"Landing Platform 1 is ready."
"Permission to land granted."
The black fighter jet gradually decelerated, eventually coming to a complete halt several hundred meters above the ground, then slowly descended vertically. It landed on a helipad surrounded by green indicator lights. The helipad, now bearing the fighter jet, began to lower slowly, transporting the jet into the building below.
This was an airport specifically built for sixth-generation fighter jets. The entire first floor of the Farmhouse Shelter's roof was centered around the core area, with four sixth-generation fighter jet airports of the same specifications constructed in the four cardinal directions. Each airport could handle one sixth-generation fighter jet landing per minute, transporting it to dedicated hangars inside the first floor for parking, maintenance, refueling, ammunition replenishment, or cargo loading and unloading. These airports could also accommodate twin-winged helicopters or Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones, though the latter two could not utilize the special magnetic field built into the airport for vertical takeoff and landing capabilities. Instead, they merely used the airport as a movable platform that could transport them from the warehouse to the roof of the first floor.
In addition to utilizing the sixth-generation fighter jet airports, the Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones had their own dedicated exits. Through four inclined, openable, and closable channels, they could directly slide from the hangars on the first floor to the roof. From there, they could take off from a 50-meter-long short runway. In extreme conditions, these four dedicated exits could handle 24 takeoffs per minute.
"Functional testing is complete, all data looks ideal."
"We can begin mass production of the Void-class sixth-generation fighter jets."
"Additionally, the improved Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones need to be further expanded in scale."
"The target is temporarily set at 10,000 units."
Su Wu stood in front of the metal platform, gazing at the holographic projection of the first floor of the Farmhouse Shelter. On it, there were thousands of assembly workshops of varying sizes. Some were bustling with activity, while others were completely empty, not even having the most basic crane arms installed. The purpose of these assembly workshops was to assemble various large-scale machinery, ranging from Machine Dogs to Pioneer-class Land Destroyers, to the still-under-development semi-finished Doomsday-Class Land Cruisers. Even base vehicles resembling mobile fortresses could be assembled and modified in these workshops. Their presence had completely transformed the Super Factory located on the seventh underground floor into a production hub for components, further boosting overall output.
Under these circumstances, barring any unexpected issues, within a few hours, once all the equipment in the assembly workshops was installed, Su Wu would have the capacity to assemble over a hundred sixth-generation fighter jets simultaneously. Additionally, he could concurrently engage in the production of snow transport vehicles, land warships, robots, and other aircraft. Among these, the Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones, which had a relatively simple structure, could be produced at a rate of over a thousand units per day, even with the increased cost of using low-temperature-resistant materials in the improved version.
As for why Su Wu insisted on expanding the number of Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones to 10,000, it was quite understandable. First, they were cheap. The material cost of one Azure Sky-Class Transport Drone was only a fraction of that of a snow transport vehicle. Su Wu could mass-produce them without worrying about impacting other production plans. Second, their small transport capacity and high range had their advantages. For instance, transporting supplies to outpost fortresses near communication signal towers using sixth-generation fighter jets or twin-winged helicopters was somewhat wasteful, as they didn't require such a large amount of supplies. The Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones' 600kg payload was just right. Moreover, as Su Wu took control of more shelters and mines across the Eastern Continent, building a vast and dense node network, the need for such inexpensive aerial transport tools to maintain daily needs between nodes became increasingly apparent.
Continuing to scan the first floor, Su Wu decided to take advantage of this free time to make a preliminary plan for the entire first floor. Thanks to its incredibly vast area and height, after building four large hangars for sixth-generation fighter jets and twin-winged helicopters, a comprehensive hangar for Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones, and 6,000 assembly workshops of varying sizes, the first floor still had plenty of remaining space. After some consideration, Su Wu first marked 108 locations on the roof for installing large electromagnetic railguns. Then, around these, he arranged a total of 1,200 ordinary electromagnetic railguns and 3,000 Thunder-class photoelectric cannons. These weapons all featured a liftable structure, allowing them to descend into the first floor of the shelter for protection during extreme weather or rise to the top of towers to engage ground targets during combat, ensuring every gun could effectively attack the enemy.
Below these gun platforms, Su Wu designed ammunition warehouses with a total volume at least a thousand times that of the guns themselves. He also laid out three ammunition production lines around the warehouses and dedicated ammunition transport lines connecting the gun platforms to ensure mutual support between them, preventing any from running out of ammunition and falling silent.
After increasing the armament, Su Wu planned a large thermal power station. This station had a generating capacity of 2 million kilowatts, equivalent to producing 2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour, twenty times the capacity of the professional thermal power station built on the seventh underground floor of the core area. This thermal power station wasn't specifically for supplying the first floor; its primary responsibility was to consume various fuels transported from outside, converting them into electricity stored in the nearly infinite-capacity Ball Lightning Control Chamber below the seventh underground floor of the core area. Additionally, considering that this power station would consume over 10,000 tons of coal daily, a dedicated large fuel warehouse was also planned beside it to store the over 3 million tons of accumulated fuel.
"Currently, most of these fuels come from the stockpiles of subsidiary shelters in Jianghe City. Fuels from outside will need to wait until the population transfer is complete before they can start being transported here. Those fuels are estimated to total around 150 million tons, requiring a very large storage area."
