Awakening

Chapter 209 Electricity Part 1

For any City, the electrical system is very important. If there is a City-wide power outage, there will be all sorts of harms caused by many unintended variables.

Nine years ago, there was a massive power failure accident in the Northeastern parts of the United States, eight midwest states, and the province of Ontario in Canada. According to the preliminary statistic, in New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Ottawa, Toronto and other major cities and their surrounding areas, fifty million people were affected. Of which, manufacturing, food and beverage, retail, as well as the aviation industry suffered the most. Most of the economic activity appeared to be stagnated. All of these directly or indirectly caused an economic loss of up to $30 billion.

And tonight, once again there were widespread power outages in Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadelphia, New York and other major cities.

Although the blackout was smaller than the one happened a few years ago, went major cities in the United States went into darkness, some abnormal sound rang out.

After one hour of the blackout, the residents living in the fifth avenue, New York were the first to hear the gunshots. Before those shooters were taken care of, a burst of even more unexpected sounds of explosions rang out.

Not just in New York, the residents in other cities affected by the outage have also heard the persistent gunshots and explosions.

In all major streets, many large stores were forced open, the ATMs were also pounded by mobs, but the jewelry stores were the favorite. In order to open the doors of the shops or stores, some even directly crashed cars into it.

No one knew why these people became like this. But a few people living not far from large Malls or banks saw that not long after the electricity went out, the ATMs in the malls suddenly exploded without any warning. After the explosions, the Mall doors were burst open, giving way to the flying cash from the exploded ATMs to scatter like leaves. Seeing all this cash, as well as free access to major shopping Malls, many people went crazy.

They began to frantically grab the cash on the ground or flock inside the Mall to steal precious commodities.

Not only that, as more and more shopping Malls with ATMs were burst open, the craziness spread among the crowds like an unknown virus. Not only people on the streets, even ordinary citizens ran out of their houses and joined the ranks of the robber. Some of the men, unsatisfied with the items that they robbed, began to hit other stores and shops.

Under this crazy herd mentality, more and more people began to participate in the destruction and looting.

In the dark environment, all of the looters have an illusion, that is, no one would recognize them. Thinking that their behaviors were reasonably concealed, the dark side of humanity began to rise to the surface.

In the end, the greedy crowds turned into mobs, damaging and looting stores and shops.

In addition to ordinary citizens, the gangsters who lived in the dark were like fishes in the water. Some people began to loot the gun store.

Men with guns started to rob ordinary people, or they just simply crashed cars into stores or use guns to break open the doors to loot more efficiently.

But before long, endless police vehicles gradually left the outside area and began to enter the inner city to suppress these people.

Constant roaring of sirens scared the ordinary looters; They immediately scattered to escape.

Under the guidance from the helicopter above, dozens of police vehicles successfully drove and laid siege hundreds of armed men.

“You have been surround, put down your arms and surrender immediately.” A police officer shouted through a megaphone from a helicopter above.

Looking at the numerous police vehicles flashing red and blue lights in front of them, the surrounded men began to be afraid. Although many of them were gang members or socially marginalized people, it did not mean that they are not afraid to die.

“I repeat, you have been surrounded, immediately lay down your weapons and put your hands above your head, otherwise we will shoot.” A warning sound came from the helicopter once again.

Finally, some people began to lower their weapons and held up their hands. Seeing this, other people began to follow, laying down their weapons and holding up their hands.

Seeing more and more people laying down their weapons, the surrounding police breathed a sigh of relief.

But just when everyone thought things were over, a ten fists-size long object with ‘fireworks’ spray on its tail quietly flew at a breakneck speed toward the helicopter.

“Boom,” The helicopter was suddenly caught fire and blew apart in mid-air and finally fell on top of two police cars, causing a more intense explosion.

This sudden explosion caught all the people off guard; all of them froze. Many police who stood nearby did not have the time to react and was instantly killed by the shockwave of the explosion. Others were killed on the spot by the flame and debris.

When everyone thought that they were in a nightmare, suddenly several semi-elliptical black objects were flown from that group of men with guns toward the police cars.

When one of the police who just crawled up from the ground looked at that strange objects that landed in front of him, his face immediately went pale.

“Boom, boom....” Several successive massive explosions destroyed the police vehicles.

The surrounded gun-toting men could not believe their eyes as they saw several police cars were overturned in that chain of explosions. Many police were flung into mid air or blown into flesh and blood.

The flame of explosions and the wave of hot air made the area turned into a purgatory.

After these explosions, a more alarming scene emerged. The police who were spared from the explosions began to shoot those armed men.

Seeing that people next to them were being shot, the other men instinctively returned fire.

Nobody realized how could it turn like this. After the explosions, in quick succession, everyone lost their normal thinking capacity. Everyone wanted to eliminate the enemy in front of them to survive. With continuous fire from both sides, many of the men with guns began to look for cover as they shot back. Meanwhile, the police desperately called out their headquarters for support.

Because of the insufficient manpower in the police force, this predatory behavior continued to happen in many areas. The shooting on the street intensified and more and more police from the outer areas joined the fighting ranks.

Shootings and explosions could be heard everywhere. The whole City seemed to become a dark battlefield. Everyone went crazy, and the whole City went mad.

Not only in the City, other populated areas that were affected by the outage also suffered similar looting and shooting on the streets.

In addition to the car lights, flares and the occasional strange flash of glow from the outside, the City remained dark, but not calm.

There were battlefields everywhere. The reporters who went to report cannot believe that the scene on the ground looked like a war scene.