Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter.

Chapter 350 The Backup Eastern Continent Central Hub

of course.

Given the current harsh environment with earthquakes occurring everywhere.

There is no need to further expand the size of the Icelake-class transport ships, which are land-based vessels that rely heavily on road traffic.

As for sixth-generation fighter jets, since their technology is a generation behind and their manufacturing costs are not much lower, there is no need to continue manufacturing them.

For Su Wu...

The more important use of the steel city was actually in its ability to mass-produce ordinary civilian industrial products.

Because this is sufficient to replace Terra and become the new cornerstone for maintaining the global trade network.

"The geology around the steel city is relatively stable."

"The core large shelters only need some minor repairs and maintenance, and they should be able to hold out until the end."

Su Wu raised his hand and summoned the exploration data around Steel City on the holographic projection in front of him.

He fell into a state of deep thought.

Geographically, the steel city is about 400 kilometers away from the city of River, where Terra is located.

It is an area that is basically far away from the strong earthquake zone.

Although it will still be affected by the aftershocks of the strong earthquake, there will be occasional tremors of magnitude 5 to 6.

However, this level of geological activity would not cause structural damage to the shelters in the steel city that were built to avoid nuclear explosions and the apocalypse.

It's a fairly ideal place to live.

The only problem is that it is somewhat weak in terms of military strength.

It cannot match its impending acquisition of the central position in the Eastern Continent.

"Build another batch of electromagnetic gun emplacements and laser defense arrays."

"And let's produce another 10 sets of weaponry to match the spider robots."

Draw up the list of armed forces in the steel city.

Su Wu considered the matter several times.

A cautious and conservative expansion plan was proposed.

Industrial capacity and resources are both limited.

While tilting towards the military, it will inevitably affect other aspects.

Ultimately, Terra was the core and foundation of Su Wu's survival.

All planning and resource allocation must be implemented without significantly hindering Terra's development speed.

If there is a conflict between the two.

So even Steel City, the central city responsible for maintaining Su Wu's entire surface power after Terra sinks underground in the future, is not something that cannot be abandoned.

Arrange the production and defense of the steel city.

Su Wu's attention then shifted to the northwest, to the Weiguang Plain, more than 2000 kilometers away.

That fertile land nestled between the Maillax Canyon and the Lava Sea.

Today, it has become the most important resource extraction area in Su Wu's hands.

Under the destructive mining practices of a large number of drilling equipment that incorporates the latest technology and is even enhanced by survival points, the consequences are disregarded.

Daily oil production reached 1500 million tons.

It almost exceeds the total daily oil production of the entire world in the previous life.

At the same time, in order to store these huge oil productions.

To the east of Twilight Plains, separated by the entire Maillax Canyon.

A total of 17 large and medium-sized shelters were converted into dedicated storage and refining facilities.

More than a thousand Ice Lake-class transport ships.

They spent their days and nights traversing the Maillax Canyon.

They are responsible for continuously transporting the vast amounts of oil from the Twilight Plains to those storage bases.

"Calculated based on time."

"There should be about another month of gold mining season left."

"Then the Twilight Plains will be swallowed by lava."

"And the output produced during this period certainly cannot be transported to Terra in the short term."

"Therefore, at least seven more storage and refining bases will be needed, located on the east side of the Maillax Canyon."

"As for transportation, there is no need to increase it further."

Thousands of Icelake-class transport ships can carry tens of millions of tons of oil in a single trip.

Even if their speed is only 10 kilometers per hour.

It's also sufficient for short-distance transport from the Twilight Plains to the area east of the Maillax Canyon. Even at the very last moment.

They were also able to pack up and take away the oil field extraction equipment before the Twilight Plains were destroyed.

The real challenge lies in the subsequent storage and processing.

After all, Terra's storage is gone.

These extracted resources are easily affected by various natural disasters and accidents.

It may not be able to be preserved safely and securely forever.

After inspecting the Weiguang Plain, one sees rows of oil fields busily in operation.

Su Wu's gaze then fell upon the vast ice field not far from the oil field.

Deep beneath that seemingly desolate ice plain.

At this time, millions of human survivors were still living.

Based on their activity patterns.

Su Wu speculated that they probably hadn't yet obtained specific activity data for the adjacent magma sea.

There were no countermeasures in place to deal with the impending catastrophe.

This is normal.

Humans forced to move entirely into underground shelters.

Besides being the location of official bodies and top conglomerates that have inherited complete cutting-edge technologies.

Most of them are lucky if they can even survive.

It's difficult to have the spare capacity to keep track of what's happening hundreds of kilometers away in real time.

Of course, even if they knew the truth.

The outcome will not change.

The surface of the Weiguang Plain is extremely cold, ranging from -70 to -80 degrees Celsius, and there are also even more terrifying cold waves that appear randomly.

Everything they had preserved came from pre-apocalyptic vehicles, enough to destroy them.

There was no means of transportation.

They trekked on foot, relying solely on their own two legs.

This area was quite remote before the end of the world.

The chances of surviving are no higher than the chances of an untrained ordinary person successfully climbing to the summit of Mount Everest by hand.

"Let's talk to them later."

Su Wu weighed the options in his mind.

The decision was made to contact these survivors ahead of time.

If nothing unexpected happens.

The oil fields in the Twilight Plains will continue to be exploited until the day they are destroyed.

The oil produced will occupy the vast majority of the transport capacity on the plains for a long time.

No preparation is made in advance.

It's hard to find free time.

Move these millions of people, along with the supplies in their shelters, to a safe area.

The arrangements for Steel City and Weiguangping Oilfield, the two most important places for Su Wu, have come to an end.

The remaining tasks are much simpler.

Other areas in East Asia that are outside the impact range of strong earthquakes.

Excluding the 8000 million people who were relocated to the Western Wilderness Plateau and are now directly ruled by the capital of the Eastern Continent.

The total population is now only around 5 million.

Compared to Terra, they have become a de facto minority group.

Su Wu's attitude towards them.

The sense of "must win" has been replaced by "save as many as you can."

If things really don't work out, the loss won't be too painful.

Under the influence of this relaxed mindset.

Su Wu quickly reconstructed the land transportation network throughout the Eastern Continent.

To allocate transportation capacity more rationally.

In addition, the defense intensity of some affiliated megacities was appropriately strengthened according to their different population sizes and geographical locations.

This is to ensure that they have the ability to independently defend against attacks from amethyst crystals.

(End of this chapter)