Chapter 245 Accelerated Expansion
Chapter 245 Accelerated Expansion
Accompanied by Su Wu's will.
A large number of ordinary shelter residents began to evacuate from the surface city ruins in an orderly manner and return to the underground shelters.
A few hours later.
The once bustling ground has become visibly deserted.
All that was left were various engineering vehicles, spider robots, and workers wearing exoskeleton armor.
Still shuttling through the increasingly heavy snowstorm.
Continue cutting and moving construction waste from the ruins.
However, although the number of workers involved in the work has dropped from millions to hundreds of thousands.
The environment is also worse.
But the actual work efficiency has not decreased much.
The amount of recycled construction waste has always remained above 30 tons per hour.
The only difference.
That is, the proportion of high-value materials such as metals has been reduced a lot.
Most of them are the most common concrete powders.
"The number of regular spider robots has reached 10."
"20 sets of civilian exoskeleton armor."
"There are about 12000 standard electric engineering vehicles, including Type ore transporters."
"The rest are engineering vehicles and transport vehicles from before the apocalypse that have only been simply modified. There are about 2 of them."
This has been the case in recent days.
The result of the manufacturing center's full production.
At the same time, if nothing unexpected happens, this will continue for quite a long time in the future.
All the engineering-related mechanical forces available in the entire Jianghe City.
It’s not that Su Wu didn’t want to make more.
But the excess resources currently available in the shelter warehouse can only support this number of machines at most.
After all, apart from these.
Building shelters and various shelter-related modifications, producing heavy-duty main battle spider robots and other weapons that can only be used for combat, as well as research activities, etc.
They also require a lot of resources.
"Although it's starting to snow and ice over a large area outside."
“But in reality, this is still a good environment.”
"So, next."
"The focus of the entire Jianghe City is still on the ruins of the city."
"It is necessary to retain about 70% of robots, engineering vehicles, and workers wearing exoskeleton armor to continue working in urban ruins."
Recycling construction waste in urban ruins.
It is the easiest channel to obtain resources now and in the foreseeable future.
In addition, its existence is relatively fragile.
Another earthquake or storm will cause a large amount of resources in the ruins to be lost.
Therefore, we should take advantage of now while the external environment is not too harsh.
We race against time to move construction waste back to the shelter and turn it into usable raw materials.
It is the thing that brings the highest benefit under the same cost of action.
At the same time, taking into account the current shift work system.
It takes about one million people to operate all the construction machinery and equipment.
After Su Wu made a plan.
The labor force that finally remained on the ground—
They don't necessarily appear on the surface in person.
Instead, they will stay in the shelter and participate by remotely controlling spider robots and various engineering vehicles.
The total number will remain around 70.
This group of people.
If nothing unexpected happens, I will continue working on the ground for a long time and will not be involved in other affairs in the meantime.
"Then, the rest of the people."
"Other work can be carried out inside the shelter."
Millions of people retreated from the ruins of the city into underground shelters.
It doesn't mean they will lose their jobs.
Instead, a variety of new jobs are waiting for them.
First, these people will go through a screening process.
Those who meet the requirements will become dedicated professional players.
After testing for the past many days.
Su Wu discovered.
Even when playing games.
In the same period of time, some players' spiritual value contributions only hover around the standard line, while some players may exceed the standard line by more than four or five times.
Players who can produce four or five times the spirituality.
They are people who have enough talent to be able to leave their job and become a professional player.
And after screening.
Eventually 40 people became professional gamers.
They will maintain an average of more than 10 hours of high-intensity gaming time per day.
It brings Su Wu about 200 points of additional spiritual income every day.
Only those without talent are left.
A comprehensive knowledge assessment, psychological test and reaction test will be conducted by artificial intelligence.
The best among them.
They will be assigned to schools, hospitals, design institutes, research institutes, etc., where relatively high professional skills are required.
As for the relatively mediocre ones, 30 people were diverted to the fast-growing plantations, water plants, and other factories in the various affiliated shelters.
