Chapter 601: Prosthetic eyes have no tears (please vote for the big chapter)
Scattered cement bricks and shards of glass filled the yard under the night sky.
boom--
The brown hard-soled leather boots stepped between the glass fragments, and the silent night wind took away the warmth of the leather jacket.
The icy wind blew through the woman's short burgundy hair. She raised her head and looked at the rubble-strewn ruins in front of her, her burgundy eyes flashing with a ring of light.
The stars disappeared, and the bright moon shone on the ruins.
In the past, from this angle, you couldn't see the sky when you looked up, you could only see the majestic giant-like tall buildings blocking out the sky and the sun.
The once towering buildings have now disappeared. The magnificent buildings built by humans now only have a few dilapidated bases to bear witness to their former glory.
It seemed that in just a blink of an eye, this majestic building was erased as easily as an eraser from a thin piece of drawing paper.
The woman looked down at her hand. A twisted silver pendant stained with blood lay quietly in her hand.
This pendant seems to have suffered some kind of heavy blow, and the whole thing has been deformed and twisted. However, thanks to its tough material, it has not been directly broken apart, but the structural parts that could have been moved have been deformed and twisted together.
Can no longer be opened easily.
This is what she found not far after entering the gate.
After a simple calculation, she realized that these might be items thrown from the roof of the building before it was destroyed.
Following the woman's movements, the dark bracelet seemed to sense something and slowly lit up. Her dialing interface was displayed on the bracelet. The entire dialing interface was filled with a series of red unanswered calls.
The earliest call was made at 00:10, and these calls were all directed to the same contact, 'Jace'.
"Have you found Jace?"
A soft inquiry came from behind.
"No,"
Hexi turned back and looked at the man walking over. She knew this man, Agent Hoon of the Wetland FBI, one of the few people with faith in the Wetland FBI.
She paused, took a deep breath, and smiled, "Although the last email he sent me said that he was here, due to his skill, he might have run away when something happened."
"Maybe,"
Hu En looked at her shining eyes, and then at the silver pendant in her hand. He paused for a moment, looked back at the FBI agents who were blocking the scene, and whispered,
"The identity I am reporting to you is the family member of the staff. According to the regulations of the FBI, extraordinary items found at the scene will belong to the FBI. However, if the family members find the belongings of the deceased relatives before the FBI,
Under normal circumstances, it will not be pursued."
He paused, "I don't have much time to buy you."
After that, he turned around, waved to the FBI agent behind him, and walked over.
Haixi lowered his head and looked at the pendant in his hand again.
She gently used force to slowly open the twisted pendant, and two crumpled photos appeared in her field of vision.
This was the first time she opened the pendant and saw the photo on the pendant. Although she had already felt something in her heart, her breath paused the moment she saw the photo.
She took a deep breath again and closed the pendant.
She continued to move forward and reached the building that only had a few floors near the ground.
Her burgundy eyes swept across the ground, and a slender thread reflecting a faint light attracted her attention.
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[Hai Xi:
I'm sorry to trouble you to come and recycle your wire in person. I have attached the address. In order to avoid being preempted by the FBI, when you receive this email, a police report should also be sent to Hu.
Agent En's email address, he will help you.
The material of your metal wire is very good and should survive the final destruction, but you will probably need to rebuild a mechanical bracelet. The money to build the bracelet has been transferred to your cryptocurrency account in advance, please check it in time.
I know you must have a lot of doubts in your mind, but in fact there are not many things worth doubting.
If my final guess is correct, all the information about the Wilmer Medical Foundation, the mysterious man, and the shadow hidden under the night of Wetland will be sent to your email as an attachment at the same time.
All my property has been donated to the private charitable foundation under my name. I have transferred the management of this foundation to you. The verification key has also been sent with the email. If you have time, you can go and handle the transfer.
formalities.
I'm sorry to entrust you with such a troublesome matter, but I think entrusting it to you is the best choice.
This foundation still has 5.27 million federal dollars in cash, as well as some real estate including my parents' and my two properties. The overall value should be around 9 million. Compared with the charitable foundations of large consortiums, this amount of money is
It's not much, but it's all the money my parents and my family have.
