Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter.

Chapter 336 Vacuum Ejection Traction Channel
5 month 18 day.

After several days of fermentation.

The shockwaves brought about by global networking have officially transformed into a tsunami, sweeping across every corner of the world.

Many people are learning this for the first time.

It turns out that during that period of communication disruption, more than 100 new countries and autonomous entities emerged in the world.

There are billions of people.

It was once thought that there were fewer than a million survivors in the entire world.

And at the same time.

on this day.

The second Dawn-class transport ship rolled off the production line.

This increased the number of people Su Wu could transfer daily from 1000 million to around 2000 million.

The pace of unifying the Eastern Continent quietly accelerated.

A farmhouse courtyard, with the control center on the basement level.

"Currently, the first four floors of the new surface area have been completed."

"It looks somewhat decent now."

The holographic projection hovering in front of Su Wu.

The height of the entire farmhouse courtyard has increased from the initial 500 meters to 790 meters.

In terms of appearance, it has become much thicker than a thin, round pancake.

It has taken on some of the characteristics of a traditional cylinder.

This was influenced by Su Wu's decision to allocate most of the labor resources to the surface of the earth.

Construction progress on the underground portion has come to a near standstill.

The 14 underground floors are still not completed.

And in the foreseeable future, its completion is still a long way off.

Conversely, the part above the earth's surface.

It is changing rapidly.

Excluding the initial three floors, which were over 150 meters high.

The new area starts from the fourth floor above ground and goes all the way to the seventh floor, which was just topped out today.

The added height adds up to two or three hundred meters.

Looking from afar.

It's like a giant city surrounded by towering walls.

"The fourth floor above ground is mainly plantations, and the fifth floor is mainly livestock farms."

"The initial construction of both floors has been completed."

"Production has officially commenced."

"It is expected that the first batch of production will be put into the internal market of the shelter within half a month at the earliest."

"Significantly improve the dietary conditions of all residents."

These are the food production areas on these two floors.

The main purpose was to provide basic food for the people who moved in later.

However, given its enormous production capacity...

It can still benefit other ordinary residents to some extent.

At the same time, they existed.

Su Wu finally gained the confidence to expand the population without restraint.

"The six- to seven-story buildings are residential areas, mainly consisting of standard dormitories."

"Currently, only the 6th floor has been occupied by approximately 1000 million people, while the rest remains vacant."

On the holographic map.

The shelter has seven floors above ground, gradually increasing in size.

The inner layer is 75 meters high, and the foundation is 6 meters thick.

It has been built into a magnificent mega-city.

The floor height is 75 meters.

This means it can accommodate a 25-story residential building.

Furthermore, the layout is extremely compact, with eight people per dormitory room, sharing a small toilet with a shower.

average down.

Based on an estimated 37 cubic meters of activity space per person.

Ultimately, this will allow 8000 million people to live in the same level of shelter.

"However, the vacancy is only temporary."

"Soon, this place will be filled with a steady stream of people from all over the Eastern Continent."

"And it will continue to spread to the 8th floor, the 9th floor, and even higher."

"At that time, the demand for resources will reach a terrifying level."

Humans cannot survive without air, water, and food.

The consumption of an individual may not seem significant.

But if we scale its quantity up to hundreds of millions...

The amount of oxygen consumed by breathing alone is in the tens of thousands of tons every day.

One hundred million people is just the population of a little over one floor of a rural courtyard house in the future.

"Currently, the oxygen source in the shelter mainly relies on photosynthesis in the plantation."

"Secondly, there are the external ventilation ducts."

"Emergency alternatives include water electrolysis and chemical oxygen production."

"A balance can be barely achieved."

Su Wu once spent a lot of survival points to upgrade the shelter's ventilation system.

It is no longer able to support its current massive population of over 100 million.

He was reduced to a private butler merely responsible for providing environmental protection for the core area where Su Wu was located.

Outside the core area. An air circulation system redrawn by artificial intelligence, combined with omissions and deficiencies identified by a large number of elite scholars.

It replaced the underlying framework of the entire shelter.

It is traversed by pipelines of varying sizes throughout the shelters, with a total length exceeding one million kilometers.

