Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter.

Chapter 348 The Severed Land Transportation

Fuhai Province.

Shuitian City.

Chai Zeyang, unusually, set aside his official duties. Accompanied by a group of guards, he arrived at a watchtower located on the surface of the earth.

Looking out from here.

You can see a desolate yet vast gray plain stretching to the horizon.

That was the scene after volcanic ash from the far north covered the ice field.

Despite being located in the southernmost part of the East Continent.

The massive earthquake that ravaged the interior of the mainland has not yet directly affected Shuitian City.

However, the surface environment here is still profoundly affected by it.

It has become completely different from what it used to be.

Standing in front of the observation window of the watchtower.

Chai Zeyang stared outside for a long time before letting out a somewhat dejected sigh.

Everyone has left.

With the sinking of Yu'an City.

The once vast Southeast Alliance is now reduced to just him and Su Wu.

It has reached the point of practical dissolution.

And now, he has very little time left.

"We must speed up the construction process."

"Even if it costs me everything—"

6 month 23 day.

Terra.

The control center is located on the first basement level.

"Report No. 10927: During this period, the stress strength of the external wall reached level 8.7."

"It is expected to cause minor tremors in 19% of the area inside the shelter."

"In accordance with the emergency response protocol authorized on June 12."

"To counteract this minor tremor, the power of the shelter's super-large anti-gravity array will be automatically increased by 1.2%."

On the console screen.

Countless data points were ultimately reduced to a few concise lines of text, which were then updated in the system log.

And behind these words.

This means that another massive amount of energy has been invested into the anti-gravity array.

Slight vibrations are not a problem for ordinary people's daily lives or even general production work.

Neither of them had a significant impact.

However, when the size is as large as Terra.

This tiny disturbance can be amplified hundreds of millions of times.

This has resulted in considerable cumulative losses.

Therefore, as long as the absolute stability of Terra's overall environment can be guaranteed.

Even if it consumes tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity per second, it is still a worthwhile investment.

Meanwhile, under the influence of the anti-gravity array.

The interior of the Terra Vault, which appeared otherwise normal, was different.

On the surface of Terra.

Then you can see those lands that were once hardened to the point of being almost like steel under the ravages of low temperatures and snowstorms.

It transformed into liquid waves.

Waves of water pounded against Terra's towering walls.

Every moment brought an impact force of nearly hundreds of thousands of tons.

In this terrible environment.

If it weren't Terra, but any other ordinary shelter...

It won't take more than 10 minutes before it's completely torn apart.

"The earthquakes in Jianghe City are getting stronger and stronger."

Sitting in front of the control panel, Su Wu reviewed the monitoring data on the ground.

I have a bit of a headache.

Although an earthquake of magnitude 8 or 9 is unlikely to cause any direct damage to Terra.

But it just couldn't stop almost nonstop.

In the last ten days or so since the earthquake.

Land transport routes around Terra.

And thousands of mining stations of all sizes located in the earthquake zone have almost all come to a standstill.

The only remaining way to acquire resources is through air transport using the Dawn-class transport ships and sixth- or seventh-generation fighter jets.

This is roughly equivalent to cutting Su Wu's resource income by more than half. Furthermore...

Similarly, due to the severance of land routes.

The precious space inside Terra Vault cannot accommodate the ever-increasing number of newly produced Icelake-class transport ships.

It is located in the workshop on the first three floors above ground.

Related production tasks were also forced to stop.

This directly thwarted Su Wu's original plan to rapidly devour the resources of the entire Eastern Continent by expanding land transportation capabilities without limit.

"Also, Terra's population growth rate has been too fast recently."

"We need to stop and digest this slowly."

This is also a problem that cannot be ignored.

In recent times.

Su Wu wanted to take in as many survivors who had lost their shelter as possible.

They deliberately relaxed the restrictions and dispatched a full five first-generation Dawn-class transport ships to transfer the population.

As a result, the population of Terra increased dramatically from nearly 11 billion to over 15 billion.

This is a massive increase in population, comparable to that of a past superpower.

Don't say anything else.

The most basic survival needs alone almost completely disrupted Terra's supply chain.

If it weren't for artificial intelligence acting as a central coordinator...

Limited resources were utilized to the fullest extent, and there was little additional human-caused loss during the distribution process.

It's possible that a large-scale riot would have already broken out at that time.

He pondered for a while.

Su Wu opened the structural diagram of Terra, his gaze falling on the upper area of ​​this colossal shelter.

The hundreds of millions of newly added people.

They were all placed on the 18th to 23rd floors of the shelter.

Apart from the 21st floor, which was originally planned as the third exclusive leisure area of ​​the shelter.

The remaining five floors are all standard dormitory floors capable of accommodating 80 million people.

Most of these people are currently only receiving the minimum food allowance needed to survive.

They didn't even have a change of clothes, or the most basic tools like scissors and a hammer.

However, it has the backing of a super factory.

Although this situation seems terrible, it is not without a solution.

All that's needed is some basic resources and not too much time.

"Resources, time."

Su Wu muttered to himself.

Then switch to the transportation management interface on the console.

In an instant, a complex map of the air traffic network appeared before him.

Hundreds of lights, large and small, flickered and moved silently along these transportation routes.

That represents all the air transport units that Su Wu currently has left to deal with externally.

And among these hundreds of points of light.

The main force consists of eight first-generation Chenguang-class transport ships with a carrying capacity of 3 tons and four second-generation Chenguang-class transport ships with a carrying capacity of 10 tons.

Under their tireless transshipment throughout the night.

Every day, as much as 20 to 30 million tons of supplies are still being continuously transported to Terra.

According to artificial intelligence calculations.

These supplies are perhaps insignificant compared to the total resources of the entire Eastern Continent.

Terra can now be stacked with the latest resource recycling and circular technologies.

However, it only takes one or two weeks to accumulate enough to support all the needs of hundreds of millions of new people.

And just then.

A soft beep.

On the screen's transportation network, a flashing dot of light overlapped with Terra's location.

It has been transformed into a stable green marker.

That means it has arrived at one of Terra's airports and begun the procedures for arrival and unloading.

Su Wu clicked to search.

Immediately, a massive metal ship, 470 meters long, came into view, hovering in an airport on the top floor of Terra's tallest building, the 31st floor.

It slowly tilted its massive hull to one side.

Tens of thousands of tons of liquid fresh water were poured into specially reserved waterways.

They were allowed to surge along the waterway toward the massive reservoir built inside the 31st floor.

(End of this chapter)