Cave Refuge-Chapter 228 - 227 Busy_1
As Walker Violet stroked her younger sister’s back, she soothed her, "That’s enough, don’t overthink it. We’ve actually been pretty fortunate in our lives, even if we don’t know who our parents are.
Ever since we can remember, we’ve been living in Peach Blossom Paradise. Although we can’t leave, we’ve never been hard done by; our needs are provided for, and we’ve received a quality education.
Yes, we don’t have parents, but we inherited their excellent genes that have given us stunning looks, which give us an innate advantage.
In addition to our beauty, we’re intellectually gifted. We don’t boast about our intelligence, but we grasp things way quicker than others without the need to cram frantically.
When we came of age, we had a buyer like our Master.
Fairly speaking, even with the recurring natural catastrophes, we experienced no tribulation in Peach Blossom Paradise, and similarly, we haven’t faced any suffering here.
Our livelihood, I believe, isn’t just among the top in Pengcheng, but also in the whole of Daxia or even Blue Star. So, you should stop desiring more."
Upon hearing her sister’s words, Jasmine Anderson came back to her senses.
Indeed, their current lifestyle certainly surpasses 99% of other survivors.
Dong Tianyu had no idea that Walker Violet and Jasmine Anderson had been in such a long conversation after he left the Treadwave.
At this moment, Dong Tianyu was preparing to once again embark towards Peach Blossom Paradise. After all, regarding the matters of health and efficiency, Dong Tianyu decided to prioritize both; he could not simply rely on one method.
Of course, he wasn’t going to Peach Blossom Paradise right now. The temperature had just normalized and all the survivors were bustling.
Ordinary people had lived so long in the Underground Refuge Center, and with the stabilizing temperature, they were busy moving back to their homes. They might have thought that Life at the refuge was uncomfortable for Father Dong and Mother Dong.
In reality, life for the rest at the Refuge Center could only be characterized as survival, not really living.
Although there was no lack of oxygen in the Underground Refuge Center, the circulation of air was problematic.
Furthermore, despite having wells in the Refuge Center, no one dared to waste water on bathing in high temperatures.
Thus, the living conditions in most underground shelters were concerning. This led to many survivors rushing to move back to their own homes as temperatures dropped.
Apart from ordinary survivors being busy, resource dealers like Ye Liuyun were even busier.
Equipped with a ton of saltpeter provided by Dong Tianyu, Ye Liuyun didn’t hoard. He quickly traded in and out, laying his hands on many scarce food items.
Because of Ye Liuyun’s approach, once the officials started using the ground source equipment and the price of saltpeter drastically fell, he managed to avoid the loss.
As the application of ground source equipment became successful, the saltpeter’s price fell even more. At this point, Ye Liuyun began to buy saltpeter using his resources.
But everyone was smart. Many businessmen, noticing someone quietly buying saltpeter, used their connections to start investigating. When they found out that the government’s coal storage was limited,
and they had begun planning to relocate the survivors living in the refuge shelters around the city area to the central subway network of the city to reduce electricity supply, the price of saltpeter began to rise against the trend and quickly broke the previous record high.
After realizing this, Ye Liuyun once again sold the saltpeter he had. Some people made losses and others made gains, but from seeing Ye Liuyun treating Robinson William to meals every day, it was clear that Ye Liuyun had been profiting a lot recently.
Apart from businessmen like Ye Liuyun, the government was also extremely busy.
Although the northeast, southwest, and northwest city districts have gradually become selfish, the government still leads Pengcheng. Although the four command centers dare to slack off and delay the implementation of orders, they absolutely dare not openly oppose them.
In view of this situation, with the normalization of the temperature, the high-ranking officials of the government were not prepared to tolerate it anymore.
At this time, the government was prepared to first make a move on the surrounding private shelters to kill a chicken to scare the monkey. They wanted to suppress those four command centers who had started to have their own designs
Of course, apart from the reason for killing a chicken to scare the monkey, don’t forget that before the catastrophe, the high-ranking officials of Pengcheng Government were all members of the Airdrop Faction.
The people who established the refuge outside the city at that time were also part of the Airdrop Faction. Considering the circumstances at that time, the locals had control of all departments’ field leaders.
In order to give themselves a way out, they arranged for people to build private refuge centers outside and transferred their surplus supplies there.
Although the self-governance that they implemented in private shelters was approved, it was exploited by the local faction. They shamelessly used the means of the martial artists to break the game.
Although the intense heat catastrophe has now ended, and the survivors no longer need to live in the refuge center,
but the supplies that were initially transported to those private shelters seemed to have evaporated with the drop in temperature. They disappeared from the warehouses of the private shelters.
It would be hard to believe that the local faction had no involvement in this.
It’s not possible to deal with the local faction at this time, but it’s relatively straightforward to deal with the martial artists in the city. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
Although now whether it’s sending special combat team members, or posting rewards through the Patrol Office, they all need the approval of the local faction.
But don’t forget where this place is! This is Pengcheng, which is stationed by three troops around the city. If the powers in the city are not easy to use, then just mobilize the powers of the troops outside the city.
The high-ranking government officials were really determined this time, even if they needed to provide a lot of supplies to the troops to scare away the tiger. Regardless, they were prepared to provide supplies to prevent soldiers from rioting, and they could just use this opportunity to send supplements to ask the troops to clean up the unsafe people or items around.
Everyone in Pengcheng is very busy at this moment, but perhaps after experiencing several catastrophes, everyone is busy with their own things, but on the whole, it is still orderly and there is no chaos.
Although the target of this killing of chicken to scare the monkey is the martial artist, but in Daxia, dealing with general situations would not require the troops to be dispatched. However, once the troops were dispatched, they would decide when the matter would end.
Facing the martial artists with weaker unarmed prowess and less effective weapons in their hands, they either fled upon hearing the news, or in the case of those unfortunate ones who were trapped, they obediently surrendered.
The entire process was met with almost no significant resistance.
