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"Okay, please wait a moment. The stretcher team that went out to treat patients will be back soon. Then, Teacher Xuyu and I will go with you to treat the patients. Just follow our lead." Lena smiled and took out an exquisite embroidered bag from her purse.

"The smell of blood and stench here is awful, isn't it? Here, take this. This is incense I made. It can effectively help you calm down, and the smell of these potions isn't so pungent anymore."

Lena's incense has a certain central nervous system stimulating effect, which can help patients, especially those with external injuries, recover and calm their minds, making them more receptive to medical treatment and less resistant to it.

In field hospitals, it is also effective in relieving post-traumatic stress disorder. For patients who have accidentally lost limbs, it is a small but effective comfort. Although aromatherapy cannot be used as the main treatment, it is quite effective as an auxiliary means of prognosis and recovery. Of course, it is also very effective in helping patients relax as much as possible before surgery.

"Doctor, come quick!" A shout came from outside the door. The nurses and doctors rushed out, and Liz followed. Outside, a stretcher team, covered in sweat, stood at the door with several men who looked like blood gourds. "They were injured by the falling rubble."

"Haven't I told you several times not to go to the collapse area?"

Construction is underway to repair the damaged sections and cracks, and debris and gravel could fall at any moment.

The cleanup and recycling areas below are a safe distance from the other side, so falling and flying debris cannot cause harm.

However, some workers, tempted by the valuables in the ruins and the points earned from the more valuable recyclables, secretly crossed the boundary line and entered the danger zone.

There's no way to expect these temporary workers to understand construction site safety rules and receive proper safety training; it's impossible due to both time and resources constraints.

The ruins and wreckage must be cleared before the town can be repaired, and only by repairing the town can the necessary survival of such a large population be sustained for a long time.

These tasks must be completed before the second winter arrives. Otherwise, the number of people who starve or freeze to death will be thousands of times greater than the number of deaths from workplace injuries.

"Extensive contusions, Liz debridement!" The doctor in charge of the diagnosis quickly assessed the injuries of the several blood-stained patients. They were mainly contusions and scrapes from gravel on the surface of their bodies. After confirming that the head had not been seriously injured and that the patients were conscious, Xu Yu immediately used the filamentous surgical instrument to perform pain suppression treatment on the patients.

The patients, who had been weakly groaning in pain, finally quieted down. "Hemostatic agent, nebulized medication," Lena (the perfumer) said, raising her staff. The soft tube connected to the staff drew out the medicine from the vial on the staff, which turned into a mist and slowly descended.

Liz then used alcohol and a debridement staff to clean the target's wound, including cutting away the curled and broken skin, removing gravel, dirt, and broken surfaces, exposing the wound, and disinfecting it so that Lena's medicated mist could reach the wound more thoroughly.

The bleeding from the wound was quickly stopped. "Liz, prepare to bandage them." After examining the three, Xu Yu gave each of them a green label for minor injury. Although they looked covered in blood, most of them were contusions and a few lacerations.

There was no severe impact to the head or chest, and no serious problems such as internal bleeding were detected. All that was needed was cleaning, disinfection, hemostasis, and bandaging, followed by some painkillers and medication to accelerate wound healing.

"Send him to the observation area, Liz. Your hand is very steady, much better than the other newcomers."

Lena said with a smile that the new medical students rarely remained so calm when faced with these injured patients.

In reality, we rarely encounter any difficult or complicated cases here. To be honest, most patients' conditions are not complicated, and most of them are even within the optimal emergency time. It just requires a high level of psychological resilience from the doctors, since there is blood everywhere, and there are even cases of severed hands and feet.

For medical students who haven't seen much of the world, it's good enough if they don't throw up. It's rare to find someone with such a steady hand, like Liz, who handles a piece of dead meat.

"Before I came here, I served as a temporary military medic on the battlefield for a period of time, which is much better than that."

Good labor protection means that although the wounded look terrible, their injuries are not actually too serious, but it's a different story on the battlefield.

"That's really amazing..." Lena patted her on the shoulder. "But, as usual, you'll be assigned to go to the front and assist the stretcher team with on-site treatment later. I was worried about whether you could handle it. But since you've been a military doctor, there won't be any problem."

After all, not all injured people can hold out until they are carried to the rear medical facilities on a stretcher. For example, those who have been hit on the head by falling or collapsing objects cannot be moved immediately. They need to be assessed by a doctor and given emergency treatment before being transported to the rear. Otherwise, moving the injured person rashly may cause secondary injury.

