Chapter 307: The Torn Zhenhai City
Chapter 307: The Torn Zhenhai City
Beyond infrastructure.
The express cement production line was also not shut down.
This special production line was airlifted all the way from Jianghe City.
After producing enough raw materials to build an undersea passage, production continues at the highest efficiency.
Its output is used to reinforce the surrounding areas of 7 exit stations.
The rest were classified as emergency supplies and were temporarily sealed on site.
It has been accumulating until now.
"Since the Zhenhai City Shelter survived the initial wave of disasters."
“Not completely submerged in a sea of magma.”
"Then it's time for these reserves of quick-acting cement to start working."
Su Wu looked at the holographic map, which showed a concrete wall that had been softened by lava.
The area of the entire Zhenhai City shelter is too vast.
With the output of the fast cement production line.
He wanted to raise the defense strength of the entire shelter to a level close to that of a farmhouse in Jianghe City.
It is undoubtedly an impossible task.
Therefore, the best solution is to start with.
That is to use these stored quick-acting cements as temporary emergency materials.
Wherever there is damage, special reinforcement will be carried out there.
to minimize their consumption.
Anyway, Su Wu’s ultimate goal.
It's not about saving this refuge.
It just wants to slow down the speed of its destruction.
To allow enough time to transfer people and materials.
Accompanied by Su Wu's targeted deployment.
Zhenhai City Shelter.
Amid the increasingly frequent tremors underground, a relatively stable state was maintained for a while.
Some of the edges are broken, and seawater and magma have flowed back in.
With the reinforcement of a large number of spider robots and the use of quick cement at all costs.
In a short period of time, it became one of the most solid places in the entire shelter.
So that in the next half hour.
Miraculously, no new unexpected situations occurred in the entire shelter.
This allowed Su Wu to successfully transport more than 170 million people onto the train that entered the undersea passage.
However, this is just local and piecemeal repair.
After all, it is not the right way.
After half an hour, the effect began to wear off quickly and noticeably.
More spider-web-like cracks spread across various locations in the Zhenhai City Shelter.
most of the time.
The spider robot has just arrived at the damaged location and started repair work.
The next moment, an even larger crack will extend from somewhere seemingly safe behind.
It swallowed up the entire robot team that was repairing things in one fell swoop.
Pulled into the abyss of the cracked seabed outside.
Faced with this situation where the more cracks are patched, the more losses begin to increase.
Su Wu had a vague feeling that he had lost control of the Zhenhai City Shelter.
But he's still not ready to change this pattern for the time being.
At most, they secretly slightly accelerated the protection of the temporary material storage warehouse near the station.
These are temporary warehouses for storing supplies.
It is under current geological activity.
The area in the entire shelter that is relatively most solid in structure, calculated by artificial intelligence.
Even though the shelter will be completely destroyed soon.
They, as well as the safe areas located in the core areas, will most likely be the last places to be affected.
The first hour after entering the danger period.
The 4th underground floor of Zhenhai City Shelter, the East District Material Distribution Center.
Zhao Rui was carrying a toolbox and wearing roller skates, sliding forward quickly on the main aisle.
The last batch of valuable supplies in this area had been moved away more than 40 minutes ago.
At this time, within a few kilometers, there were few living people, not to mention robots.
The silence and desolation were so desolate that it was almost frightening.
"Move faster, faster."
Zhao Rui kept hinting to himself in his heart.
The surrounding environment is too quiet.
He seemed to be able to clearly hear the sound of the wind beside his ears and his own nervous, heavy breathing.
Slow down slightly.
Reach out and press on the wall blocking the way in front of you for leverage.
Zhao Rui turned a corner.
We entered a huge square with several floors connected.
There is still no one here.
But unexpectedly, the huge display screen hanging on one side of the square was playing a red warning and an evacuation route map.
There are also occasional rotating scenes of destruction in some corner of the shelter.
He turned his eyes and looked at the contents on the screen a few more times.
Zhao Rui did not stop.
