Chapter 305 The Great Wall of Steel
For the residents of the Zhenhai City Shelter,
the completion of the submarine passage is the end of their suffering.
Next, they only need to take the subway train to the coastline to escape from the dangerous environment.
What Zhenhai City will look like in the future
has nothing to do with them.
But for Su Wu, this is just the beginning.
In his eyes,
whether it is the big or small figures in Zhenhai City, they are not the focus of his attention.
The whole composed of these people, the macro population of 38 million, and the resources calculated in hundreds of millions of tons
are the real places to pay attention to.
After ending the call with Heping Yuhan,
Su Wu mobilized the Eden Satellite hanging high in the synchronous orbit
to once again conduct in-depth observation and analysis of the geological activities in Zhenhai City and the nearby nearly 1,000 kilometers.
The final result calculated by artificial intelligence
is even less optimistic than a few hours ago.
The above data shows that
at the latest 3 hours and 20 minutes later,
the strong geological activity area from the deep sea will spread to the Zhenhai City Shelter.
At that time,
it would be hard to predict what the Zhenhai City Shelter would look like.
It might still be safe and sound for the time being, or it might fall apart without warning and
disappear in the large amount of magma erupting from the seabed.
But no matter what changes there are,
it can no longer escape the reality that it has completely become a high-risk area.
The value in Su Wu's hands is bound to be greatly reduced.
"So, the guaranteed income after taking over Zhenhai City."
"It depends on the next 3 hours and 20 minutes of absolute safety time."
"How much can be transferred from that city."
Realizing this, Su Wu sighed.
He stood up and walked to the metal platform, zooming in on the holographic map of the Zhenhai City Shelter and the underwater passage.
Staring at the distribution data of various materials displayed on it.
After being silent for several seconds,
his eyes gradually became unusually calm.
"The subway trains sent out in more than three hours."
"Half of the number must be used to transport rare resources."
"In addition to the population that has been discussed before, highly educated research talents and their families should be transferred first in the future."
In just a few short sentences.
Su Wu decided that there were 10 million people who could escape Zhenhai City in 3 hours in absolute safety, but now they had to walk around the death line before they could escape.
In addition to these unlucky people who fell from heaven, there were another 18 million people who also had to queue up at the back.
In front of Su Wu, who already had a population of 100 million
, the 38 million survivors in Zhenhai City
were important, but not that important.
Rare resources that could be used to build more high-end equipment and give Su Wu more transportation and combat capabilities
were Su Wu's most urgent needs.
For this reason, when a choice must be made and both cannot be achieved,
millions or even tens of millions of people are the ones that can be abandoned.
A roar from underground
sounded far away.
Above the Zhenhai City shelter, on the frozen ice layer of seawater,
it caused a slight tremor.
And tore a crack only a few millimeters wide.
It was like ringing the opening bell for the impending death of countless creatures.
Zhenhai City shelter.
The departure station of Submarine Channel No. 3.
A small quarrel broke out in the originally orderly team.
The cause of the incident was that someone tried to carry excessive luggage and forced his way through security check to enter the platform.
"The size of my luggage is exactly the same as others."
"Why are you deliberately picking on me?"
The woman who spoke was aggressive.
She looked a bit bluffing.
"But the instrument shows that including the jewelry on your body."
"The total weight has exceeded the standard 3.5 kilograms."
"It does not meet the requirements."
The security inspector was obviously shocked, and his tone was a little weak and unconfident.
"Does what you wear count?"
"I'm too lazy to talk to you."
"Get out of the way."
The woman said as
she was about to force her way in. Because she acted too confidently.
The security inspector didn't react for a while and let her bypass.
But the woman didn't really get any benefit.
She just took two steps inside and was locked by an electromagnetic gun carried by a drone.
A pale blue arc flashed on the muzzle of the gun pointed at her.
Ready to fire at any time.
Under the threat of death,
the woman's expression gradually stiffened, no longer as strong as before.
A few seconds later,
a humanoid robot appeared and took the woman who dared not move away through a special passage at the side.
In the hall,
hundreds of people who were still waiting in line for security checks watched this scene quietly.
Only after their figures completely disappeared did they start to buzz and talk.
Someone who was close tried to ask the security inspector for information.
"Who knows what will happen to her--"
The security inspector was also a little curious and confused.
But he was just an ordinary person who was temporarily assigned by artificial intelligence to work, and he didn't know more than others.
However, before he finished speaking,
he suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye.
On the computer where he was working, a relevant content really appeared.
The number ranking of the woman who was taken away, jumped from less than one million to more than 38 million in an instant.
This change in number means that the woman will have to wait until everyone in Zhenhai City gets on the bus before it is her turn.
"It seems that the punishment is not very severe."
"It may be more than ten hours later before you can take the subway to leave."
One and a half hours after the submarine passage was opened to traffic.
The first batch of middle and senior executives of Zhenhai City and their families who crossed hundreds of kilometers of the seabed arrived at the seaside shelter on the edge of the land.
They stayed here for more than ten minutes.
Soon they were diverted out.
For example, Ping Yuhan and other former bigwigs in Zhenhai City.
Their identities and positions gave them the last special treatment. They
can take the biplane helicopter that has just finished unloading and is ready to return.
Go all the way to Jianghe City and live in the luxury apartment that has been arranged for them.
The rest of the people will go through the remodeled land station and
enter the caravan trains that have been parked there for a long time, heading to other nearby shelters.
They will stay there
for at least one or two days,
and then wait for the caravan trains to take all the people of Zhenhai City to the shelters closer to Jianghe City and settle down. Then they continued to move to Jianghe City.
