Chapter 25 The Tycoon Who Built His Own Shelter
Chapter 25 The Tycoon Who Built His Own Shelter
Outside the shelter.
The sky was still covered with low dark clouds and visibility was extremely low.
The road and the ground on both sides of the road were covered with gray-white embers. Everywhere you looked, you felt a sense of loneliness and extinction.
Even the sound of the wind seemed to disappear from here.
Crack!
Accompanied by a sound of mechanical friction.
A robot with a thick frame slowly walked out of the upward sloping passage and stepped into this dark and hot world.
It stood still on the ground, turned its eyes with high-definition camera and night vision function, and quickly transmitted the surrounding environment images to the intelligent core of the body. Then within a few milliseconds, the intelligent core responded and mapped out a set of the most concise action routes.
Go forward, go around a small hill of discarded steel, enter the temporary carport, and then get into the cab of a medium-sized truck parked in the carport.
at the same time.
The second underground floor of the shelter, the control center.
On unattended consoles, the display lights up automatically.
Artificial intelligence Luo Tianyi faithfully refreshes the information of every task being executed on the screen.
"Construction robot A04 is entering the lift platform... Leaving the shelter... Entering the truck cab..."
“The surrounding environment is detected to be safe.”
"Begin planning the route, destination, the Heavy Knights' Shelter."
. . . . . .
When Su Wu finally got up from the bed.
After a simple wash and a rather hearty breakfast.
When he arrived at the control center, he found that the medium-sized truck was almost arriving at the door of the heavy knight's house.
"Hey, I'm here."
"Is it convenient for you to go out now?"
Su Wu switched the chat software and sent a voice chat request to the heavy-armored knight.
A few seconds later.
Connect across the way.
"Give me half a minute, I'll go up and open the door."
The armored knight's answer was concise and powerful.
While he was talking, a burst of hurried footsteps could be heard. It was obvious that he was running towards the exit while talking on the phone.
"Then I wait for you."
Su Wu was very satisfied with the armored knight's quick and decisive style of action. He waited patiently for a while, and soon saw through the on-board camera that a shop without a sign on the street had its shutter door opened upwards. A forklift carrying a packaged cargo drove out.
"This way."
Su Wu honked the horn and jumped out of the cab of the construction robot.
"You are...Su Wu?"
On the forklift, a middle-aged man looked at the robot with some doubt. Judging from the exposed skeleton of the robot, it didn't look like there was a person hiding inside.
"This is a remote-controlled robot. I am still in the shelter."
Su Wu gave a brief explanation, and then he manipulated the construction robot to help load the goods from the forklift into the truck compartment.
The temperature in the air is now as high as 65 degrees.
Every second you spend outside increases your risk of getting a heat stroke. It's not a good time to stop and talk.
"Fuck, they're playing with robots."
"That's awesome."
The heavy knight was already soaked in sweat after just a short while. But he didn't care about the heat and discomfort. Instead, he looked at the construction robot like a child seeing a favorite toy. There was undisguised envy in his eyes.
This was the first time he had seen such a nimble robot in real life. "Are these all the batteries that need to be charged?"
Seeing that the heavy-armored knight had no intention of going back for the time being, Su Wu simply asked the construction robot to point his finger, signaling the heavy-armored knight to follow him into the truck's cab.
A tram converted as a survival point.
The cab of the medium-sized truck is equipped with high-quality air conditioning that can operate normally even in high temperatures.
Of course, because of the large temperature difference and the lack of special insulation materials, the environment inside the cab could never be as cool and pleasant as the shelter.
At most, it will make people feel better than being directly exposed to the outside world.
"Thanks."
The heavy knight was not polite either, he jumped off the forklift with a swift movement, and rushed to the passenger seat of the truck in a few steps. The cool breeze in the car blew on his forehead, making him let out a long breath, revealing a look of having survived a disaster.
The temperature outside is over 60 degrees, which is almost like torture.
"That's all the batteries are."
"And I put the reward in there, too."
"A total of 20 kilograms of smokeless gunpowder, all of which are of military quality."
This is the trading item that we agreed on last night.
Originally, the heavy knight wanted to use a replica military pistol and a few boxes of bullets as a reward for charging and transportation. However, Su Wu considered that the structure of the gun was not complicated and his own engineering robot could also manufacture it. He rejected this proposal and replaced it with a more cost-effective gunpowder raw material.
"How's the power?"
Su Wu asked curiously.
As an ordinary person born in peacetime, military gunpowder was somewhat unknown and mysterious to him.
"If used well, it might be able to bring down a building."
“The effect is absolutely amazing.”
The heavy knight described it with a slightly exaggerated expression, and then his tone changed.
"But this amount of gunpowder is a waste if it is used purely as a bomb."
"It is best used to make bullets, and the finished product is both stable and reliable."
Su Wu nodded. In fact, the heavy knight didn't need to remind him that the purpose of trading smokeless gunpowder was to make ammunition for himself.
"Brother, you seem to be very familiar with these things. Did you work in the military industry before?"
"That's impossible. You think too highly of me."
"I'm just a jerk who makes a living by collecting rent from the buildings at home."
"I know this purely out of idleness."
The heavy knight shook his head and pointed at several six- or seven-story residential buildings facing the street outside the cab window, with a look of nostalgia and melancholy on his face.
"This side, this side, and this side are all our houses."
"When we were collecting rent, we thought it was troublesome to knock on every door and deal with all kinds of people."
"Now it seems that it would be great if those lively days could continue forever."
It was only ten days since we moved into the underground shelter.
The armored knight had had enough of loneliness.
Especially during those days when the Internet was down, it was like entering an isolated island abandoned by the world. He felt so uncomfortable that he almost suffocated.
"Several buildings..."
Su Wu didn't know what to say for a moment. You know, the initial capital for building the shelter came from just a house of more than 100 square meters.
If there hadn't been this sudden apocalypse.
Perhaps Su Wu would never be able to reach the assets level of a heavy armored cavalry in his entire life.
It turns out that none of these people who can build their own shelters are simple.
(End of this chapter)