Chapter Thirty-Six: The Beehive Shelter

With the help of Li Jing, Zhang Shen chose a plot of land about the size of four football fields.

The ground is relatively barren, with only a few crooked neck trees except for weeds and thorny shrubs. About 300 meters beyond the surface, there is a relatively large fault zone, which has been corroded by the groundwater and has created a large number of cavities, among which there are many strange rocks, and there is an underground river with a small flow.

After going down and taking a turn in person, Zhang Shen decided to use it as his own construction site.

He himself has not learned the knowledge of house design and civil engineering, and Bu Lichen and the others do not understand it, but you must know that there are some elites in Muratu Town. After several hours of exploration, Zhang Shen successfully "captured" six well-known engineers in the industry, brought them here at the cost of a large number of valuables such as gold and jewelry, and "forced" them to come up with an extremely "durable" design plan within three days.

In order to increase the deterrent effect, Zhang Shen slapped a piece of steel into powder in front of the six people - Zhang shamelessly used alchemy to smelt the steel into granules, and then slapped it down.

Under the double deterrence of carrots and sticks, the brains of the six people worked rapidly, breaking through the limits of their lives, and in just two and a half days, six design drawings were placed in front of Zhang Shen and the four people.

After sending the six people back as agreed—of course, using small means to confuse their memories—the four laymen carefully selected one of the designs that resembled a beehive and an anthill.

In Zhang Shen's thoughts, since the apocalyptic disaster of this world is a large-scale geological explosion, it will definitely not last too long. As a result, the setting in this "hive shelter" is quite rudimentary.

The entire shelter is roughly spherical in shape, and is an eerie structure composed of small houses that are separate.

The houses are large and small (and the size varies greatly), but the interior is similarly furnished. Basically, there was nothing left but a water supply facility and a platform that barely made up for a "bed". As for the toilets, there is a public restroom in each area - embarrassingly, because Zhang Shen did not have a long-term plan in the first place, the entire shelter does not have a very "rich" water circulation system...... There is no problem with drinking water, but if you use water in the bathroom, it will be "hehehe......

"Anyway, it won't be long before you put up with the stench a little...... Compared to life, this is nothing, isn't it......" Zhang Shen said silently in his heart, leaving this matter behind.

The shelter as a whole is "independent", it does not rely on the surrounding earth and rock formations, it is like a huge stone ball, buried in the ground.

In the "derivation" of Zhang Shen and the four people, even if the plates collide and the land is broken, such a closed ball with a certain amount of buoyancy should not be seriously damaged - its outer wall is extremely strong, the hardness of diamond is 10, and the hardness of the shell of the shelter is more than eight points.

In order to prevent cracks that could arise from being hit by heavy objects, Zhang Shen also took great pains to add metal "veins" to the shell and walls of the shelter – these criss-crossing wires are like the tiny meridians of the human body, which can add considerable toughness to the walls of the shelter. In fact, there is an unbreakable tempered glass that is made according to this principle.

Due to the limited time, the entire "refining" process of the shelter was basically just Zhang Shen alone-Bu Lichen and the three of them couldn't help much, so there were many refuges in this one, but it was not big.

Based on an average of four people per room, the entire [Beehive Shelter] can only hold about 1 or 30,000 people!

Of course, if the end really comes, when life and death are at stake, the capacity of each room will definitely increase significantly......

By the time the building, named "The Beehive Shelter", was completely completed, the time had already passed on November 24th.

"Ah~~~~~ finally completed, ahh......hh

Almost one person completed such a huge project, Zhang Shen was not only proud, but also tired enough.

When a person is tired, there is a saying called "tired like a dog". Zhang Shen felt that he was more tired than a dog, and every cell in his body was so tired that he was about to collapse, as if he was going to die of exhaustion at any time.

The shelter was finished, and the moment he lay down, he felt like white sugar that had been sprinkled into the sugar, and his whole body was about to melt, and he couldn't get up at all without any strength in his body.

"Hmm~~ Just let me lie down like this until I die......" A strange thought turned in his head, Zhang Shen's upper and lower eyelids gradually collided together, his brows stretched, and a slight snoring sound came from his mouth.

Bu Lichen, Li Jing, and Ouyang Tianqi were on the side.

They watched Zhang Shen fall into a deep sleep from the time he fell, and it was only a minute in between!

