Chapter 310 Long-Distance Wireless Power Transmission
"It was not easy to get so many resources."
"It's such a shame to waste it like this."
80 million cubic meters of fuel can conservatively produce about 272 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.
It is almost enough to keep the farmyards, which currently accommodate 70 million people, running normally for nearly twenty years.
Such a huge resource.
If anyone were to stand in Su Wu's shoes, no one would be willing to give up.
After thinking for a long time.
Su Wu gradually turned his attention to the wireless charging system.
Simply transporting fuel is too difficult.
But what if they are converted into electricity on site and then transmitted back remotely through wireless charging technology?
Maybe, it might be more convenient.
April 6th.
15 kilometers southwest of Zhenhai City.
Covered by low and heavy clouds.
Even at noon, it is still as dark as dusk.
And in the fierce gale.
A kilometer-long column of steel mechanical structures silently moved against the wind.
Driving slowly.
Arrived at an ice layer that looked no different from anywhere else.
"The coordinates have been determined."
"Begin construction."
Two lines of cold text were slowly refreshed on the main control computer log of the leading Ice-class land frigate.
Then.
The two snow transport vehicles behind it silently detached from the other vehicles.
Drive to the coordinates.
One of them extended its body to become a large drilling platform full of mechanical beauty.
Start drilling through the ice right there.
The other car waited until the ice was drilled through, opened the hatch at the rear of the car, and dropped a capsule-shaped submersible that was only seven or eight meters long from front to back into the sea water under the ice.
While two snow transport vehicles broke through the ice and launched the submersible.
The train stopped in the dim sky. In the front section, about one-third of the carriage, soft lights were shining out from the windows.
It brings a touch of warmth to this world filled with cold and hurricanes.
That was the caravan carriage, where the survivors rescued from other places lived.
Because they have to travel to multiple places for rescue, they often have to travel through areas that are much more dangerous than normal areas.
These are the rescued survivors.
The treatment in the carriage was much better than that of the people who were sent to the farmhouses in Jianghe City on the coastline.
On average, each train carriage can accommodate only about 80 people.
There are playing cards and chess to pass the time, kettle, food cabinet, toilet, shower, bed and so on.
A large-screen TV was also installed for them to watch programs from Jianghe City TV Station.
The bustling crowd inside the farmyard shown on TV, the park full of vitality and fertile soil, and the dreamlike amusement park decorated with countless colorful lights.
To a large extent, it dispelled the panic of the survivors in the carriage.
Allowing them to look at the dead and cold world outside with a relatively peaceful state of mind.
However, if there is a choice.
These survivors would definitely prefer to squeeze into the crowded carriage heading to Jianghe City.
Nor am I willing to enjoy the privilege of a small space here.
Taking risks is a gamble that risks your life.
Before the end of the world, there may be people whose lives are too dull and who seek the excitement it brings.
But after the end of the world, the survivors experienced too much suffering.
All I long for is the ordinary and stable life that was once neglected.
Under the ice.
The submersible, which looks seamless, has its external xenon lights turned on.
Bright light close to natural light.
In an instant, the darkness in the sea was dispelled.
The remains of buildings from before the end of the world on the seabed are illuminated in every detail.
Based on the view and radar scan results.
The submersible finally determined that its destination was directly below it, underground 5 meters to the east.
The engine was started and the submersible slowly approached.
Because the goal this time.
It is a small private shelter with only one person.
The submersible did not make any major move.
It simply landed at the exit of the shelter and docked it with the watertight compartment on the submersible.
At this time.
An earthquake of at least magnitude 5 is approaching.
The seafloor is vibrating.
Countless turbid sands were thrown into the sea.
The lights of the submersible were blocked completely.
The submersible, controlled by artificial intelligence, ignored it.
Just after fine-tuning some of the joints that were a little off due to vibration.
Then continue to follow the original procedure.
A few minutes later.
Use a laser to cut a passage from the exit to the interior.
A humanoid robot on a submarine.
He moved in swiftly and met a young man who was waiting anxiously in the lobby of the shelter.
"Liu Xing, male, 23 years old."
"It has passed the Dongzhou data database analysis and review, and its moral score is above 60 points, which means it has rescue value."
"The current identity has been confirmed successfully."
"Starting to enter the guidance mode."
A series of data flashed through the core artificial intelligence program responsible for controlling the humanoid robot.
then.
It begins to mimic human behavior patterns.
Communicate with the other side.
Guide him inside the submarine.
At the same time, all valuable and rare resources in the shelter, including gold and silver, were dismantled, packed up and taken away.
These resources will be confiscated as rescue costs.
It will not be returned to the other party.
Even the rare resources that the other party carries with them will be confiscated in the end.
He is only allowed to keep some ordinary personal belongings such as clothes, mobile phones, etc.
The whole process took 4 minutes.
The submersible, having completed all its tasks, began to slowly undocking from the shelter.
When seawater poured into the shelter through the cut gap.
Slowly float back up little by little.
On the ice.
Under the gloomy sky.
With the help of a winch rope, the submersible returned to the snow transport vehicle amid the howling wind.
At this time, the storm outside seemed a little bigger.
The wind blew on the snow transport vehicle, which was even larger than a double-decker bus, causing it to vibrate slightly enough to be felt by humans.
In the internal logs of artificial intelligence that no one knows about.
The environmental rating here has gradually climbed from light red, representing high risk, to dark red, which is even worse.
River City.
Farmhouse courtyard, control center on the underground floor.
Su Wu received a report on dangerous environmental changes sent by artificial intelligence.
Feel free to click and view.
It was discovered that a caravan he had sent to the shallow sea area was caught in an earthquake that could cause large-scale ice cracks at any time.
But because the scope involved is not deep.
It is highly unlikely that any serious accident will occur, at most the passengers inside will just be frightened.
"There are still three scheduled shelters that were not rescued in time."
"I just have to give up."
There were probably about 20 to 30 people in those three shelters combined.
