Chapter 496: Lost Contact

Dubai.

Since the 70s of the last century, Dubai has implemented a free and stable economic policy by virtue of its "petrodollar" and superior geographical location, vigorously developed non-oil industries such as entrepot trade and tourism, and also focused on the development of modern high-tech industries, and built a series of modern supporting infrastructure.

Covering everything from media to sports, finance and biotechnology, their free zones have earned a good reputation among countries and the international business community, encouraging domestic and foreign capital to invest in various sectors of the economy, including commerce, industry and services.

Over the past 40 years, the city has gradually developed from a small fishing village to a financial center in the Middle East, and then to a global international financial center, becoming a bridge between the capital markets of the East and the West.

Today, Dubai has become one of the region's foremost trade, transport, tourism and shopping malls. The status of an important trading port and financial center has brought great wealth to Dubai. Not only is it the richest city in the Middle East, but it is also among the richest cities in the world.

As a result, Dubai has become almost synonymous with luxury.

It has the world's first seven-star hotel (Burj Al Arab), the world's tallest skyscraper (Burj Khalifa), the world's largest shopping mall, the world's largest indoor ski resort......

Even with the outbreak of war, the city of luxury has thrived, with the Seven Star Burj Al Arab and Dubai Airport Duty Free Zone attracting visitors from all over the world.

In the eyes of most people, the great war that took place in Somalia seems to be the event of another world, and there is no doubt that the huge power of the Arab League coalition will crush Somalia.

Of course, the war was not without its effects on Dubai.

Because of the war, the Suez Canal was blocked, leaving a third less merchant ships berthing at the port of Dubai than usual.

In case the pirates jumped over the wall. During this time, whether it is Dubai airport, port or railway station, the security check is more than twice as strict as usual, and even the police on the street are much more numerous.

But. No one could have imagined that the expected terrorist attack would come back in this way.

17:45:53 local time in Dubai.

A dazzling flash of lightning suddenly erupted over Dubai.

In an instant, the entire city of Dubai seemed to be enchanted, and it was instantly chaotic.

Power, mobile communications, Wi-Fi and TV signals were all cut off.

Public places such as office buildings, hotels, shopping malls, hospitals, and playgrounds were suddenly thrown into chaos.

Vehicles on the street were also in a mess due to the interruption of traffic lights.

And within 1.5 kilometers of the explosion center, mobile phones, computers, tablets, household appliances, car navigation systems, ...... Almost all electronics-related products were destroyed in an instant.

Within 10 kilometers, communications were jammed.

Railway station.

A train that was entering the station collided directly with another train because of a signal failure.

Aerodrome.

An A330 airliner on land. Due to the failure of the speedometer, he rushed straight out of the runway.

All the passenger planes in the sky that were preparing to land, their communications were severely interfered with, and they had to postpone their landing.

Fortunately, Chen Xin's target was not civilians, otherwise placing the center of the explosion directly at Dubai International Airport would have directly caused the largest aerial tragedy in history.

For a time, this city, known as the capital of luxury and the country of local tyrants, fell into complete paralysis.

Meanwhile. Other important cities of the League of Arab States, such as Riyadh, Doha, Manama, Djibouti, Mombasa, Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa and Salera, have suffered similar blows. Heavy losses.

In addition, two passenger planes were accidentally wrecked by an electromagnetic storm, resulting in more than 500 casualties.

Fighter planes, tanks, missiles, artillery, radars, and electronic equipment in communications facilities were basically destroyed at the first time, and hundreds of thousands of Arab coalition troops, armed to the teeth, became toothless tigers in the blink of an eye.

This time. The only weapon that soldiers can trust is the guns in their hands.

What is even more terrifying is that the electromagnetic storm formed by 90 electromagnetic pulse bombs swept over North Africa and Middle Eastern countries, directly causing the interruption of communications in this region for more than six hours, whether it is the network or satellite. Or the radio, it's all become an ornament.

And so a strange scene happened.

Many people around the world who are following the war suddenly find that more than 90 percent of the Arabic-language websites cannot be opened, and all the channels of the Arabian Al Jazeera Television Station, which is known as the CNN of the Gulf, have suddenly lost their signals, and all the correspondents sent to the Middle East have lost contact.

One of the most influential was a CNN reporter named Wells, who was doing a video link between Riyadh and the mainland of the United States to analyze the situation on the ground about the war, but the video signal was suddenly cut off.

At first, CNN staff thought it was a satellite signal failure, and they didn't care.

But then, when they tried to contact Wells again, they found that they could no longer be contacted, neither on mobile phones nor on MSN, there was no response.

Soon after, they found that not only Wales, but all of CNN's reporters in the Middle East could not be reached.

Now, the fool knows that something big is wrong.

The Associated Press immediately published a related news on its official website, headlined: The Disappearing Middle East.

The article not only reviewed the loss of CNN's connection, but also said that most of the Middle East has been cut off, and no one knows what is happening in the region, whether it is satellite, network or radio.

After the Associated Press was the first to break the news, other media outlets followed suit.

For a time, all kinds of news that was difficult to distinguish between true and false were flying all over the sky.

Subsequently, the Reuters report pushed the incident to a climax.

A Reuters reporter accidentally interviewed an Air France executive who said that the Air France passenger plane that was flying in the Middle East was missing.

Subsequently, senior executives of Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, Singapore Airlines and even Malaysia Airlines said that their company's passenger planes flying over the Middle East had lost contact.

Now, things are in a big deal.

What is really going on in the Middle East, and how can such a bizarre event occur?

The relevant news suddenly became the focus of attention of the media and the public around the world, and all kinds of speculations came out.

Surprisingly, at this time, governments have fallen into a strange silence.

A reporter called and contacted some government leaders who knew him well, but the news he received was that he had no comment. (To be continued......)