Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

After leaving the three towns, it seems that there is no bustling urban area along the way.

In fact, along the G318 national road, there are indeed no big cities along the way.

Because the route chosen by Chen Xin is to travel through the mountainous area, there are no more developed cities in this area, and the more developed cities in E Province itself are either distributed in the west of E Province, or concentrated along the Yangtze River.

This does not overlap with the direction Chen Xin is going to move, so it is not uncommon for him to not see the city.

The scenery along the way is still similar to the scenery on the previous road, it is pitch black everywhere, and all the sight lines are covered with snow.

Reaching out from the workbench, he picked up a piece of dried fruit from the staff in E Province and threw it into his mouth. Chen Xin was reluctant to chew it, but sipped the taste of the piece of dried fruit, feeling a little nostalgic.

Seriously, this seems to be the first time Chen Xin has eaten fruit after the disaster. Even though it is only dried fruit, it is already a very rare thing.

Just eating dried fruit, recalling the appearance of the city of Sanzhen and the dark scene along the way, Chen Xin still felt a huge difference.

In large cities, the country has already started post-disaster reconstruction, and general small and medium-sized cities have also recovered from the disaster and have begun to actively resume production.

Because the state, the army and the police are still there, everything is not as bad as expected.

But what about the situation in the countryside far from the cities?

Chen Xin didn't know, and he didn't investigate, but judging from what he's seen and the information he has, I'm afraid the farther away from the city, the worse the situation will be, right?

After all, the farther away the city is, the fewer places can be called underground bunkers before the disaster, and most of them may just be the cellars of farmers' homes.

Even in the three months before the disaster, the state urgently built shelters in villages and towns. Although most rural residents could have a place to escape the previous disaster, the time for the construction of those shelters was very tight. It is difficult to say that sufficient numbers have been built and that every shelter can provide the necessary living conditions.

Lack of food and clothing, shortages of medical services and medicines, lack of electricity and fresh water... Chen Xin doesn't even need to think about it before he can count the list of possible problems.

Especially the hypoxia problem that happened in his city before, the ventilation of the small shelter may be better, plus there is only one or two floors, maybe the depth is not enough, there will be no problems such as carbon dioxide deposition, but the same It is difficult to have a good thermal insulation effect if the shelter is not dug deep enough.

Even if the temperature can be kept as low as possible, if there are not enough heating facilities inside, it will quickly cool down and become like a huge ice cellar.

Although many people can survive by having a shelter sheltered from the cold compared to directly facing the low temperature of minus 30 to 40 degrees, people will need more high-calorie food to maintain body temperature under low temperature, and the low temperature environment The next person is also more likely to get sick.

And what are the consequences of these two... Chen Xin, who has played the game "Frozen Age", knows clearly that once the number of hunger and disease reaches a certain level, riots and dissatisfaction will breed.

In the game, the unscrupulous people have to die of illness and starve to a certain level of dissatisfaction before they riot and drive away the manager, but in reality, I am afraid that when someone starts to die of illness, many problems and contradictions will break out, making things out of control.

This also made Chen Xin worried about his parents. They lived with their relatives in their hometown, which was just a county town, and their parents and relatives did not live in the city.

Although the people who lived together were all relatives in the family, they had lived together for several generations before the disaster, and even the ancestral hall dedicated to the ancestors was the same, so it wouldn't say that something messy happened, and before the disaster, Chen Xin also deliberately They explained how they should hoard supplies and build shelters, but Chen Xin was still full of worries.

Just worrying can't make Chen Xin go faster. His current speed is much faster than he expected. After three towns, he has already walked half of the journey, and the time it takes is only from the time he set off. Only five or six days have passed.

This is already much faster than Chen Xin's estimate. According to his current speed, he is confident that he will arrive in Anhui Province within five days. Counting the time for the return journey, he can just rush back within a month.

Even if there is still something to deal with after receiving the parents, it will take a few days at most, and there will not be too many variables.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin felt more relieved.

Now that he is the only one in the car, Chen Xin must find a way to adjust his emotions so that he is not too impatient. Otherwise, although the car can accelerate, it is right, but the speed also means danger.

