"Chelation disease...is it the kind of disease that turns a person's hands into chelates after suffering from it?"
"Um."
Alvira's brows raised slightly in surprise, "...This is not a rumor, is it true?"
"Um."
"...It's so pitiful." She sighed softly, "Where is the Hecla Wasteland?"
"It's on the west side of District 3, far away from here." Calvin said softly, "But it's very close to District 4, separated by the Father's River."
"Father River?" Alvira felt a little curious, "Why is it called this name?"
"I'm not sure, maybe it's because the children in the Hecla Wasteland are either orphans, or they only have mothers.
“When I was a kid, I used to swim over with some goods on my back, exchange some items with people on the other side, and then take them back to the alley to sell them.
"The river will freeze in winter, making it easier to walk. But when there are more people buying and selling, I won't be able to get a good price."
Alvira nodded, "I heard that people who suffer from chelation will become disowned by their relatives. Is this true?"
Calvin nodded.
"...Would it hurt even my own child?"
"Maybe, I don't know," Calvin said softly, "When the Hekla tragedy happened, I had never even heard of chelation disease. By the time I knew something had happened, the road out of the city had been blocked. .At that time, everyone said that there were mutated chelates outside the city. If you go out, you will die. It is better to wait for rescue in the city...
"We were hiding in a trench behind a warehouse. At that time, several rounds of armed fighting broke out over the robbery of supplies. Bodies piled up like mountains. Everything that could be robbed had been plundered, and no one came."
"That's lucky." Alvira said softly.
"It should be that the smell of corpses has covered up the smell on our bodies. If we had moved to another place at that time, maybe we wouldn't be alive now." Calvin said softly, "My mother is a very smart woman. She has been hoarding it for a long time. Water and food, I even got a sheepskin blanket from somewhere... It was not a difficult time, but Sean suddenly fell ill and the fever refused to go away. Mom decided to find a trader to see if she could Can't get medicine.
"Sean and I were waiting in the trench...A lot of things happened later, but we were all near misses.
"One day I woke up and felt that the world was very quiet, very quiet. Chelates are always very noisy, and they always like to make scary noises for fun when they fight with each other... But that day I suddenly discovered, There was no sound at all.
"The mercury needle is here."
Alvira listened with bated breath.
"They wanted to take us away... but mom didn't come back," Calvin paused, "I knew where traders usually hang out, so I took Sean with me to that place.
"We started searching from the basement, not sparing every room. There were rotting corpses everywhere on the first and second floors. We couldn't tell whether they were human beings or chelates. I identified each one and removed them one by one. , until I heard Sean suddenly crying in the attic.
"I walked up slowly... there were no lights, and the corridors were all dark. There was a bedroom in the attic, and there was a bathroom in the bedroom. I heard Sean was inside. When I opened the door, there were fragments of mirrors and some pieces of mirror everywhere on the floor. There were scattered soap bars, a red plastic cup that had been trampled to pieces, and a toothbrush or something next to it. There were mud and blood stains all over the floor, and a brown towel was placed under the foot of the bathtub...
Calvin raised his head.
"Then I came out."
Alvira stood up, she gently hugged Calvin who was sitting, and slowly patted his back like a child. Gu Jiao
"It will get better. The suffering of the past is over and you will have a bright and brilliant future."
"……can you?"
"Yes," Alvira whispered, "you and Sean will, and I will pray for you together."
…
As the sun was about to set, Si Lei drove to a deserted pasture outside Tan Yi City.
A dozen police officers had surrounded a clearing on a piece of flattened grass, and a stylish car was parked there - the car Roger was driving on the night he disappeared.
Si Lei briefly asked about the situation at the scene. The police station had obtained a large number of fingerprints from the steering wheel of the car. After comparison, they completely matched those of Gray in the Viscount Manor.
In just a few days, the Tan Yi Police Department collected surveillance images from various intersections in the city. They used manual work to partially restore Gray's driving trajectory that night from thousands of hours of surveillance footage - this incident It shouldn't have been this difficult originally, but due to the violent solar wind at the beginning of the month, most of the equipment in the monitoring area was damaged to varying degrees. This resulted in quite a few interruptions in Gray's itinerary. The most concerning one was from the evening "Evaporated" between eight o'clock and one-thirty in the morning.
After that, he appeared on the road again with his car, and this time his car drove very calmly, heading directly to the suburbs. Now the car is alone in the wilderness, and there is no trace of the others.
The only thing that was certain was that Gray was the only one in the car from beginning to end.
"Are there any suspicious signs in the car? For example, blood stains?"
"No."
"Gray's servant said he came out with a lot of luggage. Are the things still there?"
"Uh, no, there are only a few golf clubs in the trunk..."
"Is there anything else?"
"Yes, but it's not luggage. You can take a look. Here's the list."
Si Lei took the list, which listed dozens of personal items, ranging from cosmetics, perfumes to medicines... and so on.
"Are they all here?" Si Lei asked.
"It's all here."
Si Lei handed the order back.
"By the way, there is another news that came from the police station half an hour ago - Mr. Gray's family called from District 12, saying that they were sorry for the death of 'Nightingale', and they had no intention of doing it because of it. Alarming the police is a waste of police resources. Now they have contacted Mr. Gray, so that we no longer have to track Gray’s whereabouts.”
"Really, where is Gray now?"
"Well... they said they couldn't disclose it. This is the privacy of citizens," the police officer replied. "If we still have doubts about Nightingale's case, we can go directly to Gray's attorney in Tan Yi. He will be fully responsible for cooperating with us." communication...Have you read Nightingale’s autopsy report?”
Si Lei laughed and said, "Looking at it, it is indeed suicide."
The police officer observed Si Lei's expression: "Then it seems that we really don't have to...?"
"Check the car again, and ask nearby residents to see if anyone noticed anything strange that night." Si Lei raised his head, "At least one thing is missing from your list of belongings."
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