There were some risks in the waiting process.
The temporary abandoned shelter.
After all, the protection conditions in all aspects were not as good as those in normal shelters that had been inhabited.
Facing the extremely cold climate on land and the purple crystals that roamed around like wolves from time to time, it was difficult to guarantee that there would be no accidents.
And because they were quite close to the seaside.
At the same time, there was a high probability that they would be affected by earthquakes in the ocean and the aftermath of branch cyclones.
"This is the inland area."
"It looks really cold."
In a crowded snow transport vehicle, Ping Lei stuck to the window and looked at the environment outside curiously.
The wind, snow and white fog that fell from time to time outside made it difficult for him to see the place 20 to 30 meters away. He
could only vaguely feel the continuous coldness hovering on the land outside the car.
But he did not have any negative emotions such as fear and terror.
The crowded people in the carriage gave him a great sense of security.
It made him feel like he was traveling with a tour group.
Later, the steel creations that often appeared in his field of vision, such as the caravan that was exactly the same as the train he was riding, and the robots of various shapes, either huge or flexible, and extremely large in number, aroused his great interest. He
couldn't help but take out his mobile phone and filmed the scenes he encountered along the way.
He shared them on the Internet.
Soon, even he, the uploader, did not expect that
the videos he shot
would become popular all over the Internet almost instantly, gathering huge popularity.
At the same time, it also caused many people to leave almost desperate messages for help.
To the east of the coastline, there are not only shelters below sea level in Zhenhai City.
There are also many private enterprises and private shelters that have survived.
Usually they have almost no sense of existence.
But now, seeing that even a powerful super city like Zhenhai City is forced to flee the entire city. Their panic was inevitably completely ignited, and
they all wanted to escape from this increasingly dangerous area.
But unlike Zhenhai City, which has an underwater passage specially built for them by Su Wu, their shelters, which are mainly small and medium-sized, have no way to get out.
The violent storms raging on the surface and the thick ice have become cages that hold them in place.
They can only wait for the disaster to approach bit by bit.
The only thing they can do is to desperately leave messages on the Internet.
Hope to attract Su Wu's attention and give them a chance to change their fate.
The struggle of these people was not in vain.
After more than an hour,
the relevant messages were finally successfully transmitted to Su Wu.
Let him notice that there is such a group of people.
After thinking for a few seconds,
Su Wu decided to dispatch 5 caravans to drive through the ice into the ocean
to rescue these underwater survivors who had almost no presence before.
Compared with Zhenhai City,
these civilian shelters are closer to the shore.
Although the environment outside is still not good, it is not the central area of the branch cyclone after all.
It can barely allow such a huge caravan to pass safely.
And the number of 5 caravans is not too much for Su Wu.
It will not affect the overall situation of the evacuation of Zhenhai City.
"While it is still safe, let's save as many as we can." Su Wu
retracted his gaze.
He continued to focus on the Linhai Shelter.
The current Linhai Shelter has gathered almost all the forces that Su Wu can mobilize.
330 caravans and 8,000 snow transport vehicles that can only exist independently without the Ice-class land frigate as the core have formed a steel Great Wall that stretches for more than 300 kilometers.
It winds around the Linhai Shelter.
From the overall point of view, it is like a super city built of steel.
The area occupied is large enough to make anyone who is qualified to peek at its full picture feel
amazed from the bottom of their hearts .
In addition to the vehicles,
there are also 700,000 spider robots, as well as a larger number of other auxiliary robots and combat drone clusters.
Almost all the armed forces that Su Wu can send out have been gathered.
The unprecedented number of mechanical legions has also brought unprecedentedly strong combat power.
Let Su Wu's will shine like the scorching sun
in every corner around the Linhai Shelter.
Even though some of the purple crystals followed Su Wu's actions like a thorn in his side,
at this time, they dared not approach him any more.
"Unconsciously."
"I have become so powerful."
On the holographic map,
a simple and special military parade was conducted.
Su Wu focused his eyes on the center of the temporary super city composed of caravans.
There were three very different armed fortresses, one large and two small.
That was the core that commanded all of Su Wu's power in the Linhai Shelter, a newly built Heavenly Punishment-class land cruiser and two Pioneer-class land destroyers.
With them in place,
even if the purple crystals came out in full force,
and even the tribes in other continents were dispatched across thousands of miles,
they would not necessarily pose any threat.
On the contrary, they might even be able to wipe out the other side.
"What a pity, if earthquakes and storms."
"It would be great if they could be easily defeated like purple crystals."
He shook his head slightly with a little regret.
Su Wu continued to look at Zhenhai City.
150 kilometers east of Zhenhai City, it can be considered a deep sea area.
The originally frozen sea surface has already appeared dense, spider-web-like cracks.
From time to time, there are obvious bubbles surging from the depths of the seabed.
Through those huge cracks, they are released into the air on the surface.
That is the seabed of that area.
It is a symbol that the volcanic activity has reached a certain level.
According to the intensity of this geological activity,
if it is fully replicated in the Zhenhai City Shelter,
the entire shelter can only last for 45 minutes at most, and it will be completely destroyed.
And the humans who are still stranded inside it.
Most people may not even survive the initial earthquakes and high temperature poisons.
Before the shelter collapses, more than half of them will be killed or injured.
"The situation is not good."
"If this goes on."
"Maybe I can only get a guaranteed income."
Thinking of the nearly 30 million people who are still stranded in the Zhenhai City Shelter.
And hundreds of millions of tons of supplies.
Su Wu's heart surged with a strong unwillingness.
