Chapter 36: Hive Refuge
With the help of Li Jing, Zhang Zhan won a land about the size of four football fields.
The surface is relatively barren, and apart from weeds and thorny shrubs, there are only a few crooked trees. About three hundred meters outside the surface, there is a relatively large fault zone, which is corroded by groundwater and has a large number of holes, including strange rocks, and an underground river with a small flow.
After going down and taking a walk in person, Zhang Shen decided to use it as his construction site.
He himself had never learned about house design and civil engineering, and Bu Lichen and the other two did not understand it either. However, you should know that Muratu Town is full of elite figures. After several hours of exploration, Zhang Shen successfully "captured" six more famous engineers in the industry, and brought them here with a large amount of valuables such as gold and jewelry as a price, "forced" them to give an extremely "sturdy and durable" design plan within three days.
In order to increase the deterrence, Zhang Shen slapped a piece of steel into powder in front of the six people. Zhang shamelessly used alchemy to smelize the steel into particles, and then slapped it again.
Under the dual intimidation of carrots and sticks, the six people's brains were rapidly running, breaking through the limits of their lives. In just two and a half days, six design drawings were placed in front of Zhang Shen and the other four.
After sending the six people back as agreed - of course, they used small methods to confuse their memories. After carefully selecting the four laymen, they chose one of the designs similar to the hive and an ant hole.
In Zhang Shen's idea, since the doomsday disaster in this world is a large-scale outbreak of geology, it will definitely not last long. Therefore, the settings in this "beehive refuge" are quite simple.
The entire refuge is roughly spherical, and is a weird building composed of a combination of small independent houses.
The house is big and small (the size difference is not big), but the layout inside is similar. Basically, there is nothing except a water supply facility and a platform that can barely be called a "bed". As for the bathroom, there is a public bathroom in each area - embarrassing, since Zhang Shen did not make long-term plans at the beginning, the entire shelter did not have a very "rich" water circulation system... There is no problem with drinking water, and if the bathroom uses water, it will be "hehehe"...
"Anyway, it's not long before you can endure the odor a little... Compared with life, this is nothing, isn't it..." Zhang Shen said silently in his heart, throwing this matter behind his mind.
As a whole, the shelter is "independent". It does not rely on the surrounding soil, rock and rock formations, just like a huge stone ball buried in the ground.
In the "deduction" of Zhang Shen and the four people, even if the plates collide and the land is broken, such a closed, buoyant ball should not be damaged much - its outer wall is extremely strong, the hardness of the diamond is 10, and the hardness of the shell of the refuge is even more than eight o'clock.
It is easy to fold. In order to prevent cracks that may be caused by heavy objects, Zhang Shen has worked tirelessly to add metal "veins" to the shell and walls of the shelter. These crisscrossing metal wires are like subtle meridians of the human body, which can add considerable toughness to the walls of the shelter. In fact, there is a kind of reinforced glass that cannot be broken is made based on this principle.
Due to limited time, the entire "refining" process of the shelter was basically just Zhang Shen, and Bu Lichen and the other two couldn't help much, so there were too many shelters, not much.
According to the average of four people in each room, the entire [Hive Sanctuary] can only accommodate about 130,000 people!
Of course, if the end of the world really comes, the number of accommodations in each room will definitely increase significantly when life and death is in conflict...
When the building named [Hive Sanctuary] was completely completed, time had already flowed to November 24th.
"Ah~~~~~ Finally completed ahhhhhh..." After the last process was completed, Zhang Shen could no longer suppress the exhaustion of his body and mind. He felt like his bones were removed, lying softly on the dirty ground, making a meaningless venting howl from his mouth.
Zhang Shen was proud and exhausted even though he completed such a huge project by himself.
When describing a person who is very tired, there is a saying called "I am as tired as a dog." Zhang Shen feels that he is more tired than a dog, and every cell in his body is so tired that he is about to exhaust, as if he is completely exhausted at any time.
The moment the shelter was finished and lying down, he felt like the white sugar sprinkled into the sugar, and his whole body was about to melt. He had no strength on his body and could not get up at all.
"Well~~Let me lie down until I die..." A strange thought turned into my head, and Zhang Shen's upper and lower eyelids gradually collided together, his eyebrows stretched out, and a slight snoring sound came from his mouth.
Bu Lichen, Li Jing, and Ouyang Tianqi were right beside him.
They watched Zhang Shen fall from falling down to falling asleep, only a minute in the middle!
