Chapter 261: Half a Million People

Chapter 261: Half a Million People

Chapter 261: Half a Million People
Looking back at Jianghe City.

The seventh underground floor of the farmyard was officially excavated along with the establishment of the super factory.

Today, millions of workers have begun to work on the project of excavating the sixth underground layer.

"The seventh underground floor houses a super factory covering tens of millions of square meters."

"It also accommodates approximately 5000 million permanent residents and a large warehouse with a capacity of million cubic meters."

"Basically, the most important materials and population of the entire Jianghe City."

“All concentrated inside.”

"However, this only meets the most basic housing and rest needs of 10 million people."

"Standard dormitories, which usually have eight people in a room, are still too crowded. Sooner or later, they will have to be changed into single rooms or suites for families."

"In addition, the daily needs of the entire farmyard shelter are currently met."

"Almost all of it depends on the output of the affiliated shelters."

“The structure is very dangerous.”

“Changes also need to be made sooner rather than later.”

As for how to change.

It's also very simple.

It starts from the 6th underground floor.

Every day, the newly excavated space is used to build a standard dormitory living area and two plantations in a ratio of 1:2.

Gradually transfer the main grain production areas to farmyards.

And then, besides that.

A small separate area is then divided to build single dormitories and small suites for family living.

It is used by outstanding talents or ordinary people who have made outstanding contributions.

"Considering that we will have to accommodate tens of millions of people in the future."

“In the latest planning mode.”

"From about the sixth underground level to the second underground level, it will continue to be used to build living areas and plantations."

"But the good thing is."

"The food output of each layer is slightly higher than the consumption of the population living on that layer."

"Wait until the second underground floor is built."

"The excess food production on each floor can be used to feed the 7th floor underground."

"This will ensure that even if a small farmyard is home to half a billion people, it can still be self-sufficient in food."

"Of course, only staple food and vegetables are fine in the short term. In the long term, a large amount of meat is still needed to supplement."

“So, the last underground level to be excavated is Level 1.”

“You can’t use it for anything else.”

"It is needed for large-scale breeding of broiler chickens, pigs, cattle, sheep, etc."

Sort it out here.

Su Wu suddenly realized that the super shelter he had designed should have a variety of complete functions.

At the end.

It actually looks like a pure large farm.

Apart from living, growing vegetables and raising animals, there is only a little industrial productivity brought by the super factory.

“This is the price of greed.”

Su Wu couldn't help but shook his head.

Even when he designed it, he never thought about it.

More than half a billion people will be crammed into small farmyards.

All supporting facilities are only estimated based on a population of around 10 million.

It is only natural that such a deviation has occurred now.

But more people is always a good thing.

The spiritual value they bring every day far outweighs the hassle of housing them.

Even if you show signs of overeating, it may cause various temporary inconveniences.

Su Wu still enjoyed it.

“Since the shelter space is designed, it may not be enough in the future.”

"Then just keep going down, digging layer by layer."

"And now the city ruins on the surface have been cleared."

“Then there are 4000 idle construction vehicles.”

"It's just right to start digging downwards."

"We will not interfere with the main team digging upwards."

The current shelter designed by Su Wu.

In complete state.

It's like a round pancake with a diameter of 7 kilometers and a thickness of less than 100 meters.

Embedded in the shallow underground.

Such a neat shape.

The main purpose is to enhance the resistance of the shelter.

Su Wu never forgot it.

How terrible was the super earthquake that reduced Jianghe City to ruins?

If a similar disaster happens again.

There is only this concentrated shelter form, coupled with quick cement as the main structure.

Only then can we be able to mount an effective defense.

“The ultimate ideal state.”

"Even if the surroundings turn into a sea of ​​magma."

"Or the earth may be completely torn and shattered."

"When the planet begins to fall apart."

“The shelter will still remain intact.”

“This is an ideal state.”

"With the properties of fast cement."

