Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Chapter 599 Aftermath

After the earthquake occurred, the residents of Yard No. 95 were still a little frightened. When they thought of Lin Geng’s previous suggestion that everyone in the yard should repair and reinforce the houses, they found it a little unbelievable. At the same time, they were very grateful to Lin Geng. They thought that if Lin Geng had not asked everyone to repair and reinforce the houses in advance, some of the houses in the yard might have been collapsed by the earthquake, and who knew who might be trapped underneath them in their sleep!

Therefore, the residents of Courtyard No. 95 all praised Lin for his foresight. Everyone’s house did not collapse. At most, they were slightly damaged and temporarily uninhabitable.

There will be heavy rain after a big earthquake, and there will be many aftershocks that will be transmitted to Sijiu City. At this time, the people in Sijiu City still don’t know where the earthquake occurred. Until the next day, a news report was published in the newspaper saying that a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred in the Tang City area, and almost all the buildings in the entire Tang City were destroyed in this earthquake.

Fortunately, the central government decided to organize a nuclear war prevention drill in Tang City some time ago and evacuated most of the people in Tang City. Therefore, although this earthquake caused serious economic losses to Tang City, it basically did not cause many casualties. It was a blessing in disguise. We called on people across the country to donate money and materials and contribute to the post-disaster reconstruction of the people of Tang City.

It was only then that people realized that the earthquake in Sijiu City was just the aftermath of the Tang City earthquake. Sijiu City was shaking so violently and some houses collapsed, one could imagine how severe the earthquake center in Tang City was, and they all secretly thanked their luck.

In the next two days, the subdistrict office notified residents in the area that in order to prevent aftershocks from causing the collapse of damaged houses and the subsequent heavy rains, residents were required to build earthquake-proof shelters outside their houses and live in the earthquake-proof shelters to prevent unnecessary casualties caused by aftershocks.

In addition, the newspaper also published news and photos, introducing the situation in Tangcheng after the earthquake. It mainly said that because of this exercise, the vast majority of Tangcheng’s residents were evacuated, so the number of casualties among the people in Tangcheng was very small, and no serious casualties were caused. However, because the intensity of the earthquake was too strong, it almost destroyed the entire Tangcheng. Now a large number of exercise troops have been transferred to the rescue and post-disaster cleanup work in Tangcheng.

After seeing the news, Lin Geng secretly sighed in his heart. His efforts were finally not in vain. Finally, the central government preferred to believe it rather than not. It saved a large number of people in Tang City and avoided causing the tragic losses of the great earthquake in history in another time and space.

However, the international community must have been in an uproar over the Tangcheng earthquake! Because this time, Longguo suddenly announced that it would hold a so-called anti-nuclear war evacuation exercise in Tangcheng. It was too coincidental. As soon as the exercise started and the people of Tangcheng were evacuated to the surrounding areas, a major earthquake of such intensity occurred in Tangcheng. No one would believe that this was a coincidence.

Therefore, it seems that many countries in the world now believe that Longguo is very likely to have mastered the technology to predict earthquakes, and predicted in advance that a strong earthquake would occur in Tang City, so they evacuated the people of Tang City in advance under the guise of a high-level exercise.

As we all know, predicting earthquakes is a very difficult task even decades later, not to mention the level of technology in this era. Being able to accurately predict that a major earthquake will occur somewhere nearly a month in advance is simply impossible in the world.

But this time, Longguo accurately predicted the Tangcheng earthquake and evacuated the people in advance, thus avoiding a huge disaster.

If this earthquake had not been predicted in advance, it is hard to imagine how many casualties it would have caused, because the earthquake occurred in the second half of the night, when most people were in deep sleep. When the earthquake occurred, the violent shaking caused many buildings to collapse instantly, and most people would be buried in the rubble in their sleep, without any chance of escape.

As a result, this earthquake will inevitably cause serious casualties. I don’t know how many people may lose their lives in this earthquake, how many people will become disabled in this earthquake, and how many families will be torn apart by this earthquake.

However, Longguo evacuated the people of Tangcheng in advance, allowing countless people to avoid this disaster and escape the fate of death.

This incident had a considerable impact internationally. Afterwards, many governments of countries proposed to Longguo to share its earthquake prediction technology with them. However, the Longguo government rejected the idea that the Tangcheng earthquake and previous exercises were just coincidences, and Longguo had not made any breakthroughs in earthquake prediction technology.

In short, this incident had a great impact, and the Long government was also quite embarrassed. They couldn't tell those foreign governments that the reason why Long country was able to predict that a major earthquake would occur in Tang City was because a wise man issued a warning to the government. In order to attract the government's attention, they even made a big fuss and cast a spell to destroy the house in front of an important ministry, which alarmed the central government and implemented a large-scale evacuation of Tang City!

Therefore, the Longguo government can only insist that the exercise and the earthquake were completely coincidental, and that Longguo’s scientific and technological personnel did not predict the earthquake in advance.

As for whether other countries believe it or not, our government has no control over it! After the Tangcheng earthquake, aftershocks are still happening. There is still a lot of work to be done. Next, we have to rebuild the Tangcheng destroyed by the earthquake and resettle millions of people. We are not in the mood to argue with foreign countries on this matter.

Lin didn’t know what the central government would think about this matter now, and whether they would be grateful to him as the whistleblower, but he didn’t care. As long as his fellow countrymen in Tang City could avoid this disaster, he would feel at ease.

After the earthquake, he went to visit his father-in-law, mother-in-law and Aunt Zhang first. Fortunately, when Lin Geng repaired his own house in advance, he also used the excuse of paying for someone to repair and reinforce his father-in-law and mother-in-law's house, so that his father-in-law and mother-in-law were safe this time and nothing was dangerous.

As for Aunt Zhang's family, they originally lived in a small Western-style building allocated by the army. Their house was built very solidly and with solid materials, so there was no damage in the earthquake. However, Aunt Zhang was frightened. After the earthquake, she rushed to Lin Geng's house to check the situation first, and asked Lin Geng to move to her house with his wife and children to live in her house for a while.