Chapter 273 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
In the Western Continent, in the civilian area of the capital, a medical clinic constructed from a huge mobile cabin was located.
Every bed was filled with people lying or sitting. Those who did not have enough space had to stand, and without exception, all of these people had scars all over their bodies.
Lu Xuan just stood at the door and looked at the wailing inside the clinic, his expression unchanged.
However, the audience in the live broadcast room couldn't bear to watch it.
This is too tragic.
I saw several people with missing arms and legs. The wounds hadn't been healed yet. They looked like they were bitten off. Huh!
The others weren't in much better condition either, with bite wounds all over their bodies, a bloody mess.
Huo Tiankuo, who was following Lu Xuan, said in a deep voice, "I don't know what's wrong with those fish in the sea. Many people who went out to sea were attacked today."
In addition to being bitten by fish with sharp teeth, there are also those who are unlucky enough to be pierced by large fish such as swordfish, sailfish, etc. which are already very aggressive, and there are even those who encounter sharks and have several pieces of flesh bitten off.
That's all good.
Even worse, they were eaten by multiple sharks and did not come back alive. When the Huo family army received the news and went out to search, they could only barely find some wreckage of boats or kayaks.
Huo Tiankuo took Lu Xuan to the area where the less seriously injured were placed and showed him the injuries of those patients.
The flesh of these injured people was not bitten off, but they were covered with tiny bruises, which looked like kiss marks at first glance and were full of ambiguity.
But the reality is that these are all from the mouths of ordinary fish that don't have any teeth at all.
Each person had at least several hundred scars on their body. In other words, the injuries were caused by hundreds of fish biting their bodies desperately.
ambiguous?
It's clearly too scary.
The audience in the live broadcast room who were about to make a joke suddenly felt their hair stand on end.
The pink atmosphere instantly turned gloomy.
Even the ordinary and non-aggressive fish went crazy, it didn't look like a normal state at all.
Lu Xuan asked: "Did this happen today?"
Huo Tiankuo was about to nod, but hesitated.
"Some disaster victims who ventured out to sea have encountered accidents and never returned. Some, like Young Master Bai, had their boats or inflatable platforms damaged. Others, caught in stormy conditions, capsized without a communicator to call for help. I can't guarantee there haven't been any accidents caused by encountering frenzied fish. But the large-scale incident did occur today."
Thousands of people go out to sea every day, and today almost one-fifth of them had an accident, and hundreds of people did not return.
There are enough medicines for now, but who can guarantee that such an accident will only happen one day?
Huo Tiankuo's face was gloomy. "After hearing the news, the court discussed and came up with a hypothesis: could these fish schools be the same as the previously frenzied beast herd?"
When Lu Xuan heard the word "beast attack", he subconsciously looked up at the sky.
Of course there is no blood moon in broad daylight, and as for at night, we will have to wait until dark to know.
But no one can guarantee that the frenzy of herds of animals or schools of fish is definitely due to the blood moon.
Huo Tiankuo said, "If the fish in the sea continue to go crazy, the amount of medicine needed will definitely increase exponentially, and the treatment equipment will not be enough."
Lu Xuan nodded in understanding and said, "Just tell me how much you want. We'll have as much as you want."
"From what General Huo said, they don't intend to stop the disaster victims from going out to sea?"
How can I stop it? Will it work? I can't live like this anymore? I can't eat anymore.
[The main source of supplies for those still alive in the Western Continent, besides helping to build the city walls and working in the greenhouses, is fishing or catching fish at sea. Preventing them from going out to sea is, to put it more seriously, severing their livelihood.]
Even if they forcefully organize people to go out to sea, it's inevitable that some people will secretly go out to sea when their families run out of food.
"Then why not just distribute relief food? Isn't that what Liu Wenchi did in Luochuan back then?"
[If Magistrate Liu hadn't run into the anchor later, he wouldn't have been able to hold on. Who knows how long this fish frenzy would have lasted?]
[Besides, how can the current population be compared to Luochuan's? Even if the greenhouse harvest is large, it can't feed millions of people.]
[Besides, aren't there people who haven't been attacked? This proves that not all fish are going crazy; it's just a matter of probability, so there are more people who are hoping for a lucky break.]
Rather than blocking people from going out to sea, it's better to find ways to resist attacks while continuing to catch fish to fill their stomachs.
That night, Lu Xuan stayed in the capital, waiting for the blood moon to appear with the new emperor, Huo Tiankuo and others.
