Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter.

Chapter 338 Noah's Ark

Chapter 338 Noah's Ark
A farmhouse courtyard with three underground floors.

North District-02 Remote Control Center.

A girl with delicate features, wearing the latest sensor helmet, sat quietly at the control panel.

He was intently maneuvering the industrial mech eight stories above ground.

Through the screen in front of her, she could clearly see the images scrolling rapidly.

There is also a constant stream of dynamic data in the surrounding area, refreshing like a waterfall.

These are massive amounts of information that ordinary people would find overwhelming just by glancing at them.

The girl, however, handled it with ease.

She can not only easily summarize and categorize all the intelligence, but also precisely control the industrial mechs, inserting them appropriately to complete the mission with the simplest actions.

His skill was so high, it was as if he were playing a game he had already completed a million times.

At one point, the rapidly flashing screen paused, and a prompt from artificial intelligence popped up.

"The task of distributing supplies to the transit warehouse has been completed."

"This mission lasted 13 minutes and 27 seconds."

"Overall rating: Excellent (S grade)"

"Receive four hours of work points as payment."

"The next phase of the mission has been issued."

"Proceed to surface area C-13 and collect a total of one thousand cubic meters of ice."

A virtual map unfolds on one side of the screen.

It marked the current location of the mech she was piloting, as well as the new route needed to reach the mission destination.

"That's it again."

Looking at the refreshed tasks, Jiang Yunxia sighed slightly.

She knew this was a special treatment for her.

A few days ago, she suddenly received a notification from AI that she had passed the marriage matching screening, and her status was changed from single to married in her profile database.

The familiar environment that I had become accustomed to began to feel strange.

First of all, everyone at the school knew overnight that she was a woman with a fiancé.

Former suitors, whether they liked it or not.

Under invisible pressure, they were all forced to keep their distance from her.

After school, the workplace was moved from the public hall to a semi-private single room.

The mecha she had been operating, originally shared by three people, has become her exclusive tool.

It even allows her to make special modifications to it, including painting it different colors, adding various components that were not originally there, and so on.

Even work tasks are no longer repetitive and monotonous, fixed in a certain area.

Instead, after each task is completed, the user is randomly reassigned to another location.

Judging from the way she was acting, it seemed like she was being intentionally shown the situation of the entire shelter.

Although Jiang Yunxia was not particularly opposed to it.

She wasn't planning on finding a boyfriend for the time being.

The distance from her suitors was actually a good thing, reducing her troubles.

The constantly changing new tasks also made her feel quite novel and interested.

But they just ignored her thoughts.

Forcing her to marry a fiancé is a bit too much.

Even more outrageous is...

To this day, all she knows is that his name is Su Wu; she doesn't even know what he looks like.

I was troubled for a while.

Jiang Yunxia composed herself and clicked to confirm and accept the new task.

Start heading towards your destination along the route.

Unlike previous missions.

This was her first time leaving the shelter to work on the surface.

The girl was somewhat curious about what the ground looked like now.

Because they can only travel on foot by piloting industrial mechs.

They did not take the convenient and busy transportation route.

Until more than half an hour later.

Jiang Yunxia then piloted her industrial mecha away from the shelter's perimeter.

Standing on the barren frozen ground covered with a thin layer of snow.

Looking back at the colossal creature behind us.

Jiang Yunxia happened to see the aerial port extending from the tall outer wall.

A Dawn-class transport ship, its lights twinkling quietly, slowly docked at the edge of a platform.

"The population of the shelters is about to increase by hundreds of thousands more."

Jiang Yunxia had seen that transport ship countless times online.

Knowing that it transports tens of millions of people back to Jianghe City every day.

Even online, many people now refer to it as Noah's Ark.

Because wherever it appears, it brings hope of escaping the apocalypse.

In a way, that's not entirely wrong.

The longer I lived in this refuge in Jianghe City, the more I learned about the information inside.

