Chapter 179
The former Seventh Hospital had been converted into a temporary shelter. Many windows were sealed, buildings were reinforced, and basements were specially expanded to store sufficient food and water resources… In Bai Yi’s view, these preparations would be enough even for a typhoon.
Nearby, there was a stationed military unit. Every member was a martial arts practitioner who had cultivated internal energy and could mobilize immediately to support the shelter when danger came.
Since this place had been used as a fortress and counterattack position during wartime, many buildings from that era still existed, making the hastily built shelter even more effective than others.
But the Return to the Void catastrophe was different from clearly defined natural disasters – everything was unknown. How the disaster would manifest and how severe it would be were complete unknowns. This meant countries had to consider every aspect when building temporary shelters. However, limited by time and technology level, they simply couldn’t account for everything.
They might protect against fire but not earthquakes, earthquakes but not floods, floods but not typhoons… Because of this, most ordinary people could only store enough food rather than hiding in tightly sealed shelters from the start – it would be ridiculous if they ended up trapped inside when the sky fell and earth cracked.
Only when disaster truly struck could they respond specifically – whether to go high or low, board ships or hide underground. If everything truly became unsalvageable, they might even have to launch humanity’s seeds into space…All possibilities were considered by various countries as much as possible.
This included calculating the abilities of powerful extraordinaries. The variables brought by the spiritual energy revival created many extraordinaries, whose existence would inevitably increase humanity’s survival chances.
The power of ordinary people couldn’t be ignored either.
So many shelters and other self-rescue projects could be rapidly built thanks to ordinary people’s contributions.