Chapter 981

The situation began to go wrong. First, it was earthquakes, continuous earthquakes. The earth seemed to have entered an active period, and there were earthquakes every day in the four major earthquake belts. Especially the Pacific Rim volcanic earthquake belt, it was active. So Taiwan Island and Japan were unlucky, and there were earthquakes every day. There were small earthquakes every day, and medium earthquakes every few days. When Bai Lang was making trouble, it was almost the end of the year, that is, after the old calendar year, when Bai Lang returned to the Magic City to eat and drink, a big earthquake came.

At this time, diplomacy was extremely tense, because all the personnel in the Marine Corps Headquarters were wiped out, causing the death of thousands of people, including a general. The little devils were shouting to "punish the violent branch" and were frequently mobilizing troops to prepare to take action. Then the Great Kanto Earthquake, which had happened ten years ago, came again this time...

This time it was the Honshu Island earthquake. The earthquake affected a wide range, almost from the coast of Sagami Bay in Kanto to the Sea of Japan, and even Osaka and Kobe in the west were completely included. The center of the earthquake was between Shizuoka and Kanagawa, only 10,000 meters from the surface. The earthquake level was okay, just 8.0 on the Richter scale, but because the source was shallow, the intensity was indeed full.

The modern industry built by Japan since the Meiji era by selling blood and women basically returned to the level of the Tokugawa Shogunate... A large number of factories collapsed directly. Although the death toll had not been counted, according to the experience of the last time, this time it would not be less than the last time. Fortunately, there was no serious tsunami, and the Combined Fleet anchored in Kure Port suffered great damage due to the big waves.

However, the shipyards that could be used for construction and maintenance were cracked, and the factory workshops also collapsed.

Not only the Japanese earthquake, but there were also many earthquakes along the Andes Mountains in the United States. And there were multiple earthquakes in Persia and Turkey to the west, among which the Izmir earthquake reached 8.0 on the Richter scale, and the death toll exceeded 100,000. Even Italy had an earthquake, making the government overwhelmed.

Accompanying the earthquake was a volcanic eruption—Mount Fuji erupted in the early 18th century, and now, more than 200 years later, it erupted again. The "Showa Great Eruption" came. Tokyo was cleaning up after the earthquake disaster and encountered a volcanic eruption. The volcanic ash thickness exceeded 10 centimeters, and the sun could not be seen for half a month. Japan's national destiny could be said to have been broken directly.

It was not just Mount Fuji that erupted, but volcanoes such as Mount Asama also erupted one after another. Even the volcanoes in Northeast China erupted one after another, causing quite serious disasters—for China in this era, it belonged to "lice are many and don't itch"...

Bai Lang expressed that this was just the beginning. It was just that the Earth Mother wanted to activate a little bit and breathe gently first. Next, the bugs should be a little bigger—mainly because new cells appeared, the ability to carry oxygen increased, and after respiration was strengthened, the body size of the bugs could naturally become a little bigger within one generation. It wouldn't be too big. Generally speaking, small cockroaches became medium cockroaches, and large cockroaches became giant cockroaches the size of a middle finger...

Maybe this would lead to a decrease in their number—after all, it was not so easy to hide, right?

And those ants, their body size might also increase by one-third, and the body size of the golden-ringed hornet could even grow to about eight centimeters... The problem was not big, because the respiration of plants would also be enhanced, and the reproductive ability would also be strengthened. The emergence rate might increase by an order of magnitude. Bai Lang didn't think about collapsing the biosphere—in fact, it wouldn't collapse, unless he pulled up the mantle plume to erupt...

The body size of animals would increase, but not as exaggerated as insects, expanding by one-fourth to one-third. Ordinary animals were just like that, and a few mutated animals could grow to the limit. In theory, it was possible to grow to more than ten meters high and tens of meters long, and aquatic organisms could grow to hundreds of meters without problems. Bai Lang was watching a movie at this time—earthquakes and volcanoes were earthquakes and volcanoes, but the debauchery of the Magic City would not change at all.

Because there were no earthquakes or volcanoes here, many rich Japanese came here, also spending money in this Magic City, learning to be bad. The originally somewhat simple and stupid Japanese people quickly sank into the abyss of sin in the Magic City. "Eh? Suddenly found that there are many Japanese ladies in the Magic City, and there are many from the beginning. That's right, the high-class ones come to the Magic City, and the low-class ones go to Nanyang..."

Bai Lang already had a small western-style building at this time. He killed people, robbed goods, and blackmailed warlords to get a lot of money. In this era, it only depended on whether you had money or not. No one would ask where your money came from—what's more, Bai Lang was equal in making money. He moved against Americans, British, French, and Japanese. There were quite a few foreigners who were robbed of everything after their whole family was killed. Especially what Bai Lang sighed about was that he also had to take on the responsibility of customs, trying hard to search for famous cultural relic sellers of the Republic of China in his memory, killing both buyers and sellers, and then finding a place to hide these cultural relics.

"I am clearly a pure villain, come here to be a villain!" Bai Lang remembered the situation of killing those people, and sighed at the complicated cultural relic protection behind him—these things all required professional technology, especially calligraphy and painting works. If it were stone or bronze, it would be fine, but calligraphy and painting were really difficult to preserve. If Bai Lang hadn't been an ancient person and had seen the situation of the people in the inner court preserving cultural relics, he might have really damaged a lot of cultural relics...

"An industrial country is an industrial country after all, and the gap in education is indeed widened. The problem with the education of the Republic of China is that there are too many liberal arts and they are too flooded. If people like Cai and Hu enjoy great fame, it is of no benefit to the country. Such people are the most despicable among the literati. That Hu guy is even looked down upon by the bald head, and there are still disciples and grandchildren to blow for him, as if he is the light of Peking University..." Bai Lang just sneered, because even if there were volcanoes and earthquakes, the recovery speed of these little devils was still quite fast.

The national destiny seems to be paused and slowed down, not completely finished, because their speed of cleaning up ruins and rebuilding factories is not slow, much stronger than 80 years later. The garbage 80 years later is completely incomparable. It even seems that a reconstruction boom can be pulled out because of the reconstruction process? Especially the Americans imported a large amount of steel and cement to Japan to assist Japan in reconstruction... Japan is even thriving domestically—they don't care about the 300,000 dead.

It's just that the road to external expansion can't go on for a while—money must be used for reconstruction, otherwise the logistics of the army can't be guaranteed, let alone the navy. Bai Lang is quite satisfied that he can delay Japan's invasion of China, even if it is only for two or three years.

(End of chapter)