Still on roller skates, he ran through the square corridor like lightning and disappeared into the slightly dark shadows in the distance.
"Turn left 120 meters ahead and you will reach your destination."
The voice from artificial intelligence rang out from the headphones.
Zhao Rui made a sprint.
After crossing this final distance, he arrived at the end of his adventure.
Next to a communication line box that had been twisted and broken, revealing messy wires.
at this time.
The ground began to shake slightly.
This is a symbol that the shelter has once again encountered an earthquake of magnitude 5 or above.
But just when Zhao Rui thought that this time would be the same as before.
Suddenly, amidst the familiar roar, his ears heard a crisp sound similar to that of steel twisting and breaking.
Zhao Rui's expression changed slightly.
Realized something was wrong.
But the mission he came here for was not yet complete.
No matter what, I'm not willing to give up.
Suppress the uneasiness in your heart.
Zhao Rui took out the mobile phone from his pocket and checked the task instructions sent by the artificial intelligence.
"Task 1: Repair the broken surveillance line."
"Task 2: Install a small temporary power supply device."
Neither task is difficult.
At the prompting of artificial intelligence.
All the repair steps are very clear and concise.
The process will consume a lot of time.
Zhao Rui tried hard to put aside all distracting thoughts and used his hands, which were slightly trembling due to fear and nervousness.
Open the toolbox.
It was put into a long restoration.
Six or seven minutes later.
Repair completed.
When Zhao Rui came out of work, he found that the floor of the corridor where he was had tilted by nearly 20 to 30 degrees without him noticing.
It was obviously nearby, somewhere he hadn't seen.
The structures there have been severely damaged.
It could collapse at any time.
"We have to leave here immediately."
This thought just popped up in Zhao Rui's mind.
Then I heard a slight clicking sound.
The ceiling, which had originally been normal, was suddenly covered with dense cracks in an instant.
A large piece of concrete slab crashed down onto the ground only five or six meters away from him.
He subconsciously looked up at the hole left by the fallen concrete slab.
A faint orange-red light could be seen refracted from it.
“It’s magma.”
The pupils in Zhao Rui's eyes shrank sharply at this moment.
He didn't even bother to put away his tools.
In great fear, he immediately turned around and ran towards the square where he came from without hesitation.
On his feet, he wore roller skates that he did not take off even during the maintenance process.
It gave him crucial help at this moment.
Let him get away from here quickly.
As he escaped, more magma began to flow down from the cracks in the ceiling.
"Warning, abnormally high temperature detected."
“Begin to implement the quarantine plan.”
A metal isolation door.
It slowly closed at the junction between the square and the corridor where Zhao Rui was.
Zhao Rui looked anxious.
The body's potential bursts out again at this moment.
The whole person rushed there at a speed faster than ever before.
Just in time for the last moment before the metal door closes.
Squeezed in sideways.
After getting down safely.
Zhao Rui leaned against the wall on one side of the square.
Gasping heavily, feeling deeply frightened.
This time's maintenance mission is simply a life-threatening one.
If his movements were just a second or two slower.
Don't even think about surviving.
But after the fear, Zhao Rui felt deeply worried again.
Although the place where he is now is a no-man's land.
But it can be considered the hinterland of the refuge to some extent.
Even here is no longer safe.
It only shows that the overall situation is so bad that it is beyond imagination.
Thinking of the magma we just encountered.
Perhaps, outside the shelter at this time.
It is not certain that most places are surrounded by magma.
"Fortunately, this mission is rewarding."
"I didn't choose to cash in my contribution points, but instead used them all to improve my rank in the queue for leaving."
Take out your phone.
Zhao Rui looked it up on it.
I found that my ranking had suddenly risen from over 3700 million to around 1400 million.
This means he will be able to get a few hours early.
Just take the subway train and leave the Zhenhai City Shelter.
A few hours, normally so short that it can pass easily by just taking a nap.
In this bad situation now.
It could very well be the dividing line between life and death.
“The ranking has become so high.”
"There should still be time to escape."
"Survive—"
Jianghe City.
