Chapter 264: The Most Tragic Natural Disaster in Human History

Su Xin glanced at the general content of the news about the typhoon on the internet and then ignored it.

The next day, he quietly launched a new project—the life-extension serum.

However, news about Typhoon Dureke had been stirring up increasing momentum on the internet over the past two days.

Just as the Meteorological Monitoring Center had reported, Typhoon Dureke was swept up by a high-speed air mass and turned toward the direction of Kimchi.

Moreover, under the traction of the high-speed air mass's extreme velocity, Dureke gradually merged into one with it, and its speed continuously increased.

By the time it reached Kimchi, it had become an unprecedented super typhoon in world history, with wind speeds reaching over six hundred kilometers per hour.

One must know that since records began, the strongest typhoon in the world fourteen years ago, Haiyan, had a maximum wind speed of only over three hundred kilometers per hour.

Yet the current super typhoon Dureke had a speed nearly double that of Haiyan.

The destructive power brought about by this was not simply a matter of being twice as great.

After all, the resistance capacity of many buildings is limited, capable of withstanding super typhoons and other natural disasters such as earthquakes.

But once a certain threshold is exceeded, the vast majority of buildings cannot resist, and people can only shiver helplessly in this terrifying natural disaster, waiting powerlessly for nature's judgment.

That kind of unprecedented, terrifying storm was certainly more than ten times as destructive as a super typhoon!

For this reason, the entire Kimchi stood in battle array, issuing multiple major measures in an attempt to protect the personal and property safety of residents in coastal areas.

However.

When Dureke approached, before the eye of the storm even made landfall, hurricanes, torrential rain, and tsunamis all struck the coastal cities simultaneously, easily destroying all defensive measures.

Fishing boats, houses, roads, and all kinds of facilities in the coastal areas were all like piles of sand, turning into ruins and flying everywhere.

People were even more like ants, easily swept into the sky by the hurricane, mixed in with various debris from the ruins, and shredded into bloody messes.

In the face of the power of heaven and earth, human strength appeared incomparably insignificant, and so-called technology was not worth mentioning.

Under the world's attention, Dureke raged in Kimchi for a day and a half.

Then, its speed slowed down slightly.

It continued forward, heading straight for Sakura Country.

……

One week later.

Mainstream media across the world began to summarize and report on the news of Typhoon Dureke.

"Dureke, known as the strongest typhoon in history, entered the Pacific Ocean seven hours ago after seven days of raging, and began to slowly dissipate one hour ago."

"With this, Typhoon Dureke is officially declared over."

"This super typhoon Dureke lasted for a total of seven days, causing major losses to both Kimchi and Sakura Country in succession."

"At the same time, this is the most significant and tragic natural disaster in human history."

"According to statistics, Typhoon Dureke lasted for a day and a half in Kimchi, causing devastating destruction to four cities, directly resulting in over 150,000 deaths or disappearances, at least 6 million people losing their homes, and direct property losses equivalent to over 900 billion Long Coins."

"Afterward, Dureke flew over the sea for one day and finally reached Sakura Country, causing devastating destruction to five cities, with two other cities also affected."

"Dureke directly caused over 190,000 deaths or disappearances in Sakura Country, at least 10 million people to lose their homes, and direct property losses equivalent to over 1.3 trillion Long Coins..."

These terrifying figures caused a huge sensation worldwide, leading countless people to mourn.

Even those who had previously been bickering with netizens from Sakura Country did not speak up at this time.

The death of over 300,000 people was enough to make any cold-blooded and ruthless person fall silent.

Various countries and many enterprises donated one after another.

Su Xin closed the news interface, called Liu Qingli, and said:

"In the name of the group, let's donate some money to both affected countries; donate 1 billion Long Coins to each."

Judging from various data, this Typhoon Dureke was clearly redirected by him.

If it were just a change in direction, he would have felt it didn't matter; after all, he would just consider it meteorological defense to drive Dureke away, and as for who ended up suffering, that would just be their bad luck.

But the problem was that Dureke was accelerated to such a terrifying degree, which was clearly caused by that one breath of his.

Now that it had caused so many casualties and such heavy losses for the other side, it was indeed too much.

Over 300,000 deaths and over 2 trillion in direct property losses—this did not even count the number of injured, let alone the indirect losses brought about by this terrifying natural disaster, which would likely be more than ten times the direct losses.

For Kimchi and Sakura Country, this disaster was absolutely a devastating blow.

Most importantly, these affected areas had not yet completed rescue operations, and all data were only preliminary statistics; the final figures would likely be even higher.

Although Su Xin did not particularly like the two countries, he could not bear to see such a terrifying disaster.

Especially since he had indirectly caused it.

By taking out some money, the guilt in his heart would be much less.

After hanging up the phone.

Su Xin was preparing to return to the Laboratory to continue his research when he received a call from Luan Weiliang.

"Boss, the mission has been completed. I am coming over to report in person. Does the boss have time?"

"Fine, then come over as soon as possible. I'll wait for you at the laboratory building."

"Okay, I will be there within half an hour."

"Mm."

Since he was going to see Luan Weiliang in a while, Su Xin simply stopped researching for now and continued to browse the internet.

The topic of Dureke was trending globally, being the hottest on every online platform, with several trending searches related to it.

Among them, there was news about the disaster itself, as well as discussions on post-disaster rescue situations.

