You say the cataclysm only comes after you've cleared the entire dungeon?

The next morning, Lou Fengyue knocked on the door and woke up her parents.

When the two elderly people rubbed their sleepy eyes and walked out of the room, their heads were covered in a mess.

"Yueyue, what happened so early?" Lou Qingjian asked while yawning.

Staying at home with nothing to do for a while has made me feel younger, and I've started to get used to sleeping in.

"The weather will get hot next month, so we won't be able to stay here for long." Lou Fengyue brought out three bowls of tomato and egg noodles and placed them on the table. "I've found a place to stay, I'll take you to see it later."

Pan Quan tied her short hair into a small bun, pulled out a chair and sat down. "You two siblings keep saying you're moving, but where are we actually moving to?"

"Have breakfast first." Lou Fengyue poured two glasses of hot milk and placed them beside them. "After you finish eating, I'll show you for yourselves."

After breakfast, the two elderly people picked up their backpacks and stuffed them with a lot of random things.

A small shovel for planting flowers, a sickle for cutting grass, two bottles of mineral water, a bag of hot buns, and biscuits to stave off hunger.

They looked like they were about to go on a picnic in the countryside.

Lou Fengyue could only laugh helplessly at this sight.

"You don't need to bring so much stuff. Don't forget your daughter is a walking supermarket; I have everything in my storage space."

"You still have to bring it." Lou Qingjian slung the backpack over his shoulder without room for argument. "You have to put on a good show in front of outsiders."

Lou Fengyue opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything.

She used to think that putting on an act was very important.

But ever since Qin Qian planned the safe zone downstairs from her house, she's stopped pretending.

Now, no one in the entire safe zone dares to interfere with her or provoke her.

Completely let go of yourself.

However, it's good that her parents are aware of this, so she didn't say anything more.

From leaving the safe zone to the foot of the mountains in the northern suburbs, the journey was unimpeded.

The two elderly people gripped their rotten wooden sticks and sickles tightly the whole way, keeping a watchful eye on the outside of the window, fearing a sudden zombie attack.

They didn't even see a single mouse.

"This road is quite clean." Lou Qingjian got out of the car and stretched.

When he said "clean," he wasn't referring to street hygiene, but rather that there were no strange or unusual things popping up.

"Yes," Pan Quan echoed as she got out of the car, "the air here is quite nice too."

Lou Fengyue smiled without saying a word, locked the car door, and put the car into her spatial storage.

He then pulled out two trekking poles and handed them to them, saying, "The path is a bit difficult, be careful."

The mountain road was rugged; in fact, there was no road at all.

The three of them groped their way up the weeds with difficulty.

Pan Quan and Lou Qingjian were determined not to complain about being tired, and absolutely not to hold their daughter back.

Unexpectedly, they walked for a long time without even breaking a sweat.

Despite staying in my apartment for over a month without exercising, my physical condition is better than before.

It's probably thanks to the Body Tempering Pill.

Reaching the mountainside, Lou Fengyue lifted the tall grass, revealing the bare mountainside.

With a lift of his hand, a crack appeared in the mountainside, and soil and rocks fell down, revealing a dark cave entrance.

Pan Quan really wanted to ask, "Is this place really habitable?"

But my daughter must have her reasons for choosing this place.

Lou Qingjian didn't raise any objections, and followed his daughter inside with a flashlight in hand.

The cave was more spacious and cleaner than I had imagined, with a cool breeze.

Hiding here during this extreme heat is definitely a million times better than living in that apartment now.

Pan Quan and Lou Qingjian walked around the cave and quickly accepted the fact that they would be moving there to live.

They excitedly planned where to partition off a space for a kitchen, where to bury water pipes, and where to install ventilation openings.

Besides Lou Yunzheng, Lou Qingjian is the only one in the family who knows anything about architecture.

Having worked in plumbing and electrical work before, I've seen many houses and know what kind of hardware needs to be added.

Lou Fengyue drew a simple diagram in her notebook, wrote down everything her father said, and prepared to look for materials tomorrow.

-

Let's talk about both sides.

Construction also began today in the new safe zone.

Lou Yunzheng, wearing a safety helmet and holding blueprints, stood in front of the construction site, gazing at the newly erected steel frame.

Having superpowers makes things much easier; in the past, it would take two or three days just to set up scaffolding.

The metal-type ability user got it up and running in no time.

And it's even more robust.

"Don't let the machine in yet! The steel bars are holding it up inside to prevent a collapse!" Lou Yunzheng shouted, stopping the workers who were about to push into the mountain pass that had just been dug half a meter deep.

"I'll do it!" Zhang Yong volunteered and stepped forward, using his superpower to lift the steel bars on the ground into the air, and then thrust them straight into the mountain.

His rank wasn't high, and he broke out in a cold sweat after moving such heavy steel bars for a short while.

Li Yichen followed closely behind, a burst of brown energy erupting from his body, pushing the cave entrance five meters further in.

It is much more efficient than a machine.

At this rate, the main structure of the air-raid shelter should be completed in about a week.

Lou Yunzheng immediately changed the construction plan: "Those with superpowers will be responsible for the air-raid shelters, while the others will handle the surface construction. Both will proceed simultaneously, aiming for completion within 30 days!"

"good!"

-

For the next twenty days or so, time seemed to be sped up.

The entire Linjiang safety zone was like a machine that had been wound up again, running day and night without stopping.

Lou Yunzheng lived and worked on the construction site, sleeping only four or five hours a day. When he woke up, he would stare at the blueprints and the progress schedules of each group.

Zhang Yong and Li Yichen take turns working, one responsible for reinforcing the mountain with steel bars, and the other responsible for using earth-based superpowers to advance the depth of the air-raid shelter.

Luo Zeyan led his team out more and more frequently, setting off before dawn and returning fully loaded in the evening.

Medical supplies, summer supplies, building materials, fuel—bring back everything you can.

Zhou Xuan's spatial ability was forced to level up two times in these days, barely enough to keep up with the speed of looting.

Qin Qian held meetings until late at night every day to coordinate the allocation of resources, the resettlement of survivors, and the distribution of labor.

Song Qingya led the medical department in working day and night, and Xu Zhongzi became her capable assistant, making the originally chaotic classification of wounded soldiers and management of medicines well organized.

In the safe zone, ordinary people, regardless of age or gender, did what they could: those who could carry bricks did so, those who could cook did so, and those who could sew did so.

Occasionally, someone would complain about being too tired, but upon seeing the dark circles under Qin Qian's eyes, they would swallow their words.

Lou Fengyue only appeared once, bringing back several hundred tents and a large bundle of sun protection nets in two trucks, leaving them on the square, and then leaving again.

No one asked her where she was going anymore.

Everyone is busy, so busy that they have no energy to pay attention to others, so busy that they can fall asleep as soon as they turn their head.

The construction of the cave in the northern suburbs was not complicated, and not many materials were needed.

When Lou Fengyue went to the building materials market to find materials, she encountered Luo Zeyan leading a team that was looting.

She didn't show herself; she returned the way she came.

They dismantled all the building materials that could be dismantled in the village at the foot of the mountain.

Although it's a bit of a hassle, it's not a big deal to use secondhand materials in this situation.

The torrential rain came earlier than expected.

On the night of the twenty-fifth day, a thunderclap suddenly exploded outside the window.

Then the wind picked up and made the window frames rattle loudly.

Lou Yunzheng hasn't returned yet; someone needs to stay at the construction site.

The clouds hung low, like a waterlogged quilt, heavily covering the city.

Lou Fengyue stood by the window for a while.

The last rain of the heavy rain phase has finally arrived.