Chapter 106: The Second Tsunami (Part II)
The first tsunami, which occurred about four or five days ago, with a maximum wave height of 20 meters, hit more than 800 regions around the world. At that time, when information could still be communicated normally, the news media called this first tsunami the greatest disaster in the history of human civilization.
According to the estimates made by these news media at the time, the number of homeless people affected by the disaster was conservatively estimated at 300 million worldwide! The global economy will be set back by 3-5 years as a result of the first tsunami, and it will not recover even in another 20 years.
At that time, the reaction of the media was fierce, and the reaction of the masses was also extremely fierce.
And now, four or five days later.
The second wave of the tsunami struck again.
The media seemed to have lost their voices collectively, silently watching this news that was ten times more important than the last time, but no one reported it.
It is not information control.
By the time the tsunami was expected to move from three months to one week, all information control was neutralized, and no one cared about it anymore.
The real reason for the lack of media coverage is that the media is a "big people watch a few people lively" entertainment: tens of millions of girls chase idol groups, hundreds of millions of people buy Jackson's records, and a billion people watch CCTV news broadcasts...... The media is a platform and a method for the minority to give voice to the majority.
The more significant the news is generated, the more eyeballs and attention it will attract.
The first tsunami, the most impactful tsunami in history, qualifies.
And the second tsunami, the wave height was five times higher than the first tsunami! The highest wave height is more than 100 meters! Invade almost all coastlines in the world, repeatedly scouring all coastal areas less than 100 meters above sea level! The impact was much greater than the first tsunami.
It would have attracted more eyeballs.
However, the second tsunami, while important enough, violates a fundamental principle – it is a fun event for the majority to watch the few.
However, the second wave of the tsunami changed the main body of "liveliness" from a few people to a majority.
Ninety percent of the world's economy is concentrated in the 100-kilometre coastal area.
About 70% of the world's population is concentrated below 100 meters above sea level.
The coastal area is the most developed area of human civilization.
But now this majority ...... They are all affected by the disaster.
Within a few hours, trillions of economic wealth evaporated, no, it can no longer be said that it has evaporated. It should be said that at this moment, all the money has turned into waste paper, all the monetary systems have collapsed, and from this moment on, the word "economy" has completely become history.
Because the basis of money is the credibility of the state. And when more than 90% of the country's resources, wealth, materials and energy are gone, the state as an interconnected entity can also be said to exist in name only.
The chaebols that have become legends for hundreds of years have really become historical legends.
Including those famous cities that we are familiar with.
Venice, the city of water, became an underwater city.
Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, claimed to be the world's only historically first seaport with a negative altitude and only a barrage dam, finally failed to withstand the second wave of the tsunami and was ruthlessly destroyed.
Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is familiar with the annual flooding of the Nile. It is the flooding of the Nile over thousands of years that has led to the great prosperity and cultural heritage of the region in the arid desert for thousands of years. This time, however, it was not the Nile, the world's longest river, that flooded, but the terrifying sea. Unfortunately, Cairo is only about 50 meters above sea level.
As a result, it is difficult to accept, but only acceptable, the reality is that Egyptian culture, which has been inherited for thousands of years, has completely disappeared in just a few hours.
The city disappears.
The fertile land disappears.
The river disappears.
The Pyramid of Khufu, which has stood for thousands of years and is more than 140 meters high, is still there, but it has become an island in the water. Without the Sphinx, and without the vast and desolate desert behind it, the spiky island looks ridiculous.
The same scene, in countless places on Earth, plays out almost the same script.
In addition to those destroyed coastal cities, there are countless embarrassing and even somewhat ridiculous stories.
For example, the Suez Canal.
This is the super canal that connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, and probably the busiest canal in the world. It saves merchant ships from Asia and Europe without having to travel thousands of miles south to the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa, saving countless time and money. It can be described as the most cost-effective canal.
Around the excavation, contention, and protection of this canal, countless stories have been staged here over the decades. There is even some irony that China's first experimental aircraft carrier, also because of the obstruction of hostile countries, did not make it into the Suez Canal, but went far around the Cape of Good Hope, and it took an extra three months of 14,000 nautical miles and hundreds of millions of funds to be transported from the Ukrainian Black Sea shipyard to China's waters.
But the arrival of the second tsunami made the canal a joke.
Because the location where it is located is no longer a river.
It's the ocean.
No matter how deep the draft is, if there are merchant ships, you can pass here at will without paying any tolls.
Similar to the Suez Canal is the Panama Canal. The only canal that connects two of the world's largest bodies of water. However, the Panama Canal is significantly different from the Suez Canal – there is a water level gap between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
And this water level gap is still very large.
So after the tsunami, it not only washed away the canal, but also the entire country of Panama. It also forms a continuous "ocean waterfall" that connects the two oceans.
There are so many scenes like this, and the scenes that can only be seen in fantasy have become reality one by one.
On the Tibetan Plateau.
A middle-aged man who looked like he had power in his hands stared silently at the large screen in front of him.
The up-to-date map is displayed on the big screen.
Up-to-date.
The old maps were no longer usable, as all the maps had to be completely rewritten by the time the second tsunami came.
China's land area of 9.6 million square kilometers has been revised to 7.1 million.
The area of the four inland seas has more than doubled. At the cost of the disappearance of the North China Plain, the Northeast Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the original site of Poyang Lake became a new coastline. Except for the southeast hills, the entire land area is bounded by the Great Xing'an Mountains - Yanshan - Loess Plateau - Taihang Mountains - Wushan - Xuefeng Mountain...... To the east, all gone!
This change in the landscape is far better than the diversion of the Yellow River around 1860. If any historian could dig up the strata of this period, he would be shocked to find fossils of various marine fish in such an inland area.
At the same time, the situation is even worse in other parts of the world.
Of the 510 million square kilometers of the Earth's surface, the oceans occupy 370 million square kilometers. After the second wave of the tsunami, that number expanded again, reaching 400 million square kilometers! The land area, in a matter of hours, has shrunk the land area of two Tsarist Russias!
Not only that, but the churning of the oceans around the world continues.
And it's getting more and more intense.
After the second wave of the tsunami passed, all those who were still alive, who knew the real situation on the ocean floor, intuitively felt this fact:
There is a third wave!
And a third tsunami will come!
And once it comes, it will be the moment of complete destruction of human civilization!