Chapter 154: Loss
"Oh my God, how many people have died in this city...... " Spred said in a trembling voice. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
"Thankfully." Atlas's answer relieved everyone's hearts, "It's daytime local time, and almost everyone is working outside the town. Only those in the slums who did not need to work died in this disaster. ”
"But." As soon as he finished speaking, Atlas's tone became heavy, "Brother Captain, all you see is the situation of a small town. Before he could finish speaking, the entire screen went dark, and at the same time, the screen was covered with a large number of flashing red dots. At the first glance of this scene, Zhou Xin and the others recognized that it was another town.
With the help of the faint light, everyone could faintly see that almost in the center of the town was a crater almost identical to the one they had just seen. The crater in front of me looked slightly smaller than the previous one, but the damage to the entire town looked similar. The flickering red dots that I had seen at first glance were coming in and out of the edge of the fall pit, as if they were busy with something.
"The town's luck is pretty bad." The little girl kept a heavy tone and said, "A piece of wreckage more than forty meters in length just hit the center of this town at night, and the powerful impact destroyed nearly two-thirds of the area of this town, although other places quickly sent rescue teams to this town, but most of the people here are afraid-" Saying that, the camera of the detector got a little closer, and at this time Zhou Xin and they finally saw clearly what those red dots were, which were flashing red lights on the roofs of the cars, With a Kazran-style rescue vehicle. Atlas continued, "According to the results of the human listening, there are no signs of living people in the entire range of the crater, and the shock wave generated by the impact has affected at least a range of nearly five thousand meters around the impact site, and there are not many signs of life in this range. The entire rescue team has now almost abandoned the rescue close to the fall crater, focusing on buildings with less serious damage on the periphery.
Listening to Atlas's description of the disaster, everyone's hearts became heavy, and they silently watched the tragic picture on the screen and remained silent for a long time.
Eventually, the entire crater freezes for a few seconds before switching to another detector and another town appears on the screen. Although it was also night, the town's luck was slightly better, and the wreckage did not fall in the center of the town, but on the edge of the town, although this inevitably caused damage to the town, but the damage was far less severe than the previous one.
Then, the screens continued to switch, and probes located in various parts of the northern continent sent back images they had captured locally. The towns located in the daytime area are relatively good, only losing a lot of building facilities, while those located in the dark area are not as lucky as the former, and without exception they have seen a large number of rescue teams. The craters were of different sizes, ranging from small ones of less than 100 meters to large ones of nearly a kilometer, but the damage caused to the buildings by the wreckage was the same. After looking at it for so long, Zhou Xin and the others still haven't found any buildings that can survive the fall pit.
Of course, it was not only the small towns that appeared in the footage of the probe, but also the few large cities in the Republic of Kazran that could not survive this disaster. In the next city, Zhou Xin and the others even saw the existence of two fall pits. The two fall pits are all completely contained within the scope of the city, located at the two ends of the city, from a high altitude it seems that the whole city has eyes, thinking about the harm caused by these two "eyes", Zhou Xin's heart couldn't help but feel a chill.
Not only the medium-sized wreckage that is tens of meters long, but also those small fragments that are only a dozen meters or even a few meters long have also caused damage that cannot be underestimated. Next, a town in the middle of the night without the Fall Pit appears on the screen. However, the familiar red light that I had seen before was still scattered around the town.
As the picture slowly progressed, Zhou Xin and the others finally saw the situation in this town. That's right, the whole town wasn't hit by the medium-sized wreckage, but it was hit by countless small wrecks and debris. On the ground or in buildings, you can see potholes with a diameter of tens of centimeters to more than ten meters. Where the probe's field of view was scanned, a large number of buildings, although not collapsing, were damaged to varying degrees of severity. The only minor damage was the missing corner of the roof, but the most serious damage was the loss of the entire upper part, and the collapsed upper part caused more serious secondary damage to the surrounding buildings, and the broken building materials were everywhere on the otherwise clean and tidy floor.
Then, similar images appeared more and more on the screen. According to Atlas, from communications from within Kazran, almost all towns and cities in the Republic of Kazran have been attacked by small fragments. Some towns were almost washed by the rain of debris, as they had just seen, while others were only hit by single-digit attacks. Then, Zhou Xin and the others saw some buildings of different shapes after the impact of the wreckage on the screen.
In the middle of one of the buildings, it was hit by a piece of debris that could be more than ten meters long, and the huge force of the impact caused the wreckage to penetrate the building, creating a hole tens of meters wide at its waist. But the building didn't collapse and still stands there. When he saw the building, Zhou Xin didn't know whether to be amazed by its bad luck or its sturdiness.
There is also a row of buildings, which are arranged in order from highest to lowest in front of the detector's lens. It's not that they were built like this, this row of buildings was cut into this way from a piece of slab-like wreckage that fell from a great height. According to the footage playback, the wreckage was spinning at high speed and flying diagonally downward at an angle of about 30 degrees horizontally. The first building it hit did not change the trajectory of the wreckage, so the row of buildings in front of the camera was "cut" by the plate-like wreckage. After cutting more than a dozen buildings, the plate-like wreckage remained unwielded, and it remained angled deep into the ground not far away. All they could see now was the neat row of buildings and a corner of the plate-like wreckage more than a hundred meters away from the shortest building.
