Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter.

Chapter 335 Hope
Australia.

A stretch of Gobi Desert covered in ice and snow.

In the dark and empty underground shelter.

Hawke sat blankly on the spring bed, staring at a slightly damaged poster not far away with an empty gaze.

Like a lifeless sculpture.

He has been living alone in this small shelter for more than nine months.

My mindset went from the initial elation of inheriting the shelter from the previous owner, to the disappointment and frustration of the network being cut off and various entertainment devices malfunctioning, and finally to utter despair.

Slowly, they sank into the abyss of despair.

Snapped!
The small nightlight that provided the last glimmer of light in the underground space suddenly malfunctioned.

After flashing a few times, it suddenly went out.

The deep, suffocating darkness awakened Hawke from his confusion.

He tried to open his eyes wide, but he couldn't see anything.

And in the subconscious exploration.

His fingertips touched a cold, metallic texture.

That was a fruit knife that he had brought to the bed at some point, I don't know.

Following my instincts, I picked up the fruit knife.

As if bewitched, Hawke unconsciously pressed the blade of the fruit knife slowly against his throat.

It looked like I was about to exert just a little more effort.

Then you can be completely freed.

A faint, crackling sound, accompanied by the crackling of electricity, suddenly broke the silence of the darkness.

Faint yet exceptionally clear.

Hawke suddenly snapped back to reality, before he even realized it.

He dropped the fruit knife and lunged at the old-fashioned radio on the bedside table.

With trembling fingers, I switched channels.

soon.

The long-lost human voices came through the radio.

"This is Dongzhou Jianghe City Radio Station—"

Hawke blinked, then suddenly burst into silent sobs.

South America.

Large turbulent refuge.

Inside this shelter for tens of thousands of people.

The atmosphere was solemn, and everyone was dressed in their best clothes, gathered in the largest square of the shelter.

Some people couldn't squeeze into the square.

They then gathered in various other public places such as conference halls, canteens, and recreation rooms, and watched the broadcasts on television.

Pay attention to what's happening in the square.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to announce something."

"The natural disasters that accompany these changes on the Earth's surface are occurring more and more frequently."

"The world's population is decreasing at an alarming rate."

"As of last month, we have not received any response to any of the signals we have sent out."

"From this, we can infer that we may now be among the last survivors in the world."

"This place is also the last place that God favors and protects."

On the highest platform in the square, a middle-aged man wearing a crown gave a public speech, causing a stir among the crowd.

Many shelter residents who watched the ceremony showed expressions of grief, deeply moved by the sentiment.

"In order to restore the glory of mankind."

"I now declare the Kingdom of Stuart officially established."

"We will become the spark of human civilization, resting and thriving here."

"I promise that one day, we humans will once again conquer that vast land on the ground."

The impassioned speech, broadcast through loudspeakers, resounded throughout every corner of the shelter.

Everyone present felt a sense of mission to witness history.

A sense of excitement welled up within me.

They are the last group of humans in this world.

They should shoulder more responsibility.

At this very moment, they will determine the future systems, laws, and everything else of the entire human world.

But right now.

I don't know if it's a settings issue or something else.

Suddenly, after a series of chaotic flickering, all the large-screen TVs used for live broadcasts at the square switched to the news broadcast from Jianghe City TV.

The image shows tens of millions of workers and robots.

In the occasional glimpse of the sky, under the protection of that vast pale blue shield, a magnificent tower of unimaginable grandeur is being built with great enthusiasm.

"This is Dongzhou Jianghe City Television Station."

"The first phase of construction on the Jianghe City shelter is progressing smoothly."

The impassioned speech came to an abrupt end.

The residents below the square looked at each other in bewilderment.

His eyes revealed a sense of bewilderment.

Xizhou.

The Holy City of Venus.

The sculpture was created by referencing angels and deities from mythology.

It stands tall in the city square and on both sides of the street, like a palace.

Well-dressed pedestrians strolled through the magnificent streets.

It faintly reveals the prosperity of a peaceful era.

But if you look closely.

