Cave Refuge-Chapter 238 - 236: The Arrival of Eternal Night_1

Jade was not only astonished by the scale of the kitchen, but the plethora of food ingredients also made the other Canaries swallow hard with hunger.

As the food reserves in Peach Blossom Paradise kept depleting, the meals provided to them became increasingly modest. Though they enjoyed slightly better meals than others, it was just a few extra oils and fats—they had no access to meat.

In the kitchen’s refrigerators, not only were there various kinds of meat, but there were also many types of seafood.

Looking at the few Canaries who were hungrily protesting with their rumbling stomachs, Walker Violet and Jasmine Anderson, with the help of the Canaries, prepared a lavish welcome feast for them.

That night, Dong Tianyu finally experienced the famed ...

The rest of the night ... (Click to expand)

Dong Tianyu didn’t leave in the middle of the night as he usually did. This workout lasted until the next morning. Remembering the craziness of the workout yesterday, a bitter smile crossed his face.

This wasn’t the first time he’d missed training because of a workout, but it was the first time he had completely relaxed while working out.

After the start of the group workout, Dong Tianyu gradually organized several more workouts aboard the Blue Star vessel engaging all the crew members.

Moreover, Dong Tianyu also taught the Xuan-Yin body refining technique to every crew member on the Blue Star.

After the end of this natural disaster, peaceful days surprisingly continued for more than half a year, and Pengcheng seized this opportunity to enter into a speedy recovery period.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t the factories that were restored first, but the automobile repair industry.

By now, you couldn’t see any deserted vehicles in Pengcheng anymore. All the vehicles had been hauled into repair factories, where they were renovated and returned to the roads.

Pengcheng also took advantage of its geographical location. The city was continuously clearing up high-speed roads, on one hand scavenging resources from scrapped vehicles and on the other aiming to quickly open up routes to other cities. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

As the days went by, it was as if everyone had forgotten the natural disaster they had once experienced.

With the successful harvest of crops, the Officials boldly started to increase livestock breeding.

Life gradually got better. After experiencing several waves of natural disasters, Pengcheng’s resources were reorganized and the gap between the rich and the poor astonishingly returned to the period when the grand summer had just been established.

Even though resources were somewhat scarce during that time period, the common people’s sense of happiness and purpose was at its strongest.

With Pengcheng’s full recovery and the city’s increasing interaction with other cities, the control of the Officials over Pengcheng was further enhanced, and the local faction was suppressed by the Airdrop Faction once again.

In times of peace, internal conflict was an endless matter.

Just as the tension between the Airdrop Faction and the local faction was intensifying, an unexpected natural disaster caught them off guard.

It was a normal night—nothing unusual happening in the outside world. Although Pengcheng had restored power by now, the power plant had time restrictions on civilian use.

After 11 pm, the power plant stopped supplying electricity for civilian use, so most of the survivors had gone to sleep early.

Early to bed and early to rise had become the most common behavior in this period. As for those individuals who claimed they were night owls, the environment after the power cut was pitch black. Unless they were genuinely insomniac, very few could keep up.

When they woke up naturally the following day, pulled back the curtains and saw that it was still pitch black outside, they thought they had woken up early. But when they inadvertently glanced at the clock on their bedside table, they realised it was already past six in the morning.

Usually at this time, even though the sun had not fully risen, its morning light had already brightened the earth. Today, however, let alone the first rays of dawn, even the normal starlight of the night had disappeared.

The pitch-black environment frightened many, but most didn’t think too much of it, assuming that there was just a thunderstorm brewing and that the scene outside merely represented dark clouds covering the sun.

Since they were already awake, even though it was still dark outside, they brushed their teeth and made breakfast, not wanting to delay their workday.

While ordinary people didn’t pay much mind to the abnormality outside, the Officials took the weather anomaly seriously. The internal strife, which had been increasingly tense, was surprisingly and mutually paused by both sides.

No one knew whether it was because of Dong Tianyu’s rebirth that had caused the world to step into another timeline. Compared to his last life, this life’s city recovery sped up significantly more even though experiencing natural disasters was still quite difficult.

During the previous life’s hot summer disaster, for example, the geothermal equipment was not popularized among all the underground Refuge Centers in the city area.

By the end of the heat wave disaster, most survivors could only endure that difficult time the hard way, and a large number of survivors who were physically weak did not make it through.

Just for that short duration, the total death toll of survivors was even more than the combined number of deaths during other periods after the advent of the heat wave.

But in this present life, with the help of geothermal cooling devices, the death rate among survivors living in the Refuge Centers was minimal.

It was mainly because there were these survivors, Pengcheng could recover so swiftly after the end of the harsh summer disaster.

It was because of these survivors, that all kinds of infrastructure in Pengcheng were up and running once again.

As soon as the power plant started supplying electricity again, a few pallid stars appeared in the dark environment. Soon after, the survivors instinctively switched on the lights in their rooms, illuminating the surroundings.

As time passed and the exterior environment was still shrouded in darkness with no sign of light in the sky, everyone began noticing the abnormality in the weather.

What was once only experienced at the North and South poles on Blue Star—the polar night— had now descended over Pengcheng.

Although the survivors in Pengcheng had never personally experienced the polar night, they were quite familiar with living in complete darkness, thanks to their survival experience in the pitch-dark underground Refuge Centers.

So even though the sun hadn’t risen, apart from some initial panic, people soon returned to their regular routines.

Moreover, when the power plant started supplying electricity, the Officials lit up the street lights along the roads. Despite many of the lights having been damaged, the intermittent glow of the few remaining lights seemed to offer a semblance of normalcy.

While the lighting couldn’t fully brighten the entire street, it did help dispel the survivors’ innate fear of darkness.

As the street lights turned on, the sense of panic in the survivors gradually dissipated. At that point, the glow emitted by the streetlights may not have given out heat, but they did indeed warm the hearts of the survivors.