Chapter Twenty-Three: The Nightmare Empire (I)

-- Rewind the clock to four months ago, when the "door" first appeared. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It is conceivable that when the "Gate of the Other World" that appeared under the water of Victoria Bay, Hong Kong, China, stirred up the human society of the entire modern earth, and the chickens and dogs jumped, the other world on the other side of the "Gate" that was enduring an unprecedented flood naturally could not be as usual and worry-free.

Although the underwater "gateway to the otherworld" in Hong Kong's Victoria Bay is 1,600 cubic meters per second, which is about the same leakage rate as the flow of the Yellow River, it is hardly worth mentioning for the vast earth's oceans, and it is not even able to keep up with the overall rise of the earth's sea level due to climate warming and melting glaciers. However, for the Falmatt continent, which has endured this great flood, it is simply a super catastrophe that has collapsed!

-- Don't think that the Yellow River on the land is just a trivial matter that is not too serious. You must know that from the Warring States Period to the Peasant War at the end of the Ming Dynasty, how many times did China break the Yellow River embankment and attack Kaifeng with water? And Chairman Chiang's embankment burst at Huayuankou during the Anti-Japanese War, creating a vast Yellow Flood Area? (The bursting of the Yellow River's Huayuankou embankment caused 44 counties and cities to be flooded, 10 million people were affected, 30,000 square kilometers of land became a yellow flood area, 900,000 people died directly in the flood, and 4 million people fled to other places. In terms of the magnitude of the disaster, it was far better than the Nanjing Massacre...... In order to wipe Lao Chiang's buttocks, New China spent 25 years to control the Yellow Flood Area, and it was not until 1976 that it was basically completed. ）

What's more, China's Yellow River is at best a broken embankment, and even if it is a "hanging river on the ground", the difference between the water level and the ground is only a dozen meters at most. And the earth's sea water gushing out from the "gate" on the top of the Arnous Mountain, after reaching the Arnus Hills of the other world, the next thing is from the lofty mountains and mountains of the other world at an altitude of nearly 1,000 meters, like an avalanche, with the momentum of sweeping the heavens and the earth, rushing down in one breath!

A super flash flood of this scale, with such exaggerated kinetic energy and momentum, can it be compared to an ordinary river bursting its banks? The water power alone can directly smash the city wall into powder! Not to mention the series of landslides and mudslides that have been triggered along the way of the floods.

Worse and more unfortunate, the monstrous sea water that gushed out from the "gate" at the top of Arcnous not only swept away the 100,000 imperial expeditionary force gathered here in an instant, but also flooded countless cities and villages along the way, and also overwhelmed the current emperor, His Majesty Molt II......

- Although according to the original idea, for this predatory expedition to the other world through the "gate", the elderly Emperor Moult II did not plan to take the imperial expedition in person, but planned to sit in the imperial capital and wait for the good news. But the problem is that the unexpected fiasco of the previous expedition of Crown Prince Sochar to the headhunter rabbit steppe gave Emperor Moult II too much stimulus. Although the impact of this defeat on the hegemony of the empire was minimal, it was also a wake-up call. So, when the "gate" at the top of Arcnous was about to be opened, the old emperor thought about it and felt a little uneasy, and finally decided that it would be better to supervise the battle himself in order to avoid any low-level mistakes made by the commander just in case. Anyway, the Arnus Hill is not too far from the imperial capital of Ulabyanca, and if something really happens, it will be too late to rush back.

However, this decision was made too hastily and too late, and before Emperor Molt II's royal chariot arrived at the barracks on the Ernus Hills, the "door" to the other world was opened...... As a result, the Emperor's Imperial Driver, who was hurrying towards the Arnous Hills, did not have time to receive any warning, and encountered an oncoming monstrous flood peak in a steep canyon with nowhere to avoid!!

-- Although he is a famous general who loves to exercise and can fight well, His Majesty the Emperor himself is not bad. But the problem is that in such a turbulent super torrent, it is not possible to escape if you know how to swim and understand the nature of the water. In fact, under the impact of the monstrous rapids, the trees and debris floating on the water, the rocks and mud that collapse from time to time, are definitely more terrible disasters for those who fall into the water! In the midst of surging torrents, a piece of driftwood is often not a savior for those who fall into the water, but a hammer that slaps head-on! In the midst of this terrible super flash flood, every moment there are people who fall into the water who are smashed into their brains by the debris and driftwood that rush over, or are carried out of the cliff by the flood and fall to pieces......

All in all, by the time the royal dragon knight riding the pterosaur heard the news, and finally found the figure of Emperor Molt II with great difficulty from the monstrous turbid flood and dazzling floating debris, and risked his life to lower his altitude and fish him out of the water, his poor majesty the emperor had already been hit in the torrent and his head was bleeding, with multiple fractures, and dying. Then, before he could get out of danger, Emperor Moult died in the wilderness because of his injuries, and he didn't even leave his last words before he died.

Even at this point, the disaster of the Empire was not over - in order to facilitate the transportation of supplies to the 100,000-strong army assembled in the Arnus hills, and to transport prisoners and booty to the rear after the start of the war, the Imperial Senate had conscripted a large number of laborers and spent several years expanding and building a wide road more than 200 kilometers long along the original path in the Romanian mountains. The road ends in a mountain basin around the Arnoos hills, and the starting point is naturally the imperial capital of Ulabyanca...... In this way, when the great flood broke out of the "gate" on the top of the Arnous hill, this avenue became a natural flood channel, guiding the flood all the way to the imperial capital!

As a result, the imperial capital of Ulabyanca, which was built on the edge of the eastern foothills of the Romanian Mountains and on the northwest shore of the "Blue Sea", was baptized by the largest flood since the construction of the city. The royal palace and aristocratic residences in the city were largely unsubmerged due to their high terrain. However, the low-lying slums of the imperial capital have suddenly turned into a water town, and I don't know how many poor citizens were fed fish and shrimp by the flood. In addition, the tall city walls of the imperial capital also collapsed in several places one after another due to unexpected floods and soaking......

The heavy loss of rice was enough to shock the ruling class of the empire.

And when the news of the death of Emperor Molt II came, he immediately threw a difficult problem in front of the anxious Imperial Senate:

That is, who exactly should inherit the throne of the empire? (To be continued.) )