Chen Xin did not stay long in the three towns. He helped the scientific researchers upgrade their equipment for the second time. Then he made a set of finished products and installed them on his car. He upgraded the radar on the car to a signal base station. Chen Xin then Left three towns.
However, because of the cooperation relationship with the country, there was also a staff member sent by a scientific research institution in his car.
The main task of this staff member is to communicate with Chen Xin, because under the current situation, before the communication network has been re-established, it is very troublesome to contact Chen Xin from the three towns, so they must Send someone to follow Chen Xin, and after knowing where he is, establish a stable communication channel through local official agencies.
Moreover, after establishing cooperation with Chen Xin, the country also needs to deliver equipment and materials that need to be upgraded to Chen Xin through local official agencies. This also requires a thorough investigation of the local transportation, communications, scientific research and industrial production capabilities.
If the foundation of the city where Chen Xin is located is too poor, you may need to persuade Chen Xin to move or strengthen the local infrastructure. These are all issues that need to be considered.
Therefore, in order to better cooperate with Chen Xin, the scientific research institution simply sent staff to follow Chen Xin to conduct on-site inspections and find out the specific situation.
Chen Xin didn't think anything about the extra person in the car. After letting the other person get in the car, Chen Xin ignored him. All his attention at this time was occupied by the information obtained from the Internet after reconnecting to the Internet. attract.
Because the radar on the car was upgraded to a signal base station, Chen Xin has been able to access the network currently used by scientific research institutions. Although this network currently only covers the three towns and places that can be physically connected to the scientific research institutions in the three towns, But Chen Xin still obtained a large amount of information from above through the permissions granted to him by scientific research institutions.
"National Population Internment Statistics..." Chen Xin browsed the information on the internal network through the console and found a piece of information with a title that concerned him very much.
Chen Xin clearly remembered that the national population before the disaster had reached 1.4 billion people, but three months before the meteorite fell, the national evacuation plan announced that the estimated population could accommodate 1.2 billion people.
According to the information he read on this page, before the meteorite impact, only 80% of the population in the country had been contained.
This is a pretty cruel statistic.
Of the 1.4 billion people, less than 960 million successfully entered shelters before the disaster.
Nearly a third of the population does not enter shelters.
Perhaps these people were able to escape the first meteorite impact, but the ensuing series of disasters such as heavy rain, reduced atmospheric oxygen content, and extremely cold temperatures were enough to kill any survivors who did not enter the shelter.
The chances of them surviving are extremely slim. Even if some people are still alive, they can only be regarded as lingering in the apocalypse.
And what is particularly heartbreaking is that behind this statistics, there is also a statistics on the death rate of the population in shelters.
Because this is an internal network, the data above are all official internal statistics, and there are no false parts. However, this makes people feel even more uncomfortable.
According to the above statistical results, in the first month after the meteorite impact, the mortality rate of the population inside the shelter was quite normal, about 3‰, which was much lower than the normal mortality rate of 7‰. After all, people could enter the shelter. Most of them are healthy young adults and are not that easy to die.
But as time went by, the mortality rate increased significantly. Three months after the meteorite impact, that is, after the temperature dropped to subzero, the mortality rate clearly showed an upward trend, rising from 3‰ to 8‰.
This is not an unacceptable figure. Generally speaking, in the harsh environment of low temperature and severe cold, this mortality rate is a relatively normal value.
But if you consider that the birth rate is less than 1‰ and the negative population growth exceeds 7‰, this is terrible.
And it’s important to note that these are national demographics and are calculated as overall averages.
However, in fact, the mortality rate among provinces and regions is extremely uneven!
In large cities such as Sanzhen, because of their good basic conditions and sufficient material reserves, the actual population death rate has been maintained at around 1 to 3‰. However, before the disaster, they were poor areas, and counties and cities with poor basic conditions had a population The mortality rate exceeds 1%.
In fact, it is not uncommon across the country for an entire county to be abandoned and hundreds of thousands of people to migrate to other areas, as Chen Xin encountered. Such large-scale population migration will obviously have an impact on the statistical results of the data.
Coupled with the errors caused by current communication difficulties, the actual situation will only become worse.
In addition, Chen Xin also learned from the web page that the tsunami impact caused by the meteorite impact and the subsequent impact of global fires had caused all coastal areas across the country to disappear under the sea level.
The most severely affected area was along the Bohai Bay. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region where the capital was originally located has been completely submerged by sea water. All central agencies have been transferred to the Sichuan Basin. Chongqing City, a municipality directly under the Central Government, once again became the temporary capital.
The North China Plain no longer exists due to its terrain, the Northeast Plain was also affected by the tsunami, and the entire middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plain became a swamp.