Of course, these are just two of the most exaggerated examples. There were also small wrecks that landed vertically on top of the building, smashing through dozens of floors before stopping. Other wreckage shattered the entire base of the building, but left the upper part of it intact, just a hundred meters shorter than the original building. All of this, to the surprise of all, is also sad for what has happened to the Kazrans.
While looking at the ever-changing images on the screen, Zhou Xin sighed with emotion: "In this way, for the sake of efficiency, it is not a good thing to build buildings too densely, and it is too easy to cause a chain reaction after being attacked." ”
"That's not what I said." Spred looked at the screen and said thoughtfully, "It is impossible for the battle-hardened Kazlan people not to take into account the situation of those buildings under air raids, and it can be seen from the solidity of those buildings that remain that they have been prepared for this for a long time, and I am afraid that ordinary bombardment will not have such serious consequences." It's just that I didn't expect that this 'bombing' actually came from space, and the power is far from being comparable to ordinary bombing. ”
"There was some surprise, indeed." Dart continued, "I never thought that the Ewen would use such an attack before. It's very - effective, destructive - and surprising, but it's still psychologically unacceptable. His tone was a little contradictory.
"After all, it is really unthinkable for those of us to launch an attack on this scale indiscriminately." Zhou Xin sighed.
"That's what we didn't know what the Ewen were really for." Dart also sighed, "The Eun don't care about the lives of the Kazlan people at all, their goal is really only the resources of the northern continent. If they had invented a weapon capable of exterminating the Kazlans, they would have not hesitated to use them against the Kazrans. ”
"Let's hope the Ewen don't develop this weapon." Zhou Xin said with a glimmer of hope, and then he remembered, "No, although the Eun people don't have it for the time being, but the Kazlan people have similar weapons in their hands, if they fire those neutron material bombs at the southern continent-" At the end, his voice trembled.
"Presumably—not yet." Dart's tone was a little hesitant, "Judging from the war situation so far, the current Kazlan people are not capable of waging a war of aggression against the Eun. And with their cautious nature, in order to prevent the other side from launching a similar surprise attack again, they should have left some neutron matter for defense. ”
"Rabbits will bite people when they are in a hurry, let alone the country has suffered such a serious attack." Zhou Xin's voice still couldn't help but tremble. Hearing the conversation between the three of them, the others in the command cabin began to discuss in low voices.
"Brother Captain, the losses suffered by the Republic of Kazran in the attack have been roughly counted." At this time, Atlas's voice rang out.
Hearing this voice, the entire command cabin immediately fell silent, and everyone's attention was focused on the little girl on the screen. After a few seconds, only two words came out of Zhou Xin's mouth, "Say it." ”
"In this attack on the space complex, almost all parts of the entire northern continent have been attacked with varying degrees of severity." As he spoke, a map of the northern continent appeared on the screen. In the image, Atlas marked the entire continent with different colors. In the very center of the continent, an area is a shocking blood-red color, and the color becomes lighter the further you go, and there is almost no trace of red at the edge of the continent. Then she continued: "According to statistics, the focus of space building attacks is the central area of the northern continent. More than a third of the total wreckage was attacked in this area, and at least half of the medium-sized wreckage fell within this area. The farther you go, the fewer attacks you will be, the less harmful it will be, and by the edge of the continent there will be only a few debris left that are not dangerous. ”
"I'm afraid the Eun's initial target was the capital of Kazran, but they were unlucky that not a single piece of wreckage hit the central city." Looking at the map on the screen, Dart speculated, "The debris scattered around the periphery is probably scattered by the stealth fleet during the bombing of the high-altitude orbit or was later re-orbited." ”
"That's what Big Brother Dart guessed." Atlas first affirmed Dart's idea, and then went on to report on the losses suffered by the Kazrans, "More than a quarter of the nearly three billion people of the Kazran Republic were affected by this attack. Some 500 million of the Kazlans lost their homes in the attack, and the other 200 million had their homes, if not completely destroyed, but they were no longer uninhabitable and in urgent need of repair. There are still about 200 million Kazrans—" the little girl said with a heavy tone, after a slight pause, "and about 200 million Kazrans have lost their lives altogether. ”
Although it was said that after seeing such a large-scale attack, Zhou Xin and their hearts had long been mentally prepared that the Republic of Kazran would suffer serious losses. But they didn't expect that the conclusions reported by the little girl were several times more serious than the worst estimate in their hearts, and many people couldn't help but have ugly expressions on their faces, and they didn't even hear Atlas's next report clearly.
After a while, Zhou Xin finally came back to his senses, and the little girl just happened to report the final conclusion, "To sum up, in addition to the loss of population. During the attack, production facilities in the Republic of Kazran were also damaged to varying degrees. According to official estimates, the country's productivity has been reduced by at least five per cent. This is only a direct loss, not including the productivity that will be invested in the reconstruction work that will follow. She added, "Moreover, this is only a preliminary statistic, and many of the severely damaged towns are still focused on rescue, and the reported damage is only an estimate of the extent of the damage to the wreckage, and the actual damage is probably much more serious than the report suggests." ”
After listening to Atlas's report, the entire command module fell silent......