Chapter 181 “Man-made” natural disasters

Chapter 181 “Man-made” natural disasters

In other words, what do they know?

Gu Ji narrowed his eyes imperceptibly. This idea had a bit of a "conspiracy theory" flavor, but it was not impossible, especially the second possibility.

You must know that the Special Border Force appears to be under the jurisdiction of the Indian Military District, but in fact it is more closely connected with the intelligence department. In addition to guarding the Indian border, its main tasks are also to carry out spy infiltration and harassment and sabotage operations when necessary. When it was first established, it was organized by the United States The CIA and the Indian Intelligence Service were responsible for the training, and the mode of operation was kept secret so that the military staff was not even aware of its movements.

On this basis, Swaraj, Maro and others must know a lot about the Himalayas.

Moreover, the floods in Assam are a bit suspicious compared to those in West Bengal. In the latter, heavy rainfall from tropical storms continued to press against the dam body, causing the embankments to break and cause catastrophic floods. In the former, the outbreak time was when heavy rains came. forward.

Although he once analyzed the cause of "glacier breakage" in front of Disaster Minister Anurag.

However, glacier melting generally occurs in the Indian summer. It is now mid-to-late October, and the weather has already turned cold. Logically speaking, the probability of glaciers breaking is very low.

The last thing that made him suspicious was the content of his original chat with Guwahati County Magistrate Kiran.

Gu Ji once asked Kieran about the specific details of his father's plane crash, but the latter said that after the Civil Aviation Administration of China's investigation was completed, the final work would be handed over to the military.

Looking back now, the crash site seems to be 40 kilometers north of Dispur, near the southern foothills of the Himalayas. It is difficult not to associate the three.

Swaraj's eyelids twitched.

Marlowe seemed to understand, and turned around and said: "Sorry Vidi, our return route involves military secrets, and it is impossible to bring you near the base."

"It's understandable. How about this? Can you send me to Dispur?"

"Count me in too!"

Unexpectedly, Fatima's voice came from behind.

It turned out that after she reported Gu Ji's matter to Anurag, the minister was afraid that it would be difficult for him to investigate alone, so he asked Fatima to come over to help. As for the task of reporting back to the prime minister, it was left to the minister and the director. After all, No one likes to take credit.

Marlow looked at the two men, nodded, and agreed to land in the capital of Assam.

After the helicopter took off, Gu Ji also saw the entire city of Kolkata from the air. The entire city was like a sunken super-giant cruise ship. The entire hull was buried in the water, and only the upper decks were still suffering. With the support, Matan Park turned even darker, with no trace of green in sight, which was enough to show how many people who were fleeing gathered there.

Along the way, he asked tentative questions about the loud noises in the Himalayas.

Because Anurag mentioned to him at that time that the Ministry of Agriculture and Disaster Management had conducted a preliminary investigation. According to local villagers, they all heard a loud noise before the flood broke out.

Marlowe just made a few perfunctory remarks about this, saying that he didn't know the specific situation.

This further confirmed Gu Ji's guess.

As a semi-intelligence force of the military, they actually don't care about abnormal noises in the mountains. Aren't they afraid of plane crashes or missile attacks?

The flight from Kolkata to Dispur takes about half an hour.

Four or five days have passed, and the accumulated water in Assam has dropped a lot. Grassland can be seen in many high-lying areas, and most of the houses are exposed to the water. At the airport, the state fire brigade and construction engineering teams are seizing the time to make repairs. infrastructure and do a good job in post-disaster reconstruction.

Because Gu Ji had been deep in thought and Marlow and others were in a hurry to return to the base, as soon as the helicopter landed, the two sides left in a hurry, so that Fatima did not have time to retain these soldiers for a meal.

"They are moving too fast, Vidi, let's take a rest first, or..."

"The disaster avoidance center will understand the basic situation and prepare vehicles, personnel and supplies. The focus must be on the villages at the southern foot of the Himalayan Mountains. We have to go to the northern border!"

"You have so much energy!"

Fatima muttered something in her mouth and followed quickly.