If he could consume all the resources,
he couldn't even imagine how fast he could develop.
But unfortunately,
even though he had mastered the most advanced military force among humans,
he still had no way to delay the outbreak of natural disasters.
Chapter 306 Population Transfer
Putting aside his worries about the near future, Su Wu turned his attention to the Zhenhai City Shelter itself.
In the current precious three hours of safe time.
A total of 7 large submarine channels have been built.
In 6 of the channels, subway trains are running at a frequency of one train every 1 to 2 minutes on each track.
This is not the upper limit of the track capacity, but it is the transfer limit of Zhenhai City and Linhai Shelter.
Whether it is passengers or materials, getting on and off the train takes a certain amount of time.
At a speed of one train every two minutes.
It means that every two minutes, Zhenhai City has to cram more than 80,000 people and more than 13,000 tons of materials into a full 54 subway trains.
And let them depart at the same time.
On the Linhai Shelter side.
Also within these two minutes.
Not only do they have to receive up to 54 subway trains to transport people and materials.
They also have to fill the other 54 trains that have been emptied in the previous batch with spider robots and various equipment and let them set off to return to Zhenhai City.
This is a round trip.
This means that the station area of the Linhai Shelter must be able to accommodate more than 100 subway trains at the same time.
And this is not the final number.
Considering that even if the train is modified and all the seats are removed, the sides of the carriage can be fully opened, and the pre-packaged materials can be directly loaded into the container mode.
It is impossible for the train to complete all the unloading and loading work within two minutes after arriving at the station.
In fact, the area of the station has to be doubled on this basis to reach the passing line.
Such frequent train dispatching, such a large-scale population and material transfer.
It can be said that the potential of Linhai, a once ordinary large-scale shelter, and even Zhenhai City, has been tapped to the extreme.
It is impossible to continue to increase any capacity on this basis.
However, conventional population and material transportation cannot be faster in a short time.
Some special resources are not subject to this restriction.
At the last submarine passage without rails.
It was finally divided into two floors.
The upper part is an 8-meter-high six-lane highway, which allows all kinds of heavy and large trucks in Zhenhai City, as well as large weapons and equipment of the army to pass.
The lower part is a 4-meter-high transportation pipeline divided into various types. It
is specially used to transport all liquid materials including fuel and other chemical raw materials.
Liquid materials in Zhenhai City can enter the huge transfer pools inside the Linhai Shelter through the transportation pipeline at an average speed of 10 meters per second.
Then, they are transported to the temporary warehouse built on the surface.
"Liquid resources like fuel oil do not require a high storage environment."
"It is not worth keeping carefully."
"So it does not need to occupy the precious space inside the seaside shelter."
"It can be stored in a temporary warehouse on the surface."
"According to the speed of pipeline transportation."
"800 cubic meters of fuel oil can be transported per second."
"That's nearly 3 million cubic meters per hour."
"And the other 6 submarine transportation channels, all trains added together, can only transport two to three million people and about 400,000 tons of materials in one hour." "
With such a huge number of piles."
"Don't look at the average value per unit of fuel oil, which ranks last among all resources."
"Its comprehensive cost-effectiveness."
"Instead, it ranks first."
"There may be some additional risks later."
The biggest risk of these low-value liquid materials lies in the storage environment.
They are basically stored in temporary warehouses on the surface of the sea.
There is a high probability that they will be affected by storms and earthquakes from Zhenhai City.
At the same time, due to their huge quantity and extremely low unit value.
In Su Wu's transportation sequence, their priority ranking is directly at the bottom.
For a long time in the future.
They will definitely stay near the coastline.
The combination of these two factors
makes it very likely that even if Su Wu successfully transports them from Zhenhai City to the Linhai Shelter, he will lose a large part of them in various subsequent accidents.
However, no matter what,
only a part of the space of an undersea channel was used.
Nearly 10 million cubic meters of fuel and other chemical raw materials can be transferred within more than three hours of safe time.
This matter itself has made a lot of money.
If you ask for too much, it will seem a bit too greedy.
"It's a pity that the distance between the two places is too long."
"The cost of using crawler transmission throughout the journey is too high, and it is difficult to recover the cost within three hours."
"Otherwise, it would be faster to draw out half of the undersea channel and use high-speed conveyor belts to transport materials."
While Zhenhai City is continuously transporting people and materials to the Linhai Shelter.
Su Wu is also sending the mechanical army gathered in the Linhai Shelter and some special equipment back to Zhenhai City.
The mission of these robots.
It is to replace the original management and armed team of Zhenhai City, responsible for maintaining order there and taking over the work of transferring materials.
After all, humans are different from robots.
Faced with the threat of death,
they are very likely to panic and make unpredictable sabotage.
With the situation in Zhenhai City,
it is obvious that the more time passes, the less hope can be placed on humans to maintain order and transfer materials.
There must be a sufficient number of mechanical legions to take over, so that it is possible to always maintain the super high transportation efficiency at the beginning.
Of course, in this way,
there is also a certain element of gambling.
In order to maintain the normal operation of the huge Zhenhai City Shelter and ensure the efficiency of transferring at least tens of thousands of tons of materials per minute,
the mechanical army that Su Wu sent to Zhenhai City
must have at least more than 400,000 spider robots.
Once all of these robots were lost there,
it would be a huge blow to Su Wu's military power.
However, compared with the possible benefits,
this risk is worth a try.
Apart from anything else
, as long as the normal transportation is maintained for one extra second after the initial three hours of safety time,
the fuel income alone, converted into electricity that can be generated, can be close to 3 million degrees. It
is almost equivalent to the total electricity consumption of a farmyard that now accommodates 70 million people in one hour.
