Mobile Shelter

Chapter 102 Island Nation Intelligence

Because of their experience in the last war, the island nation's leadership knows that the most effective way to maintain the country's fighting capacity is to have a sufficient number of soldiers to replenish it.

Furthermore, due to the special circumstances in the island nation, many people collapsed from dehydration at home without attracting the attention of others. Therefore, if we only consider the proportion of people who awakened at that time, the island nation could rank among the top five in the world.

Because Daxia treated dehydrated patients more promptly, its awakening rate only ranked in the middle globally.

However, given the large population base of the Great Xia Dynasty, although the awakening rate is not high, the actual number of awakened individuals who can awaken their special abilities is quite considerable.

However, because the island nation is relatively small and its population is more concentrated, the chances of encountering awakened individuals are much higher than in the Great Xia.

Most importantly, although the dehydration that occurs in the early stages of awakening is random, due to the national conditions in the island nation, the health and safety of the high-ranking officials are taken care of by dedicated personnel, while the lives of the lower-class people are neglected.

This is why, unlike in the Great Xia Dynasty where there are also some hidden personnel in the imperial court, the chances of awakening among the vast majority of officials in the island nation are extremely low. The vast majority of awakened individuals come from the lower classes.

This resulted in the island nation's court having a completely different attitude towards its own awakened individuals compared to the Great Xia Dynasty.

And it just so happens that we are in this special period, so in order to enjoy better living conditions, great contradictions and conflicts have arisen between the two sides.

However, because those who have awakened have only recently gained superpowers, even though their abilities are varied and bizarre, they are still at a disadvantage in their confrontation with the island government.

However, because the island nation was constantly attacked by those mutated marine creatures, the island nation's court had a very long-term vision and did not choose to exterminate those awakened individuals who were not under their control.

After gaining the upper hand, they simply and casually expelled the awakened individuals and the rebels from the survival bases they had built in the city center.

Let these people, who are not under the control of the island nation's government, become the first line of defense against attacks from mutated marine creatures.

Because the island nation is surrounded by the sea, no matter where those uncontrolled people hide, as long as they do not leave the island nation, they will inevitably be attacked by those mutated marine creatures.

The island nation is a very magical country because it has always continued to learn from the hereditary succession system of the ancient Xia Dynasty.

Therefore, in the island nation's court, the higher the rank of an official, the more mediocre their abilities may be. On the contrary, those mid-level officials who need to do practical work are the ones who obtain their positions through their own abilities.

This is why the two groups of high-ranking officials who fled the island nation were basically all top-ranking officials in the court.

On the contrary, those truly capable and pragmatic officials did have the idea of ​​escaping the island nation, but by the time they learned about it, the second batch of high-ranking officials who left the island nation had already sailed away with all the ships that were able to navigate normally at that time.

This is why, once they learned that the high-ranking officials above them had left, the capable middle-level officials, no longer restrained by their superiors, immediately began to vie for power and act independently.

However, because they all possess genuine talent and ability, even when they were vying for power and profit, they knew that the most important thing at this time was to ensure their own safety.

Therefore, even factional struggles remained within the scope of verbal battles, without resorting to armed conflict to diminish the actual combat capabilities of the grassroots combat personnel on both sides.

Because of their long-term vision, when faced with unruly Awakened, even though they had the ability to kill them all, they ultimately only managed to expel those unruly individuals from the Survivor bases under their control.

It's important to understand that, not only has the island nation almost lost its ability to produce its own food, but even in the peaceful past, the food produced within the island nation itself could not meet the consumption of its own people, so a large portion of it needed to be imported from abroad.

In this special period, it is almost impossible to import food from abroad. So even though it has been discovered that those mutated marine creatures are edible, the survivors in the island nation are still consuming most of their strategic reserves.

Because of the experience of several wars, and because the island nation is a resource-poor country, its national policies are actually quite similar to those of the Great Xia.

It means stockpiling large amounts of various resources during peacetime to prevent chaos in the country due to the loss of essential supplies during emergencies.

Therefore, the situation in the island nation at this time is actually quite similar to that of the Great Xia, although they still haven't found a stable channel for obtaining large quantities of food.

However, with the current domestic food reserves, it shouldn't be a problem to last for one or two years.

Furthermore, experiments have now confirmed that some body parts of those mutated marine creatures are edible, so even if domestic food production has failed, the island nation will not face a food crisis in the short term.

Survivors in the island nation's controlled areas, while subject to the control of local governments, also enjoy food supplies provided by the government. So, although the food provided is not very tasty, it can basically ensure that they will not starve to death.

Those survivors who were expelled by the government no longer enjoyed the relief supplies provided by the government, but because their numbers were small and most of those who dared to resist were in good physical condition.

Most importantly, the vast majority of rebels choose to survive by banding together in small groups, and they are basically led by awakened individuals who have awakened superpowers.

Therefore, even if they lose the relief supplies provided by the government, they can still hunt mutated marine creatures by harvesting seaweed, similar to the survivors in South Korea.

Although this method of collecting food was dangerous, because of their small numbers, each person received significantly more food after each operation than the relief supplies distributed by the imperial court.

Therefore, although the island nation was clearly divided into two major camps at this time, a fragile balance was still maintained between the two sides, even though there were some conflicts.

The officials who held power at this time were not fools. Even if they knew that as time went by and their ammunition was depleted, their fighting strength would continue to decline.

On the other hand, those who awaken and gain superpowers will continue to practice their awakened abilities over time. In the future, they will not only be able to use their awakened abilities proficiently, but also inevitably their abilities will become more powerful with continuous practice.