Under the threat of ocean giants, in just one week, the overall maritime transportation capacity dropped to about 9% of the previous level.
Of course, this is not a total sinking of the ocean liner. The only ships that are really sunk by ocean monsters are small ships of about a thousand tons. For ocean ships with a weight of more than 3,000 tons, it is more difficult for ocean monsters to sink them.
Not to mention super cargo ships such as 10,000-ton oil tankers, 100,000-ton container rollers, etc.
But those sailors and crew are afraid!
After the attack by the giant ocean beast, most sailors did not dare to put their lives on the strength of the ship.
These sea monsters are not pirates.
With the exception of a few pirates, they only use money to redeem people and ships, and they will not mess around.
But those giant ocean beasts are different, they can eat people!
Once disturbed by the giant ocean beasts, the volume of trade between human countries quickly declined.
This is also a helpless matter. Although there is still a means of air freight between continents, the cost of air transportation is too high.
What's more, many offshore oil production platforms are threatened by marine monsters, and oil production across the board has plummeted. This has been reflected in the oil refining industry, which is a shortage of raw materials. Whether it is gasoline, diesel, or kerosene, prices have skyrocketed!
This has caused the cost of air transportation to increase several times compared with before, causing if the value of the things you transport is not high enough, the value of the goods may not be enough to offset the freight.
In short, in the half month after the spiritual energy broke out again, the entire human society and the Internet were full of bad news.
Although various countries have also conducted some efforts to guide public opinion, many things cannot be hidden at all. Too many people have seen those animals and plants that have mutated and become demonized.
What makes many netizens feel reassured is that their own dog has not rebelled. Even if it has become a demon and mutated, it still protects its owner and family honestly. However, many netizens took the opportunity to take a video and it became popular on the Internet.
However, as time goes by, the situation becomes worse and worse.
More and more demonized animals and plants appear within human sight.
Take the most common weeds on the roadside as an example. Many weeds have become demonized and have the ability to absorb nutrients. To put it simply, when animals pass by and humans don't pay attention, their leaves turn into needles and blades.
It cuts the skin of animals and humans and takes the opportunity to suck the blood.
This kind of demonizing effect is not a big problem if humans pay attention to it. Wearing a pair of boots can prevent it.
However, there are many demonized plants that become taller and have certain mobility after being demonized, which is more troublesome.
Every household in My Lai likes to plant a maple tree that can produce maple sugar in front of and behind the house.
This kind of maple tree has the ability to eject maple leaves to kill nearby targets after being demonized.
As a result, many My Lai people were injured and hospitalized. The worse ones were cut directly by hundreds of maple leaves and bled to death.
After all, My Lai people like to live in the countryside. Neighbors are far apart from each other, so it is difficult to notice any problems in the neighbor's home without paying attention.
As a result, people may not notice it until the person dies and stinks.
And the abilities possessed by these demonized plants are also all kinds of strange.
Like the previous maple tree that shoots leaves to kill people, it can only be regarded as the most common type.
The sycamore trees planted in an inland city of the Shang Dynasty caused a period of chaos.
These sycamore trees have neither evolved the ability to move nor the ability to kill people with their leaves. Their evolved ability is to allow a specific pig bug to eat their leaves, which can increase the spiritual energy absorption effect of the pig bug.
This kind of pig bug actually caused a lot of trouble to this city in the past.
They are particularly numerous and mainly grow on this kind of sycamore tree.
Every summer, after their active period arrives, insect droppings can be seen everywhere on the streets where such sycamore trees are planted. Even these pig bugs will spin silk from time to time, fall from the sky, and fall on people's faces.
It made people scream in surprise.
After the spiritual energy surged again, the size of these pig bugs on other trees changed from the size of a finger to the size of two fingers wide.
But after they eat the leaves on the sycamore tree, they become thicker than a human arm, and when humans or animals pass by the sycamore tree, they will spit out silk threads to capture and entangle their prey, and finally hang them on the sycamore tree.
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The rows of human beings wrapped in white silk and hanging from the sycamore trees were particularly terrifying to people.
Fortunately, these pig bugs were afraid of flames, and were eventually burned clean by the emergency flamethrower.
But such a situation is only a small example in the entire universe. There are many more situations that threaten human beings and make them feel terrifying.
After all, there is no shortage of animals and plants anywhere.
Even in the desert, which is known as a restricted area for life, there are still scorpions, spiders, lizards, ants, and drought-resistant plants.
After absorbing spiritual energy, these animals and plants will also become demonized, posing more or less threats to humans.
Of course, it can be harmful as well as beneficial.
These demonized animals and plants are not entirely harmful to humans.
After being demonized, some animals and plants have also been discovered by human scientists to have benefits.
For example, rice, one of the most commonly consumed staple foods by humans, has experienced widespread demonization.
After some rice is demonized, the seeds that bloom and bear ears are no longer rice that can satisfy hunger. After the rice is peeled off, what appears in front of people is black rice, which contains some toxins that are harmful to the human body.
There is no doubt that this part of rice has become a threat to human beings after being demonized.
While another part of the rice blooms and bears ears, rice of several colors comes out.
Red rice can activate human vitality after being eaten, allowing diseases and injuries to be cured quickly.
Green rice can restore youthful vitality to a certain extent and reverse aging.
Golden rice can give humans a chance to activate some supernatural powers if consumed for a long time.
It has to be said that the revival of spiritual energy is also beneficial to human beings.
However, after the demonization of most crops, there was a large gap in human food sources.
After the demonization of crops in the past, regardless of whether humans can eat them or not, their yields have been significantly reduced.
In the past, the rice yield of 2,000 jins per mu has become 600 jins per mu, and the wheat yield of 1,000 jins per mu has become 200 jins.
As a result, food shortages quickly appeared in all countries.
For countries like the Shang State that are afraid of hunger and like to reserve grain, luckily, the inventory can still last for 4-5 years. If you are not careful, it is not a problem to divert the grain reserves from livestock to sustain it for another one or two years.
But those countries that do not like to reserve grain and whose grain production is extremely low and need to import large amounts of grain are in dire straits.