Chapter 246 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
"Our greenhouse—!"
The villagers on the suspended bus could not help but scream as they watched the huge waves instantly submerge the hilly greenhouses they had worked so hard to cultivate, as well as more than 3,000 acres of land in the new planting area.
Aunt Sun, Aunt Liu and others even fell down in their seats, wailing in grief.
"Gone! All gone!"
Li Tie, Mr. Zhang, and many young people in the hunting team looked at the surging water below, which was more terrifying than a flood, and the greenhouse that had no trace left. Their eyes were red.
Li Tie's lips trembled as if he wanted to say something, but his face turned pale and he couldn't utter a word for a long time.
Perhaps they sensed the adults’ emotional changes, but baby Lei Xiao, Chen Rong’s daughter, and the babies from the Ye, Liu, and Wei families burst into tears.
Zhang Dafu, Xiong Dabao and other children were also at a loss, and frantically grabbed their parents' clothes tightly.
In this situation, it is hard not to recall the scene when the earthquake engulfed Yunlu Village.
They thought that with Lu Xuan's help, they would never encounter such a situation again, but they never expected that in less than two years, God would give them a heavy blow.
Although this heavy blow did not cause any casualties to them, the greenhouses covering more than 3,000 acres and more than 6 million kilograms of mutated grains were destroyed every month, and the losses were already heavy enough.
Not only could the people in Yunlu Village not bear it, even the audience in the live broadcast room couldn't stand it anymore.
Ah! A greenhouse!
[Food! We're out of food! Will the amount of food in the lottery be significantly reduced in the future?]
【You're still thinking about the lottery! 】
[It's more than just food that's been lost! The bamboo forest, the mushroom house, the lotus pond, the bamboo shoots, the mushrooms, the lotus roots—all gone! We have to start all over again. The losses are horrific! %￥#@——!]
Even as an outsider watching this, I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack. It's so tragic! Woohoo.
[For the first time, I'm thankful that we can control climate change in the interstellar age. Otherwise, if I were to encounter such a natural disaster, I would be filled with despair.]
[I thought that not being able to take the fruit trees with me when I left the Yunlu Mountains was the only major loss I'd ever suffered, but I didn't expect it to happen again!]
[At first, there were only a few dozen trees lost, but now there are thousands! How long will it take for so many trees to recover?]
Lu Xuan opened the weather companion with a cold face and looked at the Central Plains continent displayed on it, most of which were marked in glaring red. His face became more gloomy.
Recovery? Most likely impossible.
The rain outside the window will continue for the next half month, and the rainfall every day is higher than that in the rainy season. The sea water will not recede in the short time.
There is not much land left now, and it is hard to say whether it can accommodate all the surviving victims. How can we use so much land to grow fruit?
It's impossible even if you think about it.
If he had known that the disaster would have such a serious impact, he should have moved the plants in the greenhouse and harvested the unripe crops early.
Why is it like this now? We just wanted to avoid the earthquake, but we have to watch all our hard work being washed away.
"Ah Xuan." Lei Yan, holding his wife and children in his arms, frowned and reminded him.
"Brother." Lu Chen's face was also a little pale.
Lu Xuan came to his senses and found that he had unknowingly leaked out his supernatural power. The people around him were obviously having difficulty breathing because of him. He then took a deep breath and retracted his supernatural power.
The others breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Tie wiped his face fiercely and shouted hoarsely at the wailing villagers, "Alright, stop crying! Can't you see that the children are scared by you? What a shame!"
"Look at it from a bright side, at least we are all still alive and well. If the greenhouse is gone, we can just rebuild it."
Thinking of the cost of the greenhouse, his heart also bleeds.
But no matter how heartbroken or upset they were, since it had already happened, they could only accept it.
The only thing he was thankful for now was that the livestock were transferred to the hovercraft with them.
Otherwise, even with Lu Xuan's help, not to mention the cattle and sheep, it would not be possible to raise thousands of chicks in a short period of time.
Seeing that they had calmed down a bit, Li Tie turned to ask Lu Xuan, "We're so far from the sea and it's flooded. Aren't other places closer to the sea even more dangerous?"
Old Master Zhang also woke up and slapped his thigh, saying, "And there's the Huo family army."
Li Tie said solemnly, "I'll contact Lieutenant General Liu to ask about the situation. Are other towns and the capital also affected? Ah Xuan, please call and ask."
Lu Xuan nodded and began to contact the people in charge of each gathering place one by one.
From the new emperor, to Magistrate Liu, Chu Ming, Old Man Chen, Ye Feiluan and so on.
The new emperor was probably too busy to answer the call immediately, but other people responded one after another.
As expected, other towns were also hit by the aftermath of the tsunami, even an hour or two earlier than Yunlu Village.
The situation in Shou Village is much worse than that in Yunlu Village.
At least Yunlu Village can put away the safe house to avoid housing damage, but other places cannot do so.
The greenhouses in the city were washed away and the houses were flooded. Except for a few three- or four-story buildings with a roof left, the rest sank under water.
Among them, Luochuan, which has a larger population, was out of danger because many victims initially thought they only needed to avoid areas that would be shaken by the earthquake. Therefore, they simply moved to other areas in the city and did not go to high ground.
