Total Crisis
30 hours after the explosion.
At six o'clock in the morning on the second day of the first lunar month, the flood was still flooding downstream.
In the Guishan Safety Zone, most of the people had already set up their tents. Song Chuangen and the others sat together in a big tent, talking about their past and their possible future.
They had been eating basic food that was difficult to swallow for a day. More than 20 members of this small team peeked at the bulging backpack behind Liu Chuangen curiously and swallowed their saliva.
He continued to raise his head and listen to Liu Chuangen."Living is the most important thing. We have to be united. Don't be bullied by others, and don't bully others. There is still basic food here, but I reckon that those of us who are fleeing have nothing. (Basic guaranteed food: Breakfast: gruel, salted vegetables, instant noodles.) Lunch: Rice, salted vegetables, mussel soup. Dinner: Light noodles, pickles, instant noodles.）
Seeing that everyone was not used to eating that kind of food, he continued,
We had to queue for a few hours to get these. It was a torture in such a cold day. However, we should endure it because survival was important. Then, he began to talk about what he had seen and heard just now.
At first, a few young men who were not satisfied with the food took instant noodles and pickles to the distribution staff to " argue " and asked for better food to eat. Their request was not agreed, so they beat up the distribution staff and robbed some " emergency special supplies." Soon, a few military police officers came over after hearing the news, and there was another dispute. After that, one of the lads was shot dead in the most intense way, and everyone instantly fell silent.
You've all heard about this, right? What the government wanted now was stability. Anyone who destroyed stability would not have a good ending, let alone on such an isolated island. Whoever caused trouble would die quickly.
As he said this, he glanced at the young men beside him. The people around him gradually quieted down as he explained the current situation, or they calmed down from the fear of not being able to guarantee their lives.
Time is still flowing bit by bit
Half an hour later, a small officer in the army patrolled the tents with a loudspeaker and issued an announcement. He then read out the contents.
Discipline was iron, discipline was steel, and discipline was the strongest guarantee. The country was currently in a difficult period, and stability was the first goal. Anyone who destroyed stability would be mercilessly eliminated.
In the end, these officers and soldiers held a loudspeaker and spoke loudly in the crowd,
"Let me tell you, we still have basic food to eat. It's hard to say what will happen in the future. The price of goods has risen several times. Moreover, it's very difficult to transport materials in. Only less than a hundred people have left since the evacuation.
There was a fight for the helicopter in the Snake Island Safety Zone across the river at 10 pm last night, causing the helicopter to be unable to take off and crash. A platoon of soldiers there was killed by the rioters in the crowd. Now, they have completely lost contact with the army.
Then let me tell you something even more exciting. Because we couldn't contact the military superiors, we couldn't get material aid in place, so it was even more impossible for us to evacuate. This morning, at five o'clock in the morning, the superiors sent a helicopter to drop a squad of six people into the air. They were ready to establish contact, but the entire squad was immediately drowned by a sea of people. The superiors were very angry.
Do you know what this means?
Humph! The 9,000 players on the other side were all prepared to die! The place was in complete chaos. From the telescope, it was a complete mess. The hungry people had lost their basic morality and started to eat each other. Do you also want that to happen here?”
The surroundings were silent. He looked around, and there was no strange expression on his cold face.
He continued,
"There are about 20,000 to 30,000 people here, two to three times more than the other side. Think about the consequences. If that happens, who will live and who will die? I can tell you that all of us will die.
The country is dealing with a bigger crisis now. We are nothing at the national level.
"So I'm telling you clearly that staying alive is more important than anything else. With our military organization here, we have to maintain the stability here. You have to be honest here.
Don't think about those " emergency supplies ". It's not time to use them yet. They're prepared for emergencies. The only thing I can guarantee is that you won't starve. As long as it's yours, I'll send it to you.
This was a difficult time. Rescue was not for survival, but for survival. Life could be free, but survival required organization and discipline.
You can disagree with my words, but if you want to walk out of here alive, you have to follow our rules. You guys…"
The officers were about to continue when they heard a buzzing sound in the sky. It seemed that the military helicopter was coming again. He led a few soldiers to the building next door and prepared to welcome the helicopter on the roof.
Song Chuangen was listening to the young officer's speech. He felt a lingering fear in his heart. Fortunately, he didn't go to Snake Mountain! Otherwise, they would all be dead.
And the young officer was telling the truth! What he needed the most now was discipline. With discipline, it would be easier to manage. With an organization, there would be discipline. With discipline, he could ensure that people's hearts would not become weak. Therefore, he quickly went back and divided the 20 or so people he was with into two teams. He asked them if they wanted to have higher authority. Everyone agreed. He told everyone his thoughts and got everyone's unanimous agreement.
He was very happy, so he told this idea to a small officer who maintained the army. After discussing with the highest military management officer here, it could be said that they hit it off. At that moment, they decided to organize it on a large scale and appointed Song Chuangen as the captain of the organization department to manage it. He even specially led two soldiers to hold the line.
