This is how black technology should be used

Chapter 310 Outbreak
The first person to know about the riots on the street in Mengmai City was not the Mengmai City Government, but the Tree of Life Research Institute.

After all, it is a very high-level research institute, and suddenly there is a huge amount of funding. After the acceleration is clicked, they are busy here, but some loopholes need to be filled.

Now it has received the attention of the superiors. If the superiors come to inspect and find problems, the relevant person in charge may be transferred at the critical moment of breakthrough and historical recognition, which will be a huge loss.

Then they really found a lot of loopholes, which shocked them all.

However, after finding out that the Blessed Virus had been leaked, they did not notify the Mengmai City Government, but first covered themselves and the clues related to the leak.

Even if people notice something is wrong, they won't suspect them.

After all, the virus environment in the Peacock Kingdom is inherently complicated, and it is not surprising that there are messy viruses.

Then... watch!
Yes, anyway, the virus has been leaked, and it is irreversible, why not make some contributions to human evolution, and be a natural evolutionary testing ground.

If the people of Mengmai knew that they were mutated for human evolution, they would also be very happy.

In order to carry out this plan smoothly, they also specially added a new department.

They will first observe the infection route of the virus, and then install ultra-clear cameras along the way to keep an eye on abnormalities.

In this way, they quickly installed cameras in various places in Mengmai City, and even the person who took the job embezzled a lot of money. Some places did not install ultra-clear cameras, but paid for them. Several League programmers hacked the cameras along the way one by one, and filled the surveillance system with those images.

They were right about one thing, but they were also wrong about one thing.

The virus environment in the Peacock Kingdom is very complicated, but the virus environment in the Peacock Kingdom is not only complicated, but everything is complicated. It is impossible for the research institute to fully monitor the transmission and mutation of the Shenyou virus outside.

Not to mention that there are people cutting corners inside, and the scope of observation is even less comprehensive.

Then things got out of hand.

This kind of thing can't get out of control.

Fortunately, it's not the Federation here, so they don't need to have any psychological burden, and they have put aside the suspicion of the Tree of Life Research Institute, and they are not even afraid of the defendants. Before things get out of control, they just need to evacuate as a whole.

When the incident first happened, the inspectors sitting in the air-conditioned room watching the monitor thought it was a sudden car accident, and it was a large-scale serial car accident.

After all, the first thing they saw was a bus crashing into a house, which caused a lot of commotion.

Back then they were having fun watching it, wondering what the impact scene would be like.

But as the situation changed, they realized something was wrong.

The people who climbed out were covered in blood. This is actually a normal situation. Whoever climbed out of the car in a car accident was covered in blood.

It's normal for mice to run around, after all, it's not a rich area.

There's even a rat temple nearby.

Regardless of what is miraculous outside, it is not miraculous in the Peacock Kingdom.

When the passers-by saw this situation, they ran over to help, calling the emergency number and comforting those who survived.

It's just that the behavior of those injured was very strange. Some coughed there, some covered their heads, screaming for pain all the time, and blood gushed out one after another.

Bleeding from the seven orifices is extremely terrifying!
Some passers-by went up to help them, and were immediately sprayed with blood.

It doesn't matter if one person does that, he may have hit something, but all the injured people present are like that, everyone has a headache, and this is wrong.

Especially those passers-by who are helping others on the scene, they feel the most clearly.

The eyes of some of the wounded were not right. They had obviously been helped, but they looked like they wanted to eat people.

This is not right!
This kind of situation made their thoughts of saving people immediately shaken. After all, it would not be good to save people by putting themselves in it for no reason, so they all had the idea of ​​retreating.

As a result, after they slowly retreated a few steps, the survivors began to eat people.

And it is still a very primitive and cruel bite, killing people directly and eating them alive!

On top of that, those rats got in on the act, too.

This time it was broken, and the crowd immediately exploded.

Those who were still slowly retreating immediately started running.

Seeing this, those people who were just watching the excitement on the outside also dispersed, because they felt as if they were in a very dangerous place, and they would be fools if they didn't run away at this time.

"Oh, Brahma, this may be an infectious disease! Or it may be highly poisonous! Run away, everyone!"

"My God, it's the devil! It's the devil from hell!"

"Run! Run! Mother!"

But those medical and police personnel who arrived in a hurry only saw the messy scene and couldn't fully understand the situation at all, so they rushed in and were finished.

There were more patient policemen, or policemen with different responsibilities. They questioned the panicked passers-by carefully.

After a general understanding, let those medical staff and police come back.