The air throughout the entire shelter is kept in a state of constant circulation.

Balance the oxygen ratio in different areas.

And incidentally, we will also conduct tests for toxic substances and monitor for viruses.

Ensure that every liter of air is used before leaving the current shelter floor, or even the current neighborhood or building.

No abnormalities will occur.

"In case of extreme situations."

"If the plantation is destroyed, it will no longer be able to draw fresh air from the outside."

"Emergency measures can also provide hundreds of thousands of tons of oxygen for shelters every day."

"Enough to ensure that the air quality in the shelter will not deteriorate for a considerable period of time."

"But at that time, the extra electricity consumption every day would become extremely terrifying."

"It might take adding a few more nuclear reactors to generate electricity to break even."

Apart from air.

Food and water, too, constitute a complex and sophisticated system.

Plantations built for the purpose of producing food.

It is arguably the largest category in terms of area among the shelters.

How much space does a shelter resident, on average, occupy for daily life and recreation?

At least twice that amount of space would be used for building plantations.

Whether it's a plantation, daily life in a shelter, or industrial production.

All of these rely on massive water supplies.

Water pipes and pipelines extend from various water towers and reservoirs to all parts of the shelter.

The total length is even several times that of the ventilation duct.

"Complex and sophisticated systems are not without their advantages."

"Their sheer size also represents a greater ability to cope with risks."

"As long as the entire shelter isn't destroyed at once."

"It is very difficult to completely destroy the internal water circulation, air circulation and plantation system."

"And once the embers are preserved, repairing it around the core will undoubtedly be much simpler."

After reviewing the basic functions of the shelter.

Confirm that it is tough enough.

Su Wu then turned his gaze to the 8th and 9th floors that were under construction.

At that moment, on that huge construction site...

Tens of millions of workers are on the job every moment.

Massive quantities of supplies arrived at an incredible speed.

It transformed into room partitions, beds, wardrobes, lighting fixtures, and water and electricity networks.

It gradually spread and improved on the ground floor of the nearly 4000 million square meter shelter, on the 8th floor.

At the same time, there is such a huge demand for construction.

This has also spurred the development of two thriving industries.

Standardized containers of different sizes, and vacuum catapult traction channels.

Standardized shipping containers may seem simple.

In fact, this is achieved when requirements such as sturdiness, durability, low cost, and safety are met.

The technology involved is quite advanced.

Vacuum ejection traction channel.

It's an advanced version of the conveyor belt.

It can transport materials to the other end at ultra-high speed through a specially designed vacuum tube in a very short time.

Its efficiency can be hundreds or even thousands of times that of traditional conveyor belts.

Within the limited space of a farmhouse courtyard with a diameter of 7 kilometers.

It can basically reduce the time spent in the transportation process to a negligible level.

"Currently, vacuum ejection traction channels are mainly divided into three types."

"Transporting solid materials, transporting liquids, and transporting standard containers."

"The first two are responsible for transporting those large-scale ordinary resources."

"The latter is used to transport standard containers with a volume of one cubic meter."

Regarding the needs within the shelter.

Rare resources, precision parts and instruments that usually need to be transported separately are not very large in size, or can be disassembled.

It can easily fit into a one-cubic-meter shipping container.

A small number of large items can also be transported separately using lifting platforms or other means.

"The cost will decrease further in the future."

"When it is possible to lay out such a traction channel on the outside."

"This will allow for a further acceleration in the speed of transporting supplies."

“Even now, some mines located in remote mountainous areas have already set up vacuum tunnels.”

"Used to quickly transport the mined and refined minerals to the plains outside the mountains, making it convenient for the Ice Lake-class transport ships to take them away."

"However, those pipes, strictly speaking, are still traditional conveyor belts, and are not products of the same era as today's traction pipes. Their efficiency is also many times different."

"It is not suitable for long-distance transportation of more than 100 kilometers."

"Moreover, for ordinary mining products, there is no need to go to great lengths to build such a traction channel."

"Their production capacity is insufficient to support this mode of transporting bulk goods."

"On the contrary, it would be more convenient to use the Ice Lake-class transport ships to transport them back one by one."

(End of this chapter)