For Gu Ji, the investigation must be done quickly, otherwise it would be much more difficult to find out the truth of the disaster once the military seals up all the evidence.

The two borrowed a car and rushed to the disaster relief center.

They never expected that they would become "big stars" in Assam. As soon as they got off the car, many government officials gathered around them. It seemed that they had already met the Prime Minister to deal with the floods in West Bengal. It spread to the outside world.

Ignoring those who wanted to get close, Gu Ji went straight to the investigation team officials from the Department of Agriculture and the Ministry of Disaster Management, and asked the people who were responsible for the field inspection of the villages in the southern foothills of the Himalayas.

During the few days he left, he didn't expect that the returning government would make new discoveries.

A middle-aged official wearing a blue vest and white shirt took out a document. He was the person in charge of the post-flood investigation. “After many investigations, we finally believed that the glacier break was the cause of the flood. The main reason, the real main reason, is corruption and mismanagement of the Brahmaputra River. In the past five years, millions of dollars that should have been used for flood control have been misappropriated by the Minister of Water Resources, Brahmaputra The embankments along the river are in disrepair and flood control management is inadequate."

"Before and after the floods, corruption was as rampant as ever. The water conservancy department even expected the floods to break out because they could make a fortune from repairing the embankments and distributing relief materials. An official from the finance and taxation department mentioned that the chief minister had discovered errors in the accounts of the state disaster relief fund. , and have contacted the Minister of Water Resources many times, but unfortunately his whereabouts are still unknown."

"He hasn't been found yet?"

Gu Ji was slightly startled.

More than a week has passed since the floods broke out in Assam, and most of the water has receded. Unexpectedly, there are still no clues.

The blue vest official shook his head and sighed.

"The police only found the bodies of the chief minister and accompanying secretary in the downstream impact area, but not the water resources minister. After preliminary forensic examination, it was found that the two had a fight with someone before their death. As for whether it was the water resources minister who did it, it has not yet been determined. "

Good guy, I really got him right.

Gu Ji initially suspected that the Minister of Water Resources would abscond in fear of crime and commit a murder. Unexpectedly, this was actually the case, and it was even darker. It turned out that he concealed it not to evade responsibility, but to deliberately wait for the flood to occur in order to take advantage of the situation. Make a fortune.

But if this is the truth, then the system should prompt him now that his goal is completed.

Since nothing happens in the game.

It means that the truth is not the case, or that he still lacks certain necessary conditions.

"Have you found the engineering team responsible for the dam repair work of the Water Conservancy Department?"

"Looking for it, they also admitted that there was insufficient budget or deduction from the upper management during the construction and repair. However, the whereabouts of the chief water conservancy engineer are currently unknown. Maybe this is God Shiva's punishment for them!"

The blue vest officials shrugged their shoulders, seeming to think that they had all died in the floods. After all, hundreds, if not thousands, of people go missing due to floods in India every year.

But Gu Ji raised his eyebrows.

He also disappeared. What a coincidence?

"Excluding human factors, are you sure it was a glacier break that caused the flood?"

"It is confirmed that investigators sent by the Department of Agriculture visited the front section of the Brahmaputra River and indeed found traces of the glacier breaking off and impacting the river bed. The villagers also heard a loud noise when the collapse occurred."

"Have you seen the glacier break?"

Gu Ji asked directly about the key points.

The official in blue vest shook his head, but his tone was particularly firm.

"The area near the glacier break has been blocked by the Mountain Division of the Fourth Army stationed at the border. It is said to involve military secrets, but the traces on the river bank can prove that the huge glacier collapsed, and after a free fall of about two thousand meters, it hit the ground. , became pulverized, producing huge landslides and dust clouds. Glaciers and rocks slid down the valley and entered the Brahmaputra Valley, forming a fast-moving debris flow. The huge debris flow impacted down the valley, causing the entire valley to The whole city was shaken. Due to the sudden occurrence and extremely fast speed of the mudslide, it was impossible to predict and predict it. The mudslide directly destroyed the dam that was not repaired, causing collective flood discharge from the reservoir, causing a major flood."

It’s the military again…

With so many "coincidences" connected in a series, Gu Ji can be sure that this disaster will not be as simple as it seems!

