Cave Refuge-Chapter 146 - 145 Ultimately a Mortal_1

Dong Tianyu instinctively felt somewhat repelled.

He didn’t want anyone else to enter his cave mansion.

To tell the truth from his conscience, Dong Tianyu might actually be a selfish person. Although he often invited his parents home, intending to take them back to live in the cave mansion.

But every time, he could find various reasons to convince himself to let his parents stay in the official’s Refuge Center.

If actions speak louder than intentions, and if intentions reflect a person’s worth, then Dong Tianyu is no saint.

In fact, if his parents really wanted to live in the cave mansion, Dong Tianyu would almost certainly not refuse, otherwise, he wouldn’t have invited them repeatedly.

However, just like now, as long as his parents refuse, Dong Tianyu would not force them to come over. After each time his parents refused, instead of feeling regret, a hint of slight relief would arise in Dong Tianyu’s heart.

Dong Tianyu’s thoughts and actions might seem contradictory, but in fact, Dong Tianyu is just an ordinary person. Even though he has succeeded in attaining a higher state of mind, his deepest thoughts have never changed.

In the end, without any significant love or evil, Dong Tianyu’s ’mortal heart’ remains.

However, since he didn’t want others to live in his cave mansion and reveal its secrets,

There was only one method, which is commonly used by most men: to hide a mistress.

The current catastrophe has become a severe heat, and in his past life, Dong Tianyu survived until the eternal night, the next natural disaster.

So, the experience from his past life is about to fade; if he wants to establish a hideaway, he needs to plan it carefully now.

The situation in the scorching heat doesn’t need much explanation. With Dong Tianyu’s intentional and unintentional intervention, the survivors in Pengcheng are living better lives than what he remembered.

Although it hasn’t changed the fact that the scorching heat has hit, in the period between the end of the flood and the arrival of the heat wave, the officials had the survivors plant short-term crops.

Although the crops planted did not mature before the scorching heatwave hit, once the heatwave arrived, the outdoors turned into a natural drying field. Those grains, although not fully matured, could be processed into grain bricks for storage after being ground.

Although the taste might not be great when consumed, it is sufficient to satisfy hunger. After all, during the flood disaster, aquatic plants were dried and ground into powder to be added to the grain bricks.

Besides resources, the current situation in the Refuge Center is much better than before. At least in Dong Tianyu’s memory, the Refuge Center where he stayed didn’t receive any ice cubes to reduce the temperature, nor were there any biogas pits opened in the underground Refuge Center.

This is why, due to the lack of lighting equipment, Dong Tianyu would go out idly to search for supplies, which resulted in his unexpected death.

Now, most of the underground Refuge Centers have built biogas pits. Although the power generation may not be significant, it is more than enough to maintain the lighting in the Refuge Center.

However, given that the living conditions in the Refuge Center are ’decent’ now, if one wants to establish a love nest and hide a mistress, it requires careful planning.

In fact, Dong Tianyu had contemplated this plan for hiding a mistress. Honestly speaking, even without the system upgrading the Refuge Center into a cave mansion, Dong Tianyu would have considered it early on.

Why would he tell the villagers at the foot of the mountain in the first place that he planned to build tunnels to escape the mountain?

It was all to have an excuse to invite some ’appropriate’ guests to the mountain. As long as the timing is right, Dong Tianyu could easily persuade these guests to ’voluntarily’ stay in the Refuge Center.

Don’t think that Dong Tianyu is a bad person. If the system hadn’t appeared, the lives of the guests staying in the cave would definitely be better than those in the underground Refuge Center built by officials.

Before the disaster, Dong Tianyu would only restrict their freedom, and after the disaster, he would allow them to make their own choices ’democratically’.

If they decide to stay, they must make a ’contribution’ satisfactory to Dong Tianyu.

If they don’t want to stay, they can brave the 20 to 30 degrees below zero temperature, and assuming they don’t lose their way, they could walk for three to four hours to reach the nearest Refuge Center.

However, these were all initial thoughts, and due to the emergence of the system, Dong Tianyu did not carry them out eventually.

The situation now is not quite the same as before. Back then, even if Dong Tianyu told the truth to others, they would not believe him. Therefore, he would directly restrict their freedom and wait until the disaster arrived. Faced with evidence, many people will choose the right option.

Many people, not one.

Because Dong Tianyu anticipated that some people might act irrationally, when he initially formulated the plan, he set the number of guests for trial stay around 10.

At this point, being introduced by Mrs. Thompson’s close friends, without a doubt there would only be one person, so the scale of the love nest does not need to be too large.

Although Dong Tianyu aspired to a harem of thousands of beauties and had the ability to handle them, he did not want to waste all his time on relaxation.

And if possible, Dong Tianyu also planned to sincerely commit, albeit in a limited way. After all, unpleasant though it may sound, this is also a way of honing his state of mind.

Having decided not to bring the person to the cave mansion, Dong Tianyu shifted his target for the love nest to those abandoned underground Refuge Centers that did not manage to connect to the subway network after the flood receded and before the icy catastrophe hit.

Though some of these Refuge Centers were occupied by private individuals, there were still some that were unoccupied.

After all, the survivors knew that even though living together in a group might cause inconveniences, an isolated Refuge Center like this couldn’t support the survival of just three to five people.

However, after much consideration, Dong Tianyu ultimately gave up on this idea. Primarily because although the flood had hit, whatever ’stuff’ left behind in those Refuge Centers may not be cleared properly, and might even rot and mold.

So if he truly wanted to remodel them, even though Dong Tianyu had now become a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it would still take up a lot of his time just by himself, but this did not align with Dong Tianyu’s vision.

Dong Tianyu wanted his love nest, apart from being safe, to be a place that does not require too much alteration.

However, it was difficult to find such a place that could meet ordinary human living conditions without too much involvement with others.

After thinking for a long time, Dong Tianyu could not think of a suitable place. As he watched his unintentionally controlled wooden sword flying around everywhere, he suddenly thought it would be great to have a mobile Refuge Center.

Suddenly, an image appeared in Dong Tianyu’s mind.