Chapter 161 (Chapter 161 (Updated on the 28th...)

In Changle City, after the streets became lively, another family was awakened by a knock on the door outside.

The adults in the family put on their coats and went out to inquire.

My elder sister, who had just returned from school, was sleeping in the same room with her younger sister that night. She heard the conversation between her parents and a strange man outside. She turned over in bed, saw her little sister getting up through the moonlight, and said :

"Little sister, can you take my watch and see what time it is?"

In the whole family, only my sister who is in high school has a watch. For this family, this watch is definitely a rarity. The younger brothers and sisters all like to look at it when their sister comes home.

The little girl cherished this opportunity to look at her watch openly. She immediately picked up the watch on the table and replied crisply:

"Sister, it's ten-five now."

Who would come to their house so late?

My sister was a little worried. She got out of bed and planned to put on her coat and go out to see what was going on. But before she could go out, the door had been pushed open from the outside.

The mother hurried in. When she saw that both daughters were awake, she hurriedly said: "Get dressed quickly and pack your expensive things. Something happened outside. We have to go to a safe place quickly."

The seven-year-old girl was confused, but the older sister, who was already in high school, was frightened: "Mom, what's wrong? What's going on?"

"It seems that there is going to be an earthquake, and the country has issued some kind of disaster warning. Now the People's Liberation Army is here, and everyone in Changle City is required to evacuate to the open space."

earthquake?

The eldest daughter naturally knew how serious this was. She didn't think much about why the country could predict earthquakes in advance. Just like the Snow Penguin No. 1 before, people who don't understand this aspect would never argue "How can earthquakes be predicted?" .

If it were decades later, the Zhongzhou people who got this information would evacuate immediately.

The country sends troops to tell you that there is going to be an earthquake and people run for their lives, but you are a fool not to run away.

Even if you half-believe it, even if you feel in your heart that it cannot be true, your feet will definitely run faster than anyone else, and you will call your relatives and friends who are not around to inform you while running.

Of course, before escaping or on the way, you may also ask a few questions: "Can earthquakes be predicted so early now?" and "What technical means can be used to predict earthquakes?"

But the people in Central Continent are generally not well educated now, so naturally they won't have so many problems.

Most of the people in Zhongzhou were like this family. After receiving the order, they hurriedly packed up their precious belongings, for fear that they would be too late and follow the troops.

Local grassroots cadres are already walking around the streets with loudspeakers and reciting the following precautions:

"We have to use our feet to walk to the safe area. Don't bring large items that are out of reach. Take your own things at home. Don't think about asking comrades from the People's Liberation Army to help you! If there are things you can't take, forget it. Don't leave without reluctance. Life More important than stuff!”

"Standing together on the same street, let's inform each other's neighbors. What does it mean to be on the same street? It's from your street! Hey! Zhang Aiguo! Why are you carrying two bags of rice?!"

The young man who was stopped was carrying a bag of rice on his left and right shoulders. He smiled at her sheepishly and said, "I bought the new ones. I really couldn't bear to leave them at home. There were no other valuables at home, so I just carried them." "

The cadres and comrades were very helpless: "Isn't your daughter valuable? We have more than one million people in Changle City to be evacuated. There are so many people and it is a mess. What if the child is lost? You carry a bag of rice on one side and your hands on the other. Do you want to hold your daughter? You will cry when she is lost."

Zhang Aiguo obviously didn't expect this. After being reminded like this, he thought about it and said, "Then I'll just bring a bag of rice and free up one hand to hold my daughter."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and went home to put rice.

The cadres and comrades were even more troubled: "Hurry up, our street will leave in five minutes, and the large troops will not be waiting for anyone then."

Zhang Aiguo then changed from trotting to running very fast: "Hey, hey! Don't worry, Auntie, I'll be back soon! My daughter, please help me take a look!!"

The cadres and comrades could only hold the little girl in one hand and continue to conduct the command with a loudspeaker in the other:

"Don't bring anything you can't carry! No matter how expensive it is, don't take it! Time waits for no one! If it's too late, it will be a loss of both people and money!!"

The streets in the city are all about the same busy scene. If you look down from a high altitude, you will see people in uniforms flowing away in all directions.

With so many people to evacuate, even if the city's vehicles were sent over, there wouldn't be enough to evacuate. With only a few hours left, the government could only choose to relocate everyone in Changle City to a few areas designated by Song Yao and the others. .

If an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 or above occurs as they predict, the ground will definitely crack in some places, and the open space will not be so safe, so people can only be arranged to places where the impact is predicted to be weak.

Several troops have already gone over to clear the way and clear out those locations as quickly as possible. Fortunately, Zhongzhou is still in its early stages of development. Open areas far away from the city are still easy to find, enough to accommodate more than one million people. .

Working at the same time as them were the comrades who arranged the evacuation in the city, mainly soldiers, police, and local cadres, supplemented by volunteers, village chiefs, and clan chiefs.

