Chapter 63 Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions
Luo Qin is the head of the official base in Huanshan District.
He was so exhausted during this month that he hardly had a good night's sleep.
Official shelters around the mountainous area were built before the rainstorm and were converted from air-raid shelters and stationed troops.
Ten days before the rainstorm, the troops around the mountainous area suddenly received orders to rebuild the air-raid shelters according to the standards of shelters. The engineers worked day and night, and at the same time, a large amount of supplies and weapons were transported in, as if a disaster was about to happen.
Luo Qin immediately began to act according to the order from his superiors.
Ten days later, heavy rain suddenly hit, and within just one night, Shenzhen was flooded and turned into a city under water.
It was not just Shenzhen that was flooded. Unprecedented torrential rains fell across the country and even around the world.
Along with tornadoes and tsunamis, the places that were originally land and the small islands in the ocean began to become vast oceans.
At this time, the shelters built in advance played a big role.
Rescue residents, coordinate supplies, and at the same time, have a rescue team in place to maintain order in the city and prevent similar incidents of looting.
Everything seemed to be going according to plan.
But the difference is that this time the heavy rain has been falling intermittently without much chance to stop.
The water level in the city continued to rise, flooding the low-lying old city areas and even many high-rise buildings in the new city areas were affected.
At this time, although the authorities have begun to distribute relief supplies and evacuate the affected people, small-scale robberies have occurred in some places, and order is tending to get out of control.
Only then did Luo Qin realize that this natural disaster was different from previous ones.
But by this time, it was too late for him to realize it.
There is a very famous prison on the outskirts of Shenzhen, which specializes in detaining serious criminals and death row prisoners.
The rainstorm prompted them to form a group invisibly, and they began to break out of prison, rob supplies, and gather more people to join them.
This group began to grow in size and even possessed firearms and various knives.
Many of their spies have also infiltrated the shelters in the mountainous areas. They constantly stir up trouble among the disaster-stricken people, causing trouble and expanding the panic, exaggerating that the end of the world has come.
At the same time, apocalyptic prophecies began to become popular on the Internet.
It is said that heavy rains, typhoons and tsunamis are just the beginning, and more disasters will come.
There were many fights among the people in the shelter, and the managers could only persuade them, but this was only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution.
Luo Qin learned the reason from a gangster he accidentally caught. It was that the suburban prison was out of control. They believed in the prophecy of doomsday and planned to seize the refuge in the surrounding mountains as a base to avoid disaster and build their own power.
Luo Qin finally noticed this problem and began to eliminate the bandits in the city.
But these people are cunning by nature and mixed in with the crowd of refugees, making them impossible to guard against.
Just ten days after the heavy rain, the water in the city began to recede, revealing flooded depressions.
But then came an earthquake.
These buildings were originally submerged in accumulated water. Within a month, the foundations of most of the houses began to collapse. An earthquake then destroyed most of the buildings in the city.
Countless people thought they had survived the floods and rainstorms and wanted to leave the shelters, but they didn't expect to be greeted by an even greater disaster.
Originally, Sakura Country experienced a huge tsunami and suffered heavy losses. Unexpectedly, the huge volcano that had been dormant for a long time on the island began to erupt.
Not only here, there is also the famous volcanic park in Country A, an active volcano on the seabed of a certain ocean, and so on.
Almost all the volcanoes on the planet began super-eruptions on this day, and the volcanic eruption index reached the highest level in history.
The islands that survived the first wave of tsunamis were affected by the volcanic eruption and began to experience strong earthquakes. They either slid into the seabed or were buried by the erupted volcanic magma.
Even bigger tsunamis are brewing in the deep ocean.
What's even more terrifying is that the huge volcano spewed out countless volcanic ashes, which entered the atmosphere and drifted across the globe along the atmospheric circulation, covering the sky and the sun, and shrouding the entire planet in a dark polar night.
Global acid rain and low temperatures began to hit, and the temperature began to drop to close to zero degrees Celsius.
Without sunlight, green plants that rely on photosynthesis begin to die.
250 million years ago, the planet experienced a mass extinction event called the Permian period, which caused the extinction of 90% of all species.
This time, this disaster that suffocates all living things has struck again.
Humanity awakened from its sweet dream and accepted the fate of the century-long change.
The survivors finally realized that many of the seemingly true doomsday theories on the Internet were not groundless.
But it was too late.
Some religions began to revive on a large scale, and believers prayed frantically to the mysterious gods of religion, asking them to forgive the sins of mankind and not bring down such disasters that would cause species extinction again.
At the same time, more survivors began to accept reality and strive to survive. Groups of all sizes began to form, and humans began to follow their biological instincts, trying to gain hope of continuing to live through group cooperation.
But in this extreme environment, the law of the jungle is played out everywhere.
Weak gangs are swallowed up and annihilated by large ones, and large ones are swallowed up by even larger organizations.
The civilized order that humans spent thousands of years to build completely collapsed, and the entire world became a hunting paradise for the strong.
At this time, in the rescue shelter in the mountainous area, Luo Qin was already busy and exhausted.
Compared to the current scene, the rainstorm was like a simple appetizer for them.
After the heavy rain subsided, the houses, garbage, dead people and animals, and the disinfection to prevent plague and malaria had not yet been carried out, and the weather began to drop rapidly.
The sky was filled with a dark, lingering cloud of volcanic ash, and countless tiny dust particles were floating in the air.
Acid rain began to fall in many places.
Under the low temperature, volcanic ash fell to the ground along with the snow, covering the buildings, forests, rivers and roads on the earth, like a kind of black-gray snow.
Messages for help came one after another, but even if they mobilized all their forces, they could only rescue a small number of victims.
At this moment, the thugs who escaped from prison at the foot of the mountain finally started to move.
This group of people hid among a large number of victims and entered the official shelter base in the mountainous area with weapons and equipment.
The struggle for power began to break out.
The riot was caused by this group of thugs and took place inside the official base. Luo Qin organized people to fight back, but his duty as a soldier made him cautious about the people around him.
But this group of thugs who want to seize power do not care about the lives of ordinary people. They can even do cruel things like letting ordinary people lead the way, just to prevent Luo Qin's men from shooting and hurting people.
(End of this chapter)
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