Chapter 121: The Race Against Time
Chapter 121: The Race Against Time
Get the inspection report.
Su Wu operated a construction robot and confirmed with Zhou Xiwu who rushed to the scene in a heat-insulating suit.
"Do you still have the original generator design drawings?"
"Also, how many spare parts do you have for the generator?"
"The blueprints are available."
"There were originally a lot of spare parts, all stored in the compartment of the power room."
"But the people who did it before were too experienced and didn't leave us anything useful."
Zhou Xiwu said this with gritted teeth, then turned sideways and pointed to a pile of opened supply boxes in the distance.
“Now all the parts that can be used found from other places are placed there.”
Su Wu got the blueprint and asked several construction robots to count the types and quantities of spare parts.
More than half a minute later.
With the help of artificial intelligence simulation, it was calculated that it would take 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Only then can we rebuild a generator that is powerful enough to start the central air conditioning.
This time is too long.
I'm afraid that by the time the manufacturing is completed, there will be few living people left in the entire large shelter.
I continued to adjust several parameters.
After the manufacturing time was compressed to 50 minutes, it could not be reduced any further.
Su Wu could only sigh helplessly.
Said to Zhou Xiwu.
"Let's make some space here and start building a generator from scratch."
"What did you say?"
Zhou Xiwu's face turned pale, and he began to doubt whether he had heard it wrongly.
"The two old generators here are completely damaged."
“It’s no longer worth saving.”
"I'll ask your people to cooperate and try to build a new one within 50 minutes."
As he spoke, Su Wu was already commanding the engineering robots.
Start preparing some preliminary work.
Then over here in the farmyard is the manufacturing center on the 2nd underground floor.
All other work was also suspended, and priority was given to the production of some missing core generator components.
Said it was 50 minutes.
But if you don't seize the time, 50 minutes may not be enough.
"I'll ask them to fully cooperate right now."
Su Wu's last words brought Zhou Xiwu back to his senses.
Although 50 minutes seems long, there is still hope that it can be salvaged to some extent.
The final loss may be greater.
Involves specific manufacturing tasks.
No one can be more efficient than artificial intelligence.
After Su Wu transferred all authority to artificial intelligence.
At Zhou Xiwu's large shelter, hundreds of people in the power room and its surrounding areas were mobilized at the same time.
They cleared a clean area.
After violently extinguishing the remaining generator that was still on fire, they completely dismantled it and carefully searched through the ashes for any parts that might still be used.
ten minutes later.
A Type 1 ore transport vehicle equipped with a cooling system, carrying an engineering robot and a batch of core parts produced in an emergency.
Rush out of Su Wu's shelter.
Driving towards Zhou Xiwu’s large shelter.
Five more minutes.
The Bluebird-class transport drone carries the last batch of maintenance supplies.
It took off from the rooftop of the small bunker and flew towards the same destination.
At the speed of transporters and drones.
This will be Su Wu's refuge, and the only support that can be sent there.
After that, even if more supplies were produced, it would be too late to transport them.
This is also the reason why Su Wu could not call on the thermal power generator of the Green Lemon Shelter to temporarily replace it. The 600-kilowatt thermal power generator is not small.
It takes a lot of time from dismantling to loading and then transporting to Zhou Xiwu’s large shelter.
Adding one thermal power generator is not enough, and multiple vehicles are needed for transportation.
Overall.
In fact, it takes almost the same amount of time as rebuilding a completely new generator.
Time passed little by little.
As the temperature in the shelter continues to rise.
Even among the workers who remained in the power room, most of them had to withdraw from the working sequence.
There are only a few skilled maintenance workers wearing heat-insulating suits.
Carrying the hopes of everyone in the shelter, he is still involved in the task of rebuilding the generator.
The indoor temperature is too high.
Some unprotected workers had vague hallucinations in their eyes.
Everything I see seems to be double.
But they all gritted their teeth and did not leave the power room.
The entire large shelter now, except for a few places with temporary power supply from small generators -
They can't enter those places either.
The environment in all other places is similar.
Rather than waiting to die outside, it would be better to stay here and see with their own eyes how far they are from being rescued.
Outside the power generation room.
In other places in the shelter, people with poor physical fitness have stopped breathing forever from time to time.
But at this time, no one has the time to care about others.
The survivors who were still alive covered their faces with wet towels and tried to reduce their movements as much as possible, so that they could hold on for a while longer in this increasingly hot environment.
Occasionally there are some brave and aggressive people who are unwilling to die quietly.
A riot broke out as a way of venting one's anger.
But this behavior will only make them fall faster.
Even if their physical strength was not quickly exhausted in the high temperature, they would become corpses on the street under the suppression of nearby security forces.
As a violent machine close to the ruling class.
These security forces are equipped with some cooling equipment. Although it is not as effective as the thermal insulation suits, it can at least allow them to retain a certain amount of physical strength to walk and pull the trigger.
And more importantly, they know.
Aid from outside has been flowing here continuously.
The workers in their shelter are racing against time, led by top-tech maintenance robots.
Racing against time to repair the damaged generator.
They hope to still be there.
hum!
An even hotter wave swept over.
Some people near the outer layer of the shelter heard an unusual noise.
They raised their heads with great effort and found a drone towing a supply box flying from mid-air towards the depths of the shelter.
“That’s outside assistance.”
“This should be the third batch.”
A young security guard followed the drone with his eyes until it disappeared around the corner.
The somewhat depressed spirit was lifted up again.
"Yes."
"And I guess the generator will be repaired soon."
"Otherwise, you wouldn't have rushed over at this time."
The colleague next to him also looked relieved.
He, who has a better understanding of human nature, knows it clearly.
Those big guys who can dominate everything have not given up until now.
It just means that the situation has not yet reached a point of no return.
"Patrol well."
"It seems that we can live a little longer in the future."
(End of this chapter)