Chapter 243 Snow Train

Chapter 243 Snow Train

Chapter 243 Snow Train
Su Wu was among the members of the caravan.

Five more engineering vehicles were added.

Then he thought about it.

He then turned his attention to the base vehicle parked on the surface of the farmyard.

Apart from the micro-mech and manufacturing center, Su Wu now has the mechanical creation with the most survival points in a single item.

Many of the base vehicle's performance features are half a generation to a generation ahead of the current world standards.

Even if the scope is limited to the maintenance road.

A base vehicle capable of carrying additional heavy equipment.

The construction efficiency is also far superior to that of ordinary engineering vehicles.

It itself has armor and electromagnetic shields that have been reinforced at the survival point, as well as artificial intelligence that is no less powerful than that of a farmyard.

It can also enable it to exert extremely powerful combat power in the wild.

Become the cornerstone for ensuring the safety of the entire caravan.

"So many survival points were invested in it."

"It's time to play a little more of a role."

Through the console.

Connected to the base vehicle's artificial intelligence.

Su Wu quickly checked the status of the base vehicle.

I found that the situation was quite good, and even the battery level was 100%.

Can be started at any time.

All he needs to do is to follow the caravan's mission.

Then add various additional accessories to it.

These things are not difficult.

Even though Su Wu currently does not have any large equipment suitable for use in base vehicles.

But just give the order on the spot.

There is no need to use high-end manufacturing centers.

The ordinary industrial area located 5 floors underground of the farmyard can manufacture all the necessary construction equipment on site within one or two hours.

And take advantage of this manufacturing time.

Su Wu also equipped the base vehicle with five humanoid service robots, a combat drone cluster, and a precious engineering robot.

The role of the humanoid service robot is to negotiate and trade with other shelters.

For resource conservation and safety reasons.

Su Wu did not plan to place ordinary staff on the caravan, but to use remote control for everything.

All actual team work will be done by robots.

under these circumstances.

It is always better to use humanoid service robots than spider robots and robot dogs.

There's not much to say about combat drone swarms.

It is just like the 20 ordinary spider robots in the caravan.

It is a pure combat sequence.

When necessary, it can combine with the spider robot to form an air-to-ground integrated assault force that can strike wherever it is pointed.

The last engineering robot.

It was an extra guarantee that Su Wu prepared for the caravan.

The professional performance of engineering robots has long been proven.

Su Wu's original shelter was built bit by bit by itself.

There are engineering robots.

Whatever the problem, it can be repaired quickly.

That one is equivalent to a professional maintenance team.

"That should be about right."

Admiring the caravan’s new configuration.

Su Wu began to command the robots.

Load the caravan with all the necessary supplies.

These supplies are in addition to those used by the caravan itself.

Some of it is also used for external transactions.

Including mobile phones, various simple small industrial products, such as hand-cranked generators, water purifiers, flashlights, as well as medicines, solid-state batteries, etc.

Among them, mobile phones are the most valuable and the easiest to sell.

But Su Wu himself didn't have enough of this thing.

At most, you can only take out a portion as a guarantee.

In comparison, many other simple small industrial products can even be made by hand because they are not difficult to manufacture.

Although it may not be sold at a very high price, due to sufficient quantity advantage, it is more suitable for bulk transactions.

Two hours passed.

After everything is ready.

Led by the base vehicle, there are a total of 50 vehicles of various models.

Starting from the farmyard.

Started driving towards Tumen City in the southeast direction.

Jianghe City, east of the city ruins.

Liang Liyang, wearing exoskeleton armor, smashed the hammer in his hand violently down.

The half of the concrete wall that was still standing in the ruins suddenly broke into pieces and scattered everywhere.

A few ordinary people were waiting nearby.

Seeing this, they stepped forward and started to move the broken pieces away.

"That thing on you is still powerful enough."

"It can break down a wall in one go."

"If it were us, I don't know how long it would take."

Next to him, Fang Hongtao was working and couldn't help but feel envious.

"I'm just lucky, I can't help it."

Liang Liyang laughed with some pride. Then, seeing that it was time for a break, he reached out and opened the mask on his face to breathe.

