Chapter 201: The Fourth Major Shelter

"One step at a time."

Su Wu sighed with a bit of a headache.

After a moment of deep thought, he decided to first solve the productivity issue.

The main reason why the production of capsule compartments couldn't increase was the lack of sufficient thin steel sheets.

These materials could be produced by CNC machines, but the output was quite limited.

The most efficient approach was to set up a dedicated production line for it.

To be more specific, the plan was to use a furnace to melt iron ore or scrap metal, then use a hot rolling machine to roll it into steel sheets.

This specialized production line was not very difficult to establish, and once completed, the output would increase by five to seven times.

The downside, however, was that it would take up a lot of space and would only have one purpose. Once the need for capsule compartments reduced, the entire production line would sit idle, wasting space and resources.

"Let it waste."

"Let's build the production line first to meet the demand for capsule compartments."

"We'll figure the rest out later."

Su Wu's mind was especially clear at this moment, knowing what was most important.

With this issue resolved and the production of capsule compartments speeding up, releasing some of the manufacturing power of the Farmhouse Shelter, Su Wu found himself able to tackle more problems.

First, he could produce projectors for entertainment.

Having someone stay in a capsule compartment of just two cubic meters, with nothing to do, was undoubtedly a huge torment.

But if they could watch TV or receive some external information, that negative experience would be reduced by more than 70%.

This would significantly increase their endurance.

The role of the projector was to provide these people in the capsule compartments with entertainment through TV.

As to why a projector instead of a regular TV—it was simple. Given the current resources available to Su Wu, it was not yet possible to mass-produce screens.

But producing projectors was much easier.

As an emergency short-term solution, projectors could enlarge the image and be shared by dozens or even hundreds of people, making them a cheaper entertainment tool than regular TVs.

After the projectors, the next task was to expand the low-grade fast-growing food planting zones, producing the necessary equipment for farming.

The population under Su Wu's control had grown to over 800,000 people.

And in the next few days, it was still expected to grow by 70,000 to 80,000 people per day.

Only when the total population reached its theoretical limit of 1.5 million would it stop growing.

To support this population size, Su Wu needed to expand the original farming area by at least 2.5 times to balance food production and consumption.

This also brought up the issue of space allocation.

Currently, Su Wu only had two large shelters: Jingyuan Shelter and Zhou Xiwuwu Shelter.

Both had already experienced population expansion during the recent flood crisis.

Now, the resident population in each shelter exceeded their design limits by more than double, and there was simply no more space available for the new farming zones.

To achieve the planned expansion, Su Wu had to look outside, targeting other shelters for assistance.

At this time, Owen Shelter naturally came into Su Wu's line of sight.

Besides being the origin of the virus, filled with a large number of corpses and nearly suffused with virus in every corner, Owen Shelter was still a structurally sound and fully equipped underground facility.

After a thorough cleaning, it should be sufficient to house the new farming zones, and afterward, there would probably still be plenty of space left to help alleviate the population pressure in other shelters.

Finally, aside from entertainment and food supply issues, the Manufacturing Center's remaining task was to produce more disinfection equipment.

With these disinfection devices, deep cleaning of Owen Shelter would just be the beginning. Su Wu also planned to expand the disinfection area and actively purify the virus in the floodwaters on the surface.

This was destined to be a massive project, but it was not impossible to achieve.

After all, the virus needed a host to propagate.

On the surface, there were hardly any living creatures left to serve as hosts.

In this case, as long as other shelters did not dump infected corpses outside recklessly, the amount of virus Su Wu destroyed on the surface would directly reduce the total virus count.

Eventually, the surface would be rendered harmless to humans.

September 20th.

With Su Wu's large-scale reception of severe infection cases and the initiation of a broader disinfection campaign, the spread of the virus in Jianghe City started to be somewhat contained.

At the same time, thanks to the consecutive launches of Type I and Type II treatment drugs, the attention of everyone in the major shelters shifted to the biological laboratory at Jiewei Shelter, hoping for a vaccine to completely solve the Rola virus.

However, this hope could not be realized in the short term.

As a supervirus that had emerged after the extinction of a species that had ruled the Earth for 160 million years, developing an appropriate vaccine was nearly as difficult as achieving a breakthrough in fundamental technology that could drive human civilization forward.

Even with the support of spiritual energy, it would take at least ten days or more to see any hope of success.

Amid this standoff with the virus, time passed day by day.

By September 24th, the population of Jiewei Shelter, which now housed almost all infected individuals, quietly surpassed 500,000 people.

In terms of population size, it had already surpassed most of the large shelters in Jianghe City, ranking as the fourth largest shelter, behind only the official No. 1 and 2 Shelters and Su Wu's Jingyuan Shelter.

However, inside this large shelter, only a handful of people were able to remain awake for extended periods.

Most were in a coma, relying on the Type II treatment drug to keep them alive.

If, within the next half a month, the biological laboratory led by Chen Yue failed to develop the next generation of treatment drugs, these hundreds of thousands of people would all die overnight, turning Jiewei Shelter into a massive graveyard.

September 24th

In the underground first floo

r of Jiewei Shelter,

Hall 2, Wall 07, Capsule 07,

Liang Liyang woke up from a deep slumber.

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