"This migration seems a bit reckless."
In the underground control center of a rural courtyard.
Su Wu stood beside a metal platform, gazing at the holographic projection map that occupied almost half the room, faintly feeling that he might have acted a bit impulsively.
Although he had reserved ten hours for preparation.
Under the hurried organization, many shortcomings were still evident.
The most obvious was that after the migration was initiated, the number of vehicles that could actually hit the road was far below expectations.
After half a year of apocalyptic trials.
The number of well-functioning vehicles in the hands of survivors could only be described as scarce.
In fact, many shelters couldn't even produce a single vehicle.
They could only urgently select a batch from surface warehouses and underground parking lots that hadn't been converted into shelters.
And those wild vehicles that hadn't been carefully maintained and protected.
Naturally, their condition was far from satisfactory.
Even after ten hours of patching and repairs, the number of qualified vehicles that could be brought out was very few.
As a result, all the Subsidiary Shelters combined could only muster about 130,000 vehicles.
Moreover, a significant portion of these were household cars with a transport capacity of only half a ton to one ton.
These vehicles were spread out across the southeastern region of the Wide River Basin and the surrounding areas of Yu'an City.
Along the more than 800 kilometers of the long route, thousands of convoys were formed.
The various risks they faced were also quite different.
Among them were earthquakes that could destroy roads at any moment, sudden shifts in temperature from a Low-Temperature Cold Wave, and lurking bandits.
All were like deadly assassins hiding in the wilderness.
This put immense pressure on Su Wu.
"The first batch of Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones is ready and beginning to take off."
The voice of the Artificial Intelligence echoed in the control room.
Su Wu shifted his gaze to the location of the rural courtyard on the map and zoomed in.
He then saw about a hundred Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones.
Loaded with Spider Robots and a certain amount of ammunition.
They were taking off in batches from an airport that had expanded to ten runways.
And in the sky not far from the rural courtyard.
More Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones were circling, waiting to land.
According to Su Wu's plan.
In the next several hours.
The thousands of Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones he had would temporarily suspend their original transport tasks.
And focus on transporting the Spider Robots from the rural courtyard in batches to the southeast.
"Previously, around 30,000 Spider Robots and 500 Heavy Main Battle Spider Robots were deployed around the shelters near Yu'an City."
"Currently, about two-thirds of them are out guarding near the transfer convoy."
"But they cannot stray too far from their assigned shelters."
"Therefore, once we enter the coastal section of the Wide River Basin."
"We will need to rely on these urgently airlifted Spider Robots to ensure the convoy's safety."
"However, relying solely on these is a bit weak in combat power."
"At least we need to dispatch Twin-Winged Helicopters to quickly transport two more batches of Heavy Main Battle Spider Robots to serve as the main support."
The Subsidiary Shelter around Yu'an City, under Su Wu's control, had a total population exceeding 30 million.
To maintain order under such a large population.
Having 30,000 Spider Robots stationed was already close to the limit.
Thus, having them patrol near the shelter's entrance could serve as a temporary emergency measure.
But they couldn't serve as long-term guards for the convoy.
As for the Wide River Basin area.
Although still within the coverage of Su Wu's communication signal tower.
He only controlled less than ten million people in that region.
The places he occupied were mainly small to medium-sized civilian shelters.
Moreover, many local large factions, even official forces, harbored a certain hostility towards Su Wu.
The risk of encountering robbers along the way was far greater than that around Yu'an City.
This required Su Wu to specifically strengthen the defenses there.
Thousands of Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones and 15 Twin-Winged Helicopters, along with the thousands of Spider Robots and 150 Heavy Main Battle Spider Robots transported in multiple batches.
Would serve to support the initial protective framework for the transfer convoy in the Wide River Basin.
As for the subsequent operations.
They would rely on merchant convoys to transport the main force of the Spider Robot legion.
From the rural courtyard all the way to the Wide River Basin.
Only when they reached that point.
Could Su Wu truly ensure that the transfer convoy would not face deadly threats.
