Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter.

Chapter 353 Deep Shelter
First, I checked the most critical data.

Su Wu's slightly anxious heart gradually calmed down.

The reliability of rapid cement was strongly demonstrated in this disaster.

That force, emanating from underground, is powerful enough to crush even large shelters, or safe houses cast from high-strength military alloy metals.

It caused almost no damage to Terra's exterior walls.

Having confirmed his own safety, Su Wu then turned his gaze outside the shelter.

It was different from what I had initially imagined.

After Terra sank completely underground, it did not fall along a vertical path.

Instead, it was swept along by large swathes of broken rocks, moving in irregular curves.

Sometimes it can even move horizontally for hundreds of meters.

However, the overall trend is still moving deeper underground.

Seven minutes after sinking underground.

The rock layer covering Terra is 1 kilometer thick.

It exceeded the signal penetration limit of the communication center, which was temporarily concentrated at the top level.

All of Terra's external communications were cut off at the same time.

What was originally a global internet network was instantly transformed into a local area network confined to Terra.

It's just that there are too many people living inside Terra.

For a time, few Terra residents noticed this subtle change.

control center.

Su Wu's gaze passed over the holographic projection platform and looked at a wall made of screens behind him.

About a third of that area has turned black.

All cameras connected to surface surveillance have gone offline.

He turned his head and looked at the console again.

At this time, communication with the Sky Dome was also cut off, without exception.

However, because we had made preparations beforehand.

There's no need to worry too much about the Sky Dome's situation.

Its artificial intelligence, while capable of computing power, cannot compare to Terra's supercomputer center, which has undergone multiple enhancements.

However, it does not need to be responsible for managing Terra's 15 billion people, industrial production, or scientific research.

All that's needed is to take over all of Su Wu's remaining super-cities, shelters of all sizes, mines, and air and land transportation networks, etc.

The problem isn't that big.

The only thing to worry about is the possibility of internet outages.

If the network is lost, the other shelters scattered around the world that are not under Su Wu's direct management will once again become isolated islands.

They lost most of their channels for communication and trade with the outside world.

In this kind of environment.

Because of the overwhelming sense of loss and despair.

It could easily lead to some unexpected chaos and a significant reduction in population.

But Su Wu is now powerless to do anything about this.

It would be good enough if they could manage Terra well.

The 27th minute of the shelter sinking.

The vertical distance from the Earth's surface is 6.7 kilometers.

This was accompanied by a minor collision.

On the simulated map outlined by the holographic projection, Su Wu noticed a place not far from Terra.

Traces of a man-made structure that shouldn't exist have appeared.

This piqued Su Wu's curiosity.

After a moment's thought, he tentatively deployed a small underground shuttle.

We moved toward the man-made structures.

Equipped with a high-frequency oscillator, it was once a shuttle specifically used for tunneling.

Approaching the man-made structure slowly through the hard rock at a speed of approximately one meter per second.

More than ten minutes later.

When Terra passes by man-made structures, creating a distance of six or seven hundred meters.

The shuttle finally arrived near the man-made structure.

The intelligence from there was gradually transmitted over.

Thanks to the relatively stable geology of the surrounding area, the pressure on that man-made structure was much less than that on Terra.

The overall structure looks quite complete.

There is even a fairly large living space inside.

After the shuttle broke through the exterior wall of a building and landed inside.

Through the shuttle's camera lens, Su Wu vaguely sensed a sense of familiarity.

He inputs the photos he takes into the AI's search database.

They soon discovered that this was actually a deep-level shelter built by the Jianghe City government. The original deep-level shelter.

It was used by the Jianghe City authorities as a backup plan, similar to a safe house.

The most scarce resources, the best quality of life, and the most powerful upper-class people in the entire Jianghe City were all moved there as much as possible.

Its affluent and safe environment.

Even Su Wu, who was just starting out at that time, felt a little envious.

However, no one expected this.

With the arrival of the first major disaster in Jianghe City after the apocalypse.

The first to be eliminated, apart from a few unfortunate small and medium-sized private shelters, was this deep-level shelter, which was touted as the safest in Jianghe City.

Put away the memories.

Su Wu piloted a robotic dog and climbed out of the shuttle.

To conduct a more detailed exploration of this deep refuge.

"The supplies here are frighteningly abundant."

We passed through several halls in a row.

Looking at the mountains of supplies piled up along the way, Su Wu couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

These supplies may not mean much to him now.

If Su Wu had obtained them back then, his development speed might have been one or two times faster than it is now.

Besides supplies.

There were still many unattended corpses in the hall.

Judging from the state of decomposition of these corpses.

Artificial intelligence analyzed the time of their deaths, and most of them died within two months.

This means after the deep shelters sink underground.

The survivors inside remained largely stable for a considerable period of time.

Then, at some point, they suddenly started dying in droves.

"It's not a plague, and there aren't many obvious signs of internal strife."

"It's more like suicide."

Su Wu activated the experimental equipment mounted on the robot dog to conduct further examination of the corpse.

The result left him somewhat puzzled.

It wasn't until his gaze fell upon an air quality report, and he quickly reviewed several surveillance records from that time, that he vaguely realized what was happening.

This space, which has been isolated from the outside world for a long time, lacks high-quality air purifiers and a large number of green plants.

The air was as stuffy as being in a green train carriage full of passengers.

In this environment.

Survival in the short term may not be a big deal.

But when time drags on for years and there's no end in sight.

The accumulated anger and despair are enough to break the will of many people.

Then the riots of these people will act as a spark to ignite the entire shelter.

The final result was what Su Wu saw before him.

No one survived.

He shook his head and said nothing more.

Su Wu piloted the robotic dog to continue exploring.

We passed through another corridor.

The road ahead was blocked by a collapsed ruin.

He reached the end of the ruins of this deep refuge.

The original deep-seated shelters were naturally much larger than this.

But after sinking underground, only this small portion can be preserved.

The rest of the area had long since been completely reduced to fragments and merged with the rock.

at this time.

The connection between Su Wu and the robot dog suddenly broke without warning.

We can no longer receive any information from there.

This is no accident.

This is the distance between Terra and the robot dog, which has exceeded the communication limit.

There is no way to transmit information anymore.

"Forget it, let them continue to slumber."

Although it was somewhat abrupt.

But after thinking about it, Su Wu decided not to do anything further.

The supplies in the deep shelter are insignificant to him now.

There is no need to make a big fuss about this.

(End of this chapter)