Su Wu could almost imagine it.
How desperate they will be when they learn that rescue will not come.
Clearly giving hope, but suddenly extinguishing it at the last moment.
The loss of falling from heaven to hell is no less than any torture.
Su Wu sighed silently.
The pity in his eyes flashed by, but did not leave any trace in his heart.
As a ruler who controls more than 100 million people in the end times.
Su Wu has seen too many similar things during this period of time.
Not to mention these twenty or thirty people.
Even the caravan that went to the rescue was engulfed by the disaster, and thousands of passengers inside died.
It still won't cause him too much emotional fluctuation.
Su Wu just knew too much.
In essence.
He is not a truly transcendental god, nor does he have the ability to save everything.
Naturally, there is no need to bear too much responsibilities and negative emotions.
Close the report.
Return to the previous planning interface.
Su Wu continued to fall into his previous thoughts.
With the relocation project to Zhenhai City, it entered the second half.
Su Wu also made new divisions for the caravan carriages gathered there.
A total of 330 caravans were in service.
200 teams were responsible for transporting the first batch of 4 million people from Zhenhai City to farmhouses.
They had just arrived at their destination.
The population is being handed over and we are preparing to return for the second batch of population transfer.
120 caravans left the coastline and went deep into the frozen ocean.
Go and save other shelters located on the seabed besides Zhenhai City.
Under the special instruction of Su Wu.
The rescue routes of these caravans will prioritize the high-risk areas closest to Zhenhai City.
To try to get ahead of the disaster over there before it expands.
Save more people.
Thanks to this strategy.
In the past two days.
At least 200,000 people were rescued from near-death situations.
And narrowly missed the subsequent expansion of the disaster.
The last 10 caravans were on the carriage.
Together with the remaining 8,000 snow transport vehicles.
Responsible for transporting the supplies that are still being transported from the Zhenhai City Shelter through 7 submarine channels.
Transferred to a nearby valley warehouse with stable geology.
These two days.
A total of more than 30 million tons of materials have been delivered to those warehouses.
Waiting for the future, when the main force of the caravan carriage has freed up the transport capacity, it will be pulled away.
These are the arrangements for caravans.
The others all prioritize efficiency, with only the part responsible for going to the sea for rescue.
The principle of maximizing returns is not followed.
Instead, we should focus more on rescuing people.
They would even rather give up the common resources that are readily available and miss the opportunity to take away some rare resources.
This is the little bit of willfulness that comes with Su Wu's emotions that belong to ordinary people.
He is willing to pay a part of the cost without affecting the overall interests.
Come and see the heartfelt gratitude on the faces of those who have been rescued from desperate situations.
In addition to the task of adjusting the caravan train.
There is another important matter in these two days.
It was after investing about 12,000 spiritual points that Su Wu achieved breakthrough results in his research on wireless power transmission.
We have successfully manufactured a fixed-point power transmission device that can transmit power in a straight line over 1,000 kilometers in the air.
By the way, the original thermal power generators were also modified and optimized in an advanced manner.
Although it does not improve the fuel efficiency much.
But it has successfully reduced the cost of manufacturing these generators and made them smaller in size while generating the same amount of power.
These two technological advances.
Su Wu's original idea was to generate electricity on site at the fuel storage area and then transmit the electricity back to the farmyard.
It has the possibility of becoming a reality.
"At present, the production of two large-scale power transmission devices for docking has been completed."
"And transport it by air."
"One was transported to a high mountain in the mountains, more than 20 kilometers northwest of the farmyard."
"The other one was transported to the top of a mountain near the Linhai Shelter, where the temporary warehouse is located."
"They will serve as the main body in the power transmission project."
And around these two large power transmission facilities.
A series of small power transmitters of the same type are also installed.
On the one hand, they are responsible for transmitting the electricity generated by the thermal power station to the large-scale power transmission equipment on the other side of the seaside shelter.
On the one hand, it is responsible for transmitting the electricity received by the large-scale power transmission device in Jianghe City across a distance of more than 20 kilometers to the farmyard shelter.
Complete the finishing touches at the end.
"In addition, there is a group of thermal power generators built at the temporary fuel storage area."
"Because the cost and floor space are greatly reduced."
"The total installed capacity has reached 50 million kilowatts."
"It's roughly equivalent to 50 large thermal power stations."
"It can consume more than 10,000 tons of fuel per hour."
"It is expected to continue operating for six to seven months, and all the 80 million cubic meters of fuel stored here can be used up."
Look at the final calculated number.
Su Wu couldn't help but frown for a moment.
A power generation cycle of more than half a year is still a bit too long.
You know.
It has only been about 9 months since the end of the world.
Su Wu built from scratch a super shelter that could accommodate hundreds of millions of people.
Now it will take more than half a year to digest the fuel at the seaside shelter.
It seems somewhat asymmetrical.
Just build a 50 million kilowatt generator group.
It is an epic project in itself.
In Su Wu's previous life, the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, the largest in Asia, had an installed capacity of only over 20 million kilowatts.
This is a 50 million kilowatt generator group located in the mountainous area of the coastal refuge.
It's more than twice as much.
And continue to increase.
The risks and construction costs will become too great.
Some things are not worth the effort.
"That's it for now."
"Just half a year."
"If you don't do this, wait until the caravan has enough capacity to transport it."
"I'm afraid we'll have to wait a year or two."
"Comparatively, it's actually pretty fast."
Comforted myself.
In the end, Su Wu resisted the urge to continue expanding the scale of the power plant.
And with the maturity of long-distance wireless power transmission technology.
It not only solves the problem of transporting fuel to the seaside shelter.
There are even future behavior patterns for caravan carriages for Su Wu's subsidiary refuges in other parts of Dongzhou.
They also brought huge impacts.
Chapter 311: The Destroyed Super City
First of all, it is the largest subsidiary shelter in Su Wu's hands.
One of the former super cities, Steel City.
The total amount of fuel and coal stored in it is even slightly more than that in Zhenhai City.
