Information Card-Inside Scoop

Massive spiraling black clouds slowly descended from Broken Wave Strait upon Green Forest City.

Like a millstone pressing down from the sky, they brought howling sea winds and torrential rain like floodgates thrown open.

Long-abandoned billboards swayed and snapped in the gale. Trees broke apart, and cars rolled over.

It seemed as though seawater would submerge this place the very next second.

And that was indeed the case. Green Forest City's southern coastline had already been swallowed by seven- or eight-meter-high tsunamis. As Typhoon Bu Qiuxing made landfall, even denser storm surges were bearing down on Green Forest City.

Inside Green Forest City's sewers.

As the torrential rain and storm surge arrived.

Huge amounts of rainwater poured into the sewers, and the water level inside rapidly rose.

In a dark corner of the sewers beneath District 10 of the East City district.

As rainwater flowed backward into the sewer, a slender figure swiftly crawled out of a drainage pipe roughly a meter wide. It shook its wet black fur, its fist-sized eyes gleaming an eerie green in the darkness. After twitching its nose a few times, it darted in one direction.

Before long, it appeared in a narrow passage. Two faint voices and the weak beam of a flashlight came from ahead.

"Second Uncle, we have to leave. The rain is getting heavier and heavier. If we stay here, we'll drown. In this situation, neither thugs nor drifters will come out. We have to escape to the upper floors."

"Ah, our supplies! They're all gone!"

"Second Uncle, we can find more supplies later. If we don't leave now, it'll really be too late."

"Alright, alright... I'll listen to you... Huh... what's that? No... ah..."

The black shadow pounced on the man and bit into his neck, blood gushing everywhere.

"No, a rat... such a huge rat... Help... help..." the boy cried out. But the blood had already stirred the black shadow's ferocity. Its eerie green eyes rapidly turned scarlet as it spun and pounced toward the boy.

Squeak... squeak...

Ding, ding, ding...

Yu Yuan was awakened by the alarm on his Positioning Watch. When he opened his eyes, it was already six-thirty in the morning.

A few hours earlier, after dispelling the threat of death from the [Lust Card] and experiencing the joy of obtaining the rare treasure [Miemie].

The overwhelming drowsiness could no longer be suppressed. After setting an alarm to ring every two hours, he had fallen into a deep sleep.

He knew that only by maintaining sufficient energy and stamina could he deal with any accidents that might occur afterward.

Therefore, proper rest was more important than staying up to keep watch.

This was already his second awakening. He had woken once at four-thirty, and at that time he had inspected every corner of the air-raid shelter level. The results had reassured him somewhat.

Although he could clearly hear the rushing water in the sewers, the seepage he feared most had not occurred after all.

This time, he again picked up his flashlight and entered the air-raid shelter level to inspect the situation.

But the moment he opened the waterproof door, Yu Yuan's brow furrowed.

The smell and humidity in the air were wrong.

His still-groggy mind instantly cleared.

He hurried forward a few steps, reached the high wall of blast-proof sandbags, pressed his left hand against them, and jumped. Using his left hand for support, he vaulted over the sandbag wall and ran toward the two exits.

He first went to the exit that had been sealed off earliest. It was dry, with no sign of water seeping through the cracks. After repeatedly confirming there was no problem, Yu Yuan immediately ran to the exit he used most often.

The moment he stepped into the passage, his foot splashed into water with a patter. His heart skipped a beat.

He immediately looked down. A thin layer of water had already spread across the ground, slowly flowing outward.

He quickly took two more steps to the exit and saw water continuously bubbling from one corner of the blast-proof sandbags. He immediately moved aside the two bags, revealing a gap before him.

The gap was located at the corner of the exit wall, about the size of a brick.

When he shone his flashlight into it, he could see rainwater rushing beneath, having completely flooded the sewer.

The flowing rainwater kept battering the gap. A brick on the outside of the air-raid shelter level had been washed away, causing the inner bricks to be swept away as well and exposing the gap.

Quick-drying cement could seal the cracks on the inside, but it could not reach the outer bricks at the exit.

Yu Yuan's expression turned extremely grim.

He understood that this had been his oversight.

It had to be because he had constantly climbed in and out through this place over the past few days, loosening the outer bricks. Yet he had only focused on checking the inside of the air-raid shelter level and had never considered that the outer bricks might develop a problem.

That was how the current situation had arisen.

Regret was useless now. He had to find a way to stop it.

He immediately carried the dozen or so blast-proof sandbags outside the hideout to the exit. He tore apart the outdoor tent he had collected earlier, using it as waterproof sheeting to block the gap.

With the current rushing water, he had no way to repair it. He could only use this method to stop the water from spreading for now.

Fortunately, the effect was decent. With the sandbags blocking it, the sewer water crashed against them and no longer flowed into the air-raid shelter level. The crisis was temporarily resolved.

Luckily, he had discovered it in time and managed to temporarily contain the danger while it was still in its infancy. Now, he could only hope the gap would not expand further.

Yu Yuan returned to the hideout and checked the remaining half-bag of quick-drying cement. That was his hope for the future.

As long as the torrential rain eased for even a short while and gave him time to repair the gap, there was still a chance.

No matter how anxious he was now, it was useless. He could only wait.

Yu Yuan no longer felt sleepy. He lit the fire pit, boiled a pot of water, then checked the virtual light screen, where several notification messages had already appeared.

[Congratulations, you successfully survived another day. Hideout Survival Evaluation—You received 220 Survival Points (click for details)]

[Hideout Ranking Bonus Reward Evaluation Result—0]

[Today's settlement: 220 Survival Points total. Keep up the good work!]

"Two hundred and twenty points? Not bad."

Once the water in the pot boiled, Yu Yuan opened a can of beef and poured it in, then added a packet of instant noodles. Soon, a rich aroma filled the hideout.

[Miemie], curled up nearby, twitched its nose and looked over.

Seeing this, Yu Yuan waved.

[Miemie] immediately walked over. Its intelligence was clearly not low.

Stroking its smooth fur, Yu Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Is your name Miemie? Should I call you that from now on?"

Mie~

[Miemie] tilted its head at Yu Yuan, then nodded.

By then, the noodles were ready. The rising steam was drawn away through the Ventilation duct, which also brought in a faint cool breeze.

After breakfast, Yu Yuan went to the battered newspaper rack to check today's refreshed newspapers.

When he saw a card appear beside the newspapers, a trace of delight flashed across Yu Yuan's face, only to be replaced by confusion.

"It actually refreshed additional intelligence supplies. But this card is... a Rock Quality [Inside Scoop] card?"

Information Card—Rock Tier Inside Scoop Card

Quality: Rock Tier

Function: Use this card to obtain an inside scoop related to a specified event (Rock Quality).

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