crisis management game.

Chapter 181 "Man-made" Natural Disasters
Or, what do they know?
Gu Ji narrowed his eyes imperceptibly. This idea has a taste of "conspiracy theory", but it is not impossible, especially the second possibility is very strong.

You must know that the special border forces appear to be under the jurisdiction of the Indian military region, but in fact they are more closely connected with the intelligence agencies. In addition to guarding and performing duties on the Indian border, they will also perform spy infiltration and harassment and sabotage operations when necessary. It was established by the United States. The CIA and the Indian Intelligence Service are responsible for the training, and the modus operandi has been kept so secret that the military staff doesn't even know much about its movements.

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

Moreover, the flood in Assam is a bit suspicious compared to West Bengal. The latter was caused by the continuous pressure on the dam under the heavy rainfall of the tropical storm, which caused the embankment to break and cause a catastrophic flood. The former broke out when the heavy rain came. forward.

Although he once analyzed the cause of the "glacier break" in front of the Disaster Minister Anurag.

However, the melting of glaciers generally occurs in the summer of India. Now it is mid-to-late October, and the weather has already turned cold. It stands to reason that the probability of a rupture is very low.

The last thing that made him suspicious was the content of the chat with Guahati County Magistrate Kieran.

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

Looking back now, the crash site seems to be 40 kilometers north of Dispur, near the southern foot of the Himalayas. It is hard not to associate the three.

Swaraj's eyelids trembled.

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

"It's understandable, so how about it, can you just send me to Disbull?"

"Count me in too!"

Unexpectedly, Fatima's voice came from behind.

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 and help. Nobody doesn't like taking credit.

Marlowe glanced 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 Calcutta from the air. The whole city was like a sunken super giant cruise ship. Supported, Matan Park turned into a smear of blackness, without a trace of green, which is enough to show how many fleeing people gathered on it.

Along the way, he tentatively asked some questions about the loud noises in the Himalayas.

Because Anurag mentioned to him at the time that the Ministry of Agriculture and Disaster Management had conducted a preliminary investigation. According to local villagers, before the flood broke out, they all heard a loud noise.

Marlowe simply said something perfunctory about this, saying that he did not know the specific situation.

This further confirmed Gu Ji's guess.

As a semi-intelligence force of the military, they don't care about the abnormal noise in the mountains. Aren't they afraid of a plane crash or a missile attack?
The flight from Kolkata to Dispur is about half an hour.

Four or five days have passed, and the stagnant water in Assam has dropped a lot. Grass can be seen in many high-lying areas, and most of the houses are exposed to the water. In the airport, the state fire brigade and construction engineering team are rushing to repair Infrastructure, do a good job in post-disaster reconstruction.

Since Gu Ji had been meditating, Marlowe and the others were also in a hurry to return to the base, so 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 a meal.

"They're going too fast, Viddy, let's take a break, or..."

"Avoid the disaster center to understand the basic situation, prepare vehicles, personnel and supplies, and the focus must be on the villages at the southern foot of the Himala Mountains. We have to go to the northern border of the state!"

"You have so much energy!"

Fatima muttered something, but followed quickly.

For Gu Ji, the investigation must be done quickly, otherwise it will be much more difficult to find out the truth of the disaster once the military has sealed up all the evidence.

The two borrowed a car and rushed to the disaster evacuation center.

They never expected that they would become "big stars" in Assam. As soon as they got out of the car, many government officials surrounded them. It spread to the outside world.

Ignoring those close friends, Gu Ji went straight to the investigation team officials from the Department of Agriculture and the Disaster Management Department, and questioned the personnel who were in charge of the field investigation in Nanlu Village in the Himalayas.

In the few days since he left, he did not expect the return government to make a new discovery.

A middle-aged official in a blue vest and white shirt took out a document. He is the person in charge of the post-flood investigation. The main reason, the real main reason, is corruption and the mismanagement of the Brahmaputra river. Over the past five years, millions of dollars that should have been used for flood control have been misappropriated by the Minister of Water Resources, Brahmaputra. The dykes along the river are in disrepair and the flood control management is not in place.”

"Before and after the flood, corruption was as rampant as ever. The water department even expected the flood because they could make a fortune in repairing the dams and distributing relief supplies. An official from the tax department mentioned that the chief minister had found that the accounts of the state disaster relief fund were not correct. , and contacted the Minister of Water Resources many times, but unfortunately his whereabouts are still unknown.”