Yet one can also see that the faces of these pedestrians do not show the ease and comfort of the pre-apocalyptic world.

All that remained was numbness and exhaustion.

There was also a deep sense of loneliness.

It's like a lake that has no fresh water flowing into it.

Decay and decay are gradually taking over the dominant state here at a barely perceptible pace.

And at some point.

That huge screen in the city square.

The live stream of the church choir was suddenly interrupted.

Instead, there was an endless expanse of ice field and a massive man-made structure that could not be seen in its entirety and stretched straight into the sky.

Between the two, a giant steel spaceship is slowly descending from the sky.

The astonished pedestrians stopped to observe.

I initially thought this was a video clip taken from some unknown science fiction movie.

Until someone present suddenly noticed an unfamiliar network signal appearing on their phone.

It allows access to a vast and unfamiliar network world—

outer space.

Synchronous orbit.

Valhalla Space Shelter.

Artificially shaped golden sunlight spills across the man-made garden.

It appeared tranquil and peaceful.

A beautiful young girl sitting in the garden closed her book listlessly.

Life in Valhalla.

It looks much the same as the environment I've been in before, but it's actually incredibly boring.

It felt like being in a set built from an abandoned warehouse.

Unless you fixate your gaze on that small area, a slight shift in your gaze will reveal the unsettling and cruel reality.

"I shouldn't have listened to my parents back then."

"We're moving here."

The girl complained softly, her delicate face showing both distress and a touch of resentment.

When on Earth.

She is an extremely intelligent girl.

He has an incredible talent for mechanics.

If they remain on the surface, they can utilize the abundant resources there.

It might be a little more dangerous than it is now.

But they also gain more freedom.

Ding!
A clear, crisp bell rang out from not far away.

A mechanical doll placed on a small white wooden table on the lawn.

Suddenly it automatically floated up.

Then it flew silently to the girl's side.

A classic computer interface was projected. "Hey, there's a weird network signal here."

The girl glanced at it casually, then her eyes suddenly brightened.

It was as if I had seen a new world.

She stretched out her finger and registered her own account there.

"Sylvia—"

Dongzhou.

Jianghe City, a farmhouse courtyard.

Massive amounts of data are transmitted via two Eden satellites in geostationary orbit.

The data is continuously transmitted into the supercomputer center here.

Together they form a vast and boundless online world.

A large amount of unknown information.

It is filtered and extracted by artificial intelligence.

Then, every few minutes, a new summary report is compiled.

It was handed over to Su Wu.

This allowed him to gradually gain a comprehensive understanding of the entire planet.

"The entire Earth's population has now decreased from 107 billion before the apocalypse to less than 60 billion."

In less than a year, the death toll reached 47 billion.

These shocking figures would only elicit a chilling reaction from anyone who sees them.

"The main affected areas are in the Black Continent, the southwestern part of the Eastern Continent, and Ying Island."

"The secondary regions are the western continent, South America, and the border area between East and West."

“The disaster types, from strongest to weakest, are amethyst, earthquakes and floods, famine and plague, and cold.”

The amethyst disaster is occurring all over the world.

It could even wipe out the entire population of an entire continent.

To this day, apart from being temporarily suppressed in the Eastern Continent, their battles with humans in other regions have never ceased.

It rightfully deserves to be ranked first.

Earthquakes and floods are general terms.

From the tsunami at the beginning of the apocalypse, to the earthquakes that occurred frequently around the world throughout the apocalypse, and then to the torrential rains that turned most of the land into swamps during the transition from extreme heat to extreme cold.

The cumulative casualties caused by these disasters exceed 15 billion, second only to the amethyst.

The famine and plague ravaged a vast area.

The most typical examples are the southwestern part of Dongzhou and the area where the east and west meet.

The so-called southwestern part of East Asia.

It is not the Western Wilderness Plateau where the current capital of Dongzhou is located.

Rather, it lies further south of the Western Wilderness Plateau, on a vast and densely populated subcontinent.

Because of a large population and limited land, resources are scarce.

