Cave Refuge-Chapter 345 - 307 Precious Supplies during the Catastrophe Period

Since they had already moved away from Pengcheng, although a portion of people remained there, their influence in the Officials had declined significantly due to most people having relocated to Saxon County.

Of the twenty seats allocated to the Officials, one was designated for their camp out of old sentiment, leaving the rest open for those who wished to go to Kyoto to rely on their own abilities.

However, even in a competition based on individual capabilities, since the transport aircraft could only land in the Officials-controlled Grand Dragon Lake, without certain connections, high-value items meant nothing if one lacked an entry ticket and couldn’t get close to the transport aircraft.

Even so, Rylan estimated that there wouldn’t be too few people participating in the competition. After all, Pengcheng had only twenty seats, and despite being amid natural disasters with several having already occurred, the innate Chinese virtue of planning ahead should never be underestimated.

However, despite Rylan saying this, Dong Tianyu didn’t know what was considered high-value nowadays in Kyoto.

Antiques and calligraphy artworks?

It’s said that antiques flourish in times of chaos and gold in times of peace. Now, during natural disasters, logically, the value of antiques and calligraphy should not be high, but since the social order had remained quite stable, their value had decreased significantly in people’s hearts. Yet, it hadn’t dropped to the point where they were traded directly for steamed buns.

Moreover, even if these items were valuable, Dong Tianyu didn’t have a collection of them.

As for gold, like antiques, Dong Tianyu didn’t stockpile any precious metals such as gold among his supplies before the disaster. Even after the disaster struck, due to the historical status of gold as a precious metal with low reserves and its portability, he didn’t manage to collect much.

As for gold reserves, Pengcheng might have them, but Dong Tianyu, an ordinary person before the disaster, wasn’t privy to their locations. Even if he knew where they were now, it was already too late. The Officials had most likely already stationed guards there.

Besides antiques and gold, Dong Tianyu didn’t know what else might be valuable now.

As for liquor and cigarettes, these might be quite precious to the average person, but for the whole of Pengcheng, they weren’t really that significant.

Moreover, Pengcheng still had nutritional supplements, special products that allowed ordinary people to become Martial Artists without rigorous training. Dong Tianyu didn’t understand what valuable items Rylan believed he could obtain.

"I’m a bit confused now. You think I can get a hold of good items, just tell me directly what they are. Although I now have a way to procure some items, those may be rare but not particularly valuable."

Hearing Dong Tianyu say this, Rylan stopped playing coy, "The metal that the shell of the Black Car in your camp is made of, how much more of that can you obtain here?"

When Rylan mentioned the Black Car Dong Tianyu had left in the camp as temporary shelter for his parents, he suddenly realized that its shell was something he had directly processed and synthesized in the Cave using Survival Points.

At that time, Dong Tianyu’s Cultivation Level wasn’t very high. Although he could operate in harsh environments, he couldn’t take people with him. It was when he bought the Canary from Peach Blossom Paradise to care for his brother that he decided to reinforce the shell with Survival Points to ensure the Canary’s safe return.

Ever since he drove the Black Car to the camp in Saxon County and left it as a temporary shelter for his parents during the earthquake, Dong Tianyu hadn’t touched the Black Car again. Although his parents started the Black Car, with Dong Tianyu’s authorization, they could still use the electrical appliances inside it.

And despite the large size of the Black Car and the fact it couldn’t be started, if one really wanted to move it, finding four or five Martial Artists to lift it was enough; manual car moving never goes out of fashion.

It was precisely because of this, and being stimulated by the news brought by Ye Liuyun, that Dong Tianyu suddenly became determined to advance by leaps and bounds, focusing on his cultivation and gradually forgetting about leaving the Black Car in the camp.

With that thought, Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense instantly swept across the entire camp, finding the parked Black Car near the city walls. This open stretch of ground was likely a planned parking lot during construction, where, aside from the Black Car, other vehicles from the camp were also parked.

Seeing that the Black Car hadn’t been given special treatment, Dong Tianyu guessed it was because his father couldn’t start the Black Car and move it himself, so he must have asked acquaintances for help, likely the members of the older generation’s group.

Though those old men’s physical fitness likely surpassed that of national athletes before the disaster after becoming Martial Artists, their age and status meant they probably called others to help lift the car.

It was probably during this process of lifting the car that its unique shape or perhaps inadvertently, the special nature of the Black Car’s metal shell was discovered by Rylan, hence his request.

While Dong Tianyu didn’t know the exact formula of the alloy, replicating or even surpassing it was quite simple for him as long as he had enough Survival Points. Whatever quantity he wanted, he could replicate in the Cave.