The third hour after the construction of the submarine channel.
With the safety time about to run out,
the environment outside the Zhenhai City Shelter began to become worse.
Above it,
the vast storm gradually transferred the core area.
Dense, almost like a rainstorm, broken ice, rocks, and other small debris.
Carried by the strong wind,
it violently hit all protruding objects on the frozen sea surface.
Hundreds of high-rise buildings that even powerful aerial bombs, or even nuclear bombs, could not completely destroy, collapsed
in large numbers with a deafening roar .
Zhenhai City,
which was once one of the most famous super-large economic cities in Dongzhou before the end of the world,
was the last trace left on the surface.
At this moment, it disappeared at an alarming speed.
And below the frozen sea surface, the cold sea water was not calm either.
They rushed at a faster speed than before, surging the exit buildings of the shelter and the seven huge and long submarine passages.
The final result was that even the submarine passages themselves had a slight unstable vibration.
All the abnormalities indicated that a huge threat was imminent.
Jianghe City, a farmyard.
Compared with Zhenhai City, which was shrouded in a huge storm that could tear steel.
The climate here was as calm as another world.
And underground, the 70 million residents living here.
Still working, studying and playing at the same pace as before.
The first underground floor, the control center.
On the originally complete holographic map of Zhenhai City.
Most of the parts above the sea surface have now fallen into a gray state.
That means that the monitoring equipment that Su Wu had previously deployed there has been offline on a large scale and can no longer provide detailed real-time intelligence.
However, thanks to the protection of the ice layer, sea water, and the rock layer on the seabed.
The overall condition of the Zhenhai City shelter located underground below is still good.
Even if there are occasional unexplained vibrations that are transmitted into the interior of the shelter.
Under the high level of information control,
the people who are still stranded here don't know what this means.
They still maintain a stable enough order.
They work honestly or queue up to board the subway train.
However, some careful people,
based on the busyness of the surroundings and the clues revealed on the Internet,
can more or less guess that the situation outside is probably not optimistic.
This leads to the overall atmosphere in the shelter.
As time goes by, it becomes more and more solemn unconsciously.
Boom!
In the third minute after the safety time is exhausted,
a violent vibration suddenly spread throughout the shelter.
On the holographic map,
the Zhenhai City Shelter, which was originally huge like a super city,
immediately turned dark red in about 3% of the area in almost half a second.
Then, starting from those dark red areas, a large area of light red continued to spread outward.
"Warning, the outer wall of the shelter is damaged."
"Seawater infiltration has occurred."
"Warning, an abnormally high temperature area has appeared."
"Plantation No. 207 has been burned on a large scale."
Multiple warnings appeared in succession in the crimson corners of the holographic map.
Some real-time monitoring images,
also in the size of 7 inches to 10 inches,
unfolded under the warning text, showing what was happening there.
Su Wu looked intently.
He could clearly see that a large amount of cold seawater was flowing through the cracks in the outer wall
into the corridors and rooms inside the shelter,
smashing all the furniture, furnishings and decorations along the way.
In a plantation area on the 9th floor underground at the deepest part of the shelter,
a stream of crimson magma emerged,
rapidly devouring the planting racks and food storage warehouses there.
Fortunately, due to advance arrangements and transfers,
there were no residents in these unimportant marginal areas of the shelter at this time.
The number of casualties was temporarily zero.
At the same time, 10 seconds after the accident.
The artificial intelligence that took over the entire Zhenhai City Shelter has already begun to take countermeasures.
It has lowered a series of isolation fire doors.
The seawater and magma are completely separated from other places.
"The vibration is fading rapidly."
"It seems that this kind of explosion is intermittent and should not last too long."
"The worst situation has not occurred."
After observing for more than half a minute, it was found that the damaged area of the shelter did not continue to expand.
Su Wu breathed a sigh of relief.
This means that his adventure did not fail when he just took the first step.
It also means that the more than 28 million people who are still stranded in the Zhenhai City Shelter at this time
have the opportunity to start queuing up to escape.
"All subway trains, suspend material transportation."
"All will be switched to priority for carrying people."
"Except for those who are queuing to board the train at the exit station."
"Others give up their original work tasks and move to the safe area."
Su Wu issued a plan that had been prepared long ago.
After more than three hours of transportation,
the most valuable rare resources in Zhenhai City have basically been transferred.
The remaining materials are still valuable.
But in Su Wu's eyes, at least they are no longer as important as the population.
Therefore, the operation mode naturally began to tilt towards the priority of population transfer.
However, this tilt is limited to the subway.
In the only submarine channel paved with roads.
The trucks running on it are still transporting various materials.
And below them, in various pipelines.
Various liquid raw materials mainly based on fuel are still running.
Their efficiency in transporting materials is much higher than that in transporting people.
There is no need to change.
Ten minutes into the dangerous period.
A large number of spider robots began to rush to the edges of various damaged areas of the shelter, as well as the surrounding areas of 7 exit stations.
Use fast cement to reinforce the area with high strength.
At the same time.
Artificial intelligence is through wireless headphones that have been popularized among the residents of Zhenhai City, as well as a small number of humanoid robots.
Organize people staying in the outer residential areas to carry their luggage and evacuate to the safe area deep in the shelter.
This is Su Wu's mercy for them.
Therefore, in the specific implementation process.
Slightly different from the past, the robot did not take coercive measures against those who stubbornly tried to delay or simply did not want to leave.
Just a simple reminder, and when it was found to be ineffective, it ignored it.
Let them continue to stay there.
