After crossing the border, although the domestic environment is not much better than Lucia, the cities and settlements along the way are much denser than Lucia.
Compared with the thousands of kilometers of uninhabited land like Lucia, it is difficult to encounter similar situations even in Xinjiang Province in Yanguo. Although the population density is also not large, you can still encounter people every few hundred kilometers. Go to a city or an inhabited settlement.
The situation in these settlements is pretty good. Although they are tens or hundreds of kilometers away from major cities, there are no problems with the shelters here. Whether it is cold protection, material supply, or even medical support, they are in place.
This made Chen Xin and the others who had just returned from Lucia deeply feel the strongest contrast between the two countries.
In Lucia, even in a city like their capital, after experiencing several riots, the shelters have become dilapidated, there are problems with material supply, and medical care has been overwhelmed by the epidemic. It can be said to be a quite miserable scene. .
But within the Yan Kingdom, even if it was just an ordinary settlement in Xinjiang Province, with only one shelter housing more than 5,000 people, its situation would be much better.
The strong shelter provides a solid and reliable haven for all residents, and living inside can completely protect against the invasion of extreme cold weather outside.
The traditional qanat has been transformed into a groundwater network and heating pipeline, providing the shelter with sufficient water and geothermal resource guarantees. It not only provides heating for the shelter, but also takes into account geothermal power generation, so that the shelter has abundant electrical energy without having to Worry about energy issues.
The greenhouse also built with containers provides the shelter with a steady stream of fresh vegetables and other food. Even if the supply of materials is interrupted for a while, there will be no food shortage problem here.
Although the main source of food here is transported by transportation teams sent by the city at regular intervals. Due to the impact of today's environment, the supply is not very stable, but generally speaking, there is at least enough food stored here to last for two transportation cycles.
In other words, even if the transportation team is delayed due to environmental impact, they can at least persist until the next transportation cycle without falling into a state of food shortage.
With such a guarantee, it may not be said to be foolproof, but at least in Chen Xin's view, this place has done the best it can.
However, looking at the environment here, an application method of the mobile base suddenly appeared in his mind, that is, as a transport vehicle, traveling between the city and these settlements, transporting supplies to each settlement, and taking on possible emergencies. rescue mission.
The mobile base is huge and will not be easily affected by environmental factors. Even in severe weather such as blizzards, this behemoth of more than 100 tons can fully guarantee its own stability, coupled with the nearly sustainable energy inside Guaranteed, with a little modification it will become the most suitable means of transportation.
Especially when paired with the mounted helicopters and vehicles, it can achieve effective and rapid support. It is definitely an ideal choice for regional support in today's environment.
While Chen Xin was thinking this, he felt that he had fallen into a misunderstanding before.
Mobile bases do not necessarily have to be used for military purposes. They also have great potential for civilian use.
Thinking of this, Chen Xin felt that he might be able to redesign the existing mobile base and add a transportation-type civilian mobile base in addition to the medical mobile base.
At present, the mobile base has not been put into mass production. There are only two prototypes brought back by Chen Xin from Siberia.
One of them has been left in the research center for disassembly, research and mapping since it was brought back last time to provide data support for subsequent production. The other one is now transformed by Chen Xin into a weather controller carrying platform. .
Although Chen Xin originally designed a mobile base for battlefield support and a medical mobile base, both of them were just on the drawing board. Although these two mobile bases look good to the country, they are currently In fact, there is no urgent need.
But compared to these two models, the transport-type mobile base is different.
Although Chen Xin has been manufacturing isotope batteries and energy towers for a long time, and the country is vigorously promoting their applications, many places across the country still retain the old energy supply methods and traditional fuel vehicles.
Not to mention the energy supply method, the country has been vigorously transforming this aspect, but the production capacity of isotope batteries is not yet rich enough to be used everywhere.
Therefore, traditional thermal power plants still exist, and even play a very important role in many areas.
This is even more true as for vehicles. Although there are already new energy vehicles powered by isotope batteries, such vehicles are relatively troublesome to produce or modify.
Not everyone is like Chen Xin, who can complete the transformation of a vehicle with one eye closed or open. Traditional fuel vehicles still have a considerable number of vehicles and play their role in many positions.
It's just that the size and high energy consumption of fuel vehicles determine that they are not the most suitable choice in today's environment.
In a relatively flat province like Xinjiang, the transportation capacity of a mobile base is even equivalent to a hundred trucks, not to mention its self-sustainability, which is far beyond the comparison of fuel vehicles that still need to be refueled. .
If a transportation network with a mobile base as the core can be built, it will be huge good news for the current supply of materials.
As for the mobile base not moving fast, this is indeed an objective problem, but even so, the mobile base can move one or two hundred kilometers a day. As a means of transportation and supply, as long as a stable supply frequency is maintained, It doesn't really matter whether it's fast or slow.
After clarifying these factors, Chen Xin's idea of building a material supply network with a mobile base as the core gradually took shape.
"It seems that after returning, we will speed up the mass production and construction of the mobile base." Although Chen Xin was not sure whether this plan would be approved by the top management, it was always right to do the relevant work first.
It’s impossible to say that if the top management approves a new plan, but then the mobile base is just a draft on a drawing and can’t even be mass-produced, then it’s really all in vain.
However, the mobile base is not something else. It is not easy to mass-produce this kind of thing, which is basically the same as an amphibious assault ship or a light aircraft carrier. Even with the industrial strength of Yan State before the disaster, it is not easy to mass-produce it. Mass production is also not that easy.
