Reborn Cave Queen of the End Times novel Chapter 233

Chapter 233 The Water Keeps Rising

Chapter 233 The Water Keeps Rising

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Thanks to Scott’s mediation, Aurora Base and the central shelter finally put aside thek hostility and reached an agreement to cooperate.

The central shelter had people, gold, and all kinds of scarce resources.

Aurora Base had phosphorus powder, disinfectants, a wide range of valuable industrial goods, and a partially developed livestock industry.

For all its size, the central shelter had very little livestock farming.

After six months of acid rain, almost hothing could be raised successfully. Only the Yorks’ indoor plantations had survived.

There were plenty of wealthy people in the central shelter, and naturally, they wanted to eat better.

After nearly two years of the apocalypse, even the largest stockpiles of food had been depleted.

The wealthy had long grown tired of instant noodles and crackers. They wanted fresh food, which created a particularly high demand for fresh meat.

Once both sides sat down to discuss it, they realized their needs complemented each other perfectly.

Aurora Base would supply phosphorus powder, disinfectants, fresh meat, and pre-apocalypse industrial goods.

The central shelter would provide gold and scarce resources such as tin, nickel, chromium, silver, copper, and aluminum.

Matthew stayed at Aurora Base for three days, and Autumn avoided him for all three.

t wasn’t because she was afraid of him, but because she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to stop herself from cutting his head off.

When Leonel delivered the 300 tons of gold, Autumn decided that enduring him for three days had been well worth it.

Matthew searched for Autumn every day without fail, only to come up empty-handed each time. He never would have guessed that she’d hidden away inside her storage space to farm.

ately, the rewards from her space had been improving. Not only had it unlocked a rice paddy, but it had also opened up a salt ield, leaving Autumn either planting rice or happily drying salt all day long.

When Matthew’s group finally prepared to leave, Autumn felt as though she’d come back to life.

As Matthew boarded the ship, he looked back every few steps, but in the end, he still couldn’t find the person he’d been longing to see among the crowd.

With obvious reluctance, he finally departed.

Autumn, meanwhile, felt as though she’d been set free. She wandered around Aurora Base with almost vindictive enthusiasm, making a point of visiting every corner of it.

Even David couldn’t help complaining to Kayla. “What exactly is that pretty boy’s deal? Has he fallen for our Autumn?”

Kayla shot him a look. “You only just figured that out? That pretty boy’s into men.”

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Chapter 233 The Water Keeps Rising

“What?” David nearly exploded before suddenly catching himself. “Wait, that doesn’t make sense. If he’s into men, what’s that got to do with Autumn? She’s a girl!”

“He doesn’t know that,” Kayla replied. “Autumn comes across as incredibly masculine. Even I can’t help being charmed by her.”

David scratched his head. “Then why not just tell him? Wouldn’t he stop pestering her?”

“What do you know?” Kayla sighed. “Life is much easier for Autumn while she’s living as a man. If Matthew finds out, everyone in the central shelter will know too. Can you imagine what methods they’d use against her? Women have always had a harder time in this world than men. No matter how capable Autumn is, people will still find ways to smear her. I understand why she’s hiding it and why Mr. Wright has kept her true identity secret all this time. He’s protecting her.”

After Matthew left, the weather remained consistently pleasant.

The wind still blew from time to time, but the skies were no longer darkened the way they had been a few days earlier, and people gradually resumed going outside to work.

Every day, Autumn and Leonel split their time into two shifts to monitor and record the rising water level.

One day, Leonel said worriedly, “The water’s rising far too quickly. Do you think all the land will eventually disappear beneath the sea?”

Sitting on a rock, Autumn skipped pebbles across the water one after another, answering absentmindedly, “More or less. In the end, there’ll only be a tiny bit of land left on the entire planet.”

And by the time the final skyfire descended, even that last sliver of land might not survive.

“So are we all going to end up living on the ocean?” Leonel joked. “Maybe we’ll evolve into an aquatic species.”

“Who knows?” Autumn stretched after tossing her last pebble. “Evolution takes tens of thousands of years. By then, we’ll all have been dust for ages, and who knows where that dust will have scattered? Why worry about it now? Worst comes to worst, we’ll just drift around at sea.”

Leonel chuckled. “I suppose you’re right.”

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