Among the snow-covered hills.
Meng Hui cautiously drove the SUV, carrying his family of five, slowly along the road.
The road surface had long been crushed into chunks of snow.
Causing the vehicle to shake up and down from time to time.
As if traveling on a rugged mountain road.
This was the no-man's land between Jianghe City and Tumen City.
If Meng Hui had to drive through it alone, he definitely wouldn't dare.
In this wilderness where the snow was one or two meters thick.
If the vehicle had any kind of malfunction.
What awaited him would be a near-death adventure.
However, if he was following the main group, with the Bluetooth headset in his ear constantly relaying real-time prompts from Artificial Intelligence.
That would be a different story.
This kind of wilderness travel, where one was constantly being watched and had people both ahead and behind.
Could usually be called a risk-free, safe journey.
Rounding a bend.
A bus with flashing red fog lights appeared in Meng Hui's field of vision.
"The road ahead is straight for 7.2 kilometers, please maintain a distance of 50 meters from the vehicle in front."
The voice from Artificial Intelligence sounded in his ear at the appropriate time.
In a daze.
It made him feel as if he had returned to the pre-apocalyptic days, to an ordinary day of driving with navigation software.
The only difference from that time.
Was that he could ignore the navigation software's prompts, overtake at will, and change routes.
But for the prompts from Artificial Intelligence, it was best not to violate a single one.
Otherwise, people could really die.
Recalling a somewhat bloody scene.
Meng Hui's face turned a little unsightly.
But the movements of his hands became even more disciplined.
He started slowing down from a distance, obediently following the bus at a distance of sixty or seventy meters.
Continuing for another kilometer or two.
Meng Hui suddenly noticed that the bus in front, which was already moving very slowly.
Had noticeably reduced its speed again.
And just as he was wondering.
An armored vehicle with a tracked chassis, larger than a large truck, and with a peculiar appearance, passed by the bus.
And drove towards him.
"What is that thing?"
Meng Hui's pupils constricted slightly as he watched, and he subconsciously slammed on the brakes.
Stopping abruptly.
A few seconds later.
The armored vehicle came to a position level with him.
Observed at close range.
The thick armor and massive size of the vehicle opposite were even more impactful.
Directly blocking a large part of Meng Hui's view.
It was also at this time.
That Meng Hui realized that describing the steel behemoth opposite him as an armored vehicle seemed a bit rash.
Because it was much longer than an armored vehicle.
And like a train, it was also connected to a series of long carriages at the back.
"Wow, it's the Jianghe City caravan!"
From the back seat.
The surprised cry of his seven or eight-year-old son entered Meng Hui's ears.
Meng Hui turned his head.
And found that the little guy was now excitedly趴伏ing on the car window, looking at the moving train with shining eyes.
As if he had seen a legendary idol.
"Caravan—"
Reminded by this, Meng Hui also remembered the Jianghe City news he had seen before.
It seemed to have mentioned such a special convoy.
It was just that the one he saw in front of him had obviously undergone a new round of modifications.
And was different from the appearance broadcast on TV at the time.
Causing him to fail to connect the two at the first moment.
Quietly waiting for this unusually long convoy, like a steel Great Wall, to pass.
Meng Hui slowly broke free from the shock.
He refocused his attention on the front.
Started the car and followed the bus that had started moving again.
The encounter with the caravan could only be regarded as an interlude.
They still had to continue to the location of Jianghe City's urban area.
That was the legendary super shelter that gathered tens of millions of people.
And it would also be their new home in the future.
However, he couldn't be sure whether life would be better or worse there.
Jianghe City, city ruins.
The current here.
Was completely different from what it was a few days ago.
Extensive two-lane roads ran through every corner of the city ruins.
No matter which location in the ruins one wanted to go to.
One could drive directly to a location no more than 200 meters away from it.
And the snow in the lanes.
Had also been cleared away, piled up on both sides of the road.
Forming snow walls two or three meters high.
The best way to deal with snow on the road was to sprinkle de-icing salt.
But the entire Jianghe City.
Had very little de-icing salt in stock.
Temporary production and manufacturing, for Su Wu, who was short of supplies in the apocalypse, seemed very wasteful.
