Looking back at Jianghe City.
The seventh underground level of the farmhouse has been officially excavated with the establishment of the Super Factory.
Now, millions of laborers have begun to gradually engage in the excavation of the sixth underground level.
"The seventh underground level accommodates a Super Factory covering over ten million square meters."
"It also houses approximately ten million permanent residents, along with an ultra-large warehouse with a capacity of fifty million cubic meters."
"Basically, it concentrates the most important resources and the majority of the population of Jianghe City."
"However, this arrangement only meets the basic needs for living and resting for ten million people."
"The standard dormitory of eight people per room is still too crowded. It will need to be changed to single rooms or family units in the future."
"Additionally, the daily necessities for the entire Farmhouse Shelter."
"Almost entirely rely on the output from the Subsidiary Shelter."
"The structure is very dangerous."
"And it needs to be changed as soon as possible."
As for how to change it.
It's quite simple.
Starting from the sixth underground level.
Every day, the newly excavated space will be used to build one standard dormitory living area and two plantations in a 1:2 ratio.
Gradually transferring the main grain production sites to the farmhouse.
Then, besides that.
A small separate area will be designated to build single dormitories and small family suites.
These will be provided for talented individuals or ordinary people who have made outstanding contributions.
"Considering that we will need to accommodate tens of millions more people in the future."
"With the latest planning model."
"From the sixth underground level to the second underground level, we will continuously build living areas and plantations."
"The benefit is."
"The grain output on each level will slightly exceed the consumption of the population living on that level."
"By the time we reach the second underground level."
"The surplus grain production from each level can be used to support the seventh underground level."
"Thus ensuring that even if the farmhouse accommodates half a billion people, it can achieve self-sufficiency in food."
"Of course, only staple grains and vegetables can be sustained in the short term. Long-term, a large amount of meat will still be needed for supplementation."
"So, the last excavated first underground level."
"Cannot be used for anything else."
"It needs to be used for large-scale breeding of meat chickens, pigs, cattle, sheep, and so on."
Sorting this out.
Su Wu suddenly realized that the super shelter he originally designed, which was supposed to have various complete functions.
In the end.
It actually looks like a pure large-scale farm.
Aside from living, growing vegetables, and raising livestock, there is only a little industrial productivity brought by the Super Factory.
"This is the price of greed."
Su Wu couldn't help but shake his head.
Even when he designed it initially, he never imagined.
That more than half a billion people would be crammed into the farmhouse.
All the supporting facilities were only estimated around a population of about ten million.
Now that this deviation has occurred, it is only natural.
However, having more people is ultimately a good thing.
The value of the Spirituality they bring every day far exceeds the trouble of settling them.
Even if it leads to signs of overeating, causing various temporary inconveniences.
Su Wu still finds it sweet.
"Since the designed shelter space may not be enough in the future."
"Then let's continue digging down, layer by layer."
"And now the ruins of the surface city have been cleared."
"The 4,000 engineering vehicles that have been vacated."
"Can just be put into the downward excavation."
"Without interfering with the main force team that is excavating upwards."
Currently, the shelter designed by Su Wu.
In its complete state.
Looks like a circular pancake with a diameter of 7 kilometers and a thickness of less than 100 meters.
Embedded in the shallow underground.
Such a regular shape.
Is mainly to enhance the shelter's resistance capability.
Su Wu has never forgotten.
How terrifying that super earthquake was that turned Jianghe City into ruins.
If a similar disaster were to occur again.
Only this concentrated shelter form, combined with Rapid-setting Cement as the structural main body.
Would have the ability to effectively resist.
"The ultimate ideal state."
"Is that even if the surroundings turn into a sea of lava."
"Or the earth is completely torn apart and shattered."
"Even if the planet begins to disintegrate."
"The shelter can still remain intact."
"This ideal state."
"Using the properties of Rapid-setting Cement."
"Only requires a persistent effort to continuously thicken the outer walls of the shelter."
