Chapter 2 First-hand preparation, deep digging
But the difference from the game is that you have neither energy towers to heat up, nor robots to work, and you won’t see the sun for a hundred years.
Under such a disaster, if the impact location is in the hemisphere where he is, Chen Xin feels that he doesn't have to do anything. It's fun to eat in the past few months. Just wait for the meteorite to fall, just raise your middle finger at the meteorite.
But if you have good luck and the meteorite falls on the other side of the Blue Star, then digging a shelter deep enough should allow you to survive the disaster and face the extremely cold night that lasts for a hundred years.
Don't think digging a refuge is unrealistic.
In fact, in the 1970s, when the relationship between Yan and Lucia was in jeopardy, Lucia planned to carry out a surgical nuclear strike against Yan, but it was not possible due to the opposition from the federal government at that time.
Taizu proposed a plan to dig deep into the hole based on the news leaked by the federal people in the newspaper at that time. He invested a lot of manpower and material resources across the country, dug a large number of air raid shelters, and there were tunnel connections between the air raid shelters in some important locations.
These air raid shelters are spread throughout every city in Yan Country, and most of them are still well preserved today.
These air raid shelters are usually 20 meters deep, 200 meters long and 3 meters wide. The two walls are brick walls, and the tops of the holes are cement slabs used to support them.
There are also equipment such as exhaust, electricity, lighting, etc. in the cave, which can be used to avoid air strikes during wars, as well as emergency shelter and temporary residence after the arrival of nuclear war.
These air raid shelters were still in use at any time until the 1980s and 1990s.
However, with the disintegration of Lucia and the comprehensive national strength of Yan State, the international situation gradually improved, and these air raid shelters gradually lost their function and were converted to civilian use, becoming material warehouses in many places, places for cool off in summer, and even underground commercial streets.
As for the subway stations built in major cities and the double-layer underground parking lots in communities, they are actually a largely another form of existence and extension of this air raid shelter. After all, subway stations that are dozens of meters or even hundreds of meters underground are excellent bunkers. Nuclear bomb strikes or air strikes are not enough to cause any structural damage to such deep bunkers.
That is, the specially developed ground-boring bombs and cloud bombs have good damage to such deep underground bunkers, but it is still difficult to destroy the overall structure of the bunker.
The well-connected subway lines can build an underground transportation network as soon as possible, allowing these air-raid shelters and subway stations to quickly become dungeons in "The Wandering Earth", but they will not be dug so deep.
Chen Xin looked through the brains he had recorded and the relevant information he had searched on the Internet. He could be convinced that with the confirmation of the information that the meteorite hit the Blue Star, the government is likely to develop the following method of digging deep into underground shelters to avoid disasters and save themselves.
But simply digging a shelter can only ensure that there is enough chance to survive the disaster. How can we survive the long night and cold winter that will last for decades?
Store food? This is indeed a feasible method. Although the room temperature shelf life of emergency foods sold on the market is mostly between 5-10 years, as the global temperature drops, a low temperature of tens of degrees below zero is enough to store these foods for decades or even hundreds of years.
But no matter how much food is stored, it would be amazing to be able to collect enough food for a person to eat for a few years in the months before the meteorite impact. Unless you are already ready, it would be completely impossible to survive these long decades by storing food.
And there is another most critical point - energy.
After the meteorite hits the Blue Star, the meteorite hit disrupts the ionosphere of the Blue Star, and an EMP shock wave that will spread around the world will be formed. A large number of electronic devices will follow it. In this case, it is obviously not practical to expect that there is still a complete power supply.
Although post-disaster reconstruction will be carried out after the environment stabilizes and the power supply should be restored within one year, power generation requires energy.
With the global temperature dropping to tens of degrees below zero, the Three Gorges Project, the largest water conservancy hub and power generation source in Yan Country, will freeze into a huge piece of ice. As it has the same fate as it is, all hydropower stations in the country, no matter how big or small.
And this will deprive the Yan Kingdom of nearly 20% of its power generation.
Don’t think this is a not-so-large number. You should know that although more than 70% of the power generation in Yan Country comes from thermal power generation, how many power stations can work and how many power lines are intact under such a global disaster?
The answer will be a very pessimistic number, because most high-voltage transmission lines in Yan Country use high-altitude cables due to safety issues.
Under the fire storm that swept the world and the low temperatures of dozens of degrees below zero, the probability of these cables surviving is really not high.
So by that time, the situation is likely to be the same as in the ice steam era. Humans need to dig coal to obtain enough energy to keep warm and heat food.
And humans may also largely retreat back to the city-state era, with cities acting independently and struggling to survive.
Of course, with the control and execution capabilities of the Yan State government, the basic government functions and social structure should be guaranteed. The days after the disaster may be a little harder, but they can still live.
However, considering the various disasters and actual situations caused by the meteorite impact, it will take at least one to three years to stabilize the situation.
Therefore, what is facing Chen Xin now is how to prepare within these three months so that he can survive this disaster smoothly and survive the most turbulent one to three years.
Fortunately, Chen Xin had discussed all this with friends online when he was conceiving this idea, and also referred to many materials and formulated a complete plan.
If you start implementing it now, although time is a bit tight, everything is still too late!
Thinking of this, Chen Xin did not waste any more time. He hurriedly contacted a trustworthy engineering team through his own relationship, intending to dig an underground shelter for himself first.
Regardless of whether the meteorite hits the Blue Star, and whether he will survive the impact, it is always right to be prepared.
In addition to digging for shelters, the storage of food and drinking water is also very important. Chen Xin took out his mobile phone to check his bank deposit balance and decided to make a big purchase.
Fortunately, disasters occurred frequently before, and Chen Xin also stocked up a lot of things at home, such as gas masks and materials in medical first aid kits, and he no longer had to buy them. What he mainly needed to stockpile food and water.
Chapter completed!