Abyss Summoner-Chapter 355 - 346: The Torrential Rain Descends

While the city was fervently under construction, Chen Feng’s new orders became the focus of everyone’s attention.

Build a trench.

Chen Feng wanted to construct a huge trench around the city.

The heavy rain was just the beginning; global warming was the real culprit of this natural disaster, with the sea level rising nearly ten meters in just a few months.

What does this signify?

The rise of sea level has a significant impact on the socio-economic, natural environment, and ecosystems of coastal areas.

Firstly, the rise can submerge low-lying coastal regions, advancing ocean dynamics toward beaches, eroding coasts, turning "fields" into "sea"; secondly, it intensifies the severity and frequency of storm surges, posing obvious risks to the lives of coastal inhabitants.

Although they didn’t understand Chen Feng’s intention behind this order, the other party held absolute control in the city, and everyone put down their work to join in trench excavation and dam construction.

The work began.

This kind of project, if relying on ordinary people to excavate, would take at least three years and require numerous equipment and tools. But in this world, there exist professionals. Some Earth Elemental Masters can dig out tens of tons of ordinary soil in a day’s work. Humans and Natives only did the finishing touches. In just three days, a drainage system traversing the city was roughly completed.

Drainage trenches are actually quite simple to build; as long as they’re distributed reasonably and dug deep enough, there’s usually no issue.

Yet, in the post-apocalyptic world, few paid attention to such simple matters.

In such chaotic times, everyone lived precariously; instead of spending time building useless trenches, they organized forces to capture more food outdoors.

Everything has cause and effect.

Of course, when natural disasters occurred, neglected drainage systems had long been abandoned, leading to many residents’ homes being overwhelmed, with even storied food swallowed by floodwaters.

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Half a month later.

While finishing the drainage system and final work, a downpour struck the city, each drop as large as a thumb, falling from the sky like a waterfall, terrifying to the extreme.

The drainage system came into use.

Because it connected to the city’s river, most excess water drained through the trench into the river.

People believed the rain would stop soon, but a day passed, then two, until the third day brought a change of fear in their expressions.

This continuous downpour lasted three days, during which time the city’s rivers were nearly overflowing, with some low-lying areas long filled, forming a lake.

Chen Feng’s Power of Faith was surging.

After a moment of astonishment came sincere gratitude toward Chen Feng; had it not been for his foresight, after the insect tide, Order would face a new crisis.

But now...

While there were still collapses in some places, it was much better than before, at least giving people a chance to prepare and evacuate.

A few more days passed.

Clear weather.

The week-long rain finally stopped.

Chen Feng stood in a high place, surveying the scenery before him, with large swathes of houses submerged. Occasionally, he saw bugs tumbling in the water; these flattened bugs used to hide in soil, dormant, but now this flood submerged their habitat, driving them to the water’s surface.

Being non-aggressive, some ordinary people even personally gathered them to make food.

What?

These bugs, pale as maggots, looked somewhat disgusting.

This is the apocalypse.

Don’t just consider bugs; in extreme hunger, some even ate grass roots and bark to fill their stomachs.

Historically, during famines, many starved to death, yet they didn’t eat grass roots and bark? Ha, that’s because grass roots and bark only provide temporary relief; eating them long-term still leads to death. Furthermore, the escape team’s population was tens of thousands, making it impossible for enough grass roots and barks to be eaten!

Especially girls, raised delicately, lacking exercise normally, having digestive systems far inferior to men. Eating grass roots and bark would be deadly for them. Some, in extreme hunger, ate poisonous mushrooms, their stomachs swelling like three watermelons, screaming and moaning as their intestines rotted...

In such circumstances, although bugs are plump and ugly, once cooked, they provide the necessary protein and nutrition, so they’ve become quite popular.

Chen Feng stood aside, watching everything without stopping. These bugs are numerous; if gathered, they would amount to thousands of pounds.

But now, Chen Feng’s identity was that the experimental field of Du Men was the main protection focus; with good drainage, only a small piece was washed away, and other lands, accelerated by energy, produced tens of thousands of pounds of food weekly, while wild hunting continued. Exploration members also brought back thousands of pounds of meat daily. Despite the bugs’ abundance, they didn’t catch Chen Feng’s eye.

Suddenly, Chen Feng heard the rapid splashing of waves from the nearby river, and he abruptly raised his head, solemnly saying:

"Giant fish species!"

As energy ran rampant, fish in the lakes mutated, with some even evolving to Silver Tier. In the river, ordinary strong individuals couldn’t touch them, and on usual days, due to Li Siqi’s influence, these giants lurked at the bottom without causing trouble.

But now, with rising water levels over the past few days and nearby survivors disturbing the monster’s slumber, it was directly enraged.

This was a loach.

Originally a delicacy on human tables, now a ten-meter-long behemoth, a glowing monster with triangular eyes, its enormous mouth filled with layers of ring-shaped sharp teeth, lacking any resemblance to a loach.

Moreover, with its mutation, it earned a new name.

Earth Dragon!

"Hmm? This loach has reached Silver Tier, unexpected to find such powerful creatures in the river. Now, with the rising waters and enhanced environment, it may soon reach Silver Peak!"

Chen Feng shouted loudly, facing it solemnly. Don’t be fooled by ordinary loach appearing unremarkable, for this mutant creature has unfathomable strength in water, not only due to its impressive defense and massive size but also its ability to control water flow and release formidable Water Element energy!

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