CHAPTER 540: CHAPTER 438 LUCIA’S ASSISTANCE PROGRAM·ONE

A massive transport aircraft slowly landed on the cleared temporary runway.

Because the snowfall in Lucia was thicker than in the Flame Country, the runway was actually just compressed snow with some marked runway lights.

Nonetheless, the huge transport aircraft stopped steadily at the runway’s end without any accidents.

"What materials have been shipped this time?" Standing beside the plane, observing the cargo being unloaded from the cabin, Chen Xin asked the staff nearby.

This was the first batch of aid materials sent from the domestic side. Although Chen Xin knew domestic aid materials would be sent, he was unclear about the specifics.

The staff pulled out a list, handed it to Chen Xin, and introduced, "Since it’s the first batch of materials and transport capacity is limited, we’ve mainly brought the core of an Energy Tower and some emergency food and medical supplies to aid Lucia."

Chen Xin flipped through the list briefly, seeing that it mostly listed various medicine names, knowing that the most important parts of this batch of aid materials were the Energy Tower core and medical supplies.

As for the emergency food and engineering team randomly brought along, they were not the main focus of this aid.

Food was indeed scarce for Lucia, and the arrival of this batch of emergency food could be said to be timely aid.

However, Lucia’s food supply itself had been gradually restoring, and grain transported from other parts of Lucia had already reached their Capital.

For now, the situation is roughly that there might be some hunger, but not to the point of starvation.

It’s due to this situation that in the Flame Country’s aid batch, although there was food, it was indeed not much.

The engineering team was mainly responsible for helping Lucia construct the Energy Tower and set up planting greenhouses once the Energy Tower was completed.

Despite their experience being richer than Lucia’s, it wasn’t to the point of being indispensable.

After gaining a general understanding of this batch of aid, Chen Xin nodded and instructed the staff, "Prepare all materials for storage; let the engineering personnel settle at the base first. Send someone to notify Lucia over there to be ready to receive the materials, and meanwhile send someone to ask them if they have completed the preparatory work we requested."

"Okay, Academician, I will arrange it right away," the staff responded promptly and turned to arrange Chen Xin’s directives.

The preparatory work Chen Xin mentioned involved components related to the Energy Tower apart from the core, and the drilling of deep wells critical for the Energy Tower’s construction.

Due to the constraints of aircraft transport capacity, although the Flame Country dispatched an engineering team, they did not bring large engineering equipment, only some portable construction tools.

Hence, some preparatory work needed to be completed by Lucia in advance, with necessary engineering equipment provided to the Flame Country.

Fortunately, the people in Lucia understood this was for their survival, prompting their leaders to personally oversee, ensuring everything was meticulously arranged and all preparatory work strictly adhered to the Flame Country’s standards.

Undoubtedly, this greatly facilitated the subsequent work.

Though things proceeded smoothly, Chen Xin was not entirely satisfied. If it merely continued this way, the survival points he could earn would not be substantial.

So, after the materials were unloaded, he approached the Energy Tower core that had been transported.

This object was technically still his design, but following several upgrades to the Energy Tower, it was handed over to the country’s scientific team for research. Having mastered the Energy Tower’s technology, they developed this Energy Tower core according to practical construction needs.

This core was produced by specialized factories, as some key components required high precision and demanding processing. Currently, only a few domestic factories can complete the entire core production.

But these factories had numerous other production tasks in addition to core manufacturing. Wasting production capacity on other Energy Tower components would undoubtedly delay many things.

Thus, the current domestic approach is to have a few factories capable of processing the core solely focus on core production, whereas other matching components are made by other factories or the local factories at the Energy Tower installation site, considering that local areas have regained some industrial production capability, producing some external components is feasible.

And this significantly alleviated transportation pressure, as transporting one core and transporting an entire Energy Tower requires vastly different transport capacities.

Of course, this conveniently allowed Chen Xin to make some enhancements to the core, optimizing its performance to earn more survival points from it.

In the system’s upgrade interface, Chen Xin made a minor enhancement to the core’s performance, optimizing further to improve heating efficiency and coverage area, thus impacting more people and thereby gaining more survival points for Chen Xin.

Although the survival points Chen Xin could earn from a shelter had a limit, no one said this Energy Tower was only for one shelter.

Lucia Capital’s situation differs from the Flame Country; most underground shelter facilities here stem from the Suyia era, with some even dug deep into the ground, several meters deep, like the Capital subway station, which is one such deep-level entity.

Moreover, Lucia’s Capital has many private basement-like shelters, mostly products of that era.

Without Flame Country’s strong execution and infrastructure capability, Lucia’s official entity only connected a few underground chambers, forming a community-like shelter, prioritizing primarily large official shelters.

Under such conditions, the Energy Tower’s establishment should cover the range where pipelines can be installed, not solely limited to the heating range the Energy Tower can impact.

Additionally, Lucia plans not to construct this Energy Tower on the ground but underground, adopting Chen Xin’s second Energy Tower design, encapsulating the tower body for heat dissipation entirely through pipelines.

This approach precisely suited Chen Xin’s intentions, as this would allow pipelines to connect to more shelters, bypassing the constraint that a single shelter’s survival points have a cap.

Regarding Chen Xin’s part, he could perform upgrades on the heating pipeline and the Energy Tower to extend influence over more shelters and survivors, thereby obtaining more survival points.