Under the threat of ocean giants, in just one week, the full-scale maritime transportation capacity dropped to about 9% of the previous level.
Of course, this is not a total sinking of the ocean liner. The only ships that are really sunk by ocean monsters are small ships of about a thousand tons. For ocean ships with a weight of more than 3,000 tons, it is more difficult for ocean monsters to sink them.
Not to mention super cargo ships such as 10,000-ton oil tankers, 100,000-ton container rollers, etc.
But those sailors and crew are afraid!
After the attack by sea monsters, most sailors did not dare to put their lives on the sturdiness of the ship.
These sea monsters are no pirates.
Except for a few pirates, they only use money to redeem people and ships, and they will not mess around.
But those giant ocean beasts are different, they can eat people!
Once disturbed by the giant ocean beasts, the volume of trade between human countries quickly declined.
This is also a helpless matter. Although there is still a means of air freight between continents, the cost of air transportation is too high.
What's more, many offshore oil production platforms are threatened by marine monsters, and oil production across the board has plummeted. This has reflected in the oil refining industry, which is a shortage of raw materials. Whether it is gasoline, diesel, or kerosene, prices have skyrocketed!
This has caused the cost of air transportation to increase several times compared with before. As a result, if the value of the things you transport is not high enough, the value of the goods may not be enough to offset the freight.
In short, in the half month after the spiritual energy broke out again, the entire human society and the Internet were full of bad news.
Although various countries have also conducted some efforts to guide public opinion, many things cannot be hidden at all. Too many people have seen those animals and plants that have mutated and become demonized.
What makes many netizens feel reassured is that their own dog did not rebel. Even if it became a demon and mutated, it still protected its owner and family. However, many netizens took the opportunity to take a video and it became popular on the Internet.
But as time went by, the situation became worse and worse.
More and more demonized animals and plants appear within human sight.
Take the most common weeds on the roadside as an example. Many weeds have become demonized and have the ability to absorb nutrients. To put it simply, when animals pass by and humans don't pay attention, their leaves turn into needles and blades. Cut the skin of animals and humans and take the opportunity to suck the blood.
This kind of demonizing effect is not a big problem if humans pay attention to it. Wearing a pair of boots can prevent it.
But there are many demonized plants that become taller and have certain mobility after being demonized, which is more troublesome.
Every household in My Lai likes to plant a maple tree that produces maple sugar in front of and behind the house.
After this maple tree is demonized, it has the ability to eject maple leaves to kill nearby targets.
As a result, many My Lai people were injured and hospitalized, and even worse, they were cut directly by hundreds of maple leaves and bled to death.
After all, My Lai people like to live in the countryside, and neighbors are far apart. It is difficult to notice any problems in the home without paying attention.
As a result, people may not notice until the person is dead and stinks.
And the abilities possessed by these demonized plants are also all kinds of strange.
The maple tree before that shoots leaves to kill people can only be regarded as the most common type.
A plane tree planted in an inland city of the Shang Kingdom caused a period of chaos.
These sycamore trees have neither evolved the ability to move nor the ability to kill people with their leaves. Their evolved ability is to allow a specific pig bug to eat their leaves, which can increase the aura absorption effect of the pig bug.
This kind of pig bug actually caused a lot of trouble to this city in the past.
There are a lot of them, and they mainly grow on this kind of plane tree.
Every summer, after their active period arrives, insect droppings can be seen everywhere on the streets where such sycamore trees are planted. Even these pig bugs will spin silk from time to time, fall from the sky, and fall on people's faces. on, making people scream again and again.
After the spiritual energy surged again, the size of these pig bugs on other trees changed from the size of a finger to the size of two fingers wide.
But after they eat the leaves on the sycamore tree, they become thicker than a human arm, and when humans or animals pass by the sycamore tree, they will spray out silk threads to capture and entangle their prey, and finally hang them on the sycamore tree. .
The rows of human beings wrapped in white silk and hanging from the sycamore trees were particularly terrifying to watch.
Fortunately, these pig bugs were afraid of flames, and were eventually burned clean by the emergency flamethrower.
But this kind of situation is only a small example in the whole dimension. There are many more situations that threaten human beings and feel terrifying.
After all, there is no shortage of animals and plants anywhere.
Even in the desert, which is known as a forbidden area for life, there are scorpions, spiders, lizards, ants, and drought-tolerant plants.
After absorbing spiritual energy, these animals and plants will also become demonized, posing more or less threats to humans.
Of course, it can be harmful as well as beneficial.
These demonized animals and plants are not entirely harmful to humans.
After some animals and plants were demonized, human scientists also discovered their benefits.
For example, rice, one of the most commonly consumed staple foods by humans, has experienced widespread demonization.
After some rice is demonized, the seeds that bloom and bear ears are no longer rice that can satisfy hunger. After the rice is shelled, what appears in front of people is black rice, which contains some toxins that are harmful to the human body.
There is no doubt that this part of rice has become a threat to human beings after being demonized.
The other part of the rice blooms and produces rice of several colors.
After eating red rice, it can activate human vitality and make diseases and injuries recover quickly.
Green rice can restore youthful vitality to a certain extent and reverse aging.
Long-term consumption of golden rice can give humans a chance to activate some supernatural powers.
It has to be said that spiritual energy recovery is also beneficial to humans.
However, after most crops became demonized, there was a large gap in human food sources.
After the demonization of past crops, their yields have been significantly reduced regardless of whether humans can eat them or not.
In the past, the rice yield of 2,000 jins per mu has become 600 jins per mu, and the wheat yield of 1,000 jins per mu has become 200 jins.
As a result, food shortages quickly appeared in various countries.
Countries like Shang State that are afraid of hunger and like to reserve grains are lucky. The stocks can still last for 4-5 years. If they are not careful, it is not a problem to divert the grain reserves from livestock to support them for one or two more years.
But those countries that don’t like to reserve food and have extremely low food production and need to import large amounts of food are in dire straits.
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