Chapter 249 Laser Defense Array
Chapter 249 Laser Defense Array
Between snow-covered hills.
Meng Hui drove the off-road vehicle carefully, carrying his family of five slowly on the road.
The snow on the road had already been crushed into blocks.
Shake the car up and down from time to time.
It feels like walking on a rugged mountain road.
This is the no-man's land between Jianghe City and Tumen City.
If Meng Hui was left to drive across by himself, he definitely wouldn't dare to do so.
In this wilderness the snow is one or two meters thick.
Whenever there is any problem with the vehicle.
What awaits him is a life-threatening adventure.
However, if you are following a large group, you will receive real-time artificial intelligence reminders from the Bluetooth headset on your ear from time to time.
That's another story.
This is a time when you are walking in the wild under the watchful eyes of others, with people in front and behind you.
This can usually be called a safe journey with no risk.
Go around a bend.
A bus with flashing red fog lights appeared in Meng Hui's sight.
"The road ahead is 7.2 kilometers straight ahead. Please keep 50 meters away from the car in front."
The voice from artificial intelligence rang in his ears at the right time.
In a trance.
It made him feel as if he had returned to an ordinary day before the end of the world, when he was driving using navigation software.
It's just different from that time.
He can ignore the instructions of the navigation software and overtake and change routes at will.
But it is best not to violate any of the prompts given by artificial intelligence.
Otherwise, someone might really die.
Recalling a somewhat bloody scene.
Meng Hui's face turned ugly.
The movements of his hands became more and more regular.
Start slowing down from a distance and follow the bus obediently about 60 to 70 meters behind it.
Continue walking for another one or two kilometers.
Meng Hui suddenly noticed that the bus in front was already moving very slowly.
The driving speed was significantly reduced.
And just as he was doubting.
An armored vehicle with a tracked chassis, larger than a large truck and a strange appearance, passed by the bus.
With a faint roar, it drove towards him.
"What is this?"
Meng Hui's pupils shrank slightly and he subconsciously stepped on the brakes.
Stopped urgently.
A few seconds later.
The armored vehicle came up to his level.
Watch from a close distance.
The thick armor and huge size of the opposing vehicle make it more impactful.
It directly blocked most of Meng Hui's vision.
It is also this time.
Meng Hui only then noticed that it seemed a bit hasty for him to describe the steel behemoth opposite as an armored vehicle.
Because it is much longer than the armored vehicle.
And just like a train, there is a long series of carriages connected at the back.
"Wow, it's a caravan from Jianghe City!"
In the back seat.
The surprised cry of his son, who was only seven or eight years old, reached Meng Hui's ears.
Meng Hui turned around.
I found that the little guy was lying in front of the window excitedly, looking at the moving train with shining eyes.
It was like meeting a legendary idol.
"The caravan—"
Being reminded of this, Meng Hui also remembered the news about Jianghe City that he had seen.
There does seem to be mention of such a special convoy.
However, the one he saw in front of him had obviously undergone a new modification.
It's different from what was originally reported on TV.
As a result, he was unable to connect the two together at the first time.
Quietly waiting for this incredibly long convoy, like a Great Wall of Steel, to pass by.
Meng Hui slowly came out of his shock.
He turned his attention back to the front.
Start the car and follow the bus which starts moving again.
The encounter with the caravan can only be regarded as an episode.
They still have to continue heading towards the urban area of Jianghe City.
There, is the legendary super shelter with a population of tens of millions.
It will also be their new home in the future.
However, he couldn't be sure whether life would be better or worse by then.
Jianghe City, city ruins.
Here now.
Compared with a few days ago, it is completely different.
The interconnected dual carriageways run through every corner of the city ruins.
No matter where in the ruins you want to go.
You can drive directly to a location no more than 200 meters away.
And the snow in the driveway.
They were also cleared out and piled up on both sides of the road.
A snow wall two or three meters high was formed.
Originally, the best way to deal with snow on the road is to spray snow-melting agent.
But the entire Jianghe City.
The amount of de-icing agent in stock is very small.
