Great time travel

Chapter 12. People all over the world welcome the drop of sea level?
All in all, not to mention how on the other side of the fantasy world, the [-] ready-to-go Imperial Expeditionary Army was caught off guard by the monstrous flood and was completely defeated... On the real world side of the "gate", facing Hong Kong Wang Qiu and the relevant departments behind him are already overwhelmed and at a loss for this super big hole that was poked out under Victoria Bay, and the huge vortex that appeared on the sea surface.

Fortunately in misfortune, when the "door" suddenly appeared at the bottom of Victoria Bay, it was already midnight.There are very few ships still sailing in the waters of Victoria Bay, and the few night ships that have not yet anchored and docked have enough power to get rid of the entanglement of the underwater vortex... In short, after some emergency evacuation, they finally It's the worst-case scenario where no one goes missing or the boat is sucked away.

Of course, the complete closure of all terminals on both sides of Victoria Bay is also an inevitable response under such unprecedented and special circumstances.

However, what follows is the real start of all kinds of troubles.

——It is conceivable that such a sensational news in a highly international place like Hong Kong cannot be concealed.Just a few minutes later, before the relevant departments and the SAR government had time to issue the martial law order, hordes of journalists flocked to the beach on both sides of Victoria Bay, setting up long guns, cannons and searchlights, and even killed them. In order to grab the news, some journalists tried to hire a boat to get close to the gate of another world... Fortunately, the Hong Kong police found it and stopped it in time, otherwise the record of zero casualties might not be maintained this night.

Then, the next morning, before dawn, the Gate of Another World appeared at the bottom of Hong Kong’s Victoria Bay, and quickly overwhelmed the armed confrontation between the Chinese and American fleets in the Nansha Islands, becoming the most attention-grabbing event in the world’s media. news focus.Major news media around the world dispatched teams of journalists to Hong Kong one after another, and intelligence personnel stationed in Hong Kong from all over the world were also moved after hearing the news, which made the Hong Kong branch of the National Security Bureau very busy.Although the government department has already issued a ban to designate a no-fly zone within a radius of three kilometers of the sea area where the incident occurred, drones with high-definition cameras are still flying over the "Gate to Other Worlds" in Victoria Bay. , In an endless stream, the snipers of the Hong Kong Garrison could not finish their fights.

Next, various United Nations agencies also expressed high attention to the "Gate to Another World" that appeared in the waters of Hong Kong, believing that this is likely to be "the first contact between an extraterrestrial civilization and human beings" (in fact, it is not the first time). times), has a very great historical significance.Therefore, within 48 hours, a large-scale United Nations observer team was formed to come to Hong Kong for on-site investigation.On the other hand, China's representative to the United Nations exerted pressure on the Sino-US military confrontation in the Nansha Islands, claiming that until the South China Sea issue is resolved and the atmosphere of war is resolved, it may be difficult to allow the international community to participate in the Hong Kong incident, in an attempt to force the United States to make concessions , which triggered a new wave of wars in diplomacy and public opinion...

Of course, in this bustling drama, Wang Qiu and the others who failed to become "professional time travelers" who failed to become different worlds, of course, temporarily became window-siders who ate idle food, and could only sit on the bench as spectators , watching all kinds of exciting and bustling with cold eyes.

However, soon Wang Qiu and the others could no longer continue to be the family by the window - because a lot of trouble had already come to the door.

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A few days after the "gate" was opened, crowds of protesters once again crowded outside the Stonecutters Island military base on the Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong.

Among them, in addition to the vast majority of yellow-skinned and black-haired Chinese, there are also many foreigners with blond hair, blue eyes or dark skin and curly hair.Judging from the banners they played, the leader is the famous Greenpeace Organization, followed by a lot of other well-known or unknown world-wide environmental protection groups, as well as rows of reporters and photographers from major media around the world.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, they were all waving various banners, flags and posters, shouting loudly on the street outside the door with their trumpets, and some of them were playing electric guitars and singing various environmental protection songs. , Some environmental protection organizations even performed some very exciting little shows on the spot.

