Chapter 313: As long as you can see the light
The people of Cerro de Pasco were stunned, what had happened today was enough to keep people awake for a long time. What's going on? A man in a white suit who exploded drove away or killed all the people in the Orth group?
Is it because he wants to occupy this place?
This man is so brutal, could he be even more brutal than the Ors group?
The miners in the mine ran home at the beginning of the battle.
Vice President Grides was the fastest and the earliest, and when he realized that something was wrong, he began to organize the workers to retreat. But where is the place to retreat?
When people are most panicked, they will always choose a place that they think is the safest and most reassuring to stay.
And for most people around the world, this place of peace of mind has a common name: home.
Grides hurried home. He took his wife and children and hid in the basement of his home.
As a team leader on the mine, Grides earns a little more than the average miner, but only a little more. However, his family looked poorer than the average miner.
There wasn't even a decent chair in the house, and a lot of the furniture was patched. That's when the furniture was damaged, and Gride found the planks himself and repaired the marks left by himself.
He wasn't a professional carpenter, so he didn't do a good job. But it can be seen that he is very attentive to this family, even if he is very poor, he is bothering to maintain this family.
"What's going on out there?" said Martha, Grides' wife, who was hiding in the cellar, asked her husband uneasily, "What's going on in the mines." ”
"It's nothing, it's just a trifle. It has nothing to do with us, it's just that the queen mine has changed owners, and I should continue mining. No one is going to touch the ordinary miners, they still need us to do things. Grides relieved his wife and hugged her and child tightly.
"I'm here, it's fine. ”
His wife, Martha, nodded. A smile on your face. Martha's teeth could be seen to have fallen out several times. This is the consequence of blood lead poisoning.
Grides also had symptoms of blood lead poisoning, such as back pain that had been with him for a long time and could not be resolved.
In their arms, Grides' son, ten-year-old Ian, was not quite the same as the other children of Serold Pascori. His eyes were not as ignorant as ordinary children here, but full of agility.
When he spoke, his teeth were also very straight, there were no rotten teeth, and there was no blue blood line on his gums.
And in Grides' home, there are a large number of discarded bottles of mineral water.
With their modest income, the couple barely managed to provide their children with clean water. So that he was not poisoned by lead poisoning at a young age like other children.
"Mom, Dad, listen, there's no sound outside. Little Ian's ears were very sensitive, and he had already stopped hearing the shouting and crying outside.
"There's no war out there, is there?" Ian wasn't old, but he was already sensitive to the so-called war.
Because there was already a war here, the bodies of the dead were still hanging in the square.
"Dad, this time it's still to overthrow the Orth Group, right?" Ian's big black and white eyes looked extremely attentive in the dim light of the basement.
"Will we succeed this time?Will Lina be able to drink clean water?" Hoy was small, but he was already precocious.
In Cerro de Pasco, precocious juvenile puberty is not necessarily a good thing, because he will understand the darkness of this world earlier.
"Lina's mother, Aunt Mia, has been using our family's mineral water bottle to bring rainwater to Lina to drink. This is how she wants to alleviate lead poisoning in her blood. But Lina still had lead poisoning in her blood, and I asked the teachers at school. The teacher whispered to me. It's useless in this way. ”
"Although lead powder is a heavy metal, it does not fly into the air with water vapor. But when it rains, lead dust in the air falls with the rain. Rainwater also contains large amounts of lead. ”
"Can we get rid of the Ors Group this time? Lina can't drink any more water that contains lead. And my little friends Hoy, Lesson, and Halma. None of them can drink water that contains lead. Little Ian looked at his father, tears in his eyes.
"Dad, you can't drink lead water anymore. Drink water like this, and you, they'll all die!"
Little Ian is so smart, much, much smarter than the average child.
If it were in a peaceful world and a peaceful country, little Ian might just be showing maturity and learning ability far beyond his classmates in school right now.
