Chapter 377: A two-pronged approach
After gaining the trust and support of the residents of Nurakita, Long Hao asked Tomani and them to recruit some people from the residents of Nui Atoll, citing the need for manpower to speed up the reclamation project.
However, the number must be limited to fifty, and these people must agree with the current management method on Nurakita Island, and do exactly what Long Hao has arranged.
No matter what method these islanders use, as long as anyone can bring in a qualified islander, he will increase his material sales quota by one percent.
This snowball will be slow at first, but it will develop faster later on.
In order to obtain real-world resources more conveniently and speed up the development process of the otherworldly China, Wei Minsheng had to take the initiative to make some changes.
While Long Hao's integration plan was underway, Wei Minsheng would walk around Tuvalu's other eight coral reef-forming islands every night.
Of course, he didn't go to see the scenery, but used his spatial transfer ability to transfer the cold sea water below 500 meters below the sea surface to the islands, and constantly washed the coral reefs near the islands under the action of the waves.
Less than 10 degrees of water has almost devastated these reefs, with massive numbers of coral polyps dying in patches.
Coral reefs that have lost their vitality are constantly collapsing under the impact of waves and strong temperature changes.
Within a few days, all eight islands and reefs in Tuvalu were experiencing anomalies, with the exception of Nurakita Island.
Tuvalu's nine islands, including six larger islands where the capital is located, are actually atolls.
To put it bluntly, Tuvalu is a country built on coral reefs, and coral reefs are the foundation of the country's land.
But now, the icy waters that Wei Minsheng transferred from the deep sea have directly cut off the vitality of these coral reefs.
Where can a coral reef that has lost its vitality still support the little land above?
All of a sudden, roads were torn apart, coconut trees were lodging in large areas, even wooden houses were severely deformed, and more and more places were flooded by the sea.
The occurrence of these anomalies caused extreme panic among the Tuvaluans.
Although everyone already knew that Tuvalu's land would be flooded by the sea in a short time, we didn't expect it to come so quickly.
Tuvalu's Prime Minister Enerl made an emergency flight to New Zealand to demand that New Zealand provide at least 5,000 environmental migrants.
And this amount already accounts for half of New Zealand's annual immigration plan.
New Zealand has said that a short-term influx of Tuvaluans is likely to create instability in the settlements hosting these "environmental refugees".
Moreover, the consequences of climate change cannot be addressed by New Zealand alone, at least Australia should also lend a helping hand and share Tuvalu's migration needs.
But Australia's proposal has not been met with a response from Australia.
Because if Australia accepts these "environmental refugees" from Tuvalu, it will be an acknowledgment of the fact that the planet is warming.
And once Australia acknowledges this fact, Tuvalu will certainly make a huge claim against Australia, in line with its previous instincts.
It is more likely that Australia would be required to compensate a certain area of land as a new state for Tuvalu.
So, despite the serious crisis in Tuvalu, there has been no official commitment from Australia.
Tuvalu's experience has also made nearby island countries such as Fiji and the Solomon Islands feel like they are worried all day.
While the panic and chaos of the Tuvaluans were about to spiral out of control, the inhabitants of several small islands near the island's smallest island, Nyurakita, were surprised to find that Nyurakita Island did not seem to be affected in any way, and that the outcrops were even much larger than before.
On the one hand, this result was caused by Wei Minsheng's island reclamation project, and on the other hand, it was caused by the ring of boulders under the sea surface a few hundred meters from the island.
Although the annular dikes also set aside the previous channel, in order to prevent the waves from pouring directly into the protective dikes from the entrance of the channel, Wei Minsheng piled up a section of the dikes with boulders in a place that was not a channel nearly 100 meters away from the entrance of the channel.
In this way, the waves in front of the entrance to the channel are diverted by the culvert at a distance of 100 meters, and the waves on the side are dissipated by the turbulence disturbed by the circular culvert.
On the surface, the sea is still rough, but beneath the surface of the sea is calm, and the undercurrent has almost completely lost its destructive power to Nuraquita.
And the aftermath of the sea, when it advanced to the shore, was already at the end of the crossbow, and it couldn't make much waves.
Therefore, even if Wei Minsheng stirred up a large amount of low-temperature seawater near other islands, it did not have any impact on Nuraquita Island.
The anomaly at Nurakita immediately attracted the attention of Tuvalu's top brass, because with the current situation in the other islands of Tuvalu, it would not surprising that it would only take a year or two for those islands to be completely destroyed by the waves.
By that time, the island of Nurakita would be Tuvalu's last possession.
So, with the heads of several major departments in Tuvalu, Enell took a boat as fast as possible to this small island that they had never paid attention to before.
Before their ship docked, they discovered the reservoir and desalination device on the water platform built by Long Hao.
Because Nurakita Island is so small, and these two obviously newly built things are so conspicuous on the edge of the island that they can't be ignored.
The arrival of Enel and the others made the residents of Nurakita feel a little panicked.
They also didn't expect that this place, which had always been ignored by everyone before, intentionally or unintentionally, would suddenly become the focus of the whole country.
Due to the small number of inhabitants on the island in the past, the residents of Nurakita have not even won a seat in the history of Tuvalu.
But now, Tuvalu's eight ruling parliamentarians have come to this humble island at the same time.
In any case, Long Hao, Wei Minsheng and others are not allowed to use the identities of island residents to impersonate.
I used to think that over time, the inhabitants of Tuvalu slowly migrated out, and no one noticed what was happening here.
But in this situation, Long Hao is a little better, after a long period of ultraviolet exposure, his skin tone is relatively close.
And Wei Minsheng and Wu Guangliang, at a glance, can definitely not be from Tuvalu, and the two of them seem to have come directly from the sea and have not yet applied for visas.