Chapter 207: Population Distribution

"First, inject the Perpetual Treatment Drug to those who are about to die."

"As for the remaining severely infected individuals,"

"They will receive the injection when they're closer to death."

Su Wu carefully allocated the use of the Perpetual Treatment Drugs.

The cost of the Perpetual Treatment Drug wasn't high, and mass production was no trouble.

But once rolled out on a large scale,

Su Wu would have to deal with 900,000 people, all confined to two-cubic-meter capsule beds, unable to leave or do anything.

Just thinking about that situation gave him a headache.

By staggering the injections before their death,

Su Wu could buy himself a few extra days to ease his pressure.

Pulling up the real-time data from the various affiliated shelters in the database,

Su Wu saw that the first batch of standard dormitories, which had started construction earlier, had been completed a few days ago.

These dormitories occupied the equivalent space of three aircraft carriers.

They could accommodate 150,000 people.

This figure sounded impressive,

and indeed, it showed that the shelter's construction workers had been working tirelessly.

But compared to the 900,000 severely infected individuals,

those 150,000 available spots, while helpful, were still far from enough.

"The second batch of dormitories is almost halfway finished."

"In a couple of days, we can house 200,000 more people."

"Still not enough."

Su Wu pondered, realizing he would need to continue reducing the planting areas in the affiliated shelters.

Additionally, he would have to cut down the meat chicken farming facilities from 40 to just 8.

This would free up enough space—equivalent to the area of five aircraft carriers—enough to house 250,000 more people.

Even so,

there would still be 300,000 people with no place to stay.

This was the price Su Wu had to pay for rapidly expanding his influence to a population over 1 million.

The challenge of absorbing this many people was enormous.

"If that doesn't work,"

"I'll have to give up on turning Owen Shelter into a dedicated planting facility."

"I'll focus on turning it into a residential area instead."

Su Wu's eyes wandered across the maps of the various affiliated shelters before finally settling on Owen Shelter.

According to the original plan, after thoroughly disinfecting and clearing out Owen Shelter, a small honeycomb capsule bed zone would be built to house some severely infected individuals.

The rest of the space would be converted into fast-growing planting fields and become one of Su Wu's main food storage areas.

But now, it seemed more fitting to repurpose Owen Shelter for accommodating the newly increased population.

Given the shelter's medium size, it was likely that only if every inch of space was used to build standard dormitories, could the remaining 300,000 people be squeezed in.

It was important to note that this would be a temporary measure.

Once 300,000 people were housed, Owen Shelter would have no more space left for public activity areas.

Even if people were moved from capsule beds to standard dormitories, the space they had would only increase from 2 cubic meters to around 14-15 cubic meters.

The psychological pressure would still be significant.

To create a permanent living area, Su Wu would have to lower the population density, limiting Owen Shelter's population to 150,000.

This issue also applied to the other affiliated shelters.

"Let's take it slow."

"As long as we can move people out of capsule beds,"

"The rest can be addressed over time."

Su Wu rubbed his forehead in frustration, deciding not to dwell on the bigger picture and focus on the immediate issues.

"The first batch of standard dormitories, with 150,000 available spots,"

"Will be allocated through a lottery system."

"In the next two days, we will draw people randomly in several rounds."

"Those chosen will be allowed to move to the standard dormitories."

"Afterward, when the second batch is ready, we can continue to release more spots every day."

"This way, giving everyone a chance to leave through the lottery every few hours should help stabilize things."

When dealing with hundreds of thousands or even millions of people,

every decision becomes a monumental task.

What Su Wu could do was carefully consider each plan,

and ensure everything proceeded smoothly without issues.

Managing population resettlement was one important task, but another equally important issue presented itself:

Su Wu had drastically reduced the planting area to accommodate the growing population.

Now, he had to figure out how to make up for the food production shortfall.

Currently,

based on an average daily food intake of 0.6 kilograms per person,

for 1.5 million people, he would need 27,000 tons of food per month.

But the output of his existing planting fields was only 11,000 tons per month, leaving a huge gap.

For now, the stockpiled food would have to cover the deficit.

However, with such large-scale consumption,

the stockpile wouldn't last long.

"This always brings us back to square one."

"All the problems still stem from lack of space."

"Next, the solution is clear."

"The only thing I need to do is shift more industrial capacity to manufacturing engineering machinery and expanding the engineering team."

"Let's see how quickly the Farmhouse Shelter can expand without material limitations."

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October 5.

On the first day after Su Wu had allocated much of the freed-up production capacity to the engineering team,

the engineering team completed the first phase expansion of the Farmhouse Shelter.

The entire shelter's exterior was transformed into a regular cylindrical shape.

Since the floor height of underground floors 1-4 was only 6 meters,

Su Wu decided to combine floors 3 and 4 to form a new second underground floor.

Meanwhile, floors 1 and 2 were merged to become the first underground floor.

The newly created space on these two levels was not used for fast-growing planting fields.

Instead, Su Wu relocated the original feed planting area, chicken and duck farms, and fish pools to the newly formed underground 4th floor, alongside the livestock farming facilities.

Then, he moved the Manufacturing Center one floor down and occupied the entire new second

underground floor, alongside the existing recycling center.

The newly created second underground floor was still named the Manufacturing Center.

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