Supporting the body in the white blade, wandering in the red dust

Chapter 996

Things started to go wrong. First, there were earthquakes. There were continuous earthquakes. It was as if the earth had entered an active period. There were earthquakes every day in the four major earthquake belts. Especially in the Pacific Ring of Fire, it was extremely active. So Taiwan Island and Japan were in bad luck. 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 was after the Lunar New Year. When Bai Lang returned to Shanghai to enjoy the good life, the big earthquake came.

At this time, diplomacy was extremely tense because all the personnel in the Marine Command were wiped out, resulting in the death of thousands of people, including a general. The Japanese were shouting for "punishing the violent Chinese" and were frequently mobilizing troops to prepare for action. Then the Great Kanto Earthquake, which had just occurred ten years ago, came again this time.
This time it was a major earthquake on Honshu Island, and the earthquake affected a wide area, almost from the coast of Sagami Bay in Kanto to the Sea of ​​Japan, and even completely included Osaka and Kobe in the west. The center of the earthquake was between Shizuoka and Kanagawa, only 10,000 meters from the surface. The earthquake level was not bad, only 8 on the Richter scale, but because the epicenter was shallow, the intensity was indeed full.

Since the Meiji era, Japan has built up modern industry by selling blood and women, and has basically returned to the level of the Tokugawa shogunate. A large number of factories have collapsed directly. Although the death toll has not yet been counted, based on the experience of the last time, this time will not be less than the last time. Fortunately, there was no serious tsunami, and the Combined Fleet anchored in Wu Port suffered heavy damage due to the high waves.

However, the docks that could be used for construction and repair were cracked and the factory workshops collapsed.

It wasn't just the Japanese earthquake. There were many earthquakes along the Andes Mountains in the United States. To the west, Persia and Turkey also experienced many earthquakes, including the Izmir earthquake, which was as high as 8 on the Richter scale and killed more than 100,000 people. Even Italy had an earthquake, which made the government very anxious.

Along with earthquakes, there are volcanic eruptions. Mount Fuji erupted in the early 18th century, and now, more than 200 years later, it erupted again. When the "Showa Great Eruption" came, Tokyo was in the process of cleaning up after the earthquake, and encountered another major eruption. The thickness of the volcanic ash exceeded ten centimeters, and the sun could not be seen for half a month. It can be said that Japan's national destiny was directly interrupted.

It wasn't just Mount Fuji that erupted, other volcanoes including Asama also erupted one after another. Even volcanoes in northeast China erupted one after another, causing quite serious disasters - for China at this time, it was like having too many lice to itch.
Bai Lang said that this was just the beginning, it was just that the Earth wanted to be active for a while, and just breathe gently. Next, the insects should get a little bigger - mainly because new cells appeared, the ability to carry oxygen increased, and the breathing function was strengthened, so the size of the insects could naturally become a little bigger within a generation. It wouldn't be too big, generally speaking, the small cockroaches would become medium cockroaches, and the large cockroaches would become giant cockroaches as long as a middle finger.

Maybe this will lead to a decrease in their numbers - after all, it is not so easy to hide, right?
As for the ants, their bodies will grow by one third if they are not careful, and the golden ring wasp can even grow to about eight centimeters. It is not a big problem, because the respiration of plants will also be enhanced, and the reproductive capacity will also be strengthened, and the breeding rate may increase by an order of magnitude. Bai Lang did not intend to collapse the biosphere - in fact, it cannot collapse unless he pulls up a mantle plume to erupt.
The size of animals will grow, but not as exaggerated as insects, expanding by one-fourth to one-third. Ordinary animals are like that, but a few mutant animals can grow to the limit. Theoretically, it is possible to grow to more than ten meters high and dozens of meters long. Aquatic creatures can grow to hundreds of meters. Bai Lang was watching a movie at this time - earthquakes and volcanoes are earthquakes and volcanoes, and the extravagance of the Magic City will not change at all.

Because there are no earthquakes or volcanoes here, many wealthy Japanese have come here to spend money and learn bad things. The simple-minded Japanese who were originally somewhat simple have quickly sunk into the evil abyss of the Magic City. "Hey? Suddenly I found that there are many Japanese girls in the Magic City, and there have been many since the beginning. That's right, the high-class ones come to the Magic City, and the low-class ones go to Southeast Asia."

Bai Lang already had a small western-style house at that time. He made a lot of money by killing people, robbing and extorting warlords. In this day and age, people only care about whether you are rich or not. No one will ask you where your money comes from. Moreover, Bai Lang treated everyone equally when he made money. He took action against Americans, British, French and Japanese. There were many foreigners whose families were killed and their houses were robbed. Bai Lang also sighed that he had to take on the responsibility of customs. He tried hard to search for famous sellers of cultural relics in the Republic of China in his memory, killed both the buyers and sellers, and then hid the cultural relics somewhere.

"I'm obviously a pure villain, I came here to be a villain!" Bai Lang thought of the situation of killing those people, and sighed for the complicated cultural relics protection behind - these things require professional skills, especially calligraphy and painting works. If you have stone or bronze, it's fine, but calligraphy and painting are really difficult to preserve. If Bai Lang hadn't been an ancient person before, and had seen how those guys in the inner court preserved cultural relics, it would really damage a lot of cultural relics.

"Industrial countries are industrial countries after all, and there is indeed a gap in education. The problem with education in the Republic of China is that there are too many liberal arts subjects and they are too common. If people like Cai and Hu become famous, it will not benefit the country. Such people are the most despicable among the literati. Even a bald man looks down on Hu, and yet he still has disciples and followers who promote him, making him the pride of Peking University." Bai Lang just sneered, because even if there was a volcano or an earthquake, these little devils would still recover quickly.

The country's fortune now seems to be pausing and slowing down, rather than completely ruined, because they are not slow in clearing the ruins and rebuilding the factories, which is much better than 80 years ago. The garbage 80 years ago is completely incomparable. It even seems that the reconstruction process can bring about a reconstruction boom? Especially the Americans imported a large amount of steel and cement to Japan to assist Japan's reconstruction. Japan is even thriving - they don't care about the death of more than 300,000 people.

However, the road of external expansion is indeed not going to continue for a while - the money must be used for reconstruction, otherwise the logistics of the army cannot be guaranteed, let alone the navy. Bai Lang is quite satisfied that he can delay the pace of Japan's invasion of China, even if it is only for two or three years.