These modifications are not insignificant in difficulty.
They may even require the enhancement of Spirituality to be completed.
Su Wu can only list them as plans for future research.
He will take his time to refine them when he has some free time later.
Turning his attention back from Tumen City.
Su Wu continues to monitor the Garden fleet on its voyage.
At this moment, this fleet is on the outskirts of Tumen City.
They have encountered refugees who have drifted over for the first time.
Coincidentally.
When they met.
A refugee boat was experiencing a malfunction and began to sink.
Given the depth of the water and the turbulent currents at the site of the accident.
If the Garden fleet had not appeared.
Even if the nearby refugee boats were willing to help.
Not more than a third of the hundreds of passengers on that boat would have survived.
"This is the significance of taking the initiative."
Using an external camera on the Garden Cruise Ship.
Su Wu silently observes the batches of Spider Robots and Security Team members that are unfolding the rescue operation.
Watching them pull one drowning refugee after another.
Back from the brink of death.
He truly feels the weight of his decision.
These people, who should have perished on the road, are alive because of his choice.
And in the future, they will become one of the valuable population resources in his hands.
The rescue operation lasted for half an hour.
Thanks to the professional rescue equipment and the rescue team's high efficiency.
Aside from the initial drowning, where dozens of people died.
The remaining 600 or so individuals.
Were all rescued.
Next, the remaining refugees and their supplies from the other few refugee boats.
Were all transferred to the Garden Cruise Ship.
The entire fleet continued its journey southward.
As for the few intact refugee boats.
After Su Wu carefully selected, he discarded two wooden fishing boats that had little utility.
He retained one speedboat and one medium-sized fishing boat, integrating them into the fleet.
These two boats will undergo modifications by the Spider Robots during the upcoming voyage.
Replacing the original diesel engines with fully electric drives.
To increase speed and ensure they do not fall behind the main fleet.
After leaving Tumen City.
The number of refugees encountered by the fleet gradually increased.
In just over a day.
Having traveled only a little over 100 kilometers.
The number of refugees received reached over 50,000.
Essentially filling up all the remaining space in the fleet.
This filling up is truly a filling up.
Although the Garden Cruise Ship is massive.
It can only accommodate around 4,000 standard members.
Now, more than ten times that number has been crammed in.
Additionally, with the supplies they brought.
Many people on the ship can hardly even turn around.
If luck runs out, waiting in line to use the restroom could take several hours.
"The fleet is approaching its population capacity limit."
"Initiating the return procedure."
The artificial intelligence announced over the broadcast, issuing a notice to the fleet.
It began to maneuver the enormous Garden Cruise Ship.
Turning in place.
Then gradually increasing speed to a maximum of 40 kilometers per hour.
Heading full speed towards Jianghe City.
They will dock at a deep-water port temporarily established based on a medium-sized shelter in Jianghe City in just over five hours.
While placing the refugees into the medium-sized shelter.
They will also replenish supplies on-site.
And continue without pause to start the next voyage.
As for the remaining refugees.
After completing registration and allocation inside the medium-sized shelter.
They will be gradually transferred to other shelters, where standard dormitories have already been built for them.
Now, Jianghe City, unified under Su Wu,
Lacks nothing but these standard dormitories suitable for settling populations.
Even if a few million more arrive, it would not be a problem.
With the experience of the first voyage.
The Garden fleet, along with the second fleet that followed closely behind Garden,
The next actions became much more proficient.
They would release a large number of reconnaissance drones in advance.
Patrolling within a radius of several dozen kilometers around the fleet.
Establishing contact with the discovered refugees ahead of time.
To minimize the time spent on communication and transfer.
At the same time, every time they traveled over 80 kilometers.
They would erect another communication signal tower.
Expanding Su Wu's internet coverage significantly to the southeast.
Based on this,
They would publicly announce the fleet's sailing route and the plan to accommodate refugees along the way.
This kind of public promotion.
Effectively gathers refugees and reassures those who have not yet boarded.
With human tenacity.
As long as they are given hope.
The probability of survival will far exceed before.
Of course, such conspicuous actions.
Inevitably attract some local ruling powers' dissatisfaction and the attention of various bandits.
But compared to the gains.
Or to be more specific, compared to retaining some of the valuable population resources that Su Wu cares about.
The risks brought about by being too conspicuous.
Are still within an acceptable range.
With the armed force of over a thousand Spider Robots on the fleet.
No number of bandits could pose a fatal threat to them.
And local forces capable of threatening them have no sufficient motive to take action.
After all, the fleet consists only of refugees and a small amount of resources.
When the refugees came knocking, those local powers were unwilling to accept them.
Now, they certainly would not risk heavy losses to go to war with Su Wu over them.
As time passed, the two fleets continued to shuttle back and forth between the southeast and Jianghe City.
After the Garden set out for the ninth time.
They finally reached the seaside over 900 kilometers away before the ship was filled to capacity.
Though it is called the seaside.
In reality, before the apocalypse, it was still over a hundred kilometers from the actual coastline.
However, after the polar ice caps completely melted.
Triggering an unprecedented global tsunami.
The once coastal cities were all submerged.
The surging waves pushed the ocean's boundary over a hundred kilometers inland.
Forming the new coastline we see today.
The fleet erected the last communication signal tower on the coastline.
And did not continue forward.
Even a giant like the Garden, sailing in the deep sea is fraught with danger.
Considering the risk-reward ratio.
There is no need to take the risk of venturing into the ocean in the short term.
After all, along the current route of over 900 kilometers.
The millions of refugees and resources scattered along the way.
Are already enough for Su Wu to digest for a long time.
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