Chapter 35 The Sudden Storm
Chapter 35 The Sudden Storm
Except for the supplies on the surface.
The large trucks that were still out there carrying out transportation tasks were relatively less worrying to Su Wu.
Fully loaded with cargo, this huge steel behemoth weighs more than 20 tons. In terms of safety and stability, it is even safer than most houses.
However, out of caution, Su Wu also suspended the transportation tasks of large trucks.
Let it find a sheltered alley in the city to temporarily stop.
Three hours after the storm hit.
The raging wind not only showed no signs of stopping, but became even more violent.
Not far from the lane where the large truck stopped, a four-story house collapsed at some point after failing to withstand the strong wind. Countless debris poured down, instantly blocking the street. Then a large amount of lighter debris and rubble were carried into the air by the strong wind, smashing into the surrounding buildings like a storm.
Meanwhile, outside the city, in the suburbs.
In the control center underground in the farmyard, Su Wu was exchanging information with other shelter owners in a chat group when he suddenly discovered that the network started to become intermittent and the delay was getting higher and higher.
In the end, I was completely disconnected and could no longer reconnect to the network.
"The signal tower must have been blown down by the wind."
After some inspection, Su Wu quickly found the cause.
A signal tower is not a fortress.
In storms where even masonry houses are in danger of toppling over, it is not uncommon for the more fragile signal towers to have problems.
"It's troublesome."
Su Wu sighed silently.
If there is a problem with the signal tower in peacetime, the worst that can happen is post-disaster reconstruction. However, in the apocalyptic environment now, it is extremely difficult for ordinary workers to even leave the shelter. How much spare energy can the government have to repair the signal tower that does not affect basic survival?
The answer is obvious.
If nothing unexpected happens, after the network is disconnected this time, it will not be reopened for a very long time in the future, or perhaps even until the extinction of mankind.
This evening.
Su Wu stayed alone in the silent control center, staring at the rocky beach raging under the strong wind on the screen for a long time. For the first time, he felt an indescribable loneliness.
But he couldn't tell his emotions to anyone.
Even the farthest distance that the eyes could reach was just a piece of wasteland only a few hundred meters away captured by the surveillance camera.
late at night.
Under the pitch-black sky without a single ray of light.
The winds that were raging across the land had weakened.
According to official news released on the radio, Jianghe City has entered a period of intermittent storms, but there is still a high probability that it will be hit by stronger winds in the next two to three hours. Conservative estimates suggest that it may reach level 17 or above.
A Category 17 storm.
It is already the highest level of wind force classified by humans.
A true natural disaster.
Su Wu's two-story house on the surface might not survive a storm of that magnitude.
"We must hurry and rescue the supplies on the ground."
Su Wu, who was a little drowsy, woke up again after being stimulated by this official news.
He suspended all work in the shelter and dispatched the engineering team on the fourth underground floor, the special transport vehicles that had just been manufactured but not yet officially put into use, and all the construction robots to the ground, asking them to urgently move all the materials on the ground into the shelter.
At the same time, they did not forget to order the large trucks that were taking shelter in the urban area of Jianghe City to return to the shelter.
There is certainly a certain risk in traveling now, but compared to the horrific disaster that is about to happen, this risk is completely within the tolerable range.
"Old household appliances, pipes and cables, rubber tires, etc. will be transferred first."
"Then there's toilet paper, soap, plastics that are placed inside residential buildings."
“And finally cement and steel.”
Open the inventory of supplies temporarily stored on the surface.
Su Wu sorted out the order of transfer of various materials according to their importance.
There is a slightly abnormal phenomenon in this order. As the waste household appliances and waste tires have relatively low purchase prices, they are the top priorities for transfer.
The reason for this arrangement is that, on the one hand, they are light in weight and irregular in shape, making them the most easily blown away by strong winds. On the other hand, they contain a variety of rare metals, which are one of the sources of raw materials necessary for the manufacture of various precision machinery in the future.
Without these old appliances, it would be very difficult for Su Wu to produce even one more construction robot. Not to say that he could not manufacture one, but at least it would cost a lot more survival points.
Then toilet paper, plastic products, etc., are all consumables that take up a lot of space. They do not require a high storage environment, and it is not cost-effective to put them in a shelter with limited space.
Therefore, most of them were piled up on the ground in houses before.
But that doesn't mean they aren't important.
The situation is urgent now. If we don't want to suffer any losses, we must move them all into the shelter, even if we have to pile them up in the corridor of the shelter's living area.
As for the final cement and steel.
Because there were too many of them, Su Wu was not sure he could move them all into the shelter before the Category 12 storm hit. He could only move as many as he could.
surface.
The steel door of the shelter slowly opened.
Five construction robots slowly stepped onto the ground under the illumination of the passage lights.
The fierce wind carried fine sand and gravel, which hit their iron bodies, making clusters of noises and making their steps seem a little shaky.
Although it was a lull in the storm, the average wind speed on the ground was about level 8. Ordinary people were still in great danger in this environment. In addition, even in such a strong wind, the ambient temperature never dropped below 70 degrees. It was as hot as hell on an alien planet.
The price that ordinary people have to pay for activities on such a surface is almost unimaginable.
Fortunately, for robots, as long as the temperature is not high enough to break through the heat dissipation system and burn out the internal electronic components, even the harshest environment will not be much different from normal conditions.
The construction robots turned on their searchlights and explored the ground.
They quickly gathered towards the location of the old appliances.
Behind them, two mini transport vehicles and two mini excavators belonging to the engineering team, as well as a newly built special transport vehicle, also drove past.
Three minutes later.
The first mini transport truck loaded with used household appliances began to return.
It passed through the path between cement, steel and waste garbage, entered the downward sloping passage of the shelter, and then took the spacious elevator platform inside the shelter to reach the fourth underground floor.
The breeding factory on the third floor of the shelter has officially started operation, and the internal space has been almost fully utilized. There is no room for storage.
They could only make do with using the fourth underground floor, which had been mostly excavated, as a temporary transit warehouse.
(End of this chapter)