In this way, notification can be achieved quickly, order can be maintained, and some people who live in remote areas will not be left behind.

Especially the elderly whose children are not at home, half-year-old children whose parents are not at home, disabled people who are disabled and unable to move around, and patients lying in the hospital.

These will need to be transported by vehicles, and those patients who need medical machinery to maintain their lives will be carefully sent to the medical tents in the shelter area.

Just like now, a team of soldiers is escorting patients in the hospital with the help of doctors and nurses, and medical tents are being built quickly and intensively in the selected temporary shelter.

Song Yao and his team are also busy in front of the control panel: "Yes, this is the location."

The young man next to him immediately wrote down the location Song Yao pointed to in a notebook.

"And here, here, have you found anything else?"

A comrade standing next to Song Yao nodded: "I found a point too."

He looked carefully, turned to look at the map of Changle City, and drew it with a red pen: "Remember this location too."

Song Yao moved his stiff neck and yawned: "Changle City should have been evacuated, right?"

Yuan Jiang replied: "In progress."

Song Yao touched the strip in his pocket and was a little worried: "Time is too tight, I don't know if it will be enough for everyone to evacuate."

Those are ordinary people, not well-trained soldiers. So many people gathered together will definitely delay time.

In addition, they have to escort them all the way to various temporary shelters, and the time of several hours is too tight.

The child couldn't help sighing: "The predicted time is still not advanced enough."

The original version can predict twenty hours in advance.

And they tried their best, but they only managed to make it four or five hours in advance.

The predicted earthquake at night has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that everyone is asleep at night, and you only need to knock on the door to notify people. The disadvantage is that there are no street lights in Changle these days, and it is pitch black everywhere, and you can only rely on the flashlights brought by the soldiers.

In such an environment, whether everyone can be successfully evacuated is unknown to everyone.

Song Yao turned around and asked: "Has the predicted epicenter come out?"

"Not yet, according to the estimate, it will take another hour."

The child nodded and continued to work on the console.

He has done everything he can, and the rest can only rely on the country.

Tang Le was anxious. His family is in Changle, and his parents, wife, children, relatives and friends are all there. Now Changle is going to have an accident. Even if he knows that the government has rushed over to arrange evacuation, the worries in his heart are not so easy to let go.

At 10:23:05 that night, the first batch of Changle residents, with a total of 56,321 people, rushed to the temporary shelter under the guidance of the army.

At 12:01:03 in the evening, the last group of Changle residents set out.

A helicopter flew over the dark sky, lighting the way for the people below. The family of five who had been awakened early and were left in the last group because they had to go with the elderly in the village were in the crowd.

The youngest sister was carried on her father's back. There were many children around her who were carried by adults. They didn't quite understand what was going on. Some cried and made a fuss on their parents, some fell asleep, and some looked around like the little sister.

People were very close to each other. Fortunately, the military comrades in military uniforms kept their hoarse voices to maintain order, so nothing happened.

Even if there were quarrels due to various squeezes, they would be quickly calmed down by the troops.

Someone held a loudspeaker and kept telling everyone: "Comrades, time is life now. Don't waste time on other things. Nothing is more important than life. What we need to do now is to work together to reach the disaster shelter. Everyone, take good care of the elderly and children around you, and move forward!!!"

The younger sister looked around and saw that although it was bright around, all the adults had serious and heavy faces, with large and small bags on their bodies. Some even carried pots on their backs. She hugged her father's neck tightly with a little fear:

"Dad, where are we going?"

It was very noisy around, and the father could only respond loudly: "We are going to a safe place, good boy! Don't sleep at home tonight!"

The eldest daughter and the second brother who was already in junior high school supported the elderly on both sides with their mother. They were more sensible than the younger sister and knew that they should follow the adults obediently now.

The second brother was not very afraid. He admired the soldiers very much. Seeing so many soldiers around him made him feel relieved and excited. From time to time, he looked up and tried to follow the helicopter flying in the sky with his eyes.

"Sister, have you ever seen an earthquake?"

"No, but I learned from books that earthquakes are terrible. I heard them say that the People's Liberation Army is going to retreat for the last time. I wonder if they have come out now."

The eldest daughter said, looking down at the time: 12:35:06.

At the same time, in the urban area of ​​Changle, a group of soldiers responsible for finishing the work walked through the streets at the fastest speed.

At 12:46:06, the soldiers who were finishing the work in the surrounding rural suburbs evacuated.

At 12:59:17, all the major teams responsible for searching for any leftover residents evacuated.

They boarded the last remaining military vehicle and headed to the temporary shelter at the fastest speed.

At 1:05:08, all the helicopters that were urgently dispatched landed smoothly.

At 1:30:29, all the soldiers arrived safely at the temporary shelter.

At 1:31, a formal report was made to the central government:

The evacuation of the entire city of Changle has been completed.