"Has anyone been found yet?"

Gu Ji was slightly taken aback.

It has been more than a week since the flood broke out in Assam, and the stagnant water has subsided by half. Unexpectedly, there are still no clues.

The blue vest official shook his head and sighed.

"The police only found the bodies of the Chief Minister and the accompanying secretary in the impact area downstream, but not the Minister of Water Resources. After a preliminary forensic examination, the two had a fight with someone before their death. As for whether the Minister of Water Resources did it, it is still unclear. "

Good guy, he really got him right.

Gu Ji suspected at the beginning whether the Minister of Water Resources would abscond in fear of crime and a murder would occur. He did not expect that this was the case, and it was even darker. It turned out that he did not conceal the report to avoid responsibility, but deliberately waited for the flood to occur, so as to take advantage of the opportunity. Make a fortune.

But if this is the truth, then the system should now remind him that the goal has been completed.

Since the game doesn't respond.

It means that the truth is not the case, or that he still lacks certain necessary conditions.

"Have you found the engineering team responsible for the dam repair of the water conservancy department?"

"I found it. They also admitted that there were insufficient budgets or deductions from the upper management during the construction and repairs. However, the chief engineer of Bangshui Conservancy is also missing. Maybe this is the punishment of Lord Shiva for them!"

The blue vest officials shrugged their shoulders, as if thinking that they had all died in the floods. After all, hundreds if not thousands of people go missing in India every year due to floods.

But Gu Ji raised his eyebrows.

Missing too, what a coincidence?

"Excluding human factors, are you sure that the glacier rupture caused the flood?"

"It is confirmed that the investigators sent by the Department of Agriculture have visited the front section of the Brahmaputra River and indeed found traces of the glacier breaking and hitting the river bed, and the villagers also heard the loud noise when it collapsed."

"Have you seen the glacier break?"

Gu Ji directly asked the key point.

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

"The vicinity of the glacier break has been blocked by the Mountain Division of the Fourth Army stationed on the border. It is said that it involves military secrets, but according to the traces on the river bank, it can be proved that a huge glacier avalanche fell and hit the ground after a free fall of about 2000 meters. became pulverized, creating huge landslides and dust clouds, glaciers and rocks slid down the valley and entered the Brahmaputra Valley, forming fast-flowing mudslides, huge mudslides rushed down the valley, making the entire valley The earth was shaking and the mountains were shaking, and due to the sudden and extremely fast speed of the mudslides, it was impossible to predict and forecast, and the mudslides directly destroyed the dams that could not be repaired, triggered collective flood discharges from the reservoirs, and caused major floods."

It's the military again...

With so many "coincidences" connected in series, Gu Ji can be sure that this disaster will not be as simple as it appears on the surface!
Glacier breaks may be true.

But the cause of the glacier fracture is definitely not high temperature or natural collapse!
"Vidi, the medical team from the disaster evacuation center is going to the village of Raja in Bangbek for support. Should we go with them?"

"Okay, I'll prepare right away!"

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

Since the end of the flood, the focus of the state government's work has shifted from search and rescue to post-disaster disposal and reconstruction. Currently, it is mainly facing two problems:
One is food. Because the floods have destroyed farmland and towns, the state government’s granaries have been seriously damaged. In addition, roads and trains have been blocked by landslides, and it is difficult to transport external supplies. We can only rely on the military supplies of the central cabinet. Transport planes transport food by air, but it simply cannot satisfy the consumption of nearly one million people;
The second is medical care. The disaster evacuation center lacks the necessary medical conditions. Since the urban hospitals are flooded, all the wounded have to be sent to the temporary first aid station in the disaster evacuation center for treatment. The operations are all carried out in tents. There is a serious shortage of doctors, which is even more serious. Unfortunately, at present, small-scale infectious disease incidents have occurred in disaster refuge centers and villages in various places, and medicines cannot be supplied at all.

The medical team supported the village of Kokraja this time, and it was in this village that the third round of infectious diseases broke out.

Gu had already guessed that this day would come.

As the saying goes: "After a catastrophe, there must be a catastrophe", especially for disasters with strong pollution such as floods. Due to the fluidity of water, a large amount of pollutants will be distributed to various places along with the water flow. At this time, a large number of Harmful germs such as mildew, parasites or anaerobic bacteria will gather and mix together and reproduce in large numbers.

