The Great Flood

Chapter 36: 1.36 The Great Flood

Earth's Main Plane, the Gravity Equilibrium Point at Earth's center is more bustling than ever. Information from the surface is continuously sent here, then it penetrates the Space Membrane and returns from the Space Membrane. It seems that too much information has been sent, and the Quantum Birth-Death Field at the center of Earth's gravity field has also undergone unique changes.

Throughout the entire Earth's core, the rule of information echoing back and forth has caused changes in the microscopic structure of the Nickel-Iron Atoms within the core.

The technological revolution has been ongoing!

Now, a large number of High Ministers who are Transmigrators have achieved new breakthroughs in the plane system. To obtain Information Enthalpy support more conveniently, they have directly carved Energy Chips near the Earth's core.

That is, Iron-Nickel Atoms are arranged according to structure, absorbing energy through the fusion of Iron Elements in Nuclear Reactions, and absorbing energy from other Heavy Elements. During this process, the Quantum Birth-Death Field in the Earth's core records the Mass-Energy Conversion of the Main World, processing information for various planes in different dimensions.

War has allowed the first batch of Shuttlers to be independent of Earth's Information Enthalpy for a short period.

Economic independence is true independence! These first Shuttlers are the most successful beneficiaries of progress in this war. They are gradually gaining more say in the plane policy decisions of the Time-Space Management Department.

And Wei Qiang was one of the first wave of Transmigrators from Earth.

He is not the strongest. The Energy Chip on the Earth's core is only enough for him to perform three Space-Time Transfers independently.

Some people stronger than him, controlling Nuclear Energy Information Tunneling Facilities near the Earth's core, can even establish an Information Tunnel directly between two planes.

But Wei Qiang can currently access this technology, and with future development, he is destined to become a veteran of the Time-Space Administration Bureau.

Wei Qiang is currently looking at two documents.

One of them is about Wei Keng. Wei Keng's Space-Time Tunnel has been successfully communicated. Due to the High Time-Space Flow Rate Effect, the Pandora Plane is being treated as a "mine," with high Time Flow Rate being continuously extracted to accelerate decisive battles on planes with originally low Time Flow Rate.

Oh, this extraction of Space-Time Flow Rate to accelerate the Space-Time Flow Rate of another plane is also a new technology developed by the Time-Space Managers during this Plane War. This concept was initially proposed by a Transmigrator named Su Jie from this plane, and then successfully developed. The current Plane War has seen the emergence of Prodigies and Geniuses in various fields.

Regarding Wei Keng's experiences in the Different Plane, 1567 Initial Individuals died due to various factors, and three of them, when they perished on the plane, the system had not saved their complete consciousness and thoughts, as if they had vanished into thin air. Oh, in a sense, this is equivalent to a part of Human Consciousness dying.

Wei Qiang was very angry when he first saw this content! The Time-Space Management Department, after all, had not kept his foolish older brother safe, but after thinking about it, he let it go. In the end, it is the Plane War, and even he, within the Time-Space Administration Bureau, cannot pay enough Attention to those who are not in absolute mortal danger.

Now Wei Qiang also sees the reaction of the Wei Keng Collective after multiple near-death experiences.

His demeanor remains unchanged when the sky falls, his bones are unyielding against oppression, his spirit is unbroken through hardship, and his divine presence is unwavering against tyranny. His older brother has finally become a Man of Integrity.

Wei Qiang turned to another document, sent by Luo Hongxing, an old High Minister Transmigrator. In the Space-Time Region where Wei Qiang is located, on one Timeline, a strong confrontation is about to begin with the Space-Time Bureau of the Main World's West. This confrontation requires his help.

Pandora Plane, Year 2433, May 19th.

Wei Keng is conducting a Military Wargame in front of an exquisite Sand Table in his Earthen House. Of course, during the wargame, a small part of himself is undergoing drills to provide real-world basis for the wargame.

Marching, how much supplies he can carry for continuous movement, how much progress his stamina can support for a Forced March, and how long his body needs to recover after a Forced March.

And after facing the enemy, launching a charge, how the cooperation between various fireteams can organize effective resistance against the current enemy organization? The data from drills is the key basis for formulating tactical norms.

Wei Keng even practiced crawling forward while machine guns swept at a trajectory half a meter high.

Since Wei Keng was understanding himself, it could not be described from the one-way perspective of an instructor: this was to test the psychological quality of his own group when facing fire suppression.

In Wei Keng's records: this was to inoculate himself, to understand the feeling of crawling forward under machine gun fire. So that his group would not panic and be unable to do anything while lying on the ground.