There are hundreds of people in their dormitory building.

Liang Liyang is the only person who has been assigned exoskeleton armor so far.

Although strictly speaking, he only obtained the right to use one-third of this exoskeleton armor.

Wait until after 8 hours of get off work.

Another person will take over his exoskeleton armor and continue to work on the ruins on the ground.

But this did not prevent him from being the most eye-catching guy in the entire dormitory.

"But put on this armor."

"There's more work to do, but the pay is still about the same as yours."

“I don’t think I made much money.”

After feeling proud, Liang Liyang couldn't help but want to complain.

The artificial intelligence that manages them.

In this regard, fairness is truly taken to the extreme.

There was no advantage left for them.

"How about we switch?"

Fang Hongtao rolled his eyes.

Their income is about right.

But with the help of exoskeleton armor, you don't have to put in much effort when working.

In terms of safety, they are much better than ordinary people like them who have no protection at all.

For example, now, if there is a sudden earthquake.

People like Liang Liyang who wear exoskeleton armor will definitely not be in any danger of life.

And they are ordinary people.

No matter how lucky you are, there will always be at least a few unlucky people missing.

In addition, even in daily work.

The differences can also be seen in the details.

With exoskeleton armor covering the entire body, he is not afraid of the severe cold outside.

No matter how thickly Fang Hongtao wore, he could not avoid the additional torture of the cold due to sweating during labor and a series of other situations.

"If the management agrees, I can lend it to you for a try."

Seeing Fang Hongtao's reaction, Liang Liyang also felt that he seemed to be taking advantage of the situation.

I couldn't help but show an embarrassed expression and stopped complaining.

at this time.

Sensors on his exoskeleton armor.

It seems that some different vibrations have been detected.

Liang Liyang pulled up the mask and used the lens that allowed him to see far away.

Go in search of reputation.

Soon a large convoy was seen passing by the edge of the city.

Going away to the southeast.

"What happened?"

Fang Hongtao on the side asked a little nervously.

There is no coordination of the various components on the exoskeleton.

As an ordinary person, he is currently unable to see the situation at the edge of the city.

"It seems like there's a convoy over there." "It's quite large."

“I can see a lot of buses.”

Liang Liyang answered in a muffled voice while looking through the mask.

"Look at the direction they went."

"It seems to be in Tumen City."

Because this is the first time I have seen such a situation.

It's not just Liang Liyang.

Almost everyone in the southeast of the ruins who can use the observation equipment on the exoskeleton armor or spider robot can see the convoy.

Couldn't help but secretly glance over.

Fortunately, the labor intensity of each of them has been greatly reduced under Su Wu's intentional control.

Otherwise, according to this distracted situation.

I don’t know how many people will be punished by artificial intelligence afterwards.

"Towards Tumen City."

"That should be the foreign trade caravan organized by the higher-ups."

"I guess we'll start to see new population coming soon."

Fang Hongtao reacted quickly.

I immediately thought of Jianghe City’s previous large-scale refugee sheltering operation.

Obviously, this was after the waterway became impassable.

Began to form a land fleet.

"Someone's coming again."

"What kind of purgatory is this outside?"

"They all want to run towards us."

Liang Liyang looked bitter after hearing this.

With more people, high-end materials that are already rarely circulated on the market will definitely become even more scarce.

The hamburger combo he had been craving for.

I'm afraid we will have to go from eating once a week to eating once at a longer time.

"The end of the world."

“What good life can ordinary people expect?”

“It’s not like you haven’t seen the posts from refugees on the internet.”

"There are really thugs out there, and people are really going to starve to death."

Thinking of the tragic scenes he had seen in the videos and pictures on the Internet before, Fang Hongtao sighed with some pity.

Although his life is hard now, he can only eat tasteless food every day.

But at least I have enough food and clothing.

There is no need to worry about the life safety caused by the chaos.

Compared to those outsiders, we are already very lucky.

A convoy led by a base vehicle.

Shortly after leaving the ruins of Jianghe City.

They encountered huge obstacles.