According to the experience of the United Nations in disaster relief in the past, many government departments often only pay attention to the construction of disaster shelter tents, ignoring the provision of water and sanitation facilities, especially the sanitation conditions in India are inherently poor, and many people in Assam lack foundation common sense of hygiene.

The temporary tents and houses where the residents live in the disaster refuge center are relatively simple and crowded, with poor air circulation and poor sanitary conditions. In addition, when water resources are scarce and the living environment is polluted, respiratory infectious diseases and intestinal infectious diseases are most likely to occur. Transmission, such as influenza, measles, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery and so on.

Fire rescue and infrastructure personnel are immersed in water for a long time, which can easily lead to various skin diseases. There are also a large number of rodents and animals migrating to highlands due to stagnant water, which can even cause death from leptospirosis and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. High rate of severe infectious diseases.

Arrive in Bangbei Koraja County.

Because it is close to the Himalayas and the terrain is high, it is the first to escape from the accumulated water and floods. Looking around, Gu Ji saw the long stretches of snow-capped mountains and ice peaks standing in the sky. The giant, overlooking the movement of the village at the foot of the mountain, is majestic and magnificent.

Compared with the flooded towns of Dispur and Gauhati, the villages in the southern foothills of the mountains suffered from mudslides.

The village is in a mess, the houses are collapsed, collapsed, crumbled like cardboard boxes, the ground is devastated, and all are muddy stones. Some villagers can only live on the hillside in temporary tents issued by the government.

Gu Ji and Fatima split into two groups.

He was in charge of visiting the masses, while Fatima followed the medical team and interviewed those who were sick, especially those who had experienced the flood firsthand.

It's a pity that he asked a lot, and what the villagers said was almost the same as that of the person in charge of the blue vest.

"Fatima, how are you doing?"

"The reason is also the glacier breaking. It seems that this is the cause of the flood. It's just that these villagers are suffering. Their illnesses are very serious, but our medical conditions..."

When Gu Ji found Fatima, she was obviously a little disappointed.

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

"What disease?"

"The doctor said that drinking unclean water may have caused intestinal infection, nausea and vomiting, and an old man had intestinal bleeding, which caused bloody diarrhea."

"Hemorrhagic diarrhea? Take me to see it."

The two came to the temporary medical point while talking.

Gu Ji put on a mask and opened the curtain of the tent. There were one or two rows of carpets inside. Yes, there were no hospital beds. The patients lay side by side on the ground, coughing weakly, as if they were sleeping in a detention center bunk.

He came to the old man that Fatima had mentioned. He looked about six or seventy years old, with a red hat, a white beard, and a red spot between his eyebrows. He was looking at him weakly.

At this time, the doctor is instructing the officials in charge of the isolation point to pay attention to the conditions of the water source.

However, Gu Ji noticed that the skin on the old man's neck and cheeks was a little red, but his head did not have any symptoms of fever. This did not fit the symptoms of an intestinal infection, but rather a skin ulcer.

"Cough cough cough..."

At this time, a muscular Indian boy behind him suddenly coughed violently. He took off the handkerchief and saw that the sputum inside was all bloodshot.

Gu Ji frowned slightly and asked.

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

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

As the Indian brother was talking, he suddenly felt his nasal cavity heat up, wiped his handkerchief, and his nose bleeds.

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

Gu Ji thought about these symptoms in his heart, his pupils shrank suddenly, and asked hastily, "Did you feel fatigued and lost your appetite at the beginning?"

Many patients nodded their heads.

Fatima thought he had come up with some solution. After all, on the train, she saw Gu Ji help the wounded to stop the bleeding and treat the wound, so he must know medicine. "Vidi, do you have a cure?"

"Not yet, I need to test it."

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

After returning to the disaster evacuation center, he first sent the blood to the temporary medical aid station to do a routine blood test. The blood cell detector is one of the most widely used instruments in clinical testing in hospitals. transferred out.

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

Sure enough, the red blood cell count decreased, the hemoglobin concentration decreased, the white blood cell count decreased, and the platelet count decreased. The four patients randomly sampled, without exception, all had this result.

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

Kokraja Village suffered from nuclear radiation!

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

"Nuclear radiation? How can there be nuclear radiation in such a good way?"

"That's up to the military."

