The acid rain has stopped, but the black slime on the ground has not dried yet. It is still emitting heat and dense fog, and will suddenly spontaneously combust. No one dared to go downstairs. Everyone walked out of the house and looked at the smoky base and the dark sky.
Some people cried, and some people laughed after the disaster.
A day later, some people tentatively went downstairs. Although the black slime stuck to their shoes, they were ready to go. Everyone rushed out of the apartment building and rushed to the base shopping mall, underground city and office building.
Officer Song and the others were going to the base mall to see if there was any food. Ye Fu and Jiang Run also went there.
Residents broke open the gates of shopping malls and store villas, and stuffed food into their mouths when they saw it. Some people packed up things with sacks and bedsheets to take away.
Residents also broke into the underground city and prepared to rob, but base security personnel soon arrived with electric batons and guns in their hands. Residents and security personnel soon started fighting.
Officer Song and the others also picked up a lot of things. Ye Fu and Jiang Run mainly checked to see how much the base had been damaged by acid rain, but just ten minutes after leaving, the sour smell in the air made people dizzy.
Especially young children and frail women quickly develop various discomforts.
Some people fell to the ground and began to foam at the mouth, while others began to have nosebleeds and convulsions all over.
Ye Fu pulled Jiang Run out of the crowd, and another survival of the fittest emerged. Only those who could withstand the poisonous fog of acid rain would survive, and those who could not withstand it would become the sacrifices of this disaster again.
Vegetables in the underground city were robbed by residents, and it was useless even for security personnel to warn them with guns. They pulled up the vegetables and ate them. Even if they were pushed to the ground, they had to protect the food in their hands.
There was a power outage in the base. Someone tore down all the wooden shelves in the mall and took them back to light the fire. When Ye Fu and Jiang Run were picking up the leaks, they saw Lin Jiao. She and a group of people were snatching a pack of instant noodles. Ye Fu picked up the quilt on the ground.
She stepped on the cabbage and did not look at her again.
We had just experienced an acid rain crisis, and everyone was suffocating. Some of them vented their anger when grabbing supplies, pushing people down and stepping on them. Some people managed to grab something, but they would be robbed by others accidentally.
The base is in chaos and can no longer be managed.
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"Professor Ren, you mean that after acid rain, all water sources are polluted and can no longer be drank, right?"
"Not only the water source, but also the soil. Everything eroded by acid rain suddenly turned into wasteland and completely lost its planting function. Secretary Huang, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the base. If you want to survive, you probably have to leave the base.
Looking for a habitat again.”
Professor Ren is the expert who developed wheat seeds for harvesting in March. He was previously a professor at Lancheng University and a botanist. He has extensive research on geology and climate. Secretary Huang believes in his words.
"Professor Ren, do you think we can still find a suitable habitat? Over the past year or so, we have transformed the base from a small town into a base that can accommodate one million people. Do we have to give up?"
Professor Ren sighed, "Secretary Huang, if you don't believe me, you can have people dig the ground for ten meters, twenty meters, or even thirty meters, but they won't be able to dig out good soil. Of course, fifty meters, one
I dare not say 100 meters."
Secretary Huang could only order the excavator to go down and start digging the ground to check the water source and soil quality.
But as Professor Ren said, even if he dug thirty meters below, he still couldn't find perfect soil.
"Acid rain erodes quickly and deeply. One drop of acid rain can destroy a tank of water. What's more, the acid rain lasted for ten days."
"Then where can we move to? Now that the signal towers and pole circuits have been destroyed, none of us have the ability to calculate. How can we find a intact habitat?" In just ten days, Director Liu
Half of his hair is white.
"Maybe we can go northwest." After Professor Ren finished speaking, he was about to leave, but Secretary Huang quickly stopped him.
"Are you leaving?"
Professor Ren shook his head, "I'm old and can't walk anymore, so I'll just stay here."
"If you want to stay here, how can we leave? There seem to be a lot of people in the base now, but no one is available. Everyone has experienced big or small blows and traumas. Are the survivors willing to leave? I
I’m not sure, if we still don’t have intact land and clean water sources in the northwest, what should we do?”
Professor Ren looked at Secretary Huang with a calm expression, "If we can find the person who informed everyone that there would be acid rain in the middle of the night, maybe we can do something about it."
Secretary Huang and Bureau Liu looked at each other and fell silent.
Finding someone is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It's difficult.
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The chaos at the base is endless. Officer Song and his colleagues dug some soil back and planned to plant vegetables in the house. Other residents saw them digging soil and followed their example. Now everyone is not only grabbing supplies, but also soil.
But the most serious problem is still water source.
The base management has a reserve of water, but they are unwilling to take it out. The residents do not know where the water is hidden. The security personnel have weapons in their hands. They will not issue warnings and will shoot directly as long as they approach.
"I saw someone digging on the east side of the base. After several days of digging, they still couldn't dig out a handful of intact soil, and even after digging for dozens of meters, they still didn't dig out any water. Now it's really over."
Officer Song glanced at Qi Yuan and said, "Don't just say it's over. It's not that easy. There's no end in sight."
Qi Yuan shook his head. In the past two days, he had been wandering around the base to inquire about news. In fact, he had seen helicopters coming in and out several times.
It is estimated that the management will also run away, leaving hundreds of thousands of survivors to fend for themselves.
Three more days later, at midnight, hundreds of trucks suddenly left the base and never came back. Residents went to the office building to check and found that it had been vacated, including villa groups, high-end apartment buildings, shopping malls, and underground buildings.
Everything in the city was gone, and all the management and security personnel were gone.
Almost all the glass, doors, tables, chairs and benches, light bulbs and wires on the building were taken away, and no one was left behind.
Hundreds of thousands of survivors were abandoned at the base. Some people packed up their belongings and chased after them following the tracks of vehicle tires.
Some people couldn't bear the blow of being abandoned, suffered from lack of water and food, and were tortured by poisonous fog, so they chose to commit suicide.
Burning, killing and robbery occurred frequently, and the survivors in the base were all in danger, so they began to flee in groups overnight.
"Before the truck left, all the helicopters flew away. The base now has no food or water. They didn't even leave a hoe or a packet of seeds. The wheat grown on dozens of acres of land was all taken away."
Ye Fu never thought that the management would leave suddenly without even leaving anything behind.
They took away all the high-level technical personnel, all the supplies and food, and left behind all the old, weak, sick and disabled, and an abandoned base.
This chapter has been completed!