Disaster victims in other gathering places were also attacked and were also paying attention to changes in the sky.
However, until late at night, the moonlight was still the same as usual.
After a brief thought, Lu Xuan invited Huo Tiankuo to go for a walk on the sea to see if the fish were still going crazy.
As expected, not far from the land, they could clearly see with the help of moonlight and night vision goggles that the sea was covered with schools of fish that were jumping wildly and looked crazy.
These fish look like they've had a few too many to drink.
[The blood moon didn't appear, but the fish went crazy... So, is this a new type of 'beast attack'?]
[It's not like there aren't living animals in the Western Continent. I heard the herds of people and animals in the capital have also gone crazy, so this can indeed be considered a new type of beast attack.]
[It is also possible that the disaster has escalated, because the sea now covers a larger area, so the disaster has shifted from land to sea.]
The fish became noticeably more frantic after detecting the presence of a living person.
Unfortunately, Huo Tiankuo and Lu Xuan were one on a hoverboard and the other had spread his huge blue wings and was hovering in the air. No matter how crazy the fish were, they could not touch the corner of his clothes.
The two returned to the shore without staying long at sea and told others what they had seen.
Lu Xuan said to the new emperor in front of him, as well as Liu Wenchi, Ye Feiluan and others who were in contact through the communicator, "The fish can't fly very high. As long as we do a good job of rescue and prepare more hoverboards, we should be able to minimize casualties."
The new emperor also meant this.
Therefore, in addition to medicines and treatment devices, various towns in the Western Continent, led by the capital, also purchased a large number of hoverboards, hover buses and communication devices.
Since not all disaster victims can afford or are willing to buy skateboards and communicators, towns are preparing to rent these two items to disaster victims going out to sea.
Once they encounter danger, the victims can abandon their boats and seek refuge in the sky and call for help.
The floating bus allows the Beijing Guards, the Huo family army, and young and strong men from various towns to form rescue teams to patrol different sea areas. After receiving a distress call, they will immediately go to rescue people and bring them back.
In this way, the safety of people going out to sea can be protected to the greatest extent.
To avoid further losses, the towns announced the news early the next morning.
Most people have heard about the tragic situation of those who went out to sea yesterday, or to be more precise, the experience of some people.
Some people returned from fishing safely, but they were also afraid that they would follow in the footsteps of others next time, and people were in a panic.
After seeing the notice posted above, the people suddenly became excited.
"I was just worried about not being able to go out to sea in the future. Now I have a hoverboard and can ask for help from the rescue team. Now I don't have to worry about not coming back."
"But just in case, it's best to bring a couple of knives with you when you go out to sea. If you can't hold on any longer, you can ask for help. After all, we go out to sea to make a living. If we come back without any harvest, we'll be at a loss."
"If that's the case, I'd rather hope I don't encounter a mad school of fish at all."
"Anyway, it's a good thing they're willing to rent us skateboards and send rescuers. At least they've given us a chance to survive."
The people were all thankful and grateful for the court's prompt response, but some timidly shook their heads and said, "It's better to be safe than sorry. Previous beast attacks lasted for a month or so, and this time might be no different. If several groups of people are attacked at the same time, rescuers might not be able to get to them in time."
If you come too late, you may lose your life.
"My family has stockpiled a lot of nutritional supplements, and we've also dried and salted a lot of the fish we caught. That's enough to last for a while, but we'll hold off on going out to sea until the fish population returns to normal."
There are quite a few people of this kind. Whether you call them cautious or timid, they are all trying to survive.
But most people have large families, high expenses, and insufficient supplies. Even though they know that safety cannot be guaranteed 100%, they still have to grit their teeth and continue going out to sea.
Others are thinking of waiting and seeing for a few days.
As a result of waiting and observing, the above preparations are indeed quite complete. Although casualties are still inevitable when going out to sea in the next few days, the overall number has returned to a similar level as before.
Although the number of people going out to sea dropped sharply from tens of thousands to less than half, the number of people involved in accidents also dropped to only three or five ships, with a total of only dozens of people.
Most of those who were attacked by fish were rescued in time, except for one boat where people only rented a communicator but not a skateboard out of luck and were not rescued.
Some of them were simply capsized due to wind and waves, but they were also brought back safely.
With such remarkable results, people who saw their food stores running out no longer waited.
With a one percent chance of something happening, they all felt that they wouldn't be so unlucky to be in trouble.