The object of this staff exercise was the human city-states, including Jian City.

In the past, the three-meter-high cement city walls around these city-states, the two-meter-long stockades extending outwards from the walls, and the artillery and machine guns on the watchtowers made it impossible for Wei Keng to attack. But now, whether it was the newly acquired artillery or the explosives that his chemical plant could produce, they had a certain assault capability. Breaching these city walls had become possible.

Of course, the current strategy was to integrate the humans in this region economically, and the probability of hot war was very small. Wei Keng's policy towards humans was also to avoid hot war as much as possible.

The reason for practicing low-probability events stroke by stroke now was that the loss of 10 self individuals in the second conflict with the Yue Region Gene Colony made Wei Keng prepare contingency plans for everything with serious consequences, regardless of the probability.

Time came to June, and the typhoon arrived. Regarding the typhoon, Wei Keng had not set up weather stations on the high seas, but Wei Keng sensed abnormal phenomena in the life radiation from the ocean, so he guessed it was a typhoon.

When Wei Keng first arrived in this world last year, he was only in a residential area and only felt a few heavy rainstorms.

Typhoon paths often circled. On Treasure Island, they landed every year, sweeping across the land like scraping the ground. Other areas on the mainland only experienced cyclone impacts.

And this year's was clearly a big one. The main body of the typhoon was right here.

A super-large-scale torrential rain swept across the entire Pearl River Delta. Wei Keng and his companions, bare-chested and wearing raincoats, looked at the might of nature and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

At the same time, they were also proud of their actions!

A certain Wei Keng proudly thought: he was indeed a Yanhuang Race, naturally skilled in flood control. This should be a genetic talent, right? Yes, it must be.

Due to the lack of historical climate data, historical precipitation data, and hydrological data for various regions, Wei Keng could not analyze the annual precipitation or the flow of various river channels. Therefore, he could not adopt the strategy of 'reinforcing key river embankments' for effective dredging, but only adopted the method of prioritizing the protection of his own region.

That is, he blasted and blocked the places upstream that might encounter large-volume floods, causing the upstream water flow to divert to both sides. This was like a slope; if you blocked it slightly with your hand, the water would flow down in large volumes from the other two sides. Wei Keng, without using much labor, only built a few dams on seven upstream river channels. The specific earthwork he needed to excavate did not exceed one thousand cubic meters. This successfully caused the upstream water to stagnate for tens of kilometers, with 40% of the water diverting through hundreds of branch streams and small creeks, filling up these waterways that had not been full in previous years.

Wei Keng's residential area was basically on high ground. As long as the water level of the nearby river channels did not exceed the ruler carved on the large stones, there would be no flood.

However, from an external perspective, this method had a similar allusion in history, creating a classic idiom "using neighbors as a sewer." If Yu the Great saw Wei Keng managing floods like this, he would definitely grab his straw shoes and whip this unworthy descendant.

Wei Keng's flood control could be said to have maxed out its morally corrupt points.

Wei Keng's residential area and farmland were saved, while some jungle areas, well, these areas, which might be even higher than the farmland, were all devastated.

In the devastated areas, clumps of treetops were directly submerged by the rushing flood. Animals gathered in groups on a few large high grounds, then watched the water level rise with despair and helplessness.

On the land submerged by the rushing flood, sometimes on a tree, seven or eight strange herbivorous animals would coil their branches around the branches, looking at the terrifying scene of this vast marshland with extreme timidity. However, eventually, the soil at the root of the big tree was washed away, and dozens of animals all plopped into the water, struggling in the torrent.

China's civilization recognized the power of natural disasters very early on and invented the term 'Water and Fire are Merciless.'

Wei Keng's arrival in this plane could be described as the descent of a 'Disaster Legion.' Months ago, they set fire to the mountains on a large scale, and then immediately followed it with a great flood that swept across the land.

Oh, right. When the mountains were burned, a large number of giant trees were killed. At this time, the hillsides lacked vegetation to hold the soil, and a large amount of mud and sand flowed into the river channels. This is also why this mountain flood was so terrifying.

In other words, landslides also occurred on the hillsides in many upstream areas, and a large number of animals hiding in mountain caves were inexplicably drowned by the mudslides.

And in this natural disaster, Wei Keng had the advantage of surveying and was not retaliated against by nature. This is perhaps the advantage of grasping the 'number of days' after gaining wisdom.

