I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 654 - 552: Evacuation Completed

"Academician, this is the last batch of evacuating citizens." On the platform of the high-speed rail station, the staff organized the last batch of evacuating citizens to board the train and reported to Chen Xin.

After more than ten hours of tense evacuation, the hundreds of thousands of citizens in the city who needed to evacuate have now dwindled to only a few thousand on the platform.

These days are unlike the past; everyone is registered in the refuge systems, so there's no chance of anyone being left behind.

After all, with the deteriorating environment, it is difficult for people like Chen Xin, who built their own shelters to survive, to endure in such harsh conditions. They can only turn to official refuges for help and get transferred there.

For this reason, all the citizens in the city are under the control of the authorities, ensuring no one is left behind during evacuation, making management and order maintenance relatively easier.

Once the last batch of citizens was arranged to board the evacuation train, Chen Xin also had the final group of workers board the train.

They were evacuating the city, but the military personnel continued to hold their positions.

Evacuating citizens doesn't mean completely abandoning the city.

The reason for evacuating the citizens is that the city is adjacent to the lake area, too close to the battlefront. If there are many citizens in the city, the military cannot use powerful weapons without restriction.

But now that the citizens have been evacuated, the military can move the front line back and utilize the city to build a more effective defense system.

Instead of confronting the alien creatures directly in the open lake area, only relying on heavy firepower to constantly suppress the alien creatures' massive attacks.

As for the alien creatures' underground tunneling attacks, the military does have countermeasures.

Previously, the inability to retreat even a bit, coupled with the lake area, meant that many things couldn't be arranged or deployed in time on the temporary defense line, allowing the alien creatures opportunities and causing the military to be in a passive state.

But now with the military's worries eliminated and space cleared, there's ample space to deploy more effective defenses, significantly improving the military's unfavorable stance against the alien creatures on the front line.

So while the municipal government was organizing citizens for evacuation, the military had already begun gradually taking over the city and setting up new defense lines.

However, these matters were not much related to Chen Xin at the moment. Having been intensely focused on evacuation efforts, now that everything was finally handled, he relaxed and immediately fell asleep in his seat.

Seeing Chen Xin fall asleep in his seat like that, Tang Tang, who was beside him, couldn't help but sigh slightly. After asking for a blanket, she carefully covered Chen Xin with it.

Qin Lan and Mo Qingyan had already escorted his parents to evacuate beforehand, while Tang Tang stayed till the end due to handling the Research Center's subsequent material evacuation. She was now with Chen Xin.

Looking at Chen Xin's exhausted appearance, Tang Tang couldn't help but feel a bit distressed, yet also somewhat nostalgic.

She and Chen Xin were classmates, and when they formed a club together back then, she had seen Chen Xin fall asleep from exhaustion.

But at that time, Tang Tang never thought that they would meet again in the future with the current relationship or see Chen Xin asleep from exhaustion under these circumstances.

Thinking of this, Tang Tang approached the train staff and asked, "How long until we reach the destination?"

"About two hours or so. The previous evacuation batches took this line, so if things go smoothly, we could arrive quicker. But the station there is a simple small one with only one platform, so disembarking might take some time," the staff responded to Tang Tang.

They had already made several trips when transporting other evacuating citizens, so they were fairly knowledgeable about the situation at the settlement site.

Hearing this, Tang Tang nodded, asked no further questions, inquired about where there was hot water on the train, filled up with some hot water, took a packet of dry powder from her carry-on luggage, poured it into a cup, and stirred it with hot water before eating it.

Others on the train were mostly like Tang Tang, taking out some food from their belongings and eating silently.

After being busy for more than ten hours, most of the staff were already famished, and even the evacuating civilians had eaten little due to intense mental stress. Now that they could finally relax safely, the first thing everyone thought of was eating.

Once they filled their bellies, most people couldn't hide their fatigue and sought comfortable positions to rest.

Tang Tang also couldn't hold on anymore, so she hugged her arms, curled up on her seat, leaned against it, and planned to close her eyes for a rest.

Despite Tang Tang being accustomed to high-intensity work in the past, this situation had indeed exhausted her, and she soon fell asleep.

She was only awakened by the train's shaking as it slowed down upon nearing the destination.

By then, Chen Xin was already awake, and the blanket that had previously covered him now covered Tang Tang.

"Junior Chen, you're awake? Where are we now?" Tang Tang rubbed her stiff face from sleeping, stood up, and folded the blanket placed on the seat.

Chen Xin shook his head, looked out the train window before replying, "It's pitch black outside, so I don't know where we are, but we should be near the destination."

"Is that so? Then we must be waiting for the train ahead to offload people. I previously asked the staff, and this place only has a small station, so disembarking might be slow," Tang Tang recalled her inquiry and explained to Chen Xin.

Chen Xin nodded affirmatively: "That sounds about right. Transferring hundreds of thousands of people all at once isn't a simple task."

"Indeed! Finding places to accommodate these people is already an arduous task. I wonder if the municipal government has prepared shelters," Tang Tang expressed concern.

After all, relocating and accommodating hundreds of thousands of a city's people is not easy, even before the disaster.

"Don't worry. These citizens will be settled in the Dome City under construction; there's enough space to house them," Chen Xin wasn't very concerned, as he was familiar with the proposed resettlement location since it was his suggestion. "Though it was designed to accommodate 50,000 people, under the current circumstances, housing hundreds of thousands isn't impossible; it'll just be quite crowded."