These fuels were originally considered to be inferior resources, and it was unknown how long it would take before they could be transported on a large scale to farmers' yards.
After Su Wu also erected a large-scale power transmission device for the steel city.
It was revitalized.
At the same time, since Steel City itself is a heavy industrial city, many power generation equipment are left behind.
Even without Su Wu's assistance.
It can also be assembled into a 75 million kilowatt generator set.
Therefore, the moment the generator group at the seaside shelter was built.
In Gangcheng, the construction of the corresponding power plant has also been completed simultaneously.
It can burn nearly 20,000 tons of fuel or coal per hour.
The generated electricity is remotely transmitted back to the farmyard.
"We can produce a batch of thermal power generating units for Gangcheng in the future."
"Increase the capacity of the power plant over there to 100 million kilowatts."
Su Wu marked it in the development log.
The biggest difference between Gangcheng and the coastal mountainous area.
The reason is that the former has a group of mature shelters, which far exceeds the latter in terms of environmental safety.
By analogy, it is like the difference between permanent and temporary buildings.
This allowed Su Wu to invest more resources in Gangcheng with confidence.
In exchange for a long-term and stable electricity income.
In addition to building a second large-scale power transmission channel in Gangcheng, the fuel stored in Gangcheng can be transmitted back to the farmers' courtyards in the form of electricity.
According to Su Wu's plan.
The steel city will also be responsible for the task of power transfer.
As an accessory to large power transmission equipment.
The effective distance of small power transmission devices is 100 kilometers.
At the same time, they can be networked and connected in series.
All affiliated shelters within one or two hundred kilometers around the Steel City.
Just set up a small power transmission device.
It is very convenient to generate electricity on site and gather the excess electricity to the steel city first.
Then it is transmitted to the farmyard through the large power transmission channel there.
Form a power transmission network with a wide coverage area and relatively low construction cost.
However, the materials used to make small power transmission devices are quite common.
Its transmission limit is only 100,000 kilowatts.
This is a thousand or two times lower than the transmission limit of 100 million to 200 million kilowatts of large-scale power transmission devices.
In actual use, it is difficult to use it to connect a very long power transmission line in series.
Once the distance between them exceeds two or three hundred kilometers, or if too many shelters are connected at the same time.
From a cost perspective, it would be cheaper and more cost-effective to install a large-scale power transmission device.
"In the future, low-value resources such as fuel."
"It can be completely eliminated from the list of regular transport."
"They will all be transported by electricity, efficiently and quickly, and at almost zero cost to farmers' yards."
"in other words."
"From this moment on, fuel is no longer a useless thing that takes up a lot of transportation power and makes circulation difficult."
"Rather, it is a consumable that can be easily exchanged for an equivalent amount of electricity."
Previous human society.
The only way to store electricity for a long time.
It means stockpiling fuel for power generation.
Then, based on how much electricity will be needed in the future, we will go on site to adjust the power generation of the power plant accordingly.
Transmitting electricity is also a challenge.
Especially in the end-time environment.
Need to face various natural disasters frequently.
Long-distance transmission has become almost impossible.
And when these two levels.
With the combined effect of a ball lightning control chamber that can store almost unlimited amounts of electricity, and a large-scale power transmission device that can transmit electricity across thousands of kilometers without laying lines along the way.
After being completely crushed.
There is nothing that can prevent electricity from becoming a true energy currency.
All resources that can generate electricity.
They can also be regarded as gold mines that can produce almost universal energy currency.
At this moment, the value of coal mines and oil fields has increased significantly to a level close to or even exceeding the level before the end of the world.
"For coal and oil mining."
"It's going to be put on the agenda."
"We also need to manufacture a batch of mobile standard power generation equipment."
"It allows it to be easily transported by air or land according to different specifications."
"Reach any corner of Dongzhou where fuel is stored."
"Money out of that fuel there quickly."
"Then, the first batch of mobile power generation equipment."
"We strive to increase the total power generation capacity to 150 million kilowatts."
"In this case, add the two places in Steel City and the coastal mountain area."
"Under ideal circumstances."
"The power generation capacity can reach 300 million kWh per hour."
"It's almost a hundred times the power consumption of a small farmyard today."
A portable standard power generation equipment.
For now.
It is still an item in a conceptual state.
It requires a certain amount of spiritual effort to conduct research before it can be truly manufactured.
Su Wu's requirements for it.
It is compact and convenient while being fuel efficient.
It also cannot be much lower than the current large-scale thermal power plants.
It is best if both can be kept in the same range.
Only in this way can we maximize the potential of every fuel resource scattered throughout Dongzhou.
Avoid excessive waste.
And in this way, it is obvious.
Under the same specifications.
Its manufacturing cost will certainly exceed those semi-permanent fixed thermal power generating units in steel cities and coastal mountainous areas.
You should be more cautious in using them.
They need to be avoided from being exposed to dangerous environments as much as possible.
At the same time, the total power generation capacity is 300 million kilowatts.
In fact, it has far exceeded Su Wu's current needs.
Its scale is almost equivalent to 100 ordinary nuclear power plants that Su Wu built outside the farmhouse before, responsible for supplying daily electricity to the entire farmhouse.
These generators produce excess electricity.
All of them will be stored in the ball lightning control chamber, and will become the confidence for Su Wu to face all challenges in the future.
"Also, it can store electricity."
"It means that electricity can also be transmitted in the reverse direction to various parts of Dongzhou."
"There are always some shelters that lack electricity due to insufficient fuel reserves and other unexpected situations."
"Just throw a small power transmission device towards them."
"You can trade electricity with them."
"This is another means of transaction that affects the basis of survival."
"As long as I can exchange it for some gold and silver, it won't be a loss."
The golden scale owned by Su Wu.
Gold and silver can be exchanged for nuclear fuel.
In other words, only more than 30 tons of gold are needed to generate electricity equivalent to 80 million cubic meters of fuel oil in the coastal mountain warehouse.
