Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter.

Chapter 356 The Situation in Eastern Continent

"The internet was only down for a few hours."

"So much chaos has broken out."

Dongzhou, located 37 kilometers underground.

Terra's top floor.

Within seconds of connecting to the surface network, Su Wu received the first report compiled by artificial intelligence.

He was alarmed to discover that he still seemed to have greatly underestimated the stabilizing role the internet could play in the apocalypse.

The network outage lasted less than 4 hours.

The number of large-scale riots worldwide has increased nearly a hundredfold compared to previous years.

It affected more than 10 billion people.

The amount of lost materials is in the tens of millions of tons.

Based on this calculation, what if the internet really disappeared forever?

In the coming months.

The world's population would likely be reduced by more than half as a result.

After quickly skimming through the most crucial part of the news.

Su Wu began to shift his attention to the surface, to his own group of attached shelters.

The current surface of Dongzhou.

With the sinking of Terra, the overall earthquake intensity decreased significantly by 2 to 3 magnitudes.

Except for the core area of ​​the Kuanjiang River basin, which remains a restricted zone that is impassable.

In other areas, things have gradually returned to normal.

It can basically be regarded as a safe zone where people can live and work normally.

However, although there was no longer any fatal danger.

However, the existing land transportation network was disrupted by large-scale landslides, lateral shifts, and depressions caused by the earthquake.

It was almost completely paralyzed.

Reconstruction would be extremely difficult.

at the same time.

Because the Sky Dome space carrier serves as an emergency transfer station.

In the past few hours.

The network of attached shelters distributed on the surface was not actually completely cut off from the internet.

Instead, it formed a temporary local area network with a population of around 2 million that retained most of the network's historical data and connected all the affiliated shelters.

In addition, the artificial intelligence on board the Sky Dome is able to control all the mechanical equipment and intelligent robots inside the attached shelters.

Maintain a normal administrative management system.

The residents living in the attached shelters did not cause any major trouble.

The overall order remains quite stable.

“These are the attached shelters located on the surface of the earth.”

"The next priority is to expand the plantations, regardless of their size."

"Ensure basic food self-sufficiency."

"Then roads will be reopened on the surface to restore the land transport network."

"If there is still capacity left, then increase the number of mining stations and factories as much as possible."

Su Wu's thinking was quite clear.

The most important thing for survival is a sufficient food supply.

Previously, this was because of the existence of Terra.

Su Wu did not place much importance on these affiliated shelters.

The locations are basically temporary transit points that will eventually be emptied and abandoned.

Therefore, after taking over, no further efforts were made to build it.

Instead, they transported as much of the valuable stockpiled supplies, including food, as possible to Terra.

In addition, in order to save operating costs and prepare for the relocation in advance.

The original plantations and farms in the various shelters were quite outdated in design and production processes, resulting in huge energy waste.

It was also demolished quite early on.

They were turned into parts and packaged in boxes.

They now need to be transformed into long-term settlements.

We must reconsider expanding some plantations to increase the production of basic food crops.

And land transportation network.

It also plays an equally important role.

Relying on limited air transport capacity to transport daily supplies, often in the tens of millions of tons, is unrealistic. Only by rebuilding land transport routes and leveraging the massive transport capacity of Su Wu's more than 70,000 10,000-ton Ice Lake-class transport ships can this be achieved.

Only then can all the affiliated shelters be truly integrated into a whole.

To maximize their industrial production potential.

Using this as a starting point, they will expand their mining operations to more areas of the Eastern Continent.

"Under ideal circumstances."

"It is expected that the entire plantation construction plan can be completed in about two months."

"It will take three months to restore most of the land transportation network, except for the Western Wilderness Plateau and the Kuanjiang River Basin."

"As for resource acquisition."

There is no fixed time standard.

"With the use of the Morning Light-class transport ships to airlift mining equipment, it takes an average of three to five days to add a small to medium-sized mining base."

"The extracted resources can be transported away once land transportation is restored."

After briefly calculating the labor efficiency on the ground, Su Wu couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache.

The construction cycle, which often lasts for several months, is simply too long to accept.

To know.

He built Terra from scratch, a city that can now house 15 billion people.

It's only been a little over a year.

The difference between the two is almost as great as the difference between the industrial age and the feudal age.

But in fact.

This, however, reflects the actual labor efficiency of most shelters in a post-apocalyptic environment.

Without the assistance of a massive number of robots and industrial mechs, and with limited resources.

There are very few things that can be accomplished by ordinary humans alone.

We shouldn't have too high expectations.

The task of planning the attached shelter complex has been completed.

Su Wu's gaze then moved further away, to the edge of the Eastern Continent, which was outside his control.

For now.

There are approximately 500 to 600 million survivors remaining on the entire surface of the Eastern Continent.

Among them, Su Wu's affiliated refuge complex housed approximately 2 million people.

The capital of the Eastern Continent on the Western Wilderness Plateau has a population of 8000 million.

The remaining 3 million people are mainly scattered in remote areas.

They belong to various wildlife sanctuaries, large and small.

Let's leave aside the Western Wilderness Plateau for now.

Those wild refuges are numerous, but their distribution is quite sparse and hidden.

Su Wu wanted to quickly and completely integrate them, but the task was extremely difficult.

I can only figure it out slowly.

"There's no need to put too much effort into this now."

"First, we need to do some preliminary intelligence preparation."

"Once the roads are built there, we'll take over each one gradually, one by one."

I hesitated for just a moment.

Su Wu then made arrangements for the 3 million people.

This decision will undoubtedly result in a significant loss of this population segment.

After all, there was a significant difference between Su Wu's rule and the unchecked local power.

In fact, we can already distinguish between the period before and after the apocalypse.

The goal is to prevent large-scale staff reductions in a precarious environment where people's livelihoods are constantly at risk.

That's basically unrealistic.

It is foreseeable that there may be tens of millions of people involved.

They will not have the chance to wait until the day when Su Wu takes over their command.

The follow-up arrangements for the surface of Dongzhou were hastily completed.

Su Wu got up and left the communications center, taking the railcar back home.

Next, it's time to plan for Terra.

This is his base.

We must rely on more detailed data surveys and multiple simulations using artificial intelligence.

A decision can only be made after repeated weighing and comparison.

(End of this chapter)