So he could only take a step back and choose the most direct physical removal method.
Whenever the snow on the road accumulated more than 20 centimeters.
A collective mobilization would be carried out.
Letting bulldozers, bulldozers, and workers wearing Exoskeleton Armor.
Hard-sweeping the road surface again.
In addition to this.
Considering the need for non-stop construction day and night, and that heavy snow often blocked visibility.
On both sides of the road.
Rows of street lights powered by solid-state batteries had also been erected.
So that the entire city ruins.
Maintained a certain level of brightness at all times, regardless of day or night.
And under such a massive effort.
The efficiency of surface transportation.
Had been improved to near pre-apocalyptic levels.
Every hour.
Hundreds of thousands of tons of construction waste and various supplies, as well as thousands of people and their luggage.
Were transported through the surface transportation network.
To various affiliated shelters, and to the farmhouses in the city's suburbs.
"Currently, the 7th underground floor of the core area of the farmhouses."
"Except for the professional thermal power plant, all other spaces that have been converted into warehouses are almost saturated."
"Nearly 240,000 tons of finished metal and rubber, 20,000 tons of water, and more than 8,000 tons of coal have been stored."
"Even the nearby Qingning medium-sized shelter."
"The space that can be squeezed out is almost full of supplies."
"The Electric Arc Furnace, the waste dismantling workshop, the plantation, and almost all the residents that were originally placed there have been relocated to other affiliated shelters."
"Only the platform responsible for transferring the underground tunnel miniature trains has been retained."
Although Jianghe City's supplies were not abundant.
And the per capita amount was extremely scarce.
But when they were concentrated and gathered towards the farmhouses, they still seemed vast.
The original warehouse capacity was not enough, which was expected.
The only thing he didn't expect was that with the restoration of the ground transportation network.
This situation came so early.
"The transfer of supplies cannot be stopped."
"We can only free up two more underground buildings near the Qingning shelter and continue to divert them."
"And the 7th underground floor of the farmhouses, located in the second ring area adjacent to the core area."
"We can also free up some space and continue to transform it into a warehouse."
Su Wu used the underground structure diagram of the farmhouses.
Re-planning the internal functional areas.
Making trade-offs according to the different importance.
And besides him.
Others also did not stop working.
The 30 Electric Arc Furnaces spread across various affiliated shelters operated day and night.
While consuming huge amounts of electricity.
They melted more than 7,000 tons of various finished metals every day.
After these metals supported the large-scale expansion of the underground shelter of the farmhouses, there was still a small amount of surplus.
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It could be used to make snow transport vehicles, Heavy Main Battle Spider Robots, and various simple electric tools for single-person use.
And the increase in these mechanical equipment.
In turn, continuously improved the overall labor force of Jianghe City.
Accelerated the expansion speed of the shelter, as well as the scale of recycling urban ruins resources, foreign trade, mining, and transportation.
Obtaining a greater number of resources.
Forming a positive cycle that was constantly expanding outwards.
The huge population that Su Wu had taken in at all costs in the early stage.
Was now beginning to gradually release its due potential.
After adjusting the functional areas of the farmhouses.
Su Wu opened the system panel again.
In the past two or three days.
As the four main channels continued to expand outwards from the second ring area on the 7th underground floor of the farmhouses.
Accommodating more labor force to enter.
A huge space of more than 300,000 square meters had been newly opened up.
And this space, equivalent to the size of five aircraft carriers, finally allowed Su Wu's shelter level, which had been stagnant for a long time, to continue to advance.
From the lowest level of [Pioneering Medium-sized Shelter], it was upgraded to the second level of [Vast Medium-sized Shelter].
This level increase.
Did not increase the daily fixed Survival Point income.
It was still 5 points per day.
But it gave an additional reward of 150 Survival Points in one go.
And getting this huge sum of Survival Points, plus the part of the savings that had been painstakingly accumulated before.
Was basically enough to carry out an overall upgrade of the farmhouses.
Making up for its fatal flaws.
"The first thing that needs to be strengthened is still the computing power of Artificial Intelligence."
"Currently, the farmhouses here have 5 units of computing power, plus the Miniature Mech and base vehicle."
