February 13th.
The surface of the farmhouse shelter, resembling a massive construction site, gradually returned to calm.
The once prevalent deserts, hills, villages, and remnants of farmland, along with the snow covering them, were all swept away.
In their place was a smooth and expansive concrete ground.
Amidst this, a few scattered buildings stood tall.
After a week of continuous construction,
with the efforts of tens of millions of people and the assistance of countless mechanical tools,
the farmhouse shelter, from the 5th underground level to the 1st underground level, was completed.
The super shelter Su Wu had once designed in his blueprints had now fully transitioned from plans to reality.
This massive change was first reflected on the system panel.
The shelter's level, originally a medium-sized shelter, underwent several leaps,
directly promoting it to a super shelter.
The daily fixed survival points increased from 5 to 8.
Including the additional bonuses from concurrent disasters, the actual daily survival points gained were at least 11.
Moreover,
Su Wu also received a one-time reward of 1200 survival points.
This substantial reward of survival points came at a crucial time for Su Wu.
As soon as it was credited,
Su Wu didn't let it sit on the panel for more than a minute before spending it all.
A total of 1500 survival points,
including all one-time rewards from the shelter upgrade, accumulated daily fixed survival points, and occasional income from daily tasks,
were all invested into the same upgrade.
Ultimately, the first-generation quantum computer was obtained,
directly increasing the total computing power of Su Wu's shelter by a thousandfold.
"Before the upgrade, the total computing power was 10 units."
"In reality, it could only fully control 1000 Spider Robots simultaneously."
"Compared to the current scale of millions of robots and vehicles in the shelter, it wasn't even a drop in the bucket."
"We had to delegate the actual operation permissions of all robots to a remote control center."
"Now, with the advancement to a quantum computer, the computing power unit has expanded to ten thousand."
"Allowing for the simultaneous full control of a million Spider Robots."
Control and full control are two different concepts.
Simple data analysis and some repetitive operations
do not consume much computing power.
With human operation as the main and computer assistance,
a unit of computing power is sufficient to support the activities of a million Spider Robots.
As for even simpler humanoid service robots and Machine Dogs, the consumption is so low it can be ignored.
However, full control is another matter.
The computing power consumption will skyrocket.
The actual performance improvement of the robots brought by this, however, is far less significant than the extra computing power consumed.
It's a matter of extremely poor cost-effectiveness.
But, nothing is absolute.
Especially on the battlefield.
The slight improvement in combat power brought by full control becomes quite important.
It could very well be the key to determining the final outcome.
"Under normal circumstances,"
"there's no need to fully control such a large number of robots."
"The vast computing power of the quantum computer,"
"its real use lies in managing the daily affairs of the farmhouse shelter and overseeing the front-line battlefield located in the Qinling Mountains."
Over the past week,
two large-scale population migrations were completed.
The total population within the farmhouse shelter
has officially exceeded 40 million.
The various needs and problems generated by such a large population
are far more complex than in the past.
With only 10 units of computing power,
the artificial intelligence was already showing signs of sluggishness in handling affairs.
This is why Su Wu, after earning over a thousand survival points,
was so eager to upgrade the computing power in one go.
After the upgrade,
awakening the artificial intelligence and reactivating control over various parts of the farmhouse shelter,
Su Wu tested it a bit and quickly found that
the operation of the artificial intelligence became more fluid.
The overall efficiency in handling affairs improved by at least 50%.
And even so, it only occupied about 1.2 per thousand of the total computing power,
allowing Su Wu to deeply feel the vastness and abundance of the remaining computing power.
"With so much computing power,"
Su Wu felt both the satisfaction of sudden wealth and a bit of confusion on how to use it.
The feeling was akin to before the transmigration, when the best graphics card was installed on the computer, but the games played were still the same old online games.
After some thought,
he opened the structural diagram of the farmhouse shelter.