"Come back, come back quickly!"

"Don't go there, it's too dangerous!"

"This may be a new type of disease or virus that is highly contagious. The possibility of a leak from a chemical plant cannot be ruled out. Get out of there!"

"Notify the people in the army. The health and epidemic prevention emergency plan must be adopted immediately. Those passers-by who have escaped must be found and strictly controlled!"

"There is also the director who contacted you. They know the process. I will also report this matter to the higher authorities. All nearby hospitals must be ready."

"If you don't act quickly, this city may... be finished!"

Hearing this, some elderly people were stunned.

In fact, this kind of thing really happened, and the word "also" is used correctly.

It was about 40 years ago.

But it's not Mengmai, but another city - Bhopal.

It is the capital of Madhya Pradesh, the largest central province in the Maurya Kingdom, and it is also an important food producing area and a new industrial city with a population of over one million.

It is also an ancient city with a long history. It was established in the eleventh century. There are also palaces and castles in the city, as well as a large number of places of interest.

Of course, no matter how powerful it was in the past, it just won’t work if it can’t keep up with modernization.

As an agricultural country with an underdeveloped economy, it is not easy for Peacock Country to feed hundreds of millions of people across the country.

So it began to seek a way out, and focused on increasing food production. It wanted to use agriculture and chemical fertilizers to increase crop production, so as to ensure the self-sufficiency of Maurya's food.

However, it is not easy to greatly increase production through pesticides and fertilizers, especially for a country like the Peacock Kingdom, which is relatively backward in economic and technological development.

If the Peacock Country alone develops and invents pesticides and fertilizers, I don't know how long it will take.

Then it learned about the situation internationally, and chose to seek help from the Freedom Federation. After all, the Freedom Federation is an advanced representative.

At the beginning, the government of the Peacock Kingdom only purchased the formula and technology of pesticides and fertilizers. Later, in order to save manpower and transportation costs, the chemical companies of the Free Federation chose to build factories in the Peacock Kingdom.

For the development of the country's agriculture, the government of the Peacock Kingdom simply acquiesced to the actions of these companies, and did not strictly check and screen these companies, and even allowed extremely dangerous chemical plants to be built in densely populated areas.

After a period of peak development, the number of chemical pharmaceutical companies established in the Peacock Country has reached a considerable number, the market has also been seriously saturated, and the profits of each company are slowly decreasing.

Later, for various reasons, the original factory director of the company was transferred back to the Freedom Federation, and the new factory director was replaced by a local Bhopal employee.

On the other hand, the saturation of the market has led to a decline in the company's profits. The head office has set targets for the Bhopal branch to maintain a certain profit margin.

In order to complete the target, the company began to think of ways to reduce costs, and did everything in order to achieve the goal.

First, it began producing its own isocyanates, the chemicals that make pesticides.

This chemical raw material is a colorless liquid with a strong smell and is highly poisonous. It was used in gas warfare during the war and killed many people.

Therefore, the preservation of this raw material is very delicate.

However, after greatly reducing staff and costs, the safety training time for isocyanate production workers has also been reduced from 6 months to 15 days, resulting in a sharp decline in the quality of workers and bringing great safety hazards to production.

The company's monthly safety drills were also cancelled. Ten years of peace and quiet made them relax their vigilance, mistakenly thinking that accidents would never happen.

until one afternoon.

At that time, the company's employees were cleaning the filter on the pipeline as usual. If the normal steps were followed, the valve of the pipeline should be closed and the installation template should be set before backwashing.

However, because closing the valve and installing the formwork requires obtaining a work permit first, the staff directly flushed the pipeline in order to avoid trouble.

This caused the valves in the chemical storage tanks to leak, and during the flushing process, sewage from the flushing entered the methyl cyanate storage tanks.

The chemicals in the tank began to react exothermically, and the temperature and pressure inside immediately began to rise.

At this time, the careless employees did not notice that the instrument display of the storage tank had begun to appear abnormal.

The pressure and temperature of the storage tank are getting higher and higher, and the amount of steam discharged from the tank has exceeded the washing capacity of the storage tank by hundreds of times.

Originally, the torch alarm would have started to sound the alarm in this situation, but the factory's torch system had long been in trouble and had not been repaired for a long time.

Soon, the pressure and temperature of the storage tank storing 45 tons of methyl cyanate reached the limit, and the safety valve jumped accordingly. Everyone in the Bhopal area was awakened by a loud noise, and an explosion appeared directly above the factory. A huge mushroom cloud with a diameter of tens of meters!

