Chapter 161: Plateau Destruction
Online, the news about the Northern Plateau was accompanied by drone footage. This time, there was no tsunami, no tornado, no heavy rain, and no volcanic eruption. It was simply because of the continued rise in water levels that the remaining parts of the Northern Plateau and the cities on the land were gradually submerged in water.
In the picture, a drone was flying over the city. Puddles of water could be seen everywhere in the dilapidated city, which already looked run-down due to the lack of official care and maintenance.
Those areas were also plateaus in the past, but they were still not high enough - at least not as high as the Fengshang Plateau.
As early as a month ago, during the frequent rainstorms in the summer, some cities and towns on the remaining land in the northern plateau had already begun to flood. The low-lying areas in the city were flooded, and the sewers were flooded. In addition, it was still raining, making the already precarious city even more chaotic.
Amphibian, man-eating jumping fish that would not normally come ashore to reproduce during this season have also appeared as the city's waterlogged areas have increased. Although there has not been a flood, occasional sneak attacks have made it difficult to guard against.
Today, the waterlogged areas in the city are expanding and rising at a speed visible to the naked eye every day.
Those who still live on the northern plateau know that as long as the rain continues, this day will come sooner or later. But when this day comes, even if they are several times stronger than before, they will still feel panic and fear in their hearts.
There were only two choices left before them. One was to continue moving to the higher mountainous areas of the northern plateau. The highest altitude of the mountains here was more than 3,000 meters. If they were lucky, they might be able to hold out for a few more months. However, due to the topography, the land in the mountains here was barren, with no vegetation, and no ability to grow crops. There were also no buildings to shelter from the wind and rain. How they would survive after the move was a problem.
Second, completely leave the Northern Plateau and move towards Huaguo, which is also the last safe large-scale land Fengshang Plateau on the planet.
Of these two options, if you want to solve the problem once and for all, you must choose the second one.
There are two ways to get to Fengshang Plateau from Beidi Plateau. One is to go through the western land of Beidi Plateau and then turn to the northeast corner of Fengshang Plateau. However, this route is not entirely land-based. There are flooded areas, barren mountain roads, and muddy swamps along the way. The road conditions are complicated and cannot be solved by one means of transportation. The other way is to go by water, completely detach from the land, walk along the flooded area between Beidi Plateau and Fengshang Plateau, and take a boat directly to Fengshang Plateau.
The second water route would actually be more convenient, but according to the current water conditions, it would take more than 2,000 meters to avoid several storm areas. The weather on the water changes rapidly, and it is easy to imagine how difficult it would be to transfer so many people over such a long distance.
Some teams on the Northern Plateau had cars and boats, and more importantly, they had fuel stored. So over the past month, a small number of teams that had prepared for a rainy day had already set out on the road to relocation.
These small teams all have people with special abilities. Even if there is only one person in the team, he can be of great use in this migration. He can store a large amount of supplies and fuel that need to be transported in the raft cabin, and can even park the team's temporarily unused cars on the raft deck and put them all into the backpack.
Teams with super powers usually take the first route, driving by land. When they reach impassable waters, the super powers will release a raft and use a sail or a boat engine to quickly push the raft. After the car and people are ferried across, they will then fold up the raft and continue traveling by land.
Although traveling by land is tortuous and slow, the advantage is that you can stop at any time when a disaster strikes and find solid mountains or remaining buildings to take shelter.
If they are lucky, they can occasionally find some usable materials left behind by their predecessors in some urban construction areas. They are like a large scavenging team, never picky, and will take anything that can be used.
Teams like this with people with special powers are already strong and have many members. Now that they are facing migration, many people from other teams have turned to join them. These people are basically the capable and outstanding ones from other teams. Once they join, these teams with special powers will become even stronger.
But in the Northern Plateau, there are more teams that do not have people with special abilities, they are just ordinary people.
They were struggling to survive in the northern plateau where there was no official order. If they had the ability and means to move to Xizhou Province on their own, many of them would have gone there long ago.
During this month, as other teams of psychics left, the others who were left behind in the Northern Plateau also fell into various panics. The already precarious abandoned city became even more chaotic, and fear and despair contributed to the birth of evil.
Some people fell into great despair as the world was about to be destroyed, and began to loot and commit crimes recklessly; some people were already living in agony every day, and seeing the water level in the ruined city rising little by little, they completely lost the will to live and committed suicide; some people took all their property, materials and families and ran to ask those teams of superpowers to take them with them when they left. However, the teams that were able to leave had limited vehicles and fuel. They embarked on a long migration, and what they needed were strong and healthy people with superpowers, not the old, weak and disabled...
But there were also people who were not defeated by fear. They did not fall into despair. Instead, they put aside the conflicts between the various teams, negotiated calmly, and finally decided to send a call for help to Xizhou Province.
**
This is not like in the peacetime of the past when one would call the rescue line and ask for official help when encountering danger. Nowadays, the more capable people living on the northern plateau are, the more likely they are to take many lives, whether actively or passively.
These people are from completely different worlds from the general public who follow the official order.
