Chapter 251 Low Temperature Cold Current

Chapter 251 Low Temperature Cold Current

Chapter 251 Low Temperature Cold Current
There was a guess in my mind.

Su Wu's exploration operations were clearly targeted.

The disaster was quickly reconstructed.

Just as Su Wu thought.

A cold wave came from nowhere and hit the northern part of Tumen City.

Its coverage area is not large, only tens of square kilometers.

But the destructive power is extremely shocking.

The moment it appears, the ambient temperature in the range drops directly to below minus 100 degrees.

In this extremely low temperature.

The tires and bodies of ordinary vehicles will quickly become hard and brittle.

Then cracks gradually appear due to the bumps caused by driving, until they cause a malfunction or directly cause the vehicle to lose control.

at this time.

If the driver had reacted faster, he could have stopped in time.

Otherwise, you will face a life-and-death test, and whether you can survive depends entirely on luck.

Su Wu is located in those transfer vehicles within the cold current.

In the first few minutes of the cold wave, more than 30% of the casualties occurred due to this reason.

At least thousands of people died as a result.

However, after the first few minutes.

The situation subsequently became slightly better.

The temperature within the cold current began to rise and warm up again.

In the next half hour or so, the temperature gradually recovered from below minus 100 degrees to around minus 40 degrees.

"It should be the end of the cold wave now."

"It's time to start attempting a large-scale rescue operation."

After reviewing the disaster situation restored by artificial intelligence.

After Su Wu considered it.

Another fifty Type 1 ore transport vehicles were assembled, and equipped with a number of spider robots.

A second rescue team was formed and set out from Jianghe City to carry out the rescue.

The two rescue teams together can bring back almost all the affected people and valuable supplies at one time.

As for the damaged vehicles, they can be towed back slowly later.

There is no need to take the risk of recycling in the current unclear environment.

The rescue work has been completed.

Su Wu's gaze returned to the map of Jianghe City and Tumen City.

At this time, let’s look at the route that had just been built by the caravan a few days ago and had already transported more than 50 people and more than 40 tons of various materials.

But all that's left is sighs.

This important transportation route, which had just begun to flourish, was the one on which Su Wu placed great hopes.

From now on, it will be quiet again.

From now on, apart from the specially made snow transport vehicles, it will be hard to see any other vehicles.

"From now on, all transfer tasks between the Golden Lion Shelter and Jianghe City will be handed over to the sixteen snow transport vehicles."

"After the new snow transport vehicles are produced, we will continue to replenish them with 20 vehicles."

"With this configuration, a maximum of 1600 people can be transported in one trip."

"If everything goes well, I can travel back and forth between the two cities three or four times a day."

"Transfer more than 5,000 people to Jianghe City."

"Just barely enough."

Su Wu thought about it.

In fact, it is a bit unreasonable to say that this amount of transportation capacity is sufficient.

It would take at least one or two months to rely on it to transfer the remaining 200,000 residents of the Golden Lion Shelter to Jianghe City.

But Su Wu also didn't have the ability to give out more.

With the current resource reserves and income of the entire Jianghe City.

A maximum of ten snow transporters can be produced per day.

And these transport vehicles will be used in places where they are more needed.

To form more caravans.

After all, compared to those refugees who are living in danger of being killed and waiting for caravans to save their lives, the residents stranded in the Golden Lion Shelter can at least guarantee basic personal safety.

"Then, the coal reserves in the Golden Lion Shelter are at least 1.8 million tons."

"It would be too troublesome to transport all of this quantity to Jianghe City."

"Why not dismantle the professional thermal power generator set that has been shut down and gathering dust on the seventh floor of the farmyard and transport it over there?"

"Build a thermal power station right there."

“The electricity produced.”

"It can be used to maintain the operation of the shelter itself, and it can also be used to fill the needs of the mines and communication signal towers in Tumen City."

"At the same time, there is an ample supply of electricity."

“The Golden Lion Shelter can also be transformed into a processing plant for raw materials and primary industrial products.”

“Reduce some of the transportation costs.”

After a random cold snap occurs, ground transportation can no longer be carried out at low cost.