Of course, most of this money came from mysterious people, from the remuneration paid to me and my father by the Huilmei Medical Foundation.
I hope this money can help some real street children, at least give them enough food to eat and shelter from the wind and rain. I hope they can study and change their own destiny.
I am not a person with great ambitions and lofty ideals. In the first twenty years of my life, I just lived my own life in a hazy way. I have never seen sadness, nor have I ever had the ultimate joy, but I am very happy.
I can be born into a family that can give me a peaceful life.
I have read many heroic stories, but I don't actually want to be a hero.
My biggest ideal is to have a piece of toast and a cup of hot milk when I get home, and my parents and wife are healthy and free from illness and disaster.
This is the life I look forward to and the life I am attached to.
I once had such a life, albeit a short one.
I just thought it was ordinary at the time, but when I looked back, I realized it was a good dream.
Hexi, nice to meet you, and thank you and the scavengers for your help during this time.
The attachment contains all the information on the ritual circle and genetic potion. Take these to the Nolanka Group, they will be willing to help you.
Remember not to leak these to other consortiums.
Finally, the attachment at the bottom is a letter of recommendation signed by myself and several friends.
If one day the scavengers are freed, and you no longer have to worry about it, you may be able to try to return to campus and enjoy a life you have never experienced.
However, a letter of recommendation does not allow you to enroll directly, and your college entrance exam also needs to meet the school's conditions.
Thank you for accompanying me these days, and thank you for being a part of the world I love.
Of course the world is a bad place, but she still has the people I love and the best memories.
I hope that one day, no one can repeat the fate we have experienced.
Jess]
The short-haired woman sitting at the coffee table slowly picked up the hot coffee cup, and the hazy rising mist covered her cheeks.
The blood-stained metal wires on the table were bunched together and tied to the bone handle with only a small section left.
The rain curtain stained the floor-to-ceiling windows of the coffee shop.
Pedestrians coming and going outside the window, begging children, homeless people, gun-toting gang members, formal employees sitting in buses, luxury cars crossing the pond, and majestic high-rise buildings with dazzling neon lights scattered far and near.
The buildings form the same picture.
"You cried?"
Desanke, who was wearing casual clothes, walked to the table and sat opposite the woman.
"I won't cry,"
The woman brought the coffee to her lips and stared out the window with her burgundy eyes, "There are no tears in the prosthetic eyes."
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A huge advertising screen is showing today's news.
"This is Wetland TV, welcome to tonight's broadcast.
"The controversial senatorial election not long ago finally came to an end this morning.
"Tellison Group has issued an official announcement regarding this incident,
"The core reason that caused the system to freeze this time and the results to come out late.
"It was because an intern employee who was doing maintenance in the main computer room of the Phoenix system forgot to plug it in when he unplugged the data connection to check. As a result, some data failed to be uploaded to the system in time, causing the election results to be given in a shorter time than
Nine minutes and thirty-seven seconds behind schedule.
"At present, all self-inspections have been completed and the Phoenix system is normal. Tellison Group has fired the intern and reserves the right to hold the intern accountable.
"For this incident, Tellison Group expresses its sincere apology to all Weiteland citizens. As compensation, Tellison Group announces that every Weiteland resident can receive a 10% discount coupon based on their identity.
“With this coupon, you can enjoy a 10% discount on Tellison Group products at any website or store under the Tellison Group. This discount cannot be shared with other discounts.
"Mayor Wetland publicly stated that he supports Tellison Group and believes in the Phoenix system. Wetland will continue to use the Phoenix system.
"Due to this system problem and the chain consequences it caused, the Municipal Government of Veteran and the Federal Parliament's Special Committee conducted a manual review of all votes, and the final confirmation results were consistent with the results given by the Phoenix system.
“The vote share of the top three candidates in the Veteran Senate election was:
"DeSank 43.7%, Ned: 18.9%, Walker: 11.7%
"De Sank was finally elected as the new senator of Vetland with an overwhelming support rate, becoming the youngest senator currently in office. It was also the case that in the past 100 years, Vetland had the highest vote rate and number of votes.
of senator.
