Simulation Game: Crisis Management-Chapter 362 - 178: "Man-Made" Natural Disaster (Part 2)

"Have the people not been found yet?"

Gu Ji was slightly taken aback.

It’s been more than a week since the flooding in Assam, and most of the water has receded, yet there are still no clues.

The official in a blue vest shook his head and sighed.

"The police only found the bodies of the chief minister and the accompanying secretary in the downstream impact area. They did not find the water resources minister. Forensic preliminary examination suggests that both had a struggle with someone before their deaths. Whether it was the water resources minister who did it, we can’t be certain yet."

Oh boy, he really hit the nail on the head.

Gu Ji initially suspected that the water resources minister might abscond to avoid guilt, leading to murder and conspiracy, and it turned out to be even darker than he thought. It appeared he concealed the report not to evade responsibility but to deliberately wait for the flood to occur and seize the opportunity to make a fortune.

But if this is the truth, then the system should notify him that the goal is completed.

Since the game has no response.

It suggests that the truth isn’t so, or he is still missing some necessary conditions.

"Have you found the engineering team responsible for the dam rehabilitation by the water resources department?"

"We have. They also admitted there were cases of budget shortages or embezzlement during the construction repairs, but the state chief engineer of water resources is also missing. Perhaps this is Shiva’s punishment for them!"

The official in a blue vest shrugged, seemingly convinced that they all perished in the flood. After all, in India, it’s not uncommon for hundreds or even thousands to go missing due to floods each year.

But Gu Ji raised an eyebrow.

Missing as well, what a coincidence?

"Ruling out human factors, are you certain that the flood was triggered by a glacier collapse?"

"Yes. Investigators sent by the Agricultural Department visited the upper Brahmaputra River, and indeed found traces of a glacier breaking and impacting the riverbed. Villagers also heard loud noises when it collapsed."

"Did you see the site of the glacier collapse?"

Gu Ji asked directly at the critical point.

The official in a blue vest shook his head, but his tone was particularly firm.

"The area around the glacier collapse has already been sealed off by the Fourth Mountain Division stationed at the border, citing military secrets. However, traces along the riverbank prove that a massive glacier broke off, free-falling for about two thousand meters, crushing into the ground and shattering, causing huge landslides and dust clouds. The glacier and rocks slid down the valley into the Brahmaputra valley, forming a rapidly flowing mudslide. The massive mudslide surged down the valley, shaking the entire valley. Due to its sudden occurrence and rapid speed, it was impossible to predict or forecast, directly destroying the dam that was not fully repaired, causing the reservoir to collectively discharge and creating the flood."

Military involvement again...

With so many "coincidences" strung together, Gu Ji is sure this disaster is not as simple as it seems on the surface!

The glacier collapse may be true.

But the cause of the glacier collapse is definitely not high temperatures or natural causes!

"Vidi, the medical team from the disaster relief center is preparing to head to the northern Kokrajhar Village for support. Should we go with them?"

"Alright, I’ll prepare immediately!"

At this moment, Fatima also had a grasp on the current situation in Assam.

Since the flood, the Assam government has shifted its focus from search and rescue to post-disaster handling and reconstruction. Currently, they face two main problems:

The first is food. The flood destroyed farmlands and towns, severely damaging the state’s grain warehouses. Coupled with road and rail transport being blocked by landslides, it is challenging to bring in supplies from the outside. They can only rely on the Central Cabinet’s military transport planes to airlift food, which is far from meeting the needs of nearly a million people;

The second is medical care. The disaster relief center lacks necessary medical facilities. Since town hospitals were flooded, all injured people must be taken to the temporary emergency station at the relief center for treatment. Surgeries are conducted in tents, there is a severe shortage of doctors, and more critically, small-scale infectious disease outbreaks have occurred in the relief center and various villages, with no way to supply medicines.

The medical team is supporting Kokrajhar Village because the village is experiencing its third wave of infectious disease outbreaks.

Gu Ji anticipated this day would come.

As the saying goes, "after a major disaster, an epidemic will surely follow," especially for pollution-heavy disasters like flooding. Due to water’s fluidity, it leads to a vast spread of pollutants, causing harmful bacteria such as molds, parasites, or anaerobic bacteria to gather, mix, and rapidly propagate.

According to past disaster relief experiences across countries, the United Nations has pointed out that many government departments often focus only on setting up disaster relief tents, ignoring the provision of water and sanitation facilities. This is especially problematic given India’s poor sanitation conditions. Many people in Assam lack basic hygiene knowledge.

The temporary tents and houses where the disaster relief center residents live are relatively rudimentary and crowded, with poor air circulation and unsanitary conditions. Coupled with water scarcity and a polluted living environment, it is easy for respiratory and intestinal infectious diseases to spread, such as influenza, measles, bacterial dysentery, amoebic dysentery, etc.

Furthermore, firefighting and infrastructure personnel who have been soaked in water for long periods are prone to skin diseases, and the displacement of many rodents and animals to higher ground due to flooding can even lead to outbreaks of serious infectious diseases with high fatality rates, such as leptospirosis and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.