Cave Refuge-Chapter 328 - 298: Ye Liuyun’s Wild Thoughts_2

However, one thing that can be confirmed is that only one kind of creature appears in each region, which is highly inconsistent with biological knowledge. After all, in the natural food chain, there can be ecosystems without predators, but there must be prey.

Otherwise, without a food source, how could these creatures grow and reproduce?

Beyond this, the way these creatures appeared is also very strange, apart from a few whose manner of appearance is unknown.

For the majority of creatures whose manner of appearance has been confirmed, they all initially crawled out from fissures in the ground.

This behavior has led to a terrifying conjecture that there could actually be life surviving underground.

The earthquake opened a direct passage between the surface world and the underground, allowing creatures from below to come to the surface through the paths created by the seismic activity.

Of course, this is just a guess from Dong Tianyu and there is no concrete evidence to verify its truth.

Even if the underground world could explain the origin of those creatures, how then to explain the plants that broke through the soil in daylight, growing into towering trees within a day?

Even with wild ideas combined with the fragmented information collected by Dong Tianyu, he couldn’t piece together a coherent thread of intelligence.

Dong Tianyu sometimes lamented that although his previous life could only be considered barely surviving and was quite difficult, it would have been better if he could have lived a little longer to understand more about the disasters that repeatedly struck Blue Star.

Having been reborn, Dong Tianyu had made preparations in advance before the arrival of the disaster. Although he later acquired the System, he had been comforting himself by cultivating and had not achieved any great feats.

Sometimes, Dong Tianyu also wondered if, at the time of choosing, he had not selected the mystical side that gave great powers to himself but instead chosen the technological side that was common to all, what would the situation in Pengcheng be like now?

However, after thinking for a long time, no clear and concrete scenario emerged in his mind. After all, Dong Tianyu was not of that personality, even if he had amassed a fortune before his rebirth, he was content with modest wealth and had never harbored grand ambitions.

After obtaining the System, he lived a life in orderly progression, aside from finding some Canaries to accompany his younger brother, Dong Tianyu, this reborn Butterfly, did not actively bring about many changes.

But although Dong Tianyu was not very proactive, the resources he traded away had brought about some changes in Pengcheng. In this life, the number of survivors in Pengcheng who lived through the disaster was much higher than in his previous life.

In times of disaster, even a small advantage can snowball, becoming more significant in later stages - to be a step ahead is to lead by steps. Now, Pengcheng may only be a preparatory second-tier city before the catastrophe.

But after the disaster, the average living standard of Pengcheng’s survivors has exceeded that of ninety percent of survivors in other parts of China. Not to boast, but in Pengcheng at least, as long as one is willing to work hard, one basically won’t starve.

"Madeline, I’ll go back first soon, I won’t be able to stay with you here," said Dong Tianyu.

"All right, you go back and check on the camp. There should be enough meat there now. When I return, I’ll bring some vegetables and grains.

Oh, and your car is left at the camp. Is it convenient for you to get around now, or do you need me to get you a car? Things have changed; though they are all refurbished second-hand cars, they are made of solid materials.

Car dealers don’t dare to cheat customers anymore, as anyone who can afford a car these days is no ordinary person. In the past, cheating would cost money, but now cheating could cost a life.

So, you can just pick any car over there; there is a wide variety, and the prices are much lower than before," Ye Liuyun suggested.

Hearing this, Dong Tianyu looked around and saw the towering trees everywhere: "You haven’t seen the state of things here. Even if you gave me a bicycle, it would be more useful than a car. There are obstacles everywhere, and you can’t get up to speed."

Ye Liuyun scoffed at Dong Tianyu’s words, "Bicycle? With your physical fitness, if you pedaled with all your might, you’d smoke the chain off.

I forgot your cultivation level has reached the Inner Breath Realm too. What do you need a bicycle for? You’d better stick to your Route 11."

"Enough with the chit-chat, let’s talk business. You just said satellites were launched and communications are restored, right? See if you can get me a couple of mobile phones."

"It’s not really possible now. You know the satellite has just been launched, and although it was from Jiuquan’s side, the only place capable of producing mobile phones is over in Kyoto.

I’ve already inquired about this. For the moment, mobile phones are not for sale to the public. The Imperial Court has only issued a few mobile phones to the Officials of various cities and hasn’t opened up private sales channels yet.

But I asked an extra question: the phones distributed to Officials everywhere are satellite phones, which means they now have global coverage. Even if someone isn’t in China, as long as they are in any part of Blue Star where the signal isn’t blocked, even in the most desolate ravines, they’re covered by the signal."

"What’s the point of telling me this? No matter how nice you make it sound, it’s useless if you can’t get me a phone."

"Zachary, you still don’t get what I’m trying to say. The key point in what I just said was that there’s a signal everywhere on Blue Star. Do you realize what that implies?"

"I get it, but what does it have to do with us? Do you have a plane that can fly out of China? Or do you have some other way of getting your hands on a phone?"

"You don’t understand, Zachary. It might seem like the survivors live a decent life here in Pengcheng, but outside of China, many places might already be uninhabited. It’s like when Columbus discovered the New World; whoever takes over an unclaimed area can claim it as their own.

Just imagine if Emperor Qin Shi Huang knew that fertile land lay beyond the mountains. The meritocratic system of the Qin Dynasty wouldn’t have collapsed. Instead, it would have allowed the nobility of the Six States to integrate smoothly into the Qin empire, and then with the Qin soldiers’ formidable prowess, they could have expanded their territory into the European continent.

Since it was a great distance away, as long as they didn’t covet the Central Plain, Emperor Qin Shi Huang would probably have been pleased with the nobility of the Six States reestablishing their countries on the European continent."

If that had happened, Blue Star would only have the Chinese language and characters, and none of that messy babel of languages."

"Why bring this up now?"

"Think about Europe before the disaster, Zachary. How many people there could have survived these successive disasters? It’s probably a desolate wasteland by now. If we go there now, we can easily become kings of our own territories."

Seeing how excited Ye Liuyun was getting, Dong Tianyu was somewhat speechless. What was all this about? He had no idea where Ye Liuyun had heard such information or who had brainwashed him, but here he was, daydreaming in broad daylight.

After listening to Ye Liuyun’s rant, Dong Tianyu couldn’t help but throw cold water on his ideas, "Come on, you haven’t even learned to crawl, and now you want to pilot a plane? I really don’t know what to say to you.

I won’t ask where you got such a juvenile idea from, but you have to understand, let’s not even talk about how you’d get there. Suppose you did make it, it’s not like you can just plant a flag somewhere uninhabited and declare yourself king.

Secondly, how would you survive once you’re there? Don’t be fooled; due to the earthquake, other cities in China have become ruins, just like Pengcheng.

There’s an old saying: ’Lose land but keep people, and with people, land can be restored.’ As long as we’re resilient and hard-working as we have always been through the ages, rebuilding won’t happen in a minute, but at least we have a fighting chance.

But if you go there, how many people are you planning to take with you, and how much supplies will you need? Beyond these main issues, there are countless other small matters to consider.

I’m not trying to discourage you from expanding territory, but if you really have this idea, you need to start planning well in advance.

Otherwise, even if you successfully lead people there, it won’t be long before you return to China, beaten and disgraced."