"...cherish every drop of water on earth! Dry oceans are hell for life!"

"...The ocean is the common wealth of all mankind, and it cannot be lost because of some people's misconduct!"

"...Mother Earth is being bloodletted! Protecting the Earth is protecting the lives of each of us!"

"...It's not too late to make up for it! Take action now! Stop Mother Earth's bleeding wound!"

"...I hope the Chinese government can take responsibility as soon as possible! Don't sit back and watch Mother Earth continue to bleed! This is a crime!"

"...Dirty powerful people get out with your garbage! Give me back a clean Victoria Bay!"

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In addition, there were female professional protest groups from Eastern Europe performing skits at the scene of the protest: a naked Ukrainian girl playing the role of "Mother Earth" was cut down by a fierce "big cap" and then lay on the tomato Twitching in the "pool of blood" made by sauce... Well, I have to admit.The size of this girl's breasts and buttocks are large enough, which is a perfect buttocks for safe delivery, very suitable for the duties of a mother...

Looking at the noisy scene outside the base through the large-size LCD screen in the meeting room, Wang Qiu couldn't help but feel a little tingling in the scalp and a swollen forehead—these people outside came to protest their underwater activities in Victoria Bay. A door was opened, causing the earth's seawater to leak into another world.

In fact, when this change just broke out, Wang Qiu and the others only thought of the impact on Hong Kong's economy and the interference to the coastal routes in Guangdong, at most they thought of the possible impact on the domestic stock market, bond market, and foreign exchange market. There was a shock, but I didn't think about the big problem of "the loss of the earth's water resources" that involves all mankind-because it feels a bit too fake...so I'm a little confused right now.

"...The origin of this topic should have been first raised by the United Nations Environment Programme. It roughly means that every minute and every second, an unknown amount of seawater is lost from the earth through this alien gate. The environment caused some adverse effects, etc. Then, somehow, it immediately ignited the great enthusiasm of environmental protection organizations all over the world, and a bunch of environmental protection experts, literati stars, and anchor celebrities came out to discuss this topic. Then more and more The more mysterious, the more outrageous it gets. In the end, the earth was described as a ball with a hole in it..."

Sitting at the conference table, Wang Qiu explained to everyone in this way, while typing on the computer keyboard in front of him, opened several news webpages, and then transferred them to the large screen hanging on the wall.These are the reports of the world's media on the "Hong Kong Watergate incident" that caused the loss of the earth's water resources, and there are many political cartoons mixed in.The content of most of the comics is that a beautiful young woman who symbolizes "Mother Earth" has a knife stuck in her neck, her throat is being cut and her blood is let out, and the handle of the knife is painted as an ancient Roman temple, that is, the "Victoria Bay" in Victoria Bay. Watergate" look.There is also a more detailed cartoon, which depicts the horror scene after all the sea water is drained: an ancient Roman-style gate to another world stands alone on the dry seabed, while the land has become the Gobi Desert, and the earth has become a desert. The sand balls were thrown, the forests and grasslands withered together, and humans and animals all died of thirst...

"... What these people said is too exaggerated... It's crazy... This crossing gate is opened in Victoria Bay, not in the Mariana Trench! Even if the world's oceans are interconnected, even if Victoria Bay How many meters does it take for the global sea level to drop if everything is drained?"

Ma Tong rolled his eyes and muttered, "...the guys who write these sensational things have never studied geography, have they?"

"...So at the same time, there are other groups and forces that have expressed their opposition and support the release of some water from the Earth's oceans."

Wang Qiu continued to speak slowly, and then opened several other webpages on the computer, "...People from a series of tropical island countries such as Maldives and Tuvalu, as well as residents from coastal areas of some developed countries expressed their hope that The Chinese side should not rush to block this 'drain' that connects to the other world, so that these unlucky guys who have suffered from rising sea levels for many years can breathe a sigh of relief.

