New World 1620

大灾难的发生，一共卷入了61名在编的军事或准军事人员。其中包括海关516缉私船上的24名海关缉私队员、参与反走私行动的19名武警、6名经侦队警察、17名防范当初码头工人闹薪事件升级的防暴警察或普通民警，以及1名当时处于休假旅游状态的女法警。

Together with a retired veteran police officer who joined later and several young veterans, the organized disaster relief operation on the day of the catastrophe was quickly launched under the immediate coordination of the customs anti-smuggling captain Zheng Quan.

Even though everyone has been busy in panic and confusion since the catastrophe, disaster stress disorder, a social psychosis that cannot escape, is still more and more obvious in and outside the Manhattan community.

Regardless of some people who have lost their loved ones, the momentary time travel caused by the collapse of the sky and the earth resulted in eternal separation from relatives and friends in a certain time and space, which caused many people to show various elusive words and deeds after a tiring day.

People with military or paramilitary backgrounds seemed much calmer at this time. Even though some of the younger policemen were in a trance, they still obeyed orders under the organization of veteran soldiers like Zheng Quan.

As a result, the Self-Salvation Committee had a strong military organizational style from the very beginning. Even if some people with the identity of former grassroots government officials joined, it would not be able to change the current militarized management atmosphere of the entire Manhattan community.

The unavoidable fact of time travel has caused the whole time travel group to re-examine the way of life in the future. Perhaps more people are still waiting passively in confusion, but Zheng Quan and other members of the self-rescue committee have to think all day about how to recover a kind of life. At least the normal order of life.

In view of the extremely high risk factor of the entire external environment, the Self-Help Committee still focused all its armed forces outside the Manhattan community, but the repeated vicious fights and female harassment incidents in the community were gradually overwhelmed.For this reason, the Community Public Security Department under the self-rescue committee headed by Liu Lanxi's father and veteran policeman Liu Mingjun was formally established.

Mr. Liu is 68 years old this year. This retired veteran policeman with rich working experience in various grassroots positions in the police department once made all the young men present feel ashamed by his frantic digging to find women after the catastrophe.

Through Su Zining's further sorting and registration of personnel during this period, Mr. Liu, with the help of the bailiff's daughter Liu Lanxi, organized several former dock warehouse security guards.

From the military and civilian labor insurance supplies in a certain wharf warehouse, many uniforms similar to urban community security guards were found, which happened to give the newly formed community security officers a unified identity label.In addition, under Liu Lanxi's emphasis, several young women cleaners from the countryside were also organized to be responsible for the safety of the women's residential area, which is currently set up separately.

The limited number of modern guns was simply impossible to issue, so the rubber truncheons of the former riot police squad became the only equipment of the community vigilante.Every day, the veteran police officer and his daughter would take the security guards for a walk in the community. When encountering emergencies, they could only temporarily deal with them according to certain security management regulations of the old time and space.

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If the time is still accurate, the calendar has turned to October 10th.The cold weather has caused the Manhattan community to distribute thicker clothes.

In the past few days, Su Zining's main job was to coordinate and organize manpower to carry out the internal and external affairs construction of the Manhattan community, while Yan Xiaosong was still in charge of excavating and sorting out materials at the crossing site.

Early this morning, the self-rescue committee issued a geological and mineral exploration work around Manhattan.Not only because the available building materials that can be collected at the ruins are almost exhausted, but more importantly, winter in North America is coming soon.

The global climate of small glaciers from the end of the 16th to the 17th century caused the average temperature in North America to be lower, and Manhattan itself was also within the winter snow line of the northern hemisphere. The wet wood that was only cut down was obviously not suitable for winter heating. dye.

Jiang Zhaolong, the leader of the industry department of the newly established self-rescue committee and a former middle-level manager of a state-owned steel company, and Lin Youde, an engineer of a high-tech metal processing company in the south, also proposed a plan for the production of cement and bricks and tiles. This needs to ensure stable and convenient raw material collection and processing. location.

For this reason, according to the personnel records, Su Zining visited almost everyone who he thought to be reliable, and finally determined three candidates.An Shaoqing, a middle school geography teacher who hand-painted a map of the surrounding area of ​​Manhattan, was the first to be selected.

The second one is a young man who used to study geothermal exploration at Beijing University of Geosciences. That unpopular major was abandoned after graduation, but now Su Zining just happened to make him a young man.

