Chapter 255: The Last Biological Homeland

A silent confrontation unfolded in a realm invisible to the naked eye.

Centered on the landing point of the Twin-Winged Helicopter, it spread outwards in circles.

Soon, the surrounding area of several kilometers was completely purified.

Subsequently, batches of Combat Drone Swarms began to take off, patrolling further afield.

Spider Robots began to run towards nearby shelters.

"Disinfection procedure initiated."

"Measuring disinfection boundary."

"Measurement complete, estimated area to be cleaned: 6729 square kilometers."

"Estimated time required: 49 hours and 27 minutes."

"Mapping shelter structures."

"Shelter No. 1 mapped successfully, No. 2—"

Under conditions where disinfection methods are still very limited.

Eliminating the Rola Virus was an exceptionally complex task.

If it were done manually, the difficulty would be nearly impossible to achieve.

Only Artificial Intelligence could guarantee that the process would be rigorous and without any errors.

But even so, the time required was still quite long.

"This land is truly plagued by disasters."

"And humanity is far too fragile."

Looking at the map of Gangkai City, with a large area stained red.

And the reality that no survivor signals had been detected so far.

Su Wu couldn't help but sigh.

Some viruses that were not completely eliminated had spread here, creating another uninhabited dead zone.

Bringing a catastrophe that wiped out hundreds of thousands of people.

This scene was like a falling rock accidentally rolling down and crushing an ant nest.

In the distance.

The layout of the shelters in Gangkai City was similar to that of the initial Jianghe City.

They were mainly located underground in the urban area.

However, because there was no subway.

The shelters here were generally not very large.

Even the official No. 1 shelter, which served as the core, only housed tens of thousands of people.

Using explosives to directionally blast the gate.

Several Spider Robots located on the ground successfully entered the first underground shelter.

Since not much time had passed since the virus outbreak, the power was still being supplied normally.

Indoor lights remained on.

But the specific situation was not very good.

Traces of battles and explosions were visible everywhere in the corridors and halls.

The remains of human bodies were scattered all over the place.

These phenomena were obviously not caused by the virus.

They could only have come from human infighting.

And as a Spider Robot retrieved the shelter's surveillance footage.

Su Wu realized.

This stemmed from an internal strife within the shelter.

After the virus outbreak, the shelter's higher-ups, realizing that the situation was beyond saving.

Decided to completely seal off the entire shelter.

To prevent the virus from leaking out.

Some people were unwilling to die like this and launched a riot.

Trying to break out.

Then there were thugs taking advantage of the chaos, burning, killing, and looting everywhere.

The entire shelter was plunged into a state of great turmoil.

But in the end, no one achieved final victory.

They all fell in the process of fighting.

"The main time of death was between 48 and 56 hours ago."

"The corpses are generally shriveled, with a mass reduction of about one-third."

"The overall structure of the shelter is damaged by about 17%."

"Resources in the warehouse are well preserved."

Without focusing too much on the story behind this shelter.

Su Wu directed the Spider Robots to search and organize the entire shelter.

Killing the virus, and centrally incinerating the corpses.

Then, he also took the opportunity to take stock of the usable assets left in the shelter.

Although Gangkai City was just a small city even more remote than Jianghe City, and not even as good as a county town.

And nearly 300 kilometers away from Jianghe City.

But no matter what, it accommodated the survival of six or seven hundred thousand people.

All kinds of finished resources were piled up like mountains.

Transporting these resources back was much easier than painstakingly mining and smelting.

While the first shelter was being cleared.

The other Spider Robots also began to enter the remaining shelters to investigate.

A large amount of data began to converge on the farmhouse courtyard control center.

Causing the number of various basic resources and semi-finished resources being tallied.

To continue to increase, until it exceeded the value of one million tons, before gradually slowing down.

"Just the various finished steel products are almost equivalent to the total reserves of a small iron mine."

He didn't expect that such an inconspicuous small city would have so many supplies.

Su Wu couldn't help but look at it with new eyes.

The reserves of finished steel and iron ore were completely different things.

The former could be used directly.

The latter would take at least several months to years to completely excavate the ore inside.

By that time, whether the Earth would still exist was still a question.

Let alone using it.