And in Cerro de Pasco, little Ian can't be like the children living in a peaceful world on the other side of the world, and the biggest problem every day is that his parents don't let him watch TV, he doesn't let him play games, and he has to do a lot of homework.
Here, little Ian's annoyance is that he has to face death. watched the Grim Reaper ruthlessly harvest his friends and relatives one by one, but he couldn't do anything about it.
Little Ian knew exactly what the civil strife that had broken out in Cerro de Pasco was about. I know exactly what it all means.
He didn't want to count on too much, he just wanted some clean water. for everyone to drink. He also wanted to go to the grass with his friends to play football, instead of watching Xiao Huo Yi struggle to die in a hospital bed in pain due to lead poisoning.
Looking at the child's eager eyes, Grides felt a heartache. But he still choked up a little and said, "Yes, there will be clean water." Everything will be fine with us. ”
"Really?" the child asked his father.
The father touched the child's head: "Really." ”
In hell, even lies and deception are the best rewards. If there is no longer even deception and lies, the last glimmer of light in hell will disappear.
"You stay here, I'll go and see. Gride said to his wife and children. He heard the clutter outside, which had subsided. He forced himself to go out.
Gride was a not so brave man, and he did not dare to participate in the riots held by Liu Fuquan and others before. Because he is afraid of death, he is even more afraid that his family will have no one to take care of him after he dies.
But now, he has to get out of the house. He had a bold decision to leave here with his wife and children.
If we can find an Ors Group car, our family will be able to get out of here. This is Griddes' most simple idea. It doesn't matter where you go, it's about escaping hell.
He quietly opened the door, and the street was quiet, and everyone hid in the room and did not come out. He walked down the road, trying to get to the Ors Group parking lot to see if he could get a working car.
There were a lot of corpses of Ors Group mercenaries on the road. Frightened, he almost screamed.
But fortunately, it was restrained. He didn't want to be heard by the man called Magneto. He lurked all the way to the Ors Syndicate's headquarters.
When he found the parking lot and was about to drive away, he froze. Because what did he see?!
In Grides' line of sight, the man in a white suit was hovering in the outfall of the ore processing plant.
The Ors Group never treats ore wastewater, so a large amount of heavy metal wastewater is discharged directly into the river. The River of Life of Cerro de Pasco, which could have been used for fishing and irrigation a few decades ago, has turned red.
The place where this terrible river flows is devoid of grass. The red river is like a broken vein of Mother Earth, and it is shocking to look at.
And now, the man in the white suit is facing the river with his hands outstretched.
As Gride could see, the sewage in the Red River was being disposed of rapidly. Something constantly filthy flew out of the river and flew behind the man.
Behind the man, a semi-solid, half-liquid metal ball had formed. These are all heavy metals that have been discharged into the rivers by the Ors Group over the years.
Gride could see with the naked eye that the river that had been red was beginning to become clear. The river has begun to be muddy, and the bottom of the river bed can be seen clearly.
And after cleaning up the river, the man did not stop. He swept across the banks of the river like a giant magnet, the polluted earth was turned over in one piece, and the heavy metals in the soil were sucked away by his huge magnet.
Now Grides had forgotten to drive out of here. He ran frantically towards his home, unable to hide his voice.
As he ran, he shouted in the streets: "We! We're saved! That Magneto Master is cleaning up the riverbed, he's cleaning up the soil! He's cleaning up all the heavy metals! Come out and see!"
Someone poked their heads out curiously and looked at Grides running wildly.
The door to Grides' cellar was opened, and he said to his son, "Ian! Huo Yi, Lina, they don't have to worry about sewage anymore!"
Little Ian, who was in the cellar, looked up at his father outside the cellar, and for the first time he could remember, he had seen his father smile so brightly.
The light behind my father also illuminates the entire cellar, and it is no longer dark.
PS: It's Tuesday, continue with tickets, there are too few tickets!