The third person was an assistant engineer at the Coal and Mining Bureau of a small county in Shanxi. This 32-year-old youth who was already a little bald at a young age was a member of the tour group on the day of the disaster.

The scope of the survey has been locked in three places, the first is the west bank of the Hudson River and the former Jersey City area, and the second is the Brooklyn area of ​​Long Island opposite the east bank of Manhattan.The third and furthest is Staten Island, 10 kilometers southwest of Manhattan Island.

The urban construction of Manhattan in history did not leave the support of these three places.I believe that even if time travels, the Manhattan community still needs to obtain various raw materials for future development from these three places.

Due to the complicated topography of coastal terraces, water swamps and forests, and because it is located on the mainland, the Jersey area is very dangerous, so An Shaoqing temporarily excluded it from the scope of exploration.

The northwestern coast of Brooklyn on Long Island is only separated from the Manhattan community by the East River less than 1 kilometer wide, so An Shaoqing and his colleagues boarded the river bay area surrounded by forests in northern Brooklyn at noon that day.

The first day of exploration soon paid off. A large section of the river bank deposits at the edge of the forest is rich in clay, and a nearby sandstone area has limestone mines at your fingertips, and even found a considerable amount of mud that is easy to mine. Limestone.This kind of natural cement mineral, which can be used almost by simply firing it, caused the literary youth An Shaoqing to yell for almost half an hour.

"Well...it's very close to Manhattan. Cement and brick materials can be mined and produced locally, and it can be developed into an industrial zone in the future!" Su Zining carefully recorded in his diary, and then looked at the concave river bend terrain in front of him. Pointing, "Mr. An, on your world travel map, is the Brooklyn Shipyard right here?"

The answer is yes, there is another record in Su Zining's diary.

"It's a pity that there is no coal." An Shaoqing helped his glasses, and showed a sad expression after being excited, "Although the surrounding forest here is very dense, it is impossible for us to burn charcoal first and then bricks and lime? And charcoal To be fired, there must be a special brick cellar first."

"Well, is it a question of Mr. Egg or Mr. Chicken...Since the initial development of the Manhattan Colony in history can produce a small amount of iron by itself when it is far away from Europe, it means that this area will definitely not lack coal mines and iron mines. " Su Zining rubbed his chin, closed the diary, stood up and stretched.

It was almost dark, and the idea of ​​staying overnight in this place was almost courting death, so the entire exploration team had to return to the Manhattan community by fishing boat.

"Su Zining, come here!"

In the distance, Yan Xiaosong, who had been participating in this field trip to Brooklyn as a soy sauce worker, called out that the young man was squatting in the middle of a sandy rocky beach by a small river.

"It's a damaged animal fur, obviously peeled off manually." A piece of rotten fur appeared on Yan Xiaosong's hand, and he turned it over, revealing the smooth inner skin, "It's an Indian."

"Well, in history, Long Island was the territory of the Delaware Indians. However, according to the relevant records, the Indian village on Long Island should be located in the central and western part of Long Island." Su Zining frowned, feeling sorry for discovering the Indians so quickly. Evidence of activity secretly worried.

"Long Island is nearly 200 kilometers long from east to west. If the Indians are really in the middle of Long Island as you said, then this should be the extreme edge of their activities. After all, the terrain of forests and rivers here is complex, and it is not something they can do every day to come here. "Geography teacher An Shaoqing quickly put forward his point of view.

"Don't forget that the Delaware Indians are fishermen and hunters. Since their sphere of influence covers the entire lower reaches of the Hudson River, it is not so difficult for Indians to appear here." Su Zining threw away the rotten and damaged fur and shook his head. Turning to the forest to the east, "Anyway, we plan to take the initiative to contact them, so we will take the opportunity of exploration and call the tour guide Li Xiang by the way next time."

"You are more optimistic than me... How do I remember that North American Indians have more than [-] language families? Are you sure our Erdao Indian native language translator can understand?" Yan Xiaosong looked at his friend with a smile, and the playful smile appeared again .

"Imagine, if we suddenly rescued an Indian girl in danger in this dangerous place, and the girl's father happens to be the leader of the local Indian village, then such an opening can ensure that we can fool them. "

"Well, you can buy the entire island of Manhattan with 24 dollars worth of junk, right?" Su Zining curled his lips with a wry smile, "I forgot to tell you that the hard currency of North American Indians is a special kind of shell..."