Cave Refuge-Chapter 333 - 301

Fortunately, Dong Tianyu didn’t continue to mock him. Seeing Robinson William’s gritted teeth, Dong Tianyu also feared that William would explode with anger, so he quickly changed the subject, saying, "Alright, I won’t tease you anymore. When I was coming back this time, I passed by the Moon Bay Camp. I intended to stop by and greet Old Zhao from the Patrol Office to see if I could learn about the current situation in Pengcheng."

But when I approached the Moon Bay Camp, I found that the vehicles that used to be parked on both sides of the road were now randomly overturned under huge trees. It was unclear whether the previously closed car doors were deformed and opened due to the flipping or if they were violently destroyed by other survivors. Anyway, many of the car doors were left open."

Seeing this, I guessed that the situation inside the Moon Bay Camp couldn’t be good. So, when I carefully entered the camp, the first thing I confirmed was that there were no survivors left. After a thorough investigation, the subtle clues remaining after the earthquake ended allowed me to determine that the camp’s problems must have occurred very suddenly.

The survivors in the camp weren’t prepared in advance, and they didn’t have much time to evacuate. The fact that many valuable things were left behind, found among the ruins of many tents, indicates that the survivors either met with violence or had to evacuate in great haste,"

After listening to Dong Tianyu’s account, Robinson William found it hard to believe that Moon Bay Camp had been abandoned like this?

You must know, when they left, Old Zhao from the Patrol Office was in charge of the camp’s security. Although the combat power of the Patrol Office was not as good as the special combat squad’s, it was still far superior to most survivor camps established by officials. After all, the personnel responsible for patrolling and guarding those camps were originally lower-level members of the Patrol Office.

Now that Dong Tianyu had suddenly told Robinson William that Moon Bay Camp had inexplicably become ruins, William couldn’t believe it, yet he also felt a trace of relief, grateful that he had followed Dong Tianyu’s advice to leave Pengcheng and bring the special combat team members to Saxon County.

However, this was a serious matter. Although William believed Dong Tianyu wouldn’t lie about something so readily verifiable, William still asked Dong Tianyu again with emphasis, "Zachary, you can’t joke about this."

Dong Tianyu knew the news he brought was shocking, and he understood that William’s repeated questioning was not a distrust in him but a reluctance to believe such a thing could happen.

So in response to William’s inquiry, Dong Tianyu could only reply somewhat helplessly, "There’s no need for me to lie to you about this. It’s not too far from here to Moon Bay Camp. Just arrange for an Inner Breath Realm Martial Artist to go, and it won’t take long to run there and back. Let them take a look around, and then you’ll know if I’ve lied or not."

Although William was clear that Dong Tianyu wouldn’t deceive him, he still decided to send someone to check it out as soon as he got back.

But after hearing this news, William also knew the answer to his earlier question to Dong Tianyu about whether they should move back to Pengcheng—Dong Tianyu’s response was now obvious.

After all, anyone with sense wouldn’t consider returning to Pengcheng without knowing what had befallen Moon Bay Camp and why it was abandoned, unless they could ensure they would find a safe and suitable camp there.

Ambition?

Those now in charge of the camp were members of the older generation. They were not young anymore, even though nutritional supplements had turned them into Martial Artists, giving them healthy bodies once more. But the mental exhaustion they felt made them approach problems with a mentality of not seeking to accomplish great things but to avoid making mistakes.

So when confronted with issues, they wouldn’t seek to maximize benefits but would choose a relatively prudent approach instead.

As for the young people in the camp, of William and Dong Tianyu’s generation, those with ambition and aspirations had already returned to Pengcheng with Ye Liuyun.

After Dong Tianyu finished recounting what he had seen on his way back, William also briefly shared with Dong Tianyu the changes that had occurred in the camp during Dong’s absence.

Beyond the daily earthquakes that occurred at random times, killing the Giant Scorpions that frequently attacked the camp had become an indispensable daily routine for the Patrol Team.

Once the Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists initially brought by William had fully recovered from their injuries, the camp’s security level had increased another notch. The most direct manifestation of this was that originally, only the patrol team leaders had cultivation level reaching the Inner Breath Realm, but now, on average, every patrol team had at least three Martial Artists with cultivation level reaching the Inner Breath Realm.

With more and more Giant Scorpion corpses being brought into the camp, many survivors who previously had nothing to do started to study the use of other parts of the scorpion’s body.

Originally, only the bug meat and several large sections of the exoskeleton were useful to the survivors. Other parts were discarded as trash outside the camp once they were dissected.

Now that some basic infrastructure in the camp was completed, some of the survivors with spare time decided to keep a few dissected Giant Scorpion corpses within the camp.

With their actions, other survivors who felt a bit bored also joined in.