Chapter 5: Hope in the South (4)
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European immigrants who arrived in the New World did not initially live the good new life they had imagined. Just like the wilderness of the primitive world, the land is filled with too much suffering that cannot be looked back. Hunger, sickness, wild beasts, they are always waiting for the next sunrise in fear.
By contrast, the gentle Native Americans were the easiest of all the strange problems they encountered. From the perspective of social psychology, when the human group is at a disadvantage in the natural environment, the human group will be guided by the subconscious to cover up their inner fears by relying on various interpersonal psychological advantages of bullying, which can be internal or external.
As a result, these Europeans, far from home, vented their loneliness, dissatisfaction, suffering, and fear on the Indians and even on themselves, doing what they could to fill the material and spiritual poverty and devastation they needed.
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The third day after the Great Tribulation.
After two squads of armed police on guard and search for two days, the survivors' temporary camp did not appear to be attacked by the imaginary wolf pack.
The survivors, who were kept in the dark, did not wait for the outside help they had hoped for.
On the same day, the self-help leading group was reorganized, the name was changed to the self-help committee, and the members were appropriately expanded. Including Dong Jiunan, a great man in Liaodong, was selected, as for the reason for the selection, Zheng Quan replied on the grounds that the other party was a veteran and had a certain appeal among dock workers.
Quarrels, verbal abuse, and even brawls continue to occur unstoppably. Often, because of a small problem, two young people who look extremely weak will be hysterically pulling each other, and the cause is probably just because one of them sits on the other's plastic sheeting.
The women were deliberately isolated by the police on the other side of the river beach to prevent possible misdeeds.
Every night, there is always a corner where hoarse abuse or crying can be heard, making people even more emaciated and sleepless.
Thanks to another new member of the self-help committee, a middle-aged man who has allegedly been engaged in social psychology research for a long time. In his theory, a person in danger will quickly recover from his panic if he or she receives a large number of safety cues.
From the uniforms of dozens of strict guards, to the mountains of materials that were sorted out in the first batch, to the overnight armed guards, and the food that can be picked up at any time on demand, all play a role in safety cues.
Regardless, from the third day onwards, there were some more optimistic changes in the survivors' mental outlook.
The dead have been properly buried in a distant place, and the wounded have been well treated. This was thanks to the efforts of the medical team organized by the self-rescue committee, and the overturned 120 ambulances contained a large number of medical and surgical emergency medicines, and the medical staff were basically free of casualties in the catastrophe.
After a simple classification and statistics two days ago, except for the five bulk carriers who were temporarily isolated by the customs anti-smuggling team, the materials in the wharf warehouse at the disaster site have a rough result.
Household products include nearly 40,000 sets of ready-to-wear products, nearly 10,000 sets of bedding textiles, more than 30,000 pairs of shoes and hundreds of imported assembled furniture.
Kitchenware includes more than 3,000 sets of stainless steel kitchenware produced by a coastal township enterprise, and more than 2,000 sets of high-grade glass wine utensils imported from Italy.
Machinery supplies are imported garbage piled up in a collapsed warehouse -- probably dozens of rusty second-hand machine tools.
Thousands of car tires, hundreds of tons of diesel and other industrial fuels, and hundreds of imported mountain bikes in parts are buried in the rubble of several warehouses.
Food, on the other hand, is a large number of packaged foods produced by coastal township enterprises that are exported to other provinces or Southeast Asia. The only mainstream is about 30 tons of imported Thai fragrant rice and some crop seeds in a warehouse rented by an agricultural company.
In addition, there are a large number of industrial products such as coils and cables, and dozens of damaged dock locomotives.
It is estimated that it will take some time for more detailed material statistics to be sorted out, but it is to be expected that this work will continue for at least several months, given the existing manpower and the ruinous site.
Now, many young people come together to mutter, and smart people have come up with countless versions of the possibilities through the climatic and geographical features of guò. Some people have a mysterious expectation of the truth, but many others have a faint and spreading panic formed in the midst of trepidation.
From yesterday to today, the customs anti-smuggling ship with the number 516 has been roaming north and south in the river several times, but the results of the investigation have not been made public. In the process of exploration, Su Zining participated in the whole process as the first person to reach the southern estuary.
Yan Xiaosong and Dong Jiunan, a great man in Liaodong, are responsible for the statistical sorting of materials as members of the new self-help committee. Although the two of them made it clear that this kind of work was not their specialty, Qi Jianjun, as the deputy commander-in-chief of the self-help committee, gave the two of them unexpected trust.
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At the mouth of the Hudson River in the south, smuggling boats bypassed the southernmost tip of Manhattan Island and sailed toward the East River to the northeast.
About two kilometers later, several people, including Su Zining, landed on a riverbank on the southeast side of Manhattan Island.
In front of you is a vast flat plain surrounded by forests, with a very rudimentary wooden pier, and an even more rudimentary wooden shed area near the pier. But judging from the scene, it has also been uninhabited for several years.
