Chapter 300 Civilization and Brute Force
Chapter 300 Civilization and Brute Force
With the help of the main road that has been repaired several times and has not been completely destroyed.
The average moving speed of the caravan reached 40 kilometers per hour.
This allows them to travel back and forth between Jianghe City and the four new cities they have recently settled in once or twice in a day.
The efficiency of transporting materials is extremely high.
Considering that the threat of Amethyst is not far away, we need to squeeze every bit of capacity as much as possible.
To minimize the risks on the road.
When transferring the population, Su Wu no longer retained any comfort-related services.
More than 80 people were forced to squeeze into each snow transport vehicle, which was originally designed to carry 400 people.
This quantity.
It was undoubtedly extremely painful for the passengers on board.
I could only stand there and say nothing the whole time, and could hardly move at all.
It's a nightmare.
However, it can greatly improve the efficiency of transporting people.
The result was that it took less than three days.
Fifty caravans moved the population of six or seven million from the four cities to the farmhouses.
At the same time, there is an influx of population of this scale.
It will no longer have any impact on today's farmyard shelters.
Su Wu only needed to change the proportion of standard dormitories in the expanded shelter space within two or three days.
It can easily accommodate all these new population.
3 month 25 day.
With 50 caravans working day and night to transport the goods.
In the four cities located in the Kuanjiang River Basin, all the population and materials have basically been transported to farmhouses.
Integrate into the huge social system there.
It becomes the cornerstone and nourishment for its continued progress.
When the last caravan arrived.
As the last batch of second-hand equipment dismantled from the local shelter began to slowly set off.
The figures of several Amethyst evolved forms.
Braving the wind and snow, it quietly appeared on a nearby hill.
With eyes full of emotions that only intelligent life possesses, I watched it gradually disappear at the end of the ice field.
Then he turned his head and looked in the other direction.
A cruel look gradually appeared in his eyes.
Changkai County.
Official shelter, field security room.
Li Xiang yawned and glanced at the surveillance camera listlessly.
I asked my colleague lazily.
"The maintenance team 2 who was out inspecting the vents, haven't responded yet?"
As a dispatcher.
Although Li Xiang did not enjoy much extra benefits in terms of material.
But every day I sit in the underground security room which is as warm as spring and extremely safe.
I watched from afar as groups of maintenance workers shuttled through the narrow passages of the shelter that were filled with oil and waste, working hard to repair the equipment.
Sometimes you even have to brave severe cold and trace amounts of radiation.
Run outside the shelter and perform daily maintenance on various external ventilation ducts.
The sense of psychological superiority created by the strong contrast made him very satisfied.
However, this kind of unchanging work has been done for a long time.
Still, he couldn't help but feel a little lazy.
Sometimes, I watch the activities of maintenance workers on the surveillance camera.
It's just like watching the NPC in the game.
There is no sense of reality.
Their feelings, their life and death, are not even as great as the stimulation that a cup of hot tea brings to Li Xiang.
under these circumstances.
The occasional short-term loss of contact between some workers naturally did not attract much of his attention.
"not yet."
"Maybe their communicator is out of battery."
"I remember the only communicator they had hadn't been charged for several days."
Li Xiang’s colleagues didn’t care too much.
The maintenance team's communicator is a special tool. According to the shelter's management rules, it must be managed on a daily basis by the field security room.
The workers can only collect the relevant tools from the field security room when they are about to go out to work.
And obviously.
Colleague Li Xiang, who was in charge of managing these tools, did not fulfill his responsibility of safekeeping well.
They didn't even charge them properly.
"The surveillance camera at Ventilation No. 7 on the surface also broke down yesterday."
"Otherwise I can still see them."
"Speak of it."
"This time, the second maintenance team is also tasked with repairing the camera over there."
“They still haven’t gotten it right yet.”
“It’s too slow.”
Li Xiang was chatting casually with his colleagues.
While clicking to refresh one of the black monitoring windows.
Still no signal.
I couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied with the efficiency of the maintenance team.