In terms of weight, the difference is more than two million times.
This is enough to prove that the importance of these precious metals to Su Wu has risen to a strategic level.
As long as you can use electricity to exchange for gold and silver from other shelters.
No matter how much or how little you change.
There is a high probability that Su Wu's side will make a huge profit.
The future development direction has been adjusted.
Su Wu once again turned his gaze to the distant space.
After all, transmitting electricity on the ground is not as convenient as transmitting via satellite.
However, a large-scale power transmission device can transmit electricity up to 1,000 kilometers away.
But compared to the vastness of space, this distance is so small that it is almost negligible.
Nothing else to say.
It is just the Eden satellite that is currently hanging high in the synchronous orbit.
It is more than 30,000 kilometers away from the ground.
1,000 kilometers can only touch a fraction of it.
However, it is impossible for satellites in near-Earth orbit, which is closer, to stay in the same place all the time.
We want to achieve the idea of using satellites as a relay to transmit electricity in real time.
This can only be achieved by using a network of multiple low-Earth orbit satellites.
"A large power transmission device with a total mass of more than 200 tons."
"Considering the current harsh space environment."
"It must also have certain defensive capabilities and mobility."
"Ultimately, a satellite with the function of transmitting electricity will have to have a total mass of at least 230 tons."
"And the aviation rockets we currently have."
"The maximum carrying capacity is only about 20 tons."
"It would take at least a dozen consecutive launches to put an electric satellite into low-Earth orbit."
"And then they need to be combined and installed together in space."
"The degree of difficulty has increased several times."
Just give it some thought.
Su Wu could feel the difficulty of this and it was not something he could challenge now.
However, there is no need to wait too long.
As long as the seventh-generation fighter jets are successfully developed in the future.
Produce a low-Earth orbit transport ship of the aerospace carrier level.
Using satellites to relay and transmit electricity is no longer a fantasy.
April 10th.
When the caravan was transferring the second batch of 4 million Zhenhai people to Jianghe City.
A shelter in Zhenhai City, more than 100 kilometers from the coastline.
After holding on for several days, they could no longer withstand the increasingly intense geological activities.
First is the passage between the residential safety zone and the exit station.
Twisted and broken by a huge force.
The entire residential safety zone slid into the volcanic magma below.
Then there was the fuel depot which had become an empty shell.
The wall is cracked.
A large amount of sea water, which had become boiling hot due to the heating of the magma, rushed in violently.
In just a few minutes.
It completely filled up the huge warehouse and washed up on the isolation door between the warehouse and the outside world.
at last.
Seven undersea passages connect the stations.
It was broken into several pieces one after another.
Thousands of subway trains and large and medium-sized trucks will still be running inside.
All buried in the sea.
At this time.
Despite the 7 exit stations being specially reinforced with quick cement.
Still able to hold on.
But the outside world has changed from occasional to daily violent seabed tremors.
But the cost of repairing the undersea channel.
Improved countless times.
No longer feasible.
The operation to rescue supplies from the Zhenhai City shelter was officially declared terminated.
Su Wu was in this action.
In the end, a total of about 92 million tons of general materials, 80 million cubic meters of fuel, and hundreds of thousands of tons of rare resources were obtained.
Basically, most of the shelters in Zhenhai City were emptied.
Although in the end.
There are still about 40 million tons of ordinary resources, a large number of light industrial products used in the daily lives of tens of millions of residents, and a variety of basic equipment to ensure the operation of the shelters that have not been transported away in time.
But compared to the harvest, these are actually not very important.
"Let them sleep in the exit station for now."
"Wait until future technology is upgraded to a certain level."
"It can withstand frequent earthquakes and supersonic storms at a low cost."
"Then take over those resources that were not transported away in time."
After taking one last look with some regret, I saw that there were only 7 exit stations left in the Zhenhai City shelter.
Su Wu ordered the robot army stranded in the seven stations.
An order to return from the seabed on its own.
Different from humans.
The robot army does not require any life-support equipment.
Have enough power to move directly in the water.
However, in the current chaotic seabed environment.
These robots want to cross a distance of more than 100 kilometers and successfully reach the coastline.
It is basically impossible to achieve without losing more than half of the quantity.
For these losses.
Su Wu had been prepared and was not too heartbroken.
The value created by robots in the past few days has exceeded their own value many times.
I can die without regrets.
The relocation of the Zhenhai City shelter has been completed.
It means the edge of Su Wu's sphere of influence.
Moved to the coastline where there are mainly seaside shelters.
Since then, the search and rescue operations for other underwater refuges have continued but have gradually begun to shrink in scale.
Su Wu's defense center.
It can be completely placed in those temporary warehouses in the coastal mountainous areas.
"The coastal mountain area is currently dominated by factories, robots, and ordinary inedible resources."
"There were no humans or food."
"Not much appeal for purple crystals."
"So there won't be much defensive pressure."
"Leaving behind about 100,000 ordinary spider robots and a Pioneer-class land destroyer is enough."
"The remaining armed forces."
"You can all follow the caravan, including the remaining 20 million people in Zhenhai who have not yet been able to relocate."
"As long as within the next ten days."
"Bring these people to the farmyard as well."
"The mission of taking over Zhenhai City is now successfully completed."
"The next stage."
"It's time to start taking action against Xiaojiang Province."
Regarding the Xiaojiang Province that was traded from Song Hong.
Su Wu responded with great expectations.
Not only does it have a population twice that of Zhenhai City.
There are also rich natural resources there, especially the copper mine with reserves of over 10 million.
Su Wu couldn't help but want to go there and dig it himself.
Because of copper mines.
It is one of the most important basic materials for making snow transport vehicles and land warships.
As long as there is an ample supply of copper ore.
Su Wu could immediately launch another large-scale production activity.
Will be after receiving the resources of Zhenhai City.
The number of caravans had already leapt to 450.
Continue to expand to more than 600.
