Sometimes, Su Wu would listen to Chen Xing sing or admire the new dance moves Chen Yue had recently learned.
Occasionally, he would relax in the newly constructed luxury hot spring bath.
Enjoying a rare and peaceful moment.
According to Su Wu's philosophy, his hard work until now was not for the benefit of others, but for himself, so that he could live a better life.
When given a choice, it was only right not to be too harsh on himself.
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Outside, under Su Wu's leadership, the Arshi Shelter had grown into a massive beast—the Arshi Shelter network.
In silence, it continued to extract resources from the city ruins and mines deep in the mountains, constantly fueling its development.
Inside the underground shelters, every day, tens of thousands of people were transferred to the standard dormitories in the various affiliated shelters.
Through the allocation system of artificial intelligence, these people worked in remote control centers and factories, or spent their time grinding through tasks in games, continuously contributing spiritual energy to Su Wu.
As more people were moved into the dormitories, the now-vacant capsule cells were dismantled, and new standard dormitories were built in their place to accommodate the remaining infected individuals still in the cells.
Over the past month, nearly a million severe infectees from all over the city had been absorbed.
In this quiet manner, they were gradually integrated into the shelter's original operational system, and with it, Su Wu had solved the challenges brought on by the population explosion.
As these issues were resolved, Su Wu began to enjoy the dividends of this growing population.
The most direct and simplest result: the workforce in the remote control center had increased to 90,000 people.
In extreme conditions, Su Wu could mobilize 90,000 human-controlled robots and vehicles to carry out tasks together.
However, due to human physiological limitations, this extreme condition would not last long.
Under normal circumstances, Su Wu would have these workers rotate in shifts, with three people alternating in controlling each robot or construction vehicle, working across various locations.
Even with these constraints, the 30,000 operational robots represented a power capable of moving mountains.
With their presence, Su Wu could rapidly expand the shelter's space at a rate of 5,000 square meters per day, building planting farms in the newly created spaces.
The team was able to mine in the mountains and gather debris in the city ruins, keeping the arc furnaces running at full power, melting thousands of tons of steel every day.
Also, heavy machinery was used to build standard dormitories, sports arenas, factories, and to dismantle unnecessary facilities in the affiliated shelters.
In addition to the remote control center, with the support of the ample population, large numbers of hospitals, schools, and labor-intensive low-end industries began to develop.
Su Wu's affiliated shelters were gradually transforming into a complete society.
At the same time, due to Su Wu's intervention and his decision to maintain an 8-hour workday, the residents of these shelters had essentially become game players.
They spent at least two hours a day in the games Su Wu had commissioned, contributing at least 15 additional points of spiritual energy to him every day.
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October 17th.
In the Farmhouse Shelter's underground level 7, a light "click" was heard.
The second material transport tunnel to the nearest Qingning Shelter was completed and connected.
From this point on, the Farmhouse Shelter would have two bi-directional material transport tunnels.
The daily transport volume was set to reach 28,800 cubic meters, which was ten times more than the previous single tunnel capacity.
In exchange for this improvement, the entire expansion area of level 7, covering 4,850 square meters, had been converted into a station platform, where small trains could stop and unload materials.
"I didn't expect that in such a short time," Su Wu thought, looking at the busy station, "a material transport tunnel capable of handling 10,000 to 20,000 tons of goods per day would already be inadequate."
In the level 1 control center, Su Wu reflected on how far they had come.
At one point, a quantity of ten thousand tons of material would have seemed astronomical, potentially exceeding the total supply of the entire Farmhouse Shelter. Now, it was just the daily material exchange between shelters.
This unanticipated change marked the rapid development of the shelter, exceeding Su Wu's original expectations.
Now, with the work of 2,000 construction vehicles in the engineering team, the outer ring of the level 7 expansion had already created over 50,000 square meters of space.
It was roughly the size of an aircraft carrier and about 70% of the internal space of the Qingning Shelter.
This space was entirely filled with fast-growing planting farms.
Such a large-scale food production area was already enough to relieve the immense food pressure caused by a population of millions.
It marked the first step in realizing the plan to make Farmhouse Shelter the sole primary food producer.
Meanwhile, the one-way passenger transport tunnels and material transport tunnels in the other affiliated shelters had already been completed.
Now, when Su Wu moved workers between the inhabited shelters, they no longer needed to risk leaving the shelter through the dangerous surface.
Instead, they could easily travel between shelters using the small trains inside the shelters, reaching other shelters within 20 minutes.
In addition to these visible developments, the most important breakthrough during these days was that Chen Yue successfully developed a vaccine for the Rola virus.
Once Su Wu successfully distributed the vaccine to the entire 江河市 at near cost price, the Rola virus lost its ability to find hosts and gradually disappeared from the city ruins and the wilderness.
It was now only retained in a few laboratory samples.
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Despite the rapid development, there were still some inevitable risks.
Su Wu's large-scale thermal power station in the deepest levels of the Farmhouse Shelter was already approaching its power limits.
Unless something unexpected happened, Su Wu would soon face the problem of power shortages.
"The fuel consumption is getting too intense. It's already below the danger line. It's not suitable to increase the number of thermal power stations," Su Wu noted.
"Geothermal power efficiency is too low—if we build too few, it's not enough, and if we build too many, considering each one needs survival points for reinforceme
nt, it's not cost-effective."
"Maybe it's time to consider building a nuclear power plant."
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