Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 639 New Problems
The eighth year started off very busy.

At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, a large number of new immigrants poured into Shagang Port. In addition, the Lightbringers and Enhancers who came from various regions and organizations to exchange and learn made the two ports and four helipads here crowded with people every day.

The Emerald Avenue was congested with vehicles and cars, and even the Wuhu Elevated Road, which had always been relatively easy to navigate, experienced unprecedented traffic jams.

At this point, the traffic light specialist from the program department, Senojie, demonstrated his professional expertise.

The traffic monitoring network, which was completed in the Shagang area a few years ago, was immediately adjusted and diverted, concentrating heavy-duty freight trucks on the viaduct to improve efficiency and reduce congestion.

Based on this, the program department also implemented a vehicle restriction policy, giving priority to vehicles with license plates from the Shagang area and company vehicles to ensure local transportation stability.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Civil Aviation also added 10 public airships and increased the frequency of flights from Shagang to Emerald City to reduce the transportation pressure on ground traffic.

Zhou Yi was initially puzzled: "I don't quite understand. According to the monitoring data, just 2000 vehicles can cause serious congestion? Is our transportation infrastructure really that weak?"

Senoj explained, “Chairman, congestion is determined by the weakest points or nodes on the road, not by the average traffic flow across the entire road.”

"According to database records, the second ring road of the super-large city of BJ in the old human era is 32.7 kilometers long, which is close to the straight-line distance from Emerald City to Shagang Elevated Road. 2000-3000 vehicles concentrated in a local section can cause regional paralysis. If 3000-4000 vehicles are traveling at the same time (including duplicate counts), the local section will be congested."

“Roads are structures that are more fragile than they appear.”

"The elevated bridge is already an excellent result, with only four exits along the way: Jitou Town, Mogulin, Qingcong Town, and Lvzhou Town. However, this also causes vehicles to queue up to exit the ramps, resulting in some congestion. This is even with traffic lights guiding the way; in other places, the congestion would only be more severe."

When it comes to professional matters, this usually timid intelligent traffic light is much more confident: "Chairman, it's all thanks to your early approval for continued investment in road infrastructure."

"Otherwise, relying solely on the old Emerald Avenue would not be enough to support a large number of vehicles coming and going; after all, it was just a very rudimentary temporary road."

"After multiple rounds of renovation and widening, with the professional road construction by the Electromechanical Life Engineering team, the new Emerald Avenue is now proving very useful. The concept of separating pedestrians and vehicles has also taken root in people's hearts."

It was actually referring to something that happened two years ago.

At that time, Senojie approached Zhou Yi and requested funding to rebuild Emerald Avenue.

Over the years, the old Emerald Avenue has been continuously worn down by vehicles. It is a temporary road made up of rows of houses, and it has been riddled with potholes, with more and more holes and collapses needing repair, and the risk of collapse is constantly increasing.

Senoj suggested using the old avenue as a sidewalk to prevent collapse. He proposed using the existing giant mushroom trees as roadside trees to separate the driveway and sidewalk, and then building a new dedicated vehicular road inland.

Zhou Yi approved it directly.

Anyway, the company has money, so it doesn't need this.

Emerald Avenue was paved according to the highest current engineering standards, using granular drainage asphalt pavement, with a width of 6 lanes. The construction was carried out by Jingcheng's professional electromechanical engineering team, and the entire process took a total of 6 months.

During the construction, employees and residents also complained a lot because the construction caused dust and noise, and their ears were ringing when they walked by.

However, after the new road was built, everyone's attitude changed immediately, and they all liked the soft, granular surface.

Drainage asphalt pavement has high anti-skid performance, low noise, and can suppress water mist. Moreover, it looks and feels very high-quality. Anyone who has driven on it will immediately fall in love with this high-end pavement.

There was no need for road signs; experienced drivers readily took the new road and drove with great speed and confidence.

This road has greatly alleviated traffic congestion.

However, many cars still rushed to use the elevated highway to save energy, as it would keep vehicles at high speeds. In terms of comfort and freedom, it is far inferior to the new Emerald Avenue.

"Chairman, there is another important reason for this traffic jam."

"That's the Wuhu Viaduct," said Senojie. "It's so extensive that it connects the entire development alliance by sea, encompassing five regions: Shagang, Steel City, Shell City, Shuanghe, and Tree Monster Territory. These areas together have a population of over 100 million and a vehicle fleet of 12000."

"With car prices getting lower and lower in recent years and the number of cars in the city continuing to increase, many cars come to our area to pick up and drop off people and to conduct business... Emerald City is now the transportation hub of the entire development alliance, as well as the economic and technological center, and traffic flow is concentrated here."

"Fortunately, the elevated bridge is a light core structure, which can handle complex traffic flow conditions; otherwise, this would still be a problem."

Zhou Yi asked, "In your analysis report, I saw that a high percentage of the vehicles coming from outside the area are large freight trucks. Are they here to deliver goods or to buy things?"

"It's mainly for shopping. For delivery, there are dedicated channels. It's actually cheaper to transport large quantities via airship. The biggest advantage of vehicles is that they are more flexible and timely."