The Golden Lion Sanctuary in Tumen City.

It immediately became important in Su Wu's sphere of influence.

Su Wu planned to turn it into an outpost.

While having some primary processing capabilities.

He is also responsible for the logistical support for all of Su Wu's activities in Tumen City.

This includes receiving caravans returning from afar and temporarily accommodating the people and supplies brought back by the caravans.

It also allows the caravan to resupply on the spot and start the next long journey directly.

Thus.

Each time it saves the caravan six to seven hours.

Improve their efficiency in disguise.

"Besides, since we are planning to run the Golden Lion Shelter as a semi-permanent outpost."

“The risks of ground travel have also increased a lot.”

"Perhaps, we can consider opening two underground tunnels between Jianghe City and the Golden Lion Shelter."

Building underground tunnels is not an easy task.

Especially the construction of super long tunnels across cities.

Even if we have a construction artifact like quick cement that can be formed in minutes.

It will take at least several months to complete.

In the meantime, we must ensure that there are no major earthquakes.

Otherwise, the construction period will be significantly extended.

But no matter what, this is always a relatively safe transportation route.

The planning of Tumen City has been streamlined.

Su Wu then shifted his attention to Jianghe City.

In today's environment.

The huge team is recycling construction waste from the ruins of the city.

Obviously, it is not suitable to continue.

Ordinary construction vehicles and various trucks from before the apocalypse can no longer travel on the surface.

Workers and spider robots wearing exoskeleton armor.

Seems better.

But the armor they wear is still made of ordinary metal that cannot withstand extreme cold.

It is also extremely vulnerable when encountering low temperatures and cold waves.

Adequate safety cannot be guaranteed.

The best way.

It is to let them evacuate from the surface and go to work underground where the ambient temperature is more stable.

The last remaining construction vehicle.

There is also the issue of fear of extreme cold.

However, considering that they are all operated by workers in a remote control center, no casualties will occur even if they are damaged.

It is not impossible to separate some of them to continue working on the surface.

"If that's the case."

"We can keep 4,000 construction vehicles and continue to take risks in the city ruins to recycle construction waste."

“The rest will all be transferred to the farmyard to expand the shelter.”

Su Wu dismissed almost all the workers who were working in the city ruins at once.

Only 4,000 pure electric-powered autonomous engineering vehicles remain.

The consequence of this is that the amount of construction waste that could be recycled every day has directly dropped from millions of tons to hundreds of thousands of tons.

However, it also released the largest group of labor force currently in Su Wu's hands.

After they turned and joined the farmyard.

The speed of expanding the shelter will increase several times in a very short period of time.

This is equivalent to changing Su Wu's previous overall strategy of focusing on recycling urban ruins resources to focusing on expanding underground shelters in farmyards. It is foreseeable.

under these circumstances.

The day when the entire Jianghe City's population of tens of millions gathered in the farmyard.

It will be achieved much earlier.

evening.

Accompanied by Su Wu's large-scale mobilization of the Production and Construction Corps.

The surface began to grow quiet.

Although there are still 4,000 construction vehicles, they are still working silently among the ruins of the city.

But their numbers are scattered throughout the huge city, just like drops of water blending into the desert.

It's almost difficult to find any trace of them.

But it is different from the deserted surface.

Under the farmyard.

More than 2 engineering vehicles of various models, 7 spider robots, and more than workers wearing exoskeleton armor.

They moved in one after another in batches.

This place has almost become a huge underground world with construction going on everywhere.

every moment.

Thousands of cubic meters of soil and gravel were excavated.

Then transported to the ground.

Huge demand for earth and rock transportation.

It even leads to a large lifting platform responsible for up and down transfers.

There were some signs of being overwhelmed for a while.

“We need to build a new lift.”

"Then the platform located on the fifth underground floor also needs to be appropriately renovated."

“Separate it from the core area.”

“It is convenient to transport residents of other subsidiary shelters outside the core area.”

Currently between the farmyard and the nearest lime shelter.

A total of four passenger passages and two material transport passages were built.

Before this.