"The computing power limit is 7."
"Next, it is best to continue to increase 3 units, so that the total computing power reaches 10."
Su Wu's current power.
Almost all management systems relied on Artificial Intelligence.
In this way.
While avoiding the various defects brought about by humans serving as the management, such as corruption, oppression of the weak, and power struggles.
It also greatly occupied computing power.
Plus controlling the equipment and Mechanical Units in certain core areas, assisting laboratory research, carrying out industrial production, and so on.
The original computing power was often somewhat insufficient.
It was necessary to expand the computing power again as soon as possible.
And at the same time.
Taking advantage of this expansion opportunity.
Su Wu also integrated the super laptop that previously carried Artificial Intelligence and computing power, as well as several other desktop computers.
All into one.
Forming a supercomputing center.
The newly born supercomputing center was located next to the control center.
The computing power reached 8 units.
And as before, it could continue to expand computing power at will.
The cost was still 15 Survival Points per unit, which could increase one unit.
No more, no less.
"With these 10 units of computing power."
"At least before reaching a population of 50 million in the future, there should be no need to worry about it not being enough."
"Then, it is to consider strengthening the security defense of the farmhouses."
The current farmhouses.
Due to the use of Rapid-setting Cement, and a multi-ring structure.
The core area located in the innermost part.
Was actually quite safe when facing natural disasters such as earthquakes.
But the shortcomings were also obvious.
It lacked professional air defense capabilities.
Facing attacks from the sky, especially Bunker Buster Missiles and Low Earth Orbit Weapons from humans.
It was difficult to effectively resist.
According to the information Su Wu had.
The Federation's latest generation of Low Earth Orbit Weapons.
Was already enough to penetrate a large mountain.
With this weapon strength.
Even if Su Wu's farmhouses were finally completed.
If it angered the Federation's high-level officials who controlled Low Earth Orbit Weapons.
It was still possible to be completely destroyed overnight.
"Although the probability is very small."
"But in any case, we cannot entrust our own safety, and the lives of tens of millions of people in the entire Jianghe City."
"To someone's whim."
"We must prepare for the worst."
The worst plan.
Was to encounter an attack by a Low Earth Orbit Weapon carrying a nuclear warhead.
Facing that kind of high-speed attack from outer space.
Ordinary anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles were meaningless.
The only effective means of defense.
May only be mature laser weapons.
And laser weapons.
Su Wu had also copied several inferior laser weapons through reverse engineering of the air defense components on the Miniature Mech.
Although they could not be used in actual combat.
But they had all the necessary components.
Su Wu could completely use Survival Points to upgrade them, so as to obtain more powerful advanced weapons of the same series.
Dragging out the copied laser weapon.
After investing a full 150 Survival Points.
Su Wu successfully obtained three real laser air defense weapons.
And placed them on the surface of the farmhouses.
[Prism-Type Laser Defense Array is online.]
[Self-check successful.]
[Multi-source air radar has been networked.]
[Current monitoring distance, 4500 kilometers to the air.]
[Current airspace safety value, high.]
As Artificial Intelligence incorporated the laser defense weapons into the control list.
In the upper right corner of the main page of the control panel screen.
A hemispherical blue icon was permanently added.
That represented the detection radar that came with the laser air defense weapons.
Had incorporated the sky within a radius of 4500 kilometers centered on the farmhouses.
Into the monitoring.
From now on, within this range, any high-speed missiles and aircraft that may pose a threat to the farmhouses.
Would automatically be displayed on it.
And be remotely intercepted by laser air defense weapons.
"When I have time in the future, I will continue to reinforce and thicken the base of these three laser weapon turrets."
"It is best to fix the base directly on the outer wall of the underground shelter."
"And the top of the turret must also be able to close at will, and be able to sink into the ground to avoid danger when necessary."
The three laser air defense weapons added up were almost equal to the cost of a Miniature Mech.
But they themselves were extremely fragile.
If hit by a personal rocket, they could be scrapped on the spot.
In order to take into account both air defense and ensure the safety of the weapons themselves.
Su Wu could only stack the thickest armor on it as much as possible in the places he could think of.
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