Cave Refuge-Chapter 150 - 149: Looking for a House_1

Originally, most members of the Lying Flat group joined passively, and these people had been trained like oxen to work without complaint during working hours. Although they occasionally found various ways to slack off, they never resisted nor did they aspire to higher positions.

But in the past two years, many people have actively joined the Lying Flat group. Although they also lost the idea of changing jobs after joining, they are more adept at shirking work than slacking off.

Slacking off means to drag out completing the task assigned to them, while shirking involves disappearing when tasks are being handed out, not taking any task at all unless it is forcibly assigned to them. They would never voluntarily apply for a task.

Although the number of people joining the Lying Flat group is increasing, the other two factions didn’t care. Even though there are many members in the Lying Flat group, it lacks leadership and is as disorganized as a bunch of sand.

Not every member of the Airdrop Faction has a strong background; some were in their positions for a while without any changes. Therefore, those Airdrop Faction members who had no hopes of moving up would gradually join the Local Faction where the elderly team was.

Before the disaster struck, the organization added a new rule that one couldn’t work in their place of household registration upon joining. Despite a substantial number of Airdrop Faction members shifting their allegiances to the elderly team, the Airdrop Faction’s power had grown due to this new rule.

However, after the disaster, contact between the Command Headquarters and the Officials was cut off. They had to rely on the foundation the elderly team had once established. Although the Officials and West City District later re-established contact, the Officials were still in despair and could only control the big picture. This allowed the elderly team to regain their room to develop.

With each recurrence of the disaster, despite an interconnected subway network across Pengcheng, it was still a hassle to mobilize a large number of people. This is why the network of connections within the elderly team had grown stronger.

When Smith, due to old age, prepared to hand over his leadership role to Li Minghao, he didn’t expect such an incident to occur.

Li Minghao actually colluded with the Airdrop Faction to track their own people. He should be aware that he was to take over the leadership role – everyone else can do this, except him.

This is akin to a general going out to war with the emperor not only selling information to the enemy but also ordering them to kill the general.

While Smith is the leader of the elderly team, it is a rather loose organization that can choose whether to accept new members but can’t restrict members from leaving.

To protect Li Minghao, Smith decided this time to relinquish his leader role and promised not to interfere in the affairs of the younger generation. As long as it didn’t involve loss of life, he would consider this as training for the young ones.

But since Li Minghao had already taken action, failure could also be a blow to him, so the elderly team set certain restrictions this time.

The conflict could only remain between the two of them; it could not spread further. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Seeking help was allowed, but it was limited to those within their own faction. They could not join forces with other group members to target their own people.

Upon hearing this, Li Minghao understood the elderly team’s stance on this matter. Although they seemed to be indifferent to his actions, they set a ceiling for this issue, preventing it from involving Father Dong and Mother Dong.

Originally, Li Minghao intended to use Father Dong and Mother Dong as pawns. Now that everyone is living in the underground shelter, if Dong Tianyu was cornered, revenge wouldn’t be too difficult; just blocking a few passageways would suffice.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu was unaware of the elderly team’s decision and that Li Minghao was scheming against him.

After solving his accommodation problems, Dong Tianyu was considering where to find a new home for his brother.

In this era, beautiful houses are rarely new ones. However, if he looked carefully and was slightly flexible about the age of the property, he should be able to find a suitable house.

Although Mother Dong offered to help, Dong Tianyu, who had everything ready, didn’t want to wait too long.

At this time, house hunting for his brother was challenging due to the disaster; the properties were not all in one place, and finding a house that was both relatively new and had a pleasant exterior was difficult.

After experiencing a few disasters, it’s not that there were absolutely no cosmetics left, but it was exceedingly difficult for ordinary people to perform successful rhinoplasty, one of Asia’s four notorious techniques.

After much contemplation, Dong Tianyu thought of University Town. There would undoubtedly be many properties available there, but in this era, it might be difficult to find new properties.

Finding brand new housing at this point was indeed challenging, but Dong Tianyu thought of another place where there was a high probability of finding new properties. Additionally, the houses there had a rather decent exterior.

Originally, Caesar’s Palace was a bath center built in the city center. The bathing package went for 198, and if you paid extra, they offered any custom service.

The custom services were quite expensive and not cost-effective, but besides the price, they could meet the customers’ needs in every other aspect.

It also had a broad range of property styles, whether it be European, American, Japanese, Korean, or even the exotic African houses; they had access to everything.

Back then, their backing was very tough. Other similar agencies had collapsed, but they remained unaffected. It wasn’t until there was a change of leadership in the Pengcheng Government that Caesar’s Palace subtly changed its name and location.

The Peach Blossom Paradise was a leisure manor hidden in the suburbs. To get there, one would have to pass through a village. But without prior knowledge, who would have thought that behind an ordinary village hid a leisure manor with a golf course?

In an underdeveloped suburban area with no tourist attractions, who would have thought that such a secluded golf course existed?

If Dong Tianyu wasn’t idle and accompanied a friend to make a delivery once upon a time, he wouldn’t have known about such a place.

Back then, Dong Tianyu even naively joked about inviting friends there one day when they weren’t too busy. He had never played golf before.

Upon hearing Dong Tianyu’s words, his friend wore a mysterious smile: "I’ll be there if you’re treating, but don’t invite any women."

Seeing the candid smile on his friend’s face, Dong Tianyu understood what he was implying immediately.

Even though they were just delivering goods at that time, they managed to see many young caddies on their way to the back door. Even though the weather was slightly cool, the caddies appeared to be in good shape and were quite forward-thinking in their attire.

While delivering the goods, they casually inquired about the services. The cheapest caddie service cost over five hundred per hour.

Later when his friend came into money, he wanted to invite Dong Tianyu to fulfill their previous agreement. However, they discovered that the place operated on member referrals; to become a member, one needed recommendations from at least three members.

He wasn’t sure if anyone was there now, but thinking back to the rumors about their storage cellars and multilevel underground parking lots, there should also be an underground shelter there.