And as a large number of people gathered towards the core area of the shelter.
Most of the Zhenhai City shelter quickly became deserted.
Almost all factories also began to stop operating.
After cooling, their equipment was disassembled and packed, and transported to the vicinity of the station, waiting to be transferred.
The shelter's infrastructure such as power generation, ventilation, and constant temperature systems still maintains normal operation.
However, those responsible for controlling them have become robots.
And they are also equipped with a large number of independent small power generation equipment and air purifiers.
To ensure that after the power generation facilities are destroyed by the disaster, they can still supply electricity and life-sustaining air to key areas.
Chapter 307 The Torn Zhenhai City
In addition to the infrastructure,
the fast cement production line was not shut down.
This special production line, which was airlifted from Jianghe City,
continued to produce at the highest efficiency after producing enough raw materials to build the submarine channel.
In addition to its output used to reinforce the perimeter of the seven exit stations,
the rest was temporarily sealed on the spot as emergency supplies.
It has been accumulated until now.
"Since the Zhenhai City shelter survived the initial wave of disasters."
"It did not fall completely into the sea of magma."
"Then these reserves of fast cement should also start to play a role."
Su Wu looked at the holographic map, a concrete wall that was softened by the magma.
The area of the entire Zhenhai City shelter is too vast.
With the output of the fast cement production line, it is undoubtedly impossible
to increase the defense strength of the entire shelter to a level close to that of the Jianghe City farmyard. Therefore, the best plan at the beginning is to use these reserves of fast cement as temporary emergency materials. Wherever there is damage, they will be specially reinforced to minimize their consumption . Anyway, Su Wu's ultimate goal is not to save the shelter, but just to slow down its destruction to free up enough time to transfer people and materials. With Su Wu's targeted dispatch, the Zhenhai City Shelter maintained a relatively stable state for a while amid the increasingly frequent tremors underground. Some of the edges were damaged and flooded with seawater and magma. With a large number of spider robots, the places were reinforced with fast cement at no cost. In a short period of time, they became one of the strongest places in the entire shelter. So much so that in the next half an hour, the entire shelter miraculously did not encounter any new unexpected situations. Su Wu was able to successfully send more than 1.7 million people to the train entering the submarine channel. However, this kind of local and fragmentary repairs is not the right way after all . After half an hour, the effect obviously began to weaken rapidly. More spider-web-like cracks spread across the Zhenhai City Shelter. Many times, the spider robot just arrived at the damaged location and started repair work. The next moment, a larger crack would extend from a seemingly safe place behind. It swallowed up the robot team that was repairing it and pulled it into the abyss of the seabed outside. Faced with this situation where more and more cracks were repaired and the losses began to increase, Su Wu had a vague feeling that he had lost control of the Zhenhai City Shelter. But he was still not ready to change this mode for the time being. At most, he secretly accelerated the protection of the temporary storage warehouses near the station. These temporary storage warehouses are the areas with the strongest structures in the entire shelter calculated by artificial intelligence under the current geological activities. Even if the shelter will be completely destroyed soon, they, as well as the safe areas in the core area, will most likely be the last to be affected. The first hour after entering the dangerous period. The fourth floor underground of the 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 passage. The last batch of valuable materials in this area had been moved away more than 40 minutes ago. At this time, within a few kilometers, not to mention living people, even robots could not be seen. The silence and desolation were even scary. "Move faster, faster." Zhao Rui kept reminding himself in his heart. The surrounding environment was too quiet. He seemed to be able to clearly hear the sound of the wind beside his ears and his nervous and heavy breathing. Slow down a little. Reach out and press on the wall blocking the road in front for leverage. Zhao Rui turned a corner. Entered a huge square with several floors connected. There was still no one here. But on the huge display screen hanging on one side of the square, unexpectedly, a red warning and evacuation route map were playing. There were also occasional rotating pictures of damage in a corner of the shelter. He turned his eyes and looked at the content on the screen a few more times. Zhao Rui did not stop. Still stepping on the roller skates, he rushed through the corridor of the square like a flash of lightning, and disappeared into the slightly dark shadows in the distance. "Turn left 120 meters ahead, and you will arrive at your destination soon." The voice from the artificial intelligence sounded from the headset. Zhao Rui sprinted. He crossed this last distance and came to the end of his adventure. Next to a communication line box that had been twisted and broken, revealing a mess of wire ends. At this time. The ground began to shake slightly. This was a sign that the shelter had 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. His ears suddenly heard a crisp sound similar to the twisting and breaking of steel in the familiar faint roar. Zhao Rui's expression changed slightly.
He realized that something was wrong.
But the mission he came here for was not yet completed.
No matter what, he was unwilling to give up.
He suppressed his uneasiness.
Zhao Rui took out the mobile phone in his pocket and checked the task guide sent by the artificial intelligence.
"Task 1: Repair the broken monitoring line."
"Task 2: Install a small temporary power supply device."
Both tasks were not difficult.
Under the prompt of artificial intelligence,
all the repair steps were very clear.
It was just that the process would take a lot of time. Zhao Rui tried to get rid of distracting thoughts and opened the toolbox
with his hands that were slightly trembling because of fear and nervousness. He devoted himself to the long repair. After six or seven minutes, the repair was completed. Zhao Rui, who had quit the work state, found that the ground of the corridor where he was located had tilted by nearly 20 to 30 degrees. Obviously, in a corner nearby that he had not seen, the structure there had been severely damaged. It could collapse at any time. "We have to leave here immediately." As soon as this thought came to Zhao Rui's mind, he heard a slight click. The ceiling, which had been normal before, was suddenly covered with dense cracks in an instant. A large piece of cement board crashed down only five or six meters away from him. He subconsciously looked up at the hole left by the cement board. From it, he saw a faint orange-red light refracted. "It's magma." Zhao Rui's pupils shrank sharply at this moment. He didn't even bother to put away the tools. In great fear, he turned around and ran towards the square where he came from. The roller skates on his feet, which he had not taken off even during the maintenance process, gave him a crucial boost at this moment. It allowed him to quickly get away from here. And with his escape.
