"According to Reuters, the Morgan Consortium's spokesperson announced that the financial system will not collapse. The consortium will make a series of adjustments based on the shelter's internal financial system. The Old World's financial system will be integrated with the shelter's financial system. At the same time …"
Mak Kaile looked at the scene on the television and heard the reporter's voice. He angrily threw the beer bottle directly at the television. Immediately, the television flickered with sparks and turned black. The screen was smashed. Mak Kaile directly shouted, "Liar! It's all a lie! These rich people must have entered the shelter long ago, right? They left poor people like us to wait for death outside. Hahaha … "
McKell was not the only one who was roaring furiously. In the whole of America, no, in the whole world, at least 70% of the people were roaring furiously like this. Then, most of them started smashing things, from their own homes to public places and even other people's. Of course, just as the chaos was about to develop into a riot, these people stopped.
It was not that they were rational or restrained, but long before the countries around the world announced the end of the world, the military forces of these countries were already on standby and had entered the cities to take over the defense of all the cities. Moreover, almost all the countries issued the same order, which was to announce a new law called the crime of hindering the continuation of humanity. Once it was confirmed, it would be executed immediately. This was because from the announcement of the end of the world to the end of the great retreat, all the countries implemented military law. Any riot would not wait for the riot police but the military's direct suppression. The suppression here referred to direct attacks with guns, cannons, and even missiles. This was because once the crime of hindering the continuation of humanity was confirmed, the person would be judged as a terrorist. No matter who it was, they would be killed without mercy!
Under such a high-pressure rule, even if the order of the entire Earth was in danger, it was still tolerable. However, the so-called financial system was out of the question. The stocks of almost all the companies and groups in the world collapsed instantly, and the financial system depreciated instantly. Almost no one on Earth could continue working, venting, enjoying, luxurious, crazy, and … despair. This was what everyone on Earth was thinking now.
A day ago, all the governments of the world announced a shocking news at the same time. The end of the world would come in a month. Of course, the governments of the world could not say when the real end of the world would begin. The so-called one month was fifteen days after the second batch of humans entered the shelter.
At first, the people of the world did not believe it. After all, such news was too ridiculous. A large number of people clamored on various forums and websites, saying that the governments of the world had unified to play a huge April Fool's Day joke. Although it was not April Fool's Day yet, this news was obviously not something an idiot would believe. For example, to say the end of the world, at least tell us what kind of end of the world would be? Meteorite impact? Earth's magnetic field change? Biohazard crisis? Nuclear Armageddon? Wasn't it a lie to say that it would be the end of the world in a month? And so on.
However, in less than a day, the people of the world saw what was called reality. That was, many of them had never seen an army enter the city in their lives. Real guns, real bullets, trenches, bunkers, tanks, and airplanes. All the armies arranged their lines of defense according to a real war. All the city areas were divided into several to dozens of areas for defense. Under such arrangements, let alone riots among the city residents, even if a war broke out, this was the rhythm of a real war. What was even more strange was that no country in the world announced this to each other. Obviously, this arrangement was not to guard against war. As for what it was to guard against, it was needless to say.
Because of such a situation, the people who were still ridiculing gradually quieted down. This strange silence lasted until the leaders of various countries personally appeared and announced that the end of the world was real. Many famous people in society were not in the entertainment industry, but the real heavyweights, such as political and economic figures. The Morgan family member was one of them.
At this point, those who still did not believe it were idiots. Of course, the government would not only report despair. If that was the case, not only would the people riot, even the army would participate. That would be the absolute end of the world. Therefore, within twelve hours after the announcement of the end of the world, various countries began to announce another piece of news, which was the existence of shelters.
Of course, these shelters were built by their respective countries long ago. For example, the shelters built by the United States were mostly underground. They were shelters that could defend against nuclear or meteorite apocalypses. They had complete internal facilities, internal life support systems, and all kinds of supplies. The shelters in the United States alone were enough to accommodate 30 million people, or even more. This was a large-scale shelter series that the United States began to build since the Cold War. After the emergence of the meme, the United States expanded on this foundation. The construction of the shelters over the past few decades ensured the scale and facilities of these shelters. Basically, one-tenth of the United States' population could be accommodated.