After half a day, everyone in the safe zone was organized. There were 10 people (15 people at most, 10 adults, and 5 elderly or children) in each group, a leader, a captain, a guard, and a captain.
The final population count was 26439. 14358 males and 12081 females. There were 2308 infants and children under the age of 6, 1921 between the ages of 6 and 12, 1803 between the ages of 12 and 18, 17695 between the ages of 18 and 50, 3021 between the ages of 50 and 60, and 711 over the age of 60. Among them, there were 361 disabled people above the age of 18, 4982 people with university education, and 198 medical staff who knew some medical knowledge...
When the junior officer saw the detailed personnel structure, he was shocked and couldn't believe it.
With these organizations, the future management and material distribution, personnel rescue, safety and stability, including evacuation operations, and so on could be carried out extremely smoothly.
As a result, the people here were evacuated in batches for half a month. There was no unrest at all, and it became the first large-scale refugee safety zone in the country.
After a special report by CCTV, the whole country and the world knew about Song Chuangen and Li Hu (the highest military officer here).
What was different was that a large number of people in the country had started to riot. The refugees spreading from the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the north and the more than 100 million people spreading from the non-safe zones to the surrounding safe zones were not something that the small cities and counties around could bear. In the relocation sites planned by the government, they could only maintain the most basic living materials. Some people with economic foundations or those who had relatives and friends in the safe zones wanted to leave the relocation sites and live a more free life. In order to achieve their goals, some people would spend a lot of money to buy all kinds of necessities. In order to be more secure, almost everyone would choose housing as their first choice.
The biggest problem was the big cities. The bigger the city, the more problems there were.
In Beijing, the capital of China, several major water sources that supplied Beijing had been found to be contaminated with highly toxic poisons. The safety of the water source had instantly exploded the tolerance of the population of Beijing City. The tap water had stopped, and the price of bottled water had instantly become extremely high. A month's salary could not even buy a square of safe drinking water.
Angry people flooded the streets, and conflict was inevitable.
In the end, the government relied on the actual data after the disaster to announce the fairest treatment that could be done for the 27 million people. Each person was limited to three liters of water a day, and the price would be doubled for every liter exceeded, and so on…
The angry citizens expressed that they could not accept it, but the government said that this was the only way…
In the end, the conflict was inevitable. After tens of thousands of people were killed or injured, the government still managed to control the situation. Seeing the determination of the government, the angry people could only bear it silently. Soon, all other material goods began to rise in price, directly hitting the middle class into poverty. Those who were capable began to flee from the city to other small cities or villages. In just a month, the population of Beijing was less than eight million.
The other big cities that were also affected by this crisis were Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Jinan, Chengdu, Chongqing... and hundreds of other large and medium-sized cities. More than two-thirds of the urban population had fled. The increase in population was in cities with guaranteed water sources or coastal areas (except for the Bohai Sea and the Yangtze River).
Large numbers of people rushed from the city to the countryside and small and medium-sized cities, instantly breaking all the prices in the relevant areas.
First of all, the rent and housing prices in the safe zone increased by more than ten times in a day. Judging from the overall tension in the country, the rent and housing prices in the non-safe zone decreased by more than ten times, but not many people were interested.
The refugees not only wanted to buy a house and settle down, but they also wanted to think about their lives. Therefore, people found that materials were getting more and more expensive. In the end, they could not buy anything, so they began to rob. In almost a day, chaos began from the northeast to Hainan.
The prices of houses and living materials became more and more expensive, which directly caused the value of the currency to decline. The currency inflated day by day, and money became less and less valuable. In the end, the currency depreciated to the point that almost everything began to be sold reluctantly. Inevitably, people began to smash, rob, and burn.
This wasn't the behavior of a single region. It was a major panic that had begun to spread throughout the country.
There were also rumors that the five major military regions had started to fight for themselves, forming independent forces. There were rumors that more than ten hostile countries were preparing to dismember the mainland. Therefore, all the people in the large and medium-sized cities began to feel insecure and began to run to the countryside. This time, the price of houses in the countryside rose by more than 100 times in three days after the big explosion. In a month, it rose to an astronomical price.
However, after decades of migration to the city, there were not many rural people left. There were even fewer houses in good locations, and most of them were not for sale. At most, they were only rented out.
The rent of the houses in the safe zones in all parts of the country had risen to the price of an ordinary house in a big city in a year. This would have seemed like a fantasy story, but it actually happened.
The people in the city were also uneasy. Many people did not dare to continue living in the city for various reasons. Many people were poor but still had to pay their monthly mortgage. Everyone was angry.
At this moment, the real estate bubble that had lasted for more than half a century officially burst with the Big Bang. More than 80% of the country's households went bankrupt. In just a day, he was penniless. The villagers had become nouveau riche instead. There was food and drinks, and even a " small villa " with its own courtyard.
