Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 404: Chernobog Underground City

Under the palace of Lord Chernoborg, Perfect was inspecting the city's underground city.

Just like the underground shelters built in the settlements, even though Chernobog is now the largest city in the North, Perfectcot still designed an underground city for the city when he was planning its construction.

It’s just that the underground city of Chernobog is different from underground shelters in other places. After all, it is a city.

According to the urban layout of Chernobog, there are a total of four underground dungeons under this city, corresponding to different urban areas above the ground.

Among them, the Lord's Mansion located in the center of the city is directly connected to the largest underground dungeon, which is also part of the core dungeon. It is connected to the other three underground dungeons by a special underground passage, while the other three underground dungeons have no road connection with each other.

The reason for adopting such a layout is that the above-ground part of Chernoborg covers a large area. Although the city's population cannot be compared with that of Langton, it is already considerable.

Therefore, more underground cities are needed to accommodate the city’s population, and more energy towers are also needed to heat the city.

Because of this layout, the central dungeon under 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 it is also the location where the central energy tower extends out of the ground.

Because the energy tower needs to use coal as fuel, it still needs to extend part of its structure out of the ground to discharge waste gas after combustion.

Although Perfect could use alchemy to recycle the exhaust gas produced after combustion and also recycle some waste heat, after thinking about it, she still felt that it was unnecessary.

After all, this was still the steam age, and energy issues were not a problem in that era. There was no need to recycle all the waste heat to save a little.

As for the pollution caused by exhaust gas? There is no need to worry about it. What humans need to think about now is to survive, not to think about protecting the world that will be covered with white in the temperature of dozens of degrees below zero after the doomsday.

"The energy tower is currently only operating at low power, mainly providing energy to the lord's mansion and surrounding blocks." An engineer was explaining the situation to Perfect.

Although the underground city has indeed been launched, most people still do not have the habit of living underground.

In addition, since Chernobog is a new city, the issue of building cold-proofing and heat-insulating was considered before construction. Therefore, in weather with temperatures of more than 20 degrees below zero, as long as heating equipment such as fireplaces are turned on indoors, it basically does not feel too cold.

After all, it is winter, and heating conditions in this era are limited, so people are mentally prepared for the cold itself.

Although underground space is indeed warmer, even in those settlements, not everyone is willing to live underground. Most people still live on the ground.

Even though this would cause them to consume more fuel and cause many inconveniences in their lives, some people just can't get used to living underground.

Perfect would not force it. After all, even if the doomsday winter really came, the ground would not be completely uninhabitable. As long as you take good precautions against the cold and keep warm, there would be no big problem. Of course, it is not easy to take good precautions against the cold and keep warm in temperatures of minus 60 to 70 degrees Celsius.

"How's the occupancy rate in the surrounding blocks?" Perfecto just glanced around and saw that there were many people moving around the energy tower, and quite a few of them were looking at him.

Although not everyone lives underground, most residents of Chernobyl prefer to move around in warmer areas without snow.

This was also one of the clever ideas that Perfectot had when she was designing the underground city of Chernobog. She connected the houses in the above-ground city area of ​​Chernobog with the underground city. Regardless of the above-ground part of all the houses, they all had two unified floors underground, one in the ground and the other in the underground city.

In this way, even if the people of Chernobog do not plan to live underground, they can still come to the underground city through their own basements.

In this way, a considerable number of citizens can move underground.

After all, the ground is really cold, so there is no need to talk about any commercial activities in this season. Pedestrians on the street are eager to walk faster. Some people even go underground from the ground to be more comfortable and take a longer route to their destination through the underground streets.

Because of this, there are already many pedestrians on the streets of the underground city. Some people have set up shops and stalls in the underground city, and some even want to start services such as carriage rentals. It is as prosperous as a commercial district on the ground.

Perfect allowed most of these, of course, except for the carriage rental service.

It's because the smell of horse manure is too strong and Perfectoct doesn't want the underground city to have an unpleasant smell.

For this purpose, she specially designed a steam bus, which is a public transportation vehicle powered by steam stored in a gas tank. Although it has not yet been put into production and use and is still only a design plan on paper, once this bus is put into operation, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance the prosperity of the underground city.

The answer from the official in charge of the dungeon management also made Perfecto confident about this solution.

"My Lord, although most of the residents of Chenoberg still retain the habit of living on the ground, they have gradually moved most of their time underground, and the time people spend underground is also gradually increasing." The official introduced the situation to Perfectcot, while the engineer who had been there before stepped aside very tactfully.

For the engineer, Perfectoct's reputation and momentum were too amazing, so he didn't dare to stand next to the northern lord.

His little action did not attract any attention. Except for Perfectoct who glanced at him, no one noticed him.

The official in charge of the dungeon continued to explain the situation. The opportunity to show up in front of Perfectot was very precious to these officials, and no one would waste it.

Listening to the official's explanation, Perfectot also learned that on the floor below where they were, some poorer people had already given up living on the ground and moved underground.

This gave Perfectot an idea, and he decided to go to the next level to see how people lived down there.

(End of this chapter)