Chapter 33: Animals in the Disaster
Chapter 33: Animals in the Disaster
[Current territory: Habitable personal shelter (55%), daily fixed survival points +3. ]
[Current remaining survival points: 45. ]
a new day.
Look at the experience bar behind the shelter level, which is halfway advanced.
Su Wu was in a very good mood.
At this rate, it won’t be long before the shelter can be upgraded to the next level.
By then, not to mention opening up new system functions, at least the daily fixed survival point income will definitely increase.
Life will visibly get better.
After washing.
Holding a piece of soft, golden-baked bread, Su Wu, as usual, went to the control center's console and conducted a routine inspection of the shelter and its surroundings.
The whole night passed.
There were few changes inside the shelter.
Only the engineering team was still on the fourth floor underground, constantly digging and excavating, and continuously expanding the space of the shelter.
Outside the shelter, there was unexpectedly some movement.
In addition to the occasional large trucks that transported goods back and forth, a group of unknown birds passed by in the sky, and one or two small animals appeared on the rocky beach in the distance.
"Under such high temperatures, animals on the surface have not yet been completely extinct."
“Really tenacious.”
Su Wu was somewhat surprised. Perhaps this was what they called life finding a way out. Not only humans, but other animals were also struggling to survive in extreme environments.
After checking the log, it was determined that the environment around the shelter was temporarily safe.
Su Wu began to look through the list of supplies consumed in the shelter again.
It was discovered that the most frequently used materials for building shelters, stones and construction waste, namely concrete blocks, were running out.
"It seems that we need to set up a special team to go out and mine."
Su Wu was in deep thought.
Although there are stones everywhere outside the farmyard, most of them are of strange shapes and large in size. In addition, most of them are buried deep in the soil. It is not an easy task to dig them out.
As for construction waste, it is even harder to say.
According to the information Su Wu had, he had to go to an abandoned village at least two kilometers away and dismantle the houses himself to get a sufficient amount of construction waste.
Once the distance is so long, the risk is at least two orders of magnitude higher than if the work is done in a farmyard. It is not suitable for the precious engineering team to do it part-time.
Be proficient in opening design software.
Su Wu began to think about how to build a team specifically for digging and transporting construction materials.
First, as a rule of thumb, it cannot be too large.
The engineering team used to expand the shelter only had a few miniature vehicles and construction equipment. As one of the accessories that provided them with raw materials, it was even less likely to be that big.
But if we consider it from the perspective of limiting scale.
In fact, there is no need to manufacture separate units for excavators, electric pickaxes that are necessary for demolishing houses and handling overly large rocks, etc.
They can be integrated into the same transport vehicle to save manufacturing costs.
The only disadvantage is that it will reduce the collection efficiency. However, this disadvantage can be basically ignored when the mechanical unit can work continuously for 24 hours.
Even with the lowest work efficiency, you can still accumulate sufficiently impressive results during long working hours.
Make some marks on the design.
Soon, a complete excavation and transportation team was personally streamlined by Su Wu into a single special transport vehicle.
The appearance of this special transport vehicle is somewhat similar to a mini transport vehicle.
There is no cab, only a tank-like crawler chassis and an open truck bed. At the rear of the vehicle, there is also a metal cabin that is only one-fifth the size of the truck bed. It is equipped with electric pickaxes, mechanical arm buckets and other electric tools, which can be deployed to work on their own after arriving at the destination.
Considering the need to carry out work over long distances, increasing the carrying capacity can significantly improve overall efficiency without increasing costs too much.
The size of the special transport vehicle is a whole circle larger than the mini transport vehicle. The length of the vehicle is nearly five meters, which is not much different from an ordinary family car. At the same time, the load capacity is the same as that of a large truck, also reaching 20 tons.
"One vehicle is a mining and transportation team."
"This deserves the prefix of special."
Looking at the design drawings he had drawn himself, Su Wu showed a satisfied expression.
What’s more important is that when the artwork comes out.
Artificial intelligence simultaneously lists the specific manufacturing plan and the required materials list.
With the help of engineering robots and some raw materials traded from official shelters, 97% of the spare parts of the special transport vehicle can be produced by itself, and the total production time does not exceed ten hours.
Such a high degree of completion means that Su Wu will most likely only need five to six survival points to obtain a finished special transport vehicle.
Compared to the initial manufacturing of mini transporters and mini excavators, the cost has been significantly reduced.
No delay.
After the design drawing was completed, Su Wu added it to the manufacturing center's to-be-manufactured list.
This necessary work is completed.
Su Wu did not leave the control center.
He switched the large screen to another interface on the console and pressed the start button.
Eight or nine seconds later.
A concrete floor and a gray sky appeared on the screen.
This is the view from a drone.
During the period of transporting the official shelter supplies, Su Wu was not idle. Relying on the abundant supplies in his hands, he made some modifications to the inside and outside of the shelter. One of the most important changes was the construction of a vertical passage connecting the inside of the shelter and the roof of the second-story residential building in the farmyard.
This passage has a diameter of about one meter and is equipped with a lifting platform and multiple explosion-proof isolation doors that can be closed automatically. While ensuring the absolute safety of the shelter itself, all types of drones in the shelter, including the K2 agricultural drone, can be quickly released.
In an emergency, if necessary, this vertical passage can even be transformed into a rocket silo to directly launch the rockets in the shelter.
[Reconnaissance drone formation is ready.]
[Surrounding environment monitoring is normal.]
[The current real-time temperature is 67.5 degrees.]
[Begins liftoff.]
In a dark and silent world.
Three palm-sized drones, flashing faint lights, slowly took off from the roof of the farmhouse. After circling in the air for a few circles, they gradually flew towards the mountains in the distance.
Su Wu had long been curious about the mountains that had experienced an unprecedented fire.
Now that I have some free time, it's natural and inevitable that I want to explore.
(End of this chapter)