Participate in the basic work of maintaining the daily operation of the shelter.
20 people were diverted into the canteen, dormitory area, activity area and other places in the shelter.
Become a chef, maintenance worker, cleaner, host, coach, referee and other service personnel for various sports and leisure activities.
"Thus."
“All subsidiary shelters will be completely integrated.”
“Establish a complete social system with basic security.”
And there is only one normal social system.
Only then can you have long-lasting and healthy vitality.
It doesn't look like a castle on the beach.
It would easily collapse if it encountered any impact.
After completing the necessary diversions and deducting students who need to go to school and a small number of elderly and disabled people whose reaction speed cannot meet the standards.
Of Jianghe City's population of 650 million, million are still unemployed.
Consider that everyone will eventually move into a farmyard.
In addition to the farmhouses, there are currently a large number of affiliated shelters in Jianghe City.
In essence, they are temporary residences and there is no need to spend resources to improve them.
For this huge population.
Su Wu incorporated them into the Production and Construction Corps.
All of it was used to participate in the project of expanding the farmyard.
“We can only rely on the existing farmyard engineering team.”
“We can only excavate about 1 square meters of space every day.”
"Compared to the goal of accommodating a population of tens of millions, the speed is too slow."
“Now that there is so much available labor.”
“We should also further accelerate the expansion of the shelter.”
Su Wu operated some operations on the console.
The overall structure of the farmyard and the distribution of underground soil and rocks around it.
In the form of holographic projection.
The projection was onto a 25-square-meter metal platform in front of the console.
Then he stood up and walked to the metal platform.
Modifications and planning were made on site based on the holographic projection.
The first step is to completely seal off the core area of the farmyard.
That is the original farmyard, plus all the space expanded by the engineering team in the first phase.
Together they form a cylinder with a diameter of 100 meters.
These areas will belong to Su Wu's private space. No outsiders, including the machines they remotely control, can enter this space.
The center will then be the 7th underground floor, the lowest floor that has just been completed in the second phase of expansion.
Four main passages with a total length of 4 kilometers have been opened up horizontally in all directions.
Millions of workers from the Production and Construction Corps will continue digging along these four main passages on both sides.
Until the four main channels are connected to each other.
A huge circular space with a diameter of 7 kilometers is formed with the core area of the farmyard as the center.
"According to the original plan."
“The first step is to build a second ring area with a diameter of 500 meters as a grain production area.”
"Continue to expand outwards in circles."
"Build a third ring of elite areas with a diameter of 1 kilometer for scientists and other high-tech talents to live in."
"The 2th and 5th rings are ordinary residential areas with a diameter of 4 kilometers and kilometers respectively, for ordinary people to live in."
"The sixth ring industrial manufacturing zone with a diameter of 6 kilometers is used for production and manufacturing."
"The seventh ring outer defense zone with a diameter of 7 kilometers is used to resist external threats."
“But in practice.”
“Due to the limited space available for work, it is not possible to accommodate too many construction vehicles and construction workers at the same time.”
“The overall expansion progress of the farmyard has not been fast enough.”
“I want to change this situation.”
“It really taps into the labor of millions of workers.”
“It would be better to just start construction of the third to seventh ring areas planned later at the same time.”
According to the new plan.
If the labor force of millions of people could be fully utilized.
The expansion speed will start out ten times more efficient than the current engineering team.
Ultimately, the efficiency can even be increased by more than a hundred times.
By then, it might not be impossible to dig out space equivalent to that of more than a dozen aircraft carriers in one day.
Of course, we want to achieve this ideal state.
Many other prerequisites are required.
For example, a large amount of quick cement and alloy brackets.
At the very least, we should popularize the most basic power tool, the electric hammer.
Let most of the workers change from pure manual work to semi-manual work, etc.
Each condition is not easy to achieve.
With the help of artificial intelligence.
After calculating the new plan and making sure there are no problems.
