Simulation Game: Crisis Management-Chapter 363 - 178: "Man-Made" Natural Disaster (Part 3)

Chapter 363: Chapter 178: "Man-Made" Natural Disaster (Part 3)

Arriving at Bang North Kokrajhar District.

Because it is close to the Himalayas, the area is elevated and the floodwaters receded here first. Looking around, Gu Ji saw the towering snow-capped peaks standing majestically on the horizon, stretching endlessly under the azure sky, like silver giants overlooking the movements of the villages at the foot of the mountain, magnificent and grand.

Compared to the towns of Dis布尔 and Gauhati, which were submerged by floods, the villages on the southern slopes of the mountains suffered from mudslides.

The village was in a mess; houses had collapsed all over, crushed like paper boxes, and the ground was ravaged, filled with muddy stones. Some villagers could only reside on the slopes, in temporary tents provided by the government.

Gu Ji and Fatima split up.

He was responsible for visiting the people, while Fatima followed the medical team to inquire about the sick patients, especially those who had personally experienced the flood outbreak.

Unfortunately, after asking around, the villagers’ accounts were almost identical to what the blue-jacketed leader had said.

"Fatima, how is it on your side?"

"The causes are all attributed to glacier rupture, which seems to be the reason for the flood outbreak. It’s just unfortunate for these villagers, their ailments are very severe, but with our medical conditions..."

Gu Ji found Fatima, who seemed noticeably dispirited.

These people managed to escape death from the mudslide and flood, only to face death again due to medication issues.

"What illness?"

"The doctor said it might be intestinal infection caused by drinking contaminated water, nausea, vomiting, and one elderly person had intestinal bleeding, leading to hemorrhagic diarrhea."

"Hemorrhagic diarrhea? Take me to see."

The two of them talked as they headed to the temporary medical point.

Gu Ji put on a mask, lifted the tent flap, and inside were rows of carpets. Yes, there weren’t even any hospital beds; patients lay side by side on the ground, like in a large communal dormitory, coughing weakly.

He approached the elderly person Fatima mentioned. The person looked to be in his sixties or seventies, wearing a red hat, with a face full of white stubble and a red dot on his forehead, looking at him weakly.

At this time, a doctor was instructing the official in charge of isolation to pay attention to the water source conditions.

But Gu Ji noticed that the elder’s neck and cheeks had some redness, yet there was no sign of fever on the head, which didn’t match the symptoms of intestinal infection, rather more like skin ulcers.

"Cough cough cough..."

Just then, a stout Indian man behind him started to cough violently. When he looked at the handkerchief, it was stained with blood.

Gu Ji frowned slightly and asked.

"Brother, how do you feel? Is there pain in your lungs?"

"Very uncomfortable, constant nausea and vomiting, my mouth always tastes somewhat metallic, cough... Doctor! Doctor!"

The Indian man, while speaking, suddenly felt a hot sensation in his nasal cavity, wiped it with a handkerchief, and he was actually having a nosebleed.

Nausea, vomiting, facial redness, oral, nasal, and intestinal bleeding...

Gu Ji silently recited these symptoms in his mind, his pupils suddenly shrinking, and hurriedly asked, "Did any of you feel fatigue or loss of appetite at first?"

Many patients nodded one after another.

Fatima thought he had thought of a solution. After all, she had personally seen Gu Ji stop bleeding and treat a wound on the train, so he must understand medicine. "Vidi, do you have a way to treat it?"

"Not yet, I need to conduct some tests."

Gu Ji fetched medical equipment, randomly sampled blood from four patients, and took a bottle of the village’s daily drinking water source.

Back at the disaster relief center, he first sent the blood to the temporary medical aid station for a blood count. The blood cell analyzer is one of the most widely used clinical laboratory instruments in hospitals, not very large, so it had been relocated early by the hospital.

Half an hour later, he finally got the complete blood count report.

As expected, the red blood cell count had decreased, hemoglobin concentration had dropped, white blood cell counts were low, and platelet counts reduced, the results were consistent across the four randomly sampled patients.

Based on the clinical symptoms, Gu Ji could conclude:

Kokrajhar Village had suffered nuclear radiation!

Fatima stared intently at the report, her tone filled with disbelief.

"Nuclear radiation? How could there possibly be nuclear radiation out of nowhere?"

"That question would need to be directed to the military."

Gu Ji squinted, linking the information he had gathered before. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Theoretically, unless exposed to strong nuclear radiation, it shouldn’t be possible for Kokrajhar villagers to develop such severe intestinal bleeding in a short time. And since neither he nor Fatima felt dizzy or nauseous after being close to the village, this indicates that the nuclear radiation had existed for some time, with a high likelihood that the water source was contaminated upstream.

And the southern slopes of the Himalayas in the Assam region have long been under the control of the Indian Army Mountain Division.

However, the Brahmaputra River and hydropower dam construction are closely related, so the Minister of Water Resources and Chief Engineer should also be involved. Only with military assistance could a fifty-year-old Minister of Water Resources quietly eliminate both the Chief Minister and the accompanying secretary.

"But all of them disappeared, perhaps they fled after the incident, or perhaps they were eliminated by the military. The only remaining clue now is the Geological Survey Bureau!"

"I’ll go with you!"

Fatima also wanted to understand what secrets lay within, secrets that made it worth subjecting over thirty million people in Assam to floods, causing nearly a million refugees to be displaced.