Ouyang Tianqi's expression remained motionless. Bu Lichen and Li Jing looked at the haggard face with a little thin and stubble, which was both proud and heartbroken.
They participated in the entire refining process of the shelter and witnessed with their own eyes how this small shelter turned from pieces of soil, sand and gravel to today's solid fortress. They saw and remembered the hard work Zhang Chan put in his eyes.
For the first few days, Zhang Shen had been thinking about how to draw the refining array that wrapped the entire shelter. In those days, he was like a devil, painting and painting. Except for mechanically drinking water, eating and going to the toilet, he stayed in the study room like a basement, conceiving the drawing of the refining array.
On the day when the formation was completed, Zhang Shen’s cheekbones were protruding, completely like he had become a different person.
Li Jing even wanted to stop him forcibly, but was persuaded by Bu Lichen and Ouyang Tianqi, so he could only hide in the room and cry.
During the official start of construction, although Li Jing and the other two tried their best to help, the main part of the shelter could only watch from the side and silently cheered Zhang Shen.
If Adrian knew everything Zhang Shen had done in the past ten days, if Adrian knew about it, he would definitely hold his hands excitedly, shout "Confidant", and then hug his head and cry...
After Zhang Shen fell asleep, Li Jing carefully controlled his spiritual power to wrap him up, levitated him, and sent him to the bed in Zhang Shen's room. After Bu Lichen covered him with a quilt, the two women looked at each other silently, and tiptoed down the door curtain and left.
"It's not far from that day." In the hall slightly carved on the basis of the original cave, Li Jing suddenly said, "Lian Xincong told me that the movement deep in the ground has become increasingly intense recently. I'm afraid that the end of the world will be coming."
The end of the world, the four simple words, are just a fun time for "bystander", but when all this is about to happen in front of you, that kind of mood is really beyond words.
When they first came to this world, Li Jing and others were all "bystanders". All they thought about was to complete the task and return from this dangerous world. However, today, after staying in this world for so long, the four words "end of the world" also had a different meaning for them.
Living well, I suddenly learned that in a few days the world would fall into several petals like a big watermelon, but I couldn't escape... For the residents of this world, the past month was more terrifying than the end of the world's death.
"Can you know the specific time?" Although I had already realized, when I heard the news, Bu Lichen couldn't help frowning, and his heart suddenly became tight and he felt a little frustrated.
Li Jing shook his head.
"It's coming so quickly...and then, there's no way to select the occupants of the hive shelter."
Originally, according to the plan of the four people, after completing the hive shelter, he went to Muratu, and selected some young and middle-aged men and women who were "worthy" to retain through various methods, and secretly extradited them here. However, the plan could not keep up with the changes, so in this way, he would definitely not do this anymore.
Bu Lichen and Li Jing discussed for a while, but still failed to reach an agreement.
"Let's just wait until the captain wakes up and discuss it together."
"Release the news of the shelter." Ouyang Tianqi's voice sounded.
Ouyang Tianqi had no expression at first, but in recent days, he had even spoken very little, and his presence plummeted. If he didn't speak, Bu Lichen and Li Jing would ignore him.
"This... is absolutely not possible!" Bu Lichen was stunned and expressed his firm opposition.
"You haven't seen what kind of chaos in the United States. Do you want Muratu and even half of the western Tibetan province to become that way?" Bu Lichen said fiercely. Obviously, the United States and her delegation were very excited about her, especially the "riots" in Los Angeles.
Although what she said was a bit exaggerated, the news of the hive shelter was really spreading, and the surrounding several settlements would definitely be in chaos.
In fact, as time passed, although the Qing government had sufficient control over the country, situations similar to "warlord separatism" gradually occurred in China.
This "warlord" is not a warlord in the traditional sense, but a middle and lower-level officer who has no hope of getting on the ship and has some military power. Despair and anger have begun to breed some ideas, such as "the last madness".
As for these, as long as they are not too blatant to make public resentment affect social order, the senior officers with ship tickets above will turn a blind eye and pretend that they have not seen it.
According to Bu Lichen and his men’s understanding over the past few days, the “control” of the town of “Mulatu” has actually been “divided up” by three people or three forces.
One is Muratu’s township government - not the original team, but the newly formed government personnel after Muratu’s “expanding”, which have certain armed forces, such as police stations, armed police and urban management.
Secondly, the Central Court of the Qing Dynasty and the military dispatched troops here to maintain order.
Third, in order to protect their own interests, people with a certain reputation formed a spontaneous organization.
Chapter completed!