章節 929: 929 When It Rains

Just after that battle finished, thick black clouds rolled in, turning day to night in an instant before torrential rains began to fall.

[Everyone, get to elevated positions. The maintenance team on duty is verifying the integrity of the drainage trenches.] The camp's intercom announced.

"Is it that bad?" Max asked Khan, who sighed and double-checked the door of the modular building that they were sitting in.

"It's much worse in some areas. But we are on top of a hill here by the Anomaly, so it's not as bad as it could be. This whole region is known to flood when the rain continues for more than a day or two.

If you check the locations of the Myceloid camps, you will find that they are all on hills as well. It's not for defence against attacks but against the weather. When these storms start, electromagnetic interference is so strong that communications become difficult, and rains over ten centimetres per hour for periods of over a day are common.