I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 824 - 722: Dome City Project Restarted

While Chen Xin was busy developing artificial intelligence, the research department of the Dome City was instructed by higher authorities to restart the construction plan of the Dome City.

The construction plan of the Dome City was an important national project concerning the country’s livelihood and the future restoration of the blue planet’s ecological environment before the alien invasion.

Therefore, even when the country was just slightly recovering from the disaster, a large amount of resources was still invested to build the new Dome City, intending to dedicate enough scientific efforts to study issues of coexistence and development between ecosystems and humans.

According to the original plan, after the completion of the new Dome City, more Ecological Domes were to be constructed within three to five years, expanding the new Dome City into a cluster of cities.

However, with the alien invasion, the construction of new domes was canceled, and the entire plan was put on hold. Various resources were diverted to the frontline against the aliens, so naturally, such an expensive project that didn’t aid the war effort was paused.

The only completed product of the entire Dome City construction plan became a shelter, housing a population far exceeding its designed capacity limit.

Now, with the end of the domestic war and the resumption of various construction projects, this large-scale project which was previously halted has naturally been restarted under the push of some individuals.

However, the construction of the Dome City is quite costly, and even if the top levels wish to restart construction, it’s not something that can begin immediately in the short term.

Especially since the project has been paused for several years; although the original blueprints remain, time is required to organize them.

One should know that even an airplane’s blueprints can fill a shipping container, let alone the blueprints for a city.

Even if these blueprints have been processed into a paperless form, they still constitute a massive amount of data that needs time to be reorganized.

Particularly the issues encountered during the construction of the new Dome City, modifications made on the construction-used blueprints also need to be fed back to the original blueprints.

This is undoubtedly a massive undertaking, requiring a lot of manpower to accomplish these tasks. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

And these people must be professionals; ordinary individuals cannot handle these architectural blueprints.

Therefore, several remaining domestic design institutes and their affiliated design offices have been mobilized, and a large number of professionals have been gathered at the Research Center, with some conducting surveys in the new Dome City.

Conducting surveys in the new Dome City is naturally expected, as this new city was not originally designed to accommodate tens of thousands of people, and the space within the city does not permit it.

But events that transpired later caused the city to be forcibly filled with tens of thousands of people, which undoubtedly turned the original urban planning into a mess, with many of the original designs being altered.

The purpose of the new surveys is to compare the current state of the new Dome City with the original blueprints.

As for why a visit to the Research Center is necessary, it’s because the electronic version of the Dome City blueprints is stored in the supercomputer at the Research Center.

Moreover, the Research Center has ample space and a virtual realm, where the blueprints can be directly simulated. Isn’t it much easier to calculate the differences using a supercomputer rather than comparing those massive blueprints and data manually, bit by bit?

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Chen Xin was surprised by the country’s decision to restart the Dome City construction.

With his status, he naturally had access to more information that others did not, and through this information, Chen Xin could clearly understand that the country’s current situation was not as good as imagined.

Although the end of domestic warfare refocused the country on domestic construction, simultaneously supporting the European Battlefield on one hand and building a new defense line in the Middle East on the other meant that domestic resource consumption remained substantial.

Despite the supplements from Europe and the considerable output from domestically privately contracted small mines, overall, the current domestic situation still required careful management.

In such circumstances, Chen Xin did not quite agree with restarting a large construction project like the Dome City.

Especially since the original intention behind the Dome City was to establish an ecological city rather than a residential city, the difference here is significant.

He did not think the country currently had enough resources and energy to restart the research project for ecosystem restoration.

It’s not that this project isn’t important, but because the most pressing current issue isn’t this, and large amounts of resources should not be allocated to it.

However, even though he disagreed with the approach of the top levels, Chen Xin did not interfere. He only inquired about this matter to the higher-ups via his own authority.

In fact, it was quite strange that Chen Xin was not informed in advance about this matter.

Given Chen Xin’s status, he should have been informed beforehand if the country intended to restart the Dome City construction project.

Especially since he was the one who initially orchestrated the Dome City project and now had the most say in the new Dome City, it was very unusual for this project to restart without his input.

Yet when Chen Xin inquired about this matter with the higher-ups, they responded that the Dome City plan was not prepared for domestic construction but was intended for use in the Middle East Region.

This truly surprised Chen Xin, even more than the fact that the top decided this bypassing him.

Although the construction of the Dome City is resource-intensive, squeezing a bit might allow for two new domes, yet why they would be built in the Middle East instead of domestically was quite illogical.

The higher-ups explained that the high-ranking official responsible for the Middle East defense line construction felt that the current concentration of the Middle East population in the Mesopotamian Plain was very dangerous. If aliens invaded the Middle East, the area’s residents would suffer huge losses.

Therefore, this high-ranking official planned to relocate the Middle Eastern population to the Iranian Plateau, moving them behind the Middle East defense line. This way, even if aliens invaded, the losses wouldn’t be as severe.

Certainly, there’s nothing wrong with this plan; however, the Iranian Plateau, being primarily a plain terrain, does not suit underground construction, making the Dome City—large shelter buildings suitable for plain construction—the top choice for this official.

It was precisely due to this idea that this high-ranking official used their authority to restart the Dome City project, organizing the blueprints within the country.

It was precisely due to this idea that this high-ranking official used their authority to restart the Dome City project, organizing the blueprints within the country.

It was precisely due to this idea that this high-ranking official used their authority to restart the Dome City project, organizing the blueprints within the country.