"It is worth noting that this time the senatorial election produced election results that were completely different from the support survey. In the reports of major public opinion polling companies beforehand, until the day of the election, DeSank's support rate was not higher than
20%, but the actual results greatly exceeded the estimates of these surveys.
"For this reason, some Nieder supporters believe that Desanque's votes are untrue and are being manipulated.
"However, we can easily see the source of the problem. As you can see from this data table, the number of voters with the right to vote in Wetland is approximately 13.76 million.
"Such a huge voter base, but in previous mid-term elections, the number of voters who actually voted in the mid-term elections has remained at around 3.5 million, with a turnout rate of only about 25%.
"In fact, the previous senators were all elected by these 25%, and the voters who are keen to vote mainly live in the Saint-Lote district and the North Vetterland district, which are two districts with better economic conditions and smaller populations.
"Therefore, when major polling companies conduct support rate surveys, in order to be closer to the real situation in previous years, their intelligent algorithms will weight the support rates of these two districts to improve the support rates of these two districts in the overall support rate.
proportion.
“So the approval ratings surveys produced by these companies are not really original data.
"This time the election situation has undergone great changes. Compared with previous elections, the total number of votes has increased dramatically, with an increase of more than 40%, reaching 5 million votes, and the turnout rate reached 36%.
"Weitland, this is the first time in nearly fifty years that the turnout for a midterm election has exceeded 35%.
"Almost all of the 1.5 million additional votes came from Plant District and Ernst District, which have the largest proportion of the population but have always had very low voting rates in previous years, and the vast majority of these votes went to Desanque.
"This makes DeSank like a dark horse, breaking people's inherent perceptions and being elected as a senator with an absolute advantage."
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Top floor of Huiermei Medical Building, board meeting room
The old man sitting in the chairman's seat turned off the TV and turned to look at the other people sitting at the conference table. He slowly spoke in a hoarse and slow voice, "What do you think?"
"We have lost a senator position, but this does not mean anything. Senators are allocated according to cities. Senators from other cities are still in our hands. Our position in the federal parliament will not be weakened too much.
, and Desanque, a single senator cannot achieve anything in the parliament."
A middle-aged man sitting on the left side of the old man said quickly.
The old man glanced at him and did not comment on his reply. Instead, he looked at the other board members sitting there.
"This trend is very bad,"
Another man sitting in the middle said slowly,
"The majority of people who should have been silent are no longer silent. Where there is the first, there will be the second. This is Wetland, where we have been operating. The situation is actually much better than in other cities. If the same thing happens in a small town
Cities, not just in midterm elections, but in mayoral elections, will subject the markets we have gained to unknown factors."
He looked indifferent and said, "We must find a way to warn future generations that Desanke's path will not work, and it will not work."
The old man squinted his eyes and did not reply, but continued to look at the others.
"It is true that a single senator cannot achieve anything, but DeSank is different,"
Another old man sitting on the right side of the old man said hoarsely, "His election does not come from our support, but from the people who support him. In other words, he has appeal in Wetterland, and these
Appealing power can be turned into a weapon to influence the situation at any time."
He paused and said, "Wells is dead and Qunxing Pharmaceutical is not answering our calls. The genetic medicine may have been leaked."
After hearing these words, the old man sitting in the front seat slowly opened his eyes. He turned his head little by little and looked at the city under the rain curtain through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows.
All eyes in the conference room were focused on him.
He looked at the raindrops splashing on the window and spoke slowly,
"The storm is coming."
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A bouquet of white flowers was placed in front of the brand new tombstone, and the flowing wind in the cemetery blew the burgundy hair.
"It rains a lot recently."
"Spring is like this."
"Do you want to watch the senator's inauguration speech tomorrow?"
"What's so great about a senator's inaugural speech? Isn't it the same every year?"
"This time is different, don't you know? The DeSank elected this time is different from others, and it is said that he will talk about some issues that are relevant to us all in his inauguration speech."
"Are you bragging? What problem could be relevant to both of us?"
Pedestrians who came to pay homage hurriedly passed behind Haixi.
The breeze blew over the carved tombstone and the brand new photos on the tombstone.
The man in the photo looks forward gently but firmly, gazing at the world he once loved.
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