At this mont, in the distant Lucia Capital, the situation was far worse than within Fla Country, and many places could only be described as Hell on earth.
Due to the pandemic, although Lucia had a relatively well-established shelter system, they lacked the manpower to operate them now, leading to severe shortages in food, heating, and dical care.
Each shelter in Lucia Capital faced the predicant of interrupted heating, insufficient food supply, and the direst—the inability to promptly treat patients.
Interrupted heating and insufficient food supply were tolerable hardships; after all, in this kind of environnt, people could endure temporary difficulties.
However, problems arising from the lack of tily treatnt for patients were extrely severe.
The spread of the pandemic itself easily incites panic; even before the disaster, if a disease started spreading in a city, even if hospitals had the capacity to treat it, it could easily lead to panic and fear among people, causing them to rush to buy necessities, dicines, and even inciting riots.
What’s more now, with the outside environnt extrely harsh and no one able to go out, being stuck in a shelter was akin to being put in an enclosed environnt.
If there was no infection, people’s emotions could remain relatively stable; after all, in a closed environnt, one could console themselves that the disease and infected wouldn’t co in.
But if infection breaks out within the enclosed shelter...
Ever seen zombies unleashed from a zombie movie? In utter desperation, seeking a way out, people driven to extres are more terrifying than zombies.
And now in Lucia Capital, diseases were spreading in shelters, with so infections quite severe.
The speed of the disease’s spread had exceeded Lucia’s official control, and even the dical system itself was rife with infected, unable to effectively treat patients or curb the pandemic’s spread.
The dical team sent by Fla Country had limited manpower and resources, making it hard to make a significant impact. Though they had treated so patients and assisted Lucia’s doctors in treating infections, their limited resources only provided minimal help to Lucia.
It’s like trying to benefit the ocean with a drop of water.
They mainly ensured the health of the mbers aboard the two arks, Xu Dog and Hai Pig, collecting virus strains for vaccine production.
Despair spread throughout Lucia Capital, turning every corner into Hell on earth.
It’s like a powder keg with its fuse lit, waiting to explode once the fuse burns out.
As Murphy’s Law states, if there are two or more ways to do sothing, and one of them will lead to disaster, then soone will choose that way.
In such extre circumstances, soone opted for an even more extre approach, triggering a riot in one of the shelters where the infection wasn’t particularly severe, spreading faster than the disease itself, plunging Lucia Capital into utter chaos.
This couldn’t be said to be the wrong choice; under the pressure of disease, hunger, and cold, people choosing extre thods to vent their emotions was normal, but in current circumstances, it was the worst choice.
Lucia was already in despair and chaos, with the officials trying hard to keep things from collapsing entirely. If they could provide effective treatnt for the infected and produce vaccines, or if Fla Country could spare more resources to aid Lucia, there would still be a glimr of hope.
But a riot now would cause the order, which could hold a little longer, to collapse completely, dragging everything into the abyss.
With order lost and everything thrown into chaos, the fragile situation they had been maintaining would collapse. Without an operative official system and dical power, Lucia would face death from cold and disease.
No one would strive to treat the infected, no one would distribute food, no one would provide shelter protection...
Everything descended into chaotic disorder, with people smashing everything in sight, destroying, engaging in violence, and chaos—the destruction of everything that could have offered survival hope.
But everyone fell into a fever pitch; the rational ones who tried to stop it were knocked down, trampled by countless feet.
No one could stop the fervent and surging crowd in the chaos, nor could anyone prevent this.
Even though Lucia’s leaders deployed the army, they only managed to curb the spread of the riots, unable to stop further deterioration of the situation.
After all, even the army was infected by the disease, with many soldiers ill, facing a manpower shortage.
Unless Lucia’s leaders ordered the army to attack the rioters, the limited military forces they could mobilize were powerless to stop the uprising.
Yet even if the rioters couldn’t break through the army, the impact of the riot still spread, dragging more areas into unrest, leaving the already overwheld Lucia officials struggling to cope.
Furthermore, so rioters charged towards the dical team sent by Fla Country, aiming to seize the two arks sent by Fla Country.
Fortunately, once the pandemic spread, the two arks hadn’t landed, managing to distance themselves from the ground amidst the turmoil and thus remained unaffected.
But there were still patients aboard the arks, and so rescue team mbers trapped at Lucia’s dical institutions on the ground.
In such circumstances, it’s clear that the arks couldn’t simply take off and leave; they had to at least rescue the trapped rescue team mbers.
Though the rescue team carried certain ard capability, so soldiers had to remain on the ark to protect it, while others had already joined rescue team mbers in Lucia’s dical institutions.
Originally there to protect the rescue team, now they themselves were trapped on the ground.
Faced with such a predicant, seeking help from Lucia’s officials was no longer a viable solution. After consulting, the captains of the two arks and the rescue team leaders sent a distress signal ho.
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