Jiang Yunxia could feel the immense power it contained.

Given the size of the Jianghe City shelter.

Jiang Yunxia found it hard to imagine what kind of cataclysmic disaster would truly pose a threat to it.

For ordinary people.

Entering this place is really no different from escaping the apocalypse.

At most, materially, we might not be able to catch up with the average standard of living before the apocalypse.

Thinking of this, I looked away from the corner of my eye.

Jiang Yunxia continued to pilot the industrial mecha, traveling across the ground.

An industrial mech with a top speed of 60 kilometers per hour.

It can already be called a fast-moving vehicle.

There is nothing inherently wrong with making short-distance movements on the Earth's surface.

We drove for more than ten kilometers.

Jiang Yunxia arrived at an area that once belonged to the riverbed.

Upon entering this area, the desolate and lonely atmosphere was immediately replaced by an endless expanse of various engineering facilities.

Look around.

Vehicles were everywhere cutting and collecting ice.

Occasionally, a continuous roaring sound can be heard.

That was achieved by using directional explosives to shatter the ice layer on the ground.

Then, just like harvesting wheat, the crushed ice was collected and transported to transport vehicles.

From a very early time, when groundwater dried up and could no longer meet the development needs of the River City shelter.

The main source of water for the entire shelter became collecting ice blocks from the ground.

It has developed rapidly to its current state.

The entire related process is already very mature.

There is a detailed plan for determining where cutting and transportation are suitable and where blasting and extraction are suitable.

This will ensure that labor collection efficiency is maximized.

At the collection site, at intervals, an Ice Lake-class transport ship silently floats there, serving as a hub node.

As Jiang Yunxia looked over to observe.

There happened to be an Icelake-class transport ship, loaded with nearly 10,000 tons of ice.

They began to close the four open hatches one by one.

Like a giant beast, it slowly drove towards the direction of the farmhouse shelter.

The Ice Lake-class transport ship has a maximum speed of ten kilometers per hour.

Based on the data, it seems to be progressing slowly, almost to the point of disability.

In fact, it is equivalent to the average speed that a regularly exercising adult can maintain during a long-distance run.

Compared to its load capacity of 10,000 tons.

That's more than enough.

I took some time to observe the environment.

Jiang Yunxia piloted the industrial mecha and arrived at the designated mission location.

Above a flat and thick ice field.

Activate the vibrating cutting blade mounted on the mech to enter working mode. A cutting path map, drawn on-site based on the current scene, then appears on the screen.

This is the optimal course of action calculated by artificial intelligence.

Jiang Yunxia glanced at it and silently memorized it.

Then, wielding the cutting blade, he followed the route map with fluid grace, operating flawlessly.

Soon, large, neatly cut blocks of ice began to be piled onto a nearby transport truck.

Jiang Yunxia was alone.

At this moment, they demonstrated a labor efficiency more than ten times that of ordinary workers.

And seven minutes after she started working.

Accompanied by a biting cold wind and low-hanging clouds.

A blizzard.

In a very short time, the preparation process was completed, and it began to descend.

For a moment, the high-definition camera on the industrial mech operated by Jiang Yunxia was on full display.

It is no longer possible to capture scenes a meter or two away.

In many cases, even the ice beneath one's feet can no longer be seen clearly.

It felt like the whole world.

In an instant, everything transitioned from busyness to solitude.

She was left all alone.

Jiang Yunxia was momentarily dazed and pursed her lips.

They continued to diligently collect and separate the ice, snow, and soil from the ground.

Although the view was blocked.

However, the model was built using radar scan data from industrial mechs.

Overall work efficiency has not decreased much.

Unconsciously.

The AI's rating of her work gradually stabilized at S level or above.

5 month 20 day.

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

Su Wu took a break from the busy affairs of the shelter and poured himself a glass of chilled juice.

I took a small sip.

In the holographic projection in front of him.

The structural diagram of the farmhouse shelter floats silently in mid-air.