Although the authorities have been providing material airdrop assistance to the Northern Plateau and have condoned their actions, it is actually more like an elimination.
Perhaps to put it more bluntly, the entire Northern Plateau is like a huge cage. They are wild beasts that have seen blood. Although they are of the same race, they can no longer be allowed to live with other members of the same race who have been protected.
The other teams of psychics who set out on their own did not think about returning to the well-built cities in Xizhou Province. Perhaps after reaching a high enough altitude on land, they would find a remote village or town suitable for farming and settle down temporarily.
We can only take one step at a time.
And they are now calling for help for the sake of each of their families.
They were all once extremely arrogant and had already disregarded order and human life. In order to survive in this abandoned city plateau and grab more material resources, they had to act ruthlessly.
Now, they admit that they are not capable enough to save themselves, so they pray for help.
They are not sure whether the authorities will respond or how they will respond. The number of people waiting to migrate in the northern plateau is not small, and it may cost huge manpower and material resources. It is also very likely that various natural disasters and accidents will occur during the migration process, resulting in casualties of troops.
They also knew that Xizhou Province was now plagued by natural disasters and man-made disasters, as well as various difficulties.
They couldn't be sure whether the authorities would be willing to undertake such a time-consuming and labor-intensive large-scale adventure for them.
Soon, three days after they sent out a distress signal and spoke to their official superiors, they received a response.
"It has been decided. This time the decision is a little special. It was not decided by us officially, but based on two votes. One is a vote by ordinary people, because it is ordinary people who will live with you in the future, so it is up to them to decide whether they agree or not.
The other is a vote by the troops, because once a decision is made, they will be the ones who actually participate in this migration and rescue operation, and this operation is likely to cause them casualties and they will never be able to return to Xizhou Province..."
In the humid room on this end of the phone, captains of many teams were crowded together. This was just one city, and they were representing the caller. At the same time, in other abandoned cities on the Northern Plateau, there were more captains and teams waiting for the results of the call here.
The captains who were usually domineering and unscrupulous now lowered their breathing, dared not speak or urge, and waited for the final judgment with extremely nervous mood.
Fortunately, the official superior on the other end of the phone did not think of giving a long speech: "...So, the decision of the vote is - Congratulations, you are very lucky, more than 70% of the people and more than 90% of the troops agree to carry out this migration and rescue operation. So, from this moment on, all of you are under official control again. Please be sure to tell everyone to abide by the order of civilized society in the subsequent migration and rescue operations...
The authorities will launch the latest giant ships "Dawn" and "Morning Star" to travel by water to the Northern Plateau for migration and rescue. Please count all the towns and specific numbers of people who need rescue within three days... We will provide the boarding points and boarding times for rescue in various places based on the statistical results. Please arrange the people who need to be migrated and do not miss the boarding time. Each person can only carry one piece of luggage weighing less than five kilograms...
In addition, all survivors of the Northern Plateau will undergo identity and facial registration after boarding the ship, and all cold and hot weapons will be surrendered... In the initial stage, everyone will have a limited activity area, you will be observed for a period of time, and subsequent living arrangements will be determined based on your different situations..."
On this end of the phone, almost everyone turned on the recording function on their phone, carefully writing down every word the other person said.
They still didn't dare to talk freely. Only the person representing the call kept speaking to the person on the other end of the phone, speaking seriously one by one.
It was not until the phone was hung up that the room erupted with cheers of joy, mixed with deliberately suppressed sobs.
They had cursed this damned world countless times, cursed the government and the army, and cursed those who lived peacefully under the protection of the government. Time and again, they abandoned everything they had in the past, obliterated themselves and their consciences, in order to survive and obtain supplies...
They told others disdainfully that even if they were left here, as long as they were there, everyone would be able to survive...
But at this moment, when they heard that the result of this migration and rescue operation was based on two votes, they realized that they still yearned for the civilized world, even if it meant losing their freedom.
Only after experiencing a lot of despair, do you understand how touching it is to “not be abandoned”.
**
When Shu Fu saw the news on the Internet that the Northland Plateau was about to sink completely, the "Dawn" and "Morning Star" had already set off.
Both of these ships are fully enclosed giant ships that can not only sail on the sea, but also complete the entire ship closing in a short period of time and dive underwater to avoid huge waves and storms.
In addition to the rescue team members of the army, there are also many people with special powers who set out with the giant ship. They are all participants in this migration and rescue operation.
The terrain of the Northern Plateau is complex, and the giant ships are too large to dock, let alone travel through shallow waters to reach various towns. In addition to the official small speedboats, this part of the operation has to rely more on people with special abilities.
After all, the raft of the psychic has a shallower draft than an ordinary speedboat and is more capable of withstanding heavy rain and strong winds.
These real-time information appearing on the Internet are not only for the people of Xizhou Province who are paying attention to all this, but also for the survivors on the Northern Plateau who are waiting for rescue.
The authorities are telling them in this way - rescue is coming, we are here!
Shu Fu quickly convened an emergency meeting, and the meeting place was still at the Lighthouse Milk Tea Shop.
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