They said, didn’t those environmental protection organizations in the past keep calling for excessive carbon emissions and global warming, which would lead to the melting of Antarctic glaciers, rising sea levels, and eventually flooding large areas of coastal land?Now there is an alien gate, which can just release water to the earth's oceans, lower the rising sea level a little, alleviate the sequelae of global warming to some extent, and prevent their homes from being submerged in sea water.

Especially Tuvalu, the small broken island of their country is very low-lying, and now the sea level has only risen by a few tens of centimeters, and it is about to become a sunken Atlantis.Originally, the Tuvaluans were planning to move the whole country to Australia, but they were called out by the Australian Immigration Bureau, who did not accept their immigration at all. Seeing that the people of the whole country were about to become boat people or international blind migrants... I heard After hearing the news of the Watergate incident in Hong Kong, the islanders on the coral islands in the South Pacific lit bonfires and held a grand celebration with singing and dancing! "

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Of course, generally speaking, no matter what it is, usually as long as there is support, there must also be opposition.

Therefore, regarding the good or bad of Hong Kong's cross-plane release of water causing the earth's sea level to drop, the global Internet forums are also very fierce. Even the residents of coastal areas and island countries have different opinions: those who are about to The residents of the coral islands who sank underwater seemed to be happy after a long drought; but others who were not in such a bad situation were worried—if the global sea level really dropped because of this, many of the original ports would be destroyed. Wouldn't all the facilities have to be overhauled due to changes in the water level?At least the wharf trestle and so on have to be re-constructed from scratch, and many waterways have to be dredged deeply before sailing.A large number of salt farms and marine farms also have to move to new coastlines and start all over again.In this way, it is true that the GDP can be greatly boosted by relying on infrastructure construction, but who should pay for the huge costs incurred?
For example, the Japanese are polarized around this topic on the Internet. Some people think that once the sea level drops, it is naturally a very good thing to increase the country's land area without reclamation.However, some people worry that the average depth of Tokyo Bay is only 12 meters, which is shallower than Hong Kong’s Victoria Bay. Once the sea level drops sharply, will large ships no longer be able to enter, and Yokohama Port will be scrapped?That would be too tragic... and many reefs in the Seto Inland Sea that were originally hidden under the water will be exposed, and the entire sea shipping in Japan will be messed up...

Even more tragic, the Egyptians discussed on the Internet that once the global sea level drops, will the Suez Canal be dug in vain and must be deepened across the board?This is a very troublesome and costly super-big project... Panamanians, of course, are troubled by similar problems... Although the inland residents are relatively slow to respond to the rise and fall of sea levels, they still Also worried about ocean loss leading to dry climate and land desertification - after all, so much water has been permanently lost from Earth's biosphere since Hong Kong's Gate to Other Worlds opened anyway To make up for it, the resulting consequences, no matter how you look at it, will make the world drier...

All in all, around the above topic, there are different opinions on the Internet forums around the world. There are countless contradictory opinions and inferences fighting with each other. There are also various geographical attacks, racial discrimination, ideological confrontation, old-fashioned smearing and nonsense. The few parties involved were dazzled and dizzy, and really didn't know how to comment... Finally, they had to ask Political Commissar Guo, what is the central government's view on this matter?
"...The central government's opinion? Hey! Regarding this matter, the central government's opinion is that these guys are all talking nonsense! They are all unfounded worries!"

Commissar Guo reached out to pull out the cigar in his mouth, exhaled a smoke ring, then curled his lips in disdain, and said, "...This matter is simply a false proposition hyped up by the media! I thought it was just because of such a small hole. , The guy who can affect the level of the global ocean water level is a physics idiot and a math fool! You only need to use the formula to calculate a little bit, and you will know how unscientific this idea is..."