This caused the seawater to flow back to the ground and flood the city, leaving many victims no time to escape.
Prefect Liu said in a heavy voice, "We used fishing boats, kayaks, and lifebuoys to rescue some people, but many others were drowned by the current and disappeared."
Because there were too many people, the number of casualties could not be determined in a short period of time, but a rough estimate shows that the number exceeded tens of thousands.
The entire population of Luochuan plus the population of surrounding towns that were subsequently incorporated was just over 200,000, and a tsunami killed tens of thousands of people, a loss even greater than that of the beast attack that just ended.
It's so heartbreaking.
Let’s look at Yangshan and Fengxian, whose populations are less than six digits.
The former originally lived in the mountains. Although the aftermath of the flood submerged a lot of the mountain and people were forced to reduce the scope of their activities, they still managed to save everyone's lives without any danger.
For the latter, a small place also has its advantages, as the instructions from above can be delivered to everyone as quickly as possible.
After discovering something was wrong, Ye Feiluan immediately took out a large number of large and small boats and asked everyone in the county to move onto the boats. Just like during the rainy season, he used chains to link all the boats together again to resist the impact.
Although many ships on the edge were overturned, the losses were minimized with the timely rescue of others, and the number of casualties was finally controlled within a few hundred.
Looking at Licheng in the south of the Yangtze River, the population is even greater than that of Luochuan, but there are also many boats there, and many private families have small boats.
In addition, there were many tributaries nearby that cushioned the subsequent waves, so the overall loss was not large, with a total loss of about two to three thousand people.
When Lu Xuan had a preliminary understanding of the situation in other places, the new emperor finally brought him the bad news.
The capital was also flooded.
The capital city with hundreds of years of history was submerged by the tsunami, and more than 100,000 acres of greenhouses were burned down.
The Yunxianhou Mansion and the 10,000 acres of greenhouses under Lu Xuan’s name were naturally gone.
[I can't take it anymore! I feel so bad for the anchor, I can't breathe.]
Tens of thousands of acres of greenhouses! It's over, it's over. The lottery will probably have to be suspended for a while now.
[Just pause it. The streamer has already suffered enough losses. There's no need to make him bleed further.]
[Damn natural disaster! Damn tsunami! Ahhhhhh!]
The people in the capital temporarily took refuge on a high mountain outside the capital, but the place was not big and was not a place where they could settle down permanently.
After the new emperor briefly explained the current situation in the capital, he suddenly asked Lu Xuan, "Did Yunxianhou only accept debts due within six months because he had anticipated what would happen today?"
Because they knew that their greenhouses would be destroyed within half a year and the crops would no longer be harvested, in order to avoid not being able to collect the debts, they took on short-term debts?
Lu Xuan looked at the new emperor with a curious look in his eyes, his face calm and composed.
"If I had anticipated everything, the greenhouses in Yunlu Village wouldn't have been destroyed."
To put it bluntly, Weather Partner seems to be omnipotent and can predict heavy rains, submarine earthquakes, and tsunamis, but it is ultimately unable to fully predict the chain reaction caused by the superposition of multiple disasters.
The new emperor was stunned for a moment, then his expression relaxed, "That's true."
Lu Xuan: "I set a short repayment period simply because there are too many unexpected events during the disaster period, and I don't want to wait too long and cause more trouble."
Of course, the main reason is to accumulate enough points to buy warships as quickly as possible.
The new emperor sighed deeply, his expression somewhat sorrowful: "In the final analysis, it is God who is blind and insists on making things difficult for us."
Lu Xuan remained silent.
The new emperor frowned, his face weary. "Without the greenhouses, there's no source of income. Even if the court wanted to continue aiding other tsunami victims, it's powerless. Even the capital itself is in danger. Marquis Yunxian, what do you think I should do?"
Just when he finally saw the hope of order being restored and imperial power being re-consolidated, a tsunami gave him a wake-up call and taught him a severe lesson, making him once again clearly realize that the power of nature is far beyond human power to contend with.
Even an immortal has his limits.
But what would he do if the entire capital was gone?
Start over again?
Or will you just live off your savings?
Not only the New Emperor wants to know the answer to this question, but people from other gathering places also want to know.
Lu Xuan's answer to this was: "It is indeed difficult to obtain more resources from land, but this does not mean that there will be no other sources of materials in the future."
Lu Xuan looked down at the endless ocean below, "The ocean is a huge resource."
The ocean covers more than half of the entire planet, and the number of fish, shrimps and crabs living in it is countless.
Not to mention feeding tens of millions of people, even adding another zero would not be a problem.
Besides, flooded towns are not completely useless.
As long as there is enough equipment, it is possible to dive into the seabed to search for supplies that were not moved away in time because the disaster came too suddenly and bring them up.
A living person will never die from holding his urine.
If you want to survive, there are many ways.
However, the water flow on the Yunlu Village side is mainly composed of melted snow and rainwater after the avalanche. The seawater has been diluted by the time it flows here, and it is probably not suitable for marine life to inhabit in the short term.
In other words, the resources available are minimal.
Lu Xuan looked far away in the direction of the sea where he often took the villagers to fish.
After settling here for more than a year, maybe it's time to move.
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