"This is the Manhattan Chinatown of New York in the future...... Now it was just a temporary wharf built by European fur traders, who usually came here on a multi-year cycle to trade with the Indians, and this trade began around the 10s of the 17th century. At present, it has not been visited by European fur traders for several years, and it is in a state of abandonment. ”
Su Zining muttered in Zheng Quan's ear about the historical knowledge that he had memorized in boredom, and Zheng Quanzhi frowned when he heard it.
"Xiao Su, when was New York founded?" Zheng Quan looked across the East River, where the denser forests caught his eye.
"To be precise, in 1624, the Dutch merchant Peter Minuit bought the island of Manhattan from the Indians with a pile of rags worth less than $24, and named it New Amsterdam, but ...... It was taken away by the English in a few years. ”
Su Zining dug out this history from memory, but he always felt that something was wrong.
"In your estimation, how many years is now?" Zheng Quan had no doubts about Su Zining's historical knowledge.
"It should now be between 1618 and 1625, of course, it is not ruled out that it may have been earlier, but at least after 1614. Inferred from the epitaph of the hapless Dutchman and the condition here. ”
"There should be a few more years......" Hearing this conclusion, Zheng Quan's tense face eased slightly.
Oh? Does this uncle have an idea? Su Zining looked at the captain in front of him with a strange expression, and his eyes were obviously shining brightly.
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On the fifth day after the great tribulation, it was sunny.
In many people's watches, it's Friday, September 21, 2012.
After a day of intermittent and simple repairs, the fishing boat, which had run aground with the Customs Anti-Smuggling Vessel No. 516, was finally able to come in handy. The honest owner of the fishing boat almost kissed the mechanic of the customs anti-smuggling boat who was in charge of repairing it in his excitement.
Today, the last seriously wounded person is out of danger. Also on this day, the Self-Help Committee released an answer that everyone had been speculating about for a long time.
Through?! Seems to be a bit interesting......
Many people have finally waited for this truth that they have been speculating about for a long time. As Su Zining thought, this group of survivors who shouted to death and shouted for the truth a few days ago sat aside like puppets with broken strings after "holding back" for a few days.
The riverbank camp is lined with exaggerated stockpiles of former dock stockpiles, which are less than a tenth of the total, enough for the survivors to last a year.
Of course, no one cared about the food problem, and under the deliberate arrangement of the social psychologist, in order to alleviate the post-disaster worries and create a sense of security, the self-help committee led by Zheng Quan was almost open to supply. But in reality, the food reserves in the hands of the self-help committee will bottom out in three months at most.
Zheng Quan stood on a large container and said something with a loudspeaker, Su Zining didn't listen, just held a small manuscript and wrote quickly.
"Why didn't you attend last night's committee meeting? We're going to move south, to that deserted dock area, to set up a settlement. Yan Xiaosong, who was on the side, touched Su Zining's arm, turned his head and muttered.
"With Qi Jianjun here, I don't have the right to speak, or I don't say anything." Su Zining didn't look up, and continued to write on the manuscript.
"He seems to value you very much." Yan Xiaosong smiled noncommittally, raised his hand, and helped Su Zining raise his arm by the way, because Zheng Quan on the stage was symbolically voting by a show of hands. This action interrupted Su Zining's writing again.
"He needs a helping hand to help him get more say in the self-help committee." Su Zining lowered his arm, pointed at himself with a pencil, and then at the other party, "You, Dong Jiunan, and even that post-90s Zhou Kemin may be the potential object of his fancy." ”
"Me?" Yan Xiaosong was a little puzzled.
"You'll understand later, or you can ask that social psychologist." Su Zining smiled mysteriously and put away the manuscript.
"What did you write in a hurry?" Yan Xiaosong pointed to the other party's pocket.
"Write down every imaginable European colonization of North America in the past or in the coming decades, lest it be forgotten. Now these things are more important than an 81 bar. Su Zining tidied up his clothes and seemed to be a lot more relaxed.
"What's the conclusion?" Yan Xiaosong saw Su Zining's expression and knew that the situation was quite optimistic.
"Maybe in a little while, another group of unlucky ghosts from Europe will land on the coast thousands of kilometers away from us." A wave of voices rang out all around, and the mobilized crowd had their own joys and sorrows under the speeches of the officials of the self-help committee. Su Zining smiled and pointed to the northeast direction, "Mayflower, a group of unlucky children who have created history. ”
History of Creation Zào...... Maybe we're one of them...... Yan Xiaosong thought.
After another day of rest, the survivors began to move along the banks of the Hudson River in groups.
The tires taken out of the dock warehouse were simply made into a number of flatbed trolleys, carrying a large number of sorted out daily necessities, and the truckloads were pushed south with difficulty. The larger quantities were transported by the barely repaired fishing boat.
At the destination, near the abandoned dock of European furriers, a few young men claiming to be civil engineering majors and dozens of former dock workers are already surveying and gesturing.
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