There was a time when even 10,000 tons seemed like an astronomical figure to Su Wu. But now, even over 100 million tons of fuel couldn't stir much emotion in him. In fact, he was somewhat dissatisfied with the amount. After scavenging resources equivalent to two and a half provinces, plus the heavy industrial city of Steel City, he had only collected 150 million tons of fuel. This indicated that over half a year of post-apocalyptic life had significantly depleted the material reserves of most ordinary shelters. It wouldn't be long before the living conditions in most shelters across the Eastern Continent, or even the world, plummeted. Large-scale energy crises and famines would be almost inevitable. After all, not every shelter could, like Su Wu, have the capability to build nuclear power plants and the ability to convert gold and silver into nuclear fuel. For them, every bit of electricity was incredibly precious.
"Additionally, a space needs to be reserved for storing and purifying snow and ice collected from the outside."
This had been planned for a long time. The factory for purifying external water sources might be a behemoth elsewhere in the shelter, but here, it would only occupy a small, inconspicuous area on the first floor. After flipping through the log records and incorporating it into the plan, Su Wu didn't pay it much more attention.
Now, with hangars, industrial assembly workshops, armories, power stations, fuel warehouses, and water purification plants accounted for, the only thing left was a comprehensive garage. This garage was essentially an expanded version of the three-dimensional parking lot on the fourth underground floor of the core area. Currently, Su Wu already had millions of robots of various models and hundreds of thousands of engineering and transport vehicles. Strictly speaking, there wasn't a proper place for them to park within the Farmhouse Shelter. They were either on the move or randomly undergoing maintenance. This was manageable, but with the Super Factory still churning out new robots and vehicles, especially the part designated as armed forces reserves, it was impossible to indefinitely keep them all in operation. Therefore, building a comprehensive garage became quite necessary.
"The garage can be as large as possible. To counter the threat of Amethyst Crystal Entities and to scavenge resources and populations from outside, for a considerable period in the future, aside from materials reserved for shelter expansion, at least two-thirds of the remaining resources will continuously be used to produce various mechanical products. The new addition isn't so much a comprehensive garage as it is a disguised resource warehouse."
After some consideration, Su Wu directly planned a space of over 100 million cubic meters for the comprehensive garage. This massive space could accommodate millions of engineering vehicles and even more robots and combat drones. In the short term, there was no need to worry about the Super Factory filling it up.
After completing these plans, Su Wu looked at the still vast remaining space on the first floor and felt somewhat at a loss. Despite the comprehensive garage's exaggerated scale of over 100 million cubic meters, it only occupied a bit more than one-twentieth of the entire first floor. The remaining space was still enormous. After some thought and unable to find anything else to place there, Su Wu simply planned another storage warehouse of the same scale as the comprehensive garage to store low-value industrial raw materials and processed concrete powder. The rest was planned as plantations. However, unlike the previously built plantations, these new ones, while still primarily focused on fast-growing vegetables like cabbage and radishes, and staple crops like soybeans and rice, also included a new task of cultivating rubber tree seedlings.
Su Wu hadn't forgotten the main contributor to the rapid growth of his Farmhouse Shelter: Rapid-setting Cement. One of its main materials was rubber. Although there was no shortage of rubber currently, that was based on large-scale external plundering. In essence, rubber was still a relatively scarce and non-renewable resource. Therefore, it was quite necessary to start large-scale cultivation of natural rubber now, preparing for future needs.
"That's it for now. Adjustments can be made later as needed."
Looking at the holographic projection structure diagram of the first floor, now fully packed with his plans, Su Wu let out a relieved sigh.
At that moment, a notification from the Artificial Intelligence popped up on the control console screen. Hearing the alert, Su Wu turned back to the console to check. It was an urgent distress signal sent through the in-game wish system from a medium-sized civilian shelter 1,500 kilometers away. According to the permissions Su Wu had previously granted to the Artificial Intelligence, such matters were generally within its purview. However, because the shelter was so far away and the situation was too urgent, requiring the use of the only experimental sixth-generation fighter jet to arrive in time, the AI forwarded it to Su Wu for his personal decision.
"Wow, nearly 700,000 Workdays worth of game currency. Did they hand over all the game currency of everyone in the shelter at once?"
After a quick glance, Su Wu found the reason for the distress signal wasn't too complicated. The shelter had been targeted by a group of bandits roaming the surface. The bandits had already destroyed all the armed forces the shelter had sent out and were now blocking the shelter's entrance, attempting to break in by force. However, the amount of game currency the shelter was willing to pay for rescue was unexpectedly high, almost the highest single-task bounty Su Wu had ever received.
After some thought, since he had no immediate use for the sixth-generation fighter jet, Su Wu readily authorized the AI to dispatch it to handle the situation. This would also serve as a test of the sixth-generation fighter jet's combat performance. With the relevant authorization, the AI immediately began controlling service robots to load fuel, weapons, and ammunition onto the sixth-generation fighter jet in the hangar. Two minutes later, the fully prepared sixth-generation fighter jet vertically ascended from Landing Platform 1 and flew at high speed towards the far east,
where the distressed shelter was located.
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