Chapter 110, The Tempest
Osena was drenched.
She has been running for a long time in the wind and rain. Even if she was draped in a rain cover, her thin body was like being blown away by the wind at any time in the wind and rain.
On more than one occasion, her subordinates wanted her to return to the house, but she refused.
"You have time here to persuade me, you might as well do more things."
That's what she said, and that's what she did.
It stands to reason that after the work arrangements for all the grain distribution points have been completed and the matter of the attack on the grain convoy has been resolved, it is only necessary to carry out the work according to the plan and step by step, and there will not be any major problems.
At most, you need to worry about security.
In the past few days, many of the residents of the outer city of Fuxing City have been starving because of the war and the turmoil.
And they don't say that they are people and mobs, but they can't expect these people, who basically have the experience of wandering in the wasteland, to be more obedient. Many of them had blood on their hands.
In the long queue to receive food, it is simply normal for there to be any security problems.
She anticipated this and made some rules. The heavily armed soldiers would strictly warn the people in line and ask them to follow the rules. Those who do not follow the rules will not only be suppressed by the soldiers, but will also lose the qualification to receive food.
Coupled with her tireless propaganda, the food supply is sufficient, and the probability of scramble and public security problems will be greatly reduced.
Everything at the beginning was indeed as she thought.
Until the storm hits.
This storm, when it just arrived, already made Osena feel bad.
The wind and rain lined up, which was a test for the people's bodies, a test for their mentality, for the people under Osena, and for the soldiers to maintain law and order.
When is it bad to be windy and rainy? You have to pick this time!
I had no choice but to grit my teeth and continue.
This wind and rain messed up a lot of things, so that the workload of her subordinates suddenly increased a lot, and there were also a lot of emergencies, which were reported to her one by one, and she needed to come up with ideas one after another, and even deal with them personally.
A lot of things can be done by sitting in the office, listening to reports, and making the next decision.
She braved the rain to run through many food distribution points, facing one thing after another on the front line.
Very busy, very tired, very hard, but she is determined enough.
This is the first and most important day to build a bridge of trust between the Governor and the people of Fuxing City. She has to do everything she can in her job.
No matter how strong the wind and rain are, it can't hinder her determination to carry everything out smoothly.
Until the order to evacuate in two hours, it reached her.
It made her feel disillusioned.
With so much hard work, she never cried out bitterly. But this news made her body crumble.
She couldn't help but be a little dazed.
What is the point of those previous efforts, even the sacrifices of the soldiers who guarded the transport lanes?
She stood where she was, looking blankly at the people who were also queuing up in the wind and rain.
There are parents with young children, and the husband and wife arch their bodies and hold up a small piece of heaven and earth for the child, sheltering from the wind and rain, but the little boy who looks only four or five years old is still soaked;
There is a cripple who came single, and when he walked forward, his foot slipped, and he fell into the water that could not reach the surface of his foot, and he could not get up for half a day, and he could only get up again with the help of others;
Everyone in the storm looked so hard and helpless.
With only two hours at most, do you want to give up on them?
Osena felt like she couldn't do it.
But after a moment, she said to herself again:
"You have to do it."
She doesn't see the whole story, but she's not stupid. She could guess that the key reason for the evacuation was the growing storm. She even thought that this storm might kill everyone.
If there is a choice, the Governor will definitely not make such a decision, but he will not have a choice.
What she has to do is to keep as many people alive as possible.
This has the same meaning as the previous distribution of food, but it is more difficult.
Whether it's the specific things to do, or the determination to make up.
She wiped the rain from her face, but it didn't work, more cold rain slapped on her face.
She beckoned her subordinates to come over, and in the face of the sound of the wind and rain, she said loudly in her ear: "Notify all the food distribution points!" Ask each point to set aside a queue and arrange for all those who have collected their food to assemble outside the city! ”
"Tell them that this storm is a cult conspiracy! Leaving the city is for their safety! ”
"Use all the speakers you can use!"
"Volunteers are selected from among those who have received food and everyone they know is notified as soon as possible! Get out of the city! Leave some reliable homeless people behind to help us maintain law and order! ”
"You go and gather a squad of soldiers now, set up a makeshift camp outside the city, and go to a place where there is no wind and rain! Get all the cars you can drive and bring the food from the distribution center! ”
Later, she picked up Lambert's signal and told him to transport as much food as possible from the inner city to the makeshift camp.
After doing this, she heard a rumbling sound.
At first she thought it was thunder, but then the earth trembled, and it didn't look like thunder.
When I came out, there was an orange-red light in seven directions around the city, which crossed the sky and smashed to the ground.
Immediately afterward, a muffled thunder similar to that just now came again.
After a short while, seven more orange-red rays of light fell from the sky.
Is this orbital bombardment?
What is the problem that needs to be used to the point of orbital bombardment?
Osena shuddered.
Although it is only on the seven edges of the city, there are tens or twenty kilometers away from the center of the city, but with such a terrifying power, if there are people and dwellings around, I am afraid that it will ......
She shook her head, she shouldn't have thought about those things for herself.
The things in front of you are more important.
The food distribution point here is already in chaos.
The order to evacuate has been given.
Osena clearly knew that the power she was now in control would not be able to guarantee the order of the evacuation under such a storm.
She also thought of organizing teams of poor people one after another, and so that at least one squad of soldiers could be next to each evacuation team to maintain order and guide them to the evacuation point outside the city.
But that didn't happen at all.
Give her time, give her a stable environment, and she may be able to do it. But now, it's too difficult to arrange for as many people as possible to leave the city in a stormy environment in two hours.
The wind was so loud, the rain was so loud, and then there was a thunderstorm, even if she shouted with all her might, her voice couldn't travel far.
Since the goal is to evacuate as many people as possible, it is better to abandon some order, it is better to have a lot of chaos in between, and she also wants to spread the news as far and wide as possible.
Let the people figure out how to get out on their own, and these locals may be faster than trying to organize their own manpower.
And her higher priority work is to ensure the smooth evacuation passage as much as possible in this process, so as not to block a large number of people on the way out of the city, resulting in no one being able to get out in the end; It is also necessary to establish a good contact point outside the city to ensure the supply of supplies, so that the large number of people who cannot appear leave the city do not die in the storm, but starve to death in the wilderness.
I have to do one thing after another, and I'm afraid that I won't think of anything and make something missing; Each of them is very important, but it is very difficult under the constraints of environment and conditions; The time is very urgent, two hours, how much can you do if you are desperate?
But it's still the same sentence, only desperate.
(End of chapter)