More lava began to flow down from the cracks in the ceiling.
"Warning, abnormally high temperature detected."
"Begin the isolation plan."
A metal isolation door
slowly closed at the junction between the square and the corridor where Zhao Rui was.
Zhao Rui was anxious.
The potential of his body burst out again at this moment.
The whole person rushed there at a speed faster than before.
Just in time before the metal door closed, he
squeezed in sideways.
After getting down safely,
Zhao Rui leaned against the wall on one side of the square. He
panted violently and felt deeply scared.
This maintenance task was simply a fight for his life.
If his movements were a second or two slower,
he would not survive.
After the fear, Zhao Rui's heart was filled with deep worry.
Although the place where he was now was an uninhabited area,
it was more or less the hinterland of the shelter.
Even here was no longer safe.
It could only mean that the overall situation was worse than he could imagine.
Thinking of the lava he had just encountered.
Perhaps, outside the shelter at this time,
most of the places are surrounded by magma.
"Fortunately, the reward for this mission."
"I didn't choose to cash in the contribution points, but all of them were used to improve my ranking in the queue for leaving." Zhao Rui
took out his mobile phone
and checked it.
He found that his ranking had risen from more than 37 million to about 14 million.
This means that he will be able to
take the subway train and leave the Zhenhai City Shelter a few hours earlier.
A few hours, which is so short that you can just take a nap, can easily pass by.
In this terrible situation,
it may be the dividing line between life and death.
"The ranking has become so high."
"It should still be in time to escape."
"Survive——"
Jianghe City.
Farmyard, underground control center.
The structural map of the Zhenhai City Shelter, which was originally suspended in front of Su Wu, was outlined with beautiful and clear silver-white lines.
It has been dotted with hundreds of large and small red marks, like a huge ship that is about to sink and is riddled with holes.
In addition to the dangerous areas marked in red.
There are more gray areas, spreading in every corner of the structural diagram.
That means the monitoring equipment there is damaged and can no longer provide real-time updated data.
At this moment.
Even Su Wu himself, who has the highest authority and the most first-hand intelligence of 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.
Is to command the robots again and again to seal all the damaged places.
Hold on for a while.
In the overall precarious situation.
A huge earthquake finally broke this temporary balance.
The impact extended to the submarine passage.
Just 10 seconds.
A dozen kilometers away from the Zhenhai City Shelter.
An submarine passage passing there.
The shell was severely twisted and broken.
Then a huge amount of seawater poured into the tunnel.
In a few seconds.
The terrifying seawater was accompanied by a roar.
It immediately submerged a subway train that happened to pass there.
Then it rushed to both sides.
Ten seconds later.
Outside the submarine passage, in the dark seawater.
Several patrolling civilian submarines discovered the anomaly there
and immediately began to approach.
They tried to rescue and plug the leak.
With the timely use of quick cement to plug the leak, they finally prevented the disaster from spreading further.
But the entire rescue process
took 4 to 5 minutes.
It still caused huge and irreparable losses.
Dozens of subway trains were immersed in the turbulent seawater on a large scale.
This caused various failures,
resulting in nearly 10,000 deaths and injuries.
"The damaged trains will be temporarily towed back to the Zhenhai City Shelter for repair."
"The spider robot will take the train to the fracture and further reinforce it. In addition, the accumulated water on the track will be drained."
Without using monitoring equipment to directly look at the casualties, Su Wu only issued targeted repair instructions
based on the damage data displayed on the structural map. And more than ten minutes later, the second major disaster occurred. An extremely high-intensity submarine volcanic eruption broke out in the area located in the underground center of the Zhenhai City Shelter. Tens of thousands of tons of magma, at an extremely high flow rate. From the cracked ground, it crashed into the main body of the Zhenhai City Shelter. Then, under the huge tearing force and extreme high temperature, the Zhenhai City Shelter, which was mainly made of ordinary concrete cement, was slowly torn apart from the middle bit by bit. Until finally, it was completely split in two. Inside the shelter, in order to facilitate evacuation, the population gathered in the subway station and the safe zone.
In the face of this sudden change,
they suffered astonishing losses.
In an instant,
more than 3 million ordinary people without any protection
were swept into the hot sea water .
What awaited them was almost certain death.
"Warning, the shelter has suffered extensive damage."
"Begin to implement a comprehensive closure plan."
Facing the Zhenhai City shelter that was almost about to disintegrate, the artificial intelligence sounded the highest level of alarm.
No longer caring about the situation of any humans and robots inside the shelter,
it directly began to force all isolation doors to close.
Thousands of ordinary people near the torn shelter cracks.
Originally, they saw that they could escape to a safe area, but suddenly found that their escape route was blocked by the isolation door. They
could only be drowned alive by the surging sea water in despair.
Compared with the death toll of more than 3 million people in the first instant,
this operation of artificial intelligence also caused the death of at least 2 million people.
But at the same time,
it also kept the shelters that were torn in half generally stable and safe,
and prevented more people from being involved in the disaster. After
the initial blockade was completed, countless robots dispatched to Zhenhai City stopped their work and began to pour into the shelter cracks like a tide . They carried out emergency repairs and reinforcements while rescuing the survivors who had survived the indiscriminate blockade.
