291: Smart Brain

After Tian Ming completed the fusion power station, he also constructed a large transformer station.

The Shelter now had sufficient energy.

Ten days passed, and Tian Ming expanded the Underground City by nearly double its original size; Tian Ming was responsible for the main structure, while others handled the transportation and installation work.

The overall structure and volume of the Underground City nearly doubled, enough to accommodate about fifty to sixty thousand people.

What needed to be built now was the central service computer room for the entire Shelter, which, according to the plan, would house a supercomputer.

Supercomputers are major energy consumers, which is why Tian Ming built the power station first before constructing the computer room.

Tian Ming replicated a standard server into ten thousand units, and technical personnel and experts from the Shelter collaborated on debugging and installation.

This supercomputer was named the 'Intelligent Brain.' Its cabinet wiring used special room-temperature superconducting materials, and its chips were multi-layered and stacked, making them extremely difficult to manufacture.

They could only be produced in small batches in the Laboratory.

However, Tian Ming could replicate them; these advanced chips were mass-produced by Tian Ming as if they were free, totaling over a million units.

Of course, not all of them were used for the Intelligent Brain; most were kept as backups for future computer rooms.

This Intelligent Brain adopted a new distributed architecture, primarily for future expansion and upgrades.

All of the Intelligent Brain's super servers were connected, forming a vast network, where each node had independent processing capabilities and was interconnected, forming a supercomputer.

The peak computing speed of this Intelligent Brain reached a quadrillion operations per second, and it supported artificial neural networks.

It was called an Intelligent Brain simply because it was a super-powerful AI.

The power of this Intelligent Brain lay not only in its computing capabilities but also in its ability to self-learn and optimize.

Through artificial neural networks, the Intelligent Brain could receive and process data from all corners of the Shelter, including environmental data, personnel movement, equipment operating status, and so on.

This data, after analysis and judgment by the Intelligent Brain, could provide strong support for the Shelter's decision-makers.

At the same time, the Intelligent Brain could also make predictions and plans based on the collected data, using it to plan and optimize the Shelter's structure and layout.

With the help of the Intelligent Brain, the Shelter became more intelligent and efficient.

Tasks that previously required a large amount of manpower and time could now be easily completed by the Intelligent Brain.

With the Intelligent Brain in place, the next steps involved the high-speed network layout for the entire area, followed by smart devices, especially the establishment of robot factories.

Additionally, the alliance's combat mechs, all pushed by Tian Ming, were now starting construction ahead of schedule instead of being merely planned.

While work was in full swing here, personnel from Dongshan Base were also migrating in large numbers to Tian Ming's Shelter.

With two million people concentrating their efforts on infrastructure, the landscape within the protective wall changed almost daily.

After Tian Ming finished setting up the Intelligent Brain, a month had already passed.

Working day and night for that month, Tian Ming also found that his ability control range had increased significantly, reaching a control radius of 105 meters.

The quantity of Nanometer Avatars also tripled, allowing him to form three large Nanometer Avatars.

However, Tian Ming only kept one Nanometer Avatar, which allowed the sensing distance between him and the avatar to reach about 280 kilometers.

The entire circular defense wall had a diameter of only about 200 kilometers, so Tian Ming could control the entire area like an invisible sky net by dispersing his Nanometer Avatar.

The Nanometer Avatar could provide any perspective.

He could see anyone he wanted, whether it was something that could or could not be seen, or something that should or should not be seen; if he wanted to see it, he could, from a full 360-degree, no-dead-angle view.

With a creak, the door to Tian Ming's office opened, and Qiu Qian walked in.

“Boss, General Manager Meng wants you to go to the city wall; it seems there’s a situation.”

Tian Ming nodded slightly and followed Qiu Qian out.

The city wall was about ten kilometers from the Shelter, with a direct road leading to it.

“Boss, let’s go by car; it’s not a zombie invasion, no need to rush,” Qiu Qian said.

“Hmm!” Tian Ming responded.

The two got directly into the car, which drove along the road, with buildings, mountains, forests, and other scenery outside the window rapidly receding.

Time was slowly entering summer, and it had been almost a year since the zombie outbreak.

Tian Ming sat in the car, eyes closed, resting, appearing very indifferent.

“Boss, are you alright?” Qiu Qian looked at Tian Ming like this and felt quite pained.

Ever since Shen Yuan’s consciousness returned to her body, the boss had become diligent but also more aloof.

“I’m fine,” Tian Ming said indifferently.

“Boss, are you too tired? You can get some good rest; many things don’t require your personal involvement.

Everyone is working together on construction, and you’ve already done so much for the Shelter.”

Tian Ming closed his eyes and hummed, clearly not wanting to talk much.

Qiu Qian sighed helplessly.

Tian Ming and Qiu Qian quickly arrived at the city wall.

The top edge of the city wall was equipped with auto-aiming machine guns, turrets, drone platforms, and various defensive weapons.

The northern-facing wall had the highest density of defenses because most zombies came from the north.

Within the wall body of the defensive perimeter, some reserved internal spaces were also rapidly converted.

Here, there were many energy storage stations.

The entire wall was like a circular building, over 600 kilometers long; Tian Ming had reserved a total of over 1.3 million rooms of various sizes during construction, like an ant’s nest.

The interior of the wall facing the sea to the south was used as a temporary resettlement area for survivors.

This temporary arrangement at least provided a temporary Shelter from wind and rain for over two million people.

The north side, on the other hand, was the Shelter’s military base, with a large number of weapons mounted on the wall.

The fifty-meter width was equivalent to a large circular main road.

Automatic patrol vehicles drove and patrolled along the top of the wall; everything was orderly.

As soon as Tian Ming arrived, Meng Xian came to greet him, along with the Shelter’s various military officers, including Bai Yan, Rogers, Zheng Haoyu, and some members of the alliance.

“Something wrong?” Tian Ming asked, his expression somewhat serious.

Meng Xian stepped forward and said to Tian Ming, “Boss, the defense line of the wall is over 600 kilometers long.

It’s too long.

We only have fewer than 150,000 soldiers, and only about 80,000 combat personnel.

Relying on human power to defend this circular wall spreads our forces too thin.

Therefore, we need more automatic turrets and energy laser weapons on the wall.”

Tian Ming nodded slightly and said, “Understood, so you came to me for work, right?”

Bai Yan stepped forward and said, “Chief… Chief Lu, we need single 10 kWh high-performance sodium-ion batteries as energy reserves for energy weapons.

We have planned for 600 energy storage rooms, requiring a total of 8 million such batteries.”