Chapter 701: Controversial Opinions
Translator: _Min_ Editor: Rundi
“You know what happened after?” Jiang Chen asked.
Zhu Tianyou looked at him blankly.
“After? He fired a shot at me and after I was shot I fainted. When I woke up again, I found myself in the bathtub.
It seemed Zhu Tianyou was not clear as to what happened on the cruise ship after their coma. For some reason, Tanaka released the T virus, turning the cruise ship into living hell. When Jiang Chen told him what happened afterward, he initially did not believe it. When he saw the combat recording brought out by Jiang Chen, his expression gradually turned into horror.
The person that kidnapped him was a murderous devil.
And the devil, for some reason, became interested in the drugs he possessed.
When Jiang Chen asked him what Tanaka got out of him, he gave two names after a moment’s silence.
“Ethiopia, Somalia.”
Jiang Chen eyebrows jumped.
“Specific locations?”
“Give me a map. I can point it out for you.” Zhu Tianyou extended his hand.
Using the same tablet, Jiang Chen turned off the portrait of Tanaka and opened Google Maps. Zhu Tianyou swiped a few times on the screen; the screen locked in on the Gulf of Aden. Then it enlarged to show the Ethiopian-Somalia border, and then he pointed out two positions.
“Right here.”
“What’s here?”
“A tea plantation, and a salt factory.” Zhu Tianyou smiled, but the smile on his face was bitter.
If he revealed the secret, it meant that he had completely given up on it. The T virus was involved; he didn’t expect Jiang Chen or Interpol would be merciful to his asset. The assets he operated diligently for ten years in the Gulf of Aden was now ruined. It will be impossible to say he was not distressed.
“I’m glad you confessed. Your choice may have saved the lives of many people.” Jiang Chen took the tablet back.
Zhu Tianyou, with a self-deprecating smile, shook his head.
Save people?
How many families did he break apart? He can’t even count them himself.
According to the data provided by the Royal Caribbean Company, a total of 3,121 passengers were onboard. Counting the waiters, crew, and other staff there was a total of 3,600 people.
A total of 201 survivors were placed in the Port D in Moro. In order to avoid panic, these individuals were temporarily controlled and only permitted to leave the country after the conclusion of an observation period of one week. In fact, the virus’ survival time was very short. Ultraviolet light can kill it and three days was already enough to prove the safety of the survivors. Extending this time to seven days was just a preventative measure
On the day of the incident, the United Nations sent a commissioner to observe on MLL Island. Embassies of various countries also contacted the Moro government one after another to confirm the list of survivors.
Because of the demand for the outside world to understand the inside story, Moro finally agreed to media interviews after discussion with Celestial Trade.
Since the storm in City K, the T virus once again appeared in people’s eyes. The massacre of tens of thousands of people who died that night was so terrible that all the spectators felt a deep chill in their bones. Now, the tragedy on the Royal Caribbean Cruise seemed to tell people that the threat of the virus has not been eliminated.
BBC, CNN, Columbia Broadcasting, Al Jazeera… media flocked to MLL Island just like bees searching for nectar. The unafraid reporters, carrying cameras and microphones, rushed to the survivors, Moro officials, Celestial Trade soldiers, and anyone possibly informed.
“I was sitting right next to the dance floor and the crowd on the dance floor suddenly became chaotic. It was not far from me when a lady bit the face of her partner, and at first, we thought they were sharing an affectionate moment until she had torn a piece of meat from his face… God… terrible … … “A woman with a scar on her face said in a whimper.
“I was resting in my room because I had an upset stomach due to eating some seafood. Someone was smashing on the door so I went to open it. When I saw fully armed soldiers, my first reaction was that Hollywood must be shooting a film and I was fortunate enough to be part of the cast. But when I saw the blood on the ground and the bodies behind them, I understood, it was not a joke … ”
“I was a chef, and happened to be grabbing something in the freezer. I was ready to go out with the ingredients when I suddenly saw the riot outside. I thought there were pirates at first, but then I found the situation far worse than pirates. I ran into the warehouse, unplugged the power, and hid in the freezer. Perhaps they smelled something, the zombies ran in… Thank God, they can only push on the door and not pull on it.
“There are no signs, just like the Walking Dead!” The distraught man sat on the steps on the street, his face looked weary as he shooed away the reporters.
“The superior ordered us to shoot, so we shot… Please do not ask such stupid questions, they are not humans, so I don’t feel guilty at all,” a Celestial Trade soldier who participated in the rescue operation said.
Also received by the rescue signal were Country F and Nippon. However, because of the loss to almost all naval forces at the beginning of the year, Coastal Guard ships had been in short supply. It was not until Celestial Trade completed the rescue and the cruise ship detonated did their ships rush to the scene.
Nippon, because of the distance, arrived even later.
“If we first boarded the cruise ship, we would not have ordered the killing of those zomb…, Ahem, those poor infected souls! Absolutely not! We would use fishing nets to find ways to control them, and then lock them in a psychiatric hospital. We need to properly accommodate these unfortunate people until we find a solution.” In an interview with the media, a minister said frankly in an attempt to establish a responsible image of a large nation before the international community.
Controversy currently set aside.
Similar to the infection that happened in the City K at the beginning of the year, Future Biology once again made a “disaster fortune”.
According to the feedback from official distributors such as Amazon and Taobao, Jiang Chen could intuitively see that the sales volume of the T virus vaccines and nutrient supplies rose sharply in the past week.
Nowadays in the information age, people of the world have long been influenced by countless disaster movies and gained all sorts of “survival skills”. Anyone knows that when the apocalypse is here, the four basic essentials are food, medicine, fuel, and weapons. As a long shelf life and easy to store liquid food, nutrition supply was undoubtedly the best “strategic reserve supply.”
Even if governments repeatedly declared that the plot in movies could not happen in real life, the direct infection rate of the virus was not high, and the survival time under the exposure of ultraviolet light was short, this collective panic apparently can’t be dispelled by any two or three statements.
Unless the culprit was sent to the guillotine.
Just as intelligence agencies around the world joined forces to frantically search for the sources of the virus, the Ghost Agents Jiang Chen deployed in Nippon started to make a move ahead of the CIB.