Chapter 72 Status Quo and Opportunities
Chapter 72 Current Situation and Opportunities
Europe was once the most developed region on the earth. It has advanced technology, a complete social welfare system, and strong economic strength. It is an area where many people want to immigrate.
At this moment, this area has completely disappeared from the most developed areas in the world before. After the hit of the meteorite disaster last year, the prosperous cities have been severely damaged, and a large amount of radiation has appeared in many places. No longer suitable for human habitation.
The huge meteorites almost destroyed some huge cities in Western and Central Europe, and the parasitic beast crisis later made the situation here worse, with a large number of casualties in various countries. Although the two major military powers of the United States and Russia sent a large number of armed forces to enter the place to eliminate the parasitic beasts, the situation here did not improve, but became even worse.
As the unidentified diseases began to spread in Europe, and the rapid expansion of a large number of mutated animals and plants, the situation that had obviously stabilized was greatly worsened again. After the troops suffered serious losses, the United States and Russia immediately chose to withdraw from these quagmire areas.
These two powerful countries began to evacuate their remaining troops from this dangerous area of radiation and virus abuse. Russia followed the checkpoints set up in its border areas and strictly prohibited any refugees from Western and Central Europe from entering the country. Soon after, due to the interruption of all ocean shipping, people who wanted to leave Europe and go to the United States completely lost the main route, and air traffic had already stopped.
After all, the big cities in the hardest-hit countries in Europe have been almost destroyed. Many cities are full of mutant creatures, and even people are no longer inhabited. Many large international airports around the city are no longer able to take off and land large international flights for various reasons.
Even if it can take off and land planes, many countries will not send planes there to accept European refugees. After all, no one wants to watch the virus spreading in Europe and preached their own country. For a time, Europe has almost become a forgotten place.
In the already dilapidated outskirts of Paris, a large number of refugees began to gather together to form gathering places of varying sizes. People in these gathering places were trying their best to get food. After all, with the discontinuation of sea transportation, the relief supplies from other regions of the world have no longer arrived in large quantities in European countries.
The relief supplies dropped by the airplanes that occasionally fly in, are of little use to the large number of refugees. So a large number of refugees began to learn to grow some edible plants, such as potatoes, in various open spaces. At the same time, various mice have become common foods that people began to eat.
Because unknown viruses spread in Europe, other rescue teams for the country began to evacuate here one after another. The politicians and rich people took flights to the Americas through their respective relationships and left here one after another. Therefore, some countries are now in an anarchy state, so some cult organizations and private forces have begun to take flights in various places to occupy the mountains and become kings.
Now it can be said that the people who are still in the devastated European region are all ordinary people without power. In order to survive, everyone has to do everything they can to fight against the harsh natural environment. This place almost returned to the ancient times before the Industrial** in an overnight period.
Because there is a large army around Paris, the surrounding areas are still relatively calm compared to other parts of Europe, at least there is no chaos here.
Under the management of the army, the surrounding refugee gathering places began to grow food or hunt in the wild. The best life is the big farmers in the suburbs of Paris, who own their own ranches and have a lot of food. However, no one dared to rob their supplies, because in addition to these farmers themselves, the army will also send patrols to patrol those places.
After all, the army also needs to eat, and these farms are responsible for providing food to the army. The army will send people to protect these farms. If anyone dares to rob the farm, these soldiers will shoot and kill them mercilessly.
Because some farms have a very large area, and many machinery and equipment are short of oil, it is no longer possible to use. So some farmers began to hire some people among the refugees to work for them, at the cost of providing some food. Therefore, a large number of residents who were originally cities began to work hard on farms in various places in exchange for some food to survive.
The white man Carlos is one of these hired troops. He is a married man in his thirties with two daughters and one son. Before the Meteorite Scourge, he worked in a branch of the National Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Carlos was a senior researcher there at that time, and his life was far different from now on. At that time, his owner had an enviable job and a very good salary. He could take his whole family out for a trip every year and have high-end meals every week.
However, with the arrival of the meteorite disaster last year, his life immediately changed drastically. Since the government agencies were completely destroyed in the disaster, their institute was unmanaged. Therefore, he and his colleagues officially lost their jobs without randomness.
At first, as the situation outside became worse, there were rioters everywhere who took advantage of the chaos to rob the lawless. Therefore, these researchers took their surviving families here to settle down, but because there was no food here, those who were engaged in scientific research had to work for those people in some nearby farms to make a living. However, for these scientists who have been engaged in scientific research for many years, doing the heavy physical labor was like killing them, but for their own families, they had to grit their teeth and persevere.
As the army began to vigorously rectify nearby areas, the number of thugs who were rampant was beaten to death, the public security here was obviously much better than before. However, some guys occasionally appeared, robbing passers-by on the road and robbing food. However, everyone's lives have not changed at all, and they are still living in a difficult situation.
In order to prevent encountering thugs robbing food on the road, the people who settled in the institute worked together every day and then went back together to prevent accidents on the road. However, today Carlos left the workplace alone at the end because the farmer's toilet was broken and he went to repair it.
In the past, Carlos would never have encountered such dirty work, but in order to get the small piece of prosciutto provided by the farmer, he immediately took over the job because his wife and children had not eaten any decent meat for months, and he just wanted to let them all eat better today.
When Carlos walked home with a few pieces of bread, potatoes and a small piece of prosciutto from the farmer today, he couldn't help but speed up his pace. Although he was already very tired after a day of work, the urge to go home was still reminding him.
Just as Carlos walked to the edge of a wood not far away, five young men suddenly rushed out of the grass around him. They immediately knocked Carlos, who had not been investigated for a while, and then snatched the old bag of food in his hand.
Seeing that the food he brought to the whole family after working hard for a day was snatched away by someone, Carlos, who was already very tired and injured, was immediately angry and prepared to get up and fight to the other party. Now he completely ignored whether he was the opponent of the group of people in front of him. He only knew that the food was for his wife and children. This should never be snatched away, otherwise his family would definitely go hungry.
But the reality is cruel. Although Carlos wanted to fight the other party desperately, he was hit hard by the wooden stick in the other party's hand again before he got up.
At the same time, the other party was also angry by Carlos's resistance. They raised the wooden sticks in their hands, looked at him with a fierce look on his face, panting on the ground, and were about to kill him with a poisonous hand.
Just when Carlos was about to fall into despair, the thugs who robbed him were suddenly lifted up, and then they were quickly twisted their necks in a terrifying scream. The crisp sound of the broken head immediately made him feel creepy.
Then Carlos raised his bloody head and looked at the bastards who had turned from the corpses on the ground, and suddenly felt that he was relieved. At this moment, a pair of black land war boots appeared in front of him, and then he was helped up from the ground.
At this moment, what appeared in front of Carlos was a group of men wearing uniform black uniforms and holding weapons. One of them walked to him and asked, "Are you Dr. Carlos? We are here to pick you up now. If you promise to organize your work for us, you and your family will leave this ghost place and go to a place far away from all this in the future and start over."
Carlos, who no longer wanted to continue experiencing the scene just now, said with his mouth still with blood: "Okay, I promised that as long as I and my family can leave here."
Carlos has made his promise now. Even if he wants to work for the devil, he is willing to leave this ghost place as long as he can leave this ghost place. The same scene is also being staged in other places in this gathering place. Some professional talents who used to be in various scientific research institutions have been found by some great men one after another and told the same words.
Of course, Carlos' colleagues hiding in the institute had already met another group of big men, and they all agreed to the other party's request without hesitation.
Chapter completed!