Why it never ends

Chapter 56 Destruction
"Why do I remember this incident so clearly, because everyone was condemning this incident and asked the city hall to give an explanation."

Liz raised her head, looking at the ray of sky between the treetops and the treetops, and this bright light cast in her eyes.

"……and then?"

"The mother of two children had to be sent home to recuperate because of excessive grief and fainted several times. Considering that the old couple had worked in the East City when they were young, they were very familiar with Askia, so they stayed in Judicial proceedings continued in the small apartment in the city, while their sons took their wives home, planned the children's funerals, and took some time off.

"A few weeks later, the old couple's home in the small town caught fire unexpectedly. The entire yard was burned. The old man's daughter-in-law died inside. The son survived, but his leg was broken by the falling gate."

"Who did it?" asked Hesta.

"There are many theories, but what the truth is...no one knows."

Hesta frowned slightly, "And then?"

"It's hard for you to imagine how the entire East City was boiling at that time, because this incident was so cruel that heinously, everyone took to the streets to demand justice for the old man's family. Among all the rumors, the most widely circulated one is that The official's son planned all this to teach the family a lesson. However, the two elderly people really dropped the lawsuit at this time."

"Why is that, are they really afraid?"

"People didn't understand at the time. However, the case has been prosecuted, and even if the old man withdraws the case, the trial will continue. I remember my father discussed this topic with us at the dinner table one night, and he said that the matter will eventually come to light. , just takes time.

"If this is a habitable place, with surveillance on the main roads, it would be easy to prove from the beginning-but there is no electricity in the wasteland, all we can do is take the skin tissue from the children's nails, send People rode fast horses to the habitable place and compared it with the suspect's.

"For more than a month, everyone was waiting for the news from the livable place, and no one bothered the old couple who stayed behind closed doors. After all, they encountered such a tragedy and fell into a state of extreme discouragement and grief. Among them, it is reasonable and reasonable not to want to go out.

"Later, the news came from the livable place, and the verification results were the same—the murderer who killed the two children was the official's son. So the old man entrusted a middleman to deliver the letter. They didn't want any compensation, but the death penalty was executed immediately, but that At that time, the Askia government hesitated."

"why?"

"Because, Askia has always wanted to join the third district as a habitable place, but the coalition government of the third district has an iron law for all habitable places under its rule: the death penalty cannot be executed for any crime. Before that, Askia Although Asia retains the entry of death penalty in the law, it has not been actually executed for more than 20 years... If the death penalty is carried out this time, it will be very unfavorable for joining the livable place in the future....

"The trial is still going on, but everyone understands that the final result should be a huge fine, plus a sentence of hundreds of years, and no commutation is allowed.

"Everyone was angry about this incident. Residents who went to protest were surrounded in front of the city hall, but the crowd was quickly dispersed-because there were new strange things in Askia, and people suddenly disappeared every day. No one knew where they went, no one was alive or dead, this was unprecedented in Askia... People were suddenly worried, and no one dared to go out rashly.

"But in fact, these people were all locked up in the cellar of the old couple's apartment."

"The old couple...is it infected?" Hesta guessed.

Liz nodded.

"It was for this reason that they withdrew the lawsuit before. The old lady's hands had already started to chelate, and she couldn't last long." Liz said softly, "The couple became chelated almost at the same time. I guess they originally wanted revenge, but they didn't know that after a person gets sick, he will not only let go of his love, but also all his hatred... There is no other purpose except to do evil for fun.

"Askia had a comprehensive renovation for the prevention of chelation disease more than 50 years ago. At that time, in order to be able to contact habitable places in an emergency, Askia prepared three sets of plans. The first two The sets are all connected by radio, one is generated by batteries, and the other is generated by diesel. Every summer, Liable will send special personnel to replace batteries, check generators, diesel reserves and communication equipment.

"And the third plan is particularly energy-intensive-they pulled a very secret underground communication line. Even if all power generation facilities fail in an emergency, this wired communication can still ensure that the habitable place knows Asky immediately. An emergency happened to Asia.

"These three plans were planned with strict secrecy, because each chelation will retain most of the knowledge, skills and habits of life. Therefore, whether it is mercury injection or the coalition government, everyone is in the science of chelation disease. Most of the time, the focus will be on disease prevention and self-identification, and these higher-level defense measures are rarely mentioned, so as to prevent some primary chelates from carrying out targeted damage to the anti-epidemic facilities based on these public information. "

Liz paused for a moment.

"However, no one thought that the couple, as urban planners, participated in the whole process of the project."

"Have all communication facilities... been destroyed?"

"Yes..." Liz nodded, "Originally, both sides should have noticed something was wrong very quickly, because according to regulations, Askia and Habitable Land should check whether the wired communication is normal every day in the early morning and evening-this Although the habit is monotonous, it has been maintained for decades, but unfortunately, two of the people who were taken to the basement and imprisoned by the old man were commissioners in charge of communication work.

"At that time, the whole of Askia was like a ball of boiling magma, and the city hall itself was in a mess, because the internal secrecy was too good, and the people temporarily assigned to the communication posts were not informed of the existence of underground communication. And the person in charge of the coalition government in the third district was a dead body, seriously dereliction of duty-when Askia lost contact for several days, he didn't report to the top, but clocked in as usual as before.

"It wasn't until the eve of the outbreak of the chelate tide that Mercury Needle reacted first...but by then, it was already too late."

"The mercury needle...how did you notice something was wrong?"

"During the renovation that year, the Mercury Needle team involved in the project left a last line of defense—they installed four chelate traps outside the city. The smell is similar, but only a pinch of the chelate with great physicality can be smelled.

"When these chelates find their way along the breath and destroy the entire setup, the nearest AHgAs operating site is alerted.

"These devices, from research and development, design to production and installation, were all independently completed by AHgAs. They did not inform anyone, so these facilities... were kept until the end."

(End of this chapter)