Extra 3. The day I left Wang Qiu (Part 2)
When most of Europe was struggling with plague, war and anarchy, Lisbon, the capital of the Portuguese Republic, finally relied on quarantine, martial law, nationwide military control and border blockades, and more importantly, benefited from neighboring countries. Spain's strict defense of its land border on the Iberian Peninsula barely managed to maintain the most basic order and did not fall into a more miserable purgatory.
Under the grim situation that the European continent was about to fall as a whole, Spain and Portugal had to completely tear off the pretense of human rights and freedom, cut off land and sea transportation by blowing up bridges and tunnels, laying mines and sea mines, and used armed helicopters to bombard illegal The smuggled refugee boat is thermobaric They used bombs, incendiary bombs and poison gas to massacre foreign refugee groups, and even used missiles to shoot down fleeing passenger planes that broke into the country. They created countless massacres strewn with corpses in the foothills of the Pyrenees and on the beaches of the Iberian Peninsula. Only then could they withstand the crazy attacks of armed refugees on the country's borders.
As for crimes such as humanitarian crisis...at this moment when the nation is on the verge of extinction, who else can care so much? !
There were not many pagan immigrants in the two countries, and they had all been imprisoned in concentration camps long before the plague broke out. At the same time, on the eve of the outbreak of the plague, the political situation in Spain and Portugal was relatively stable. They did not fall into major riots like France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and the governments still had strong executive capabilities. In addition, the plague originally appeared in Central and Eastern Europe, which gave these two countries a certain buffer time.
But even with all their efforts and strict defenses, the border police and militia of the Republic of Portugal and the Kingdom of Spain were unable to stop the all-pervasive "Lucifer Plague" from finally descending on the land of the Iberian Peninsula. Starting from Barcelona, which is adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea and was hit by the refugee fleet, cities fell one after another. First, the hospital was blocked and turned into a morgue. Doctors and nurses died of illness or escaped. Then there are thousands of corpses rotting directly in the streets, no one dares to approach them, no one dares to bury them. Many unfortunate families died in their homes in just a few days. The government had no choice but to order rows of houses to be demolished to bury the bodies, and they even had to pour gasoline on them to burn and disinfect them.
Although the Spanish and Portuguese governments have adopted the most stringent quarantine measures, due to the delay in the availability of vaccines and specific drugs, the death toll in some cities and towns on the Iberian Peninsula has still reached about half. The entire Iberian Peninsula also permanently lost a tenth of its population within a few months. What’s even more frightening is that unlike the situation with smallpox, even those survivors who temporarily withstood the “Lucifer Plague” with their own immune systems did not gain lasting immunity, but would soon have it. The possibility of contracting the disease again.
Fortunately, at this most dangerous moment, the Chinese medical department finally developed a specific drug to treat the "Lucifer Plague". Relying on the special medicines that were urgently transported by air, the Spanish and Portuguese governments finally stabilized their position again, resolved the panic among the people on the verge of explosion, and thwarted multiple insurrections by terrorists and overseas armed gangs. As for the millions of refugees still wandering across the Pyrenees Mountains... this is all they can do to themselves. Even if there is a cure for the plague now, God knows how many terrorists and cultists there are among these refugees. What will happen to the security and stability issues after they are released? What's more, today's international trade has basically been interrupted, and the Spanish and Portuguese themselves are implementing strict food rationing systems. If they take in so many refugees at once, what should they feed them? What to drink? Do we want our citizens to starve voluntarily and save food exports to support foreigners with ulterior motives? Such a decision is simply crazy!
In any case, despite the above-mentioned regrets and shortcomings, in general, the situation is still moving towards the good side.
However, at this moment of dawn, a piece of desperate bad news once again plunged Europeans into the abyss of darkness...
——Hundreds of nuclear power plants in the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Italy, as well as related factories that produce and process nuclear fuel, as well as military nuclear submarines and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, have experienced months of chaos and loss of control. , serious leaks occurred one after another!
A massive nuclear pollution incident, a hundred times more serious than Chernobyl, suddenly befell the troubled Europeans.
But this time, no more Soviet Red Army and Communist Youth League members risked their lives to rush to the nuclear power plant...
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"...This is really... terrible! Could it be that there is a radiation cloud blown over by the wind?"
