Chapter 230 of 835
Chapter 230: Keep going
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If you leave the three towns, you can't seem to see the prosperous city along
the way.
In fact, along the route of the G318 national highway, there are indeed no big
cities along the way.
Because the route chosen by Chen Xin travels 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 wants to move forward, so it
is not unusual for him to see the city.
The scenery along the way is still similar to the previous road, it is pitch
black everywhere, and all the sight is covered with snow.
Reaching out from the workbench, he picked up a piece of dried fruit delivered
by the staff of Hubei Province and threw it into his mouth. Chen Xin was
reluctant to chew, but sipped the taste of that piece of dried fruit, quite
nostalgic.
Seriously, this seems to be the first time Chen Xin has eaten fruit after the
disaster. Although it is just dried fruit, it is already a very rare thing.
Just eating dried fruits, recalling the appearance of the three towns and the
dark scenes along the way, Chen Xin still felt a huge difference.
In large cities, the country has already begun post-disaster reconstruction,
and ordinary small and medium-sized cities have recovered from the disaster
and have begun to actively resume production.
Because the country, the army, and the police still exist, everything is not
as bad as expected.
But what should the situation be like in the countryside far from the city?
Chen Xin didn't know and didn't investigate, but if he inferred from the
sights he has seen and the information he has, I am afraid that the farther
away from the city, the worse the situation will be, right?
After all, the farther away from the city, the fewer places that can be called
underground bunkers before the disaster, and most of them are probably just
the cellars of farmers.
Even in the three months before the disaster, the state urgently built
shelters in villages and towns. Although most rural residents have a place to
escape from previous disasters, the time for the construction of those
shelters is already very tight. It is difficult to say that a sufficient
number of shelters have been built and that every shelter can provide the
necessary living conditions.
Lack of food and clothing, medical services and medicine shortages,
insufficient electricity and fresh water supplies... Chen Xin can count out a
lot of possible problems without even thinking about it.
Especially for the lack of oxygen that occurred in his city before, the
ventilation of the small refuge may be better, plus there are only one or two
floors, maybe the depth is not enough, there will be no problems such as
carbon dioxide deposition, but the same Refuges dug not deep enough can hardly
have good insulation effect.
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 compared to directly facing the low temperature of minus 30 or 40
degrees, having a refuge to block the cold has allowed many people to survive,
but under low temperature people will need more high-calorie food to maintain
body temperature, and a low temperature environment Subordinates are also more
likely to get sick.
And what are the consequences of these two... Chen Xin, who has played the
game "Age of Ice and Vapor", knows clearly that once the number of hunger and
disease reaches a certain level, riots and dissatisfaction will breed.
In the game, riots will occur only when the people die of sickness and
starvation to a certain degree of dissatisfaction, and the managers will be
driven away, but in reality, I am afraid that many problems and contradictions
will erupt when someone starts to die of illness, making things
uncontrollable.
This also caused Chen Xin to worry about his parents. They lived in their
hometown with their relatives. There was only a county seat, and their parents
and relatives did not live in the city.
Although the people who live together are relatives in the family, they have
lived together for several generations before the disaster, and even the
ancestral hall dedicated to the ancestors is the same. It is not to say that
any mess happened, and Chen Xin also deliberately before the disaster. They
explained how they should hoard supplies and build shelters, but Chen Xin was
still full of worries.
I was just worried that Chen Xin would not be able to go faster. He is now
moving faster than he expected. After the three towns, the whole journey has
already been halfway, and the time spent starts from when he started. Five or
six days have passed.
This is already much faster than Chen Xin had estimated. At his current speed,
he is sure to arrive in Anhui within five days. Counting the return time, he
can rush back in almost a month.
Even if there is anything to deal with after receiving the parents, it will be
delayed for a few days at most, and there will not be much change.
Thinking of this, Chen Xin felt relieved again.
Now 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 also dangerous.
This can be seen very clearly from the road completely covered with snow in
front of Chen Xin.
The road in front of us was supposed to be built on the mountain. The road dug
on the mountain has a mountain wall on one side and a valley on the other
side.
But now as the snow covers the entire road, there is no trace of the road
ahead. The snow has turned the entire ** 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,
frowning, thinking about how to 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 skill and energy to clean up the snow, so he might as
well find a way to change roads 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, this crawler-
type chassis has enough grip to ensure that the vehicle does not slip into the
valley, but it is a bit too risky to drive in that way. If you are not
careful, you will directly fall into the bottom. in the valley.
Chen Xin hesitated and let the two reconnaissance drones fly. He planned to
scan the entire surrounding terrain to see if there could be a smooth place
for him to pass.
Although there are mountains all around here, the mountains are not steep and
steep. There are still relatively flat places in the valley that can be passed
through.
It's just that compared to the original road, the obvious journey from the
valley is more winding.
But now Chen Xin has only this choice, unless he wants to spend more time on
the other side of the highway.
Taking a high-speed can only be a compelling choice. Although the high-speed
route is straighter and the road has less ups and downs, building a highway in
such a place full of mountains must be full of bridges and tunnels.
The tunnel is fine, but the bridge...
Recalling the collapsed bridge he had seen during his journey, Chen Xin
directly let himself give up this plan.
After all, no matter how good Yan Nation's infrastructure is, the
infrastructure madman can't build a road bridge that can withstand the impact
of meteorites without collapsing.
Soon, the UAV sent the scanned results back to the map on the operation
console, and displayed them in the form of color blocks.
Looking at the yellow and red areas on the hillside, Chen Xin could only cast
his eyes on the relatively gentle green area in the valley. While controlling
the drone to continue scanning forward, he also restarted the car and moved
along. The marking of the green block continues.
There is no danger in scanning while walking in this way, but it also makes
Chen Xin unable to raise his speed. He can only creep forward slowly. The
speed of the car has dropped to 10 kilometers, 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 stacking. Looking at
the original river course in the valley marked on the map~www.mtlnovel.com~
can't help but sigh.
Just now I felt that I was not slow, but I immediately encountered a situation
where I had to slow down. Chen Xin couldn't laugh or cry.
Fortunately, he had a good mentality. He didn't become irritable because of
this situation. He had to pass through quickly, but he was able to accept the
current speed.
The speed of driving in the wild is not fast. After all, this is not like
driving on the highway 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, the accelerator can be stepped on to the end. Rush forward.
When there is no road in the wild, you must first plan a direction and route
for yourself, and secondly, you must deal with the complex road conditions in
various environments.
Problems such as stagnant water and mud are the best solutions. Now in this
apocalyptic environment, these problems connect the road with a series of
obstacles such as sand, trees, and rivers that have all become snowy roads.
Relatively speaking, the road conditions It has become single, but it is not
better.
If you have to make an analogy, driving in such an area completely covered by
snow is actually the same as driving in the desert, except that the snow may
be a little bit firmer than the desert, and the wheels or tracks are not. As
for being so easy to fall into it.
The snow itself also has the potential to collapse, and even to the hollow
under the snow.
This is why Chen Xin did not start the operating system to drive
automatically, but instead held the steering wheel by himself.
After all, human judgment and reaction ability are stronger than this kind of
rigid operating system.
But this also made Chen Xin a little upset. When he was in Three Towns before,
he forgot to ask them for more resources and simply upgraded the operating
system on the car to artificial intelligence.
In that case, you can relax a lot, right? Chen Xin couldn't help but walk
away.