Now that the shelter has completed its final capping work,
from the outside, it is a complete building.
But inside, there are still many areas that need to be improved and transformed.
Many people don't even have standard dormitories and have to make do with tents temporarily.
As for the plantation and activity areas, which are lower on the construction priority list, they are even more non-existent.
Besides,
the poor air quality inside the shelter is also an issue that needs attention.
The area of the shelter where Su Wu himself is active,
due to the air circulation system upgraded with survival points earliest,
maintains a quality comparable to the top natural scenic spots before the apocalypse.
But outside the core area,
the treatment isn't as good.
Relying solely on the air circulation system created by Su Wu with double-digit survival points, it's impossible to meet the needs of 40 million people.
They can only install some related equipment dismantled from other subsidiary shelters
as a substitute.
These ventilation devices, not designed from the start for use in a super shelter,
as one can imagine, their actual effectiveness is limited.
As a result, more than half of the people in the shelter
feel varying degrees of chest tightness and discomfort.
However, in a situation where safety and basic sustenance are not easily guaranteed,
such non-lethal issues are not overly concerned by people.
As for Su Wu, who is aloof and has been too long isolated from the lower levels,
had it not been for Liu Qianqian occasionally mentioning it to him when she went out to visit relatives,
he wouldn't have noticed this aspect either.
"Poor air quality,"
"is more likely to breed bacteria, affecting human mental states."
"It's not conducive to long-term development."
"Now, it's time to redesign an air circulation system."
"If necessary, a certain amount of survival points can also be invested to make up for its deficiencies."
After being promoted to a super shelter,
with a daily fixed income of over 10 survival points,
Su Wu had some confidence to apply them to these livelihood projects that did not involve combat and safety, seemingly without clear returns.
Besides air,
water, which is always inseparable from it, naturally also falls into the range of needed improvements.
The super large shelter with a diameter of 7 kilometers
requires about 70,000 tons of the most basic drinking water daily.
If you add the needs for washing, hygiene, and other daily life activities, the minimum consumption would be over a million tons.
And this is the result of strict control.
If used freely as before the apocalypse, the consumption would at least increase by seven to eight times.
Such a huge demand for water
has kept the water circulation system in the shelter in a state of extreme load.
Moreover, the water reserves are severely insufficient.
Often, the sewage that was just flushed into the sewer the day before has to be turned into domestic water the next day, delivered to millions of people again.
In this process,
if any link has an accident, delaying it for a few hours,
it would cause extremely adverse effects.
"More water storage equipment is needed."
"We cannot rely entirely on purification devices."
Currently, the farmhouse shelter
adopts the model of building a reservoir with a capacity of 300,000 tons in the super warehouse on the 7th underground level,
and building a purification plant with a capacity of 100,000 tons on each of the first 6 levels.
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Supplying water to the entire shelter's 40 million residents.
According to Su Wu's plan,
next, in the specific residential areas of each level,
a water tower will be built in every residential area of 50,000 people.
Adding nearly a thousand water towers with a capacity of about 1000 tons.
Then, on the 8th underground level currently under expansion, continue to add an ultra-large reservoir with a capacity of 8 million tons.
To reduce the speed of water circulation in each link,
avoiding accidents.
However, this way,
they have to find a way to go out to look for water sources.
Relying solely on groundwater cannot fill those new water towers and reservoirs.
"Water sources are easy to find."
"The snow on the ground and the completely frozen river water on the nearby tributary of the Kuang River can be utilized."
"However, according to detection,"
"most of them carry slight radiation and toxicity."
"They need to undergo deep purification."
This is a costly project.
Purifying radiation is not as easy as simple filtration.
But currently, besides obtaining water from this route, transporting water from elsewhere is not a good option.
Not only are Su Wu's precious transport capacities needed for transporting population and materials,
but also, there may not be enough clean wild water sources elsewhere.