"There are also various rare metals and chemical raw materials."

"Added together, they are enough to build three more Twin-Winged Helicopters and a dozen Icebound-class Land Battleships."

This was no small amount.

You know, because the main resources of Jianghe City were used to build the farmhouse courtyard shelter, the robot legion, engineering vehicles, and Exoskeleton Armor, etc.

Su Wu so far.

Had only built three Icebound-class Land Battleships with the barely squeezed out extra resources.

And the Twin-Winged Helicopter, because its construction required the use of some more high-end raw materials.

Even a city as strong as Zhenhai City, once the second largest city in Dongzhou, could only afford the resources to manufacture six of them.

If this batch of supplies from Gangkai City could be digested.

It was foreseeable.

Su Wu's troops operating in the wild would immediately expand several times.

"Currently."

"With the production and construction corps in the farmhouse courtyard, fully popularizing even the most basic power tools such as electric hammers."

"The productivity of the manufacturing center has been freed up by more than half."

"Next."

"As long as there are enough resources, even starting the construction of ten Icebound-class Land Battleships at the same time is possible."

"The production of snow transport vehicles can also be increased several times."

"So, the current priority."

"Should be revised to digest the supplies of Gangkai City as much as possible."

"In order to quickly expand the scale of ground transportation vehicles."

As for how to digest it.

It wasn't as difficult as it seemed.

Among the more than one million tons of supplies in Gangkai City.

The total amount of truly scarce materials was only a few dozen tons.

These could all be transported away by the Twin-Winged Helicopter running back and forth a few times.

And when these materials arrived, the manufacturing center could directly start manufacturing Twin-Winged Helicopters and Icebound-class Land Battleships.

Then, coupled with the profits earned from the orders from Changming City and Zhenhai City.

If everything went smoothly.

Su Wu would be able to have a total of ten Twin-Winged Helicopters in the next few days.

Which could transport thousands of tons of resources from Gangkai City to the farmhouse courtyard every day.

In this way, the more valuable precious metals and some chemical raw materials among all the supplies in Gangkai City.

Could also be easily transferred away.

Then the remaining ordinary metals, rubber, etc.

Would be slowly transported back by land, by a caravan composed of newly manufactured Icebound-class Land Battleships and snow transport vehicles.

Each of these caravans could have a carrying capacity of more than six thousand tons.

If the scale was slightly increased, transporting one million tons of supplies would not be too much pressure.

Finally, the fuel stored locally did not need to be transported away.

Directly airlift a batch of equipment over, and build a thermal power plant on the spot.

Then use it to mine and smelt ore near Gangkai City.

The remaining excess electricity, would then be transferred to the farmhouse courtyard through the three high-energy batteries in Su Wu's hands that had been strengthened with Survival Points and were currently not of much use.

This would basically consume everything.

Having determined the next course of action.

The Twin-Winged Helicopter, which was parked in the city center square of Gangkai City, immediately carried the first batch of 20 tons of scarce materials that had been scavenged.

And took off to return to Jianghe City.

It would be available in the next day.

While transporting scarce resources to Jianghe City, it would also send the power generation equipment, Electric Arc Furnace, and more robots and weapons and ammunition, including a versatile engineering robot, from Jianghe City to Gangkai City.

"Build power plants, deploy fortifications, and modify the transport vehicles preserved in the shelters."

"Then inherit the original mines in Gangkai City and continue mining."

Su Wu's vision for the future of Gangkai City.

Was basically to design it as a remote unmanned resource point.

"In addition, we need to strengthen the security protection of those temporary communication signal nodes."

"It's best to prepare two more backup routes."

A distance of nearly 300 kilometers.

Was neither far nor near.

If a network was normally deployed.

At least 4 communication signal towers would need to be erected along the way to connect them.

But because Su Wu's current focus of development was still in the southeast area.

It was not worth doing this just for some resources in Gangkai City.

The only way left for Su Wu.

Was to temporarily use temporary communication signal nodes for transit.

At this time.

Su Wu desperately hoped that there would be a communication satellite of his own in space.

That way.

He would no longer have to worry about communication distance and communication security issues.

"The research progress of the carrier rocket needs to be accelerated."

"Satellites can be ignored for now."