All six channels are used only for transporting supplies.

Now, it is no longer safe to operate on the surface.

Su Wu intends to open it to residents of the affiliated shelters.

Allow others to enter the farmyard through the underground tunnel.

The task of transforming the platform was assigned to an engineering team directly controlled by artificial intelligence.

Su Wu is waiting to continue handling the daily affairs of other shelters.

Suddenly, I received another battle reminder.

The caravan heading to Shanghe City had a conflict with a local force in Shanghe City at this time.

We have now entered the stage of exchange of fire.

"The other party is a large civilian shelter."

Su Wu took a quick glance.

Nothing was found that was worthy of special attention.

Then he put it aside again.

Now a large shelter is no longer worth Su Wu's special attention.

Artificial intelligence and a specially formed staff team in the remote control center.

It is fully capable of handling this kind of medium to low intensity war.

Su Wu only needed to wait and check the report afterwards.

outside world.

Tumen City was not the only city hit by the cold wave.

The entire Dongzhou, and even the entire world.

Signs of low temperature cold waves have also begun to appear one after another.

It had stopped with the heavy rain.

Long-distance trade between cities gradually began to flourish.

It was rudely interrupted.

Except for some large cities with strong industrial strength that have the ability to carry out targeted modifications to vehicles.

Ordinary forces can no longer get involved.

11 month 19 day.

The caravan that Su Wu sent to Shanghe City successfully captured a large local shelter.

At the same time, the location of the large shelter was discovered.

It is a large copper mine that has only been mined for half.

With just a little bit of labor, copper ore can be mined immediately and continuously.

For Su Wu, this was both a painful and happy thing.

The value of copper ore is undoubtedly higher than that of iron ore, potash ore, etc.

Especially in Suwu, because of the manufacture of snow transport vehicles and various high-end electronic equipment.

There is also a great demand for copper ore.

The emergence of this copper mine can be said to have come at the right time.

But the reality is that it is four or five hundred kilometers away from Jianghe City.

However, Su Wu felt quite troubled for a while.

The main task of the caravan has always been to collect refugees.

It is impossible to free up precious transportation capacity to transport the excavated copper ore to Jianghe City across hundreds of kilometers.

Finally, in desperation.

Su Wu had no choice but to choose air transport.

The ore excavated from large copper mines is first smelted on site into finished copper ingots.

Then it was transported to the farmyard via the Qingkong-class transport drone via the air channel.

In order to transport as much output as possible back to the copper mine.

Su Wu urgently expanded the scale of the Qingkong-class transport drones from the original 10 to 20.

The transport capacity of one batch reaches 12 tons.

This goes on for the whole day.

At the flying speed of a Blue Sky-class transport drone.

At most forty to fifty tons of finished copper ingots can be transported back.

The number is quite considerable.

However, in reality.

Because we also have to take into account foreign trade.

It is obviously impossible to use all air transport capacity on copper mines.

In general.

It would be considered good if we could transport about 20 tons of copper ingots a day.

The remaining transport capacity will be allocated to various valuables obtained through trade.

“Wait until there are more resources in the future.”

"We can continue to build a batch of Qingkong-class transport drones."

"This kind of air transport with low energy consumption and long range is really very useful."

"But right now, the main priority is to produce snow transport vehicles and ice-class land frigates."

"A blue-sky-class transport drone is enough to meet the minimum needs for now."

Su Wu felt a little regretful.

Resources outside Jianghe City.

For him at the moment, there are almost endless amounts of them.

But it is limited by the limited transportation capacity.

He could only carry them back bit by bit like an ant moving house.

in the afternoon.

Watching the caravan in Shanghe City, carrying a total of 4,000 refugees, begin their journey back home.

Su Wu received another good news from Chen Yue.

She made a breakthrough in her research.

Successfully developed plant growth agents and high-yield rice seeds.

Among them, plant growth agents can only be regarded as first-generation products.

The cost of configuration is extremely high.

Although it can speed up the growth rate of all plants by 40% to 50%.

But in the end.

No matter what food crop it is used on, it is difficult to recover the cost.

(End of this chapter)