Chapter 308 Warning at the Alliance Meeting
Jianghe City.
Remotely controlling millions of independent mechanical units.
In a short period of time measured in minutes.
Urgently reinforce a huge building complex that stretches for more than ten kilometers and is split in half.
The amount of work involved is so cumbersome.
The supercomputing center where the artificial intelligence body is located in the farmyard.
The computing load and power consumption.
Almost instantly reached a peak of nearly 100%.
Many tasks that are not very important.
At this moment, the computing power support was naturally greatly reduced.
Many ordinary residents in the farmyard shelter.
At this time, they suddenly found that
the smart assistants they were used to in daily life and work became sluggish.
Among them, those related to work are better.
If it is just entertainment, or just ordinary small problems in life.
Not only is the response slow, there is also a high probability that there will be feedback that is not answered.
And when the residents of the farmyard complain about these small troubles in life.
None of them know.
The source of their troubles.
Those misappropriated computing power. They
are participating in a feat that has almost never been seen in human history.
They are trying to pull a city that is actually located in the crater of an erupting volcano back to normal
from the brink of complete collapse. And save the nearly 20 million survivors who are still alive there. "Plantations, ordinary residential areas, activity areas, and most of the material distribution centers." "All can be selectively abandoned." "The focus should be on ensuring the stations where the population is concentrated, the actual material storage locations near the stations, and the residential safety areas originally located in the core of the shelter." "The safety of these three places." Looking at the holographic structure map of the Zhenhai City Shelter, Su Wu planned the focus of the next action from the top level. Even though the entire Zhenhai City Shelter has been violently twisted and broken into two halves by the earthquake and volcanic eruption below the shelter, a large number of areas inside the shelter have been shattered and disintegrated under tremendous pressure. The two remaining parts can still be regarded as behemoths comparable to cities. For such a large complex of buildings. There is no need to hold on to those areas where there are no supplies and people. As long as the safety of the three core places can be guaranteed, it will be enough to meet Su Wu's needs. Under this premise, the remaining specific things to be done become quite clear. The first is to change the power supply and ventilation ducts. Start the backup generators and oxygen production equipment. Ensure that the population gathering places mainly based on the station and the residential safety zone can have the most basic living conditions. The second is to close most of the external interfaces of these three core areas. And build a sufficiently strong transfer channel between them and the exit station. The difficulty of this matter lies mainly in the construction of the channel between the residential safety zone and the exit station. Among the three core areas, the temporary material storage point is right next to the exit station. It can be transferred directly without building a channel. But the residential safety zone is at least 3 to 5 kilometers away from the exit station. A lot of manpower and material resources must be invested to ensure that it will not be easily destroyed by earthquakes and magma. Then, large-scale medical assistance is needed for the survivors. Although the disaster just now occurred for a short time, the damage caused was extremely severe. Not only did the death toll exceed 5 million, but the number of casualties directly or indirectly was close to 4 million. These wounded cannot be left there. Otherwise, the longer they are delayed, the more serious their injuries will be, and it is likely that a large number of people will continue to die. Finally, the transfer of materials must also be replanned. After the entire Zhenhai City shelter was broken, the residential safety zone in the middle, part of the exterior wall cast by alloy metal, was suspended and exposed in the broken cracks, directly exposed to the erosion of seawater and magma. The other part was all located in the east half of the shelter. This means that most of the surviving population in the entire shelter is concentrated on the east side. They want to leave Zhenhai City. The only way is to leave through the four exit stations on the east side. The remaining three stations are located in the opposite west half of the shelter. After digesting the more than one million people who stayed in the station, there will be no additional population replenishment, and they can only transport materials. "In this case." "The original plan to transport people with all our strength has to be terminated halfway." "If we want to transfer everyone out of the Zhenhai City Shelter, we have to delay it for a few hours." This had no effect on Su Wu. Whether it was transporting people or transporting materials, he could get almost the same benefits. But for the survivors stranded in the Zhenhai City Shelter, it was bad news . It made their chances of survival drop even further. "In addition, fortunately." "The warehouse storing fuel did not suffer much damage in this disaster."
"It and the submarine passage where the fuel pipeline was built were left intact in the sparsely populated western shelter."
"It did not cause an explosion or fire that spread throughout the shelter."
Over the next half an hour,
under near-limit construction,
the Zhenhai City shelter, which had been split in half, gradually stabilized.
The uninhabited area that was abandoned by default
was shrinking little by little at an average rate of more than a dozen rooms collapsing per minute. The walls at the edge
of the station exit and temporary material warehouse, which were protected,
were all replaced with half-meter-thick quick-cement,
forming a completely independent and closed area.
Although the residential safety zone was not further strengthened because of its extremely strong defense,
the corridors from its exit to the four stations of the eastern shelter
were also sealed with quick-cement,
forming an extremely tough transportation network.
After completing registration and preliminary security checks, the population in the safety zone
can enter the station through there and queue up to wait for departure.
Perhaps it was bad luck that they were released in the disaster that killed more than 5 million people at one time.
There were no more earthquakes or volcanic eruptions of the same intensity.
After more than ten hours of continuous transfer,
the remaining population in the Zhenhai City shelter
was successfully sent to the Linhai Shelter near the coastline, more than 100 kilometers away.
So far,
all ordinary humans have officially left the disaster that occurred in Zhenhai City,
leaving only a large amount of supplies and
a robot army trying to move them as much as possible.
