Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 111

Chapter 111, Storm

Ossena was soaked through.

She had been running for a long time in the wind and rain. Even with a rain cover, her thin body in the wind and rain seemed like it could be blown away at any time.

More than once, her subordinates hoped that she could return to the house, but she refused.

“You have time to persuade me here, why not do more things.”

She said so, and she did so.

In theory, after the work arrangements for all the food distribution points have been completed and the attack on the grain transport convoy has been resolved, it is only necessary to follow the plan and carry it out step by step, and there will not be any major problems.

At most, we need to worry about public security.

In the past few days, many residents of the outer city of Fuxing City have fallen into hunger because of war and turmoil.

Although they are not unruly people or mobs, we can’t expect these people who have basically experienced wandering in the wasteland to be very disciplined. Many of them have blood on their hands.

It is normal for public security problems to arise in the long queue for food.

She anticipated all this and made some rules. The soldiers with live ammunition would strictly warn the people in line and ask them to abide by the rules. Those who did not abide by the rules would not only be suppressed by the soldiers, but also lose the qualification to receive food.

In addition, she tirelessly promoted that the food supply was sufficient, and the probability of scramble and public security problems would be greatly reduced.

Everything at the beginning was indeed carried out as she thought.

Until the storm hit.

This storm, when it just came, made Ossena feel bad.

Queuing in the wind and rain is a test for the people’s health, their mentality, and the people under Ossena and the soldiers who maintain public order.

When is it not good to be windy and rainy? It has to be this time!

There is no way, so she can only grit her teeth and continue.

This storm messed up a lot of things, which suddenly increased the workload of her people. There were also many emergencies, which were reported to her one by one, and she needed to come up with ideas one by one, or even deal with them personally.

Many things cannot be solved by sitting in the office, listening to reports, and making the next decision.

She ran to many food distribution points in the rain, facing one thing after another on the front line.

It was very busy, tiring, and hard, but her will was firm enough.

This was the first and most important day to build a bridge of mutual trust between the Governor and the people of the entire Fuxing City. She must do her best in her position.

No matter how strong the wind and rain are, it cannot hinder her determination to carry out everything smoothly.

Until the order to evacuate in two hours was conveyed to her.

This made her feel disillusioned.

She never complained about so much hard work. But this news made her body shaky.

She couldn’t help but feel a little dazed.

What was the meaning of all the previous efforts, even the sacrifices of the soldiers guarding the transportation channel?

She stood there, looking blankly at the people who were also queuing in the wind and rain.

There were parents with young children. The couple bent their bodies and provided a small space for the children to protect them from the wind and rain. However, the little boy who looked only four or five years old was still soaked.

There was a lame man who came alone. When he was walking forward, his feet slipped and he fell into the water that was over his feet. He couldn’t get up for a long time and could only get up with the help of others

. Everyone in the storm looked so hard and helpless.

There were only two hours at most. We had to give up on them?

Ossena felt that she couldn’t do it.

But after a moment, she said to herself in her heart:

“You must do it.”

She couldn’t see the whole thing, but she was not a fool. She could guess that the key reason for evacuation was the increasingly heavy storm. She even thought that this storm might kill everyone.

If there was a choice, the governor would definitely not make such a decision. It was because there was no choice that she did so.

What she had to do was to keep as many people alive as possible.

This has the same meaning as distributing food before, but it is more difficult.

No matter what specific things to do or what determination should be made.

She wiped the rain off her face, but it was useless. More cold rain hit her face.

She waved her hand and asked her subordinate to come over. Facing the sound of strong wind and heavy rain, she said loudly in his ear: “Notify all food distribution points! Require each point to leave a team and arrange all those who have received food to gather outside the city!”

“Tell them that this storm is a conspiracy of the cult! Leaving the city is for their safety!”

“Use all the loudspeakers that can be used!”

“Select volunteers from those who have received food and notify everyone they know as soon as possible! Leave the city! Leave some reliable refugees to help us maintain law and order!”

“You should mobilize a team of soldiers now to set up a temporary camp outside the city, to a place without wind and rain! Drive all the cars that can be driven and bring the food from the distribution center!”

Then, she connected to Lambert’s signal and asked him to try his best to transport the food in the inner city to the temporary camp.

After doing this, she heard a rumbling sound.

At first she thought it was thunder, but then the ground began to shake, which didn’t sound like thunder.

When she came out to look, she saw an orange-red light streaking across the sky and hitting the ground in seven directions around the city.

Then, a similar muffled thunder sound was heard again.

After a while, another seven orange-red lights fell from the sky.

Is this an orbital bombardment?

What kind of problem is it that requires orbital bombardment?

Ossena shuddered.

Although it was only at the seven edge locations of the city, more than ten or twenty kilometers away from the city center, with such a terrible power, if there were people and houses around, I’m afraid…

She shook her head, she shouldn’t think too much about those things.

The things in front of her were more important.

The food distribution point here was already in chaos.

The order to evacuate had been issued.

Ossena knew clearly that the power she controlled now could not guarantee the order of evacuation in such a storm.

She also wanted to organize teams of poor people in a complete manner, and let each evacuation team have at least one squad of soldiers to maintain order and guide them to the evacuation point outside the city.

But that was completely impossible.

If she was given time and a stable environment, she might be able to do it. But now, it was too difficult to arrange as many people as possible to leave the city in a stormy environment within two hours.

The wind was so loud, the rain was so loud, and there were thunderstorms. Even if she shouted with all her strength, her voice could not be heard far.

Since the goal was to evacuate as many people as possible, she would rather abandon some order and there would be a lot of chaos in the middle, and she would spread the news as far and wide as possible.

Let the people find a way out by themselves. These locals might be faster than organizing people by themselves.

Her higher priority task was to ensure the smooth flow of evacuation routes as much as possible during this process, so that a large number of people would not be stuck on the road out of the city, resulting in no one being able to leave in the end; she also had to set up a good contact point outside the city to ensure the supply of materials, so that a large number of people would not die in the storm after leaving the city, but starve to death in the wilderness.

There were many things to do, and she was afraid that she had not thought of or missed something; each one was very important, but it was very difficult under the constraints of the environment and conditions; time was very urgent, and in two hours, how much could she do even if she tried her best?

But as the saying goes, she had to try her best.

(End of this chapter)