In addition, the local rulers acted with extreme arbitrariness and recklessness.

Ultimately, this culminated in a cataclysmic disaster caused by a combination of natural calamities and man-made catastrophes.

At least hundreds of millions of people died from the famine brought about by this catastrophe.

Then the massive deaths triggered a plague.

It spread wildly through the floods that ravaged the land at the time.

Until finally, all order collapses.

Large tracts of shelters.

They disappeared under the weight of famine, plague, and a host of other secondary disasters that followed.

The same applies to the area where the east and west meet.

However, due to the vast area and sparse population, the local forces are complex and intertwined.

The eventual catastrophe.

The intensity is slightly lower than that of the southwestern part of Dongzhou.

Even so.

The number of people who ultimately died from famine was still in the hundreds of millions.

Compared to these...

Finally, the extreme cold appears to be even more severe.

The casualties were actually among the lightest.

"Amethyst is a symbol of the struggle for survival among civilizations."

"Earthquakes and floods are natural disasters."

"Famine and plague are man-made disasters."

Data compiled with the help of artificial intelligence.

Looking at the photos of shelters that were either reduced to ashes or fell into death, which were included in the documents.

Su Wu seemed to be reading a history of the demise of human civilization.

We will also address each of these issues in turn, along with the direction of our current development and construction.

The development of seventh-generation fighter jets, uranium ore refining, nuclear weapons manufacturing, the establishment and expansion of the spider robot army, reverse engineering and development of laser beam cannons, electromagnetic railguns and a series of other powerful weapons.

The main purpose is to deal with the threat of amethyst.

Expand the shelter, reinforce the outer walls, develop electromagnetic protection arrays, and always maintain the shelter's overall shape as a standard cylinder.

This is to cope with natural disasters, mainly earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Each additional floor of the shelter is added before the number of residents moves in.

First, establish plantations sufficient to supply the food needs of the corresponding population, along with a rigorous, almost demanding, epidemic prevention system including ventilation, disinfection, and testing.

This was to avoid famine and plague.

And so far.

Every aspect of this process, from Su Wu's perspective to the rural courtyard shelter, was exceptionally well-executed.

There were no major problems.

I gained a preliminary understanding of the situation outside of Dongzhou.

Su Wu began to plan his next steps.

First, the global logistics and trading network built around eleven seventh-generation fighter jets must be launched as soon as possible.

Because of closure and division.

Some of the refuges located in the Western Hemisphere are in dire need of certain common resources and common industrial products.

It's basically possible to bring over a truckload of ordinary resources and get back a truckload of rare resources in return.

The profits from this are even greater than those from robbery.

Take advantage of this benefit.

Su Wu could at least build a few more Dawn-class transport ships ahead of schedule.

And incidentally, it also helps those shelters on the verge of collapse.

To minimize human casualties.

The population of other continents is also a population.

After dealing with matters in Dongzhou, barring any unforeseen circumstances...

Su Wu will continue to target the residents of refugees on other continents.

Those ordinary civilians.

The powerful and wealthy didn't care, but Su Wu did.

They are willing to pay a certain price to save them.

Of course, before any rescue.

For other continents.

Su Wu would set up an additional, invisible barrier.

A comprehensive psychological and behavioral test will be conducted on all the rescued people.

Only residents who achieve a passing score on the final test.

Only then can one finally qualify to stay at a farmhouse.

Those who score below the passing grade.

If there are any available shelters that can accommodate them.

After confiscating their weapons, they would abandon them in those shelters and leave them to fend for themselves.

If there is no place to house them.

Then kill them on the spot.

"The passing score for the test will not be set too high."

"As long as one can maintain the average moral standards of Dongzhou, one can generally pass."

"Of course, there may be occasional exceptions."

"For example, zero-yuan purchase, white feathers, etc."

“Even legally, these actions are not considered major mistakes, or even crimes.”

"However, given their negative influence..."

"They also cannot be taken to a farmhouse."

"Let them all be buried in the past along with the end of the world."

“These extreme ideologies will not be allowed in the new world.”

(End of this chapter)