Temporary production and manufacturing seemed wasteful to Su Wu, who was facing a shortage of supplies in the last days.
So we can only take a step back and choose the most direct physical removal method.
Whenever the snow on the road accumulates more than 20 centimeters.
Just mobilize collectively.
Let the forklifts, bulldozers, and workers wearing exoskeleton armor.
Clean the road surface again.
Other than that.
Considering the need for construction to continue day and night, and the frequent heavy snowfall that obstructs vision.
Both sides of the road.
Rows of street lights powered by solid-state batteries have also been set up.
Let the whole city fall into ruins.
Regardless of day or night, the brightness is always maintained at a certain level.
And with such a large mobilization of forces.
Transportation efficiency on the ground.
It has been raised to a level close to that before the end of the world.
Every hour.
There are hundreds of thousands of tons of construction waste and various materials, as well as thousands of people and their luggage and belongings.
Through the surface transportation network.
They were transported to various affiliated shelters and farmhouses far away in the suburbs of the city.
"Currently there are 7 underground floors in the core area of the farmyard."
"Except for professional thermal power stations, all other spaces converted into warehouses are close to saturation."
"Nearly 24 tons of finished metal and rubber, 2 tons of water, and more than 8000 tons of coal were stored."
“Even the nearby medium-sized shelter of Lime.”
"The space that can be squeezed out is almost filled with supplies."
"The arc furnace, scrap separation workshop, plantation, and almost all residents that were originally placed there have been relocated to other affiliated shelters."
“Only the platform responsible for transferring the miniature trains in the underground tunnel was retained.”
Although the supplies in Jianghe City are not abundant.
When calculated on a per capita basis, it is extremely poor.
But when they gather together in the farmyard, they still appear vast.
It was expected that the original warehouse capacity was insufficient.
The only thing I didn't expect was the restoration of the ground transportation network.
It just happened so early.
“The transfer of materials cannot be stopped.”
"We can only vacate two more underground buildings near the Green Lemon Shelter to continue the diversion." "There is also a farmyard with 7 underground floors, located in the second ring area close to the core area."
"We can also free up some space and continue to transform it into a warehouse."
Su Wu looked at the underground structure diagram of the farmyard.
Replanning the internal functional areas.
Make choices based on importance.
Except for him.
Others did not stop working either.
The 30 arc furnaces spread across the various affiliated shelters operate day and night.
While consuming huge amounts of electricity.
More than 7000 tons of various finished metals are smelted every day.
After supporting the large-scale expansion of the underground shelter in the farmyard, there was still a small amount of metal left.
It can be used to make snow transport vehicles, heavy-duty main battle spider robots, and various simple power tools for single-person use.
And the increase of these mechanical equipment.
This in turn has continuously improved the overall labor force of Jianghe City.
It speeds up the expansion of shelters, as well as the scale of recycling urban ruins resources, foreign trade, mining, and transportation.
Get more resources.
This forms a positive cycle that continues to expand outward.
In the early days, Su Wu took in a large population at all costs.
Now, it begins to gradually release its potential.
After adjusting the functional areas of the farmyard.
Su Wu opened the system panel again.
In these two or three days.
Along with the four main passages, the second ring area on the 7th underground floor of the farmhouse continues to expand and extend outward.
To accommodate more labor.
A total of more than 30 square meters of new space has been opened up.
This space, which was equivalent to the size of five aircraft carriers, finally allowed Su Wu's shelter level, which had been stagnant for quite some time, to continue to improve.
It was upgraded from the lowest level [Open Medium Shelter] to the second level [Extensive Medium Shelter].
This level of improvement.
There is no increase in the amount of daily fixed survival point income.
It’s still 5 o’clock every day.
But it gives an extra bonus of 150 survival points at one time.
And get this huge survival point, plus the savings accumulated through previous hard work.
It is basically enough to make an overall improvement to the farmyard.
Make up for its fatal flaws.
"The first thing that needs to be strengthened is still the computing power of artificial intelligence."
"At present, the farmyard has a computing power of 5 bases, including the micro-mech and base vehicle."
“The upper limit of computing power is 7.”
