Chapter 337 - 235 Rescue Problem (Third Update Seeking Monthly Votes)
The situation in Lin City was beyond Chen Xin’s expectations.
The situation was indeed as dire as the "Drilling Expert" described because, due to the snow disaster, the entire Lin City was severely affected.
The important train station was buried by the previous blizzard, and although the wind has stopped now, the unloading of supplies can still only be done manually outside the station. Currently, Lin City has no way to organize enough manpower to dig out the original train station.
Moreover, the fact that the shelter in Lin City was buried by the blizzard is true; not only was one shelter buried, but about one-fifth of the survivors in the shelter also died in this disaster. Now that shelter has become a tomb of ice and snow.
Furthermore, Lin City’s medical system is now severely overwhelmed, completely in a state of collapse. Although it is still operational, it cannot effectively treat a large number of frostbite and hypothermia patients and other patients in the urban area. Currently, it can only resort to palliative care to buy time, hoping patients can self-recover.
Fortunately, the snow disaster has passed, and some mild patients are indeed in the process of self-recovery. However, severe patients remain in serious condition, and many frostbite patients have already experienced limb necrosis and need amputation.
But what caught Chen Xin by surprise also lies here: Lin City’s government is currently striving for self-rescue. Although they have reported the situation to this city, they did not request a rescue team but hoped for more support in terms of supplies.
This is actually understandable because if this city didn’t have Chen Xin’s help to improve the boilers, facing this blizzard, even if the situation in this city is a bit better than Lin City, it wouldn’t be much better.
Faced with the same dilemma of medical collapse and difficult livelihood, even if this city could send rescue forces, it would be very limited. Lin City, even if requesting help, probably wouldn’t get much assistance, and it might as well strive for self-rescue.
In fact, apart from this city benefiting from Chen Xin’s improvements to the boilers, facing the blizzard situation is more ideal; the situation in most cities in Flame Country hit by the blizzard is very bad.
The problems are mostly concentrated on the medical system because the sheer number of patients caused by the low temperature has burdened all medical institutions far beyond expectations. Large numbers of patients poured into hospitals or health clinics, making it difficult for most people to receive effective treatment.
Moreover, a large number of patients also consume a tremendous amount of medicine, which has led to an emergency of medicines in most cities in Flame Country.
If Lin City seeks help from this city now, what it needs most is also a medical team to provide help to Lin City’s already overwhelmed medical system.
As for supplies, since railway transportation has not been interrupted, Lin City is actually not very pressed for supplies other than medicines.
That’s why Lin City hasn’t requested aid from this city because they don’t expect to get much assistance from this city. As for supplies, it’s best to have them, but it’s not impossible if you don’t.
Learning about this situation from the person in charge, Chen Xin naturally asked concernedly, "So does the city government have any rescue plans for Lin City now? Shouldn’t this city still have the ability to aid Lin City?"
"I asked about this just now, and the city government said they would quickly organize a medical team to go to Lin City, but how to go is a big problem!" Saying this, the person in charge shook his head, his face not looking good: "Currently, the two highways leading to Lin City are completely buried in snow and can’t be passed. Although the railway is unobstructed, the positioning of this city and Lin City is too close. Trains stopping at this city don’t stop at Lin City. To travel by rail, coordination of schedules must be done, but it’s a very troublesome task!"
Chen Xin could completely understand what was going on because the highway distance between this city and Lin City is 45 kilometers, slightly shorter by rail. In the past, people usually traveled between the two cities by driving on the road, and the trip took only about half an hour.
Although there are also two K-trains running between this city and Lin City, the running time of trains averaging speeds of 70-90KM is only half an hour.
Such a short distance is a waste of time for regular trains, not to mention high-speed trains.
So after the apocalypse, Mainland Railway set the schedules to stagger this city and Lin City; trains stopping in this city don’t stop in Lin City, and those stopping in Lin City don’t stop in this city.
The schedules were staggered to improve train operation efficiency.
This has led to a situation where, although the railway between this city and Lin City is unobstructed, there is actually no train traveling between them.
Under such circumstances today, adjusting railway schedules or temporarily adding trains or having a train stop at one more station is a very troublesome task.
Because there isn’t just one train running on the railway, all trains run according to a pre-planned schedule at a specified speed and time on the railway. If a train experiences an error in its running time, it will impact the entire rail network.
And now, unlike before the disaster, when there was a complete communication network, railway coordination could be handled at the main control center, controlling the movement of all trains nationwide. Temporary stops or adding trains could be adjusted and no problems would arise.
However, even then, nationwide train delays often occurred due to issues with one train.
But now, with communications mainly relying on landlines, there is no way to coordinate train schedules nationwide. When a train stops on the railway for too long, it risks colliding with the train behind it, causing a serious accident.
This is true even now when there aren’t as many trains on the tracks.
So under these circumstances, even if this city organized a rescue team or medical team, getting to Lin City is a very difficult task.
However, this is not a problem for Chen Xin. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Going by road should be possible. When I went from Xiang Province to Anhui Province, I took the road. My car had no problems, and if it’s tracked chassis, driving there might not be a problem."
"The city government has considered this too, but with unclear road conditions, driving there is very risky." The person in charge’s face was full of worry. Because he knew the situation well, he understood the dangers involved.
However, Chen Xin thought for a moment and said, "If the city government organized a medical team to go to Lin City, my car could come in handy. My car is equipped with radar and drones, which can be used to detect road conditions and avoid many dangers."