The glacier break may be true.

But the cause of glacier breakage is definitely not high temperature or natural collapse!

"Vidi, the medical team from the disaster evacuation center is going to the Kokraja village in Bangbei to provide support. Do we want to go with them?"

"Okay, I'll get ready right away!"

At this time, Fatima also figured out the current basic situation in Assam.

Since the floods ended, the state government's focus has shifted from search and rescue to post-disaster disposal and reconstruction. It currently faces two main problems:

One is food, because floods have destroyed farmland and towns, and the state government's granary has been severely damaged. In addition, road and train traffic have been blocked by landslides, and it is difficult to transport external supplies. We can only rely on the central cabinet's military supplies. Transport planes transport food by air, but it cannot satisfy the consumption of nearly one million people;

The second is medical care. Disaster evacuation centers lack necessary medical conditions. Since urban hospitals have been flooded, all injured people currently have to be sent to temporary first aid stations in disaster evacuation centers for treatment. Operations are all performed in tents. There is a serious shortage of doctors, which is even more serious. Unfortunately, small-scale infectious disease incidents have occurred in disaster relief centers and villages in various places, and medicines are simply not available.

This time the medical team supported the village of Kokraja, where the third round of infectious diseases broke out.

Gu Gu had already guessed that this day would come.

As the saying goes: "After a major disaster, there will be a major epidemic." Especially for highly polluting disasters such as floods, due to the fluidity of water, a large amount of pollutants will be dispersed to various places along with the water flow. At this time, a large amount of Bacteria harmful to the human body such as mold, parasites or anaerobic bacteria will gather and mix together and multiply in large quantities.

Based on the past disaster relief experience of various countries, the United Nations shows that many government departments often only focus on building disaster shelter tents and neglect to provide water and sanitation facilities. In particular, India’s sanitation conditions are inherently poor, and many people in Assam lack the basics. hygiene knowledge.

The temporary tents and houses where residents live in disaster evacuation centers are relatively simple and crowded, with poor air circulation and poor sanitary conditions. In addition, when water resources are scarce and the living environment is polluted, respiratory and intestinal infectious diseases are most likely to occur. Transmission, such as influenza, measles, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery, etc.

Long-term immersion in water for fire rescue and infrastructure personnel can easily lead to various skin diseases. There are also a large number of rats and animals that migrate to highlands due to stagnant water, which can even cause death from leptospirosis, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, etc. High rates of severe infectious diseases.

Arrive in Kokraja County, North Bangbang.

Because it is close to the Himalayas and the terrain is high, it is the first place to be freed from stagnant water and floods. Looking around, Gu Ji saw the long and long snow-capped mountains and ice peaks standing in the sky, like silver peaks under the aqua blue sky. The giant, overlooking the village at the foot of the mountain, is majestic and spectacular.

Compared with towns such as Dispur and Guwahati that were flooded, the villages at the southern foot of the mountain range suffered from mudslides.

The village was in a mess. The houses collapsed and collapsed like paper boxes. The ground was devastated and covered with muddy rocks. Some villagers could only live in temporary tents issued by the government on the hillside.

Gu Ji and Fatima divided their troops into two groups.

He was responsible for visiting people, while Fatima followed the medical team and interviewed those who were sick, especially those who had experienced the floods firsthand.

Unfortunately, after he asked around a lot, the villagers said almost the same thing as the person in charge of the blue vest.

"Fatima, how are you doing there?"

"The reason is also the glacier break. It seems that this is the cause of the flood. It just hurts these villagers. Their illnesses are very serious, but our medical conditions..."

When Gu Ji found Fatima, she was obviously a little depressed.

These people managed to escape from mudslides and floods, but now they are facing death again because of drug problems.

"What disease?"

"The doctor said that drinking unclean water may have caused intestinal infection, nausea, and vomiting. One old man had intestinal bleeding, causing bloody diarrhea."

"Bleeding diarrhea? Take me to have a look."

The two of them came to the temporary medical point as they talked.