"We just need to keep thickening the outermost wall of the shelter."

"Then reserve enough buffer space and try to strengthen the internal main frame."

“It may not be impossible.”

Take back your vision of the future.

Su Wu adjusted the holographic map projection in front of him to the weather mode.

Suddenly, a light and shadow ranging from light blue to dark blue appeared on the entire map.

That represents the temperature at the corresponding location on the current map.

And whether there are extremely severe phenomena such as blizzards, cold waves, etc.

"The average temperature was minus 57 degrees Celsius, and the lowest temperature was minus 122 degrees Celsius."

Take a quick glance.

A total of about one-fifth of the area within the network coverage of communication signal towers is being hit by the blizzard.

In addition, there are three low-temperature cold currents of varying sizes, moving irregularly at speeds ranging from several meters to hundreds of meters per second.

The lowest temperature is -122 degrees Celsius.

It comes from the core area of ​​one of the low-temperature cold currents.

"It's just two or three provinces, with an area of ​​more than 30 square kilometers."

“It’s just that bad.”

"If all the places in the world were added together—"

After thinking about it for a while, Su Wu felt a little headache.

I have been focusing on development before.

In addition, caravans, biplane helicopters, etc. can ignore the low temperature cold current.

Su Wu subconsciously didn't pay too much attention to the changes in the surface environment.

Now the rapid development has come to an end.

When he had some free time, he immediately realized that while he was developing, the surface environment had not remained the same.

Still sliding towards the abyss at a slow but steady pace.

Looked around the map for a while.

Su Wu noticed that a caravan was about to enter an area hit by a cold wave.

He stretched out his finger and magnified the area.

Then, the projection changed to the perspective of the cockpit of the Iceberg-class land frigate in the caravan.

Through the specially designed glass portholes in the cockpit.

You can see that under the dark clouds in the distance, it has been covered by a white blizzard.

A steel train over 500 meters long, with the Ice-class land frigate where the driver's cab was located as the front, was approaching the blizzard straightly.

"The outside temperature is minus 57 degrees."

"The wind speed is 3."

Glancing at the monitoring data in the cab.

If you only look at this data, you won’t realize it at all.

In the surrounding areas, the temperature will drop precipitously to below minus 100 degrees Celsius.

This is also one of the scary things about low temperatures and cold fronts.

Without professional detection equipment, it is difficult to detect the emergence of low temperature cold currents in real time.

Of course, sometimes it may be that the cold currents come too fast, and even if you discover them, you can't outrun them.

I waited for about ten minutes.

The Ice-class land frigate, towing a long string of snow transport vehicles, silently entered the blizzard at a constant speed.

And the moment it entered the blizzard.

The monitoring equipment covering its exterior immediately sent a warning.

The screen in the cab shows that the current outside temperature is beginning to drop significantly.

Just a few seconds later.

It pointed to the position of minus 117 degrees.

“Energy consumption increased slightly by 3 percent.”

"The room temperature is seven degrees."

"The engine is running fine."

The extreme low temperature obviously did not affect the interior of the Ice-class land frigate.

Except for consuming a little more electricity.

Everything is as usual.

Su Wu looked outside again.

At this time, the densely flying snowflakes blocked all views of the distance.

Even the road surface that is so close to me can no longer be seen clearly.

All early warning and detection can only be left to radar.

“Follow the current route and speed.”

"It will take about 7 hours and 40 minutes to pass through the low temperature cold front and blizzard area."

“It’s still a long time.”

“However, the overall difficulty of passage should not be too great.”

I looked through the navigation data stored in the artificial intelligence database.

Su Wu later discovered.

Not far from here, there seemed to be a building that sent out a call for help more than ten hours ago.

A small shelter marked as critically dangerous by artificial intelligence.

According to the predetermined rules.

Su Wu is now paying attention to the caravan that is closest to him, and he needs to go and check it out nearby.

"Then go and have a look."

