Chapter 143: Hollywood's Flash (Part II)

All in all, the wartime food rationing system in the United States was implemented in the major cities on the east coast near the capital, but it was far away from the emperor on the west coast...... Referring to some of the plots of traditional Westerns, please don't overestimate the lower limit of the discipline of local government officials in the western states. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

That's why the market in the Los Angeles area is now full of official ration stores that are empty, or even closed, and the goods that should be on the shelves are being sent to the illegal black market by unscrupulous profiteers and corrupt officials.

And the price of food in the illegal black market is naturally expensive enough to make anyone stagger...... Luisa went to the black market with more than twenty dollars, and only bought a few bars of black bread as hard as a stone, a piece of dry hard cheese, a quarter pound of butter, and two cans of Spam luncheon meat that were about to expire - you know, the currency was still on the gold standard at this time, and more than twenty dollars was definitely not a small amount of money for the average person.

Even such a deadly expensive high-priced goods, she still risked being arrested and confiscated, and queued up to rob them -- although the Hollywood police did not dare to beat those "big tigers" who openly sold things on the black market, and they did not even have the courage to raid the black market, they were very ruthless to the citizens who went to the black market to buy things...... Because you can not receive a lot of black market goods from the citizens who are easy to bully, as an additional gray income in the police career.

Carefully hiding these expensive black market foods, Louisa, a third-rate Hollywood actress, covered her face with a scarf and burrowed out of the dark alleys where the black market was located, never finding police, gendarmes and robbers along the way, until she returned to the spacious street, she was slightly relieved.

-- Ever since she came back from a black market purchase and was choked by the police for playing "fishing law enforcement", Luisa has fallen into a psychological shadow.

As a matter of fact, the hands and feet of the police and gendarmes are not clean when it comes to reselling scarce supplies, and more than half of the scarce supplies sold on the black market, such as rare good wine, cigarettes, and canned ham, are military supplies that have been fished out "through the back door" by certain powerful people.

It's just that this doesn't affect them to resell materials at the same time, and by the way, they play a thief and catch a thief, and continue to kill the buyers who have been exploited a lot...... Moreover, even without such traps and traps, it would be difficult to afford it with the meager income of Luisa, a third-rate actor.

Of course, no matter what era it is, there are always those who are not bad for money and can continue to eat, drink and enjoy lavishly. For example, when passing by the door of a high-end restaurant, Luisa saw a fat man munching on a fried chicken with a mouth full of oil, and there were even lobsters and oysters on the table next to him......

But the question was obviously meaningless to Luisa, because she had no money to enter the store unless she could become a mistress with a large sum...... However, with Luisa's capital, it is not so easy to want to be a sugar daddy as a mistress, and now that a generation of young men has been wiped out in China, the ratio of men and women has long been unbalanced, and there are so many beautiful girls who can't get married, and the vision of the big guys is getting higher and higher, how can an ordinary little actor catch it casually?

So, she sighed helplessly, and while stroking her rumbling belly, she turned around and walked briskly forward...... Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, I heard a sharp and rapid Doppler voice change suddenly explode, tormenting everyone's eardrums like a whip!

My God...... This one...... Could it be ...... Air Raid Alarm ?!!

After covering her ears with a painful expression and stunned for a while, Luisa reacted suddenly, and the next moment, the streets of Hollywood suddenly became chaotic, and everyone was scurrying around like headless flies, but they didn't know what to do - Hollywood is the United States after all, and it is also the entertainment industry mecca that is most out of line with the war, although the entire United States has been in a state of war for several years, but the battlefield is basically far away, except for a small sneak attack by the Japanese fleet a few years ago, Cities on the American mainland have not been exposed to much bombing and shelling.

Since the start of the war, Los Angeles municipalities have conducted several air raid drills, but they have been purely coping errands, getting people under tables or running out of houses at the sound of an alarm...... Even if some knowledgeable people know to go into a bomb shelter, the question is, where is the nearest bomb shelter? I don't even know! Well, Hollywood probably hasn't dug any bomb shelters at all, right?

Just as Luisa was standing in the midst of the surging and noisy crowd, squeezed around, but didn't know what to do, the roaring sound of the plane engine had already come from the air, its frequency was low, the intensity was very high, and it brought a heavy sense of depression to people's hearts. Then, she couldn't help but raise her head, and then saw two silver-white huge planes, from a distant height through the clouds, their huge silver fuselage, flying steadily at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, four powerful engines, dragging out four white atomized trails, reflected in the blue sky, forming a shocking picture. Behind their butts, there were still a few small black dots chasing after them in a frustrated manner, but they couldn't catch up, but they were getting more and more away......

And with the appearance of enemy planes from the edge of the sky, the chaos on the ground also turned into a rout, everywhere there were screams of terror from women and rough shouts from the police, and Luisa was also unfortunate enough to be beaten by the police, and had to leave the street aimlessly, trying to find a house to get into.

