Chapter 115: Showing Strength (Part II)
"This is the latest photo?"
"An hour ago, the canyon was still stretching to both ends, reaching Shikoku Island to the west, and it is expected that in twelve hours it will reach the Bungo Suido and then pass through the southern part of Kyushu Island. According to the analysis of geologists, the canyon will turn south in Kagoshima Bay south of Kyushu Island, go south along the Okinawa Islands, pass about 300 kilometers east of Taiwan Island, and reach the north of the Philippine Islands, where it will turn again and extend to the vicinity of the island of Papua New Guinea. The east will move north along the Kuril Islands and terminate east of Kamchatka. In addition, there are geological faults at the junction of the Pacific and Indian Ocean plates, and the entire southwest Pacific and New Zealand are the hardest hit areas. ”
"New Zealand?"
"It's clear that the Pacific plate started to move northward after the impact, and New Zealand is right at the junction of the Pacific plate and the Indian Ocean plate. As long as the Pacific plate continues to move at its current pace, New Zealand will certainly become a second Japan. Fortunately, the plate itself is resilient, so New Zealand is now in a much better position than Japan, and Australia has agreed to accept New Zealand immigrants. ”
"What about Japan?"
"To date, we have not found a single survivor. To be precise, we found survivors, but we couldn't rescue them. ”
Zhang Xiaogang sighed, as if he felt a little sorry.
"Why, don't you hate the Japanese very much?"
"Smith, are people like us still qualified to hate others? Even if I hate the Japanese, it is the Japanese who do not know the height of the sky, not the Japanese civilians. Zhang Xiaogang lit a cigarette and said, "If this development continues, will all the Japanese mainland sink?" ”
"No, it won't."
"Really?"
"I asked geologists and they didn't think so." Smith also lit a cigarette, which he rarely smokes. "The Japanese archipelago was created by the Pacific plate and the Eurasian plate squeezing each other. Here, the Pacific Plate extends downwards and uplifts the Asian Plate, creating a topographic environment with a high center and low sides of the Japanese archipelago. This geological fault zone is the result of the separation of the Pacific plate from the Eurasian plate, and because of the loss of support, the part of the Japanese mainland located on the Pacific plate will sink completely, and a tall volcano like Mt. Fuji may eventually become an island. The part of the Japanese mainland located on the Eurasian plate, including the western part of Honshu Island and the northern part of Kyushu Island, will not sink immediately, and may even be raised to form new islands. ”
"Elevated?" Zhang Xiaogang knows a little about various subjects, but he is not proficient in it.
"When the Pacific plate breaks down, the mantle rises and cools to form a new crust, which in turn causes the edge of the Eurasian plate to rise."
"How long will it take for these changes to be completed?"
"Thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years. However, even if the Japanese mainland does not sink completely, the remaining parts of Japan will be subject to frequent geological disasters. ”
"In that case, we'll have to try to rescue the survivors."
"Who's going to save it?"
"This ......"
Smith said with a wry smile, "The closest to Japan are China and Russia, and Puchkin has made it clear that Russia is too busy to save Japan, and your president has not given a clear answer so far." The debris 334 explosion caused the disaster, which completely destroyed the pipeline, and the subsequent impact caused by the earthquake and tsunami not only destroyed the entire Mariana Islands, but also engulfed the Hawaiian Islands and the Aleutian Islands, and even Alaska was the hardest hit area. At present, the closest military bases to Japan are on the west coast, and the previous strong earthquake has paralyzed these military bases, and the imminent arrival of the super tsunami has forced us to carry out a full evacuation. To put it bluntly, if we were to go to Japan and carry out a rescue operation, we would have to cross the entire Pacific Ocean, and you would be close at hand. ”
"Smith, you can't say that. Our country is also the hardest hit area, and the people we need to evacuate, and the evacuation area is much larger than yours. ”
"Yes, now that everyone is taking care of themselves, who cares about the life and death of the Japanese?"
"It's just that we can always do something."
"Do what?"
"For example, warn the survivors in Japan about where to go to escape the disaster, and let them know that at least there are people who care about them."
Smith smiled, noncommittal to Zhang's words.
"If I could, I thought I should drop some flyers in Japan."
"Flyers?"
"The basic communication facilities have long been destroyed, and only satellite phones can be used, so you can't expect those survivors to have satellite phones in their hands, right?"
"This ......"
"You don't need much, maybe 100,000 is enough. Let the patrol planes conducting geological surveys drop off and spread the dropping locations as far as possible. As soon as someone picks up the flyer, the news spreads, and the survivors know where to go and how to save themselves. ”
Smith nodded thoughtfully, probably agreeing with Zhang Xiaogang's statement.