Without Su Wu's interference.

The caravan slightly adjusted its driving angle and arrived at the entrance of the small shelter about half an hour later.

"No life signs detected."

"Preliminary assessment is that the shelter has been destroyed."

"Begin sending robots on exploratory missions."

Stayed at the door for half a minute.

The life detector of the Ice-class land frigate fed back a result that no one existed.

This situation is uncommon, but not rare.

These isolated shelters are sometimes destroyed due to accidental factors such as conflicts and riots, failure of life-support equipment, viruses, etc.

Leading to the destruction of the entire shelter.

When a caravan encounters such a situation, they will try their best to investigate the cause to ensure that it is not a tragedy caused by a virus.

A spider robot equipped with various special equipment.

Coming out from the isolation hatch of the Ice-class land frigate.

Slowly crawl towards the entrance of the shelter.

And as it approaches.

Su Wu quickly saw through the camera on the spider robot several bodies lying on the ground, half buried in the snow, and frozen stiff.

The spider robot stopped in front of one of the bodies.

Then a probe was extended and a portion of its body tissue was extracted for testing.

A normal signal was soon sent out.

“No unknown viruses detected.”

"The cause of death was determined to be hypothermia and blood loss."

Confirm there is no threat.

The spider robot continued to move forward.

After passing the corpses for more than ten meters, we arrived at the entrance of the shelter.

At this time, the entrance had been blown open.

There were traces of fire burns everywhere.

"It must have been an accidental fire."

"The fire engulfed the entire shelter and ignited materials such as fuel."

"The survivors in the shelter only had time to take some of their belongings with them before they were forced to flee."

With the help of the detection equipment on the spider robot, artificial intelligence quickly reconstructed what happened.

It is not surprising that this kind of thing happens in some small shelters.

They are small and have little room for error.

All it takes is one mistake.

There will be no possibility of recovery.

"Everything of value was burned."

"All that was left were some melted and deformed electrical appliances and the like."

“It’s not worth much to recycle.”

"Let's go on."

Let the intelligent robot continue to walk around the shelter.

After confirming that there were really no valuable supplies.

Su Wu asked him to return to the caravan.

Continue to move forward in the wind and snow.

Then, after walking a few kilometers.

Su Wu discovered several bodies along the way that were frozen stiff and completely lifeless.

Those are the survivors who escaped from the shelter just now.

just.

The cruelty of the surface environment obviously exceeded their expectations.

With the help of lack of transportation.

They didn't get far before they all fell down in the cold weather.

I can't wait any longer than ten hours.

Su Wu's caravan passed by.

"More than 200 people."

"Pity."

Su Wu sighed a little.

This was one of the main reasons why he had initially tried to prioritize transporting the population back to Jianghe City.

The longer they are left out there, the more they will be damaged.

Any accident can kill a large number of people.

The view cuts out from the Ice-class land frigate at the front of the vehicle.

Su Wu began to use other built-in cameras.

Look at the carriages at the back that are made up of snow transport vehicles.

Compared with the Ice-class land frigate, the snow transport vehicle has a much simpler structure and relatively weaker protection.

But it is still enough to resist the cold current from outside.

The supplies stored in the carriage, as well as the dozens of human passengers, were not affected.

It's not surprising to see humans in the caravan.

Although the current focus is on transporting materials.

But in actual implementation, it is impossible to fill the entire fleet every time.

Sometimes, there is some empty space left.

It will be used to selectively bring some high-value talents and their families.

Let them become the first batch of pioneers to Jianghe City.

At this time, in a carriage where people live.

The passengers were passing the time in groups of two or three, playing cards, chess, and chatting.

Occasionally someone would look out the window.

It will soon be taken back.

The blizzard outside covered up all traces.

No one realized that they had just passed a small destroyed shelter.

He even passed by a group of refugees freezing in the wild, only two or three meters away.

(End of this chapter)