Chapter 312 The rising threat
However, no matter how urgent the hope is.
Time is still moving forward at a leisurely pace.
When it comes to Su Wu's current scale of power.
Lots of action and planning.
With the support of rigorous calculations and massive manpower, material resources and intelligence.
As accurate as a prophecy.
There is no possibility of being ahead of schedule or exceeding expectations.
April 13th.
The third batch of population transfer began.
Along with 100 newly produced caravan carriages, they also joined the transfer team.
A torrent of caravans stretching across the vast Kuanjiang River Basin.
It carried 6 million people at one time.
This group is almost equivalent to the population of a large pre-apocalyptic city.
In migration.
Make the glaciers and ice fields along the way become lively.
Massive amounts of related photos, videos, and even various derivative creations have been sent to the Internet.
It has created a special kind of prosperity unique to the end-of-the-world environment.
On a quiet plain covered with snow.
In the carriage of a caravan.
A young man is live streaming on his mobile phone.
He pointed the camera out the car window.
Use a voice with some excitement and novelty to explain to hundreds of viewers on the other side of the network.
"In a few minutes."
"We are about to enter the icy fog ahead."
"According to the information I found."
"That patch of ice fog was named the Low Temperature Cold Current A027."
"The coverage area is about 140 square kilometers."
"The narrowest part is only 3.2 kilometers."
"Although it is small in scale, it has actually existed for more than three months."
"It is one of the cold currents in the entire East Continent that has the longest known duration and the lowest internal temperature."
"If you're just driving an ordinary modified SUV."
"Once you break in, you basically have no chance of coming out alive."
"It can be said to be a real death zone."
The mouth said terrible.
There was no sign of fear on the young man's face.
Instead, he looked excited, as if he was about to go on an interesting adventure in the amusement park.
Caravans have been active on the land of Dongzhou for a long time.
Their safety and reliability have been proven through countless experiences of traversing dangerous and desperate situations.
Just stay inside the train.
Don't run away if you want to die.
There will be almost no accidents.
If the carriage wasn't so crowded, we would have to take turns sleeping on the same bed.
Board the caravan.
It's really not much different from traveling.
In the commentary.
The carriage where the young man was located was gradually approaching the icy fog.
The howling cold wind hit the thick car windows.
The rustling sound became clearer and clearer.
Then fine ice crystals began to adhere to the edges of the car windows.
The view of the outside world that can be observed from inside the car becomes narrower and narrower.
"In."
The young man used the camera on his mobile phone to record the moment he entered the ice fog.
Then in discovery.
At this time, you can no longer see any scenery beyond one or two meters.
Then he turned the camera back to the car.
The layout of the car is similar to that of a separate toilet at the end and a limited number of berths.
The remaining space is basically similar to a subway car.
Just two rows of chairs welded to the sides.
These benches are not very comfortable.
But due to the small space, hundreds of people were crammed into it.
Because there are so many people, they have become scarce commodities.
Except for some patients identified by artificial intelligence.
Everyone can only take turns sitting for a while.
Most of the time, you need to stand.
But the space is narrow.
It did not prevent passengers from enjoying entertainment to kill time.
Some of them offered their seats as platforms, and three or two people gathered together to play poker, or set up a chessboard.
Some were chatting in low voices, while others were reading or listening to music on their phones.
"No one seems to be abnormal."
"The status is the same as before."
The young man casually explained.
Then he moved the camera to the front of the car.
There was a TV there playing Jianghe City TV programs.
From the TV's casing with slight scratches and distortion marks, it is obvious that it is most likely not an assembly line product manufactured together with the car body.
But it's a second-hand product that I don't know where I got it from.
This is normal.
Even a powerful force at the super city level.
In today's end times when resources and energy are extremely precious.
It is also impossible to develop an industry specifically to produce such non-essential civilian products.
Basically, they just picked up those civilian electronic products before the end of the world and used them for makeshift purposes.
Young men don't care about this.
What he wanted to show the online audience was the real-time internal and external temperatures displayed in a corner of the TV screen.
The room temperature is 23.2 degrees.
The outdoor temperature was minus 117.6 degrees Celsius.
"It's the same as the information I found."
"The temperature outside is indeed close to minus 120 degrees Celsius now."
"in other words."
"If the window glass in front of me is broken by accident."
"Then I will probably be frozen and lose the ability to speak within a few seconds."
"And then within minutes they would die of hypothermia."
"This environment is only separated from the world of death by a layer of glass."
"Only when you are truly there can you appreciate its uniqueness."
The caravan did not travel long in the icy fog.
Half an hour later.
The thick white fog outside the window gradually dissipated.
A continuous range of snow-capped mountains appeared within sight.
And at this time.
The roars produced by several explosions could be heard from afar.
The young man, who was still broadcasting live, followed the direction from which the sound came.
Point your phone's camera toward it.
Then in the zoomed in shot.
Several creatures that looked somewhat like insects were clearly seen moving through the flames and black smoke produced by the explosion.
"It's amethyst."
"This time I can finally see them for real."
The young man looked a little dazed.
There was the excitement of seeing this legendary species with my own eyes.
There is also a faint trembling and fear that comes from the heart.
There is no wilderness to hinder us here.
If it attracts the attention of the other party.
The result is probably hard to predict.
The more you fear something, the more likely it is to happen.
After destroying a robot patrol that was fighting them.
A few purple crystals that won.
Let's focus on the caravan carriage carrying the young man.
The caravan was 1 kilometer long and carried more than 20,000 passengers.
In the eyes of Amethyst.
It is the most delicious fruit.
Without hesitation for a second.
They then charged and ran towards the young man.
The young man's hands shook with fear.
I almost lost my grip on the phone.
Twenty seconds later, the monsters on the opposite side were getting closer and closer with unmatched momentum.
Under strong threat of death.
His body seemed to be frozen in fear.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't move at all.
And the other people in the car.
Few noticed anything unusual outside.
Still chatting, laughing, playing cards and listening to music.
