Chapter 404: Chernobog Underground City
Underground in the Chernobog Lord’s Mansion, Perfectcott was inspecting the city’s underground city.
Similar to the underground shelters built in settlements, even though Chernobog is the largest city in the North today, Perficott still designed underground shelters for the city when planning its urban construction. city.
It’s just that the underground city of Chernobog is different from the underground shelters in other places. After all, it is a city.
According to Chernoborg's urban layout, there are four underground dungeons beneath the city, corresponding to different urban areas above the city.
Among them, the Lord's Mansion located in the center of the city is directly connected to the largest dungeon underground. It is also part of the core dungeon and has special underground passages to connect with the other three underground dungeons. The other three underground dungeons are connected to each other. There are no road connections between them.
The reason for adopting this layout is that the above-ground part of Chernobog covers a large area, and although the urban population cannot be compared with Langton, it already has a considerable number.
So more underground cities are needed to accommodate the urban population, and more energy towers are also needed to heat the city.
Because of this layout, the central dungeon beneath the Lord's Mansion also has functional modules that other dungeons do not have.
Although it is located underground in the Lord's Mansion, this does not mean that the Lord's Mansion is located directly above the underground city. To be precise, the square in front of the Lord's Mansion is the center of the underground city, and also Its central position is where the energy tower protrudes from the surface.
Because the energy tower needs to use coal as fuel, it still needs to extend part of the structure out of the ground to discharge waste gas after combustion.
Although Purficott could also use alchemy to recover the waste gas after combustion, and by the way, she could also recover some waste heat, but after thinking about it, she still felt that it was not necessary.
After all, this is still the age of steam. Energy issues are not a problem for this era. There is no need to recycle this waste heat.
As for the pollution caused by exhaust gas? Then there is no need to worry about it. What humans need to think about now is to survive, rather than thinking about protecting the world that will only be left in white at a low temperature of dozens of degrees below zero after the end of the world.
"The energy tower is currently only running at low power, mainly supplying energy to the Lord's Mansion and surrounding neighborhoods." An engineer was introducing the situation to Purficott.
Although underground cities have indeed been launched, most people still do not have the habit of living underground.
In addition, Chernobog is a new city, and the problem of cold protection and heat preservation of the building was considered before construction. Therefore, in the weather of more than 20 degrees below zero, heating equipment such as fireplaces only need to be set up indoors. , and basically I don’t feel too cold.
After all, it is winter, and the heating conditions in this era are limited, so people are mentally prepared for the cold.
Although underground space is indeed warmer, even in those settlements, not everyone is willing to live underground, and most of them still live on the ground.
Even though this will cause them to consume more fuel and cause a lot of inconvenience in their lives, there are still some people who just can't get used to living underground.
Purficott would not insist on this. After all, even if the doomsday winter really comes, it does not mean that the ground is completely uninhabitable. As long as the ground is protected from cold and warm, there will be no big problem. Of course, it is not easy to keep warm from the cold at temperatures as low as minus 60 to 70 degrees Celsius.
"How is the occupancy situation in the surrounding neighborhoods?" Purficott just wanted to look around, and he could see many people active around the energy tower, including There are still quite a few people looking at themselves.
Although not everyone lives underground, for the residents of Chernobog, most people are still willing to move around in areas that are warmer and have no snow.
This can be regarded as some ingenuity of Purficott when she designed the underground city of Chernoborg. She connected the houses in the above-ground city of Chernobog with the underground city, and all the houses were above ground. Regardless of the part, there are two unified layers underground, one in the ground and one in the underground city.
In this way, even if the people of Chernobog do not intend to live underground, they can still access the underground city through their basements.
In this way, a considerable number of citizens can move underground.
After all, it is really cold on the ground. There is no need to talk about commercial activities in this season. Pedestrians on the street wish they could take a few steps quickly. Some even come from the ground to feel more comfortable. Underground, take a longer detour through the underground streets to reach your destination.
Because of this, there are already many pedestrians on the streets of the underground city. Some people have also placed shops and stalls in the underground city. Some people even want to provide services such as carriage rental. The commercial district on the ground is no different from the prosperous scene.
Perficott approved most of these, except for carriage rental services.
Otherwise, the smell of horse manure was too strong, and Perfectcott didn't want the smell of the dungeon to be unpleasant.
For this purpose, she specially designed a steam bus, which is a public transportation vehicle driven by storing steam in a gas tank. Although it has not yet been put into production and use, it is only on paper. However, once this kind of bus is put into operation, it can greatly enhance the prosperity of underground cities.
The answer from the official responsible for the underground city management also made Purficott confident in this point.
“Lord, although most of the residents of Chernobog still retain the habit of living on the ground, most of their day has gradually moved underground, and people spend most of their time underground. It's also gradually increasing." The official introduced the situation to Purficott, while the previous engineer stepped aside very quickly.
For this engineer, Purficott's reputation and momentum were too astonishing, making him hesitant to stand next to the northern lord.
His little movement did not attract attention. No one noticed him except Purficott who glanced at him.
The official in charge of the underground city was still explaining the situation non-stop. The opportunity to show his face in front of Purficott was very precious to them, and no one would waste it.
Listening to the official's explanation, Purficott also learned that on the floor below where they were, some poor people had already chosen to give up living on the ground. Instead it moved underground.
This gave Purfict an idea and decided to go to the next floor to see how the people below lived.
(End of this chapter)