Chapter 43 Post-Disaster Reconstruction

Chapter 43 Post-Disaster Reconstruction

Chapter 43 Post-Disaster Reconstruction
In the local chat channel of Jianghe City, the hottest topic is still the road cleaning activities on the ground.

After a little hesitation, Su Wu decided to continue.

We are almost reaching our destination, we can't just give up just because of something unusual.

On the river bank.

The leading mini excavator was not affected by Su Wu's anxiety at all. It still maintained a speed of two meters per second, moving slowly along the embankment, looking for a passage down.

The gusts of wind blowing along the river channel rolled up wisps of fine sand and gravel, which hit the metal shell of the mini excavator, making crackling sounds.

Brought greetings from the wilderness to this lonely sand digging team.

at last.

After walking a few hundred meters, a slope that was no longer so steep appeared in front of the mini excavator.

Artificial intelligence immediately controlled the mini excavator, turning the radar to detect the road and draw a map while driving down the slope carefully.

As the convoy entered the river.

Soft gravel gradually replaced the relatively hard earth and stone ground.

Su Wu did not let them go too deep, and just found a random place on the periphery and started digging on the spot. This kind of excavation without screening obviously would not produce fine sand of very good quality. But it didn't matter, after transporting them to the refuge, there would be plenty of time and labor to carry out deeper processing.

In the doomsday environment, compared with the risk of being exposed to the outside world for a long time and encountering disasters at any time, the labor and time costs are not worth mentioning.

In the river.

Due to the limited carrying capacity of the mini transporter, the entire sand excavation process did not take long. After just five or six minutes, the mini transporter's bucket was already filled with sand and gravel.

At this time, following the principle of maximum efficiency, the AI ​​automatically starts to operate the mini transporter and returns along the original route alone. The mini excavator stays where it is and waits for the transporter to come again before continuing to work.

Su Wu was a little frightened by this operation. But he hesitated for a moment and still did not intervene.

This most efficient course of action should not be unreasonably prevented unless there are obvious severe weather or other dangers.

Compared with when I came.

The mini transport vehicle on the return trip was much faster because the route had been basically explored. It maintained a nearly full speed all the way.

Soon, the figure of the mini transport vehicle appeared in the surveillance camera installed by Su Wu on the ground of the shelter.

A truckload of sand and gravel was successfully stored in the warehouse.

"There should be no problem."

I watched the mini truck unloading sand and gravel disappear into the night again.

Su Wu's heart was relieved a little.

With the success of the first trip, and with the rigor of artificial intelligence, he doesn’t need to worry about it anymore as long as the weather doesn’t change too much.

Turn your attention back to the shelter.

Su Wu thought about it and assigned two construction robots from the engineering team on the fourth underground floor to take tools and go to the surface to process the sand and gravel brought back. The qualified part of this batch of sand and gravel will be brought into the shelter and become the raw materials for expanding the fourth underground floor of the shelter.

As the construction robots arrived on the ground they began to work.

Su Wu overlooked the entire construction site through a camera installed at the highest point.

This piece of land originally belonged to a farmyard.

There was no sign of a storm. On the flat ground, there were piles of supplies tied up with metal bars, a bunker with only one floor built and waiting to be hardened, and a shelter exit bunker with only a drainage ditch dug and no foundation.

Although they are not pretty, their existence itself represents that the chaotic situation on the surface of the shelter caused by the storm is gradually moving towards order. Everything is beginning to flourish.

"Give it a little more time."

"As long as the bunkers and shelters are built."

"We won't have to worry about a hurricane coming again."

Finished handling the affairs of the shelter.

Su Wu began to devote most of his energy to the cleaning team far away on the edge of the city.

After nearly 10 hours of cleanup, special transport vehicles and large trucks advanced to the vicinity of the Tekla Mall.

With that shopping mall as the dividing line, the difficulty of going deeper inside increases at least several times.

Many streets are completely blocked by collapsed buildings. Instead of taking the trouble to dig a passage, it is better to just go around them.

In this situation, the primary artificial intelligence cannot make the best judgment. Su Wu needs to be there to make corrections in time.

However, the difficulty has increased.

But because this is already within the urban area, many people from other shelters also participated in the cleanup work.

All in all, the overall progress is not too slow.

"These collapsed buildings are a good source of materials."

"Once the cleanup is complete, bring back the last batch of supplies stored at the official shelter."

"Maybe we can consider coming back to pick up a few more truckloads of construction waste."

The process of cleaning the streets was long and boring. Su Wu occasionally corrected the working area of ​​the special transport vehicle, but most of the time, he was idly observing the surrounding environment.

The thousands of collapsed buildings in the city and the huge amount of wreckage gathered together made Su Wu's eyes water.

In his view, these things were almost equivalent to endless building materials.

Even though they were a little far from the shelter, the sufficient number and the convenience of being able to be loaded directly onto the truck were enough to make up for everything.

Turn the camera on the special transport vehicle.

In the distance, between the buildings hidden in the darkness, you can vaguely see lights that are always on.

Those were construction workers from other shelters, operating machinery.

Under the high temperature of over 70 degrees, ordinary people can hardly move around normally. However, specially modified construction vehicles can withstand such scorching heat. Of course, according to the information Su Wu got from the official forum, due to limited resources, such modification is more to ensure that the machine will not be overloaded by heat, and the operators in the cab are relatively less cared for.

Although it won't make the temperature in the cab the same as outside, it won't be much better.

Every worker inside is enduring torture.

Gazing for a while.

Su Wu gradually had a general understanding of the efficiency of those people.

Although the excavators, bulldozers, etc. they were driving looked larger than Su Wu's special transport vehicles.

But often, due to the lack of standard operation, many actions are repetitive and ineffective. It often takes seven or eight excavators and bulldozers to match the efficiency of a special transport vehicle.

(End of this chapter)