Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter.

Chapter 354 37 Kilometers Underground
Four hours after the shelter sank.

The vertical distance from the Earth's surface is 37 kilometers.

The pressure Terra experienced at this location gradually eased, and the overall downward trend ceased.

However, the surrounding ambient temperature also reached the critical point of 1000℃.

It was so hot it felt like hell on earth.

"It has stabilized."

control center.

Su Wu noticed that as Terra stabilized, the energy consumption of the anti-gravity array began to decrease significantly, until it approached the normal level before the sinking.

This calmed and relaxed his tense mood.

At any time, the most terrifying thing is always the unknown.

Once the outcome is settled, there will always be ways to gradually resolve the remaining issues.

After a brief inspection of the interior of Terra, no urgent issues were found.

As usual, Su Wu first focused his attention outside.

The outside world at this time.

Along with Terra's stability, it also became exceptionally solid.

The surrounding area was gradually filled with dense rocks, and other elements, including air and even moisture, approached zero.

37 kilometers.

37000 m.

It doesn't seem like a very large number.

Driving on a highway in good condition, it can be done in less than half an hour.

But when it is used to measure the vertical depth of the earth.

But it is so far away that it can induce despair.

That's a distance several times greater than the deepest part of the ocean floor.

It is enough to bring about a completely different world.

After initial exploration, it was discovered that the radar could not scan for any more information about the outside world.

Su Wu began to attempt to send a small underground shuttle to conduct deeper exploration of the outside world.

However, as the shuttle slowly arrived at the end of the two-way isolation passage leading to the outside, it was met with a rock wall blocked at the entrance, its main colors being dark green and black.

But they got stuck awkwardly on the first step.

The high-frequency oscillator was once invincible at depths of tens of meters underground.

Here, even running at full power for six or seven seconds, it still won't leave many noticeable marks on the rock face.

Even over time.

The heat from the outside also began to gradually heat up the isolation channel.

It caused it to rapidly rise to an astonishing several hundred degrees Celsius.

"This level of hardness."

"It's almost surpassed steel, isn't it?"

Watching the shuttle's performance on the screen.

Su Wu raised an eyebrow slightly, somewhat surprised.

This is not good news.

If the shelter is surrounded by rocks of this hardness.

The difficulty of carving out a passage to the surface is unimaginable.

While he was pondering...

After continuous operation, the high-frequency oscillator at the front of the shuttle finally broke a small hole in the rock wall.

The first phase of external exploration has officially begun.

They continued to observe the shuttle's operation for a while longer.

Realizing that no further discoveries would be made in the short term.

Su Wu withdrew his gaze.

I plan to take advantage of this break in the reconnaissance to deal with some internal affairs of Terra.

Judging from the steel-like hardness of the surrounding rocks and their astonishing thickness, measured in kilometers.

foreseeable.

It is virtually impossible to leave this place for a considerable period of time in the future.

He must ensure that the shelters make the necessary adjustments.

To adapt to the environment here.

"Sorted by importance."

"The first thing we need to do now is—"

"Upgrade the communication center on the 31st floor above ground to restore communication with the ground."

The current top layer of Terra is 37 kilometers away from the ground.

Almost all conventional means of communication between them have become completely ineffective.

We want to restore communication.

The only solution is to use the precious survival points to upgrade and iterate the communication equipment.

To allow it to undergo another era-defining upgrade is not a difficult task for Su Wu, who currently possesses over 400 survival points.

If that's really not enough.

Su Wu glanced at the system panel.

The above clearly shows that, affected by extreme external environmental factors, the natural disaster parallel coefficient has changed to 3.2.

This coefficient is 160 times that of normal conditions before the major earthquake.

Then consider that Terra is now a super-large shelter with a fixed daily survival point income of 8 points.

After comprehensive calculation.

Currently, the additional survival points provided by natural disasters to Su Wu alone amount to as much as 25.6 per day.

If you also include fixed income, there are random rewards from daily tasks.

Daily income is almost 40 survival points.

Such a high income.

It is fully capable of carrying out a large-scale upgrade for any mechanical equipment.

"There are so many survival point subsidies."

"It's a stroke of good luck amidst misfortune."

He got up and left the control center.

Su Wu boarded a private railcar and traveled from the core area of ​​the shelter to the top floor.

The building is 31 stories high and was recently completed.

Apart from a complete communications center, all facilities were extremely rudimentary.

There was no trace of human activity.

As far as the eye could see, there was only boundless darkness and emptiness.

It was like a world in slumber.

"That was a bit reckless."

"We should bring miniature mechs."

Step off the single-carriage rail transit train.

The extremely quiet surroundings inexplicably created a sense of pressure in Su Wu's heart.

Even though he knew it.

It is controlled by artificial intelligence.

Inside the shelter, he could not possibly encounter any danger.

But this feeling is like someone wandering through a dark, deserted wilderness.

It still makes him instinctively want to seek more security.

Think briefly.

Su Wu took out his tablet computer and turned on all the lights in the area.

A few seconds later.

The bright white light began to spread all the way to the edge of the field of vision.

The darkness was completely dispelled.

In the distance, towering concrete pillars supporting the sky and the earth are revealed.

"I feel much better now."

"The undeveloped areas are really unsightly."

I made a casual comment.

Su Wu wasted no more time and quickly entered the nearby communications center.

Inside the brightly lit communications center.

The massive generator set is still operating stably.

Although it has temporarily lost contact with the surface.

But within Terra.

The network needs of 15 billion people still require it to be managed.

There is no possibility of downtime.

Reach out and press down on the metal casing of a communication device.

Su Wu focused his mind slightly.

We began to try to enhance it.

Soon, the 100 survival points and 300 survival points disappeared one after another.

The equipment was successfully upgraded twice in a row.

A signal from the Earth-Sky Dome space carrier appeared once again on the display screen in the communications center.

Then, in the next moment.

Endless streams of data began pouring into the communication center like a waterfall.

It integrates into Terra's vast local area network.

And at this time.

Most of Terra's residents only belatedly learned from the massive amounts of newly transmitted data that the world's internet had been briefly shut down for a few hours not long ago.

(End of this chapter)