Rainy season.
Haizhou saw plenty of rain. Each year, as the temperature gradually rose, the rainfall gradually became more abundant.
As the ocean currents moved, vast amounts of moist air blew in from the Endless Sea, turning into frequent torrential downpours. And after each rainstorm, the temperature would rise once again...
Until the earth baked dry and cracked, only to turn into a mud pit beneath the pouring rain.
The cycle repeated endlessly.
The harsher the sun, the higher the temperature; the heavier the rain, the more humid the air.
There was no hoping the blazing sun would drive away the moisture, nor any expecting the rain to relieve the scorching heat. Together, they only brought repeated torment. The entire world would become an enormous steamer.
Sometimes, the impurity levels in the rain would suddenly spike. Under its acidic corrosion, any high-tech equipment outside the Wilderness would be finished. Solar panels rapidly aged under the erosion of hurricanes and acid rain, while crude, bulky wind power generation could endure the ordeal—at worst, a few blades and bearings needed replacing. And that was not all.
With the arrival of the rainy season, the entire Haizhou would enter another period of unrest.
It was not only the flooding and standing water within the city. Floods and tsunamis beyond its walls also became increasingly frequent...
Every summer was a season of frequent disasters.
Things were still manageable within the cities. Every major and minor city in the Federation lay beneath the coverage of Heavenly Overseer's Law, which could suppress the spread and severity of disasters to the greatest extent. But in the Wilderness outside the cities, the effects of Heavenly Overseer's Law rapidly thinned.
For Settlements in the Wilderness, every summer was an ordeal.
The frequent Natural Disasters were secondary, after all; preparations