Chapter 662: Chapter 453 Departure
Because the streets were quite chaotic at that time, and the torrential rain was pouring down, many people neglected this situation.
But as the water on the ground kept rising, when it had reached above ankles, everyone finally realized that a flood had silently struck Kyoto.
Knowing that the city was in chaos now, Dong Tianyu had no intention to go out; instead, he sat next to the living room’s main door, calmly enjoying the rain curtain.
Where to mend a leaking sky, the earth mourns and drifts through life anew.
A sleepless night to a solitary guest; the host’s window reveals a banana plant.
Invoke the exiled immortal’s spring to wash the face, turn Jiaosh’s chamber upside down to spill the essence of jade.
As the water level on the ground grew higher, Dong Tianyu moved his spot from the first-floor door to the second floor.
At this point, the rainstorm had not lessened but intensified; Kyoto was no longer a place of accumulating waters but had become a swamp.
Dong Tianyu glanced at his watch, only to realize that a whole night had passed, and he had simply stayed in his room, staring at the rain outside the window, forgetting his nightly cultivation.
By now, the water was about three meters deep; survivors wishing to travel could only do so by boat or by swimming relying on their physical strength.
However, the depth of over three meters instantly cleared the originally congested roads as not many people in Kyoto owned small boats, so the most common sight on the water was individual survivors swimming, searching for suitable floating objects.
Although many had already started to seek boats to flee, it was not yet the right time for Dong Tianyu to act.
With the water levels continuously rising, many survivors who initially hid in higher places were becoming anxious.
Even though they had found no boats, many survivors began to use their imagination, assembling anything that could float from their surroundings, attempting to turn them into aquatic escape tools.
The most common contraption was a combination of door panels and various bottles; they affixed airtight bottles to wooden door panels to enhance their buoyancy on the water.
After making these makeshift water escape platforms, they disregarded the ongoing downpour and jumped onto the rafts, desperately trying to flee the city.
Don’t underestimate the makeshift escape tools created by the survivors from miscellaneous objects. If comfort is not a concern, these tools can be more practical than many small boats.
The reason is simple; regular small boats can easily accumulate water in the cabin during a rainstorm, requiring passengers to continuously bail out the water from inside the boat.
Meanwhile, those small makeshift water escape platforms, often made from wooden doors, had no sealed edges. Even in heavy rain, the water would flow over the edges of the platforms, directly falling into the surrounding waters, leaving the platform essentially free from accumulating water.
Sitting at home, Dong Tianyu observed these hastily departing survivors with his Divine Sense. Seeing their unprepared and flustered escape, he shook his head helplessly.
They didn’t consider whether the small amount of supplies they took could sustain them until they found a boat that could take them in, or a safe place to stay.
In Dong Tianyu’s view, over eighty percent of these survivors who left in haste would not last until they came across a boat willing to receive them. In a short while, they might become floating corpses on the water’s surface.
The water level continued to rise, but Dong Tianyu still had no intention of making a move from his room.
As the water level submerged the second floor of the villa where Dong Tianyu lived, he did not leave. Instead of moving to higher ground, he went down to the courtyard.
It turned out that when the water level was about to submerge the second floor, Dong Tianyu retrieved the Black Car from the Storage Space.
The Black Car, refined into a top-tier Magic Artifact, naturally achieved full waterproofing. As for the lack of underwater propulsion, it wasn’t a concern due to the nature of the Magic Artifact.
So while Dong Tianyu was inside the Black Car, he had no trouble moving it around with the Art of Controlling Objects.
At that moment, Dong Tianyu remained waiting in the yard, simply because he couldn’t feel the severe weather above while submerged underwater.
Although he was alone in the Black Car, Dong Tianyu was never bored. After all, he could enter the Cave anytime he wanted, where he could cultivate or play role-playing games without any disturbance.
After another three days, Dong Tianyu surveyed with his Divine Sense and noticed that the water in Kyoto had risen over twenty meters, with no signs of the torrential rain letting up.
Dong Tianyu was not surprised by this situation, as the previous natural disaster had seen floodwaters exceed a hundred meters. Therefore, a few stories of water submersion in Kyoto was not out of the ordinary.
However, the current water depth had reached the activation condition of Dong Tianyu’s zero-cost purchase plan, and it was at this time that he was ready to start his operation.
There were two ways for Dong Tianyu to scavenge at this time. The first was a scorched earth style of sweeping, plucking the buildings from the ground root and all. There was no need to concern himself with what was inside, simply disassembling them to expand the foundation of the Cave.