On the road in front of them, there was a twisted and broken section that was hundreds of meters long.

The broken concrete road surface was even raised to a height of three or four meters.

Even with the size of the base vehicle.

You can't just run over it either.

"There's flat wasteland next to it."

"Based on the ground strength, it is barely enough for convoys to pass through."

In the farmyard control center.

Su Wu who was always keeping an eye on the convoy.

The abnormality was discovered immediately.

He glanced at the AI's prompt suggesting a detour.

He also looked at the reconnaissance drones in the convoy, which transmitted photos of the even more rugged roads in Tumen City.

After a moment of silence, he gave up the idea of ​​taking a shortcut.

The convoy didn't just pass through once and never come back.

And if you want to pass multiple times.

It would be better to repair the road as soon as possible.

After all, no matter how bad the road is, it has a solid foundation.

After the restoration, the traffic efficiency is improved to a much higher level than that of the wasteland.

"take it easy."

"Even if it takes three to five days, as long as it can be fixed, it's fine."

I realized that it would be impossible to cross this cross-city road, which had not been passed by for a long time, in a short time.

Su Wu also calmed down.

Just let artificial intelligence take charge of the rest of the team's work.

At the same time, a team composed of professionals in the construction field was formed to monitor the fleet remotely at all times and respond to unexpected accidents.

The benefits of a large population became apparent at this time.

Even for something like road construction, it is easy to find a large number of professional counterparts.

After getting away from the convoy.

Su Wu opened the system's technology tree panel again after a long absence.

Start thinking about the next development plan.

"Ordinary steel will become brittle at low temperatures."

"From now on, all vehicles that need to operate on the surface, as well as equipment that appears on the surface."

"The main materials have to be replaced with low-temperature resistant metal alloys."

"besides."

"Considering that we still need to continue to absorb the population of at least one million in the southeast."

“The resources for subsequent shelter development will also have to be obtained from other places.”

“We have to redesign a transport vehicle that is larger and more suitable for traveling in harsh environments.”

Faced with this urgent need.

Su Wu pondered for a while.

Finally, we chose to design based on the model of the base vehicle.

New transporter.

He named it the Snow Transporter.

The overall chassis adopts a crawler type.

There is no cab.

Daily movement is done through autonomous driving or remote control.

The appearance is roughly the same as the base vehicle's cabin, but a little longer and taller.

The overall dimensions remain within the range of 2.5 meters in width, 12.5 meters in length and 7 meters in height.

Its interior is also divided into two floors.

It can accommodate up to 90 passengers or carry hundreds of tons of cargo.

Because low-temperature steel is used as the main material of the car body.

And it is driven by solid-state batteries built into the vehicle body.

Snow transport vehicles can operate normally in environments as low as minus 100 degrees Celsius.

Simultaneously.

Snow transport vehicles of the same model can also be connected to each other.

Combined into a trackless land train that can cross the most complex terrains.

“This transporter.”

"It should be enough to handle all surface transportation needs for a long time to come."

Looking at the finished design drawings.

Su Wu seemed to see snow transport vehicles all over the mountains.

Supplies from all over the place are continuously transported to farmers' yards.

Or a train with a base vehicle as the front could stretch for several kilometers or even dozens of kilometers.

Cross steep mountains and canyons to reach scenes thousands of miles away.

The only problem is that its cost is not cheap, and it is hard to say how many can be produced in a short period of time.

And there are new vehicles.

Related maintenance issues must also be taken seriously.

The best way is to have an engineering robot with the team.

But given its high cost, this is obviously not realistic.

Su Wu could only settle for the next best thing.

Choose to downgrade and design a copycat maintenance robot as a replacement.

Maintenance robots do not have the robotic arms of engineering robots that contain technology that is ahead of its time.

Only use high temperature welding guns, machine tool grade cutting knives, etc.

Basically, they do not have the mechanical manufacturing capabilities for engineering robots.

In terms of maintenance efficiency, it is also far lower than that of engineering robots.

But at least it can repair most simple faults, so that the snow transport vehicle will not break down easily in the wild.

(End of this chapter)