Chapter 14 Yau Ma Tei Reclamation Project on the Kowloon Peninsula

All in all, after several rounds of consultations with the international community, the Chinese diplomats regrettably let the matter fall apart. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

-- The sudden appearance of the "Gate of Another World" in the waters of Hong Kong's Victoria Bay immediately caused an explosive sensation around the world, and the United States, Russia, Britain, France, India, Japan, South Korea, and other international organizations, as well as the United Nations, all expressed their strongest concern as quickly as possible, and demanded that a joint team be sent to Hong Kong to take over the investigation of the other world and the negotiation of political systems with other world civilizations.

The Western liberal media, with a large number of votes, quickly rose to the occasion, declaring that the evil and brutal Chinese government has no right to steal the other world alone, and calling on the forces of freedom and justice around the world to exert pressure to regain the common wealth of all mankind from the hands of China's evil kleptocratic regime......

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded tactfully, claiming that China is a sovereign country that does not accept foreign interference in its internal affairs, and that it is difficult for China to carry out in-depth cooperation with the West in the current world situation of high tension and serious lack of mutual trust...... According to the original intention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is ready to use the joint development and exploration project of Hong Kong's Alien Gate as a bargaining chip in exchange for concessions from the international community, mainly Europe, the United States and Western forces on the South China Sea issue. If we can talk about it, it's not that we can't jointly develop the Otherworld with them, and then share the resources and benefits of the Otherworld.

- Anyway, this gate is not permanent, and it will disappear in a few years, at best, it is of some scientific significance. Because in this limited time, it is difficult to have time to develop and collect, and obtain too many economic benefits and precious resources from there.

Even though the Philippine government has publicly stated that it is not ready to claim islands and reefs, the United States still insists on using Vietnam and Malaysia as front-line fighters to support them with three aircraft carrier battle groups cruising in the South China Sea against the Chinese Navy. There is no room for China to be alone. And China is not qualified to represent global human civilization alone in the face of another world, so it is necessary to classify Hong Kong as an international **** and be under the jurisdiction of the coalition forces of various countries......

Obviously, as soon as this kind of poignant plan is thrown, there is basically nothing to talk about. The Chinese government has never accepted such humiliating terms, let alone now, even when it was still weak. Seeing that intimidation and blackmail seemed largely ineffective, the CIA immediately began to play its old game, contacting informants everywhere in Hong Kong and preparing to launch a street campaign and sedition of rebellion.

This time, however, the central authorities no longer had the patience to take into account any international image, nor did they have the heart to play any word games that spat on each other -- a month after the appearance of the "Gate of the Other World," the central authorities ordered 200,000 naval and army forces to be stationed in Hong Kong, abolish the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and change it into a military administrative region of Hong Kong, implement military control and a wartime system, completely block Hong Kong's land, sea, and air communications and external communications, and promulgate martial law on the entire coastal areas of Guangdong, including the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions...... For a time, the streets of Hong Kong were full of armored vehicles shuttling, and on the Kowloon Peninsula, which is a hot spot, there were even three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and the houses near the "gate of the other world" were forcibly requisitioned, turning into a giant barracks.

Hong Kong's Internet has been temporarily cut off by the central government's order, and all newspapers and media in Hong Kong and Macau have been stationed in censorship teams to enforce the strictest news supervision. A large number of democracy and human rights activists, hundreds of journalists, editors-in-chief, and photographers were imprisoned, and countless foreigners who came to Hong Kong under the banner of "academic exchanges", "humanitarianism" and environmental protection were forcibly deported. For a while, the whole world was in an uproar, and the Western media went crazy to accuse China of suppressing democracy and violating human rights, and lamenting the loss of civil rights in Hong Kong......

However, apart from organizing a group of people to protest and march in front of the Chinese embassy and engage in performance art, there has been no real action by these international human rights organizations. Even the boss of the bald eagle of the US imperialists has no intention of sending an aircraft carrier battle group to attack Hong Kong and defend the free world, but only allows the fleet to continue to wander around the waters of the Nansha Islands, thousands of kilometers away, while continuing to fight with Chinese representatives at the United Nations.

Then, in addition to dispatching the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to suppress the Hong Kong market with an iron fist and ruthlessly rectify social order, the engineering units of the five divisions also started construction on the Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters at the same time, and began to implement the dam project of the "Gate of the Other World" in Yau Ma Tei on the Kowloon Peninsula, preparing to build a 5-kilometer-long and 12-meter-high barrage dam as quickly as possible, separating this coastal water area from the open sea, just like the Dutch did by enclosing the sea and building land.