Near the coastline,
the Linhai Shelter,
this large shelter that accommodated 33 million people in just over ten hours,
did not look overcrowded from inside to outside.
All the people who arrived here
would board the caravans that had been waiting outside, or the scattered snow transport vehicles without the Ice-class land frigate leading them,
and transfer from near to far to other abandoned subsidiary shelters in the surrounding area.
When the last batch of residents from Zhenhai City
got off the train, they
went from the Linhai Shelter to the middle area of the Kuanjiang River Basin.
Thousands of shelters, big and small,
have already been settled by people from Zhenhai City.
In order to protect the safety of more than 30 million Zhenhai City residents scattered in different shelters over nearly 10,000 square kilometers,
the remaining 600,000 spider robots stationed in the Linhai Shelter
and other auxiliary robots
formed tens of thousands of mobile patrol formations,
constantly patrolling around these shelters.
The sixth-generation fighters carrying crystal detectors
also strengthened low-altitude reconnaissance.
On average,
they would fly over a shelter every 10 minutes
to ensure that no purple crystals would appear nearby.
After initially settling the population, Su Wu began to pack and sort
the materials delivered to the Linhai Shelter. The expensive and rare materials were directly transported back to the farmyard from the air by 400 sixth-generation fighters and tens of thousands of Qingkong-class transport drones. Precious materials such as copper and aluminum, which are of high value but too large in quantity, were transported by caravans. First transport them to the geologically solid points calculated by artificial intelligence in the surrounding mountains for short-term storage. These materials have almost no requirements for the storage environment. There is no need to find a shelter buried deep underground for storage. Just throw them directly into a simple factory building in valleys and other areas where surface storms are not easily swept. At this stage, there is actually no need to gather too many caravans at the seaside. At Su Wu's instruction, about 200 caravans began to be transported back to Jianghe City in batches, starting with the middle and senior management personnel of Zhenhai City. They were withdrawn from the Linhai shelter that was already on the right track. Su Wu was about to observe the geological activities around Zhenhai City again. He suddenly received a private message from Song Hong in Changming City, asking him if he had time to attend a meeting of the Southeast Alliance. He thought about it for a while. It felt that it would not make much difference whether he was there to command in Zhenhai City. Su Wu accepted the invitation to the meeting. A few minutes later, he put on the virtual projection helmet. Entering the conference room via the Internet. The meeting place was still the familiar round table hall. However, this time, the people from Zhenhai City were completely gone from the participants in the meeting. "I heard that the situation in Zhenhai City is very serious. Do you need our help?" Seeing Su Wu online, Song Hong asked him first. "Not for the time being." "At present, all the people in Zhenhai City have been transferred to the land." "If there are no major changes." "They should be able to be transferred to Jianghe City smoothly in the future." Su Wu nodded to Song Hong, as a response to his concern. Several other super cities in the Southeast Alliance are quite far away from Zhenhai City. Even if they are willing, the help they can provide is actually minimal. At most, they can only express an attitude. "I was shocked when I received the report yesterday." "I didn't expect that there would be an earthquake of magnitude 8 or above in Zhenhai City." "If there is no preparation in advance." "I'm afraid the losses will be incalculable." Seeing that Su Wu didn't seem to be lying, Song Hong felt relieved and a little scared for them. "Actually, there were still quite a lot of losses." "The earthquake and the volcanic eruption were so strong." "It directly tore the entire Zhenhai City in half." "More than 5 million casualties were caused within a few minutes." Su Wu revealed a little bit of the truth. After thinking about it, he simply projected the surveillance video at that time directly into the conference room. The cruel scene in the video made several powerful super city leaders present couldn't help but change color slightly. You know, even in the early days of the end of the world, when the super tsunami swept along the coastal areas, the actual number of casualties was only tens of millions. And this was borne by the whole world. The final number accumulated after more than 20 hours. In terms of impact, it is far less shocking than the scene in front of us, where millions of people died in a few minutes. "In this case, most people can still be saved." "It seems that Chairman Ping made the right choice." After the initial shock, Song Hong noticed Su Wu's spider robot, the super high construction efficiency shown in the disaster, and the strange materials used. A thoughtful look flashed across his face. However, he did not ask further questions. He just sighed at Ping Yuhan's decisive action of joining Su Wu. If it were him, he would not be able to make up his mind to give up everything so quickly. If he hesitated for a few more hours, the result would definitely be completely different. There are tens of millions of people in Zhenhai City, and maybe not even a few hundred people can escape in the end.
After discussing the affairs of Zhenhai City,
Song Hong, who knew that Su Wu's current time was more precious than theirs,
quickly mentioned the purpose of this meeting.
"Our intelligence department."
"We received an extremely important message from the capital of Dongzhou not long ago."
"Within the next 3 to 6 months."
"The entire Dongzhou, except for the Western Wilderness Plateau."
"Especially the low-altitude plains south and east of Chongzhou City."
"There is a nearly 100% probability that a large-scale disaster will occur."
"By then, most shelters may not be able to survive."
"The final death toll is expected to be more than 70%."
Song Hong projected a map of Dongzhou.
Different colors were used to mark the intensity of the disaster in the corresponding area.
The most serious areas.
Most of them are in the province where the Southeast Alliance is located, and some are located in the north.
"Can you determine what type of disaster it is?"
Su Wu asked.
"I don't know."
"I can only determine the approximate time and that it will definitely happen."
Song Hong shook his head.
Then he said angrily with a somewhat angry tone.
"No wonder they have been unwilling to provide much support to the north and our southeastern region."
"They only want to transfer supplies."
"It turns out that they had long planned to abandon these places."