At the construction site, clearing teams were removing obstacles blocking roads and vehicles, while reinforcing and clearing dangerous areas that could fall or collapse at any moment. Behind them, recycling teams were wielding sledgehammers, smashing large chunks of metal and carbon waste, loading them onto trucks, and sending them to a recycling plant built outside the town's restoration site.

Carbon materials are incinerated, and the ash and residue are dumped into landfills. Metal materials are smelted in furnaces to create new alloys, which are used to manufacture various tools for refugee camps and factories.

Worthless stone and wood recyclables are separated. The stone is crushed and used for paving, while the wood recyclables are thrown into a bio-waste recycling plant, where slime mold turns them into organic fertilizer for use in greenhouses and the wider fields outside the city.

The cultivated land in the south is naturally different from the desert in the north. Here, large areas of fast-growing wheat have been planted. Inside the greenhouse, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes and onions are growing vigorously on the interlaced vertical planting racks. In the aeroponic chamber, densely packed planktonic bacteria are mixed with nutrient solution spray like clumps of light green mist.

These planktonic bacteria are one of the famous ingredients in "organic sauce". They quickly absorb small molecule ingredients and mineral nutrient solution through these sprays and replicate themselves wildly in the high-pressure nitrogen and carbon dioxide.

During harvesting, the plankton undergoes filtration and decomposition, and is then pressed under high pressure to become a milky white paste, which is the original pulp of the organic sauce.

Organic sauces without seasoning or preservatives are still unpalatable, but at least they're not torture instruments. These pastes have a slightly salty and strangely sweet taste, and because they're rich in protein and vitamins, they also seem a bit bitter. If you add some peanut seasoning powder or something like that... well, just looking at them, they're torture instruments, even without considering the taste.

After baking, it turns into a pale yellow, lumpy powder. With the addition of antibiotics, cellulose, and other supplements, it can be fed to pigs and cattle. Of course, humans can eat it too. But… nobody likes the taste.

Hydroponic tanks are a more widely used technology. The tanks are filled with dense clumps of black algae, duckweed, and aquatic plankton, and are connected to larger ponds through several feeding pipes to continuously feed the crayfish and fast-growing grass carp in the ponds. At the same time, these algae are also processed into industrial starch for use in feed and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Thanks to these nearby high-tech agricultural sites, at lunchtime, Liz, like everyone else, received a rather lavish meal, including two fist-sized pieces of unleavened bread, a large spoonful of braised fish chunks, a mixed salad made with tomatoes, marinated fish scraps, onions, and shredded carrots, plus a large cup of tomato and fish soup, making for a high-protein, nutritious meal.

This is why refugees and workers rushed to sign up, because the food here is really good, and even with the frequent workplace accidents, it is still a lucrative job.

In addition to these dishes, the manual laborers also received a very greasy pork stew with vermicelli. This dish was a contribution from the group's CEO, who threw large chunks of fat from fast-growing feed pigs, along with a small amount of lean meat, soy sauce, sweet potato vermicelli, onions, and potatoes into a pot and stewed them together.

The taste was, of course, quite ordinary, but for those serf-born refugees who had probably never eaten meat more than a few times in their lives, this was heavenly food. Besides, as a communal dish, it wasn't particularly refined or delicious, but it certainly wasn't bad either, was it?

With a "whoosh," a cascade of debris poured down from the upper city area, revealing a clearly visible metal skeleton in the abandoned urban block, indicating that the cleanup work in this area was nearing completion.

After cleaning up the waste below, the city's "wound" was cleaned up, and the "surgery" could begin.

Workers will use alloy supports to build a multi-level working dock, and then large transport tractors will deliver padding to build the keel of alloy and high-strength carbon materials, followed by the walking support structure.

Next, the heavy-duty gantry crane in the upper urban area will lift the power cores in groups of three and install them in the lower-level area of ​​the new urban area.

After a complex process of wiring and piping, the work docks on the second to fifth floors will be opened simultaneously. Workers will then begin constructing a multi-level urban deck area around the power core tower. From bottom to top, these areas will consist of the auxiliary support keel, waste disposal area, auxiliary power generation core, and waste sorting and processing area. Once all the lower-level areas are completed, the deck will be sealed off, and construction of the middle-level functional areas will begin.

