About an hour later, new news came: Just this morning, a solar wind of unprecedented scale caused an extremely severe magnetic storm around the world, which caused widespread power grid collapse and radio outages.
The Third District is not the most severely affected area. About 1/3 of the cities in the Fourth, Seventh, Fourteenth and Twelfth Districts to the east suffered severe power grid damage in this natural disaster, especially District 4.
This is the real main cause of the massive power outage in Tan Yi City: most of the electricity in the city is supplied by the Border Power Station in District 4.
This was originally a benefit, because AHgAs set up a reserve base in Tan Yi in the early years, and the demand for energy inside the base - especially electric energy - was staggering, and Tan Yi could not meet it alone.
After weighing the situation, AHgAs worked together to build a supply network from District 4 to Tan Yi, which not only solved the internal power problem of the reserve base, but also benefited several local companies.
However, something unexpected happened in District 4, and they were also implicated here.
So everything has a reasonable explanation.
But even so, panic and uneasiness still spread rapidly inside Tan Yi.
Residents in the livable area have not heard explosions of this level for many years. Many people were frightened by the continuous loud noises. A small number of new residents who moved here from the Niah Province even developed symptoms of PTSD. .
——In the wasteland, hearing such a sound usually means that there is a chelate tide in some distant residential area.
All kinds of terrible rumors spread like wildfire among the crowd.
At five o'clock in the afternoon that day, "Anecdote Daily" issued a detailed bulletin.
Although the authorities have not officially announced that last night's battle was a standard "fight against chelates," the editor of "Anecdote Daily" has already speculated on this.
This bulletin sorted out the important nodes of the entire incident from beginning to end, starting with Hoffman's sudden death and ending with last night's explosion. The details are vivid and the structure is complete.
In fact, apart from the comments on the front page, a lot of the content in this bulletin is spliced from their past articles, but at this critical juncture, no reader cares about this——
"Anecdote Daily" was the only newspaper that Tan Yi still published on that day.
This publication was sold out as soon as it appeared on the street. That night, at various newsstands, pubs, and bookstores in Tan Yi, the price of a second-hand "Anecdote Daily" soared fifty-fold, so much so that the newsboys quickly adjusted their sales strategies. , after getting the newspaper, he did not sell it on the street, but directly sold it to the middleman at three times the price.
For a time, except for "Unyielding News" and a few colleagues who had been in contact with Stella, everyone in the circle was asking:
Who is Stella Clifford?
Does any of you have her contact information?
…
In the lounge of the police station, Victoria slept until dusk.
A commendation order has been placed on the coffee table in her hand. It was specially awarded by the authorities to appreciate her fearless courage and outstanding wisdom. Last night, she successfully rescued both Rishi and Schmi from the assassins. This is simply a landmark achievement that saved the lives of two people.
Victoria did not read the commendation order, and there was still a huge uncertainty hanging over her head at this moment:
This magnetic storm brought about by the solar wind happened to occur at the exact moment when the Golden Crow Palace exploded sooner or later, which directly caused the radar data at that moment to become unreliable.
Is the assassin really dead?
Of course, with their precise time control, the possibility of the assassins escaping is extremely slim...
But without evidence, who can guarantee it?
There was a sudden knock on the door, and Victoria responded tiredly, "Come in."
The visitor is Zoe.
She sat down directly next to Victoria's sofa bed, "Did you rest well?"
"Headache." Victoria rubbed her temples, "How's it going? Have you gone to the scene to see it?"
"We're gone. The fire in the Golden Crow Palace hasn't been extinguished yet, so we can't conduct an inspection."
"...Why hasn't it been extinguished yet? Where is Tan Yi's fire brigade?"
"In the morning, a relay used to protect the circuit in their team came loose, and the short circuit caused a small fire, so their car didn't go over until the afternoon," Zoe answered, looking at Victoria, "I have some I want to ask you a question, are you convenient now?"
"Related to the assassin?"
"related."
Victoria breathed a sigh of relief, "...where are the others?"
"They're all nearby."
"Let everyone gather in the conference room on the second floor in five minutes. I also have something to say... let's talk together."
…
Soon, everyone gathered in the designated conference room. Everyone was still wearing the clothes from last night - obviously most of them were sleeping in their clothes like Victoria, and came immediately after hearing the order to assemble. .
Victoria's expression was unprecedentedly gloomy. From this expression alone, others could feel the seriousness of the reason behind this.
“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 that each of you wear are versions without a 'personal chip'."
Everyone's expressions 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 - the pasture, the watchtower, the corridor, the terrace, the basement... in my According to 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 let everyone digest this absurd reality.
"Our... coordinates?" Endai murmured, she still looked in disbelief, "We can't even get this kind of data ourselves..."
"It can be seen that the top management has leaked everything," Victoria concluded calmly, "Someone is assisting her."
Deathly silence.
“Then I understand,” Zoe suddenly said, “I never understood why she was so friendly to us—so she is one of ours?”
"They are not our people. If such a person appears 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 aberrations. We used the image records of the aberrants and found that they have a common characteristic - the image data of these chelates and aberrants were all included in a project called the 'Semi-Open Source Project' last year."
