Chapter 47 Overnight Transfer
Chapter 47 Overnight Transfer
Calculating the time, at the speed of a large truck, it will make at most five round trips by seven o'clock tomorrow morning.
Compared with more than 500 tons of materials, this transportation capacity is far from enough.
As for temporarily upgrading the large truck to increase the single-trip carrying capacity, with the dozen survival points in hand, it may not be able to improve much. It is still a drop in the bucket.
"If we also transfer the two special transport vehicles used to clean up the convoy here—"
Su Wu thought about it and silently rejected the idea.
The special transport vehicle has a slow speed but a high load capacity, but with a maximum length of five meters, the materials it can actually transport are far from reaching the upper limit of its load capacity. Moreover, the task of clearing the road will be completed in one day at most.
If they were transferred halfway for transportation, they would miss out on the 20,000 contribution value reward for ranking first.
“We can only take some risks.”
After weighing the pros and cons, Su Wu finally made a decision. Since there was no time to transport the supplies back to the shelter, then he would not transport them. Anyway, he just had to extract the supplies from the official warehouse.
20 minute later.
The large truck, traveling at high speed, arrived at the surface of Su Wu's refuge.
A construction robot jumped out of the cab and opened the door of the truck.
Then, the side of the carriage close to the cab began to rise slowly, dumping all the fertilizers piled up inside the carriage out at once.
The rough unloading caused many of the woven bags used as outer packaging to be damaged. A large amount of fertilizer was spilled out of them, covering a small area around like sand.
It can be predicted that if you want to collect them again later, you will definitely encounter considerable trouble.
Subsequently.
Eight construction robots that had already arrived at the ground from the underground shelter began to enter the cabin of the large truck one by one and wait for orders.
Two of the construction robots were carrying two automatic rifles and six magazines full of bullets.
These construction robots will go to the official shelters along with large trucks to assist in loading supplies, and then unload the supplies on the spot not far from the official shelters.
The average temperature was over 70 degrees and most of the buildings were destroyed.
Any place can be called a remote and uninhabited area. It might be a bit risky to temporarily drop supplies there, but it is still much better than having them confiscated directly by the official shelter.
"Go ahead and pick up the goods."
Su Wu ordered the large truck to drive back to the official shelter.
However, before leaving, Su Wu thought about it and asked them to take a K2 series agricultural drone to strengthen their force.
This modified drone with a rocket launcher has extremely powerful destructive power. Although it is not usually used, you should always be prepared for the worst, so it is more reassuring to bring it with you.
A large truck loaded with construction robots set out again on the road to the official shelter.
The journey was safe and sound and we entered the city smoothly.
And this time.
Su Wu discovered that there seemed to be more vehicles working on construction projects in various parts of the city.
From time to time, the roar of diesel engines could be heard, and occasionally one or two cars could even be seen passing through the passage cleared by Su Wu.
Su Wu frowned and hesitated for a while, but decided to continue according to the original plan.
Came to the official shelter.
Numerous construction robots poured into the underground hall, attracting the attention of many people. Some looked around curiously, while others whispered to each other, wondering where these cutting-edge mechanical creations came from.
The construction robots made no response to the curious crowd.
They faithfully carried out Su Wu's orders, and under the coordinated operation of artificial intelligence, they cooperated with the workers in the official warehouse to load bags of fertilizer into the carriages.
"Where did this robot come from?"
"Looks like he's working really well."
A forklift worker was chatting with his colleague during his break.
"Who knows? I've never heard of any shelter with robots."
The forklift worker's colleague was a middle-aged man who was exhausted physically and mentally. He looked at the robots working and couldn't help but show some worry in his eyes.
"But this isn't a good thing. Many people can't find jobs, and now these robots are taking our jobs."
In official shelters, everyone must do forced labor. But forced labor and work are two different things.
The former is compulsory and may not be very labor intensive, but at the end of the day, you will only get a little food. The latter may be very tiring, but there is extra pay. Although the income is still far less than in peacetime, it can at least make life a little better for you and your family.
"It's okay. I know the guy over there who's loading the truck with the robot."
"They are all workers in Warehouse No. 7, responsible for external transactions."
"These robots should belong to some wealthy private shelter outside. They are just here to pick up the goods."
Another young man wearing a hood interrupted at this time.
Working in the same shelter, the duties of different departments were no secret. If you were interested, you could easily find out.
The people that the hooded young man envied the most before were the workers in Warehouse No. 7.
Because they are an external department, their work is among the easiest and offers the best benefits in the entire shelter.
"So it's from outside, that's good."
The middle-aged man heaved a sigh of relief and retracted his vigilant gaze towards the robot. As long as it didn't take his job, everything would be fine. After losing his vigilance, he couldn't help but feel curious.
Even in the past peacetime, the large-scale use of humanoid robots was a thing that existed only in legend.
Basically, whenever it appears, it is associated with some large high-tech companies.
What kind of shelter will be behind these robots that appear here? Will the people living there be several times, or even dozens of times better off than those in the official shelters?
With the help of more construction robots.
This time, it took less than half an hour to fill the truck with goods again.
Two construction robots got into the cab, started the large truck, and left the official shelter. The remaining eight construction robots stayed behind, standing quietly at the exit of the official shelter, shutting down and waiting.
A few minutes later.
The large truck appeared near two special transport vehicles that were clearing the road.
They dumped the entire truckload of fertilizer onto a small piece of land they had specially cleared.
Then a construction robot, armed with an automatic rifle, jumped out of the vehicle and silently guarded near the fertilizer. Another construction robot followed the large truck back to the official shelter to load the goods.
(End of this chapter)