Chapter 178: "Man-made" Natural Disaster

Or rather, what do they know?

Gu squinted his eyes imperceptibly, this idea has a bit of a "conspiracy theory" flavor, but it is not impossible, especially the second possibility is very large.

You must know that the special border unit is ostensibly under the jurisdiction of the Indian Military Region, but in fact it is more closely connected with the intelligence services, and its main task is not only to garrison and perform duties on the Indian border, but also to carry out special agent infiltration and harassment and sabotage operations when necessary.

On this basis, Swaraj, Marlo and others must know a lot about the Himalayas.

Moreover, the floods in Assam are suspiciously more likely than in West Bengal, which caused the dam to burst due to heavy rainfall from tropical storms, which occurred before the heavy rainstorms.

Although he had analyzed in front of the Minister of Disasters, Anurag, the cause of the "glacial fracture".

However, glacier melt generally occurs in the Indian summer, and now it is mid to late October, and the weather has already turned cooler, so it is reasonable to say that the probability of a break is very low.

And the last point that made him suspicious was the content of the chat with Kieran, the county magistrate of Gohati.

Gu Ji once asked Kieran about the specific details of his father's crash, but the latter said that after the Civil Aviation Administration completed the investigation, the finishing work would be handed over to the military.

In retrospect, the crash site seems to be 40 kilometers north of Dispur, near the southern foothills of the Himalayas, and it's hard not to associate the three.

Swaraj's eyelids twitched.

Marlowe seemed to understand, turned his head and said, "I'm sorry Vidi, our return route involves military secrets, and it is impossible to take you near the base. ”

"Understandable, in that case, can you send me to Disbur?"

"Count me in!"

Unexpectedly, Fatima's voice came from behind him.

It turned out that after she reported Gu Ji's matter to Anurag, the minister was afraid that it would be difficult for him to investigate alone, so he asked Fatima to come over to help, and as for the task of reinstating to the prime minister, it was handed over to the minister and the director, after all, no one does not like to receive credit.

Marlowe looked at the two, nodded, and agreed to land in the capital of Assam.

After the helicopter took off, Gu Ji also saw the whole picture of Kolkata from the air, the whole city was like a sunken super giant cruise ship, the part of the hull was all buried in the water, only the upper floor deck was still struggling to support, and Matan Park became even more black, and there was no trace of green, which was enough to show how many fleeing people had gathered above.

Along the way, he tentatively asked a few things about the loud noises in the Himalayas.

As Anurag had told him at the time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Disaster Management had done a preliminary investigation, and according to local villagers, they had heard a loud bang before the flood.

Marlowe only made a perfunctory remark about this, saying that he did not know the specific situation.

This further confirmed Gu Ji's guess.

As a military semi-intelligence unit, they don't care about the abnormal noise of the mountains, aren't they afraid of a plane falling or a missile attack?

It is about a half-hour flight from Kolkata to Disbur.

After four or five days, the water in Assam has dropped a lot, grass can be seen in many high-lying areas, most of the houses are exposed to the water, and the state fire brigade and construction team are rushing to repair the infrastructure and do a good job in the post-disaster reconstruction work in the airport.

Because Gu Ji had been pondering, and Marlowe and the others were also in a hurry to return to the base, as soon as the helicopter landed, the two sides left in a hurry, so that Fatima didn't have time to keep these soldiers for food.

"They're going too fast, Vidi, let's get some rest first, or ......"

"The disaster evacuation center understands the basic situation, prepares vehicles, personnel and supplies, and the focus is definitely on the villages in the southern foothills of the Himala Mountains, and we have to go to the northern border of the state!"

"You've got a lot of energy!"

Fatima muttered, but quickly followed.

For Gu Ji, the investigation must be fast, otherwise it will be much more difficult to find out the truth of the disaster when the military seals up all the evidence.

The two borrowed a car and rushed to the disaster shelter.

