342, May 21st, 8:00.
[An investigation report on the collapse of the D City shelter has just been released... It was precisely because of the improper orders from D City officials that the refugees stormed the D City shelter, causing tens of millions of people in D City to be displaced... Shelters in all regions should take this as a warning.]
Tang Li, as usual, was watching the news while eating breakfast.
"I didn't expect the D City shelter to fall like this," Tang Guo sighed upon seeing the news.
The D City shelter was the largest one around Jiang City. Before the apocalypse, D City was a relatively prosperous city with a population of over ten million. Even after the apocalypse, many people died due to previous natural disasters, but it still housed many disaster victims, maintaining a population of over ten million. Yet, such a shelter collapsed due to the impact of refugees. The incident was triggered by the D City authorities' excessive benevolence! Because D City tried its best to resettle refugees who came seeking refuge, it caused strong dissatisfaction among the local residents. Especially after the solar storm, a large amount of stored grain was contaminated by delta particles. Due to D City's large population, to ensure everyone could eat uncontaminated food, they had to lower the daily food ration limit for each person. Subsequently, conflicts between D City's local residents and the incoming disaster victims escalated. After May 1st, D City's rivers began to dry up, and neither the local residents nor the settled disaster victims were willing to allow the D City shelter to continue accepting refugees. Consequently, a large-scale protest erupted within the shelter, paralyzing the entire facility. The D City shelter officials were unwilling to use force to suppress these petitioning citizens, and coupled with the scarcity of local water resources, they distributed a small amount of water to each refugee and directed them to Jiang City. However, these refugees, having already reached a safe place like D City, naturally were unwilling to leave and gathered in increasing numbers outside the D City shelter. From May 10th onwards, incidents of refugees attacking D City's martial law enforcement personnel occurred almost daily. Initially, the martial law enforcement personnel strictly adhered to the regulations during martial law and directly shot and killed these attackers. However, later, due to the large number of refugees attacking enforcement personnel and the resulting casualties, which had a severely negative impact, the leaders of the D City shelter learned of the situation, punished the enforcement personnel who strictly enforced martial law, and strictly ordered them not to shoot at the populace again, only to fire warning shots. It was precisely this measure that led to the subsequent tragedy! On May 15th, the refugees gathered in D City launched a large-scale assault on the shelter. Due to the previous order, the martial law enforcement personnel dared not shoot at the populace again, but the warning shots were ineffective. Moreover, many refugees had already been killed previously, earning the hatred of these refugees. Thus, they were bitten and trampled to death by the surging refugees. Some martial law enforcement personnel eventually disregarded the leaders' orders and opened fire. However, this was met with an even more frenzied assault by a tide of refugees. After defeating the armed personnel on the front lines, the refugees seized their weapons and stormed into the D City shelter. They attacked the enforcement personnel guarding, patrolling, and maintaining order within the shelter, while also engaging in rape, looting, murder, and arson everywhere. As order collapsed, the wickedness within human nature was magnified infinitely. The D City shelter leadership requested the D City garrison to mobilize and maintain order in the shelter. But the enforcement personnel were also human and had emotions. It had been nearly a year since the catastrophe began, and many of them had not reunited with their families for a long time, and they didn't even know if their families were still alive, how they were living. Originally, a lot of negative energy had accumulated in their hearts. Earlier, the leaders of the D City shelter had punished the enforcement personnel who strictly enforced martial law, which had also displeased them. However, for the past few days, they had complied with the order. Now, upon hearing that these refugees had killed their comrades on the front lines in brutal ways, they could no longer suppress the emotions that had accumulated in their hearts. Upon mobilization, they directly turned their guns on these refugees and began a massacre. The leaders of the D City shelter saw this and quickly ordered them back to their barracks. But the situation had already escalated completely out of control... Due to geomagnetic storms, communication between various regions was severed. Jiang City only received the news of the D City shelter's collapse two days later and sent people to investigate. The results were only released today. However, upon hearing this news, Tang Li instinctively felt something was amiss. "Can a shelter collapse just from refugees storming it?" "Even if there was some uncontrolled massacre of refugees, wouldn't the authorities ultimately prevail? How did the D City shelter collapse?" "The D City garrison shouldn't be that weak, right?"