According to Su Wu's detection results in those subsidiary shelters outside Jianghe City,
currently, more than half of the shelters have groundwater around them
that is contaminated to varying degrees.
Not much cleaner than the snow on the ground.
"The survival resources left for humans by the outside world are really getting fewer and fewer."
Su Wu couldn't help but sigh.
After some thought,
he finally decided to collect snow and ice locally as water sources.
As for the preliminary purification devices,
he plans to place them on the surface, above the shelter.
"Speaking of the surface,"
"once manpower is freed up,"
"we can officially consider building a layer of above-ground structures on top of the shelter."
Currently, above the shelter,
there is only the lifting platform of the super large electromagnetic railgun in the core area, and some temporary workshops built sporadically.
The land utilization rate is not high.
Considering that Su Wu now and in the future has a large need to manufacture large machinery,
he simply plans to directly build a layer of shelter buildings on the ground,
expanding the shelter to a structure of 7 underground levels plus 1 above-ground level.
"Moreover, the difficulty of building on the ground is relatively low."
"There's no need to save space."
"The above-ground level can be directly stretched to a height of 50 meters."
This is a quite exaggerated design.
Under a layer height of 50 meters,
the space of one level
exceeds more than half of the current total size of the farmhouse shelter.
The interior can even completely accommodate a nearly 20-story residential building from before the apocalypse.
If Su Wu really builds this level,
the internal space of his shelter will probably be in surplus in the short term.
"Although, buildings built above ground"
"will encounter more dangers,"
"with the strength of rapid-setting cement,"
"it can be made tougher than a mountain."
"The actual safety level is actually stronger than those shelters built in mountains."
"Moreover, the above-ground level can also serve as a buffer layer."
"Resisting unpredictable dangers such as meteorite impacts,"
"ensuring the absolute safety of the currently most critical underground level."
"Also, in the future, even more massive Land Cruisers, base vehicles, and even space aircraft carriers"
"need a spacious enough place to be smoothly manufactured."
Thinking of all these benefits,
Su Wu had no reason not to build it.
So without further hesitation,
he listed the construction of the above-ground level shelter
as one of the most important projects to follow.
February 17th.
Steel City.
A black fighter jet slowly rose from the lifting platform above a large shelter in the city area.
Upon reaching a certain altitude,
the engine instantly started.
In just a few seconds, it accelerated to supersonic speed, quickly rushing into the higher clouds.
Only within the visible range on the ground,
were circles of white smoke like donuts left.
This is the recently developed, not yet fully mass-produced, Kongming-class 6th generation fighter jet by Su Wu.
The entire aircraft is 23 meters long and 7.3 meters high.
The fuselage width is 5.3 meters, and the wingspan is 24.8 meters.
Its length is comparable to two buses connected end to end, and its width is close to two lanes.
Almost catching up to the size of half an Icebound-class Land Battleship.
It is a veritable giant in the sky.
And its payload,
excluding the fuel that must be carried, is still as high as 15 tons.
Not much less than the standard of 20 tons for a Twin-Winged Helicopter.
Additionally, considering its relatively low construction cost and speed far higher than the latter, reaching up to 4 times the speed of sound.
From the moment it was born,
it had already replaced the Twin-Winged Helicopter,
becoming the most important air transport force in Su Wu's hands.
It is also the cornerstone he relies on to build a true continental-level air traffic network across the entire Eastern Continent.
Passing through the clouds,
this expe
Lfrimental Kongming-class 6th generation fighter jet that took off from Steel City
began cruising at 3 times the speed of sound,flying towards the direction of the farmhouse shelter.
The distance of 400 kilometers between the two places,
under such a high cruising speed, was almost instantaneous.
As it approached the farmhouse shelter, starting to gradually decelerate and lower altitude,
a building that still felt enormous from the air
began to appear in the vision of the Kongming-class 6th generation fighter jet.
That is the already constructed above-ground level of the farmhouse shelter.
(End of Chapter)