Unexpectedly, they became "big stars" in Assam, and as soon as they got off the bus, many government officials surrounded them, and it seemed that the matter of Gu Ji's meeting with the prime minister and dealing with the floods in West Bengal had already spread to the outside world.

Skipping those who were close to them, Gu Ji went straight to the officials of the investigation team of the Department of Agriculture and the Ministry of Disaster Management, and asked the personnel who were in charge of the field trip to the villages in the southern foothills of the Himalayas.

In the past few days since he left, he didn't expect the state government to make new discoveries.

A middle-aged official in a blue vest and white shirt pulled out a document from the head of the post-flood investigation, "After many investigations, we finally concluded that the glacier fracture was the secondary cause of the flood outbreak, and the real main cause was corruption and mismanagement of the Brahmaputra River, and in the past five years, millions of dollars that should have been used for flood control have been misappropriated by the Minister of Water Resources, and the dams along the Brahmaputra River have been in disrepair for many years and flood control management is not in place." ”

"Before and after the floods, corruption was as rampant as ever, and the water department even expected the flood to break out because they could make a lot of money from the repair of the levees and the distribution of relief materials, as mentioned by officials from the finance and taxation department, and the chief minister had found out that the accounts of the state disaster relief fund were not in order, and he had approached the water minister many times, but unfortunately his whereabouts are still unknown."

"The person hasn't been found yet?"

Gu Ji was slightly stunned.

More than a week has passed since the flooding in Assam, and most of the stagnant water has subsided, but there are still no clues.

The blue-vested officer shook his head and sighed.

"The police only found the bodies of the chief minister and the accompanying secretary in the downstream impact area, but did not find the minister of water resources.

Good guy, he really got him right.

Gu Ji doubted that the Minister of Water Resources would abscond in fear of crime and murder, but he didn't expect this to be the case, and it was darker, it turned out that he concealed it not to avoid responsibility, but deliberately waited for the flood to happen, so as to take the opportunity to make a fortune.

But if that's the truth, then the system should tell him that the goal is complete now.

Since the game doesn't have any reaction.

It means that this is not the case, or that he still lacks some necessary conditions.

"Have you found the engineering team that undertook the repair of the dam of the water conservancy department?"

"After looking for it, they also admit that there is a lack of budget or deduction from the top in the construction and repair, but the whereabouts of the chief engineer of Bang Water Conservancy are also unknown, maybe this is the punishment of Lord Shiva for them!"

The Blue Vest officials shrugged their shoulders, as if to think that they had all died in the floods, after all, India has hundreds of people who go missing every year because of the floods.

But Gu Ji raised his eyebrows.

Also missing, so coincidentally?

"Excluding the human factor, are you sure that the glacier fracture caused the flood?"

"It was confirmed that the investigators sent by the Department of Agriculture visited the front section of the Brahmaputra River and found traces of the glacier breaking against the riverbed, and the villagers also heard a loud sound from the collapse."

"Do you see the glacier break?"

Gu Ji directly asked the key point.

The blue vest officer shook his head, but his tone was particularly firm.

"The vicinity of the glacier fracture has been blocked by the mountain division of the Fourth Army stationed at the border, saying that it involves military secrets, but according to the traces of the river bank, it can be proved that it is a huge glacier that has collapsed, and after about two kilometers of free fall, it hits the ground and becomes shattered, producing huge landslides and dust clouds, and the glaciers and rocks slide down the valley and enter the Brahmaputra River valley, forming a fast-flowing debris flow, and the huge debris flow hits down the river valley, causing the whole valley to shake the ground, due to the sudden occurrence of the debris flowCoupled with the extremely fast speed, it is impossible to predict and predict, and the mudslide directly destroyed the dam that could not be repaired, causing the collective discharge of the reservoir and causing a major flood. ”

The military again......

With so many "coincidences" in series, Gu Ji can be sure that this disaster will not be as simple as it seems!

Glacial fractures may be true.

But the cause of the glacier fracture will definitely not be high temperature or natural collapse!

