When the water wall is more than ten meters high, it is as if the wooden stakes on the trestle are being torn off one by one by a giant beast.

However, it was only an appetizer for the ancient beast in front of him, which smashed the lighthouse that was warning with one slap, and then smashed the bridge with one bite, and the huge warship was thrown into the air and smashed on top of the newly built factory, leaving the walls and ruins everywhere it passed.

The black currents devoured everything in front of it, whether it was riding a horse or running, it was just a useless struggle.

When the person running in front looked back, the crowd had long since disappeared, and all that could be seen was the endless current behind them.

Benito was the one who ran ahead of the curve, he was a native of Venetian, he knew everything about this place, every street and every corner he remembered vividly.

No one can catch Benito, but this time he is facing not people, but natural disasters. The black current burst through the side wall and swooped down on him, and just as he was about to start, Benito grabbed a high clothes pole.

Looking at the turbulent waves beneath his feet, he had no choice but to burst out with unprecedented strength, using inertia to throw himself against a high wall.

However, the battlements under his feet suddenly shattered, but Benito adjusted his center of gravity in time.

But when he stood firm and looked ahead, he found that the city was already an ocean. With a crisp sound under his feet, the old weathered city wall could no longer hold on.

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This is a black current that is unwilling to retreat -

In the aftermath of the tsunami, the streets were littered with waterlogged goods, loose clothes, swollen corpses, and debris of wood.

Some people in the rubble are looking for their former homes, but most of their belongings are gone, and family members need to be carefully identified.

The occasional survivor was in tears, and the bustling port and bustling shopping street disappeared in the blink of an eye, replaced by makeshift shacks and dilapidated houses in urgent need of repair.

A tsunami claimed more than 5,000 lives, more than 2,000 houses and 300 boats, and the direct economic damage could be close to 100 million florins.

But there was no time to grieve, and after only three days the port of Venice was back in operation. This was not because the Austrian Empire was too capable of rebuilding, but because the coastline was too weak in its capacity.

Trieste was not so damaged, it was a military port itself, and the terrain blocked the damage so that the damage was not serious.

The Austrian Empire's top brass still attached great importance to the Tsunami in the Adriatic Sea, because it was the only outlet for the Austrian Empire.

However, at this time, Prime Minister Metternich had long been drowned in grief, and the tens of millions of funds he had embezzled before were all lost at this time, and the Pope actually went to see God with the Chief Secretary of State.

And the positions of cardinals that they bought turned out to be useless, and those old diehards in the Papal States were shameless at all, what holy law, the first law was bullshit in their eyes.

Pius IX also proved his commitment with his own actions, and the new pope's three edicts caused an uproar in Europe and the whole world.

First, Pius IX demanded that all bishops of France must come to the Vatican to pledge allegiance to him.

Second, the Papal States were to renegotiate the tax rates with the Austrian Empire and demand that the latter pay the tithes owed for those years.

Third, the reorganization of the Society of Jesus. This one went to the Spanish Church, and at this time Father Clarit, a priest who was highly respected in the Spanish court, was one of the Jesuit friars.

The Jesuits in Spain were powerful and had already mastered absolute influence over the future queen. However, in the eyes of Pius IX, this should have been his own power.

At the same time, the Jesuits also had a strong influence in the Spanish colonies and former colonies.

As soon as these three edicts came out, the three great powers of Catholicism began to have a headache. The biggest headache was the Austrian Empire, which theoretically had a veto on the election of the Pope.

This right was actually inherited from the Holy Roman Empire, but Metternich felt that it had not reached that point at all, and even wanted to sell Pius IX for a favor.

As a result, the behavior of the liberal pope is simply unreasonable, and just last night the envoy of the Papal States was even ready to discuss the abolition of the secret agreement between the two countries.

This was completely beyond the bottom line of Prince Metternich, and the Pope's envoy was already a guest at the bottom of the Danube.

If the new pope tore up the secret agreement and abrogate the defense pact with the Austrian Empire, all the investment in the Papal States over the years would be in vain.

It was like a stab in Metternich's heart, and a hard flick of it, which made him feel infuriated.

And everything actually came from a little-known person, which made Prince Metternich feel a sense of shame.

Calculated by the lame Talleyrand, by Canning, by Palmerston, he was defeated by the strong and the conspirators.

And Pius IX is clearly a political novice, an insignificant little bishop, a ridiculous and arrogant tick.

"How dare he?!"

Metternich was surprised by what he had said unintentionally.

"Prime Minister, would you like to take a break, anyway, what we are talking about at the moment is just a trivial matter. No matter how big the splash is, Venice is still in our hands, isn't it? ”

Count Kolarov was not interested in Metternich's Italian strategy, and he was upset that the empire had suffered such heavy losses.

The cynicism of his old rival calmed Prince Metternich down, and he did not want to admit it, but the colonial plan led by Franz had huge benefits for the Austrian Empire.

It was precisely because of the constant flow of goods from the colonies that the industry of the Austrian Empire was able to maintain a crushing advantage over Germany and Italy.

At the same time, Austria also shouldered the heavy responsibility of defending against foreign commodity invasion, and if the maritime trade was cut off, the entire Austrian Empire, and indeed the entire German Confederation, would be affected.

So the Regency Council immediately approved aid plans for ports such as Venice and Trieste, but what they didn't expect was that the tsunami was not the whole story.

After the tsunami, cholera came unexpectedly, and Franz was still on guard in the north. The cholera epidemic spread rapidly in Italy and spread quickly to the entire territory of the Austrian Empire by rail.

Faced with overwhelming reports of cholera, Vienna's high-ranking officials finally froze. Because according to the previous experience of other countries, every report may predict the death of 1~2K.

At the same time, the top brass of the Polish Restoration Army again gathered in Krakow.

"This is really a godsend, and now that the Austrian Empire, Prussia, and Russia are all taking care of themselves, it is a good opportunity for us to do it!"

Landré Promi, who had been in Paris all the time, knew how terrible the plague was, so he was convinced that Russia, Prussia, and Austria had no strength to fight again.