Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The only difference between this and a ga is that you don’t have an Energy Tower to keep you warm, no robots to do the work, and for a hundred years, you won’t see the sun.
Under a disaster of this magnitude, if the impact point is on this hemisphere where he is, Chen Xin feels that he doesn’t need to do anything at all, just spend the next few months eating well, playing well, and when the teor cos crashing down, just flip it the middle finger.
But if luck is on his side and the teor lands on the other side of the blue planet, then digging a deep enough shelter should allow him to survive the disaster and then face the hundred-year-long freezing night.
Don’t think it’s unrealistic to dig a shelter.
In fact, back in the 1970s, when Fla Country and Lucia had fallen out, Lucia had planned a surgical nuclear strike on Fla Country, but it never materialized due to the opposition from the Federation at the ti.
In response, the Great Ancestor proposed a plan to dig deep tunnels, investing massive human and material resources nationwide to dig a large number of air-raid shelters, and so important locations even had tunnels connecting these shelters.
These air-raid shelters were built in every city in Fla Country, most of which remain well-preserved to this day.
These shelters are typically 20 ters deep, 200 ters long, and 3 ters wide, with brick walls and concrete slabs as roof supports.
They are equipped with ventilation, electricity, and lighting facilities that can be used to avoid air raids during warti and offer ergency refuge and temporary residence after a nuclear war.
Up until the eighties and nineties of the last century, these air-raid shelters could be put to use at any ti.
But as Lucia disintegrated and Fla Country’s comprehensive national strength improved, the international situation gradually improved, and these air-raid shelters lost their military role and were repurposed for civilian use, serving as warehouses for supplies, cooling spots in sumr, and even underground shopping streets in many places.
As for the major cities’ subway stations and the double-layer underground parking lots in communities, they are actually another form and extension of these air-raid shelters, after all, subway stations tens or even hundreds of ters deep underground are perfect shelters, not easily structurally damaged by nuclear strikes or air raids.
Only specially developed bunker busters and fuel-air bombs have significant destructive effects on such deep underground bunkers, but they still find it hard to destroy the overall structure of the shelters.
And the extensive subway lines can quickly form an underground transportation network, turning these shelters and subway stations into underground cities like those in ’Wandering Earth’, only not as deep.
As Chen Xin flipped through the creative ideas he had jotted down and related materials he found online, he could be certain that, with the confirmation of the teor strike on the blue planet, the governnt’s next likely move would be to start deeply digging underground shelters as a disaster precaution and self-rescue strategy.
But rely digging shelters only ensures a better chance of survival when the disaster hits. How then would one endure the long night and winter that could last for decades?
Stockpiling food? That surely is a feasible approach. Ergency food supplies on the market mostly have a shelf life at room temperature between 5-10 years, but with the global temperature drop, tens of degrees below zero should preserve these foods for decades, if not a hundred years.
However, no matter how much food you store, collecting enough food for one person to last several years in the months before the teor strike is already remarkable unless you have prepared in advance. It would otherwise be completely impossible to rely on stored food to survive the long decades.
And there’s one critical issue—energy.
In the aftermath of the teor’s impact, it will disrupt the blue planet’s ionosphere, creating a global EMP wave, causing a massive breakdown of electronic devices. Counting on a reliable power supply under such circumstances is no longer practical.
Though post-disaster reconstruction would begin once the environnt stabilizes, and power supply should be restored within a year, generating electricity requires energy.
With global temperatures plunging to tens of degrees below zero, Fla Country’s largest hydropower project and power source—the Three Gorges Dam would freeze into a giant block of ice, sharing its fate with all other hydropower stations across the country, irrespective of their size.
This would strip Fla Country of nearly 20% of its electrical production.
Don’t think that’s not a significant figure. Although more than 70% of Fla Country’s power cos from thermal power plants, under such a global disaster, how many plants will remain operational and how many power lines intact?
The answer would be grim, since the majority of Fla Country’s high-voltage transmission lines are above-ground cables due to safety reasons.
In the global storm of fire and frost at temperatures of minus tens of degrees, these cables’ survival chances are slim indeed.
Thus, when that ti cos, the situation might mirror the Ice Age, where humanity would have to rely on coal mining for sufficient energy to heat and cook food.
To a large extent, humanity might regress back to a city-state era, where cities govern themselves, struggling to survive.
However, with the Fla Country governnt’s control and execution capability, basic governnt functions and social structure should be assured. Life after the disaster might be harder, but still viable.
But, considering the various disasters and real situations following the teor strike, it would take at least one to three years for things to stabilize.
Hence, what lies before Chen Xin now is how to properly prepare within these three months to ensure survival in the face of this great disaster and safely navigate through the most turbulent one to three-year period afterward.
Luckily, when Chen Xin devised this scenario back then, he seriously discussed it with friends online, referred to nurous materials, and crafted a comprehensive plan.
If implented from now, although ti is tight, it’s still doable!
With this thought, Chen Xin wasted no ti and urgently contacted a trustworthy construction team through his connections, planning to dig an underground shelter for himself first.
No matter whether the teor will eventually strike the blue planet, and whether he will survive the initial impact, being prepared is never a mistake.
Besides digging a shelter, the storage of food and drinking water is equally crucial, so Chen Xin took out his phone to check his bank account balance, deciding to make a substantial purchase.
Fortunately, with the frequent disasters earlier, Chen Xin has already stockpiled quite a few things at ho, like gas masks and dical ergency kits, so there’s no need to buy more. What he mainly needs to stockpile now is food and water.
As long as there’s food to eat and water to drink, and a place to stay, the survival needs of humans are actually not that high.
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