This can be clearly seen from the completely snow-covered road in front of Chen Xin.

The road in front of you should have been built along the mountain. The road was dug out on the mountain, with a mountain wall on one side and a valley on the other.

But now with the snow covering the entire road, there is no trace of the road ahead. The snow has turned the entire hillside into a whole, making it impossible to see where the original road is.

"The snow is too thick!" Chen Xin looked at the snow in front of him and frowned, thinking about how he should cross this section of road.

The road is covered with snow, and it is impossible to take the original road unless Chen Xin can clear the snow on the road.

But Chen Xin has the kung fu and energy to clear the snow. He might as well find a way to take a different road or upgrade his car so that it can drive on this slope-like snow.

Although according to the design, even on such a sloping slope, the crawler-type chassis has enough grip to ensure that the vehicle does not slip into the valley, but it is too risky to drive in that way. If you are not careful, it will fall directly below in the valley.

Chen Xin hesitated for a moment, and let both reconnaissance drones fly, intending to scan the entire surrounding terrain to see if there was a smooth place for him to pass.

Although there are mountains around here, the mountains are not steep and steep, and there are relatively flat places in the valley that can be passed.

It's just that compared to the original road, the obvious route from the valley is more winding.

But now there is only one option in front of Chen Xin, unless he wants to spend more time on the other side of the highway.

Going the high-speed can only be a last resort. Although the high-speed route is straighter and the road has less undulations, building a high-speed in a place where there are mountains everywhere must be full of bridges and tunnels.

Tunnels are fine, but bridges...

Recalling the collapsed bridges he had seen along the way, Chen Xin directly let himself give up this plan.

After all, no matter how good the infrastructure of the Yan Kingdom is, the infrastructure madman cannot build a road bridge that can withstand the impact of meteorites without collapsing.

Soon, the drone sent the scanned results back to the map on the console and displayed them in the form of color blocks.

Looking at the yellow and red areas on the hillside, Chen Xin could only turn his attention to the relatively flat green area in the valley, and while controlling the drone to continue scanning forward, he also restarted the car and continued along the path. The marking of green blocks continues.

It's not dangerous to scan while walking in this way, but it also makes Chen Xin's speed unable to increase. He can only slowly creep forward. The speed of the car has dropped to 10 kilometers per hour, which is comparable to the speed of a turtle.

"It's really hard to walk! Fortunately, this valley used to be a river. This is a ditch. Otherwise, there might be no road." Chen Xin shook his head and compared the terrain scanned by the drone with the map. Looking at the original river channel in the valley marked on the map, I couldn't help sighing.

Just now, I felt that my speed was not slow, but as a result, I immediately encountered a situation where I had to slow down. Chen Xin couldn't help laughing and laughing.

Fortunately, he has a good mentality, and he did not become impatient because of such a situation. He had to force a fast pass, but he was able to accept the current speed.

The speed of driving in the wild is not fast. After all, it is not like driving on the road before the disaster. The road is flat and straight, and there are no potholes and mud on the hardened road. As long as you don't speed, you can step on the accelerator to the end. rush forward.

When there is no road in the wild, you must first plan a forward direction and route for yourself, and secondly, you must deal with complex road conditions in various environments.

Problems such as stagnant water and mud are the best solutions to solve. Now in this apocalyptic environment, a series of obstacles such as gravel, trees, rivers and other obstacles on the road have become snow-covered roads. Relatively speaking, the road conditions It did become single, but it didn't go any better.

If you have to make an analogy, driving in such a completely snow-covered area is actually the same as driving in the desert, except that the snow may be a little firmer than the desert, and the wheels or tracks are not As for how easy it is to fall into it.

The snow itself also has the potential to collapse softly, or even a hole under the snow.

This is also why Chen Xin did not start the operating system to drive automatically, but held the steering wheel by himself.

After all, people's ability to judge and react is stronger than this kind of rigid operating system.

However, this also made Chen Xin a little annoyed. When he was in Sanzhen before, he forgot to ask them for more resources, so he simply upgraded the operating system on the car to artificial intelligence.

That way, you can relax a lot, right? Chen Xin couldn't help but walk away.