Su Wu immediately began to implement it.
At the moment when this plan is executed.
The computing power borrowed by the farmyard's artificial intelligence reached a brief peak.
Millions of people.
Almost at the same time, I received new work tasks.
They erected more arc furnaces in each of the satellite shelters.
Large-scale smelting of scrap metals from stockpiles and urban ruins into low-temperature steel and various other alloys.
In Jingyuan Shelter, there are other large shelters with spacious spaces.
Build more fast cement production lines.
We strive to increase the production of rapid cement to the target of 10 tons per day.
at the same time.
The first team to evacuate from the ruins of the city on the ground was composed of engineering vehicles that were not included in the 70% reserved area, spider robots, and workers wearing exoskeleton armor.
Start heading towards the location of the farmyard.
They will enter the seventh underground level via an independent lift located in the second ring, which is used to transport excavated gravel and soil.
Responsible for excavating the four main channels planned.
And build a certain number of temporary dormitories there.
The farmyard itself is quite a distance away from most of the affiliated shelters in the urban area of Jianghe City.
To facilitate construction, save time, and reduce risks during transfer.
It is essential to build dormitories on site to accommodate workers' temporary rest.
Moreover, even though it is a temporary dormitory.
In fact, the specific construction specifications are basically the same as those of standard dormitories.
There is just no supporting activity area.
In the future, when the conditions are right.
These temporary dormitories can also be converted into long-term residential areas at any time.
"Next, we need to speed up."
Through surveillance located in various locations.
Watching the various affiliated shelters becoming more vibrant with the influx of relevant staff.
There are also large numbers of workers shuttling through the ruins of surface cities and digging tunnels beneath farmyards.
Su Wu seemed to vaguely feel a vigorous driving force for development.
He had a premonition that the entire Jianghe City might undergo tremendous changes at an unprecedented speed.
11 month 14 day.
After two days of intermittent snowfall.
The surface of Jianghe City was covered with more than one meter of snow without anyone noticing.
The temperature in the air is also accompanied by a cold current moving south from the north.
It further dropped to minus 10 degrees Celsius.
On the surface, somewhere in the ruins of a city.
Liang Liyang swept away the thick layer of snow and shoveled the concrete fragments underneath, along with a small amount of snow that had not been cleaned up inside, onto the transport truck.
With the powerful power provided by the exoskeleton armor on the body.
He works extremely efficiently.
In less than a moment.
Just clean up the construction waste below.
at this time.
After detecting that Liang Liyang still needed to continue clearing the snow.
The transport truck, whose carriages were not yet full, began to drive towards another location under the guidance of artificial intelligence.
Only Liang Liyang was left standing there all alone.
"You can take a two-minute break."
Seeing the translucent screen on the exoskeleton armor helmet, it shows that the current work has come to an end.
Liang Liyang let out a breath.
He stood up straight and moved his joints a little.
Since the temperature outside is very low.
He had no intention of opening his mask.
He only observes the outside world through the observation device on the helmet.
At this time, he was the only one within a few dozen meters.
His friend who originally worked with him didn't have exoskeleton armor.
Has been transferred back to the underground shelter.
No one to chat with.
Liang Liyang found it a little difficult to adapt for a while and felt a little lonely.
"Assigned to exoskeleton armor."
“It doesn’t look that good.”
Rested for a while.
Liang Liyang was preparing to continue clearing the snow.
The task prompt on the screen in front of him suddenly flashed and changed to a destination several hundred meters away.
Slightly stunned.
Then, the habit of obedience that Liang Liyang had developed over a long period of time made him follow the instructions without hesitation and put down the special large shovel in his hand.
Activate the boost system on the exoskeleton armor and jump towards the target location.
And wait until he arrives at the location.
I found that there were already several companions wearing exoskeleton armor standing there.
At the same time, more than a dozen drones equipped with electromagnetic guns were hovering above their heads.
(End of this chapter)