Restoring the map.
Su Wu's gaze continued to linger near Jianghe City.
At this moment, five merchant convoys, fully loaded with Spider Robots and Combat Drone Swarms.
Had just exited the range of Jianghe City.
They would travel along the area covered by the communication signal tower, that is, the Wide River Basin, heading southeast towards the sea outlet.
In the next 48 hours.
They would gradually deliver a total of 50,000 Spider Robots and several thousand Express Class Combat Drones to the transfer convoys along the way.
And behind them.
There would be about 15 more merchant convoys executing similar tasks.
To deploy a total of 150,000 Spider Robots, along with various types of Combat Drones and Machine Dogs.
"3,000 Heavy Main Battle Spider Robots, 200,000 ordinary Spider Robots, 400,000 Machine Dogs, along with about 30,000 Express Class Drones, and 12 Multi-Wing Drone Main Battle Swarms."
"Should be enough to ensure safety in all areas."
"However, to fully deploy them, it will take three to five days."
"I hope there won't be any major accidents during this time."
After dispatching these main robotic forces.
The defenses of Jianghe City would essentially become hollow.
Aside from the Air Defense Laser Array at the rural courtyard and the unfinished base vehicle.
There were no substantial armed forces left.
Even the engineering team working on the sixth underground level of the rural courtyard was affected to some extent.
Originally, the hundreds of thousands of Spider Robots.
Were part of the engineering team.
Without their participation, the overall construction capacity of the engineering team had noticeably decreased.
However, after Su Wu redeployed the 4,000 engineering vehicles that were to be excavated back to the engineering team.
This impact was reduced to a negligible level.
"After the merchant convoys complete their task of transporting the robotic legion."
"They will continue with their original transport tasks."
"Without interfering with the transfer convoy."
"As for Jianghe City."
"The Subsidiary Shelter located in the urban area needs to undergo some adjustments and cleaning."
"Utilizing previously unused spaces."
"And some areas that are no longer needed."
"To continue building Standard Dormitories and Plantations."
"Preparing to welcome the impending population wave."
Even with the current excavation speed of one million square meters per day at the rural courtyard.
It would be difficult to accommodate the tens of millions of people expected to arrive in the near future.
This required the original large and small shelters in Jianghe City to be redistributed.
This project.
Was bound to be significant.
And needed to be prepared in advance.
Meanwhile.
The Super Factory located on the seventh underground level of the rural courtyard.
Would also begin to allocate some production capacity.
For the emergency production of Spider Robots and Machine Dogs.
Don't underestimate the small size of the Machine Dogs; their combat power is far inferior to that of Spider Robots.
However, manufacturing them consumes almost no resources.
Plus, with a sufficient quantity, they can also play a significant role.
They are almost a model of high cost-effectiveness.
These newly produced robots.
Would be used for the internal reconstruction of the Jianghe City Subsidiary Shelter and to supplement the engineering team at the rural courtyard.
In the future, if necessary.
They could also be formed into new robotic legions in reserve.
To accept Su Wu's command and deployment.
Establishing the main points that needed attention during the transfer process.
Su Wu did not continue to intervene in the remaining matters.
Those specific details regarding each transfer convoy would be handled by the Artificial Intelligence and the remote control center, along with the large management team specifically formed for this purpose.
There was no need for Su Wu to worry.
"The first batch of large-scale transfer convoys is expected to take 4 to 5 days to arrive at Jianghe City."
"By then, they will bring about 3 million tons of supplies."
"At the same time, that period will be enough for eighty merchant convoys to make two round trips between Jianghe City and Yu'an City."
"Transporting back over a million tons of supplies."
"Then, the Super Factory will further modify the transfer convoys arriving at Jianghe City."
"Eliminating the household cars that are of little use, and enhancing the cold resistance and load capacity of other vehicles."
"Those enhanced vehicles will then be uniformly returned to the vicinity of Yu'an City."
"For the second large-scale transfer."
"And so on."