If we estimate based on the worst case scenario.
This is actually a kind of luck.
They won't suffer too much.
Only in the last few seconds after the car body is torn apart.
Only then will you realize that death is coming.
But the worst situation did not happen after all.
When the purple crystal approached within four or five kilometers.
The Ice-class land frigate at the front of the vehicle began to automatically activate its defense system.
It rotated the Thunder-class photoelectric cannon it was carrying.
Aim the terrifying multi-barrel shooting holes at the incoming purple crystal.
An extreme metal torrent burst out.
Hundreds or even thousands of these 32mm metal projectiles can actually be called small electromagnetic guns.
At speeds several times the speed of sound.
It crossed a distance of four or five kilometers and bombarded several purple crystals.
The ice and snow on the ground are broken in an instant.
Creating one huge pit after another.
In this intensive shooting.
The leader was a massive amethyst evolved form that was almost two stories tall.
After enduring several machine gun shells.
The outer layer of grey armor shattered on the spot and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
The several Amethyst evolved forms that were following behind were so frightened that they immediately scattered.
He tried to dodge the subsequent pursuit of the machine gun with agile movements.
But this obviously doesn't help.
There were too many incoming shells.
The Thunder-class optoelectronic cannon has a firing rate of over 10,000 rounds per minute.
Meaning these are locked amethysts.
On average, each one of them successfully dodges one to two thousand times in one minute.
The difficulty is so high that it is almost impossible.
After struggling for more than ten seconds.
These purple crystals attempted to charge the caravan.
All of them fell down halfway.
"That was a close call."
A young man recorded the entire battle with his mobile phone camera.
He let out a long sigh of relief.
Feel lucky to have escaped.
But it was different from his survival.
Audiences who also watched the entire event online.
Many people still feel a little unsatisfied.
Amethyst launched a charge, then was shot and killed.
The whole process is simple to the point of being boring.
There was not the ups and downs that I had imagined.
Jianghe City, a farmyard.
Su Wu is conducting his daily inspection of the Kuanjiang River area on the holographic map.
I happened to see this small conflict happening at the foot of the mountain.
There was no fluctuation in my heart.
Similar scenario.
These days.
They have been appearing more and more frequently in caravans and around mines.
As long as the scale does not rise to the point where the number of participating units is counted in tens of thousands.
It was not enough to attract Su Wu's special attention.
However, this battle still made Su Wu think.
"Although every battle."
"The caravan, or more specifically, the Icebound-class land frigate leading the group, still has an overwhelming combat advantage against the purple crystals."
"But this cannot be ignored."
"There are still too many fights breaking out."
"The overall size of the purple crystal is expanding rapidly."
"They had adapted to life on the ground and should have found enough nutrients to grow quickly."
This is bad news that must be taken seriously.
Quantitative change leads to qualitative change.
When the number of amethysts grows to a certain scale.
There will definitely be terrible destructive power.
By then, don't even mention ordinary shelters.
I'm afraid even the Qinling Mountains where heavy troops are concentrated, or the super heavy industrial city of Gangcheng.
Not all of them can be contained.
And the commander behind the purple crystal.
It seems to understand humans better.
There are many wild mines where there are clearly no humans or other edible foods, only steel machinery and ores that Amethyst regards as stones and have no value.
It was also attacked purposefully by Amethyst.
It seemed as if he was trying to weaken Su Wu's resource supply.
"Continue to expand armaments and upgrade weapons."
Sighed helplessly.
Su Wu strengthened his determination to develop military strength.
Although this will consume a lot of resources.
To a certain extent, it has slowed down the development progress of farmhouse courtyards.
But look at it from another perspective.
Amethyst is also a natural disaster.
Developing military strength to defend against amethysts is no different than fortifying a farmyard.
The inspection of the Kuanjiang River Basin has ended.
Su Wu weighed the options in his mind.
Through the control console, recall all sixth-generation fighters that are transporting supplies.
Let them carry large numbers of reconnaissance drones and special operations drones.
Conduct a dragnet investigation across the entire Dongzhou.
The purpose of the screening is not to target humans or amethyst itself.
Instead, it is mainly used to destroy the flowers of the underworld that are suspected to provide food for the amethysts.
"Although we don't know yet where the purple crystals find the resources to grow."
"But everything has its rules."
"Given the current level of desolation on the entire surface and even underground."
"There are only a few channels that can provide growth resources."
"Considering that the rate at which human refuges are falling is not accelerating."
"That's the biggest possibility."
"It's where Amethyst secretly found a place where he could grow the flowers of the underworld on a large scale."
"Increase efforts to find those amethyst farms and destroy them."
"It should be able to effectively slow down the expansion of the amethyst population."
"It will give the farmyards more time to develop."
Accompanied by Su Wu's order.
500 sixth-generation fighter jets represent Su Wu's strongest air force.
First, gather in a farmyard to get supplies.
Then they flew in all directions in large groups.
Cruising at low altitude at subsonic speed.
While conducting a rough reconnaissance in a broad sense.
At the same time, a large number of drones were scattered in the depths of the wilderness and glaciers.
Under this high-intensity and meticulous search.
A large number of hidden corners that are not easy to find from high altitudes were revealed one by one.
Soon, Su Wu saw many things eroded by magma.
Hidden inside the glacier, in caves that are often tens or twenty kilometers long.
It is covered with underworld flowers that are almost one meter high.
Being discovered means entering the countdown to death.
A special operations drone equipped with directional sonic weapons.
Immediately converge on the coordinates given to the reconnaissance drone.
The harvesting process has started.
Rushing into the cave, it killed the underworld flowers there in circles.
at the same time.
The collective action of 500 sixth-generation fighter jets.
It also attracted the attention of a large number of refuges that were not under Su Wu's control.
Not only the super cities, but even the capital of Dongzhou has quietly turned its attention to those sixth-generation fighter jets.
Explore their motivations for not transporting supplies but instead hovering at low altitudes on a large scale.