After all, according to regulations, if the contact with the maintenance team exceeds 15 minutes.
He would have to sound the alarm.
By then, even if there is actually no problem.
He also had to write a lot of extra reports to explain why this happened.
Waiting impatiently until 15 minutes had passed.
Haven't received any information from Maintenance Team 2 yet.
Li Xiang hesitated for a moment, thinking about the subsequent troubles.
No alarm was sounded immediately.
I plan to wait and see.
This wait.
Another seven minutes passed.
It has already exceeded a full minute since the agreed return time.
It was not until this time that Li Xiang finally realized that things seemed to have gotten out of hand.
He didn't dare to delay any longer and pressed the alarm button hard.
The sharp alarm sounded instantly to the security hall on the underground floor of the shelter, which was responsible for managing the shelter's entrances and exits.
Follow the previously scheduled procedure.
Upon receiving the alarm, the security hall will immediately dispatch an armed team of 5 to 10 people.
Go to the location where the maintenance workers lost contact to investigate the situation.
The body camera will be turned on to establish a video connection with the field security room.
Record the entire process of the exploration.
But in reality, 10 seconds after the alarm was transmitted, Li Xiang still did not receive any response.
It's as if it's offline.
"Something bad has happened."
Li Xiang's face turned slightly pale and he felt deeply frightened.
The security hall may be different from the guard room.
There is a security force of more than 100 people stationed there.
The management is the strictest in the entire shelter.
It is absolutely impossible for a situation like the guard room did where the alarm was delayed for several minutes.
They didn't respond, there would only be one possibility.
That's where the trouble was.
Boom!
at this time.
A slight sound came from the ceiling of the security room.
It was like a heavy hammer hitting Li Xiang's heart.
Li Xiang's heart skipped a beat.
A strong sense of uneasiness arose vaguely.
He suddenly stood up and stumbled to the door of the guard room.
With somewhat weak hands, he locked it.
Then he leaned weakly against the door.
He shouted in a low voice to several colleagues who were looking at him in confusion.
"Hurry up and sound the first alarm."
"The security room has been invaded by an unknown enemy and has completely fallen—"
Before he could finish his words, he felt a sudden pain in his chest.
A blade as sharp as a mantis's forelimb pierced through the metal door of the security room.
Pierce his chest through the front and back, then strangle it up and down.
Violently tearing a huge gap.
That night.
The official shelter of Changkai County was breached by Amethyst.
In the entire shelter, there are more than 40 people who have luckily escaped almost all disasters since the end of the world.
No one was spared.
All of them became nutrients for the growth and evolution of Amethyst.
And this is just the beginning.
Just a few hours later.
Amethyst that grew and multiplied on the corpses of more than 40 humans.
Several teams were subsequently divided.
Towards the surrounding cities.
Invasion of the past.
Until it swallowed up more than a dozen shelters of various sizes.
After the large-scale aerial bombing by the sixth-generation fighter jets from Su Wu.
It was then gradually contained.
On the second underground floor of the farmhouse is the news department of the comprehensive building.
Several young men and women were looking at the latest video collection forwarded from their computers.
I felt a chill.
"is this real?"
"terrible."
"Those purple crystals have actually mutated into new individuals, silently bypassing all monitoring and early warning equipment."
"Invasion into the shelter."
"Those who were attacked didn't even have time to send out a distress signal."
When the video reaches the most thrilling part.
Some people couldn't help but look up at the ceiling, fearing that a purple crystal would suddenly break through the wall and rush over from there.
However, this uneasiness only lasted for a moment.
Today, the total population of the entire farmyard shelter is approaching 7000 million.
In addition, the most powerful mechanical army in the entire East Continent is stationed there.
In the past, he was able to pin down Amethyst and beat him up.
A huge population and absolute military force.
The tragedies that happened in other shelters are unlikely to happen here.
And wait until your emotions calm down.
Their professional qualities as journalists also enabled them to quickly grasp the key points of these videos.
