Chapter 16 Chapter 16 The voice of dissatisfaction is getting louder

Urgent notice: You must be prepared to deal with the disaster. Even if you can't stop it, you must at least escape from it and move to the zero-degree zone where there is no danger. Threatened persons fall into two categories: those who suffocate at heights and those who drown in deep water. The emergency notice provoked various reactions, which eventually turned into the most violent protests. The suffocated include Americans in America, French, British, Spaniards in Europe, and so on.Even giving them exposed land on the ocean floor will not make them accept this change.Paris will be nearly as far from the new pole in the future as it is now from the old pole.It is true that the citizens of Paris can enjoy eternal spring.But it will breathe less air.So that doesn't satisfy Parisians who are used to breathing a lot of oxygen.Changing positions is not worth the loss for them, and this does not include ozone and other losses.

The drowned were South American residents, Australians, Canadians, Indians, and New Zealanders.It is tolerable or unbearable!England would never allow Barbicane to destroy her richest colony, where the Saxons had gradually replaced the natives and turned against the hosts.Apparently, the Gulf of Mexico would dry up, forming a vast Andreas kingdom.Mexicans and Americans can claim sovereignty over this according to the Monroe Doctrine.The submarine basins of the Sunda Islands, the Philippines, and the Celebes Islands will be sunken, and large areas of land will appear.The British and Spaniards will probably take advantage of it.This compensation is only a drop in the bucket, and by no means can offset the losses caused by the terrible flood.

If it were the Samoyedes of Siberia, the Laplanders, the Fuegos, the Patagonians, or the Tartars, the Chinese, the Japanese, or some of the Argentines who disappeared under the new ocean, perhaps civilized nations would Accept this sacrifice.However, many civilized countries will also suffer disasters. It is no wonder that everyone does not protest! As for civilized Europe, the west will rise and the east will fall, although the center remains unchanged.In other words, half are deprived of oxygen and half are flooded.This is unacceptable.In addition, the Mediterranean will be exposed, and neither the French nor the Italians, Spaniards, Greeks, Turks, or Egyptians will tolerate it.Because coastal dwellers have an indisputable right to it.The Suez Canal is lucky, it happens to be on the zero-degree line with no level difference, and the catastrophe is avoided.But what is the use of this unprecedented masterpiece of Mr. de Lesseps when the Mediterranean is lost at one end and the Red Sea at the other is only a dipper of water?Unless a river channel of several hundred nautical miles is dug out.

No, never, Britain will never agree to see Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus turned into cloud-covered mountains because its warships need to dock.No, it will not agree to give it the area of ​​the former Atlantic submarine basin.However, once Barbicane succeeded, Major Tanglan still planned to rush back to Europe immediately to clarify Britain's power over the new territory. Protests are coming from all directions, even from countries that are on the zero line of the water level difference.Because it is impossible for a country to be completely on the zero line, at other points, they are more or less marginal.When people learned of the launch site from the Zanzibar telegram and read the vague notice drafted accordingly, the intensity of the protest can be imagined.

Director Barbicane, Captain Nicole and Ma Sitong became Wanfu's point of view. However, this brought a boom in the press, and issues, special issues, and extras sold out!Supplementary printing again and again!The press, which has traditionally been divided in views, was united in the same voice of protest as never before.These newspapers are: Izvestia, Neue Zeit, Kronstadt Messenger, Moskva, Russian Dyelo, Garsklaner, Fatherland, Foreign Report, Neue-Baden, Magdeburg, Neue Baden Free Press, Berliner Zeitung, Special, Post, Volk, Trade Courier, Germania, Die Zeit, Impartial, Correspondence, Iberia, Figaro, Hardline, Gaul, Globe , La Repubblica, Le Majesty, Presse, Morning, Nineteenth Century, Libre, Pictorial, World Pictorial, Magazine of the Two Continents, Cosmos, Blue Magazine, Nature, Tribune, Roman Observer, Roman Army Newspaper, Fighaza Humor, Reforma, Almanac, Acropolis, New Life, Cuban Courier, Allahabad Herald, Romanian Independent, Edinburgh Magazine, Manchester Guardian, Scotsman, Standard Sail, Times, Pravda, Sun, Central News, Argentinian Press, Bucharest, San Francisco Courier, Commerce, San Diego, California, Pacific Echo, American Scientist, American Courier, New York Herald, Chronicle, Bucharest The Inos Aires Herald, Moroccan Awakening, Shanghai News, Qing Bao, Hai Phong Courier, Kunani Republic Monitor, and the Mac Rhein Express, a British newspaper that covers political and economic issues, warns People pay attention to the hunger in the affected areas.

It's all messed up.Not only is Europe in chaos, but the entire universe is in chaos.Come to think of it, the world went mad, people's nerves were terribly disturbed, and this was characteristic of the end of the nineteenth century.In this kind of world, what absurd and dirty things don't happen?But today's incident is equivalent to throwing a bomb into the gunpowder magazine! As for Ma Sitong, one can believe that his end is coming. On the evening of September 17, a frenzied crowd poured into the prison to execute him.The police were not at all prepared to intervene. However, Ma Sitong's cell was empty.It turned out that Mrs. Evangelina Scobie had bribed the jailer and let Ma Sitong go.We know that Ma Sitong's social status is high, and the money given by the wealthy woman is enough for the prison guard to eat for the rest of his life. How can you tell him to resist the temptation?Besides, Baltimore, Washington, New York, and other major cities along the coast of the United States will not suffer.They belong to cities that will rise and still have enough air for their residents to breathe.

Ma Sitong hid secretly and escaped the furious rampage of the crowd.In this way, the person who caused chaos on the earth was rescued by a passionate woman.At this time, there are only four days left before the implementation of Barbicane's plan! Emergency notifications have become a household word, both women and children.If, at the beginning, some people doubted whether the disaster would really happen, then no one doubts it anymore.The governments of various countries rushed to inform the residents of those areas that would be affected by the disaster: there were not many residents who rose to the point where they could not breathe, and most of them were residents who would be destroyed.

In view of the notification sent by telegraph to the five continents of the world, an unprecedented migration began.Its scale even surpassed the Great Migration of the Aryans from east to west.Hordes of Hottentots, Melanesians, blacks, reds, yellows, browns and whites . . . It's a pity that time is pressing and it is too late.The Chinese could have left China if it had been delayed for a few months; the Australians had left Australia; the Patagonians had left Patagonia; It is known which places will not be violated, so the fear is not so common.In addition to the directly threatened areas, some provinces and even some countries have begun to calm down.All that is felt is the anxiety that every human being experiences just before the catastrophe is approaching.

But at this moment Algid Pierre was shaking his head and muttering: "However, how could Director Barbicane build a cannon a million times larger than the 27-centimeter cannon? Ma Sitong, damn it! I really want to ask him to make a good theory. , playing the piano randomly!" Today, it can only rely on luck.May the operation fail and those parts of the planet be spared the catastrophe!