In order to speed up the progress of the sea reclamation, the engineering units had no choice but to adopt many emergency measures, such as using scrapped old ships laden with sand and gravel to sink themselves in the waters of Stonecutters and Yau Ma Tei, so as to slow down the flow of seawater into the "Gate of the Otherworld." In addition, a number of dilapidated houses that have been idle for many years have been demolished in some long-abandoned neighborhoods in Hong Kong to collect reclamation materials. However, according to the estimates of relevant experts, even if the whole construction process goes smoothly, it will take at least two to three months for the dam to be successful.

And before the dam closed and the sea water in the enclosed sea dried up, Wang Qiu's otherworldly exploration operation still could not be launched.

Of course, the other world on the other side of the "door" also needs to continue to suffer from the monstrous floods of at least dozens of days......

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At the same time, on the other side of the "door", at the mouth of a cave hidden by dense vegetation somewhere near the Arnous hills, a girl with aqua blue hair was quietly peeking her head out from behind the rock wall, craned her neck, and secretly looked at the gloomy sky that seemed to still smell of gunsmoke.

“…… Ahem, Leilai, what's going on outside? Has Yanlong noticed us here? ”

An old man cautiously paced out of the cave, leaned behind the girl, and asked nervously in a whisper.

“…… It's okay now, Grandpa the village chief. Those two headhunter rabbit priests have already lured Yanlong away......"

The aqua-blue-haired girl looked at it intently, then turned her head and replied in the same flat tone as usual.

“…… Ahem...... Is it? That's good, that's good...... Hey, it's really thanks to these two benevolent adults that we're able to survive......"

The old village chief said with a dry cough. Listening to the two of them's answers, there was also a relieved exhalation sound in the depths of the cave behind.

At this moment, this originally spacious cave was filled with nearly a thousand people, including humans, elves, and orcs, but no matter what race they were, they were all unkempt and haggard, and there were many old and weak women and children, and there were very few young and strong men.

They were all refugees who had been forced into this wilderness by floods, wars, and dragons.

At this time, the blue-haired girl who was watching at the entrance of the cave was named Leilai. Pull. Lena is a fifteen-year-old girl who has come from afar to the mountains of Arnus to make a pilgrimage to the sacred mountain of Arnus and to learn magic from the Magister Cato, who lives in seclusion in the village of Gota.

The village of Gota is one of the closest villages to the holy mountain of Arnous, but it is also dozens of kilometers away from the Arnoos hills. The village is located among the mountains, the land is barren and the production is scarce, but because the village of Gota is close to the road leading from the imperial capital to the holy mountain of Arnous, the villagers can still earn some extra money and barely survive by providing food and lodging for pilgrims who make pilgrims to the holy mountain of Arnous.

However, since last year, life in Gota Village has been getting more and more difficult. First of all, the emperor and the senate gathered an army of 100,000 to expedition to the other world behind the "gate" on the top of the Arnous hills. In order to maintain the daily supply of so many soldiers and horses, most of the young and middle-aged men in Gota and several nearby villages were forcibly conscripted into the convoy, driving carts and horses back and forth to deliver supplies to the military camp at the foot of the Arnus hills. Secondly, as the Arnous Hill became a military exclusion zone, pilgrims to the Hajj were extinct, and the inns and shops in the village of Gota ceased business. Although the aristocratic lords living in the city forgave the village of Gota and generously exempted the villagers from all taxes for the last three years, the grain harvest in Gota was still miserable after the lack of so many laborers, and many people had to pawn clothes to make ends meet.

Even more tragic, four months ago, a sudden flood roared from the mountains without warning, and in the blink of an eye, the entire village of Gota on the plains was destroyed, and nearly a quarter of the villagers died. After that, there were many corpses of imperial soldiers and war horses, which were washed by the flood from the direction of the Arnus hills, and there was also a lucky man who floated on the water with a log, and when he was washed near the village of Gota, he still had a breath of relief, so he was rescued by the kind villagers. From the mouth of this half-dead surviving soldier, the villagers of Gotha who had just suffered a catastrophe learned the origin of this flood - it turned out that the Imperial Companion Magister on the hills of Arnus did not know what had gone wrong, and did not open a passage for the expeditionary force to go to the rich and other worlds, but instead poured out of the "gate" a flood that engulfed 100,000 troops in the blink of an eye. The young and strong men in Gota Village, who were recruited into the transport team, are estimated to be more auspicious...... As a result, the villagers immediately cried.

Then, the seemingly endless flood continued to flow along the avenue built by the Empire, seemingly forming a new great river, and the village of Gota, which was originally located at the bottom of the canyon, was almost completely submerged under the water, and there were few houses left that could live in it.

A group of orphans, widows, old and sick who survived in Gota Village, saw that their lives could not go on, so they had to help the old and the young leave their homeland and go to the elven village in the forest in the southwest to ask for help, hoping that the other party could see the old neighbors for many years and pull them along......

However, what they never expected was that the fate of these elves was even more unlucky than their own! (To be continued.) )