Similarly, Russia, Z country, the United Kingdom, France, and even other powerful countries other than the Big Five basically had similar shelters. It was just that there were more of them, but basically, the shelters in these countries were built according to one-tenth to five percent of the country's population.
Within these twelve hours, all the news around the world was broadcasting about these shelters, and the number of people that could be accommodated was as high as possible. Not only were there literal reports, but various countries also opened these shelters and invited people from all walks of life and a large number of reporters to enter and report. As a result, after twelve hours, various countries began to announce the following shelter selection mechanism.
First of all, each country required that the people who could enter the shelters must first be locals. Foreign workers were asked to return to their own countries, and they would not be selected. Secondly, they must have no criminal records, and their identities would be evaluated in detail. This included but was not limited to those with homosexual tendencies, violent ideologues, anti-government ideologues, and so on. People with these attributes would also not be selected.
Then, on the national populace mechanism, there were high-level literati, people with special talents, healthy people, military personnel, military personnel, and so on. They had a certain priority to be selected …
In short, the existence of the shelter and the selection mechanism calmed the people down a little. They were no longer as desperate as they were at the beginning. Although there were some people who were completely desperate, they were either in prison, wanted criminals, or the government had already monitored or destroyed them. In short, these people couldn't do anything. The remaining people began to have hope. Because most of them met the selection rules, they wouldn't commit crimes at this time. At least, they wouldn't commit crimes until they were sure that they were in absolute despair.
As a result, the people were at least in a stable state for the time being. Although everyone knew that this stable state had a time limit, once a certain time limit was reached, or once they confirmed that they could not save the majority of the people, the remaining people would destroy everything.
In such a selection, the first batch of ten million people was quickly determined. After Chu Hao and the others checked the first batch of buildings, to everyone's surprise, Russia obtained the majority of the first batch of places, as many as two million people!
Yes, the first batch of places could be allocated to one-fifth of the population. It should be known that in addition to the Big Five, there were more than 30 countries participating in the construction. Moreover, these ten million people had to be allocated to the relatives of the Samsara Army, scientists, internal members of the Renegades Organization, and so on. Russia being able to take two million people was already the biggest winner. This was related to Russia's geographical location, construction, working style, and so on.
Although Russia was no longer one of the two hegemons on Earth, it still had a deep foundation. It might not be as economic as modern society, but in terms of technology, resources, and location, Russia was miles ahead of the United States in terms of half-bitwall construction. The Fighting Nation was no joke, especially with their long-held ideology that big was beautiful and sturdy was perfect. These were all in line with the needs of the first batch of buildings in half-bitwall. No matter how much Japan claimed that they were efficient in space utilization, it was undeniable that Russia built the most buildings, stored the most resources, and provided the most highly educated workers. Therefore, Russia was able to get two million people in half-bitwall construction.
Then it was the United States, Country Z, France, the United Kingdom, and other countries that obtained some places. Ten million people sounded like a lot, but compared to the world's population, ten million people could not even cause a blister. The governments of various countries could not claim that they could only accommodate ten million people, nor could they say that there was a second batch plan, a third batch plan, and so on. The people would only see that ten million people were taken into shelters and they were abandoned. If that was the case, then the whole world was likely to welcome the end of the world. Therefore, there was the previous scene, which was to announce the shelters built by the various countries. In fact, this was what the various countries had planned before. After all, half-bitwall could only accommodate a maximum of one billion people. What about the other people? Since it was already the last moment, why not make a Hail Mary effort and accommodate the people who were not selected into ordinary shelters that had already been built? What if they were lucky enough to survive? Moreover, these shelters could be used to cover the real shelters and reduce the possibility of riots and the like.
Then …
The great retreat plan began!
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