Ouyang Tianqi's expression did not move, Bu Lichen and Li Jing looked at the haggard face that had been thinned by a point and covered with stubble, and they were both proud and distressed.

They were involved in the entire process of refining the Vault, and witnessed first-hand how the small Vault went from clumps of dirt and gravel to the fortified fortress it is today. Among them, Zhang Shen's hard work is in their eyes and in their hearts.

For the first few days, Zhang Shen had been thinking hard about how to draw the refining array that enveloped the entire shelter. In those days, he was like a demon, constantly scribbling and drawing, except for mechanically drinking water, eating and going to the toilet, the rest of the time he stayed in that basement-like study, thinking about the drawing of the formation.

On the day the refining array was completed, the cheekbones on Zhang Shen's face bulged out, as if he had changed into a different person.

Li Jing wanted to forcibly stop him, but was dissuaded by Bu Lichen and Ouyang Tianqi, so he could only hide in the room and cry.

In the time when the construction officially began, although Li Jing and the others tried every means to help, the main part of the shelter could only watch from the sidelines, silently cheering for Zhang Shen.

Everything Zhang Shen has done in the past ten days, if Adrian knows what he knows, he will definitely shake 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, levitate him, and send him to the bed in Zhang Shen's room.

"That day is not far off." In the hall that had been slightly carved on the basis of the original cave, Li Jing suddenly said, "Lian Xinliang told me that the movement in the depths of the earth has become more and more intense recently, and I am afraid that the end of the world is approaching." ”

The end of the world, four simple words, for "bystanders", is just a lively, but when all this is about to happen in front of you, that kind of mood is really not something that words can describe.

At the beginning of coming to this world, Li Jing and the others were all "bystanders", and all they wanted was to complete the task and return from this dangerous world. However, today, after staying in this world for so long, the words "the end of the world" also have a different meaning for them.

lived a good life, and suddenly learned that in a few days, this world was going to "snap" like a big watermelon and fall into several petals, but there was no way for him to escape...... For the inhabitants of this worldly realm, this more than one month is more terrible than dying at the end of the world.

"Can you know the exact time of the road?" Although he had already come to his senses, hearing the news, Bu Lichen couldn't help frowning, his heart suddenly tightened, and he was depressed for a while.

Li Jing shook his head.

"It's coming so fast...... In this way, there is no way to choose who will live in the hive shelter. ”

Originally, it was planned according to the plan of the four people. After completing the hive shelter, they went to Mulatu and used various methods to select some young men and women who were "worthy" to keep, and secretly extradite them to this side. However, Ji Lu can't keep up with the changes, so he definitely can't do it again.

Bu Lichen and Li Jing discussed for a while, but they still couldn't reach an agreement.

"Just wait for the captain to wake up, and then let's discuss it together."

"Get the news out of the shelter." Ouyang Tianqi's voice sounded.

Ouyang Tianqi originally just had no expression, but in the past few days, even the words have become very few, and his sense of existence has plummeted, if he doesn't say anything, Bu Lichen and Li Jing will ignore him.

"This ...... Absolutely not! Bu Lichen was stunned for a moment and expressed his resolute opposition.

"You haven't seen what the United States is messing up into, do you want Mulatu and even half of the province of western Tibet to look like that?!" Bu Lichen's words were fierce. Obviously, the American delegation stimulated her a lot, especially the "riots" in Los Angeles.

Although she was exaggerating, the news of the hive shelter really spread, and the surrounding settlements were sure to be in chaos.

In fact, as time passed, although the Qing government had good control over the country, a situation similar to "warlord secession" gradually emerged in the country.

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 strength in his own right. Despair and anger make them start to breed thoughts, such as "the last madness" and so on.

As long as these are not too blatantly caused by the boiling of public resentment and affect the social order, the high-ranking officers and generals above who have tickets will turn a blind eye and treat them as if they have not seen them.

According to Bu Lichen's understanding these days, the "control" of the town of "Mulatu" has actually been "divided" by three people or the forces of the three parties.

One is the township government of Mulatu - not the original group of people, but the newly formed government personnel after Mulatu's "expansion", with a certain amount of armed power, such as police stations, armed police, and urban management.

Second, the Qing central court and military sent troops here to be responsible for maintaining order.

Third, the immigrants who moved to Mulatu had a certain prestige and formed an organization spontaneously in order to protect their own interests.

As for the large number of other underworld organizations and small interest groups, they are not worth mentioning because they do not control the regular armed forces.