Senojie's electronic eye flashed: "According to our monitoring scans and comparisons with data from the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the main purpose of these foreign freight vehicles is to purchase wasteland armor, the five major system components配套 with the armor, and industrial-grade floating hearts."

"A significant portion of the group comes to the company to queue up and pick up their goods."

Zhou Yi then summoned Hong Jun and asked the Minister of Foreign Trade, "How are the sales of the Wasteland Armor?"

"The company headquarters sold 241 [Moon-3 Modified] Wasteland Armor units and 711 supporting components. The Mirror City factory on the Legal Front has sold 2779 units and 6801 supporting components."

Hong Jun's words puzzled Zhou Yi: "Since the Legal Front's OEM processing is faster and the quality is more stable, why don't our customers pick up their goods in the electromechanical city? Why do they have to travel all the way here?"

"Because we have professional operators here to provide hands-on guidance on the entire process of collecting consciousness fragments, and we also offer coaching and sparring in combat mode. These are services that Electromechanical City doesn't have; they only focus on production and sales, and their services aren't very comprehensive yet," the drone explained. "In fact, winning the S17 Masters Tournament's C-group championship had a huge publicity effect on the entire Wasteland Armor. Many buyers are there specifically for this reason—they want to purchase the company's armor to participate in next year's Masters Tournament, or to use it as combat equipment and for field missions."

Zhou Yi nodded in agreement.

The tournament was quite popular, and the unexpected first-ever victory for humans generated a lot of news.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is an exception."

Red Falcon added, "The wasteland armor is produced in Mirror City and then delivered directly there. The Heavenly Kingdom's Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Labor then uniformly teach our operators how to use the armor."

"Zhou, a large number of customers are flocking to Emerald City, partly because of the artificial sun."

"Because the company's solar panels are being repeatedly tested and adjusted in the Dead Sea, altering the rapids in certain areas. Many clients are very curious about this, and even some landowners have inquired about pricing... I have politely declined."

Zhou Yi's face twitched upon hearing this.

These people really dare to ask questions.

The cost of the artificial sun appears to be something only our company can afford; no other group could possibly have that many gems, let alone the maintenance.

In fact, this technology is now facing new problems.

Taking the area of ​​strong rapids north of Shagang as an example, the rapids did disappear under the influence of the artificial sun. However, after the artificial sun leaves, the dead light there will gradually form rapids again.

The legal and rational front concluded that this was due to the inertia of the natural environment.

The rapids create a unique seabed environment in the area, and even if technology is used to eliminate them, the seabed environment will gradually cause the Dead Light in the Dead Sea to form a special flow, causing the rapids to regenerate.

Therefore, an artificial sun needs to be suspended for a long time to transform the environment of that area at the level of "death light," thereby achieving a thorough transformation.

The transformation of the Dead Sea was more difficult and complex than expected.

Fortunately, the Lord of the Dead Sea was no longer blocking our way, so we mainly spent time optimizing the entire process.

……

About a week later.

The delegation from Heaven arrived at Emerald City 3101.

The leader was a panda-man who wore a gray, double-breasted robe, carried a bamboo cane, and wore a pair of thick-rimmed glasses with a high prescription.

"welcome."

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "You must be Professor Wei Ming from the Heavenly Kingdom Military Academy. His Majesty the Black Emperor said that you have been studying bone fish for over a century and are undoubtedly a top expert in this field."

"You're welcome."

The old scholar spoke slowly, but seemed very kind: "His Majesty said that you are focusing on the research and development of the bony fish group, and asked me to come and have some academic exchanges with your company."

"I've heard about your company's bonefish before. For example, the bonefish couriers in the early express delivery centers were a good attempt at making bonefish a source of abundant labor."

"By now, this special branch of rocket-bone fish has entered satellite orbits to transport supplies and equipment between satellites. Their intelligence must have made great progress, otherwise it would be very difficult for them to accomplish such a well-defined social behavior."

Zhou Yi nodded: "You're right. The rocket-bone fish working in satellite orbit now has the intelligence of a 10-year-old child. What it needs is to accumulate experience and memory so that it can be not much different from humans."

"Your company is truly remarkable."

Wei Ming adjusted his glasses and said in a deep voice, "I believe that as the most numerous light-emitting species in the Dead Sea, the bone fish has been seriously overlooked and underestimated."

"They are not very intelligent or strong, and they are not social creatures, so they have been overlooked for a long time. But they are absolutely the most important foundation for studying the entire Dead Sea and the light-emitting species in the entire Dead Sea. They are one of the earliest light-emitting species to be born, witnessing the changes in this world from the Age of Gods to the present day. This life form itself has a very strong survival ability."

Zhou Yi also deeply agreed.

"I dare to ask if we can have a chat with the Rocket Bonefish."

"of course can."

Zhou Yi immediately asked Cat God to make contact.

Cat God said, "Chairman, this might be a bit difficult... There's an unexpected situation over there. Bonefish Fastfoot and Big Mouth have disappeared from the track for some reason. The Electric Cats are still investigating their whereabouts."

Zhou Yi looked completely bewildered.

What's the situation?
(End of this chapter)