Standing next to the side of the evacuation cruise ship, looking at the beeping numbers on the screen of the Geiger counter in her hand, Ms. Ma Tong couldn't help but feel waves of numbness in her scalp. She even quietly retreated in her heart and even got off the ship. I no longer thought about the interview in downtown Lisbon.
——Of course, although the numbers on the Geiger counter seem scary, in fact, even if you stay in this environment for a week, the total amount of radiation that each person receives is only equivalent to taking an X-ray in the hospital. Just a piece. However, if there is no problem with the Spanish nuclear power plant (there is no nuclear power plant in Portugal), this radiation data is enough to prove that something terrible is definitely happening over there in the Pyrenees...
She sighed and looked up, and saw that the pier was full of people and bustling with people. The Chinese Marines who followed the evacuation fleet had already set up a checkpoint on the pier. With the cooperation of local embassy personnel, they were escorting the Chinese nationals with their families, the elderly and the young aboard the ship with loaded guns and live ammunition. Evacuate. Thousands of expatriates and their family members queued up in an orderly manner, each holding a small national flag in their hands and smiling with relief on their faces. Many expatriates came to Europe for a return ticket to escape Europe. Been waiting on the dock for a week!
Among these overseas Chinese who have returned to China, there are also many very beautiful white girls and lolita, who are all registered as "spouse" or "adopted daughter". Seeing that most of their husbands look like crooked men and cracked dates, you can imagine how much sacrifice these beauties made in order to escape Europe.
Well, let's forget about sisters and all that. I hope there won't be any scandals about "ghost father" or "mother and daughter" taking over in the future.
In addition to the marines who maintained order and the Chinese expatriates waiting in line to board the ship, there were also crowds of people outside the pier, with tens of thousands of people gathered at one time. There were white people and black people among them, each carrying luggage and holding children. The noise was overwhelming. Basically, they wanted to escape from the Iberian Peninsula by boat after hearing the bad news about the collective leakage of nuclear power plants in Britain and France. people from various European countries.
At this moment, they were all watching the Chinese people boarding the ship and leaving with blazing eyes full of envy, jealousy and hatred, and wished they could rush over too. However, the Chinese Marine Corps' muzzles and sizzling electric shock batons did not leave any chance for these people to fish in troubled waters. From time to time, some people were too excited and tried to push the Chinese Marines blocking the front, but were unceremoniously stunned.
——After learning the bad news about large-scale leaks from nuclear power plants in various Western European countries, even those who are most attached to their hometowns have no confidence that they can continue to live in nuclear radiation-contaminated areas: the plague is now curable, and gangsters can use guns. To resist, but how can we resist nuclear radiation?
But the problem is that as early as the beginning of the "Lucifer Plague", European countries had already set off a wave of people fleeing across the sea. From cruise ships to cargo ships to fishing boats, almost all ships on the European continent that could be used to escape had been taken away by that time and never returned. For example, a Spanish refugee drove a fifteen-ton sloop and successfully carried his family across the Atlantic to escape to South America.
Therefore, those Portuguese and Spanish people who have been waiting until now to think of escaping across the sea have found it difficult to find ships that can go to sea. Basically, those who drove the ships away before There is no return, and few people will sail back to pick up people.
Although the air route from Lisbon to the Americas has not been completely closed yet, at this time, you can only buy air tickets abroad with gold, and gold alone is not enough, you also need connections and connections. Got it. So ordinary people can only go to the port to try their luck and see if they can catch the Chinese evacuation fleet: If you really can't go to America, it seems good to escape to East Asia or Australia...
However, based on what Ma Tong knew, at this moment, even if Europeans like them really go to sea by ship, it would be difficult to find a place willing to accept them. The current man-made "Lucifer Plague" is not only raging in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, but every continent in the world is spared. Even China, which was the first to develop effective drugs, has suffered an unprecedented death toll of nearly one million people from this plague. The plague situation in countries in the Americas, Southeast Asia, and Oceania is even more severe, with tens of millions of deaths, and the people are already full of fear and hostility.
Amid the panic caused by the biochemical crisis, violent incidents of attacks and robberies on refugees have occurred all over the world. Most governments of countries that can still function normally have closed their borders and refused to accept refugees. Even the few countries that are willing to take in refugees have strict quotas and require them to be quarantined in concentration camps upon entry. Today, the oceans around the world are filled with dirty, shabby, desperate refugee boats, scurrying around like headless flies, trying to find a wealthy country willing to take them in, but they are frustrated and deported time and time again. .
