Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter.

Chapter 352 Bureaucracy of the Old Era
Western Wasteland Plateau.

Inside a viewing hall with giant floor-to-ceiling windows on the seventeenth floor of a massive metal fortress buried deep in the snow.

A lavish banquet, a rare sight in the post-apocalyptic world, is taking place here.

Many well-dressed upper-class men and women, in twos and threes, were either chatting with each other while holding wine glasses or holding knives and forks, concentrating on enjoying a sumptuous meal that was not common for them.

Occasionally, a few couples would dance gracefully in the dance floor to the soft rhythms played by the band.

A corner of the banquet.

As the governor of Dongzhou, Annie Yi also made a rare appearance here with the high-ranking officials of Dongzhou.

However, his purpose was not to enjoy and relax.

They came not to witness an event destined to be recorded in history.

"According to the calculations of the Academy of Sciences."

"Terra will sink completely underground within two hours at the latest."

"They have no way to stop it."

During the banquet.

A middle-aged man in military uniform quietly introduced the situation to the high-ranking officials of Dongzhou present.

He is Che Qirui, the director of the Dongzhou External Warfare Command Center.

They are specifically responsible for monitoring Eastern Continent forces like Terra, which are not directly controlled by the Eastern Continent capital.

While listening to Che Qirui's explanation, Annie Yi kept her eyes glued to the large screen in the center of the hall.

The scene of Terra sinking is being played in real time above.

From that scene.

It can be clearly seen that an enormous airship is hovering in mid-air.

A steady stream of containerized supplies was salvaged from the sinking shelter in Terra.

It was like a final struggle before death.

"It caused such a big stir a while ago."

"I thought these people had some way of protecting their base."

"That's the result—"

"They took in so many people, but in the end, they all had to die."

Lin Kai, the logistics minister of the capital city who was next to Annie Yi, couldn't help but sneer.

There was a hint of pleasure in his eyes.

They were among the very top-ranking members of the Eastern Continent.

Lin Kai had long been accustomed to the power that placed him above hundreds of millions of people, and he was also afraid of losing it all.

Previously, due to the irresistible apocalypse, they were forced to abandon most of the resources and territory of the Eastern Continent.

They huddled in the remote and barren western plateau.

This had already given him a significant sense of loss.

Then Terra appeared and rose to prominence.

It has taken in billions of residents of the Eastern Continent.

By sheer force of will, they seized the de facto center of the entire Eastern Continent from the Eastern Continent capital, which had only 8000 million people left, by virtue of their absolute advantage in population.

That status seemed to plummet from the heights of fame to the depths of obscurity, abandoned by mainstream society, relegated to the margins of society.

This was even more unacceptable to Lin Kai.

just now.

Terra, who had been trying to sabotage him, was about to be destroyed by the earthquake.

It has been transformed into a giant tomb that buries hundreds of millions of people.

Lin Kai felt an indescribable sense of joy and pleasure.

He vaguely regained a trace of the former vigor and spirit he once possessed when he dominated the entire Eastern Continent.

Annie Yi glanced at Lin Kai, her brows furrowing slightly.

He felt that the other party's behavior was too out of line.

This is unbecoming of someone in the upper echelons of Dongzhou.

However, he also knew that the accumulated resentment from his long stay in the harsh environment of the Western Wilderness Plateau had affected him.

There are quite a few people in the upper echelons who share Lin Kai's ideas.

Even the banquet they are currently at.

These were also the people who deliberately pushed for the event to be held.

It can be seen as a disguised celebration of Terra's destruction.

People's hearts are drawn downwards.

Even as the leader of the capital of Dongzhou, Annie Yi couldn't say much in her anger.

He could only pretend not to know, and instead pointed to the floating ship on the screen, asking Che Qirui on the other side.

"What model is that airship? I don't think I've seen it before."

Upon hearing this, Che Qirui lowered his head and quickly exchanged a few words with the people in the command center through the tablet computer in his hand.

He answered only after receiving a reply.

"There is no relevant record in the database."

"The Academy of Sciences suspects that it is an improved version based on the Terra II Dawn-class transport ship."

"It is highly likely that it has an independent ecological cycle system, enabling it to conduct true space travel."

Annie Yi listened in silence for a while before sighing.

"It's amazing."

"If I remember correctly, all their initial knowledge came from the publicly available information among the people of Dongzhou."

"As a result, in less than a year, even spaceships were built."

A sentiment from the continental governor.

This made many people present look slightly uncomfortable.

The more successful outsiders are, the more it highlights their incompetence.

Fortunately, Terra is now doomed to destruction.

There's no need to take a fight too seriously with a force that's about to be destroyed.

A group of people sat in a corner of the banquet hall.

With varying emotions, they gazed at the magnificent man-made structure on the screen.

Little by little, it sank into the depths of the earth under the immense power of nature.

After a long time.

When the last ray of light from Terra disappeared from that land.

Everyone's mood quietly relaxed.

It was as if an invisible burden had been lifted.

A short, stout high-ranking official let out a long sigh.

It expressed what most people present were thinking.

"Look at how it is now."

"They obviously did not relocate the population out of Terra on a large scale."

"They abandoned the more than one billion people there."

"Let's get ready."

"Next, we just need to hold off Terra's remaining forces and prevent them from vying with us for sovereignty over the Western Wilderness Plateau."

"The Eastern Continent will still be our Eastern Continent."

Bureaucrats from the old era are rejoicing at the end of Terra.

However, none of the 15 billion residents of Terra experienced anything unusual from beginning to end.

Before Su Wu announced the relevant information.

Thanks to the anti-gravity arrays scattered throughout Terra.

Even though it is sinking rapidly into the ground at a speed of nearly several meters per second.

Inside Terra, things remained as calm as ever.

No one noticed the drastic changes outside the shelter.

Terra, the control center.

After Su Wu sank into the ground on the last level of Terra.

They then proactively cut off the surveillance footage from the Sky Dome air carrier.

He then stood up and looked at the metal platform, where a three-dimensional projection of the shelter was outlined with numerous dark green lines and data.

The refuge after sinking underground.

All external surveillance cameras have become unusable.

We can only rely on various types of radar for limited detection.

In this case, a 3D model filled with various real-time dynamic data is actually more intuitive.

This also allows Su Wu to determine the situation in all parts of the entire shelter in the shortest possible time.

"The impact on the outer walls reached its peak the moment the entire shelter completely sank into the ground."

"It subsequently fell back a little."

"The main structure of the shelter should not have any major problems."

(End of this chapter)