The system observed from Wei Keng's perspective and estimated the situation of the flood: After Wei Keng's intervention, if it were like the Main World, the ecosystem in this region would be severely damaged for at least ten years. The populations of all native large species would be wiped out by the flood!

After all, the hillsides were covered with shrubs, and the ecosystem could only support small and medium-sized predators like wildcats and cheetahs. They all hunted in the fertile lowlands. For these species, this flood came so suddenly. It would wind through the low-lying areas, encircle them, and wipe them out piece by piece, completely.

Early Eurasian Civilization had legends of great floods. To a large extent, it wasn't the climate, but rather that as Agrarian Civilization began to settle in fertile river valleys, they unknowingly damaged nature and lacked hydraulic experience to cope. After immense damage, literature recorded these floods, which might not have been large in scale but were devastating to settled areas.

Human development inevitably offends nature, but Wei Keng, with his knowledge and experience, purely subscribes to the philosophy of "let the Daoist friends die, not me."

Thunder rumbled in the sky, but it could not give Wei Keng any effective warning!

On the distant East Ocean, the sea was covered with continuous waves five meters high. If a ten-thousand-ton ship were sailing in such conditions, its bow would constantly lift and then crash into the waves.

But now, a small island was floating steadily on the sea surface, and even the waves did not impact it. Upon closer inspection, countless sargassum-like tentacles extended around the small island, weakening the incoming waves into a rippling sea surface.

Looking closer at these sargassum, they seemed to extend from the "island's" belly.

Suddenly, in front of the small island, there was a "volcanic eruption," no, it seemed to be a Whale's Spout.

After the water mist sprayed for two seconds, a python head the size of a bus emerged. It seemed unable to lift its head due to its immense weight, only able to wriggle along the island's ridge to reach higher ground and overlook the surroundings.

This was an Apostle Level existence, a Node Creature of a super-large Gene Colony.

In Human Civilization, its codename was Mysterious Iron Black Tortoise. Of course, the model couldn't be rigidly based on human impressions of giant tortoises.

A tortoise's head is an extendable part at the front, and its entire shell is high in the middle and low at the edges.

But this creature had high outer edges forming small peaks, with a low center, like a bathtub. Its head, however, emerged from an opening on its back, like a whale's spout.

In any case, most contemporary Node Creatures did not develop according to human aesthetics.

Such Gene Colonies could even interfere with ocean currents, so the typhoon heading towards the Yue Region was, to some extent, influenced by this.

This giant python head surveyed the direction of the Yue Region from the mountain peak. In its algae-filled eye sockets, a hint of confusion seemed to appear.

In its perception, this typhoon had caused unexpected casualties to the life communities on the land there, but the new community that made it feel threatened, to the extent that it had to deploy means to interfere, seemed unharmed.

The giant python retracted into a cave within the mountain peak, and a thick, rock-colored keratinous layer sealed the entrance. This could be compared to a snail retracting into its shell and sealing the opening with a lid.

This Mysterious Iron Black Tortoise had not focused its attention southwest for the time being. For the past decade, it had been engaged in conflict with the gene colonies on the Yellow Sea Continental Shelf to the west. In human terms, the enemy of one apostle is another apostle. However, in this current year, Wei Keng had attracted its attention, and the gene colony represented by the Mysterious Iron Black Tortoise had temporarily freed up its hands to interfere.

Meanwhile, to the north of the Yue Region, large numbers of gene colonies were fleeing northward, causing considerable impact on the ecology of Northern Huguang. The vegetation along the way also showed bizarre and chaotic forms in its leaves and fruits due to the impact of the foreign gene colonies.

The Node Creatures fleeing from the south were terrified, because this time, Wei Keng had truly made these creatures experience extinction.

At the end of the Quaternary, during the Human Era, before the Pandora Field had arrived, the rate of species disappearance in the Natural World was already at the level of a Mass Extinction. Humanity's occupation of natural areas severed the habitats of vast numbers of creatures.

The Rise of humanity inherently represented a natural disaster to the entire Natural World.

When humans entered the Civilization Era and became aware of this, they could not change this contradiction. They could only hope for rapid development, to detach their material and energy acquisition from the Natural World, and thus end the competition with other natural beings at this level as soon as possible.

However, the Pandora Era had destroyed humanity, and now, it had not completely eradicated it. Someone had returned to humanity's initial attitude towards nature!

Further north, the consciousness entities in Yu City also had to divert some of their Attention from the traditional competition with the Old Human City-States on the eastern plains of the East Asia Continent, to pay attention to this 'extreme' existence to the south.

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