Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 684: The Remnants of the Heretical Sect
Ke Lan went to see Ye Yan once when she returned to the Ark , but was turned away - according to Ye Yan's subordinates, their young master had only taken a plane to circle over the damaged area of the Ark since he came back from Yaguna Kotor, and then locked himself in the room and refused to come out.
Fortunately, Ye Yan still ate the meals delivered to him every day. Although he ate very little, at least he didn't starve to death.
Ke Lan originally wanted to find his fiancée to counsel him, but after asking the people around him, he found out that when the disaster happened, the eldest daughter of the Song family was temporarily staying at the Ye family for some reason.
If I had known this earlier, I should have not asked... Ke Lan thought to himself... Not only was the family almost wiped out and all the assets lost, but even his childhood sweetheart and fiancée, who he had "played with since childhood", died in this disaster. No wonder Ye Yan became like this... If Ke Lan himself encountered such a thing, he would also be in seclusion for several days.
He could only ask the people who were taking care of Ye Yan to keep an eye on him and not let this guy do anything stupid. As for everything else, he would have to leave it to time.
"I guess Senator Dylan won't be able to leave the medical cabin for the time being. Let's go there first." After Ke Lan said this, he took the lead and walked towards the disaster area.
Xia Houying, wearing protective clothing, and a group of accompanying personnel hurriedly followed.
The road from the camp to the disaster-stricken area has been cleared, with garrison soldiers wearing protective equipment standing on both sides. From time to time, a few trucks pass by the crowd - these trucks are loaded with usable supplies searched from the ruins. After being cleaned, screened and sorted in the camp, they will be sent to the transfer point. As for the subsequent recycling and repair work, that is the responsibility of other departments.
The further they went, the higher the radiation intensity became. The Geiger counter hanging on the waist of the accompanying soldier kept beeping, and the crackling noise of electricity continued to come from the headphones that Ke Lan was wearing.
The asphalt originally laid on the road had evaporated, and even the concrete roadbed had cracked due to the high temperature, breaking into countless pieces. Cracks wide enough to swallow a person could be seen everywhere. The disaster relief troops could only cover these cracks with steel plates for the time being, and had no time to repair the road.
Everywhere you look, there are collapsed buildings and broken large steel structures. Many heat-sensitive materials have evaporated or melted. A billboard has fallen from a great height and stuck on top of a pile of ruins. The words and pictures on the billboard have become a blur, and one can only vaguely make out the original main colors of yellow and red.
"How many survivors have been rescued in this area?" Ke Lan asked the entourage.
The other party hesitated for half a second before whispering, "Zero... No survivors were found here."
"Not one?"
“Although this place is several kilometers away from the disaster-stricken area, the temperature in this area instantly reached nearly a thousand degrees when the disaster occurred... When the first rescue team arrived, all they could find were roasted corpses..."
“…”
"Even in the areas behind the camp, the immediate survival rate is only about 60%, and this number is still declining..." The accompanying staff continued, "Many seriously injured people need treatment, but there are not enough beds, medical staff, medicines and medical equipment. We can only give up some people with serious injuries and low surgical success rates, and turn to rescuing those with high survival rates... In addition, there are... There are quite a few affected people suffering from acute radiation sickness. In the next few months..."
He didn't continue.
"A considerable number of people have been affected . How many are they? I need to hear the exact number," Ke Lan pressed.
"Yes... almost everyone." The man lowered his head, not daring to look Ke Lan in the eye. "At the moment the disaster occurred, no one had time to take any protective measures. Even the first people to be rescued were exposed to high radiation for several hours."
“How many people are there in this group?”
"There are at least 300,000 people stranded in the treatment centers in South District 3 and South District 4 alone. Almost every one of them has radiation sickness... Moreover, they themselves are like mobile radiation sources. Even if some of them suffer from mild or chronic radiation sickness, it won't be long before..."
“Isn’t there enough space to house all these people?”
"No..." The other party shook his head. "The damage to various plots in the southern area is also very serious... The total number of ordinary injured people is also huge. We can't transfer these radioactive patients to the wards for ordinary injured people. It will only make the situation worse."
"What about medicine? Can these people suffering from radiation sickness get medicine?"
"There are currently 147 pharmaceutical factories on the Ark that are capable of producing radiation-eliminating drugs. Each assembly line is running 24 hours a day... But compared to the number of patients, the amount of drugs shipped is still a drop in the bucket. Only about 20% of the patients can get the drugs. Moreover, even for these 20% of people, the drugs they get are only enough for one course of treatment, which can only temporarily relieve the disease."
"There's one more thing." Another accompanying staff member spoke up. He was wearing a protective suit with a military emblem and armband. He was from the garrison. "The convoy responsible for transporting medicines has been attacked many times by unidentified enemies. According to the intelligence department and the security bureau, those people should be the remnants of the heretical sect."
"Can't we add more guards along the way? Just like here." After hearing the word "heretic sect", Ke Lan couldn't help but feel a deep disgust. Although the prophet was dead, those remnants obviously did not stop there. Instead, they took advantage of the current chaotic situation and became more arrogant.
"Strengthen the patrol force and mobilize all the people in the Security Bureau... If the manpower is still not enough, transfer people from the Crisis Management Department. In addition, all the remnants of the heretical sects who are captured should not be executed directly, but hung up with iron hooks and inserted on both sides of the road... For such people, perhaps only sufficiently brutal and bloody means can deter them." Ke Lan said.
"If we do this...will we be attacked by the media..." the accompanying staff member said with some concern.
"If any media dare to voice opposition, hang them up... Anyone who dares to speak for the heretic sect at this time is either a stupid saint or an accomplice of the heretic sect... If you insist on talking about human rights, those beasts of the heretic sect are not even human beings, so what human rights can they talk about?"