Some of these refugee ships are about to run out of food, water and fuel, and are forced to break into chaotic countries in Africa where plagues are raging and governments have collapsed, but they are rich in resources, in an attempt to try their luck and become the king of the mountain. Some refugee ships have simply turned into pirates. Since global shipping has collapsed and there are no ships to rob, they simply frequently attack coastal ports and burn, kill and loot. This has further increased the disgust and hostility of governments and people towards sea refugees. .
——The major oceans of the earth these days are almost entering the era of great pirates.
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Just when Ms. Ma Tong was so thoughtful, she suddenly noticed that there seemed to be smoke and fire behind the shadowy building in the distance, and she could vaguely hear thunderous explosions, so she took out a pocket-sized gun from her arms. Telescope, looking towards where the smoke and fire were rising. Suddenly, the city of Lisbon further away was a scene of devastated riots. All kinds of thugs were openly roaming the streets, killing people and setting fires everywhere. Some of them were armed with machetes, steel pipes, axes and Molotov cocktails. There are also people holding pistols or throwing grenades, and there are even people holding automatic rifles and shooting everywhere. The intensity of the exchange has almost reached the level of "quasi-war". Although the Portuguese army and police are still trying their best to suppress the protesters, and even use tanks and armored vehicles to kill the streets, causing rivers of blood to flow, the thugs in the city are still suppressed with endless gunshots.
Seeing that the city of Lisbon was already a scene of street fighting with barricades, Ms. Ma Tong, who cherished her own life, suddenly became more and more afraid to get off the boat and take risks in the city. However, I have a lot of responsibilities, so I can't do anything without making some news. So she looked around and found a secretary from the Chinese Embassy in Portugal on the deck. She was going to ask him about the situation, conduct an exclusive interview, and then make do with writing a manuscript and handing it over.
"...Why is downtown Lisbon so chaotic? Haha, since the news of the nuclear leak spread, the city has been rioting for three full days."
In response to Ms. Ma Tong's inquiry, the secretary with a haggard face and bloodshot eyes replied with a wry smile, "...the government armies of Portugal and Spain are in chaos. A few days ago, the special medicine for the 'Lucifer Plague' was urgently flown in from China." , and at least a quarter of them are piled up at the airport without anyone taking care of them.”
"...The chaos has actually reached this level?" Ms. Ma Tong couldn't help being slightly surprised after hearing the news revealed by the secretary. "...So, what is the actual situation of nuclear leaks in European countries? Where is it? Do you have any more accurate information here? I have been on the ship these days and I am not very informed about the outside world. There are also rumors flying around in the country..."
"...How should I put it? Today's nuclear pollution situation in Europe is indeed very serious. According to information obtained from satellite reconnaissance and aircraft aerial photography, there are currently 39 nuclear power plants and two nuclear power plants in European countries excluding Russia. Nuclear power plants have experienced leakage problems, including two nuclear power plants in the UK and a nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Big explosions occurred directly, and the leakage and spread of radioactive materials were extremely serious. ”
The secretary replied, "...As for whether these nuclear leaks are terrorist incidents caused by terrorists and doomsday cultists, or whether they are simply caused by the escape of nuclear power plant staff, which caused the nuclear power plant to become unmanaged and eventually went out of control and caused an accident, it is currently unknown. And it seems that there is no way to investigate carefully - in the current extremely chaotic situation, no one has the power to organize and dispatch a task force to the nuclear leakage site for investigation..."
"...It sounds really scary..." Ms. Ma Tong said, "...could no one try to save me?"
"...Haha, who is going to take care of this mess now? Europe is more chaotic now than Somalia and Syria were back then!"
The secretary spread his hands helplessly, "...the governments of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands have long been finished, and Eastern European countries have no time to take care of themselves. Do you expect those white right-wing extremists to understand nuclear power? Or do you think terrorists will? Thinking of rescuing a nuclear crisis?
The governments of these countries, such as Portugal and Spain, which have survived for the time being, also cannot recruit so many professional nuclear power plant emergency repair teams, let alone provide them with logistical support and force protection if they want to enter the nuclear power plant for emergency repair and maintenance. You know, there are at least two hundred nuclear reactors that are out of control across Europe. Who can control them in this chaotic situation?