"At worst, I can strengthen a few with Survival Points to deal with emergencies."

November 30th.

After initially establishing a stronghold in Gangkai City, based on the local official shelter.

Su Wu ushered in another matter.

Going to Changming City and Zhenhai City respectively, to transport the materials they paid for manufacturing the Twin-Winged Helicopter.

This was not a problem for Su Wu.

The mass of a Twin-Winged Helicopter was only about 26 tons.

Not much different from an ordinary snow transport vehicle.

Therefore, the corresponding manufacturing materials were not too heavy.

Even considering that some raw materials needed to be purified and fused.

The final calculation was only about forty or fifty tons.

With the speed and carrying capacity of the Twin-Winged Helicopter, it could transport all the materials from Zhenhai City back in a day.

Of course, speaking of this, it was necessary to mention one point.

In fact, the responsibility for transporting materials should have belonged to Zhenhai City and Changming City.

But after they both proposed to use one ton of silver to deduct transportation costs.

Su Wu simply took on all the transportation tasks.

One ton of silver, in Su Wu's hands, was equivalent to 250,000 tons of coal.

And it was also the kind of portable type that could be easily brought back to the farmhouse courtyard.

Spending one or two days for a Twin-Winged Helicopter.

Could get such a high return.

Su Wu had no reason to refuse.

9 a.m.

The Twin-Winged Helicopter, which had just finished transporting all the scarce resources from Gangkai City.

After hurriedly replenishing its power.

Took a batch of mining equipment and flew towards Zhenhai City.

Zhenhai City was located in the eastern ocean of the communication signal tower that Su Wu built by the sea.

Before arriving.

He could conveniently put the mining equipment at the seaside communication signal tower on the way.

To be used to mine the mines there.

For Su Wu, every bit of transportation capacity was very important now.

He needed to maximize its value and not waste it in vain.

An hour later.

The Twin-Winged Helicopter, which had completed unloading, appeared over an island 100 kilometers east of the coastline.

That island.

Used to be a famous park in Zhenhai City, and also the highest point in the entire urban area.

And now, it was the only land in the entire Zhenhai City that was still above sea level.

But in addition to land.

In fact, there were still many buildings in Zhenhai City that were more than 60 meters high and had not been destroyed by the initial tsunami.

They also stood above the sea.

According to the scanning of the detectors carried on the Twin-Winged Helicopter.

In those buildings that were exposed above the sea.

There were still many signs of life activity.

"I wonder what kind of people are still living there."

Su Wu specially gave those buildings a close-up with the Twin-Winged Helicopter's camera.

In the case where the temperature in the air was close to minus 50 degrees Celsius, the ocean had begun to condense into a large area of floating ice.

And even cold currents below minus 100 degrees Celsius could attack at any time.

These people were still willing to live in those buildings.

They could really be called warriors fighting against nature.

After waiting in the air for a while.

Somewhere on the island below, lights began to light up.

Prompting the Twin-Winged Helicopter to land.

Su Wu manipulated the Twin-Winged Helicopter to approach, and found that it was a large helipad.

Next to it was a large lifting platform that could be opened and closed at any time, directly leading to the underground shelter.

Judging from the fact that the snow around the helipad had been cleaned very cleanly.

This helipad was obviously used frequently.

It should be one of the main material exchange windows of Zhenhai City to the outside world.

As the helicopter stopped.

Staff from Zhenhai City immediately stepped forward to transport the prepared materials to the helicopter.

Taking advantage of this time.

Su Wu turned on the scanning equipment on the Twin-Winged Helicopter again.

With this scan.

He suddenly discovered.

More than two-thirds of the space inside this island had been excavated.

And built into shelter space for people to live in.

And in the ocean outside the island.

There were still quite a few fish and other marine life living in it.

The high temperature that lasted for many days, and the current severe cold.

Obviously had not completely wiped out these creatures located in the shallow sea.

"So it seems."

"The most vibrant place in the whole world now is actually on the seabed?"

Suddenly, Su Wu realized.

His previous impression might have been a bit biased.

The cities that were submerged by the tsunami might not really have such a harsh environment.

On the contrary.

They might even be the safest places in the apocalypse.

And, the home of the Earth's last wild creatures.

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