The middle layer contains the heating system, main power plant, maintenance facility, sewer management system, storage areas, and docking deck, among other things. Finally, the upper layer, the area on the deck, is where buildings, housing, factories, and various other upper-level facilities are constructed. At this point, the module for a mobile city is complete.

Meanwhile, the old modules will also undergo a large number of urban modernization improvements. These efforts consume a great deal of the manpower that has been released due to agricultural mechanization, as well as a huge number of refugees and low-skilled workers.

After all, they can't carry out nuclear power conversion projects, but they can deal with the piles of garbage left behind by demolished urban areas.

Furthermore, the various supporting factories also desperately needed basic laborers, and the next step would be long-term education and training. It was estimated that within two or three years, Kazdel would have a population with initial industrialization. Unfortunately, the world war clearly wouldn't give them much time.

The fuse has been lit, and the powder kegs have been piled up to the ceiling. Now, only one thing is missing: the initial explosion.

Chapter One: The Fuse

Chapter One

The capital of Sami is also affected by the turmoil of the world economy. This small country located on the northwestern edge of the continent is surrounded by mountains and snow forests. Sami does not have much trade with the outside world. It mainly produces forestry and furs. Of course, it also has a little industry, which is just enough to maintain its survival.

However, food and most necessities still rely on external imports. Yet, in deflation, their goods simply cannot be sold. Everyone tightens their consumption and no longer invests their precious currency in goods that have little appreciation potential and are not essential consumer goods.

The global currency shortage and precautionary savings due to currency appreciation have led to a decline in the Sami people's tax revenue and consumption capacity. Even more alarming is that they are finding it difficult to purchase enough fuel and food from outside.

Even though their neighbor is Colombia, a major agricultural country second only to Casimir, it is gradually falling into the torment of famine.

Even on the streets of the capital, long lines still formed in front of bakeries and banks. People were trying to buy food at the bakeries and to withdraw money from the banks, but this was extremely difficult.

The basic operating principle of a bank is to use depositors' principal for lending and pay depositors interest on the loan interest. If the loans cannot be recovered, the amount of funds held by the bank will be far less than the amount of depositors' principal.

This also means that at this time, when the Sami people began to unusually demand that banks repay the principal, the money that had not been lent out in time to be converted into interest due to previous deflation—

Because loan interest rates don't rise as much as currency appreciation, bankers would lose money.

This means that after deducting the bank's necessary operating expenses, their money would be insufficient to repay the entire principal, let alone the interest.

Even more frightening is that the lender, in order to keep the money in their own hands as much as possible—after all, every day of delay means at least 15% extra interest income—will try every means to postpone loan repayment, or even worse, abscond with the money.

On one hand, they can't recover their loans, and on the other hand, they can't find industry investments and loans with sufficiently high interest rates. In addition, the Sami people have an unusual need for more circulating currency due to shortages of supplies, and now they have started a bank run.

"How did the country become like this?" General Fells sighed deeply. Outside the car window, there were unemployed people holding signs everywhere, and long lines in front of banks and bakeries.

Meanwhile, the young people marched in the streets chanting slogans, demanding that the Sami government solve the problems of bread and jobs.

Of course, besides bread and work, there was also the issue of reclaiming the eastern Sami region, which had been occupied by Ursus. The resentment towards Ursus grew stronger every day, but it was of no use.

The Ursus people had established supply lines and outposts, and even with planned immigration, they faced fierce resistance from the forest ranger guerrillas.

However, it was still difficult to change the course of the war and the fact that Ursus had in fact severed the Sami territory.

The general's car circled the protesters several times before entering the parliament building. Sami is a rare parliamentary republic.

In fact, this political system did not just appear in modern times. The Dutch were the first to adopt this political system on Earth, while the Sami were the first country to adopt this system in Terra.

However, they did not have a representative system or universal suffrage. The councilors were elected by the upper and lower guilds of the Sami according to their respective weights, and these representatives then elected the councilors. To put it bluntly, every councilor was a wealthy businessman and guild leader in the Sami.

Objectively speaking, this is beneficial for Sami's parliament to obtain first-hand information from all walks of life, and the members themselves are indeed professionals in their respective fields.

However, in practice, much like a noble council, it is basically impossible to reach any quick and effective agreements.

"General, the council members are already waiting for you." As General Fells stepped out of the car, a waiter informed him that the council had suspended all normal activities and was waiting for him. The reason for their waiting was nothing more than a hearing held regarding the recent fighting in the East Sami region.