"Vidi, the medical team from the Disaster Avoidance Center is going to the village of Kokraja in Bangbei to provide support, should we go with them?"

"Okay, I'll get ready right away!"

At this time, Fatima also figured out the current basic situation in Assam.

Since the end of the floods, the state government's focus has shifted from search and rescue to post-disaster management and reconstruction, and there are two main issues:

One is food, because the floods have washed away the farmland and towns, the current state government's granaries are seriously damaged, and the road and train traffic is blocked by landslides, and it is difficult to transport materials from the outside world.

The second is medical care, the evacuation centers lack the necessary medical facilities, because the town hospitals are flooded, all the wounded are now sent to the temporary first-aid stations of the disaster shelters, the surgeries are carried out in tents, there is a serious shortage of doctors, and what is more serious is that there are currently small-scale infectious disease incidents in the disaster shelters and villages, and there is no supply of medicines.

This time, the medical team supported the village of Korraja, where the third wave of infectious disease broke out.

Gu had already guessed that there would be such a day.

As the saying goes, "a catastrophe must be followed by a pandemic", especially in polluting disasters such as floods, because the water is fluid, so a large number of pollutants will be dispersed with the flow of water, and a large number of molds, parasites, anaerobic bacteria and other harmful bacteria will gather together and multiply in large quantities.

According to past experience in disaster response, the United Nations shows that many government departments tend to focus only on the construction of shelter tents and neglect to provide water and sanitation facilities, especially in India, where sanitation is already poor, and many people in Assam lack basic sanitation knowledge.

Residents living in temporary tents and houses are relatively simple and crowded, with poor air circulation, poor sanitation conditions, lack of water resources, and polluted living environment, which are most likely to cause the spread of respiratory and intestinal infectious diseases, such as influenza, measles, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery, and so on.

The fire rescue and infrastructure personnel are immersed in water for a long time, which is also easy to lead to various skin diseases, and a large number of rodents and animals migrate to the highlands due to stagnant water, and even cause leptospirosis, renal syndrome hemorrhagic fever and other highly fatal infectious diseases.

Arrive within the Korlaja district of Bangbei.

Because of its proximity to the Himalayas, the terrain is high, and it is the first to get rid of the stagnant water and floods, looking around, Gu Ji sees the snow-capped ice peaks standing in the sky, long and long, under the water blue sky, like a silver giant, overlooking the movement of the village at the foot of the mountain, majestic and magnificent.

Compared to the flooded towns of Dispur and Gohati, villages in the southern foothills of the mountains have suffered from mudslides.

The village was in shambles, with houses crumbling and crumbling like cardboard boxes, the ground was devastated and covered with muddy stones, and some villagers were confined to temporary tents issued by the government on the hillside.

Gu Ji and Fatima soldiers split into two ways.

He was in charge of visiting the people, while Fatima followed the medical team and questioned those who were sick, especially those who had experienced the floods firsthand.

Unfortunately, he asked a lot of questions, and the villagers said almost the same thing as the person in charge of the blue vest.

"Fatima, how are you doing over there?"

"The reason is also the fracture of the glacier, it seems that this is the cause of the flood, but it only suffers these villagers, their illness is very serious, but our medical conditions are ......"

Gu Ji found Fatima, and she was obviously a little lost.

These people managed to survive the mudslides and floods, but now they are facing death again because of drug problems.

"What disease?"

"The doctor said that it may be an intestinal infection caused by drinking unclean water, nausea, vomiting, and an elderly person has intestinal bleeding, which caused bloody diarrhea."

"Bloody diarrhea? Take me to see it. ”

The two of them talked as they made their way to the makeshift medical center.

Gu Ji put on his mask and lifted the curtain of the tent door, there were one or two rows of carpets inside, yes, there were no hospital beds, and the patients were lying on the ground side by side as if they were sleeping in the Chase bunk of the detention center, coughing weakly.

He came to the old man whom Fatima had spoken, who looked to be sixty or seventy years old, with a red hat, a white beard, and a red spot at the center of his eyebrows, who was looking at him with a weak face.

