Chapter 111, Storm
Oceana was soaked to the skin.
She had been running for a long time in the wind and rain. Even though she was wearing a rain cover, her thin body seemed to be blown away by the wind at any time in the strong wind and rain.
More than once, her subordinates asked her to return to the house, but she refused.
"You have time to persuade me here, why not do more things."
That's what she said, and that's what she did.
It stands to reason that after the work arrangements for all grain distribution points have been completed and the attack on the grain transport convoy has been resolved, we only need to follow the plan and implement it step by step, and there will not be any big problems. .
At most, you need to worry about public security.
Residents of the city outside Fuxing City, in the past few days, many people have fallen into hunger due to war and turmoil.
And they are not said to be unruly people or thugs, but we cannot expect these people, who have basically had the experience of wandering in the wasteland, to be very disciplined. Many of them have blood on their hands.
It is completely normal for any security issues to arise during the long queue to receive food.
She anticipated this and made some rules. Soldiers armed with live ammunition will strictly warn the people queuing up and ask them to obey the rules. Those who do not abide by the rules will not only be suppressed by the soldiers, but will also lose the qualification to receive food.
Coupled with her tireless propaganda, the food supply is sufficient, and the probability of conflicts and security problems will be greatly reduced.
Everything in the beginning went exactly as she thought.
Until the storm hits.
This storm, when it first arrived, already made Oceana feel bad.
Queuing up in the wind and rain was a test for the people's bodies and their mentality. It was also a test for Oceana's people and the soldiers maintaining law and order.
When is it bad to have wind and rain? You must choose this time!
I have no choice but to grit my teeth and continue.
This storm messed up a lot of things, causing her people's workload to suddenly increase a lot, and many emergencies occurred. One by one, they were reported to her and she needed to pick them up one after another. Come up with ideas, or even handle them yourself.
Many things cannot be settled by sitting in an office, listening to reports, and making decisions.
She ran in the rain at many food distribution points and faced one thing after another on the front line.
Very busy, very tired, very hard, but her will is strong enough.
This is the first and most important day to build a bridge of mutual trust between the Governor and the people of Fuxing City. She must do her best in her position.
No matter how strong the storm is, it cannot hinder her determination to carry out everything smoothly.
It took two hours for the order to evacuate to be conveyed to her.
This left her feeling disillusioned.
After so much hard work, she never complained. But this news made her body shake.
She couldn't help but feel a little confused.
What is the meaning of all previous efforts, even the sacrifices of the soldiers guarding the transportation channels?
She stood there, staring blankly at the people who were also lining up in the wind and rain.
There were parents with young children, and the couple hunched their bodies to hold up a small space for the children to protect them from the wind and rain, but the little boy who looked only four or five years old was still inevitably soaked;
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There was a lame man who came alone. As he was walking forward, his foot slipped and he fell into the water that could cover his feet. He couldn't get up for a long time and could only get up again with the help of others;
Everyone in the storm looked so hard and helpless.
Do we have to give up on them when we only have two hours at most?
Oceana felt she couldn't do it.
But after a moment, she said to herself in her heart:
"You must do it."
She couldn't see the whole story, but she was not a fool. She could guess that the key reason for evacuating was the storm that was getting worse and worse. It didn't even occur to her that this storm might kill everyone.
If he had a choice, the Governor would definitely not make such a decision. He would only do this if he had no choice.
Then what she has to do is to keep as many people alive as possible. This has the same meaning as the previous food distribution, but it is more difficult.
Whether it’s something specific to do or a decision to make.
She wiped the rain off her face, but to no avail, more cold rain slapped her face.
She waved to her subordinates to come over. Faced with the sound of strong wind and heavy rain, she loudly said in his ears: "Notify all food distribution points! Ask each point to set aside a team and arrange for all those who have received the food to gather outside the city. ! ”
"Tell them that this storm is a conspiracy of the cult! Leaving the city is for their safety!"
"Use all the speakers you can!"
"Select volunteers from among those who have received food and notify everyone they know as soon as possible! Leave the city! Leave some reliable homeless people behind to help us maintain law and order!"
"You immediately mobilize a team of soldiers and set up a temporary camp outside the city, where there is no wind or rain! Drive all the cars you can and bring the food from the distribution center!"
Then, she connected to Lambert's signal and asked him to transport as much food as possible from the inner city to the temporary camp.
After doing this, she heard a rumbling sound.
At first she thought it was thunder, but then the ground shook, and it didn't feel like thunder at all.
When I came out, I saw an orange-red light from seven directions around the city, streaking across the sky and hitting the ground.
Immediately afterwards, a muffled thunder sound similar to before was heard again.
After a while, another seven orange-red rays of light fell from the sky.
Is this an orbital bombing?
What kind of problem warrants the use of orbital bombing?
Oceana shuddered.
Although it is only located on the seven edges of the city, more than ten or twenty kilometers away from the city center, with such terrifying power, if there are people or residential buildings in the surrounding area, I am afraid...
She shook her head. She shouldn't think about those things by herself.
The things in front of you are more important.
The food distribution point here is already in chaos.
The evacuation order has been issued.
Oceana clearly knew that the power she now controlled could not guarantee the evacuation order under such a storm.
She also wanted to completely organize teams of poor people, and have at least one squad of soldiers beside each evacuation team to maintain order and guide them away to the evacuation point outside the city.
But that doesn't happen at all.
Give her time and a stable environment, and she might be able to do it. But now, it is too difficult to arrange as many people as possible to leave the city in stormy conditions within two hours.
The wind was so loud, the rain was so loud, and there were thunderstorms that even if she shouted with all her strength, her voice wouldn't be able to travel very far.
Since the goal is to evacuate as many people as possible, she would rather abandon some order or be filled with a lot of chaos. She also wants to spread the news as widely and further as possible.
Let the people find their own way to get out, these locals may be able to do it faster than they can find a way to organize the manpower themselves.
Her higher-priority task is to ensure that the evacuation channels are as smooth as possible during this process, so that a large number of people are not blocked on the way out of the city, resulting in no one being able to get out in the end; she must also establish good evacuation channels outside the city. The connection point ensures the supply of materials. After a large number of people left the city, they did not die in the storm, but starved to death in the wilderness.
There are one things to do one after another, and I am afraid that I have not thought of or missed something; each one is very important, but it is very difficult under the constraints of the environment and conditions; the time is very urgent, two hours, How much can you do if you work hard?
But again, the only way is to fight hard.
(End of chapter)