Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 606 - 570: A Land of Marshes

The all-encompassing tsunami dealt a devastating blow to the entire Langton City.

The inner city, fortunately, had the old city walls to block it, so it did not immediately face the terrifying tsunami directly.

Moreover, the terrain is relatively high, coupled with the outer city as a buffer, except for areas near the river channels being hit by the rising tides, the situation in other regions is relatively not too severe.

The tide did indeed flood into the city and did indeed submerge the streets, but it did not completely immerse the buildings on both sides of the street. Most of the people managed to evacuate to higher ground in time, with only a few swept away by the waters.

The only problem was the Energy Towers. These large structures, originally with deep foundations, were soaked in the water, and the boilers, which were still working, were directly flooded with seawater, not only extinguishing the furnace instantly but also causing a temperature change that triggered explosions in the steam pipelines, or even the boilers themselves.

This scene greatly pained the workers who had labored to construct the Energy Towers, and many wanted to rush forward to do something despite the danger to their lives, but most were stopped.

Only a few actually made it, but they couldn't accomplish much aside from closing some valves, preventing further damage, yet not affecting much more.

As for the church refuges established, although they were hit, overall, they were not significantly problematic.

Most of the church locations were chosen on higher ground. Even though Langton City is situated on a plain, there are still some small hills or mounds that are of higher elevation.

Although these places became less noticeable with the city's development, their height does not change.

When the tsunami hit, quite a few church refuges were fortunately not submerged. While some underground shelters might have been flooded, this level is still within the tolerable range of the underground refuges.

As for the shelters that weren't high enough or in poor locations, resulting in complete submersion...

All one could do was pray for good luck and nothing more.

After all, a tsunami nearly a hundred meters high is beyond what human power can withstand against this scale of disaster.

Meanwhile, in the outer city, the strongholds of the Evil God Sect also suffered severe impacts.

Because most were accustomed to creating underground spaces as altars, the tsunami-borne seawater directly engulfed these underground spaces, resulting in destructive blows to many evil god altars.

Perhaps even the Evil Gods themselves never imagined that the disaster they caused to return would directly flood their altars in the first wave.

However, for the Evil God Sect, they were not entirely without methods to respond to this disaster.

Summoning 'Divine Envoys' or sacrificing themselves for divine descent, after employing various means, indeed some sects successfully preserved their strongholds without significant losses.

Yet even so, they expended several reserves, and overall, it's hard to say if it was worth it.

Moreover, the most severely impacted were the lower-class residents of the outer city, who had no time to react when the tsunami hit, being directly swallowed by towering waves nearly a hundred meters high, taking houses and streets along.

Conservative estimates suggest at least hundreds of thousands were affected by this disaster, and at least half were swept away by the tsunami, leaving little hope of survival.

As for the affected area? Most of the city was soaked in water; the affected area has become irrelevant since the entire city is now a disaster zone.

"Is this the power of natural disasters? Just a tsunami has such power. Can humanity really survive the apocalypse?" Sanderion had already lost her confidence, appearing utterly bewildered and helpless.

This is understandable, as she is merely a Demigod Alchemist who lived over a hundred years before the first Industrial Revolution.

Although her life experience is indeed profound, what she has seen is quite limited.

Not to mention, a nearly hundred-meter tsunami is also a once-in-a-thousand-years event for humanity, with no such terrifying disaster ever recorded in history. Where else could she witness the might of nature?

Even as a demigod, when facing such an earth-shattering calamity, at most, she can only ensure her survival.

Hoping to fight against or dispel the disaster? If she could truly do that, Sanderion could rightfully call herself a god.

Even if she wishes to deny it, the public would still consider it divine humility.

"Revere nature, for even a hundred years of human development will still leave us feeling insignificant before nature's might," Perfikot had recovered faster than Sanderion, regaining rationality and determination.

Unbeknownst to anyone, a crown had appeared on her head.

"What should we do now?" With Perfikot regaining composure, Sanderion seemed to grasp at a lifeline.

"First, conduct rescue operations, and deal with other matters later." With the crown on, Perfikot was calm and resolute, directly ordering the captain: "Immediately mobilize all the troops within Langton City in the name of the Count of the Northern Territory for rescue operations, whether it's the City Guard, the Guard Army, or the standing army, get them all moving!

Evacuate the people to the remaining un-submerged high grounds. Deploy all Flying Airships to rescue those trapped in the city, and have them announce throughout the city that I have arrived in Langton and am overseeing the rescue efforts! Later, I will address the entire city."

After saying this, Perfikot looked at Sanderion and without hesitation addressed her: "Return to the Alchemist Association immediately. Mobilize all available Alchemists to make water pumps.

While the water brought by the tsunami will recede in a few days, waiting for the water level to drop naturally takes too long, and some flooded underground shelters can never drain completely.

We need a large number of water pumps to remove as much standing water as possible, and it must be done quickly; this disaster is just the beginning."

Perfikot knew that after the storm surge, a typhoon would land. If the flooding problem from the reverse seawater influx couldn't be addressed swiftly, the devastation would be greater when the super typhoon that raised this storm surge makes landfall.

Furthermore, the plummeting temperatures could cause those lacking shelter to freeze to death, possibly freezing the entire city in ice.

Therefore, disaster relief must be conducted urgently to salvage as much as possible.

Especially those submerged refuges and Energy Towers; saving even one more might allow some to survive later.