Gu Ji put on a mask and opened the tent curtain. There were one or two rows of carpets inside. Yes, there were not even hospital beds. The patients seemed to be sleeping on the big bunk in the detention center. They were lying side by side on the ground, coughing feebly.

He came to the old man Fatima said. He looked sixty or seventy years old. He wore a red hat, a white beard, and a red dot between his eyebrows. He was looking at him with a weak face.

At this time, doctors are instructing officials in charge of isolation points to pay attention to water source conditions.

However, Gu Ji noticed that the skin on the old man's neck and cheeks was a little red, but there was no fever on the head. This was not consistent with the symptoms of intestinal infection, but more like skin ulcers.

"Cough cough cough..."

At this time, a muscular Indian guy behind him suddenly coughed violently. He took off the handkerchief and saw that the sputum in it was all blood-streaked.

Gu Ji frowned slightly and asked.

"Brother, how are you feeling? Are there any pain in your lungs?"

"I feel very uncomfortable. I keep feeling nauseous and vomiting. My mouth always feels fishy and sweet. Cough... Doctor! Doctor!"

As the Indian guy was talking, he suddenly felt a heat in his nasal cavity, and when he wiped it with his handkerchief, his nose started to bleed.

Nausea and vomiting, facial redness, oral, nasal and intestinal bleeding...

Gu Ji thought about these symptoms in his mind, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he hurriedly asked: "Did you feel weak or lose appetite at the beginning?"

Many patients nodded.

Fatima thought he had thought of some solution. After all, on the train, she saw with her own eyes Gu Ji helping the injured to stop bleeding and treat their wounds, so he must know medicine. "Vidi, do you have any treatment method?"

"Not yet, I need to test it."

Gu Ji took the medical equipment, randomly selected the blood of four patients, and took away a bottle of water for daily drinking in the village.

After returning to the disaster evacuation center, he first sent the blood to the temporary medical aid station and did a blood routine. The blood cell detector is one of the most widely used instruments for clinical testing in the hospital. It is not large in size, so he was taken to the hospital early in the morning. Transferred out.

Half an hour later, he finally got the blood routine report.

Sure enough, the red blood cell count decreased, the hemoglobin concentration decreased, the white blood cell count decreased, and the platelet count decreased. The four randomly sampled patients, without exception, all had this result.

Combined with the clinical symptoms, Gu Ji can conclude:

The village of Kokraja suffered from nuclear radiation!

Fatima stared at the report seriously, her tone full of disbelief.

"Nuclear radiation? How can there be nuclear radiation in a good person?"

"You have to ask the military."

Gu Ji narrowed his eyes and connected the information he had previously investigated one by one.

Theoretically, unless they encounter strong nuclear radiation, it is impossible for the villagers of Kokraja to suffer from a disease as serious as intestinal bleeding in a short period of time. However, he, Fatima and others have been in close contact with the village and have not felt dizziness or nausea. Such symptoms indicate that this kind of nuclear radiation has existed a long time ago, and the water source is most likely contaminated by upstream pollution.

The southern foothills of the Himalayas in Assam have always been controlled by the Indian Army's Mountain Division.

But the Brahmaputra River is closely related to the construction of water conservancy dams, so the Minister of Water Resources and the Chief Engineer should also be involved. Only with the help of the military, a Minister of Water Resources in his fifties can quietly solve it at the same time. The chief minister and the accompanying secretary were two people.

"It's just that they are all missing. Maybe they moved away after the incident, or maybe they were silenced by the military. The only clue left now is the Geological Monitoring Bureau!"

"I go with you!"

Fatima also wants to find out what secrets are hidden in this, which is worthy of causing more than 30 million people in Assam to be hit by floods and nearly a million refugees to be displaced.

The two came to the office camp of the Geological Monitoring Bureau, where many officials and technicians were rescued by the two of them by boat that night, so everyone's attitude was extremely enthusiastic.

As soon as Gu Ji came up, he went straight to the topic.

“We are looking for surveyors responsible for the dams in the Brahmaputra basin, especially the front section.”

"The front section of the river is full of old dams. Those were basically explored by Director Prime himself, but he has not been found yet."

