Chapter 202. The Canal Was Destroyed
In the past, early warnings for monsters were mainly based on detectors near the sea, drones cruising high altitudes in the high seas, and detection satellites in space.
Such a reconnaissance network is seriously limited in its reconnaissance ability compared to monsters lurking in the deep sea. Often when monster traces are found, the monsters are already located in the offshore area, and humans can use them to react for a very short time.
Through the deep-sea detection network provided by Lu Yu, even when the number of detectors is limited, because the direction of the monster's activity is within the range where the detector has been arranged, the monster's activity information is still discovered in advance.
With enough information support, the Hunter Organization was able to determine in advance that the monster was about to go to the Panama Strait.
After a long struggle, the personnel in the war room were even quarreling, General Bode finally made a decision to pass on the news that the monster might attack Panama to the International Cooperation Organization.
Now a brand new international cooperation organization has replaced the former position of the Hunter Organization, but it does not directly command the military deployment of Hunter Mechas like the Hunter Organization in the past, but is more like an international cooperation intelligence and negotiation organization to coordinate the intelligence and military operations of various countries about monsters.
Although General Bode made the decision to share the news, the Hunter Organization was unable to provide an accurate source of information due to various risk considerations, which greatly reduced the credibility of the information.
Most countries are out of reach for the Panama Canal. After receiving the information, they can only pay close attention. The most important thing is whether Country M can deploy mechas in time to protect the strait.
After all, the Panama Canal is just that big, and it is too easy for monsters to destroy. If you wait for the deployment of the mecha in the distance, even the waiting time for a few minutes or more than ten minutes of the rocket deployment is fatal.
It is pessimistic that this news that did not provide enough credibility did not attract much attention from the world after being informed by all parties. On the hot search list of global news, this news cannot even have a serious ranking, let alone be on the homepage of the news website.
In the Hunter Base, the staff officer complained: "The global attention to the possible attack on the Panama Canal is not even as good as that of entertainment news. There seems to be no movement in Country M. In this way, when the monster really takes action, the second-generation mecha alone may not be able to protect the canal."
"The Suez Canal has been destroyed by monsters, and now the global shipping industry is hit hard, and those guys who collude with the enemy really deserve to be broken into pieces.
The monster's blow to the global economy has put so many poor people in a desperate situation of famine. Such damage is even more terrifying than the monster's attack on several cities."
"What's abominable is that we can't do anything. The power we have now can't even completely control the situation in AO continent. If this continues, this place may really become a paradise for monsters."
The monster did not give the hunter base too much time to worry. After the Hunter Organization announced the news, a level 3 sickle-headed monster appeared at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal.
When the original monitoring measures came into effect, the monster was only more than ten minutes away from the canal. Through the telescope from afar, people on the coastline could already see the terrifying shadows on the monster's back.
The crowds living along the coast began to flee from the coastline frantically, but this chaotic place did not have enough shelter to accommodate the crowd.
Except for the few lucky people who can enter military shelters, most of them can only struggle to escape to the mountains far away from the coast and canals.
What's worse is the situation inside the canal. As the shipping industry in other parts of the world was hit by monsters, the shipping status of the Panama Canal became more and more important, so that the canal was busy even more than the most prosperous period of human economy.
But after the alarm of the monster attack sounded, no one came to take emergency measures for these freighters queuing across the river.
"Hey, hey! You can't leave us behind... Damn!" The last call that the captain made on a freighter was also hung up. He said to his companion sadly: "The monsters are here, those damn guys abandon us and run away first..."
"Captain...what should we do?"
"We shouldn't continue to run for money. We will eventually become outlaws?"
"Don't be sad here!" The captain put his foot on his companion: "Go to the boat quickly. If we can leave the canal and board the land, there may be a glimmer of hope.
According to the monster's posture, the canal will definitely be the main target of attack!"
There are not many crew members of a cargo ship. Everyone is desperately trying to board a small boat, and they can even use only one at a time.
But there are more than one ship across the Panama Canal. Many small boats were put down from the ship and then they tried their best to move towards the shore.
On those cargo ships that were still passing through the locks, the crew directly used rope ladders to escape the ships that were waiting for death. However, shortly after they arrived on land, an even more pessimistic picture appeared.
The monster and the mecha appeared on the horizon or the sea line at the same time. The battle between the two was not even a few rounds. The second-generation mecha that was hastily fought was pierced by the monster and was paralyzed on the ground.
Next, the monster's destruction of the canal turned into an unresisting entertainment. It was like a wild boar in the mud. First, it completely dug several locks in the Panama Canal and dug the river where the lock was located into a pothole.
Then rush into the waterway that was once transformed into a natural lake, and sometimes dive and sometimes on the shore. In addition to destroying the original terrain, it also constantly sprays mucus and cocoon capsules.
Cocoon capsules parasitize to the shore and lake water, and wantonly discharge acid to pollute the land and water sources.
The dinghys running on the water have turned into rootless duckweed, and can only be affected by the monster's movements in despair and then die.
Those ships that continue to sail after losing control and then collided together became accomplices of monsters to destroy the canal and were dragged by monsters to destroy the canal.
It was not until this time that M country, who received the warning in advance, realized how arrogant the mistake it had made. However, no matter how urgent the remedies they made, it could not change the fact that the Panama Canal had been destroyed by monsters. It is hard to say whether it could restore its navigational capabilities.
Finally, when a fourth-generation mecha from Country M was urgently transported by rockets, the monster had completed the damage to the canal and left the Atlantic coast.
Chapter completed!