ps: Let me explain a little. The specific meaning of the word "fall" in the previous chapter is probably the paralysis of the basic functions of the city, not the entire submergence... As for why the word "fall" is used, of course it is because of domineering...
[After 72 hours, the raging typhoon finally began to dissipate, the rain also began to decrease, the water accumulation slowly decreased, and the rescue operation began]
[The army is organizing a mass evacuation of personnel. You decide to go out and take a look and head inland with the affected people]
…
"Has three days passed?"
Cheng Lin stood quietly at the table, staring at the pictures in the book.
The picture was just like the antique vase in the widely circulated story. At this moment, the picture of the furious sea crushing the city changed its appearance.
The city is in dilapidated condition, the clouds have faded, but the rain is still coming.
Cheng Lin put on his raincoat again, opened the door and walked out.
The place where he entered the safe house before was on the mountain near the observation station. Cheng Lin thought he would still appear there, but that was not the case.
The safe house has been moved to the city at some point.
Cheng Lin couldn't tell where exactly it was for a while. It wasn't until he found a tattered stop sign that collapsed nearby that he realized it seemed to be in Jing'an District.
The metal pole of the stop sign had been completely bent by the wind. The huge metal stop sign hung diagonally on the water, and half of it had been submerged in the turbid rainwater.
"Wow!"
Cheng Lin silently looked at the water that was close to his chest at the door, his face uncertain.
As far as the eye could see, the entire neighborhood was submerged.
The turbid rainwater has swallowed up most of the buildings on the ground.
The first floor of a restaurant at the corner of the street is completely gone, with only a colorful signboard lying across the waterline.
There are several submerged cars on the water on the left.
The windshield was almost broken, and there was a tree lying across a car. The cracked opening of the tree was pale and slightly green. Almost all the leaves on the branches were gone, and most of them were floating on the water, rippling in the wind.
A house on the right has collapsed, blocking half of the road.
There is also a huge black crack on the surface of a building, and the whole building is obviously skewed, as if the next moment the wind gets stronger, it will collapse suddenly.
Most of the nearby residents were hiding in high-rise buildings.
A small number of people were out fishing for floating objects in the rain.
No one cried.
No one shouted.
He just waded through the rain silently, with sadness and confusion on his face.
It's like a scene of disaster.
"Rumble..."
Suddenly, Cheng Lin, who was still looking around, heard the roar of propellers.
He suddenly raised his head.
There were still large clouds in the sky, but they were thinner after all, and the white outline of the sun could also be seen. The color reminded him of pumpkin seeds that were less than a month old.
The wind died down and the rain became much lighter, but it was still swaying.
A gray-black helicopter was flying over the city. It was very low, so the sound of the propeller motor was extremely loud. There was a red headlight hanging on the aircraft somewhere, and its eye-catching beams were shining in all directions.
The door of the plane was open, and half of the ladder hung down.
A man in military uniform was pushing down a large, tightly wrapped package.
The big package even came with a parachute and a red light emitter.
With the eye-catching red light slowly falling from the sky.
"airdrop?"
Cheng Lin suddenly became a little excited.
But then, he heard the sound from the super-large loudspeaker on the plane:
"Notice! Massive evacuation of the city! Massive evacuation of the city! Residents of Jing'an District, please gather at Jing'an Temple at two o'clock this afternoon! Follow the troops to evacuate the Magic City!"
"Play it again!"
"Notice! All residents of Jing'an District! Please gather at Jing'an Temple at two o'clock this afternoon! Follow the large troops to evacuate the Demon City!"
The loudspeaker is very loud.
The windows of many houses in nearby residential areas have long been broken and are either empty or temporarily blocked by plastic boards, curtains, bedding, and even furniture such as tables and chairs.
At this moment, hearing this sound, densely packed heads appeared in those dark or broken windows.
"help me!"
"I want to get on the plane!"
"Is there anyone? Help us out quickly!"
"Come down! Don't go!"
"Stop fucking yelling! Save your energy!"
"Retreat? I don't want it! I just bought a new house! Hey! Soldiers, don't leave!"
"***! Where are the people from the government?"
"Wow wow wow..."
The whole neighborhood instantly became lively.
Someone called for help.
Someone was insulting.
There were also the cries of babies, mixed together, even the rain could not suppress them.
It's only been three days.
But many people who did not have food stored at home were so hungry that they did not even have the strength to scream.
Others did not say a word, quickly got out of various doors and windows, and then waded through the rain and rushed to the airdrop supplies.
Soon, the place was filled with people, and quarreling and fighting began.
More people silently muttered the date of two o'clock in the afternoon and began to seize the time to pack their things.
Jing'an Temple is a well-known attraction nearby.
Almost everyone knows the location.
But on this road, driving is almost impossible, but boating is more practical.
There are actually people rowing boats.
Cheng Lin saw with his own eyes a huge bathtub suddenly pushed out of a window. It fell on the water and stirred up a huge splash. It seemed that it had been blocked long ago, so it could float on the water. The man in the window put several backpacks into the water.
He threw her into the "boat" and then forcibly pulled a crying woman out and put her in the bathtub.
This scene seems to have inspired many people.
So many people began to empty bathtubs and bathtubs. If they didn't have any, they took off the wooden doors in the room and threw them into the water.
Others are more straightforward, jumping directly into the water and walking out half-swim.