The person who answered him was an Indian scholar with silver hair and a white coat. It was Professor Nandeo who had told Guji that the Minister of Water Resources and the Chief Minister had a quarrel in the conference room.

"Disappeared again?"

Fatima couldn't help but ask, "Professor, does anyone else know about things in the Himalayas?"

"What exactly do you want to ask?"

"We would like to ask about nuclear radiation. The villagers of Kokraja were contaminated by nuclear radiation and many people suffered from radiation sickness. Are there any radioactive minerals in the Himalayas?"

The so-called radioactive minerals are mineral resources formed by the local accumulation of natural radioactive elements such as uranium and thorium. They are national strategic resources. Their development and production involve the country's nuclear policy, nuclear capabilities and nuclear reserves, and have strong confidentiality. They are generally protected and controlled by the military's chemical defense forces.

Based on the current clues, Gu Ji believes that it was probably the military's digging of radioactive mines that caused the glacier to break.

Professor Nan De'ao's Adam's apple twitched twice and turned his head to the side.

Gu Ji looked around and took him to a remote location.

"Professor, you must know something. Now the whole village is suffering from radiation sickness. If we don't find out the truth, the whole of Assam, and even all the people along the Brahmaputra River, will... Cancer from radiation.”

"Yes, Professor, please tell us everything you know!"

"I……"

Nandeo looked hesitant to speak again. He looked at Gu Ji and thought that the other person was his savior, so he told everything he knew, "Prem and I have been old friends for many years. Well, one time after drinking, I heard him say that there are experimental nuclear devices and equipment cooperated by the United States and the Indian military buried in many places in the Himalayas!"

What! ?

Fatima almost screamed.

Even Gu Ji didn't expect that the truth of the matter was even more terrifying than a radioactive mine!

But soon, a report flashed in his mind.

That was a secret story reported by the BBC. It was caused by a huge flood that broke out in Reni village in Uttarakhand, India in 2021. Experts believe that this flood that has killed more than 50 people was caused by glaciers. It was caused by a rupture, but for the villagers of Reni Village, many people do not believe this statement, because the incident happened in February, it is winter, and the glacier cannot melt and break.

Through interviews and investigations by reporters, it was discovered that generations of people in this village have believed that nuclear devices were buried under the snow and rocks in the Himalayan mountains. It was these devices that "exploded", causing glaciers to break and causing floods.

The BBC further explained that all this actually originated from the espionage intelligence incident in the 1960s when the United States cooperated with India to place nuclear-powered monitoring equipment in many places in the Himalayas to monitor Xia's nuclear tests and missile launches.

Although the cause of this incident was not found out in the end, the BBC has been reporting "fake news" for a long time.

But the villagers at the foothills of the Himalayas still believe this secret.

The story of Nan De'ao is similar to this version, except that it changed from spy monitoring to laboratory research. It seems that the two countries' militaries were secretly manufacturing something, but due to an avalanche accident eight years ago, the laboratory was destroyed. Many devices and equipment were lost and stuck in the glacier. No one knew the location of those nuclear devices, and no one knew what would happen.

But what is certain is that this device will always be radioactive and may leak into the snow in the Himalayas and penetrate into the river system in India. The military also sent people to conduct subsequent searches. Until now, the southern foothills of the Himalayas are still radioactive. In the blockade of the military mountain division.

Fatima was so surprised that she could hardly close her mouth.

"Wei, Weidi, these missing people, those who were involved in geological exploration, water conservancy, and construction of engineering facilities, were they all forced to participate in this military remediation operation?"

"Remedy? I think it's a cover-up. It was the nuclear device reaction that was missed by the US-India military cooperative laboratory that caused the glacier to break. And because the water conservancy infrastructure cut corners and corruption, it did not play its due role in blocking it, which triggered this... The tragedy of the flood can be said to be a natural disaster caused by 'man-made'!"

Gu Ji just finished speaking.

[Hidden goal: Finding the truth about flash floods in Assam completed! 】

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Sorry, day and night are completely reversed now. When I wake up during the day, I am still sleepy after eating. I sleep until after nine o'clock in the evening, but I feel particularly energetic at night. 555...