Why it never ends

Chapter 194 Magnetic Storm
About an hour later, new news arrived: just this morning, a solar wind of unprecedented magnitude had caused a severe magnetic storm across the globe, which caused widespread power grid collapse and radio outages.

The third district is not the most affected area. In the fourth, seventh, No.14 and 1th districts to the east of it, about 3/[-] of the cities suffered serious power grid damage in this natural disaster, especially District Four.

This is the main cause of the massive power outage in Tanyi City: most of the electricity in the city is supplied by the border power station in the fourth district.

This was originally a benefit, because AHgAs set up a reserve base in Tan Yi in the early years, and the demand for energy in the base, especially electric energy, was astonishing, which could not be met by Tan Yi alone.

After weighing the balance, AHgAs joined forces with both ends and pulled a supply network from the fourth district to Tan Yi, which not only solved the internal power consumption problem of the reserve base, but also benefited several local companies.

However, something happened suddenly in the fourth district, and they were also implicated here.

So everything has a reasonable explanation.

But even so, panic and uneasiness still spread rapidly within Tan Yi.

Residents in Habitable Land have not heard of an explosion of this level for many years. Many people were frightened by the continuous loud noise. A small number of new residents who moved here from Niah Province even developed symptoms of PTSD. .

——In the wasteland, hearing such a sound usually means that there is a chelate tide in a certain habitable zone in the distance.

All kinds of terrible rumors spread like wildfire among the crowd.

At five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, "Anecdote Daily" issued a detailed report.

Although the authorities have not officially announced that the battle last night was a standard "combat against chelate", the chief writer of "Anecdote Daily" has already speculated on this.

This extra account sorted out the important nodes of the whole incident from beginning to end, from Hoffman's sudden death to the end of last night's explosion, with vivid details and a complete structure.

In fact, apart from the review article on the front page, a lot of content in this account is spliced ​​from their old articles, but at this critical juncture, no readers care about this——

"Anecdote Daily" was Tan Yi's only newspaper that was still publishing "extras" that day.

This account was sold out as soon as it appeared on the street. That night, at various newsstands, taverns, and bookstores in Tan Yi, the price of a second-hand copy of "Anecdote Daily" soared fifty times, so that the newsboys quickly adjusted their sales strategies , Get the newspaper and don't sell it in the street, and sell it directly to the middleman at three times the price.

For a while, except for the Unyielding News and a few colleagues who had contact with Stella, everyone in the circle was asking:
Who is Stella Clifford?
Does anyone have her contact information?

……

In the lounge of the police station, Victoria slept until dusk before waking up.

A commendation order has been placed on the coffee table in her hand, which was specially issued by the authorities to praise her fearless courage and outstanding wisdom - last night, she successfully rescued both Rishi and Shimi from the assassins It was quite a milestone achievement to save the lives of both of them.

Victoria didn't look at the award order, and there was still a huge uncertainty hanging over her head at this moment:

The magnetic storm brought by the solar wind happened at the moment when the Golden Crow Palace exploded, which directly made the radar data at that moment unreliable.

Is the assassin really dead?

Of course, with their precise timing control, the possibility of the assassin escaping is extremely slim...

But without evidence, who can guarantee?

There was a sudden knock on the door, and Victoria replied wearily, "Come in."

It was Zoe.

She sat down directly next to Victoria's sofa bed, "Are you resting well?"

"Headache." Victoria rubbed her temples, "How's it going, have you been to the scene?"

"Go, the fire in the Golden Crow Palace has not been extinguished, so there is no way to conduct inspections."

"...Why hasn't it been extinguished yet? Where's Tan Yi's fire brigade?"

"A relay used to protect the circuit in their team broke loose in the morning, and the short circuit caused a small fire, so their car passed in the afternoon," Zoe replied, and she looked at Victoria, "I have some I want to ask you a question, is it convenient for you now?"

"Related to the assassin?"

"related."

Victoria breathed a sigh of relief, "...What about the others?"

"It's all nearby."

"Let everyone gather in the conference room on the second floor in 5 minutes. I also have something to say...let's talk together."

……

Soon, everyone gathered in the designated conference room, and everyone was still wearing the clothes they wore last night—apparently, most of them slept in the same clothes as Victoria, and came immediately after hearing the assembly order up.

Victoria's expression was unprecedentedly gloomy, and from this expression alone, others felt the seriousness of the reason behind it.

"First, let me explain why I was able to predict the assassin's course of action last night.

"Remember yesterday afternoon when I asked all of you to replace your bionic arms? The temporary bionic arms each of you wore were versions without 'personal chips'."

Everyone's faces changed rapidly, and even the sound of breathing disappeared for a while.

Victoria continued: "Yesterday afternoon, I reactivated the chips belonging to each of you and placed them in different locations around the Golden Crow Palace - grassland, watchtower, corridor, terrace, basement... in my In the arrangement, the guards on the west side of the Golden Crow Palace are relatively weak, so I guess the assassins will come from the west.

"In other words, the reason why the assassin knew our actions well before was because she had the coordinates of each of us."

Victoria paused for a moment to allow everyone to digest this absurd reality.

"Our...coordinates?" Ende murmured, she still had a look of disbelief, "We can't even get this kind of data..."

"It can be seen that the high-level has been leaked into a sieve," Victoria concluded calmly, "someone is assisting her."

Deathly silence.

"Then I understand," Zooey said suddenly, "I have never understood why she is so friendly to us—so she is one of us?"

"It's not our people. If there is such a person in our team, it is impossible for the internal staff to know nothing about it." Victoria lowered her eyes and said, "Yesterday afternoon, I went to check a few distortions. I found that they have a common feature—the image data of these chelates and aberrants were all included in a project called the "Semi-Open Source Project" last year."

(End of this chapter)