At this time, Zhou You felt a strange feeling in his heart.
Apart from the think tanks and top-level personnel involved in the decision-making, Zhou You should be considered the first person in the country to know about the declaration of war.
Even the reason why he declared war so quickly has something to do with the video of the battle between humans and mice provided by him.
Therefore, he not only witnessed history, but also participated in history and became a part of history.
This gave Zhou You a different feeling about this mobilization order that others could not understand.
The general mobilization order does not require everyone to immediately and mindlessly accept the order.
Today, this is not possible either.
Therefore, the mobilization order adopts the method of using reason and emotion. It first talks about the facts, then combines historical laws to analyze and speculate on the future, and finally draws a conclusion.
The mobilization order released a lot of information and investigation reports that Zhou You didn't know yet.
The most shocking one among them was the casualty report that was half estimated and half detailed.
Casualty reports contain a variety of contents.
There are detailed statistics on casualties that have occurred in the country reported level by level from various counties, cities and provinces.
This statistics includes a variety of causes of death.
Some people fell to death after their bodies were shrunk.
Some also died from cats, dogs, rats, weasels, foxes, even chickens, ducks, geese, and even all other wild animals.
There are also people who originally had no ability to take care of themselves and have lost the ability to take care of themselves due to the shrinkage of their bodies, including patients, the elderly and even children.
Of course, there are also people who die in various car accidents and heavy objects falling.
There are people who die from hunger, thirst, colds and fevers, etc.
There are many true martyrs.
For example, those soldiers, staff, and volunteers who sacrificed to participate in over-limit experiments, those who sacrificed to ensure water supply, power supply, communications, food reserves, energy and mineral reserves, key industries and mines, important basic livelihood industrial systems, and high-tech industrial systems
of unknown contributors.
There are too many such martyrs.
If it were in the past, every name here would be worth holding a martyr memorial service, and then be commended nationwide to be remembered by the world.
But now there are so many martyrs that they cannot be counted and can only be consolidated into a cold number.
Zhou You probably imagined how big the numbers behind the list of martyrs were before, but now he knew.
324,586 people.
Three hundred and twenty-four thousand, five hundred and eighty-six people.
Compared to the country's total population of nearly 1.5 billion, this mere 320,000 people does not seem to be that much.
But when I think about it again, less than half a month has passed since humans shrunk.
These are just martyrs who knew there was a risk of death but still did it resolutely and sacrificed their lives in the end.
Counting all the people previously counted, the number of deaths that can be clearly stated across the country so far is 16.63 million, accounting for 1.11% of the total population.
When I saw this number, my blood was cold, but my heart was beating unconsciously.
This cold 1.11% of people were so silent, yet they gathered together in one tragedy after another that he witnessed with his own eyes, and were written off from history.
Many people say that statistics of casualties can make people feel insensitive and numb.
But Zhou You didn't think so, he felt exactly the opposite.
The moment he saw the numbers, what came to his mind were those fragmented and blood-curdling pictures that he had never seen before but could easily pop out of his imagination.
Behind every number is a touch of red blood.
More than 13 million traces of blood formed a cruel picture of a blood-stained country.
Zhou You sighed heavily, then turned to look at Deng Tao beside him, remaining silent.
Before we knew it, more than 13 million people had disappeared.
During World War II, the Soviet Union fought for so many years, and the death toll was 27 million.
Less than half a month has passed now, and it's almost half way.
What's even more frightening is that this statistical report is not comprehensive, and there are even many errors and omissions and repeated statistics. It is still being improved. The numbers will inevitably change in the future, and they will only change in a greater direction.
"Brother Tao, can you tell me how many people have died in our county so far?"
Feeling Zhou You's burning gaze, Deng Tao turned away.
"Brother Tao, now that the total figures have been announced, and I am not an ordinary person, I should be qualified to know, right? Tell me."
Deng Tao swallowed his saliva and stuttered a little: "The number we reported last night was 18,700 people. Most of them were compiled by various towns and villages. The casualties in these places were very heavy. But it is obvious that the number of casualties was very heavy.
, today’s data must continue to be updated.”
As he said that, Deng Tao turned his eyes not far ahead.
There is the flower bed at the entrance of Dafa Supermarket, where the families of the deceased supermarket workers and some community managers are holding a very simple collective funeral.
One of the eight-year-old children was shivering as he inserted a small white flower as big as his own face into a clay grave bag the size of a traditional steamed bun.
Zhou You turned around and took a deep breath, "Brother Tao."
Deng Tao: "Huh? What?"
Zhou You didn't speak immediately, but turned his head and looked at the phone again.
While the two were talking, the video clip of Zhou You leading the team against the Rat King yesterday had already started playing on his phone.
This video will pause and slow down from time to time. During this period, a brief analysis report of experts on the behavioral psychology of rats will pop up.
Obviously, the decision-makers and the expert group believed that the various signs shown by the rat king who fought against the Zhou family's team throughout the entire battle were the best warning materials.
I believe that everyone across the country will have a comprehensive and far-sighted understanding of the threat of rats after watching this video, as well as other incidents and intelligence statistics.
"Too many people have died. But the threat of rats has not yet fully erupted." Zhou You said, "Next, a large-scale rat eradication will be carried out across the country."
"Yes."
"To deal with rats, we can't take the rural route. We have to protect the city first. I believe we can do it eventually, but there is definitely nothing we can do about the wild in the short term. With the reproductive power of rats and the increased intelligence they have shown so far,
If we still can't find a more conclusive way, within three months at the latest, oh no, within two months, we may have to face the situation of rats sweeping the world in the wild. Then they may very well counterattack the city.
"
"Yes." Deng Tao said in a heavy tone. "If we really have to face that day, how about we form the Great Wall of flesh and blood to keep the rats out of the crowd? Now those martyrs who have sacrificed have laid the foundation for the Great Wall of flesh and blood. Let’s add more bricks and mortar.”
Zhou You was silent, then nodded, "Okay!"
Shen Ling, who was standing next to her, suddenly came over and leaned against Zhou You, "Use our bones to make concrete steel beams."
"Well, bones."
Zhou You turned his attention to the direction of the simple funeral and murmured again, "Bones."