaders.

To speak frankly, this was like a domestic dog from the countryside somehow blending into a tiger pack, not only integrating perfectly but also attaining the position of the leader.