I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 604 - 502 Geological Issues

The advancement of the Dome City project is quite smooth. If the Dome City can be established successfully, it would undoubtedly be a great thing for Flame Country at present.

It allows the people to return to surface living once again, even if still within a relatively enclosed environment, but the Dome City is more spacious than the underground shelters.

Living underground for long periods inevitably causes some problems.

In fact, in various shelters, the issues that managers often have to face are related to this aspect.

An oppressive and enclosed environment undoubtedly exacerbates psychological pressure and causes many mental issues.

Some people may simply feel unhappy, but others will undoubtedly become depressed or irritable.

In this apocalyptic environment, the psychological pressure people endure is inherently greater than before the disaster, with many people's nerves constantly on edge.

Although the country's situation is gradually recovering and living conditions are slowly improving, these improvements and changes are ultimately limited.

In life, it may just be having some fresh vegetables added daily, turning staple foods from emergency food made of old rice to new rice, these seemingly inconspicuous changes all signify changes in life.

However, these changes are easily overlooked by ordinary people.

It's like if you only had radishes and greens every day, and one day you suddenly had meat, and thereafter could have it every few days, it would be a significant change in life for you.

But if you only had radishes and greens before, and now you just have lettuce or leeks in addition, you might not feel the change.

The inability to perceive life improving makes it difficult for the ordinary populace to relieve their internal pressure, maintaining a sense of alertness towards the present life, and accumulating more internal stress.

Under accumulated pressure, it often turns into mental illness and various psychological issues.

Ordinary mental illnesses and psychological issues can be resolved through self-regulation and counseling from psychologists, and the country noticed this, ensuring that nearly every large-sized shelter is equipped with psychologists as much as possible.

Even smaller shelters without resident psychologists will have medical teams equipped with psychologists perform regular visits, all to counsel the populace facing psychological issues due to the oppressive environment.

If the Dome City plan can be successfully implemented, allowing people to move from the originally oppressive underground shelters to live in surface cities, the good natural environment and relatively open living space can greatly alleviate the psychological pressure caused by oppressive surroundings.

Moreover, the more important change in the living environment is that it can make people feel the improvement in life quality, increasing their confidence in the country and their hopefulness for a better future.

The sense of expectation might seem fleeting at first glance, but for the populace, it is the simplest hope for a more promising life, with good days still in the future.

Perhaps it is hard for those living in cities before the disaster to feel this, as they endured considerable pressure from life, with fast-paced living leaving them without the tranquility to appreciate life's changes and beauty, let alone foster hope for the future.

There might have initially been some dreaming, but such dreams quickly fall away under the stress of rent, work, overtime, and other pressures, or are outright forgotten.

But this expectation is still a vital reflection of whether people's lives are happy, and fostering this expectation for future life is also an important means of enhancing the happiness index of the populace.

In the current environment, being able to move back to the surface from underground shelters, still living in a carefully cultivated Dome City by the country, with life almost unchanged from before the disaster, is undoubtedly a dream come true for many.

Although initially, only a few people may be able to move into the Dome City, and some may feel it prioritizes high-level officials and those in power, nevertheless, as long as someone can live in the Dome City, and the state continues to build more Dome Cities, it will undoubtedly make everyone hopeful for their chance to live in such a city.

In this way, even if only a few people get to live in the Dome City, it could significantly stabilize the current social mood and eliminate potential social risks.

And the country's subsequent investments in this area certainly go beyond just one Dome City. In the future, Dome Cities will gradually replace current underground shelters, making surface living the mainstream of human civilization once again.

Of course, this will take time, given that building a city is not a simple task, and currently, they haven't even finalized the blueprint.

Yet even if the blueprint isn't fully determined, the general scale of the Dome City has been decided, and site selection can begin.

Although it's only a miniature city, theoretically rebuilding on the original city's foundations is entirely feasible, but to be prudent, a careful site selection still needs to be done.

Previously, a geological sinking incident near the outskirts startled the municipality, even prompting high-level inquiries.

Because it wasn't a small area that sank, but a former city district's lake, the entire sunken area reached a third of the pre-disaster city's size, even showing a tendency to spread into the city.

This situation drew the high attention of the municipality, who specially invited geological experts to conduct a detailed investigation of the sunken area.

Chen Xin didn't know the specific investigation results because he was in Lucia at that time and had not returned. He only learned about it later while chatting with Tang Tang.

It is said that the massive exploitation of underground water in the city area, coupled with the effects of the Toba Volcano eruption and the Southwest earthquake, intensified geological activities near the city area, leading to this result due to multiple influential factors.

Therefore, if Dome City constructions proceed in the future, these factors must be considered, otherwise if the city is built and encounters geological sinking, resulting in the entire city sinking, it would not be a minor issue.

In reality, many national projects are now affected, especially the reconstruction work in the Southwest Region. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

The Southwest Region is itself an area with more active geological activities, with frequent geological disasters, and with the series of recent events, the production and living activities throughout the Southwest Region will be significantly affected for a long time.

Thus, the country is currently undertaking a major plan to survey geological conditions in major cities nationwide, aiming for a more comprehensive understanding of the impacts Toba Volcano's eruption has brought to Flame Country.