"To be precise, the history of Lottana as the best tourist city in the land and sea region has been ten years ago." The girl stood on the breakwater and said to Alice and the three of them. She seemed to have no other
She was happy to stay here and chat with a few strangers. The strong wind blew from the sea, flapping her wide sleeves and the hem of her robe, making the girl's cheeks even more frail.
The paleness.
"Then why has it become like this now?"
Alice looked around at the messy and dirty scene, then glanced at the gray sky above her head, and asked in confusion.
The girl stretched out her hand, pointed to the huge steel behemoths further away from the port and the forest of chimneys on their backs, and asked: "Have you seen those factories?"
The three of them all looked in the direction of her finger. Alice nodded: "Yes, what kind of factories are those?"
"The smelting and processing of ores, the casting of related equipment and modules, etc., there are also some secret factories that are inconvenient to outsiders and the citizens still don't know what they are used for." The girl said softly: "Ten years ago, they were just like now.
Thick smoke and acid mist are continuously spit out from the chimneys, corroding the sky of Lottana, thus creating the clouds of hell you see in your eyes; they are still like this ten years later, and you don’t know when they will stop.
, but perhaps, when these steel beasts are awakened, no one can make them stop."
There was a pessimistic tone in the girl's words. Alice nodded thoughtfully: So, is the pollution problem in Lottana City essentially the negative impact of industrial development? In this steam age, it's not like that.
It seems to be an unsurprising thing.
Ringer captured a key word she mentioned: "Ore? Could it be that a large mineral vein has been unearthed in this area?"
"That's right."
The girl glanced at Linger, seemingly surprised by his keen observation, but quickly looked away and said: "The time was about thirteen years ago, when the Natural Disaster Detection Bureau under the Natural Disaster Mission formed an exploration team.
The original intention was to examine the geographical and hydrological environment near Lottana City and make preventive preparations for extreme disasters that may occur in the future. However, this time the exploration team failed to complete its task and was interrupted by an unexpected
The discovery disrupted the plan: as the gentleman said, they found traces of large mineral veins in the Beladia Mountains not far from the outskirts of Heligoland, and not just one, but three."
The Beladia Mountains are the largest mountain range in the area. They pass directly through the edge of the suburban Heligoland and are just in the path of the return flow of the winter monsoon, protecting the residents of Lottana from countless storms.
The attack may be as significant to this city as the Saussen Mountains are to the city of Rosting.
The girl's narration may not be vivid, but combined with the current environment, it is enough to arouse the audience's curiosity, so the three people, including Alice, listened carefully and did not interrupt: "These three large mineral veins have been discovered
After that, it immediately attracted the attention of many mining companies or steel factories. They spent huge sums of money to buy the mining rights of the Beladia Mountains. However, it was not any of these companies that finally won this right.
One, but the dark night habitat of one of the seven righteous sects."
Night habitat!
Unexpectedly, this matter actually involved the alliance of religious orders. Ringer's pupils shrank briefly for a moment, but returned to normal the next moment, and was not discovered by the girl, so she continued to preach: "Dark Night Habitat has obtained the secret of the mineral vein."
After obtaining the mining rights, it was contracted to the Natural Disaster Mission, which is also a member of the sect, for mining operations, and huge investments were made to build twelve large-scale mines, mine shafts and supporting facilities - which is what you see.
Those factories."
"After the mines and factories were built, the ore operations were carried out almost from morning to night. The blast furnaces for smelting ore burned all day long, spitting out black smoke, and the sky in Lottana was filled with a persistent dust haze. Moreover, these facilities were all
A large number of manpower was needed to support the operation, such as miners, coolies, workers and technicians. In order to meet the daily needs of these people, several more wet markets were built in the Heligoland district, which originally had only one large market.
and slaughterhouses; in order to transport the smelted and processed metals out, taking into account the convenience of sea shipping and the geographical advantages of Lottana, it was decided to build two medium-sized terminals and a large deep-water terminal in the suburbs of Heligoland.
What you see is just one of them; now that there is a dock, several warehouses have been built to store goods and transport transportation; in order to allow sailors and coolies to settle down and not cause trouble everywhere, several new warehouses have been opened near the port.
A tavern and even a... brothel."
“Continuous mining and excavation, constant construction and construction, continuous discharge of sewage and thick smoke, constant influx of new population and oppression of the living space of local residents... Mining and excavation have led to the loss of groundwater, and the Heligoland suburbs have
The vegetation coverage area has decreased sharply; construction and construction have brought a large amount of dust and construction waste, and improper sewage discharge measures have led to serious environmental pollution; and the continuous influx of foreigners does not respect and care for their homes like local residents. You are now
Most of the garbage you see is left by them, and the rest is caused by the unwillingness of wet markets and slaughterhouses to pay high sanitation fees and the principle of nearby disposal."
At this point, the girl chuckled, and it was hard to tell whether it was irony or helplessness: "Just like although the avalanche was caused by the last falling snowflake, it cannot be said that all the previous snowflakes were innocent; Lautner
In the eyes of you foreign tourists, the city's pollution seems to have been caused in an instant. It seems that in the blink of an eye, the beautiful coastal city in the past has been reduced to a sacrifice of the industrial age, a ship on a cesspool, and an abandoned city in a garbage dump.
But from the perspective of local residents like us, we have witnessed her degradation bit by bit: there are more and more factories in the city, the sound of mining from the mines is getting louder and louder, and the sky above our heads is getting louder and louder.
The weather is getting darker and darker, the water in the sea is getting dirtier and dirtier, the garbage on the beach is getting more and more messy, and more and more people are doing evil and causing trouble... We watch all this helplessly, but there is nothing we can do. We can either accept the result and try to change.
They can coexist peacefully in their hometown in the future and deceive themselves that this is the progress of the times; or they must leave their hometown and escape from this land that is far from what they remember, which will only bring sadness to themselves."
She sighed faintly: "Obviously, I belong to the former, because after all, I can't leave here, leave the hometown where I make a living."
The three of them did not notice that what she said about "hometown" had a special meaning. They all fell silent after listening to this description. The glory of modern industrial civilization is making people in this era feel glorious and have great hope for the future.
Some kind of ambition and expectation that cannot be described in words. But these people seem to have forgotten how many human corpses and tears are buried under countless steel machines. Those who are qualified to enjoy the glorious achievements of the industrial age will not notice the corruption in these soils.
They raised their heads high and looked further away.
When Ringo was still serving as a pastor, he had already found the answer in the eyes of homeless people, beggars and residents at the bottom of society. Now, the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in the city of Lottana in the past ten years are just the answer to this question.
Another layer of gray-white haze was cast on it, making it stronger and more unbearable.
Under the dark sky in the distance, a seagull with white feathers flew over the turbulent sea surface, fluttered its wings and landed on the beach, and began to look for food in the garbage piles on the ground.
Everything in this city is gray, including the buildings in front of you, the port, the freighters in the port, the distant factories, and the thick smoke spewing out of the chimneys... For some reason, only this seagull's
The feathers still retain their pure whiteness, even a little dazzling, as if to set off something.
Alice opened her mouth and murmured something. Although it seemed to be a subconscious thought in her heart, it was not very loud, but because the atmosphere was too quiet, everyone could hear the content of the sentence clearly: "It's really——"<