"Well, I'll arrange for the leaflets to be printed, and you let that patrol plane fly to our country, and on the way back, it will pass over the Japanese mainland and drop the leaflets."
"Do you think it would work?"
"Is it useful, I won't know until I've done it, right?"
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away. The patrol plane will arrive in about three hours, and you will have to prepare the leaflets as soon as possible. ”
"I'll make the arrangements too."
"Zhang ......" Smith stopped Zhang Xiaogang, who was about to leave, "The life and death of the Japanese have nothing to do with you, why do you want to help them?" ”
"With this catastrophe already killing hundreds of millions of people, should we remain indifferent to the survivors?"
Smith was silent.
"Either way, this disaster changed the fate of all of us and changed us." Zhang Xiaogang looked back at Smith and said, "We are commissioners, not chattering generals. Even if you have limited ability, it is better to be able to do something useful than to do nothing at all. ”
"So, you've changed?"
"Are you different?"
Walking out of Smith's office, Zhang Xiaogang breathed a sigh of relief. He had already sent a message to Smith, and he didn't know whether Smith understood it or not.
Three hours later, the patrol plane, modified from a B-777-800ER, landed at an airfield outside Beijing.
This plane, which can fly from Beijing to New York without making a stop, is one of the longest-range large passenger planes in the world.
After a two-hour stay, the patrol plane took off loaded with fuel and 100,000 leaflets that had been printed.
At this time, 130 million Japanese were not dead, and there were almost 10 million survivors. It's just that these Japanese have long been desperate, and some have even stopped fleeing and decided to stay and wait for death. Many more are moving forward blindly, aimlessly searching for shelters that don't exist.
Mountains are collapsing, plains are rising, rivers are dying, valleys are flattening, lakes are hills, where is the refuge?
No one knew what to do, and no one told the survivors that the desire to survive drove them to higher places.
Before entering Japanese airspace, the patrol planes lowered their flight altitude to 1,000 meters, and then threw a box containing 5,000 leaflets every 50 kilometers.
To the desperate survivors, the patrol plane was undoubtedly an angel sent by the gods.
The content of the leaflet is simple, the main purpose is to ask the survivors to go to the eastern part of Honshu Island or the northern part of Kyushu Island, and to gather together as much as possible and stay on higher ground. Two days later, they traveled to the coastal areas of both places, waiting for possible rescue. Although there is no mention of when the rescue will arrive or how it will be done, the leaflets were a lifesaver for the desperate Japanese survivors.
When the survivors who got the leaflets went in one direction, it quickly attracted the survivors who didn't get the flyers, forming a rolling flow of people.
While waiting for rescue, the Japanese must save themselves.
The dropping of leaflets in Japan provided a new topic of discussion for the meeting of the Chiefs of General Staff.
After the break, Stark took the lead in proposing that the members of the Planetary Defense Council have an obligation to provide assistance to countries that have lost their ability to save themselves in a disaster. To this end, Stark also highlighted that Australia has agreed to accept New Zealand migrants.
The other nine chiefs of the General Staff did not object to Stark's proposal.
Next, the focus will be on Japan.
Although some countries have been more severely affected than Japan, such as island nations in the Pacific Ocean, and some have been completely engulfed by a super tsunami, Japan has made significant contributions to the Planetary Defense Council as a former member of the Planetary Defense Council and is now an observer.
In order to emphasize the severity of the disaster in Japan, Stark invited Tomosuke Yamashita out.
This guy, who had been staying with Diego Garcia, had been stripped of his qualifications as a commissioner and was held in a camp by the U.S. military with the Japanese guards.
At the meeting of the chiefs of general staff, Tomosuke Yamashita almost burst into tears, asking the ten member states of the Planetary Defense Council to rescue the survivors of Japan. To this end, he even proposed that after the disaster, Japan would renounce all national sovereignty and become a member of the international community without national identity.
It's a pity that Tomosuke Yamashita's tears failed to move the ten chiefs of the General Staff.
Not to mention anything else, Stark very euphemistically mentioned that the United States is too far away from Japan, and all the American military bases in the Pacific Ocean were destroyed by the super tsunami, and the ships in the Pacific Ocean were either sunk or stranded, so even if the United States wants to save the Japanese survivors, it is powerless.
Sergeyev did even more desperately, and he didn't bother with Yamashita at all.
As for the other member states, Canada is in a similar situation to the United States, Australia is bailing out New Zealand, and several European countries are too far away from Israel.
At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Yang Fanglie.
Yamashita Tomosuke also pinned his hopes on Yang Fanglie.
Zhang Xiaogang had already seen that as long as Yang Fanglie was willing to agree to help the Japanese survivors, Yamashita Tomosuke would not hesitate to turn into a cow and a horse to serve Yang Fanglie.
Will Yang Fanglie agree?