The heat wave and the impact of the explosion swept through an area of ​​several hundred meters in radius. In an instant, only ruins and casualties were left around the factory.

What is even more frightening is that the methyl cyanate in the storage tank began to spread unscrupulously in the urban area with the impact of the explosion.

Accompanied by gusty east winds, the poison gas spread at a speed of 5 kilometers per hour, and the entire Bhopal area and several surrounding towns were enveloped by the poison gas.

Many Bhopal residents were awakened by the explosion and did not realize what had happened. They thought it was just an ordinary explosion and there would be no danger after the impact.

But before they arrived at the scene of the accident to save people, they discovered that something was wrong.

Many people began to smell a pungent chemical smell in the air, and then some people began to have teary eyes, severe coughing, and sudden blindness.

As more and more people showed symptoms around them, people in Bhopal began to panic.

However, at this time, the poisonous gas had spread throughout the city, and even though they ran around in the dark, they still couldn't escape the pervasive poisonous gas.

More and more people began to be invaded by the poisonous gas, showing various symptoms, and those who inhaled the poisonous gas in their bodies from the beginning had already died.

Crying people filled the streets across Bhopal as death and fear gripped the city.

People had nowhere to escape and could only rush to hospitals in droves, placing their last glimmer of hope in doctors.

At this time, the two hospitals in the Bhopal area were already overcrowded. The lack of staff and space were minor problems, but the most troublesome thing for the doctors was that they knew nothing about this highly toxic gas.

Over the years, the Bhopal area has only focused on the development of agriculture, but the development of medical care has been sluggish. The safety awareness and prevention awareness of local residents are also very backward, so that the entire city has never formulated corresponding safety prevention and control measures and emergency situations Countermeasures have led to the current situation of being at a loss in the face of poison gas leakage.

The hospital couldn't come up with a corresponding treatment plan, let alone symptomatic drugs. The helpless doctors could only distribute gauze and towels to the patients and ask them to cover their mouths and noses, hoping that this would reduce their crying.

But this has little effect, because even ordinary gas masks may not be absolutely safe in the face of highly toxic chemicals such as methyl cyanate.

The lives of Bhopal people are passing by every minute. Some of them fell on the way to the hospital, some fell under the helpless eyes of the doctor, and many people did not have time to wake up from their dreams. The poison invaded his body, and he suffocated to death in his sleep.

The wails of the people in the face of fear, the painful screams of being tortured by the poisonous gas, and the cries of watching people around them fall one by one, the Bhopal area seemed to have become a purgatory on earth that night.

In that night alone, tens of thousands of people died in the Bhopal area.

Almost all the remaining people of Bhopal were harmed in some way, and this was just the beginning.

At dawn, the government began to organize personnel to deal with the chaos.

The dead people were gathered together, and the corpses were piled up layer by layer at the burning point and cremated on the spot.

The residents who survived the accident were gradually transferred to other areas, but in the following period, a large number of residents still died every day due to severe poisonous gas infection.

Truckloads of corpses were continuously sent to the burning site. The burning work lasted for more than ten days, and Bhopal became a dead city.

In the end, this chemical explosion accident killed nearly 60 people, and more than 20 people were left with lifelong disabilities due to the toxic gas entering their bodies!

This is only the consequence in terms of casualties, and what is more serious is the far-reaching consequences that this poisonous gas explosion will have on the environment, water and soil, and the safety of residents in the region in the following decades.

Under the influence of the poisonous gas, the morbidity and mortality of the local people in the Bhopal area have greatly increased, and there have also been terrible phenomena of neonatal deformities and premature deaths.

Later, the chemical company lost some money, but not much money was apportioned to the victims.

Moreover, the eight principal persons responsible for the accident were brought to justice after more than 20 years of litigation and trial. However, what is unacceptable is that these persons in charge were sentenced to only two years in prison for such a tragedy.

The Maurya government and people expressed strong dissatisfaction with the verdict and continued to appeal. In the end, the company was forced to use half of the company's equity to build a hospital and compensate the people in Bhopal.

But that city is finished.

This situation now reminds many people of the situation back then.

There are also many chemical factories in Mengmai, which were originally located in the sparsely populated suburban areas, but with the development of the city and the growth of the population, the population of those places has gradually increased.

Although there is nothing nearby, what if it was blown by the wind, or someone carried it with him?
And the ones who know this best are the people at the Tree of Life Research Institute.

When the inspectors reported the situation to the supervisors, the supervisors also frowned.

"Do you want to organize the evacuation?"

(End of this chapter)