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

Theoretically, unless they encounter strong nuclear radiation, it is impossible for the villagers of Kokraja to suffer from such a serious intestinal bleeding disease in a short period of time, and he, Fatima and others have been in close contact with the village, but they did not feel dizzy or nauseated. Waiting for symptoms, it means that this kind of nuclear radiation existed a long time ago, and the high probability is that the water source was polluted by the upstream.

The southern foot of the Himalayas in Assam has been controlled by the Indian Army Mountain Division.

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

"It's just that they all disappeared. Maybe they were transferred and fled after the incident, maybe they were silenced by the military. Now the only clue left is the Geological Monitoring Bureau!"

"I go with you!"

Fatima also wants to find out what secrets are hidden in it. It is worth flooding more than 3000 million people in Assam and displacing nearly a million refugees.

The two came to the office tent of the Geological Monitoring Bureau. Many officials and technicians inside were rescued by the two of them in the water search and rescue that night, so everyone's attitude was extremely enthusiastic.

Gu Ji went straight to the point.

"We're looking for surveyors for the dams in the Brahmaputra basin, especially in the front section."

"The front section of the river is full of old dams. Those were basically surveyed by Chief Prim himself, but he has not been found yet."

The one who answered him was an Indian scholar with silver hair and wearing a white coat. It was Professor Nan Deo who told Gu Ji that the Minister of Water Resources and the Chief Minister were quarreling in the conference room.

"Missing again?"

Fatima couldn't help asking, "Professor, does anyone else know about the Himalayas?"

"What exactly do you want to ask?"

"We would like to ask about nuclear radiation. The villagers of Kokraja were contaminated by nuclear radiation, and many people suffered from radiation sickness. Are there radioactive minerals in the Himalayas?"

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

According to the current clues, Gu Ji believes that it is likely that the military drilled 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 brought him to a remote location.

"Professor, you must know something. Now the whole village is suffering from radiation sickness. If we don't find out the truth, the whole of Assam, and even all the people along the Brahmaputra River, will suffer from radiation sickness." Cancer from radiation."

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

"I……"

Nan Deao was hesitant to speak again. He looked at Gu Ji and thought that the other party was his savior, so he told all he knew, "Prime and I are old friends for many years. Yes, once after drinking, I heard him say that there are many experimental nuclear devices buried in the Himalayas in cooperation between the US and the Indian military!"

what! ?

Fatima almost exclaimed.

Even Gu Ji didn't expect that the truth of the matter is even more terrifying than a radioactive mine!
But soon, a report flashed through his mind.

That was an anecdote reported by the BBC British Broadcasting Corporation. However, for the villagers in Rainey Village, many people did not believe this statement, because the time of the incident was February, which was in winter, and it was impossible for the glacier to melt and break.

Through a reporter's visit and investigation, it was discovered that generations of people in the village believed that nuclear devices were buried under the snow and rocks in the Himalayas. It was these devices that "exploded" that caused the glacier to break and cause floods.

The BBC further explained that all this actually originated from the cooperation between the United States and India in the 20s to place nuclear power monitoring equipment in many places in the Himalayas to monitor the spy intelligence incidents of Xia Guo's nuclear test and missile launch.

Although the reason for this incident was not found out in the end, it is not a day or two for the BBC to report "fake news".

But the villagers at the foot of the Himalayas have always believed in this truth.

The story of Nandeo is similar to this version, except that the spy monitoring has been replaced by laboratory research. It seems that the two militaries are secretly manufacturing something, but because of an avalanche accident eight years ago, the laboratory was destroyed. A lot of equipment is lost, stuck in glaciers, no one knows where those nuclear devices are, and no one knows what will happen.

But what is certain is that this device will always be radioactive, and it may leak into the snow in the Himalayas and infiltrate the river system in India. The military also sent people to search it. Until now, the southern foot of the Himalayas is still there In the blockade of the military mountain division.

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

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

"Remedy? I think it was a cover-up. It was the nuclear device reaction that the US-India military cooperation laboratory missed, which caused the glacier to break, and because the water conservancy infrastructure cut corners and corruption, it did not play its due role in preventing it. The flood tragedy, it can be said that this should be a natural disaster caused by 'man-made'!"

Gu Ji just finished speaking.

[Hidden target: Finding the truth about flash floods in Assam completed! 】

[Statistics of level settlement in progress...]

　I'm sorry, the day and night are completely reversed now. I wake up and eat during the day and I'm still sleepy. I sleep until after 555 o'clock in the evening. Instead, I feel very energetic at night. [-]...

　
(End of this chapter)