Farmyard, underground control center.
The structural map of the Zhenhai City shelter was originally suspended in front of Su Wu, outlined with beautiful and clear silver-white lines.
It has been dotted with hundreds of red marks of all sizes, looking like a huge ship full of holes and about to sink.
Except for the danger areas marked in red.
There are more gray areas spreading in every corner of the structure diagram.
That means the monitoring equipment there has been damaged and can no longer provide real-time updated data.
At this moment.
Even Su Wu himself, who holds the highest authority and the most first-hand intelligence over the entire Zhenhai City Shelter and has stationed millions of robots there, does not know when the shelter will completely collapse.
All he can do.
The only thing he could do was to command the robots over and over again to seal all the damaged areas.
Just hold on for as long as you can.
In the midst of overall precariousness.
A huge earthquake finally broke this temporary balance.
The impact extends to the submarine channel.
Just 10 seconds.
More than ten kilometers away from the Zhenhai City Shelter.
An undersea passage passes through there.
The shell was severely twisted and broken.
Then a huge amount of sea water poured into the tunnel.
A few seconds.
The terrifying sea water was accompanied by a roar.
The fire instantly submerged a subway train that happened to be passing by.
Then it rushed to both sides.
Ten seconds later.
Outside the underwater passage, in the dark sea water.
Several patrolling civilian submarines discovered the abnormality there.
Immediately began to approach.
Attempts were made to rescue and plug the leak.
With the timely use of quick-acting cement to seal the disaster, they ultimately prevented the disaster from spreading further.
But the whole rescue process.
It takes 4 to 5 minutes.
In the end, it caused huge and irreparable losses.
Dozens of subway trains were submerged in the turbulent sea water.
This caused failures of varying sizes.
Nearly 10,000 people were killed or injured.
"The damaged train will be temporarily towed back to the Zhenhai City Shelter for repairs."
"The spider robot will take the train to the fracture site to further reinforce it. In addition, the water on the track will be drained."
There was no monitoring equipment to directly view the scene of casualties.
Su Wu only based his analysis on the damage data displayed on the structural map.
Issue targeted repair instructions.
And after more than ten minutes.
A second major disaster occurred.
An extremely high-intensity undersea volcanic eruption occurred in the central underground area of the Zhenhai City Shelter.
Tens of thousands of tons of magma.
At ultra-high flow rates.
From the cracked ground, it crashed into the main body of the Zhenhai City Shelter.
Then under huge tearing force and extreme high temperature.
The shelter in Zhenhai City is mainly made of ordinary concrete and cement.
Slowly being torn apart from the middle bit by bit.
Until finally, it was completely split into two.
Inside the shelter.
In order to facilitate transfer, the population is highly concentrated near subway stations and safe areas.
In the face of this sudden change.
Suffered staggering losses.
For an instant.
More than 300 million ordinary people without any protection.
Being swept into the hot sea water.
What awaits them is almost certain death.
"Warning, extensive damage to the shelter."
"Begin to implement the comprehensive lockdown plan."
Faced with the Zhenhai City Shelter on the verge of collapse, the artificial intelligence sounded the highest level alarm.
No longer caring about the situation of any humans or robots inside the shelter.
Immediately start forcibly closing all isolation doors.
Thousands of ordinary people who are near the cracks in the torn shelters.
They were about to escape to a safe area, but suddenly they found that their escape route was blocked by an isolation gate.
They could only be drowned alive by the surging sea water in despair.
Compared to the more than 300 million deaths in the initial moment.
This operation of artificial intelligence also caused the deaths of at least 200 million people.
But at the same time.
It also kept the shelter, which was torn in two, largely stable and secure.
Prevent more people from being dragged into the disaster.
A preliminary comprehensive blockade was completed.
Subsequently.
Countless robots that were dispatched to Zhenhai City suspended their original work.
It began to surge into the cracks around the shelter like a tide.
While carrying out emergency repairs and reinforcements, they were also rescuing the survivors who had just survived the indiscriminate blockade.
(End of this chapter)