A couple jumped out of the window. The girl was crying and shouting something at the window. The boy forced her away with a silent look on his face.
After a while, a big golden retriever dog with a bow tie appeared in the window and barked sadly.
Then he jumped into the water... and swam faster than these two people.
An old man with silver hair opened the birdcage and urged two beautiful birds to fly.
Then he put on his raincoat and stepped into the cold water. Only his head was left above the water, breathing hard.
one……
one……
It seems that the news of the mass evacuation has already been announced, so people here are not very surprised.
Of course there are many, many people who are unwilling to leave.
Houses, cars, money... everything they have is here.
Some people insist on waiting.
Wait until the flood recedes.
But some people rushed to the meeting point desperately, as if they were afraid of being late.
"Great retreat..."
Cheng Lin witnessed all this and remained motionless, just muttering.
In general natural disasters, even if a disaster occurs, there will not be a large-scale evacuation of the entire area.
At most, they can be settled centrally and then quickly rebuilt.
But at this moment, the government clearly told everyone: the whole city is evacuating!
what does that mean?
"It seems that the government has determined that this place cannot be saved."
Cheng Lin sighed secretly.
He currently does not know what the global disaster situation is like.
But thinking about it, it’s already extremely serious.
So serious that the authorities accepted the possibility of doomsday.
That's why such a big deal was used.
"The population of the Magic City is tens of millions, and even the urban area may be several million, and this is just one place. Judging from the impact on more than a dozen provinces along the coast, the number of people who need to be relocated may be as high as hundreds of millions.
"
Hundreds of millions of people...
Even during the deduction, Cheng Lin couldn't help but take a breath.
And it's not just a matter of population.
The entire Xia Kingdom has more than a billion people and a huge economy, and most of them are in the coastal and southern regions.
In other words, it is not just people's homes that are destroyed by typhoons and tsunamis.
For the country, it is equivalent to cutting off half of the body with one knife!
The direct economic losses may reach one trillion yuan.
The indirect losses are countless.
At this time, how much national power, manpower, material and financial resources will be consumed by this great migration like a strong man breaking his arms?
How many conflicts and deaths will it cause?
It's simply unimaginable.
And this kind of turmoil is not just in Xia Kingdom, but... covers the whole world.
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…
"Rumble..."
Dark green trucks with Jinling Military Region license plates lined up in a long queue, heading towards the magical city.
There are so many of them, there are thousands of them at a glance.
If you stand at a high enough distance, across the overcast sky and rainy sky, the queue of military vehicles is really like a winding and crawling earth dragon, with green mountains and lakes as the background, stirring countless ripples wherever it passes.
The Magic City is vast in area.
Low-lying areas have been completely submerged.
The higher ones were nearly half submerged.
The ones that are higher still can barely allow vehicles to pass.
This group of troops, which had been mobilized three days before the battle, set out from Jinling and arrived outside the Magic City in only five hours.
But he couldn't make any progress in the next three days.
He was stopped outside the city.
Due to the blessing of typhoon and tsunami, military vehicles cannot enter.
The order from the Magic City Command Center is to wait for the wind to stop and the rain to subside before entering the city for disaster relief.
However, no one thought that this wait would last three full days.
The trucks carrying supplies for the army made several trips.
And as news spread from various regions in the country, people's hearts became heavier and heavier.
Command disaster relief from the very beginning.
It has now become a matter of maintaining order and organizing the great migration of tens of millions of people.
This is an unprecedented task.
…
In a building in Shanghai that was less damaged.
The official named Jiang, the Director of the Second Department and others sat in a conference room again.
Information is constantly being passed on.
"The army has entered the city and will appear at the meeting points in each district on time as assigned!"
"The delivery of supplies has been completed today, and the inspection documents will be delivered later."
"The railway transportation department is making every effort to repair and strive to complete the cleanup within six hours!"
"The harbor is completely destroyed. The dispatched and mobilized ships and seagoing vessels are entering from the estuary, and the first batch of ships are already in place!"
"Aviation says it can't fly now!"
"The city's medical rescue work has begun..."
Almost every minute, new reports arrive.
And every minute, approval orders are sent out from this small room.
The city's great migration.
Easier said than done?
In this conference room, almost the top leaders of all important departments in the entire Magic City were gathered.
For three days, everyone slept less than four hours a day on average.
Major departments headed by Special Agents coordinated operations, constantly mobilized supplies, and prepared for rescue.
And the orders coming from the capital were also more important than the last.
Every order from the capital was like a huge stone, weighing on the hearts of everyone present.
Three days have passed, and the heavy rocks have piled up like a mountain, making it difficult for everyone to breathe.
The official surnamed Jiang initially scoffed at Terry's judgment about the end of the world.
But as three days passed, and as information feedback came in from all over the country and even the world, he was no longer as sure as before.
Especially when the "big retreat" order was issued from the capital, it felt like it was hit hard.
The Great Migration involving hundreds of millions of people has already shown something.
The top official who received the order completely gave up any illusions and began to coordinate the efforts of the entire city to fight against the disaster.
But at this time, he suddenly discovered that the most powerful people in this great battle were the cultivators of Trisi.
Facing the great disaster of heaven and earth, although these practitioners could not resist, they showed amazing execution ability.
"How long until the first batch of people are evacuated?"
The official named Jiang took off his glasses, closed his bloodshot eyes, and asked.