Cave Refuge-Chapter 313 - 291 Reunion

The next day, before the daily earthquake struck the camp, the survivors had already been visited by a dusty and weary Robinson William, who arrived with many injured.

Looking at the quiet and peaceful camp, Robinson William and the Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists breathed a sigh of relief.

When the support team left last night, they were not clear about the situation, and it was not until breakfast the next morning, when the support team that had gone to aid their camp returned, did they learn about the state of the camp.

Although they did not know why the support teams assisting other camps chose to stay put temporarily, and this team chose to return overnight, they understood that their camp must be in a state of vulnerable defense, so they had to rush through breakfast and immediately return from the military base camp.

By this time, the survivors in the camp had finished breakfast and were moving vehicles, attempting to outfit the cars with an extra set of armor using the Bug Meat shells they had disassembled yesterday.

After all, with the experience of yesterday’s earthquake and the Giant Scorpion attack, the cars played an extremely important role, both in terms of earthquake resistance and defense against the Giant Scorpion.

Therefore, to enhance the defense of the cars, sturdy and lightweight Scale Armor was the best choice, especially now that the camp had no shortage of Scale Armor and Bug Meat following the Giant Scorpion raid.

Because Scale Armor was plentiful in the camp, the survivors not only made an ’overcoat’ for the car body with it, but even selected suitable Scale Armor from the tail of the Giant Scorpion to add a layer of protection to the car tires, and of course, they did not forget to adhere a layer to the underbody as well.

In addition, since the ground in the camp had developed many cracks, and for safety, the survivors used large chest plates from the abdomen of the Giant Scorpion to lay out a huge flat surface on the ground, following the ancient craftsmanship of Scale Armor making.

It was like the plastic tarp laid out on the ground in rural areas for drying crops, using vehicles as fixtures, directly pressing into a circle at the edge of this Scale Armor surface, and fixing it with the weight of the car bodies.

Of course, two trucks were also parked in the center of the ground as a counterbalance to the center point.

Although each Giant Scorpion only had one piece of Scale Armor used for these purposes, the survivors had indeed killed quite a few Giant Scorpions during the continuous attacks yesterday, so the area covered by the Scale Armor on the ground was not small.

The connections between the pieces of Scale Armor utilized steel bars taken from collapsed factories. Although there was not a special bender for the bars in the camp, the Martial Artists now had the strength to bend them by hand; they played with the steel bars and physically linked two bars together.

By lunchtime, the Scale Armor ground was finally complete, but the absence of any earthquake that morning was indeed puzzling.

Based on previous experiences, the earthquakes had been as regular as an alarm clock, occurring every morning. Even if the timing varied, the difference would not be great.

Yet that morning, no earthquake had occurred, which had happened before, so while the survivors were somewhat worried, they did not take it too seriously.

However, the survivors had grown accustomed to the daily occurrence of earthquakes and if one did not happen, it would keep them on edge throughout the day.

The usual rest time after lunch was disrupted due to the continuous absence of the earthquake, causing most of the survivors in the camp to be unable to rest easy at noon.

As the afternoon approached three o’clock and the ground began to shake slowly, far from being afraid, the camp’s survivors breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the anticipation of disaster had been more stressful than the disaster itself not occurring.

The amplitude of this earthquake was indeed a lot less than the previous day. However, due to the earthquakes of the past two days and the Giant Scorpion attack, the camp had been thoroughly damaged, with even the ground’s cracks having been only superficially repaired.

So, even though today’s earthquake was not as strong as yesterday’s, it still exacerbated the damage to the camp’s ground, which had once been hardened but now was badly battered.

Moreover, because the ground had gone through hardening previously, it had become uneven, making leveling the ground after the earthquake more troublesome than in the fields.

However, the Scale Armor ground that had just been completed performed brilliantly during the earthquake.

Although it was unclear whether the ground underneath the Scale Armor had cracked, it was covered so well that people walking on it wouldn’t notice.

Thanks to the Scale Armor-covered ground, regardless of how much damage occurred elsewhere, the area where the survivors stayed did not face much danger.

Even during the earthquake, the flying debris that emerged from who knows where was mostly blocked by the vehicles parked around the perimeter of the Scale Armor.

With these protective measures in place, when the earthquake ended, the survivors in the camp were not injured.

Due to the frequency of accidents in the past two days, the camp had not undergone repairs earlier; but today, with everyone present and having remained unharmed during the earthquake, it was time to take action.

After the earthquake, the survivors began flattening the ground that needed leveling and filling the cracks that appeared during the earthquake with soil dug from the fields.