"And then reserve enough buffer space, while attempting to strengthen the internal main framework."
"It may not be impossible to achieve."
Retrieving his thoughts on the future.
Su Wu adjusted the holographic map projection in front of him to the weather mode.
Suddenly, the entire map was filled with shades ranging from light blue to deep blue.
This represents the current temperature levels at corresponding locations on the map.
As well as whether there are extreme adverse phenomena such as blizzards or Low-Temperature Cold Waves.
"Average temperature minus 57 degrees, lowest temperature minus 122 degrees."
Glancing over briefly.
Within the coverage area of the communication signal tower, about one-fifth of the region is currently being hit by a blizzard.
Additionally, there are three Low-Temperature Cold Waves of varying sizes, moving at speeds from several meters to hundreds of meters per second, in an irregular manner.
The lowest temperature of minus 122 degrees.
Comes from the core area of one of the Low-Temperature Cold Waves.
"However, in two or three provinces, covering an area of over 300,000 square kilometers."
"The situation is this dire."
"If we add up the global situation—"
After a moment of thought, Su Wu felt a bit of a headache.
He had been focused on development.
Plus, the merchant teams and Twin-Winged Helicopters could ignore the Low-Temperature Cold Waves.
Su Wu subconsciously didn't pay much attention to the changes in the surface environment.
Now that rapid development has reached a pause.
With a little free time, he immediately realized that while he was developing, the surface environment had not remained stagnant.
It was still slowly but steadily sliding into the abyss.
After surveying the map for a while.
Su Wu noticed a merchant team was about to enter the area ravaged by the cold wave.
He extended his finger and zoomed in on that area.
Immediately, the projection transformed into the perspective from the cockpit of an Icebound-class Land Battleship in the merchant team.
Through the specially designed glass window of the cockpit.
He could see that under the distant dark clouds, a white blizzard had already enveloped the area.
With the Icebound-class Land Battleship at the front, a steel train over five hundred meters long was heading straight toward that blizzard.
"External temperature minus 57 degrees."
"Wind speed level 3."
Glancing at the monitoring data in the cockpit.
If only looking at this data, one would not realize.
That in the nearby vicinity, the temperature would plummet to below minus 100 degrees.
This is also one of the terrifying aspects of the Low-Temperature Cold Wave.
Without professional detection equipment.
It is difficult to detect the appearance of the Low-Temperature Cold Wave in real-time.
Of course, sometimes the Low-Temperature Cold Wave may come too quickly, and even if detected, they cannot outrun it.
After waiting for a little over ten minutes.
The Icebound-class Land Battleship, dragging a long line of snow transport vehicles, silently entered the blizzard at a constant speed.
And the moment it entered the blizzard.
The monitoring equipment covering its exterior immediately issued a warning.
The screen in the cockpit displayed that the current external temperature began to drop sharply.
In just a few seconds.
It pointed to a position of minus 117 degrees.
"Energy consumption has slightly increased by 3%."
"Indoor temperature seven degrees."
"Engine running normally."
The extreme low temperature clearly did not affect the interior of the Icebound-class Land Battleship.
Aside from consuming a bit more electricity.
Everything was as usual.
Su Wu looked outside again.
At this moment, the dense swirling snowflakes obscured all attempts to see far.
Even the road surface, which was close at hand, could no longer be seen clearly.
All warnings and detections had to be left to the radar.
"According to the current route and speed."
"It will take about 7 hours and 40 minutes to pass through the Low-Temperature Cold Wave and blizzard area."
"The time is still long."
"However, the overall difficulty of passage should not be too great."
Flipping through the navigation data stored in the Artificial Intelligence database.
Su Wu then discovered.
Not far from here, there seemed to be a small shelter that had sent out a distress signal a few hours ago.
It was marked as a deep red extreme danger status by the Artificial Intelligence.
According to the predetermined rules.
The merchant team closest to it that Su Wu was currently monitoring needed to check it out.
"Let's go take a look."
Without Su Wu's interference.