Moreover, the sea and land transportation lines to these nuclear power plants have been cut off. All personnel and equipment have to be transported by helicopter and airborne. Even the current air routes may not be safe, because in the great turmoil of the collapse of European countries, before and after There was a massive loss of weapons. Therefore, some terrorists and cultists with ulterior motives may have already mastered a large number of shoulder-fired individual air defense missiles. In addition, according to some seemingly unreliable rumors, even the nuclear weapons of France and Israel have been lost to terrorists. In short, no force in Europe today can complete such an arduous rescue task. As for the United States and NATO...hehe, the US government officially announced the dissolution of NATO at noon yesterday and will no longer assume any obligations to its European allies. The U.S. troops stationed in Europe had withdrawn even before that, and they were destroyed..."
When Ms. Ma Tong heard the news about the disbandment of NATO, she felt sad on her face, but she was calm in her heart. Because there were actually signs of this happening before. In the midst of this great plague and terrorist attacks sweeping the world, the United States, the "leader of the free world," is also a key target of terrorist attacks. The local states have not been spared anything from riots to self-destructions to plagues. They have already been He is too busy to take care of himself.
In fact, as early as the beginning of the turmoil in Europe, the United States was tired of its endless allied obligations. Many people began to propose giving up its global strategy, returning to isolationism, returning to its homeland, and relying on the natural barriers of the two oceans to once again Hibernate and bide your time, waiting for the next opportunity to rise. And after the "Lucifer Plague" swept across the world, the severely damaged United States could only carry out strategic contraction no matter how reluctant it was.
"...What's more, now even the Europeans themselves have chosen to give up. The Spanish government has abandoned its homeland on the European continent and moved to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean this morning. And the Portuguese government will also move to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean tomorrow. Or transfer to the Azores the day after tomorrow..."
After a moment of silence, the secretary continued, "...So, after your evacuation fleet completes its mission, we diplomats will also evacuate together... Hey, it's really hard to leave Europe this time. I know when I will come back.”
He sighed and raised his face, squinting at the smoky ruined city ahead, "...What will Europe look like in the future?"
Listening to the secretary's emotion, Ms. Ma Tong also felt sad: Although the Westerners' powerful ships and cannons opened the door to China and shattered the Chinese people's "dream of going to the country", they brought endless benefits to the land of China. of pain and disaster. But it is undeniable that since modern times, the once remote and backward European continent has become the center of civilization for all mankind. Almost all important elements that make up modern society, such as science and technology, social contracts, logical thinking, financial credit, and humanistic concepts, come from this medium-sized land. Without Europe there would be no modern civilization as everyone knows it.
However, this birthplace of modern civilization seems to be about to enter the grave in painful sinking... As for whether Europe can recover after the catastrophe, it is difficult for Ms. Ma Tong to have an optimistic view: the past has plagued Europe. None of the language, nationality and cultural problems of civilizational integration have been solved today. Religious conflicts that had been downplayed in Europe have intensified again with the flying of the crescent flag...
All in all, the lights of traditional European civilization are about to go out and will not be turned on again for a long time to come.
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Just as the two people on the deck were looking at the Lisbon street scene with sad faces, they heard a sudden burst of fierce yelling and warning shots coming from the pier below. Ms. Ma Tong leaned on the railing and looked down, only to find that the locals and European refugees who had wanted to sneak across on the boat had unexpectedly broken through the blockade and were making trouble on the trestle next to the ship's side, trying to force their way across. Come aboard!
——Previously, in order to block the restless citizens and refugees outside, Chinese Marines temporarily set up a circle of fortifications on the pier and used riot shields to form a human wall to block the entrances and exits. However, as a limited number of more than 2,000 expatriates and their families boarded the ship, the Marines responsible for guarding also retreated to the ship. The originally impregnable shield wall and fortification defense line suddenly collapsed.
Taking advantage of this brief gap, a large group of whites and blacks rushed over. They stretched out their arms one by one, roared like zombies, or wanted to squeeze onto the springboard and gangway, or They kept pushing and even biting Chinese marines and embassy diplomats who had no time to board the ship, causing a chaos. Amidst the deafening noise, Ms. Ma Tong keenly noticed that behind these guys who were fanatically trying to swarm onto the boat, there were still a few leading guys calmly instigating and directing, even holding loudspeakers and speaking in French. He yelled and cursed something loudly.
After listening carefully, it turns out that they are demagogues, saying that the 10,000-ton cruise ship at the dock can hold at least four to five thousand people if it is squeezed, and the number of Chinese people who just boarded the ship is not more than two thousand at most, which shows that the Chinese people on board There must be a lot of vacancies. If you want to survive, you have to rush to the ship...