However, there was no need for her to do more than that, because the time had come for it to end.

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-- As the thick black atomic bomb was pushed down from the cabin, a brilliant flash of light pierced the sky, and in just one hundredth of a second, deadly light radiation and various rays reached the ground, giving people the impression that it was brighter than a million suns.

Directly below the blast of the nuclear bomb, those passers-by who were exposed to the streets and ground of Hollywood were naturally the first to bear the brunt, including the third-rate actress Luisa, all the people's bones, teeth, muscles, nerves, skin...... All of them absorbed a huge amount of radiant energy in a very short moment, solidifying, boiling, vaporizing like meat in a microwave oven, and finally turning into countless powders in a matter of milliseconds, becoming part of the radiation fallout. The surrounding houses and trees were reduced to ashes in an instant, and the people in the houses were completely burned to the point of char and tree roots, never to be human again.

-- Humans, animals, plants, and buildings were all reduced to fine ashes in the foehn wind that seemed to come from hell.

A few seconds after the light radiation and various rays reached the ground, with a deafening roar, a devastating shockwave erupted from the center of the explosion, mixed with various deadly radiation particles, wrapped in a roar from Hades, and smashed in all directions!

Even at the San Diego Naval Base, which was more than 160 kilometers away, the officers and men of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet were horrified to hear a powerful muffled sound in the distance, and several unfortunate buildings unfortunately shattered the glass as a result.

And in Hollywood, at the site of the nuclear explosion, it is as if there is a giant hammer of Thor, frantically stirring the sky and the earth in the dark! The overwhelming shock wave and the scorching heat wave that burned everything almost swallowed everything in heaven and earth, and the towering trees turned into scorched wooden stakes in an instant, and then they were carried into the air by the shock wave, and all kinds of buildings were like cardboard models, and they were instantly knocked down by the entire building.

In just a few minutes, the neighborhoods within a radius of several kilometers around the center of the nuclear bomb explosion were gone, and most of the houses were crumbling in a firestorm comparable to a Category 12 typhoon, and even gradually falling apart. Only a few of the strongest reinforced concrete buildings remained, like reefs jutting out of the sea, towering over a mass of charred and hot bricks and rubble, but they were also covered in bruises, and most of the citizens who had not had time to react were buried in the rubble. The billboards, the cars, and the people inside the cars were swept up by the huge air currents, as if an invisible giant hand was mercilessly tossing them around, and finally twisted and crushed one by one, and burst into flames, turning the whole of Hollywood into a scorching purgatory in the blink of an eye!

Even those in Los Angeles who were far away from the explosion were burned on the spot by flashes or heat waves. And some of the unlucky people who were directly illuminated by the flash simply burned their bodies and their skin was detached, and their deaths were really miserable.

Then, the flames caused by the high temperature of the nuclear explosion erupted simultaneously in all parts of the city, and quickly spread in all directions, burning everything that could be burned; Even the concrete buildings were enchanted with flames. Turning the entire Los Angeles area into a scorching hell. Countless golden snakes danced around the city, creating large piles of scorched earth and rubble, with piles of blackened corpses buried underneath.

Some of those who were lucky enough to escape from the ruins of their houses ran out into the streets and had to endure the smoke and fire, and in an instant they were covered in hot blood blisters. In the end, it was even burned to the point of ashes. Even more tragic are the survivors who were crushed in the rubble, if there was no fire, these people might still be able to be rescued, but now they can only be crushed under layers of rubble, little by little roasted by the heat and smoke.

At the same time, the power grid of half of the West Coast of the United States collapsed in an instant, and radio and radio lost their voice.

However, this round of nuclear bombing and catastrophe on the United States has only just begun...... After Los Angeles, where Hollywood, the mecca of movies, is located, San Diego, Seattle and Portland, which are also on the west coast of the United States, soon suffered the same nuclear bombing......

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On 18 January 1949, the "Flying Bear" four-engine jet ultra-long-range strategic bomber, which was developed by the Soviet Union's Tupolev Aircraft Design Bureau in a hurry in combination with the black technology of the future, made its debut on the stage of world war for the first time -- 12 "Flying Bear" bombers carrying six atomic bombs and a number of conventional bombs took off from Japan and directly crossed the Pacific Ocean to carry out nuclear strikes on major cities on the west coast of the United States!