In just a few clicks, you can cut out a news item that includes both commentary and pictures.
"Most of these incidents occurred in the Kuanjiang River Basin area."
“A lot of people in our shelter were relocated from there.”
“It should be very interesting.”
"Try to treat it as special news."
“Play it as an interlude.”
The news department of the complex.
It is the department responsible for assisting Chen Xin in managing Jianghe City TV Station.
Ordinary news and programs are first screened and produced by them, and then reviewed by Director Chen before being broadcast.
The work is not onerous, but it is quite important.
Because at least tens of millions of people will regard the news they produce as the only true and reliable source of information.
After several people discussed it.
The news was uploaded to the artificial intelligence database.
After a preliminary review by artificial intelligence, it was sent to Chenxin.
Then quickly, it completed all the procedures.
Appearing on the public screens of the farmyard's underground shelter and other subsidiary shelters that were still inhabited.
It was pushed in front of tens of millions of people.
There are 5 underground floors in the farmyard.
Shi Lei, who had just finished an exciting basketball game, took a shower in the player activity room.
Holding the changed jersey, I waved goodbye to my friends.
Left the activity center.
at this time.
On the street outside.
It was originally hung on a public screen opposite the activity center, playing soft music and natural scenery.
Suddenly after a flash.
It became a news report.
The familiar words above immediately caught Shi Lei's attention.
He couldn't help but stop and watch the news carefully.
"Changkai County——"
Shi Lei is from Changkai County.
Originally, when the end of the world came, Shi Lei should have moved into the official shelter in Changkai County.
But at that time, an official clerk who was responsible for reviewing the residents' admission had a conflict with his family.
They deliberately blocked their check-in procedures on false charges.
They were forced to choose another small private shelter for refuge.
Later, Jianghe City began to incorporate private shelters in the Kuanjiang River basin.
Their family was also transferred to Jianghe City.
I suffered a lot in the process.
Shi Lei himself also participated in a lot of voluntary labor organized by Jianghe City.
However, the overall quality of life is still slightly better than the small private shelter where I first stayed.
It's a blessing in disguise.
But Shi Lei still feels resentful about the fact that his family was unreasonably kicked out of the official shelter in Changkai County.
He thought that one day he would be able to go back and take revenge on the clerk who had framed his family.
But now, this thought has obviously become meaningless.
"Everyone died."
"There are no survivors."
Looking at the bloody figures listed in the news, Shi Lei looked a little dazed.
Until a few minutes later.
It was a long time after the news broadcast ended before I came to my senses.
If it weren't for the accident caused by that clerk.
Their family will definitely be one of those numbers.
All we can say is that things are unpredictable, and in the end they were lucky enough to escape the disaster.
Shake his head.
Shi Lei withdrew his gaze and walked into the green shade cast by the leafy oak trees beside the street.
Artificial light that simulates the sun.
It penetrated through the lush branches and leaves of the oak tree, turned into a string of tiny spots of light, and projected onto his body.
He felt a slight warmth.
It was like going back to that afternoon during a summer vacation when I made an appointment with my classmates to play ball.
Similar environment, same carefreeness, no need to worry about external dangers.
Suddenly, Shi Lei had a vague feeling.
Could spend a lifetime here.
Perhaps it is the best destination for ordinary people like him in this era.
Farmhouse.
The core area on the underground first floor is the control center.
Su Wu got first-hand frontline intelligence several hours earlier than ordinary people.
In just half a day.
More than a dozen shelters were destroyed in succession, and millions of people died.
It made him feel a little scared.
This is the number of casualties.
They all exceed the total number of casualties caused by all disasters that Jianghe City has experienced since the end of the world.
It also exceeds the cumulative number of deaths in any other super city in East Asia in the past.
This even includes the Steel City, which once experienced a long period of turmoil.
"It's just that they mutated into a few special purple crystals that can block radio waves and dissolve concrete."
"It caused this staggering amount of casualties."
"It seems that we have underestimated the threat posed by individual mutations."
(End of this chapter)