The merchant team slightly adjusted its driving angle and arrived at the entrance of that small shelter after about half an hour.
"No life signals detected."
"Preliminary judgment indicates that the shelter has been destroyed."
"Beginning to dispatch robots to execute exploration tasks."
After staying at the entrance for half a minute.
The life detector of the Icebound-class Land Battleship returned a result indicating no one was present.
This situation is not common, but not rare either.
These isolated shelters sometimes fall victim to conflicts and riots, malfunctioning life support systems, viruses, and other random factors.
Leading to the complete destruction of the shelter.
Generally, merchant teams encountering such situations would investigate the cause as much as possible. Ensuring that it is at least not a disaster caused by a virus.
A Spider Robot equipped with various special equipment.
Came out from the isolation door of the Icebound-class Land Battleship.
It slowly crawled toward the entrance of the shelter.
As it approached.
Su Wu quickly saw through the camera on the Spider Robot several bodies lying on the ground, half-buried in the snow, frozen stiff.
The Spider Robot stopped in front of one of the bodies.
Then extended its probe to extract a portion of the body tissue for analysis.
Soon, it emitted a normal signal.
"No Unknown Virus detected."
"Cause of death determined to be hypothermia and blood loss."
Confirming there was no threat.
The Spider Robot continued to advance.
After crossing a distance of several meters past the body, it arrived at the entrance of the shelter.
At this moment, the entrance had been blown open.
Inside, there were traces of burning everywhere.
"There must have been an accidental fire."
"The blaze consumed the entire shelter and ignited substances like fuel."
"The survivors of the shelter only had time to grab a few personal belongings before being forced to flee."
Using the detection equipment on the Spider Robot, the Artificial Intelligence quickly reconstructed the sequence of events.
Such incidents are not surprising for small shelters.
They are small in size and have almost no margin for error.
Just one mistake.
And there will be no chance for recovery.
"All valuable items have been burned away."
"Only some melted and deformed electrical appliances remain."
"Recovery value is low."
"Let's move on."
After letting the intelligent robot continue to explore inside the shelter.
Confirming that there really was nothing of value left.
Su Wu instructed it to return to the merchant team.
Continuing to drive forward in the snowstorm.
Then, after traveling a few kilometers.
Su Wu gradually discovered some frozen bodies that had completely lost their breath along the way.
Those were the survivors who had escaped from the previous shelter.
However.
The harsh surface environment clearly exceeded their expectations.
Without the help of transportation tools.
They couldn't go far before each one fell victim to the Low-Temperature Cold Wave.
They would not be able to wait for the merchant team to pass by several hours later.
"Over 200 people."
"What a pity."
Su Wu sighed a bit.
This was one of the main reasons he initially worked hard to prioritize bringing the population back to Jianghe City.
The longer they were left stranded outside, the more likely they were to suffer losses.
Just one accident could wipe out a large number of people.
Shifting his view from the Icebound-class Land Battleship at the front.
Su Wu began to look at the sections of the train made up of snow transport vehicles through other built-in cameras.
Compared to the Icebound-class Land Battleship, the construction of the snow transport vehicles is much simpler, and their protection is relatively weak.
However, they are still sufficient to withstand the external cold wave.
The supplies stored in the compartments, along with dozens of human passengers, were not affected.
It's not surprising to have humans present in the merchant team.
Although the current focus is on transporting supplies.
In practice, it is ultimately impossible to ensure that every trip perfectly fills the entire convoy.
Occasionally, when there is some empty space left over.
It will be selectively used to bring along some high-value talents and their families.
Allowing them to be among the first pioneers heading to Jianghe City.
At this moment, in one of the passenger compartments.
The passengers were passing the time in groups, playing cards, chess, and chatting.
Occasionally, someone would glance out the window.
But they would quickly retract their gaze.
The blizzard outside obscured all traces.
No one realized that they had just passed by a destroyed small shelter.
And brushed shoulders with a group of frozen refugees in the wild, merely two or three meters apart.
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