Because the speed of this jet ultra-long-range strategic bomber is too fast, the flight is too high, and the firepower of self-defense is also quite fierce, the US propeller fighters cannot intercept it at all, and the US military is equipped with antiaircraft guns of any caliber and is helpless to deal with the "Flying Bear" bombers flying at an altitude of more than 18,000 meters above the ground. In the end, with the exception of the "Flying Bear" bomber in San Francisco, which was scheduled to be bombed, failed to detonate and fell directly to the ground, all the other five atomic bombs successfully hit their targets -- Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver, Canada, -- all of which were bombed on this day, with a direct death toll of up to one million. In particular, the destruction of San Diego, the second largest military port of the US Navy, in the mushroom cloud almost completely broke the backbone of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, which had been defeated many times.

Because the shock wave of the nuclear explosion destroyed the wired communications on the ground, and the radiation from the nuclear explosion seriously interfered with the transmission of radio waves, when the White House, which was busy preparing for the transfer of power between the old and new presidents, finally received the bad news from the West Coast, the atmosphere over Hollywood had been stirred and churned by the power of the atomic bomb for nearly an hour, and began to rain in the area of the nuclear explosion -- the water vapor carried by the rising mushroom cloud was enough to condense into raindrops in the sky. Then countless deadly radioactive fallouts were glued and sprinkled down with a clatter, contrasting with the mushroom clouds that reflected the sky red. As a result, the people who were scorching the ground in a sea of fire and heat saw a sticky black raindrop falling, emitting a strange smell and a strange touch, mixed with a large amount of lethal nuclear fallout......

This extremely deadly, apocalyptic black rain that made people feel like the end of the world had descended, and after it lasted for more than ten minutes, it turned into a misty yellow drizzle, which continued to spread in all directions, but it was still far from extinguishing the fire on the ground. And the large amount of radioactive fallout encased in the rain has sentenced tens of millions of Americans who have been unfortunate enough to be contaminated...... Or in other words, death is reprieved -- radiation sickness in these years is absolutely incurable.

This large-scale nuclear explosion on the West Coast brought disaster to the American people not only on land, but also at sea.

-- The shock wave of a nuclear explosion comparable to a Category 12 typhoon not only swept across the land with a large amount of radioactive fallout, leveling towns and villages, but also swept the sea mercilessly, surging up monstrous waves that struck all the ports on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean. Under the monstrous power of the nuclear bomb, the sea suddenly lost the gentleness and romance of the literati's writings, and turned into a hideous and terrifying evil ghost -- huge waves more than ten meters high burst into the bay, surging like an overwhelming sky, rushing to the shore at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour, and engulfing tens of thousands of people in an instant. Some people were swept to the bottom of the sea, some were thrown into the air by the waves, and some were smashed to land by the waves.

In the same way, most of the ships of all kinds anchored in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego and other ports also suffered heavy losses in the ferocious shock waves and waves, either smashed and sunk, or collided with each other. Many structurally fragile port and terminal facilities, although they were lucky enough to survive the shock wave of the nuclear explosion, were swept away in the ensuing waves. By the time the raging sea had finally returned to calm, the entire beach and harbor had been transformed into a king-size garbage dump, littered with tattered roofs, bed boards, doors and windows, fragments of ships, and swollen bodies of people and animals.

What is even more terrifying is that the oil companies, refineries and oil depots in these ports have been destroyed by the shock wave of the nuclear explosion. Accompanied by a series of huge explosions, thousands of tons of crude oil were dumped into the Pacific Ocean, causing a raging fire on the surface of the sea, almost boiling the sea!

In this catastrophe, the US Navy's Pacific Fleet that retreated to the west coast lost nearly half, except for some ships stationed in San Francisco and ordered to patrol the sea, most of the capital ships were scrapped or severely damaged in the nuclear explosion, or at least suffered severe radiation contamination, which needed to be repeatedly decontaminated before they could be barely used, and the Army and the National Guard also lost at least 100,000 people, which can be described as heavy losses. As for the next large-scale outbreak of radiation sickness on the entire West Coast, I don't know how many more lives will be taken from Americans, especially soldiers.

The current commander of the Pacific Fleet, Aubrey. Admiral Fitch, along with his entire command team, were killed in the nuclear explosion. And the Admiral of the Navy in Washington, D.C., Ernest . His Excellency Jin fainted on the spot when he received the bad news, and was rescued by the hospital before his life was saved.

The whole United States, whether it was President Truman, who was about to step down, or President MacArthur, who was about to enter the White House, was shocked by this catastrophe, and at the same time, for the first time in their hearts, they had a vague foreboding of the coming of the end of the world...... But in fact, as a "super warm gift package" to "congratulate" President MacArthur on his assumption of office, the Kremlin's nuclear war strategy against the United States has only been carried out in a small way.

Just in the direction of the Atlantic, another 12 Soviet jet ultra-long-range strategic bombers, all of which were equipped with atomic bombs, were also ready at secret airfields in Western Europe and North Africa......

And the targets of their nuclear explosions are, of course, major cities in the eastern United States on the other side of the Atlantic. (To be continued.) )