The hearing focused on whether General Fells had privately mobilized troops to provoke Ursus, leading to a further invasion by Ursus.

To put it bluntly, Sami's congressmen had a simple idea: to avoid provoking Ursus as much as possible and instead hope for mediation from the international community.

Some of them had even already negotiated terms of selling themselves to Ursus or Colombia.

The reason why the Sami are still resisting and constantly sending more troops to the border is simply because the two factions haven't agreed on a price.

The fur and forestry guild wanted to sell to Colombia, since Ursus had plenty of these things; their own snowfields produced them.

They might end up dumping it on Sami, while the industrial tycoons would prefer to sell it to Ursus.

After all, Ursus lacks industrial products in the snowfields, and raw materials and fuel are relatively cheap.

In any case, most of them did not want to see Sami suffer further aggression because of their attempt to attack the Ursus-occupied territory, which would make the war more dangerous and prolong the war.

"A bunch of cowards..." the adjutant muttered as the general entered the gate, then lowered his hat, sat down, and closed his eyes to rest.

Inside the council, it was stated that "Ursus' military strength is nearly 50 times that of ours. We are not only inferior in weaponry and technology, but also in the number of troops. At this time, we should consolidate our forces to protect the important core areas."

A young congressman was giving a speech when he saw General Fells enter. "General Fells," he said, "I hope you can answer the question that concerns us most: what have you gained by throwing the lives of tens of thousands of young men onto the rotten land of the border as if they were gambling chips?"

"Dignity and the homeland of the Sami people..." the general answered calmly, then stood on the questioning platform. "Do you think Ursus's appetite will stop in the eastern mountains? There are still 2700 million people waiting to be enslaved in the fertile Sami plains."

Although this country has never been wealthy, it has accumulated considerable riches over the centuries. Do you really think the giant bears of Ursus would stay in the mountains, gazing at the Sami Basin, licking their paws to stave off hunger?

“General, we’re not discussing what will happen to Ursus right now; we’re discussing your problem. I remember the council already rejected your mobilization request, but you…”

A slightly more amicable member of parliament spoke up, "There are reports that you have been conducting large-scale conscription in border cities and expelling local government officials. Is that true?"

"Exile is the lightest punishment imaginable. I mean for traitors and sellouts. The borders are in chaos because of Ursus's actions. I've ordered martial law and an investigation and purge of officials bribed by Ursus spies..."

Expelling officials and investigating and dealing with traitors are two different things. Similarly, launching an army to occupy a city and imposing military control because of urban chaos are two different things; he won't fall for this kind of low-level linguistic trap.

"So, you recruited nearly 100,000 militiamen and gave them weapons. Can I assume you intend to use these people for something?" This is another trap. What to do?

It can be interpreted as doing something to save the country when it is in danger, or it can be interpreted as taking advantage of the situation to become a dictatorial warlord.

"What can I do? Lead this army, which can't even afford rations and crossbow bolts, into the city and stage a coup? All I can do is let them protect themselves and their homes in their own way. Everyone knows that even without Ursus, those ancient evils are still watching us from the mountains and the snow-capped peaks of the north."

Like Ursus, fighting the demons of the north is politically correct for Sami, and if this is the reasoning, the Sami council cannot offer any objections.

They even put themselves in a disadvantageous position, since fighting against evil is indeed a consensus that transcends the international politics of the northern countries, and their actions are suspected of being a hindrance.

"I'm sorry, General, that's not what I meant. I meant that if it's about fighting those things, you can directly mobilize personnel and supplies through the military and parliament." The other party also realized that this topic could not be dragged out any longer, otherwise he would be dragged into it.

"Oh, so where are the military's supplies? Where are the troops? Where are the weapons? Most importantly, where is the money?" The general shrugged. "You see, this is the only way I can organize a defensive force. Of course, if you think the Ursus people might be more delicious than the Sami, and those things will only cause them trouble, then I can disband this militia, can't I?"

"This..." Of course, this won't do. If they are disbanded, they will face pressure from all sides. If they are really a temporary force formed to fight against the demons, then forcibly disbanding them would be tantamount to selling out Ursus and Columbia in this respect. Once the demons pass through the snow mountain defense line north of Sami, both Columbia and Ursus will suffer.

"As for money and supplies, the council will try to provide you with some, but don't forget that the militia issue is also a possibility."

But they didn't actually use their resources to fight those things, at least not entirely, right? Otherwise, the East wouldn't have started fighting.