I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 587 - 485: Transportation-Type Mobile Base Material Supply Network

Having crossed the border, the domestic environment wasn’t significantly better than Lucia’s, but the cities and settlements along the way were much more densely packed than in Lucia.

Compared to Lucia’s thousands of kilometers of uninhabited zones, within Flame Country, even in a place like Jiang Province, it’s hard to find similar situations. Although the population density isn’t high, you can encounter a city or inhabited settlement every few hundred kilometers.

The situation in these settlements is relatively good. Although they are tens or hundreds of kilometers away from major cities, the shelters here have no issues. Whether it’s warmth and insulation or supply of goods, even medical support is well in place.

This deeply impressed Chen Xin and his team, having just returned from Lucia, with the stark contrast and comparison between the two countries.

In Lucia, even in their capital, cities have suffered from several disturbances, leaving shelters dilapidated, supply lines disrupted, and medical guarantees overwhelmed by disease, creating a rather bleak scene.

But within Flame Country, even just an ordinary settlement in Jiang Province, with a shelter accommodating over five thousand people, is in much better condition. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

The sturdy shelter provides a strong and reliable refuge for all residents, fully capable of resisting the intrusion of extreme cold climates outside.

The traditional Karez system has been transformed into an underground water network and heating pipeline, ensuring sufficient water and geothermal resource supply for the shelter. This not only provides heating but also accommodates geothermal power generation, giving the shelter abundant electrical energy, without any concern for energy problems.

The greenhouses constructed with containers provide a continuous supply of fresh vegetables and other food for the shelter, ensuring that even if the supply of goods is temporarily disrupted, there will be no shortage of food here.

Although the main source of food here is transported by supply teams dispatched from the city at regular intervals, the supply isn’t very stable due to the current environmental impact. Nevertheless, they have reserved at least enough food for two transport cycles.

That means even if the supply team is delayed by environmental factors, they can at least hold out until the next transportation cycle, avoiding a state of food shortage.

With such a guarantee, it may not be foolproof, but at least in Chen Xin’s view, their efforts have been as good as they could be.

However, looking at the environment here, an application of the Mobile Base suddenly came to Chen Xin’s mind—serving as a transport vehicle, traveling between cities and these settlements, delivering supplies to each settlement and undertaking potential rescue tasks.

The enormous size of the Mobile Base ensures it won’t be easily affected by environmental factors. Even in harsh weather conditions like blizzards, this massive object weighing over a hundred tons can fully ensure its stability, coupled with an almost perpetual internal energy supply. With slight modifications, it could become the most suitable transportation tool.

Especially when paired with the onboard helicopter and vehicles, it can provide effective and rapid support, undoubtedly being the ideal choice for regional support in the current environment.

As Chen Xin contemplated this, he realized he might have been stuck in a misconception before.

The Mobile Base is not necessarily confined to military use; it holds great potential for civilian applications as well.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin felt he might be able to redesign the existing Mobile Base, adding a transport-focused civilian Mobile Base in addition to the medical one.

Currently, Mobile Bases have yet to enter mass production, with only two prototypes brought back by Chen Xin from Siberia.

One was left at the research center for disassembly, study, and mapping after being brought back last time to provide data support for subsequent production. The other is the one Chen Xin has now modified into a platform for the Weather Controller.

Although Chen Xin had designed battlefield support and medical Mobile Bases, they remained on paper. For the nation, while these two types of Mobile Bases look promising, there isn’t a pressing need for them at present.

However, a transport-type Mobile Base is different from these two models.

Even though Chen Xin has developed the Isotope Battery and Energy Tower for quite some time and the country is actively promoting their application, many regions still retain the old energy supply methods and traditional fuel vehicles.

Let’s not discuss the energy supply, as the country is already heavily revamping this area, but the production capacity for Isotope Batteries hasn’t expanded to cover everywhere yet.

So traditional thermal power plants still exist, and in many regions, they play a crucial role.

As for vehicles, even with new energy vehicles powered by Isotope Batteries, both production and conversion remain relatively cumbersome tasks.

Unlike Chen Xin, not everyone can modify a vehicle with just a blink of an eye. Traditional fuel vehicles are still widely used, continuing to serve in many roles.

Nevertheless, the size and high energy consumption of fuel vehicles make them not the most suitable choice in the current environment.

In flat provinces like Jiang Province, a Mobile Base’s transport capacity can even equal that of a hundred trucks. Not to mention its autonomy, far surpassing that of fuel vehicles that still require refueling.

If a transport network centered around the Mobile Base could be established, it would be a huge boon for the current supply of goods.

As for the issue of the Mobile Base’s slow movement speed, that indeed is an objective problem. However, even so, a Mobile Base can move a hundred or two hundred kilometers a day. As a means of transporting supplies, as long as a stable supply frequency is maintained, the speed isn’t all that critical.

After clarifying these factors, the idea of constructing a supply network centered on the Mobile Base gradually took shape in Chen Xin’s mind.

"Looks like once I return, I need to speed up the mass production of Mobile Bases." Although Chen Xin is uncertain whether the high-levels will approve this plan, it’s always best to prepare the groundwork first.

They certainly can’t wait until the high-levels approve the new plan, only to find that Mobile Bases are still just sketches on paper, with not even mass production possible, that would truly be a waste.

However, a Mobile Base is not just any other item. Producing something practically akin to an amphibious assault ship or a light aircraft carrier is no easy task to mass-produce, even in pre-disaster times given Flame Country’s industrial capacity.