For the first time, the farmers, who were once short because they were not city residents, felt a great sense of pride in their identity as farmers.
But soon, the villagers were not happy. Because of the traffic paralysis, everything began to rise. Money suddenly couldn't buy anything. Other than the feeling of not starving to death, everything else began to be scarce.
The next day after the big explosion, the government received news that all the major reservoirs and high-quality drinking water sources in the country had been contaminated by toxic substances.
For the sake of the region, or because of the rumors, many people attacked the dams and controlled the dams to release as much water as possible.
Due to the lack of effective regulation by the government, many people in the lower reaches of the river were affected by the disaster because they were not notified or were too late to move. In a short period of time, more than three million people died from poisoning or drowning. The various infrastructure destroyed along the map was countless. It would not be enough to repair them in half a year.
This caused traffic to be blocked, and people were divided into sections. The crowd could not move safely and efficiently, and it also hindered the speed of circulation of various materials. The ground rescue could not be fully carried out. More than 70% of the population in the country had lost power. The most basic communication infrastructure was rarely used, and there were fewer and fewer people who could understand through the Internet. Hearsay began to become the mainstream, and the people became more and more afraid in the atmosphere of rumors. Many places had become anarchic, and there was a lack of management and guidance from government departments, causing the living standards of the people to further increase.
The country could only make preliminary estimates based on limited data. The living conditions of 200 million people were worrying, and indirectly, the quality of life of more than one billion people had dropped by more than half.
The super flood continued to move downstream, and the command system was in chaos. Most of the people's mobile phones and Beidou navigation devices slowly ran out of power. They could not rely on Beidou navigation to move forward, so they could only follow other migration teams. Some people thought that they had gone far enough and believed that it was safe, so they stopped and occupied the houses of the local refugees. Due to the complete blackout of electricity in a large area, more than 600,000 people were drowned by the discharge of water from other reservoirs or poisoned to death by contact with toxic water.
The crowd was blocked from information, the roads were blocked, and there was an extreme shortage of materials. They had no purpose, no food, no clothes, no medical care, and some people even felt that living was unnecessary. They began to commit large-scale violence. Ordinary people were indifferent, selfish, indifferent, numb, and crazy. These negative emotions were always accompanied by refugees who fled their hometown.
However, the government was powerless to save them, ineffective in controlling them, inconvenient to do, unreasonable to order, and even evasive.
The higher-ups gave orders to their subordinates, and the subordinates could not contact the grassroots. The grassroots were already in chaos. Government decrees were no longer effective in a large part of the country.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon on the third day after the big explosion, an explosive piece of news spread throughout the country and the world: As more than 50 large reservoirs and drinking water sources in the country had been contaminated by toxins, and more than half of the rivers and lakes had been polluted, causing nearly one-third of the coastal areas in the country to be unsuitable for survival in the short term. The natural population carrying capacity of China had now dropped to 500 million people, and the maximum carrying capacity was 900 million people.
This meant that the 600 to 900 million people in China were redundant and did not have enough food. In the short term, it would also exceed the world's commodity food supply. Now, they had to either migrate or reduce their population. Therefore, the turmoil in the Celestial Empire was inevitable.
The news quickly spread throughout the country, and people could easily get the results based on the data comparison.
Soon, more than half of the country was in a state of anarchy or weak government, affecting more than a billion people. The army and armed police were all mobilized, but it did not have much effect. Instead, the more the government managed, the more chaotic the situation became.
China was in an unavoidable crisis. The Chinese government knew about it, and so did everyone in the world.
From the third day onwards, a strong cold air blew from the northwest to the southeast, and the temperature generally dropped by about ten degrees. Accompanied by a new round of rain and snow, it was simply a nightmare for the refugees.
In the biting cold north wind, many refugees were shivering in the drizzle or snow.
Most of them had been starving for two to three days. If anyone in the fleeing crowd found that someone still had food, they would immediately go up and snatch it crazily. As a result, there were countless cases of death and injury.
Due to the inconvenience of transportation throughout the country, the resources set up by the government and the military were getting lesser and lesser. They could only distribute some of the most basic and simplest food to the people, causing the people who were used to a high-quality life to complain.
In some places, people who had sufficient living materials wanted to maintain their own abundance. They hid it and used it for themselves. After all, they knew that the following days would be the hardest.
Some people who were hungry and cold wanted to get as much protection as possible for their survival, so they fought for it.
When the two clashed, there was a new spearhead pointing at the government. Because those who had material security were threatened and harmed, they blamed the government for not protecting them well. Those who did not have a guarantee of survival blamed the government for not doing anything for their survival.
The unrest was happening all over the country, but it had not yet erupted into a nationwide response.
As for the further development of the situation, it would depend on the actions of the government.
Everyone in the world knew that the Chinese government and people were in a crisis.
This was an unsolvable problem. Everyone was waiting to see how the Chinese government would solve it.
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