Inside the villa, Jiang Hao browsed the news on his phone. He had ordered Xiao Xin to collect and push the world's most significant disaster reports to him every day, so he could promptly discover places that needed disaster relief.
His purpose was to earn Merit Points.
Hurricane "Rena" struck the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi in the United States. After making landfall at Haland Beach in Florida and sweeping through its southern regions, Rena entered the Gulf of Mexico, where it rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane and charged toward the United States with winds of 250 kilometers per hour.
An 8.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean. Seismologists predicted that it might have been affected by intense tectonic movement in Japan.
A dam in India collapsed. The dam had taken forty-two years to build and cost nearly 22 billion rupees, approximately 300 million US Dollars. It collapsed less than twenty-four hours after officially entering service, flooding thirty-five downstream villages and killing eighteen people. The management claimed the collapse had been caused by rats burrowing holes.
Sudden floods and landslides in Nepal caused forty-five deaths.
Torrential rain continued to fall in southeastern Mexico, causing water levels in multiple rivers to surge and triggering floods. Nearly 430,000 people were affected.
Australia continued to suffer from high temperatures and drought. Parts of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, and other areas had received below-average rainfall for fifteen consecutive months. According to Australia's meteorological authorities, the drought would continue.
A major influenza outbreak erupted in the United States.
As Jiang Hao read the news, he felt rather helpless. On this planet, Heavenly Calamities truly never stopped, every moment of every day.
Many people constantly talked about mankind conquering and transforming nature. Jiang Hao only wanted to say that anyone who