Chapter 14, Kowloon Peninsula Yau Ma Tei Reclamation Project
All in all, after many rounds of consultations with the international community, Chinese diplomats unfortunately broke down the matter.
——The "Gate to Another World" that suddenly appeared in the waters of Victoria Bay in Hong Kong immediately caused an explosive sensation around the world, including the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, India, Japan, South Korea and other countries, as well as the United Nations, etc. International organizations expressed their strongest concerns as quickly as possible and requested that a joint team be dispatched to Hong Kong to take over the investigation of other worlds and negotiations with the civilized political systems of other worlds.
And a large number of Western liberal media quickly made a fuss, claiming that the evil and cruel Chinese government has no right to steal other worlds on its own, calling on the forces of freedom and justice around the world to jointly exert pressure and take back what belongs to all mankind from the hands of China's evil kleptocratic regime. Common wealth...
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded euphemistically, claiming that China is a sovereign country and does not accept foreign interference in its internal affairs. Moreover, under the current world situation of high tension and serious lack of mutual trust, it is difficult for China to carry out in-depth cooperation with the West... …According to the original intention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is preparing to use Hong Kong’s joint development and exploration project as a bargaining chip in exchange for concessions from the international community, mainly European and American Western forces, on the South China Sea issue. If we can negotiate, it's not impossible to jointly develop another world with them, and then share the resources and benefits of the other world.
——Anyway, this gate to another world is not permanent and will disappear in a few years. At best, it has some scientific research significance. Because within this limited period of time, it is difficult to develop and collect, and obtain too many economic benefits and precious resources from there.
Unexpectedly, the United States is currently in power with hawks and has absolutely no intention of compromise. Not only does it refuse to give in on the South China Sea issue - even though the Philippine government has publicly stated that it is not prepared to claim the islands and reefs, the United States still insists on promoting Vietnam and Malaysia as front-end thugs. , using three flights The mother battle group cruised in the South China Sea to support them in their fight against the Chinese navy. At the same time, it went a step further and threw out the "undetermined status of Hong Kong", claiming that as the time and space connection point between other worlds and the earth, Hong Kong's gate to other worlds belongs to all mankind. The common wealth cannot be enjoyed exclusively by the Chinese family. And China is not qualified to represent global human civilization alone in front of other worlds. Therefore, it is necessary to classify Hong Kong as an international **** and be governed by a coalition of countries...
Obviously, once such a plan that touches people's hearts is thrown out, there is basically nothing to talk about next. Even when the Chinese government was still very weak, it had never accepted such humiliating terms, let alone now. Seeing that intimidation and blackmail seemed to be basically ineffective, the CIA immediately began to play its old tricks, contacting informants everywhere in Hong Kong, preparing to launch street movements and incite rebellion.
However, this time, the central government no longer had the patience to care about its international image, nor did it have the heart to play word games about spitting at each other. One month after the "Gate to Another World" appeared, the central government ordered 200,000 navy and army troops to garrison Hong Kong, abolish the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, change it to the Hong Kong Military Administrative Region, implement military control and a wartime system, and completely blockade Hong Kong sea, land, and air transportation and external communications, and martial law was promulgated for the entire Guangdong coastal area, including the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions... For a time, armored vehicles were shuttled everywhere on the streets of Hong Kong. On the Kowloon Peninsula, which is a hotspot, there were even three steps. One post, five steps and one sentry, the houses close to the "Gate to Another World" were forcibly requisitioned, turning them into a giant barracks.
Hong Kong's international Internet was temporarily cut off by the central government, and all newspapers and media in Hong Kong and Macao have stationed censorship teams to implement the strictest news supervision. A vigorous manhunt was immediately launched in Hong Kong. A large number of democratic and human rights activists, hundreds of reporters, editors and photographers were thrown into jail. Foreigners who came to Hong Kong under the banner of environmental protection were forcibly expelled. For a time, the whole world was in an uproar. The Western media were madly criticizing China for suppressing democracy and infringing on human rights, and lamenting the complete loss of civil rights in Hong Kong...
However, despite the uproar, apart from organizing a group of people to protest in front of the Chinese Embassy and engage in performance art, these international human rights organizations have not seen any real actions. Even the US Bald Eagle boss has no intention of sending an aircraft carrier battle group to sneak attack Hong Kong and defend the free world. He just allows the fleet to continue to wander in the waters of the Nansha Islands thousands of kilometers away, while continuing to quarrel with Chinese representatives at the United Nations. .
Then, in addition to dispatching the People's Liberation Army to suppress the Hong Kong market with an iron fist and ruthlessly clean up social order, five divisions of engineering troops also started construction on the Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters State at the same time, and began to implement the "Gate to Another World" in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon Peninsula The dam construction project is to build a five-kilometer-long and 12-meter-high sea dam as quickly as possible to separate this area of coastal waters from the open sea, just like the way the Dutch built land from the sea.