Chapter 313: Ice Lake Class Transport Ship,
Western Wasteland Plateau.
The capital of Dongzhou, the northern district shelter complex.
A luxurious courtyard built deep underground.
A man in elegant clothes was leisurely brewing tea while casually watching the holographic images projected by a silver holographic projection device with his friends in a courtyard full of precious green plants.
This holographic projection device.
Although it is not well-known in the outside world, when it is occasionally exposed, ordinary people will think of it as just a fantasy item that exists in science fiction.
But among the real federal upper echelons.
However, it has already been popularized and applied to all aspects of life.
To some extent, it has even become a proof of identity.
Only those who possess it can be considered as recognized federal upper class.
Otherwise, he would be just a nouveau riche at best.
At this time, this advanced equipment is not sold to the public.
The projected images are not simple movies, TV series, or TV programs.
Instead, it comes from the Foreign Intelligence Management Center of the Dongzhou Capital, which is the most popular intelligence at the moment.
"I don't know what's going on in Jianghe City."
"Suddenly sending so many sixth-generation fighters to the wilderness to cruise at low altitudes."
"Tsk tsk, you think you have too much fuel and have nowhere to use it."
The man in luxurious clothes looked at the huge black fighter planes on the projection screen.
He commented condescendingly.
"Maybe it was stimulated by something."
"Aren't they clearing out those monsters called Amethysts everywhere?"
"Perhaps he suffered a heavy loss in a firefight."
"Be prepared to retaliate."
The man's friend is a childhood friend who has a similar background to him.
A young man who is also full of pride.
He took the brewed tea and took a sip.
The mellow fragrance lingered in his mouth, making him squint his eyes slightly in comfort.
"That's what a mud-legged person does."
"When you are lucky enough to gain power, you will always look down on others."
"They feel like the world revolves around them."
"It's just a pity for those sixth-generation fighters."
"If it were in my hands."
"It will definitely make them more valuable."
No matter how arrogant one is, there is still an act of looking down on Jianghe City.
The young man had to admit it.
The sixth-generation fighter jets in their hands are real federal main combat equipment.
A national treasure.
It symbolizes the hegemony of the sky.
In Dongzhou, it is even more capable than this.
If any noble family could control hundreds of sixth-generation fighter jets like Jianghe City does.
That's their status in the capital of Dongzhou.
It will become completely unbreakable.
You no longer have to worry about being eliminated for standing on the wrong side.
"But speaking of amethyst."
"I heard that kind of thing has caused millions of casualties."
"There is panic in many places right now."
"Many local tycoons are planning to move to the Western Wilderness Plateau at any cost."
The two chatted casually until here.
There was inevitably a hint of pity and contempt in his words.
It was as if the audience in the auditorium were watching the arena, and the prisoners were desperately trying to avoid the bites of the beasts and try to escape.
Regardless of whether the prisoner finally succeeded in escaping.
It's all just a funny entertainment show.
They have the right to maintain this arrogance.
Because it is in the Dongzhou area outside the Xihuang Plateau.
In fact, most of them belong to the abandoned occupied areas.
Sooner or later, due to one disaster after another, it will become a restricted area where no one can survive.
Not to mention those who are already considered upper-class dignitaries.
Even the lowest-level people responsible for cleaning up garbage in the capital of Dongzhou are far more noble than the residents of those areas.
Because the former are at least human beings, while the latter are just a group of dead souls who will not live long.
Like these two people in the courtyard.
There are many residents in the capital of Dongzhou who maintain a sense of superiority towards people outside the Western Wilderness Plateau.
Even though most of them don't know that those areas have actually been abandoned by the authorities.
But there is only a gap in security and material supply between the two places.
This is enough to give them the same reason to look down on people outside the capital.
However, at this time, all the people who were watching the show on the Western Wilderness Plateau.
No one realized.
The crisis is actually very close to them.
The edge of the Western Wilderness Plateau.
On an ice field where no one exists.
A flying purple crystal folded its wings and landed silently on a rock.
With its eyes, it silently looked at this strange new world to it.
April 17th.
Jianghe City, a farmyard.
On the 12th underground floor, construction has just begun.
A brand new and special building was officially opened here.
Construction waste treatment center.
Its name is unremarkable.
The shape is also square, and there is nothing special about it.
But internally, it's the technology that's applied to it.
But it is full of science fiction atmosphere.
The waste excavated from the underground rock is transported here by the engineering team's vehicles.
It will first be collected in a treatment pool of up to 1 million cubic meters.
When the waste fills up the treatment pool.
The treatment pool will enter a closed state and the air inside will be evacuated.
Then the entire pool will move to the launch port.
After a brief electromagnetic acceleration.
The waste in the pool will continuously pass through the 12 vacuum channels of the launch port at a speed exceeding the speed of sound.
It rushed all the way from underground to the artificial mountains on the surface several kilometers away.
Under normal circumstances.
1 million cubic meters of waste.
It only takes 10 to 15 minutes to eject them all.
The process is simple and efficient.
This is Su Wu, with Wei Manman and Liu Qianqian, two girls with special talents.
After further in-depth research on the electromagnetic gun and the materials that make it up.
The interim results achieved.
Although it seems a bit inappropriate to apply the results of weapons research to garbage disposal.
But it can indeed bring huge and immediate benefits.
It solves the problem of quickly transporting garbage in a limited space.
Then add a higher-powered oscillating crusher.
The engineering team's construction speed of the 12 underground floors of the farmyard has once again achieved a leap forward.
Improved efficiency by a full 50%.
The area expanded every day reaches 3 million square meters.
That is more than 100 million cubic meters of space.
This extremely high efficiency means that the whole process only takes less than 13 days.
Su Wu was able to build a whole new floor in the farmyard shelter.
What if this floor was only built with standard dormitories, corresponding plantations and activity areas?
It is enough to accommodate 30 million people living normally.
It is even less time than the time it takes Su Wu to transport all 30 million survivors in the Zhenhai City shelter from the coast to Jianghe City.