A well-known influencer expressed an opinion—

"If Kimchi and Sakura Country also had the Tianwang Communication System, the efficiency of post-disaster rescue would definitely have increased several times over, allowing more people to survive."

"But look at Kimchi and Sakura Country now; such large-scale affected areas, covering the scope of several cities, have all lost contact with the outside world. So many international rescue teams going in also appear so powerless."

"More than half of the 72-hour golden rescue window has passed, and the majority of the disaster area has not yet begun rescue operations, with countless injured people waiting for help."

"And what they don't know is that the rescue teams are also completely in the dark, unable to find their bearings, let alone carry out rescues; they can only wait for death."

"With only a little over a hundred search and rescue helicopters, for such a large disaster area, it is simply a drop in the bucket and cannot save many people."

"Just imagine, when everyone survives that terrible disaster with a one-in-a-billion probability, crawls out of the ruins with difficulty, and rejoices that they are still alive, only to find that as far as the eye can see, there is nothing but ruins."

"No signs of life, no lights, no internet, the surroundings are deathly silent; you don't even know if there are any other humans left in this world, nor do you know if the end of the world has arrived."

"How helpless and desperate you would be."

"Having luckily survived, you have no idea how to continue living in this place covered in ruins, you don't know which way to go, and you don't even know if your parents and relatives are still alive."

"Without the internet, without roads, without direction, modern people cannot even walk out of a single county town."

"But if there were the Tianwang."

"The 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Long Country a few months ago already demonstrated to us what Tianwang efficiency is, what rapid rescue is, and what disaster area netizens are."

"Tianwang is a sharp tool for disaster relief."

"I dare say, if Kimchi and Sakura Country also had the Tianwang Communication System, the death toll after the disaster could have been reduced by at least half."

"I strongly advocate that all countries introduce the Tianwang Communication System as soon as possible, and everyone should try their best to buy mobile phones that support the Tianwang Communication System."

"Even if you unfortunately encounter some disaster in the future, your survival probability can be increased significantly."

In this big influencer's post, countless netizens from all over the world left comments expressing their agreement.

Currently, the world's only mobile phone that supports the Tianwang Communication System, Tianshu 1, is already on sale in various countries, and its sales have topped the charts repeatedly.

Other major consumer electronics manufacturers are also urgently developing new products that support the Tianwang Communication System, such as mobile phones, computers, tablets, and so on.

In the wave of discussion sparked by this disaster, many netizens who were originally indifferent to Tianshu 1 have also started snapping them up.

While Su Xin continued to watch the netizens' comments, Luan Weiliang finally arrived at the laboratory building.

After several layers of identity verification.

Luan Weiliang met Su Xin in the office, and the two sat down face to face.

"General Manager Luan, you have worked hard during this period."

Su Xin smiled slightly.

For these past three months, Luan Weiliang had been sniping at the Yongji Society in the capital markets according to his orders, running around the world every day, busy to the point of exhaustion, and had hardly relaxed for a single day.

"It's my duty."

Luan Weiliang smiled.

His complexion was mixed with a trace of fatigue, his eyes sunken, appearing somewhat weathered.

But his eyes were incomparably bright, flashing with an excited light.

This invisible war in the stock market and capital markets could be described as protracted, and the turmoil it stirred up was terrifyingly large; every country in the world and every enterprise was involved, receiving impacts of varying degrees.

The drastic fluctuations in food prices, the ups and downs of energy prices, and the price changes of basic materials like minerals made many countries unable to bear it, and also caused many enterprises to be affected and go bankrupt.

Compared to the last currency war, the impact was even more profound and widespread.

And in this invisible war, he was the absolute leader and the supreme commander of the victorious side, praised by countless industry insiders, and even left a heavy mark in the history of world financial development.

Now, in the global financial world, the name Luan Weiliang can be said to be known to everyone, and his popularity is definitely no less than Su Xin's.

Whenever industry insiders mention the most famous financial wars or capital wars of modern times, this incident is a topic of conversation that cannot be bypassed no matter what.

The name Luan Weiliang is an even more important figure that cannot be bypassed.

For Luan Weiliang, the reputation brought by this incident is enough to make him excited for a lifetime.

Although he had not rested for more than three months and had been busy under tension, his body and mind were exhausted, but he was always excited in his heart.

"This time, together with everyone on the team, I suppressed the main assets of the Yongji Society until almost all of them went bankrupt, and acquired 50 percent of them."

"The other 50 percent was divided up by Longliang Group and other international capital."

"Now, Tianqi Grain and Oil Company has become the world's number one grain merchant, and Tianqi Mining has become the world's largest mining company."

"The traditional energy businesses under Tianqi Energy Company, such as natural gas, oil, and power plants, have also reached the scale of being the world's number one."

"This is the detailed action report."

As Luan Weiliang spoke, he took out his mobile phone, operated it a few times, and sent a report document to Su Xin using the Tianwei Butler sub-program.

While Su Xin opened the document to check it, he asked casually: "What has happened to those high-level members of the Yongji Society now?"

"Those nine high-level members all have their own families; now all their family capital chains have broken and they have gone bankrupt, their families have fallen apart, and they are fighting fiercely among themselves to compete for the last bit of assets."

"Among these nine people, three committed suicide, three were killed by their own clansmen due to the failure of family struggles, and the other three have completely disappeared."