Chapter 1: Shattered Continent
"Be careful, yes, be careful, go over there, right..."
"Old Zhang! Shut up! If you continue to argue, I will get into trouble!"
"Okay, okay, I'll shut up... Let's go to the right, you bastard!"
Next to a deep trench of earth cracks, a crane that was obviously pieced together stood there. On the truck, a young man was carefully manipulating the vehicle. Next to the vehicle, more than a dozen men and women were sorting out the things that the crane had hung from the cracks from the earth cracks. Whether it was metal, weapon debris, corpses of grades, or other materials, they were sorted and classified, and then transported back to the shelter by the mechanical transport troops.
Half a month has passed since the catastrophe of the Red Dragon Servedi. In this half month, the surviving people can only accept everything in front of them. The Western Asian continent on which they depend for survival has been transformed into countless fragments, large or small. The only thing that is still complete is the area where the final shelter is located. It is about as big as the two Taiwans on Hao Qi's previous life. Compared with the Western Asian continent, which is comparable to Asia, this area is actually pitiful.
The only luck is that the abnormal area of regional expansion still exists. Although the internal area of this abnormal area has been attacked by a large earthquake and has many huge cracks, it is a complete continent after all, and the internal area of the entire abnormal area will not be smaller than that of the Western Asian continent. However, it can only be regarded as a residence, and the minerals or resources inside have not increased due to the abnormality.
As for other parts of the Western Asian continent, they are broken into void islands or void giant rocks. Yes, they are suspended, with dozens of meters to thousands of meters away from each other. They can directly fall into the bottomless abyss between them. They need to fly devices, or they need to jump over if they are close, otherwise they will not be able to reach other suspended areas.
In addition to the geographical upheaval of the entire Asian continent, the biggest change is actually another...there is no more water source.
Judging from the detected results, the ocean surrounding the Western Asian continent has completely disappeared, and the water sources, wells, and even some underground rivers that still existed on the surface have also disappeared. Unlike the complete Western Asian continent, the Western Asian continent that is broken into the current state, all the water sources flow into the bottom of the broken rock layer in the way water flows to the lower part, and then flows into the outside through the cracks.
Perhaps there are some underground lakes and other underground storages, but the difficulty in finding and extracting these waters is that far water cannot save the near fire. Although the final death toll in this catastrophe was more than 50,000, there are still more than 100,000 people left to survive. Among them, most of them are babies, food or water sources, and the consumption of less than adults is less than that of adults. However, the daily consumption of more than 100,000 people is still not a small amount. All circulating water sources have disappeared, and only those that can be used are left as reserve materials. Even if it is used for conservation, the remaining water can only be consumed for two months at most, and after that, you will face the dilemma of no water available.
In addition to water, all human beings face many difficulties. The simplest one is that the ultimate refuge is just a refuge. From the beginning, it was built to prepare for shelter. Everyone was actually crowded together. There was no private space at all, and there was no annex like the ones on the island, let alone various factories. This refuge alone could not support these hundreds of thousands of people.
Food reserves can barely last for more than half a year, and energy is the least worrying issue. As early as the final shelter was established, almost most of the reactors were demolished here, which may be the only thing that can make everyone feel a little relieved.
So the biggest problem in front of everyone now is...
"Water! Recyclable water source!"
Lan Ling'er rubbed her temples. She really felt a headache. After this sudden catastrophe, what she left was such a mess. The island human government had developed well now had to start everything again. No, it should be a much more difficult situation than before. The original basic buildings were gone. In addition to more energy than before, there was an extremely scarce material supply, not to mention that the water source of the entire continent was gone. This is the urgent thing that was in front of me.
"...I said, it is really unrealistic to find the water source buried underground lakes, at least in a short time. Even if we find it, we need to organize manpower and material resources to excavate it. At the same time, we need to manufacture related equipment and factories. You must know that now all islands are suspended one by one. To achieve this, we must have a lot of flying devices, water pipes, and even bridges spanning hundreds of meters and thousands of meters. During this period, we were already thirsty, so before that, we must first create sewage purification plants and drinking processing plants, and at least we must make the water in our inventory circulating."
This is a meeting held in a conference hall in the shelter. The attendees were all senior government officials of the island government. Except for the few of them, the inner Qi Realm, such as Cang Hua Dao Ren and Bai Sha Wang Zheng, the rest of them were considered civilians. Therefore, there were basically no people who died in this catastrophe, and the government team was still complete. This meeting was to solve a focus issue that almost everyone in the shelter is currently controversial...the solution to water sources.
People can live for a month without eating, but people can only live for a few days without drinking water. Although there is information control for the lack of water, it has been more or less known to the people in the shelter. There has been clear exploration of underground lakes that have not dried up underground. So whether to build a sewage purification factory and then a drinking processing factory, or to use this manpower and material resources to dig out underground lakes, this is divided into two factions among the people, and they all have their own reasons, but no one can convince anyone for a while.
The person who is speaking at the meeting is a middle-aged man, who is also a senior government official. Before the catastrophe, he managed the issue of daily necessities, so he knew exactly how much water stock, how much materials, and how much manpower there were. When he spoke at this meeting, he described it one by one, which really made people feel irrefutable.
However, some people still did not agree much. One of the young women said: "Mr. Danyang, the data you mentioned is indeed the case. We all know these, but have you ever thought about a question? That is, recyclable use does not mean that we can cycle 100%. There is a loss problem in the middle. In order to verify this problem, I specially submitted a report for three hours of central main computer. I used the main computer to simulate the optimal recyclable loss and time consumed. Please remember that it is the optimal recyclable loss rate... The result is that even if we build a recyclable and purified factory, we can only support it until five months at most. We all know the fact that even if we don’t waste a little water, and the distribution of fresh water is distributed with the recyclable purification of fresh water, we can only support it for about four months at most. The data for five months is just data. After four months, we will still die of thirst."
The middle-aged man, known as Mr. Danyang, immediately said, "But it would be better if he dies of thirst in two months, right?"
The young woman smiled softly and spread her hands and said, "This is our difference. Mr. Danyang, I am a warrior. When I was in the original Iron Curtain United States, although I was also a civil servant, I was a warrior first. Of course, I am not discriminating against a cultural person like Mr. Danyang, but this is actually the difference between a warrior and an ordinary person... We all know that our manpower and material resources have been greatly lost, especially in terms of materials. We either use these materials to create a recyclable water source, but
In this way, we must re-collect or manufacture materials within at least four or five months, and there is no way to carry out larger projects, or use these materials to create groundwater extraction and transmission systems, and there is no way to get better in the near future. This is a matter of choice. Should we live for a few more months, but when we are powerless in the face of death, we should still try our best to fight for a hope... I am a warrior, I would rather fight for everything, it is that simple, Mr. Danyang."
The middle-aged man's face turned a little red, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, just expressed his opposition with silence.
"Then vote. According to the previous practice, the minority obeys the majority." Lan Ling'er spoke at this time, and finally decided on one of the two proposals by voting.
Lan Ling'er's mind was not actually about her choice. In fact, as far as she was concerned, the water source problem was just a problem, not a life-and-death decision. With Hao Qi, when there was no water to drink, the worst thing was that it would be a waste of an underground lake. Hao Qi directly lifted the island above the final shelter, and then broke the lake and led it out, forming a waterfall or rainfall falling from the sky. But let's not talk about this for now, it's better for them to decide what's happening now.
Lan Ling'er's thoughts were more about other places, today...
It was the day when Hao Qi met with the scientist who claimed to be a remnant of the ancient times, and the other party...
As it is said, is it also human? Are you really not hostile to them?
Lan Ling'er was worried.
Chapter completed!