At this time, the doctor was instructing the officials in charge of the quarantine site to pay attention to the water source conditions.

However, Gu Ji noticed that the skin on the old man's neck and cheeks was a little red, but there was no fever in his head, which did not meet the characteristics of intestinal infection, but looked like skin ulcers.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

At this time, a sturdy Indian brother behind him suddenly coughed violently, and when he took off the handkerchief, he saw that the phlegm in it was all bloodshot.

Gu Ji frowned slightly and asked.

"Brother, how are you feeling, do you have pain in your lungs?"

"Very uncomfortable, nausea and vomiting all the time, my mouth always feels a little fishy and sweet, cough...... Doctor! Doctor! ”

As the Indian brother spoke, he suddenly felt a hot nasal cavity and wiped his handkerchief, and he actually had a nosebleed.

nausea and vomiting, facial redness, oral, nasal and intestinal bleeding......

Gu Ji meditated on these symptoms in his heart, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he hurriedly asked, "Did you feel weak and lose your appetite at the beginning?" ”

Many patients nodded their heads.

Fatima thought that he had thought of some way, after all, on the train, she had seen Gu and a few injured people stop bleeding and treat their wounds, so he must know medicine, "Vidi, do you have a cure?" ”

"Not yet, I need to do a test."

Gu Ji took medical equipment, randomly sampled the blood of four patients, and took away a bottle of water for the village's daily drinking.

After returning to the disaster shelter, he first sent the blood to the temporary medical aid station to do a blood routine, the blood cell detector is one of the most widely used instruments in the hospital's clinical examination, and the volume is not large, so it was transferred by the hospital early in the morning.

Half an hour later, he finally got the blood routine report.

Sure enough, the red blood cell count decreased, the hemoglobin concentration decreased, the white blood cell count decreased, the platelet count decreased, and the four patients randomly sampled, without exception, were all the results.

Combined with the clinical symptoms, Gu Ji can conclude that:

The village of Kokraja, suffered from nuclear radiation!

Fatima stared at the report earnestly, her tone full of disbelief.

"Nuclear radiation? How can there be nuclear radiation at the good end? ”

"That's up to the military."

Gu Ji narrowed his eyes and connected the information he had investigated before one by one.

Theoretically, unless they are exposed to strong nuclear radiation, it is impossible for the villagers of Kokraja to have such a serious disease as intestinal bleeding in a short period of time, and he has been in close contact with Fatima and others in the village, but he has not felt dizziness, nausea and other symptoms, which means that this kind of nuclear radiation has existed a long time ago, and it is likely that the water source has been polluted upstream.

The southern foothills of the Himalayas in the Assam region have been controlled by the Indian Army's Mountain Division.

The Brahmaputra River is closely related to the construction of the water dam, so the minister of water resources and the chief engineer should also be involved, and only with the help of the military, a water minister in his fifties can quietly solve the chief minister and the accompanying secretary at the same time.

"It's just that they are all missing, maybe they were transferred and fled after the incident, maybe they were killed by the military, and now the only remaining clue is the Geological Monitoring Bureau!"

"I'll go with you!"

Fatima also wants to find out what secrets are hidden in Assam, which deserves to have more than 30 million people in Assam hit by the floods and nearly a million refugees displaced.

The two came to the office tent of the Geological Monitoring Bureau, and many officials and technicians in it were rescued by boat and water that night, so everyone's attitude was extremely enthusiastic.

Gu Ji came up and went straight to the point.

"We're looking for an explorer who is responsible for the dam in the Brahmaputra River basin, especially in the front section."

"The front part of the river is a dam that is very old, and most of them were surveyed by Director Prime himself, but he has not been found yet."

He was answered by an Indian scholar with silver hair and a white coat, who was Professor Nande'o who had told the Minister of Water Resources and the Chief Minister to quarrel in the conference room.

"Missing again?"

