Chapter 346 Pan-Continental Shelf Earthquake
Rumble.
A series of dull thunder-like sounds spread in the distant mountains.
Then the endless mountains and rivers, like high walls,
collapsed bit by bit at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Three hours after the earthquake from the ocean landed on the coastline,
it quickly spread to the depths of hundreds of kilometers in the hinterland of the continent at an incredible speed,
approaching Su Wu's Terra shelter.
Terra.
The first underground floor, the control center.
In front of the sci-fi console.
The huge screen wall is divided into thousands of partitions.
The pictures of the surrounding area of the shelter within a range of nearly 100 kilometers are presented from different angles.
It can be seen from it that the originally solid ice fields and mountains and hills near the shelter
have begun to shake like the undulating sea surface.
Occasionally, there will even be towering mountains, like giant ships in the ocean, slowly sliding on the plains.
On a few split screens,
there are faint red light and shadows.
That is the color rendered by the magma squeezed and ejected from deep underground.
"Transport formation D1037 has been destroyed."
"Currently, a total of 723 Ice Lake-class transport ships have been lost."
Several lines of red warning text were refreshed in the operation log of the artificial intelligence.
In Su Wu's eyes,
the Ice Lake-class transport ships, which can only float and move one meter above the flat ground at most,
are not very capable of resisting geological disasters.
Coupled with their extremely slow movement speed,
once they are trapped in an area of frequent geological activities, the probability of survival is quite slim.
To avoid this situation
, the only way is to evade it in advance.
"The surface environment near Terra is no longer suitable for Ice Lake-class transport ships to travel."
"Gangcheng, Changming City, and several other super cities can be used as temporary transit warehouses for the time being."
"Gather the surrounding materials."
Even the predicted super disaster did not sweep across the entire Dongzhou at once.
Its current central area of activity
is still limited to the Kuanjiang River Basin, and at most spreads to both sides for hundreds of kilometers.
Therefore, Su Wu has enough space to accommodate his Ice Lake-class transport ships, which have now accumulated more than 70,000 ships.
As for the more maneuverable sixth and seventh generation fighters and Morning Light class transport ships, they
are basically unaffected.
They can still continue to transport people and precious materials to Terra according to the original process.
At 7 pm,
on the surface,
under the rolling clouds,
the occasional strong purple lightning and the few rays of red glow lingering at the end of the sky
made the world, which should have been in darkness, shrouded in a faint halo.
Being in it, you can clearly feel that
even the air is trembling with the large-scale earthquakes and rolling thunder around.
It is like the prelude to the destruction of the world.
In this dark night,
a huge transport ship with a row of stable and weak lights on its surface
slowly broke through the clouds and landed in an airport ten floors away from Terra.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees who arrived here from the north, nearly a thousand kilometers away,
walked out of the cabin .
Looking at the doomsday scene outside the huge floor-to-ceiling glass outside the airport,
they couldn't help but tremble with fear.
Many people were so scared that their legs went weak and they needed help from others to move.
"Hurry up and make room for the people behind you."
"There is nothing to be afraid of outside. You are about to enter a huge shelter with a population of one billion."
"If there is danger here, it will be worse anywhere else in the world."
The Terra staff responsible for receiving and maintaining order at the port
tried their best to guide the crowd .
Their performance also calmed the panic of many people.
Humans are social creatures who follow the crowd.
The number of 1 billion people.
No matter how you interpret it, it is enough to give people a great sense of security.
And when these trembling refugees entered the shelter one after another.
Under their feet, at the control center on the underground floor,
Su Wu was focusing almost all his attention on observing the surface earthquake.
After more than half a day of evolution.
The trend of this earthquake has gradually become clear.
Its main earthquake zone is along the Kuanjiang River Basin and deep into the hinterland of the continent.
The overall trend is basically the same as the super earthquake at the beginning of the end of the world.
The only difference is that this time it lasts longer and is more destructive.
"Fortunately, most of the population in those areas have been absorbed into Terra in advance."
"Otherwise, the current number of casualties would probably not be less than 100 million."
The brightly lit control hall was as quiet as ever.
Except for Su Wu's own breathing and the occasional prompts from the artificial intelligence,
there was no other movement.
If you don't look at the data, just based on the feeling here,
it is hard to imagine that this is in the center of the earthquake.
Even if a huge 10,000-ton Ice Lake-class transport ship appears outside the shelter at this time,
it will be like a small sampan in a tsunami, and there is a risk of capsizing at any time.
After paying attention to the earthquake for a while,
Su Wu turned his attention to other continents outside Dongzhou.
Unlike Dongzhou, which is experiencing a continental plate-level earthquake,
other continents have hardly been affected.
Especially North America, where the federal center is located, and Xizhou, the two most prosperous regions in the human world before the end of the world.
At this moment, it is as if they are blessed by God.
Even the low-temperature cold current is much smaller than usual.
The normal ambient temperature in some places has also risen to around minus 50 degrees.
Some ordinary people can be allowed to go out and move around normally.
"No wonder the Federation has not paid much attention to Dongzhou."
"Is this the reason?"
Su Wu was somewhat surprised, but he was not too angry.
For ordinary people in Dongzhou, they may have been treated unfairly. They
became the first group of people to be abandoned in the end of the world.
But for Su Wu,
it was precisely because Dongzhou had been abandoned by the Federation that he had the opportunity to rise.
He retracted his sights from outside the continent and focused on Dongzhou.
This time, Su Wu's sight fell on the edge of the earthquake zone.
Compared with the center of the earthquake zone, which was almost uninhabited.
There are still many shelters and populations in those marginal areas.
And their environment cannot be said to be very safe.
Under the influence of plate-level earthquake aftershocks.
Even a large shelter that can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people has a high probability of becoming a ruin.
"You can give priority to gathering the population in these areas to Terra."
"Let the Ice Lake-class transport ships take charge of those materials that cannot be taken away."
"Transport them little by little to the super cities in the opposite direction that serve as temporary transit points."