Three of the four major plains in the Yan Kingdom have now been eliminated, leaving only the Guanzhong Plain that has not been swallowed up by the sea.
According to the valuable observation data brought back by Zhang Chengguang and others, the coastline has advanced from the original Shanghai City to Anhui Province, and the entire Jiangsu Province has become an underwater world under the ice.
The famous Shandong Province Peninsula can now remove half of the word and is a veritable island. The other parts of Shandong Province are not much better. They have also been separated from the land and become an isolated island. They have to go all the way to the west. Land can only be seen from Changshan.
Even Chen Xin's hometown of Anhui Province and the Huaibei region in the north have mostly disappeared under the sea level.
However, the impact in the south is not that severe because of the mountainous terrain. Most areas of Guangdong and Fujian provinces have not been submerged by sea water because they are mountainous. Even Zhejiang Province, which is adjacent to Suzhou Province, has preserved most of its land. land.
However, most of the economically developed cities in these areas are close to the sea, especially the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta. Because of their proximity to the sea, they were among the first areas to be destroyed by tsunamis.
It can be said that Yanguo's most important food-producing areas and economically developed areas disappeared in the tsunami caused by the meteorite impact.
As for the subsequent melting of glaciers and rising sea levels caused by global fires, they only completely froze the land under the ice before the tide had receded after the tsunami.
If you have a basic understanding of the geography and topography of the Yan Kingdom, you can clearly judge that the third ladder among the three ladders of the entire Yan Kingdom has only the Liaodong Hills, Daxingan Mountains, Taihang Mountains, Shandong Hills and Southeast Hills. , other places no longer exist.
As for the first and second steps, which are less affected by the disaster, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Inner Mongolia Plateau are examples of vast land and sparsely populated areas, not to mention the Tarim Basin, which is a desolate Gobi and desert, which can barely be called the essence. The only areas covered are the Loess Plateau, Sichuan Basin and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.
All the former first-tier cities in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou were killed, and now only three towns and Chongqing remained among the cities that could be called super cities in Yan State.
If the country had not evacuated the population in coastal areas inland before the disaster, I am afraid that the loss of the country's population would not be one-third, but one-half.
Chen Xin now understands why tens of thousands of people can move into a small town like his hometown, because the coastline has extended to Anhui Province! A little further east from Anqing is the sea!
Looking at these data and satellite images, Chen Xin felt extremely heavy.
After the disaster, although life was far worse than before the disaster, Chen Xin's life was actually not that bad because of his systematic connections. In addition, the situation in the city where he lived was not so bad that it was unbearable. This inevitably caused Chen Xin to suffer. The illusion is that the situation isn't actually that bad.
Especially after he went to Hubei Province and saw that the country was undergoing post-disaster reconstruction in full swing in the three towns, he even felt that this apocalyptic disaster was actually nothing. The difficulties were only temporary and everything would be fine.
But now, seeing one-tenth of the country's land sinking under the sea, one-third of the population disappearing when the disaster strikes, and all economically developed coastal areas being destroyed by the tsunami, Chen Xin understands I feel that this apocalyptic disaster is truly the end of the world.
In fact, even the city where Chen Xin is located, due to its proximity to Dongting Lake, experienced seawater backflow when the tsunami arrived. The entire lake area has expanded to the extent of Yunmengze in ancient legends.
If it weren't for the fact that the city where Chen Xin is located is a hilly landform with higher terrain, I'm afraid it would have turned into a land like the Poyang Lake area in the neighboring Gan Province.
This made Chen Xin couldn't help but lament that the civilization that took mankind thousands of years to build was like a castle on the beach in the face of apocalyptic natural disasters, easily destroyed by the waves.
For Yan State, most of the economic construction achievements achieved in the past few decades were wiped out in this disaster, and everything seemed to have gone back decades in an instant.
This makes people worry, can we really overcome the current difficulties and rebuild our homes in this disaster?
Chen Xin thought seriously, but he was not desperate.
For the people of Yan Kingdom, we have experienced too much suffering since ancient times, but we have never been defeated by disasters.
When the sky is broken, you refine stones to mend it yourself; when the flood comes, you don’t ask the prophets, you dig canals to clear them; when diseases are prevalent, you don’t ask for miracles, you try medicines to cure them yourself; when you drown in the East China Sea, you fill it up and the sun The sun shines down on those who are exposed; in the face of disaster, there are always people from the Yan Kingdom who are determined to fight to the death.
Just like what the elders said before the flood in the past, the people of Yan Kingdom are invincible! We will surely be able to overcome all suffering and rebuild our home!
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