Fatima couldn't help but ask, "Professor, does anyone else know anything about the Himalayas?" ”

"What the hell are you trying to ask?"

"We would like to ask about the nuclear radiation, the villagers of Korlaja are contaminated by the nuclear radiation, many people have radiation sickness, and whether there are radioactive minerals in the Himalayas."

The so-called radioactive minerals are mineral resources formed by the local aggregation of natural radioactive elements such as uranium and thorium, which belong to the national strategic resources, and their development and production involve the country's nuclear policy, nuclear capabilities and nuclear reserves, have strong confidentiality, and are generally protected and controlled by the military's anti-chemical forces.

According to the current clues, Gu Ji believes that it is likely that the military dug the radioactive mine, which caused the glacier to break.

Professor Nandeo's Adam's apple twitched twice, and he turned his head to the side.

Gu Ji looked around and took him to a remote location.

"Professor, you must know something, the whole village is suffering from radiation sickness right now, and if we don't find out the truth, the whole of Assam, and even all the people along the Brahmaputra River, will get cancer from radiation."

"Yes, Professor, please tell us everything you know!"

"I ......"

Nandeo had another expression of wanting to speak, he looked at Gu Ji, thinking that the other party was his savior, so he told everything he knew, "I have been friends with Primme for many years, and once after drinking, I heard him say that there are many experimental nuclear devices and equipment in cooperation between the United States and the Indian military buried in the Himalayas!" ”

What!?

Fatima almost exclaimed.

Even Gu Ji didn't expect that the truth of the matter was even more terrifying than a radioactive mineral!

But soon, a report flashed through his mind.

It was a secret story reported by the BBC, which was caused by the catastrophic flooding in the village of Rainey in Uttarakhand, India, in 2021, and experts believe that the flood, which has killed more than 50 people, was caused by the rupture of the glacier, but for the villagers of Rainey, many people do not believe this statement, because the incident occurred in February, it is winter, and the glacier cannot melt and break.

Through the reporter's investigation, it was discovered that the village has believed for generations that nuclear devices are buried under the snow and rocks in the Himalayan mountains, and it is these devices that "explode", causing glaciers to break and cause flooding.

The BBC further explained that all this actually originated in the 60s of the 20th century, when the United States cooperated with India to place nuclear power monitoring equipment in many places in the Himalayas to monitor the espionage and intelligence incidents of the nuclear test and missile launch in the summer country.

Although the cause of this incident has not been found out in the end, it has not been a day or two since the BBC reported "fake news".

But the villagers in the foothills of the Himalayas have always believed in this secret.

And the story of Nandeo is similar to this version, except that it has changed from spy monitoring to laboratory research, and it seems that the military of the two countries is secretly making something, but because of an avalanche accident eight years ago, the laboratory was destroyed, many devices were lost, and they were stuck in the glacier, and no one knew the location of those nuclear devices, and no one knew what would happen.

But what is certain is that the device will always be radioactive, and may leak into the snow of the Himalayas and infiltrate into India's river system, and the military has also sent people to search for it, and until now, the southern foothills of the Himalayas are still under the blockade of the military's mountain divisions.

Fatima was so surprised that she almost couldn't close her mouth.

"Vi, Vidi, are these missing people, that is, the original geological exploration, water conservancy, and engineering facilities laid, all forced to participate in this military remedial operation?"

"Remedy? I think it was a cover-up, it was the nuclear device reaction that was missed by the US-India military cooperation laboratory that caused the glacier to break, and because of the cutting corners and corruption of the water conservancy infrastructure, it did not play a due role in blocking it, which caused this flood tragedy, so to speak, this should be a natural disaster caused by 'man-made'! ”

Gu Ji's voice just fell.

[Hidden Target: Finding the truth about the flash flood in Assam is complete!] 】

【Ongoing checkpoint settlement statistics ......】

I'm sorry, now the day and night are completely reversed, I wake up during the day and am still sleepy after eating, and I sleep until more than nine o'clock in the evening, but I am particularly energetic at night, 555......