NCCnovel Chapter 568: At the beginning of the zombie outbreak, the top level fell
Chapter 568: At the beginning of the zombie outbreak, the top level fell
silence.
A silence so oppressive that it is suffocating, so thick that it cannot be dissolved.
Just after Qin Miao asked that question, the conference room was silent for a long time.
"Sir."
Finally, Peng Mingjing took a deep breath, stretched out his hand towards Qin Miao and said, "You may be able to find the answer in my special ability, the Sea of Memory."
Qin Miao tilted her head, feeling an inexplicable soreness in her heart.
The sudden heart palpitations made her a little at a loss, but she did not hesitate and directly held the hand extended by Peng Mingjing.
My vision gradually blurred, the scene before my eyes became disorienting, and then there was an extremely clear memory picture, as if I were there with visual sharing turned on.
On the day when the end of the world came and the zombie outbreak occurred, there was chaos in Shangjing.
Because the supreme ruler of Shangjing, who should have been the first to appease the people, fell into a coma without any warning in the early morning of that day.
The Chinese Council, which was supposed to issue the "Defense Control Decree" and the "Primary Response Strategy", was also in pieces.
No one knows how the zombie virus spread in the first batch. Nearly a quarter of the A-level leaders lost contact due to infection with the zombie virus.
Several B-rank officials, including department heads, died overnight, and those who were not infected with the virus fell into comas. Even the various S-rank institutions were plunged into chaos.
In the first week of the apocalypse, all the S-level, A-level, and B-level senior executives in various departments were lost, and only a few C-level commissioners were left in the Huachang Council. They were even unable to organize an emergency meeting, and the upper-level operations were almost completely paralyzed.
Due to the sharp decline in personnel, various departments were unable to research and control the zombie virus in a short period of time. They could only prioritize clearing out the surrounding zombies while trying to appease the public on the news channel.
No one knows why those who are not infected with the virus suddenly fall into a coma. According to online surveys, this situation has not occurred among the general public.
This situation really seems to only occur at the very top of the pyramid.
The world was struck by a sudden disaster, the social system was suddenly changed, and this seemingly extremely targeted coma was added...
The traceable cluster of cases makes the whole incident look even more confusing from a macro perspective, which inevitably makes the already anxious sober people even more uneasy.
Amidst such chaos, there were many obstacles to the establishment of official bases. Most military regions were unable to integrate supplies and manpower in the first place, let alone send teams to rescue ordinary people.
A week later, a senior leader finally awoke from his coma. He was unusually calm after waking up, handling affairs and understanding social situations almost day and night, and issuing several secret orders to various parties.
Over the next period of time, the unconscious people gradually regained consciousness, and their behavior was also normal yet calm.
Due to the delay of a whole week, the best time to deal with the disaster has obviously been missed. With the collapse of order, it is particularly difficult to fill the holes everywhere.
Kyoto was originally the most developed capital city in China and also a city with an extremely dense population.
Because of the dense population, there were many people running around in the early morning. On the day of the zombie outbreak, no one was spared in the carriage that was as crowded as a can of sardines.
The scale of the zombie outbreak in Kyoto is far larger than that in H City, where the pace of life is slower.
The number of infected people is growing like a snowball. Even with the most advanced armed forces, the entire city is still collapsing at an extremely fast speed.
Kyoto was shrouded in a huge haze during that period. The officers worked day and night, thinking about how to save the country, considering strategic deployment, and worrying that they might fall into a coma again at any time.
The atmosphere was depressing and heavy, everyone was racing against time, as if it was their last day.
The passing of time is like sand in the palm of your hand. The more you try to hold on to it, the faster it flows, catching you off guard.
In the midst of the hustle and bustle, when the order to establish a military base was finally implemented, the zombie outbreak had been going on for more than half a month.
It was at this moment, without even having time to breathe a sigh of relief, that the blade hanging over the heads of all those in high positions finally fell.
The thing that people feared most happened. All the senior executives who had previously fallen into a coma fell into a coma again. In the following days, these people died one by one in their sleep.
Their bodies disappeared into thin air.
Yes, disappeared out of thin air.
The surveillance footage showed that they were not moved, but disappeared in an instant. If one had to use a word to describe the footage in the surveillance video, "disappeared" would undoubtedly be the most appropriate.
In addition, sophisticated medical equipment also showed that they did not die of natural causes. There was no record of any large fluctuations in the values in the instrument data, and all the values suddenly became blank at a certain moment.
At that time, humans had not yet awakened their special powers. This puzzling phenomenon, which could not be explained by science and medicine, especially when zombies broke out and disaster struck, would inevitably cause even the most steady and wise people to panic.
But people are helpless.
It is not because the people below have lost the command and deployment of the top leader that they have no idea what to do.
On the contrary, most of those who can climb to high positions, even if not the top positions, but only in middle or senior positions, have wisdom and strengths beyond ordinary people.
It is precisely because these people have a certain degree of authority in their respective fields that when there is no unified strategy and no meeting results from the highest authority, they express completely different opinions due to their own considerations and concerns.
Let’s ignore for the moment those who are taking advantage of the chaos and want to make personal profits.
Just talking about the middle and senior levels who want to save the country and the people, their approaches and styles of doing things vary greatly.
The regions are almost falling apart, and the strategies of the provincial governors cannot be completely unified.
Even if it is not a mess, it is definitely not in order.
However, China is still a country with very strong unity and belonging, and the first lesson for soldiers is to obey orders unconditionally.
Although the highest-level command was lost, the highest-level instructions were still being carried out in general.
Especially the policy of [military camps], every province is trying its best to implement it.
However, with zombies rampant, labor shortages, and limited transportation of construction materials, the speed of construction in various military camps, the speed of setting up temporary shelters, and the speed of raising protective walls have all been greatly reduced.
Such a large-scale zombie mutation caused the total population in various regions of the country to drop dozens of times in a very short period of time.
There is a shortage of manpower in all walks of life. The Internet, electricity, water supply...all resources are difficult to sustain, and no one can repair them when the lines fail.
It wasn't until two months after the end of the world that the military base was built and some order was re-established.
At this time, there was no developed network, and it was impossible to make online announcements. The military base could only use the simplest method:
First, send teams to the surrounding areas to rescue as many people as possible.
Second, a loudspeaker system was set up in the military area to continuously broadcast the base coordinates and the news that there was a shelter in the military area, encouraging survivors who had relatively safe means of transportation to go there on their own.
However, everyone soon discovered that too loud a sound source would attract more zombies, so the information broadcast on the loudspeaker was set to be played three times a day, each time for one hour, in order to control the number of zombies gathering around the base.