But behind the super high construction efficiency.
It also represents a huge consumption of electricity.
After the construction waste treatment center is put into use.
The energy consumption in transportation alone is about a hundred times higher than that of traditional conveyor belt transportation.
If Su Wu had not made a breakthrough in wireless power transmission before, he would have been able to convert fuel from other places into electricity and transmit it back.
He may not be able to afford such huge electricity expenses.
"Starting today."
"No longer have to worry about running out of space in the shelter."
Watching the construction waste treatment center begin to operate normally.
Su Wu felt as if he had completely broken free from the shackles.
He has always been concerned about the limited space inside the farmyard.
No matter what I do, I am always restricted.
Now, when the expansion speed of farmyard space exceeds the basic needs.
He could finally let his imagination run wild and do something big.
Take your attention away from the waste disposal center.
Su Wu called up the design drawings of the entire farmyard on the console.
Currently, 10 underground floors have been completed.
The main focus is on building standard dormitories that can accommodate 30 million people.
Most of the population transferred from Zhenhai City will be settled on this floor.
The 11th underground floor is under construction, and the 12th underground floor has not yet started construction.
Su Wu also plans to continue to focus on building standard dormitories.
To accommodate the more than 70 million people in Xiaojiang Province, which has not yet been taken over.
When the time comes.
Su Wu used the space on the third floor of the shelter to accommodate nearly 100 million people.
An unprecedented and magnificent achievement was achieved.
And this huge population.
The resulting ruling pressure will inevitably be extremely enormous.
Especially gathering them in such a small space.
If you are not careful, you might end up with a riot that is big enough to blow up half of a farmyard.
Therefore, the future shelter is 13 stories underground.
We can no longer continue to accommodate the population at this extreme level.
Instead, new warehouses, new parks and recreation areas will begin to be built.
Then start from the 14th floor underground.
We also need to start and continue to build ordinary residential areas.
Gradually divert the population from the three-story standard dormitories.
"It feels like that."
"It's like just eating all the food without thinking about it."
"After you're full once."
"Take some time to digest it slowly."
The process is very hard.
But Su Wu enjoyed it very much.
Moreover, at the current construction speed, one floor can be built in less than two weeks.
In fact, the most stressful time is now.
It will only get easier as time goes by.
Maybe it was even the two floors of standard dormitories reserved for Xiaojiang Province.
There is no chance that the place will be fully occupied.
When the caravan loaded carriages to transport them from Xiaojiang Province to the farmyard.
Ordinary residential areas were built later.
It's enough for them to use.
Except for the population.
With the support of a large amount of resources from Zhenhai City.
Su Wu's mine development throughout Dongzhou will also enter a stage of rapid development.
A large number of mining machines equipped with vibrating crushers, as well as mobile arc furnaces.
And small wireless power transmission devices, which bring nearly unlimited power.
The speed of ore mining has been increased by at least several times.
In addition, the mined ore can be refined directly into finished basic industrial materials on site.
Greatly reduce the later transportation pressure.
Judging from the results.
In the near future.
The daily income from the mine alone might not be less than what one would gain from directly looting a large shelter.
"In addition, new means of transportation are about to be successfully developed."
"When the time comes."
"The output of the mines, as well as the strategy of prioritizing the transportation of population in the past, have left a large amount of common resources in various affiliated shelters."
"They can all quickly gather in the farmyard."
Ordinary resources are also resources.
Although it is not as high in priority as rare resources, it can be directly converted into land warships and various high-end equipment.
But it is also an indispensable thing in industrial production and daily life.
The more they are, the more they are.
The longer Su Wu's farmyard shelter can maintain its self-circulation.
Until a certain critical point is reached.
It can become an independent world that can drift in the sea of stars for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
Turn off the design of the farmyard shelter.
Su Wu opened another drawing.
It was a fully enclosed spacecraft that was 70 meters long, 16 meters wide, and streamlined throughout.
It is slightly larger than the Pioneer-class land destroyer.
But it does not have the multi-track chassis unique to land battleships.
The entire bottom of the ship is as smooth as a mirror.
Just like a submarine, or a real spaceship.
This is the Ice Lake-class transport ship that Su Wu is preparing to use as the next generation main transport tool.
This transport ship.
It adopts some technologies of the seventh-generation fighter jets.
There is also anti-gravity technology that has broken through the third stage.
It truly allows its hull to break free from the constraints of gravity.
Achieve mid-air suspension.
However, anti-gravity technology is still not mature.
The entire transport ship was fully loaded with 10,000 tons of cargo.
It can only float half a meter above the ground.
And if the ground is rough.
It is very likely that it will be blocked by the raised terrain and unable to move forward.
at the same time.
It is also extremely slow.
Consider the cost and performance-price ratio.
The main propulsion force of the ship comes from the immature ion propulsion engine.
The maximum speed is only 10 kilometers per hour.
It is equivalent to the speed of an ordinary person's long-distance running.
But despite all its flaws.
Its advantage remains unshakable.
The construction cost is relatively low and does not require many rare materials.
The maximum load capacity reaches 10,000 tons.
These two advantages.
This means that Su Wu can obtain a large amount of transportation capacity at a lower cost.
From now on.
Distance will no longer be a barrier to Su Wu's acquisition of resources.
"Soon."
"Once we have sorted out the last few unimportant technical details, we can start formal production."
"When the time comes."
"Shut down all production lines for land warships and snow transporters."
"The freed-up space will be used to produce Ice Lake-class transport ships."
"First production quantity."
"Let's set the number at 500."
"Then wait for a batch of resources to be recovered and used up in the farmyard warehouse."
"Continue to produce another 500."
In Su Wu's mind.
At this moment, a grand blueprint seemed to emerge.
You can see hundreds of Ice Lake-class transport ships.
Under the protection of combat drones all over the mountains and spider robots everywhere.
Transport resources from all over Dongzhou back to the farmyard.