"It is expected that after the third large-scale transfer, all resources from the Subsidiary Shelters, except for fuel, will be transported to Jianghe City."
"Then starting from the fourth transfer, we can begin to move the population."
"At the latest, within a month."
"The population of Jianghe City will reach half a billion."
With a grand vision of the future in his heart.
Su Wu's gaze continued to survey the holographic map.
He could see batch after batch of Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones sweeping across the sky of the Wide River Basin.
Eighty merchant convoys, like trains.
Were weaving between the ice fields and hills of the Wide River Basin.
Thousands of convoys, pulled by different models of civilian vehicles, stretched for hundreds of meters, even kilometers long.
Moving little by little along the snow-covered roads and mountain paths.
Occasionally, red lights would flash on the markers representing the transfer convoys.
That meant the transfer convoy was engaged in a firefight with a group of obstructive bandits.
However, at the same time, the scale of those bandit groups was evidently not large enough to trigger the Artificial Intelligence's alarm.
They were merely classified by the Artificial Intelligence as ordinary obstacles on the transfer route.
Su Wu's gaze lingered on those red dots for a few seconds.
He did not take further action.
Perhaps the battles represented by those red dots could result in dozens or hundreds of casualties.
But for him now.
It was no longer worth the effort to take a closer look.
On January 10, in the afternoon.
On the second day of Su Wu's large-scale migration operation involving tens of millions of people.
He received another meeting invitation from the Southeast Alliance.
In the virtual meeting space.
The familiar palace environment and the round table meeting format were still present.
However, compared to the previous seriousness and solemnity.
This time, the atmosphere was somewhat casual.
Because it leaned more towards information exchange among a few individuals rather than handling major decisions involving tens of millions of people.
After a simple opening statement.
The speaker from Changming City, Song Hong, first announced some not-so-good news.
"According to our intelligence department's investigation."
"A major space accident occurred in the Federation a few hours ago."
"Many communication satellites may have been lost."
Su Wu's expression showed slight surprise.
He lowered his head and began to connect with the Artificial Intelligence at the rural courtyard.
Calling up the operational log records of the Eden Satellite during that time.
He then discovered.
Indeed, there was such an incident.
At that time, a strong ray storm appeared in space.
Destroying many satellites orbiting in low Earth orbit.
It was roughly estimated that at least over a thousand were affected.
However, since the ray storm did not cause any substantial impact on the Eden Satellite.
It was merely recorded as an ordinary environmental event in the logs.
No specific warning was pushed to Su Wu.
"Your Excellency Su Wu, do you have any concrete news on your end?"
Noticing Su Wu's inquiry.
The speaker from Zhenhai City, Ping Yuhan, asked.
Compared to the second-hand information they had obtained through others.
Su Wu, who had satellites in space, clearly had more capability to access firsthand truths.
"Four hours ago, a strong ray storm appeared in space."
"Destroying over a thousand low Earth orbit satellites."
Su Wu did not hide it and directly disclosed the information from space.
"No wonder."
Ping Yuhan seemed to realize something.
"I was wondering why the Federation suddenly decided to reduce satellite network usage permissions."
"It seems this matter has left no room for discussion."
"What do they plan to cut back on?" The governor of Shuitian City, Chai Zeyang, listened with a somewhat grim expression.
As the strongest military force in the alliance.
His reliance on the Federation's satellites was greater than that of others present.
Once the Federation significantly reduced his satellite permissions.
It would be very difficult for him to maintain the absolute dominance over other shelters in the Fuhai Province as he had before.
The loss of benefits would be unimaginably huge.
"The preliminary p
lan is to start from midnight tomorrow."
"Revoke all network permissions for civilian shelters."
"All second-tier cities and below will only retain one text communication
account."
"Super cities will be limited to using less than 1G of data per day."
Although the comprehensive strength of Zhenhai City, represented by Ping Yuhan, had significantly declined.
Its long-standing connections within the Federation had not completely vanished.
They easily obtained what was still considered confidential countermeasures in advance.
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