Apart from being one section higher than a few days ago, there doesn't seem to be much change.

But inside it.

Compared to the past, it has undergone earth-shattering changes.

First, the goods were transferred day and night by two Morning Light-class transport ships.

The total population of the entire rural shelter has reached 2.05 million.

The shelter has six floors above ground, which is currently the only floor on the surface where people actually live.

The total population exceeds 5000 million.

It is almost twice the current total number of surviving Australians.

And even though it has grown to such a large number.

With the completion of the 9th floor above ground.

Su Wu still has three and a half floors of living space that are currently vacant.

It can accommodate another 2.7 million people at once.

It can be described as the epitome of luxury.

However, this abundance of living space is remarkable.

It was the result of Su Wu pouring almost all of his engineering resources, as well as ordinary resources plundered from outside, into the project.

Related supporting resources, such as domestic water, parts and machinery manufacturing plants suitable for nearby workers, and newly built plantations that have not yet produced grain, etc.

It's difficult to keep up with the progress for the time being.

Of course, these problems aren't too big.

With the current scale of the Ice Lake-class transport ships, the number has reached 27,000.

A single trip can transport 2.7 million tons of supplies.

It is enough to completely empty all other shelters in a province, or even two provinces, except for megacities, in a very short time.

These gaps in ordinary resources can be filled quickly.

There might even be a surplus.

And considering the massive transport corps...

The role of the 615 commercial vehicle convoys, which were once the main force in transportation, has been reduced to a negligible level.

Su Wu simply removed them from the original transport sequence.

It was specially transformed into a guard team that only carries armed forces and relief supplies.

They patrolled back and forth along the transport routes of the spread-out Ice Lake-class transport ships.

They are responsible for clearing obstacles along the way and for providing security.

"Currently, there are approximately 10,000 Binghu-class transport ships deployed along the route from Jianghe City to Xiaojiang Province."

"Ten thousand ships are responsible for transferring supplies from Yuhe City to Ancheng and its surrounding shelters."

"Six thousand ships are transferring resources around the steel city."

"Many of these transport ships that were dispatched have already been fully loaded with supplies and have begun their return journey."

"On average, more than 6,000 ships arrive at the farmhouses every day, bringing more than 60 million tons of supplies."

"And this acceptance speed is not the limit of the farmhouses, but the limit of the transportation lines."

"If there are any more, there won't be enough road space for these transport ships to travel side by side."

"With that in mind, let's proceed as follows."

"We can open up three more northward transport routes. We can also continue to explore deeper into the area on both sides of the Kuanjiang River."

There are examples of successfully taking over the megacity of Ancheng.

Su Wu then dispatched a group of intelligence agents to all the super cities in the entire Eastern Continent to collect information.

They ultimately selected 32 megacities as the first targets for infiltration and armed takeover.

Therefore, during this period, all five hundred sixth-generation fighter jets in the entire shelter were deployed.

Most of the transport capacity was used to support this operation.

Even the Dawn-class transport ships were deployed twice specifically for this purpose.

A large contingent of security forces was transported to those cities to assist in the operations.

These are the selected targets for the strategy.

The progress is also quite ideal.

In the fastest-growing cities, the rebel forces supported by Su Wu have already seized supreme power.

We can begin to coordinate with the transfer of population and resources.

This is also the source of Su Wu's confidence to suddenly add three new transport routes to the north, and to carry out large-scale plundering of all the provinces along the wide river basin.

And 32 megacities mean 32 provincial capitals.

Once they are completely digested.

Su Wu's total population would easily exceed one billion.

This is equivalent to bringing half of the Eastern Continent under its rule.

At the same time, and more importantly.

Once the achievement of ruling a billion people is achieved.

Su Wu can then complete the next stage of the main quest.

Receive an unknown, groundbreaking reward.

"Although I don't know what the reward will be."

"but."

"Just one billion people."

"This alone is enough to elevate rural courtyards to a world-class level."