“It would be best to increase the base by 3 more to bring the total computing power to 10.”
Su Wu’s current power.
Almost all management systems rely on artificial intelligence.
Thus.
Of course, it avoids the various defects brought about by human management, such as corruption, oppression of the weak, power struggles, etc.
But it also consumes a lot of computing power.
In addition, there are equipment and mechanical units that control certain core areas, assist in laboratory research, conduct industrial production, and so on.
The existing computing power is often not enough.
The computing power must be expanded again as soon as possible.
And at the same time.
Take advantage of this opportunity to expand.
Su Wu also brought the super laptop computer that previously carried artificial intelligence and computing power, as well as several other desktop computers.
All merged into one whole.
Form a supercomputing center.
The newly-born supercomputing center is located right next to the control center.
The computing power has reached 8 bases.
And as before, computing power can continue to be expanded at will.
The cost is still one base point per 15 survival points.
No more, no less.
"With this 10-base computing power."
"At least until the population reaches 50 million in the future, there should be no need to worry about the problem of insufficient supplies."
"Then, we need to consider strengthening the security of the farmyard."
The current farmyard.
Due to the use of fast cement and multi-ring structure.
Located in the innermost core area.
In the face of natural disasters such as earthquakes, it is actually quite safe.
But the flaws are also obvious.
It lacks professional air defense capabilities.
Faced with attacks from the sky, especially from human earth-penetrating missiles and low-Earth orbit weapons.
It is difficult to resist effectively.
According to the records in Su Wu's hands.
The Federation's latest generation of low-Earth orbit weapons.
It is enough to penetrate a mountain.
With this weapon strength.
Even if Su Wu's farmhouse was finally built.
If you anger the federal top brass who control low-Earth orbit weapons.
It is also possible that it will be completely destroyed overnight.
"Although the chance is very small."
"But no matter what, I still cannot put my own safety and the lives of tens of millions of people in Jianghe City at risk."
"It all depends on someone's thoughts."
"Be prepared for the worst."
worst plans.
That means being hit by a low-Earth orbit weapon carrying a nuclear warhead.
Facing that kind of high-speed attack from outer space.
Ordinary anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles are meaningless.
The only effective means of defense.
Maybe only mature laser weapons.
And laser weapons.
Su Wu reverse-engineered the anti-aircraft components on the micro-mech.
Several inferior laser weapons have also been imitated a long time ago.
Although they cannot be used in actual combat.
But it has all the necessary parts.
Su Wu can use survival points to upgrade it, thereby obtaining more powerful advanced weapons in the same series.
Drag out the imitation laser weapon.
After investing a full 150 survival points.
Su Wu got what he wished for and obtained three real laser air defense weapons.
And place it on the surface of the farmyard.
[The Prismatic Laser Defense Array is now online.]
[Self-check successful.]
[Multi-source air defense radar has been connected to the network.]
[Current monitoring distance: 4500 kilometers to air.]
[Current airspace safety value, high.]
Along with artificial intelligence, laser defense weapons have been included in the control list.
In the upper right corner of the home page of the console screen.
From then on, a hemispherical blue icon appeared permanently.
That represents the detection radar that comes with the laser air defense weapon.
The sky within a radius of 4500 kilometers centered on the farmyard has been covered.
All are included in the monitoring.
From now on, any high-speed missiles and aircraft that may pose a threat to the farmyard will be within this range.
They will automatically be displayed above.
And was intercepted remotely by laser air defense weapons.
"When I have time in the future, I will continue to reinforce and thicken the bases of the three laser weapon turrets."
“It is best if the base is fixed directly to the exterior wall of the underground shelter.”
"Then the top of the turret should also be able to be closed at will, and when necessary, it should be able to sink underground to avoid danger."
The cost of three laser air defense weapons combined is almost equal to the cost of a micro-mech.
But they themselves are extremely fragile.
If hit by a single-soldier rocket, it could be destroyed on the spot.
In order to take into account both air defense and ensuring the safety of the weapon itself.
Su Wu could only try to put the thickest armor on it wherever he could think of.
(End of this chapter)