Even if they unfortunately died at sea, corresponding subsidy policies have been prepared for the families of these victims, including material subsidies and priority help in finding jobs, etc.
Over the next few days, the fish continued to go crazy, but the number of casualties remained stable.
The number of people going out to sea has gradually returned to normal.
However, this peace only lasted for ten days before a new situation emerged.
Following the schools of fish, the seabirds also started to go crazy.
The victims who relied on hoverboards to save their lives were unfortunately attacked again before the rescue team arrived.
Although the skateboard can protect them from falling into the sea, it is inevitable that they will be bitten by seabirds.
When you are frightened and cannot control your fall at first, if there happens to be a school of fish below, which is the type that can still fly out of the sea, you are more likely to be bitten to death, or faint from excessive blood loss and unable to continue to control the skateboard, and eventually fall into the sea.
When the rescue team arrived, all they could see was the shattered skateboard and a patch of blood-red in the sea water that had not yet completely dried up.
When the news reached the shore, not only were the new emperor and his ministers in a heavy mood, but Ye Feiluan, Chen Bing and the others couldn't help cursing.
"Damn it, God won't leave anyone any chance to survive!"
"What the hell is wrong with these bastards? Is human flesh really that delicious? Or do we just look easy to bully?"
What's worse is that seabirds are not like schools of fish that can only move at sea. They not only launch attacks at sea, but can also fly to land and attack people who have not gone out to sea.
The scope of the beast attack directly expanded to the entire continent.
The psychics and young and strong people in each town can only prevent the counterattack as they did during the beast attack, and the victims who have no fighting ability should avoid going out as much as possible.
All the hoverboards on the sea have been eliminated and replaced by more hover buses.
At least the bus is sturdy enough to withstand an attack from a frenzied seabird.
The enraged leaders also sent out an attack team led by people with special abilities, turning defense into offense to eliminate the crazy schools of fish and birds they found.
As long as the number of crazy people decreases, the probability of disaster victims being attacked, whether on land or at sea, will naturally decrease.
At the same time, let’s look at Yunlu Village.
While the fish were going crazy, the villagers were still enjoying the summer heat comfortably on the island.
After the greenhouse harvest, every day is nothing more than training for the young men, the women doing housework or visiting friends, the children going to class, and wandering around the island. It can be said that they live a very free and easy life.
Later we learned that an emergency had occurred at sea. It just so happened that this year's extreme heat was divided into two stages. The first peak ended in mid-June and the temperature dropped back to around 50 degrees.
In contrast to the frightened victims, the young and strong men of the hunting team were full of fighting spirit and took the initiative to go out to sea to confront the crazy fish and birds head-on.
In Xiong Mao's words -
"If one group comes, kill them all. If two groups come, kill them both. There's no need to be afraid! Just do it!"
This is not an exaggeration. When they really encountered a school of crazy fish, Xiong Mao and others did exactly this.
Before the school of fish approached the boat, the psychics launched fireballs, water arrows, earth thorns, cactus needles, and hemp vines at the school of fish.
Those without special powers can use energy guns, tranquilizer guns, or any other thermal weapons they are comfortable with, which are also incredibly efficient.
If you are unlucky enough to encounter a school of swordfish or sharks, which are already very aggressive, and there is no time to kill all the approaching big fish, you have to change your position, put the boat into space and start air combat.
When they encountered a flock of flying birds on the way, they just threw hypnotic bullets at them. They didn't need to make any effort at all, and the birds fell into the water like rain and became fish food.
The audience in the live broadcast room couldn't help but laugh when they saw it:
[Seabirds used to eat fish, but now the situation is reversed, and the fish are eating them again. It's a matter of course.]
【Tian Gang is on the contrary! 】
[In the end, we will all become prey to the anchor and the villagers. It doesn’t matter whether you eat me or I eat you :)]
There is no need to be afraid when encountering attacks that are too large to be handled by everyone. Either the city’s protection shield will be activated, or Lu Xuan will take action personally.
Several lightning bolts struck the sea, and the fish within a radius of hundreds of meters were instantly stunned by the electric shock and lost their ability to resist. They could only be slaughtered and all became the trophies of the hunting team.
Of course, if you walk on the road at night too much, you will always encounter ghosts.
After the hunting team had been out to sea for more than ten days and was becoming more and more adept at fighting, several huge tentacles suddenly broke out of the water and attacked the fishing boat the hunting team was on.
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