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57 The Dark Tide (2)

The city wall in Jingjiang City will grow taller every day. After the city wall is completed, a city wall system is formed surrounding the entire city with an average height of no less than ten meters.

This city wall uses high-rise buildings as the fulcrum, reinforced concrete walls as the backbone, and steel-framed color steel walls as supplements. Especially the latter accounts for a very high proportion in the entire construction process, with nearly one-half of the wall surface.

It is a color steel structure.

The color-coated steel structure may seem fragile. In fact, under the coordination of the Jingjiang City Government, all color-coated steel walls have reinforced frames, and a large number of steel bars are buried in the open space behind the wall. In order to increase the lethality, the highly motivated

The master workers even ground the tips of a considerable part of the steel bars into triangular shapes, then painted them with a layer of anti-rust paint and they were done.

As long as the giant mantis crosses the wall, it will definitely be pierced by the sharpened steel bars when it lands, but humans can move freely among the forest of steel bars.

Even so, the citizens of Jingjiang are still worried. They are trying every means to arm themselves. The most obvious thing is that the sales of spirits and gasoline in the city are unprecedentedly hot. Everyone buys these two liquids not for use, but for

Make your own Molotov cocktail to defend yourself when giant bugs attack.

Smart citizens have used their talents to make various DIY modifications to Molotov cocktails. It is common to add sugar and rubber like in the novel. There are also many people who add washing powder and toilet cleaners. Some people even add plastic pieces and rags.

I don't know what the purpose of adding these things is.

For a time, it became popular to bring home-made incendiary bombs with you. In just three days, more than 700 home-made incendiary bombs of various types were confiscated in the city.

Although the homemade incendiary bombs are DIY, they are very powerful. If you accidentally ignite them while carrying them, the consequences will be disastrous.

In order to curb the trend of homemade incendiary bombs, the police conducted a comprehensive publicity campaign throughout the city to persuade citizens not to make and carry incendiary bombs to avoid endangering personal safety.

However, some citizens still go their own way, preferring to bear safety risks and carry incendiary bombs with them.

The thinking of the citizens is very simple. If they carry incendiary bombs, even if they encounter a giant insect, they can die together. Otherwise, they will only end up dying tragically. Every man who still has some blood knows how to choose.

At the same time, some citizens, while opposing the ban on incendiary bombs, accused the police of self-defense.

The police are also scratching their heads on this issue. People have an urgent need for self-defense. This is an objective reality that no one can solve. But how can we meet the people's need for self-defense?

Surely knives won't solve the problem, handing out guns to everyone? Or giving everyone two grenades?

The city government organized the police to hold many meetings, but no specific implementable plan was developed. However, since the Jinghu incident was exposed, the social situation in Jingjiang City has not been very stable. The sense of crisis among ordinary citizens is unprecedentedly serious. If they cannot

Properly address the people's self-defense needs. Once instigated by thoughtful people, this matter is likely to become the trigger for the collapse of social order.

The entire city's leadership team combined cannot bear the responsibility for such serious consequences. It can be said that this problem has reached a point where it must be solved.

The final result of the meeting is to make a detailed report on the situation to the superior and ask the superior to find a solution.

The Jingjiang City Government did not know that due to the occurrence of giant insect attacks in many places, Jingjiang was not the only place to report similar situations across the country. The northern capital had launched a secret discussion on this issue a few days ago.

After three days of heated debate, Beijing issued a nationwide announcement on the limited liberalization of the gun ban.

The notice clearly stated that the limited opening of gun bans is in order to combat the intensifying giant insect attacks and the urgent need to protect the safety of people's lives and property. All localities must strictly control guns and ammunition to prevent guns and ammunition from getting out of control.

Along with the announcement, there are also detailed implementation rules for gun control. The detailed rules stipulate that applicants for gun control must be citizens over the age of 28, with no criminal record; no bad habits; no violent tendencies, no social conflicts; no mental problems; and

Only those who have a fixed income, have a normal family, have fixed assets, have good self-control ability, and have an urgent need for self-defense in an epidemic area, and who have been reviewed by relevant departments and meet the conditions for holding a gun, can apply for holding a gun.

Those who apply to hold a gun must participate in a three-day firearms usage training, and can be issued a gun license only after passing the assessment.

The detailed rules also stipulate that the age of public officials can be relaxed to 26 years old, and that of retired active service personnel can be relaxed to 22 years old.

Every provision in the detailed rules is an insurmountable hurdle. All conditions must be met before you can apply for the qualification to hold a gun.

The detailed rules also stipulate that the first batch of open firearms is only a double-barreled shotgun model. Firearms may not be carried concealed, guns may not be carried away from the place of residence, gun barrels may not be sawn short, and guns may not be pointed at people under any circumstances, entering or leaving public places, banks, or shopping malls.

In sensitive areas such as large supermarkets, firearms must be handed over to designated locations for storage, etc.

There are also deep-seated considerations for only opening up double-barreled shotguns. Firstly, this thing is a type of shotgun. You only need to take a rough aim to hit the target. It is very easy for ordinary people without systematic shooting training to master; secondly, it is a kind of shotgun.

Firstly, this kind of gun is powerful enough, and with suitable bullets, it can effectively penetrate the carapace of giant insects; thirdly, most of the effective range of this kind of gun is about fifty meters, which is far from being comparable to military rifles with a range of more than 400 meters.

compared to.

All in all, this kind of gun is not a threat to the state apparatus that controls military weapons.

Although the gun ban has been opened, it is not easy to get a gun. From a certain perspective, it can even be said that the opening of the gun ban is just a super pie created by Beidou City, and those who are qualified to take a bite

There were very few people, and most people could only look at it with greed.

The methods are not new, they are nothing more than political means to win over a group of people and then suppress a group of people.

Although the conditions are harsh, it is still a good start. Early the next morning after the notice was issued, citizens applying to hold guns lined up outside the Jingjiang City Police Station, and the queue continued to grow. Soon

The number of people exceeded the 1,000 mark, and application forms were sent to the police station like a flake.

However, regardless of whether the application conditions are met or not, the police department’s answer is to go home and wait for notification.

It’s not that the police were perfunctory, but that the police needed enough time to mobilize firearms. Fortunately, there was no technical difficulty in the design and production of double-barreled shotguns. The military factory that received the production task produced a large number of them in a very short time.

Double-barreled shotguns and corresponding ammunition were quickly shipped to all parts of the country.


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