Due to the tense situation and the urgent urging from the central government, in order to speed up the progress of sea reclamation, the engineering troops had to adopt many emergency measures, such as using scrapped old ships loaded with sand and gravel to self-sink in the waters of Stonecutters State and Yau Ma Tei to slow down the sea water. The speed of flow into the "Gate to Another World". In addition, some dilapidated buildings that had been idle for many years were demolished in some long-abandoned neighborhoods in Hong Kong to collect reclamation materials. However, even if this is the case, according to the estimates of relevant experts, even if the entire construction process goes smoothly, it will still take at least two to three months for the dam to be successfully closed.
But until the sea-blocking dam is closed and the seawater in the enclosed sea area drains away, Wang Qiu and the others are still unable to start their adventure in other worlds.
Of course, the other world on the other side of the "door" will still have to endure the pain of monstrous floods for at least dozens of days...
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At the same time, on the other side of the "door", at the cave entrance covered by dense vegetation somewhere near Arnus Hill, a girl with aqua-blue hair was quietly revealing her head from behind the rock wall, raising her head. Neck, secretly looking at the gloomy sky that still smelled like gun smoke.
"...Ahem, Lelai, how is the situation outside? Has Yanlong noticed us here?"
An old man cautiously walked out of the cave, shakily leaned behind the girl, and asked nervously in a low voice.
"...It's okay now, Grandpa Village Chief. The two Headhunting Rabbit Priests have lured the Flame Dragon away..."
The aqua-haired girl observed it carefully, then turned her head and answered in the same calm tone as usual.
"...Ahem...Really? That's good, that's good...Hey, it's really thanks to these two kind adults that we can survive..."
The old village chief said with a dry cough. And listening to the exchange between the two of them, deep in the cave behind, there was also a sigh of relief.
At this moment, this originally spacious cave was filled with nearly a thousand people, including humans, elves, and orcs. However, no matter what race they were, now they all looked unkempt and haggard. Moreover, there are mostly old and weak women and children, and there are very few young and strong men.
——They are all refugees who were forced to this wilderness by floods, wars and fire dragons.
The blue-haired girl who was watching at the entrance of the cave at this time was named Lelei La Lena. She was a fifteen-year-old girl who came from afar to the Arnus Mountains for the purpose of pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain Arnus. And learn magic from Magister Gato who lives in seclusion in Gota Village.
Gota Village is one of the villages closest to the holy mountain Arnus, but it is also dozens of kilometers away from the Arnus hill. The village is located among the mountains, with barren land and few products. However, because Gota Village is close to the road leading from the imperial capital to the holy mountain Arnus, the villagers rely on providing food and accommodation for pilgrims on the pilgrimage to the holy mountain Arnus. I can still make some extra money, and I can barely get by.
However, since last year, life in Gota Village has become increasingly difficult. First, the emperor and the Senate gathered a hundred thousand troops to expedition to the other world behind the "door" on the top of Mount Arnus. In order to maintain the daily supplies of so many soldiers and horses, most of the young and middle-aged men in Gota Village and several nearby villages were forcibly recruited into the transportation team, driving the carriages and horses back and forth to provide supplies to the people at the foot of Arnus Hill. Deliver supplies to the military camp. Secondly, because Arnus Hill has become a military restricted area, pilgrims going to Hajj have also disappeared, and the hotels and shops in Gota Village have stopped doing business. Although the aristocratic lords living in the city understood the sufferings of Gota Village and generously exempted the villagers from all taxes for the past three years, after lacking so much labor, the grain harvest in Gota Village was still so miserable that it was difficult to satisfy their hunger. To such an extent, many people have to pawn their clothes to make ends meet.
What's even more tragic is that four months ago, a sudden flood roared from the mountains without warning. In the blink of an eye, it washed away the entire Gota village on the plain, and nearly a quarter of the villagers were destroyed. Died violently. After that, many corpses of imperial soldiers and war horses were washed away by the flood from the direction of Arnus Hill. There was also a lucky man who was floating on the water holding a piece of wood and was washed near the village of Gota. He was still breathing, so he was rescued by kind-hearted villagers. From the mouth of this half-dead surviving soldier, the villagers of Gota who had just suffered a catastrophe learned the origin of the flood. It turned out that the imperial army magister on the Arnus Hill did not know what was wrong and did not give any information to the expedition. The army opened a passage to a rich and different world, but an overwhelming flood poured out from the "door", swallowing up a hundred thousand troops in the blink of an eye. The young men from Gota Village who were recruited into the transportation team were probably in danger... As a result, the villagers burst into tears.
Next, this seemingly endless flood continued to flow along the highway built by the empire, seemingly forming a new river. The village of Gota, which was originally located at the bottom of the canyon, was almost completely submerged under the water. , there are basically few habitable houses left.
The surviving group of orphans, widows, old, weak, sick and disabled in Gota Village saw that their life was really unbearable, so they had no choice but to help the old and the young to leave their homeland and go to the elf village in the southwest forest for help, hoping that the other party would be able to see the future in many years. For the sake of old neighbors, they helped them out... However, what they never expected was that the fate of these elves would be even more unlucky than their own!