"...Huh? Is there really a lot of spare space on this ship? Why can't we take a few more refugees away?"
The embassy secretary also knew French. After hearing this, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed, so he turned to Ms. Ma Tong and asked.
"...There is indeed extra space, and there are still three empty ships that have not docked at all. But on the return journey, the fleet has to go to Lagos, Nigeria and Dakar, Senegal, and this is the one there. The bulk of the evacuation operation requires a total of 20,000 to 30,000 people to return home!”
Ms. Ma Tong replied, "...So, we have neither the obligation nor the spare capacity to take away these foreigners on the shore. Besides, these guys who want to mess with the boat don't look like good people, and they are probably trying to do something bad." Thoughts. It’s better not to ask for trouble..."
While they were talking, several sailors saw that something was wrong, and immediately used a heavy machine gun fixed on the side of the ship to fire warning shots at the crowd on the trestle, and fired a shot into the sky with a "Boom, Boom, Boom" sound. Accompanied by loud gunshots and conspicuous sound and light impacts, the whites and blacks who were swarming over seemed to have been whipped violently. They finally regained their senses and retreated in confusion.
The sailors on the cruise ship also took the opportunity to open the hatch again, and with quick eyesight, rescued the people trapped on the shore. In such a short blink of an eye, several of them were obviously bruised and bruised, and even their clothes were dyed red.
Next, before the crazy crowd on the shore came over again, the sailors on the cruise ship took out the gangplank, locked the hatch, put away the gangway, and at the same time put away the anchor chain as quickly as possible, and were about to set sail to sea. . But those who wanted to board the ship did not give up. Suddenly, a cry of despair rang out from the crowded crowd. The next moment, a rocket launcher fired at the cruise ship from there, and the jet's tail flame burned a large group of people. people, and the rocket accurately hit the huge and heavy target, exploding a bright and dazzling spark on the side of the ship.
However, the destructive power of a mere RPG is as weak as hitting an elephant with a slingshot for an ocean liner of tens of thousands of tons. When the flames of the explosion dissipated, the angry sailors began to fight back. Gunshots rang out again on the deck, and countless blood splashed on the crowd at the dock. One after another, shot corpses fell down one after another, with blood flowing all over the ground and their skulls broken. The remaining people fled in fright.
Immediately, the escorting warship also opened fire violently on the dock, hitting oil tanks and cars on the shore. Bright flames instantly shot into the sky.
——In this way, amid the background of explosions and fires, China’s evacuation fleet slowly left the port of Lisbon.
Seeing the buildings in Lisbon and the coastline of the Iberian Peninsula gradually disappearing at the end of the field of vision, Ms. Ma Tong breathed a sigh of relief.
As a former infinite space reincarnator with rich experience, she is used to seeing the collapse of civilizations and the destruction of countries. However, seeing such a catastrophic scene in her home world with her own eyes, Ma Tong could not help but feel a little melancholy. sad.
But, no matter what, this trip to Europe finally ended in a haphazard way. The "Lucifer Plague" sweeping the world has also been contained. At the same time, many contradictions that have accumulated in human civilization for a long time have also been fully released in this catastrophe - Europe, the Middle East and Africa are expected to be wiped out between one billion and two billion people amid war and plague. , leaving enough living space for the remaining people. As for how the survivors after the catastrophe should forget their hatred, live in harmony, learn to understand each other, burn those ugly and evil things in religious culture, try to transform and evolve in pain, work together to eliminate nuclear pollution, and build their new home... …That is the task of the next generation.
Although the process and results are not beautiful, the most painful disaster has finally passed, and the next task is to use time to heal the trauma.
However, just as Ms. Ma Tong was thinking about this, she was suddenly startled by a series of sharp alarm sounds. The next moment, she was stunned to see an extraordinary white light piercing the eastern sky, and the scream of "nuclear explosion" also sounded in her ears at the same time.
——Withdrawing the preface, it seems that the horrific catastrophe that is sweeping the world now has no intention of ending soon...
After a while, feeling the sea breeze mixed with heat, looking at the mushroom cloud rising slowly on the European coastline in the distance, and the busy and shouting crew and passengers around, Ms. Ma Tong closed her eyes helplessly, and at the same time I lamented silently deep in my heart.
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