Chapter 38: The Summer City Explosion
Not thinking about the previous events for a while, Yi Annie looked at the busy policemen in front of her, and the people present were much more surprised.
Most of them were busy taking pictures and collecting evidence, and there were people in white coats and casual clothes working together, presumably forensic doctors or people who had been directly transferred from the hospital and police officers on leave to help.
Some of them hurried downstairs after extracting some evidence, and frowned at the top of the stairs when they saw Yi Annie, who did not look like they were here to work.
"Did so many people go upstairs and downstairs before?" Anne continued to ask Victor.
Victor nodded: "Didn't you all see it?" ”
Yi Anne and Betty glanced at each other, feeling that they had really seen a ghost just now, in the space on the first floor where they were, the years were quiet, how could there be such a hectic situation.
The police officer who had brought them into the apartment building earlier, as well as Xiande and his bodyguards, were all following behind Inferno.
Inferno came to a chalk-circled figure and nodded with his toes: "This is where the murderer died, right?" ”
Although the police officer who was squatting next to him to collect evidence didn't understand what it was about, he saw his immediate boss accompanying several people, so he nodded again and again: "That's it." ”
Anne stood on tiptoe and looked through the crowd. The positions of several humanoids on the ground were quite chaotic, not like they were encircled, but a little evenly distributed, and I don't know how Inferno could tell the murderer's position.
She and Betty on the side continued to bite their ears: "This is too weird, isn't it?" Why are they looking for a secret commissioner to come here? Something strange is going on here! ”
Victor bent down and whispered to Iannie: "I just heard what the police said, the murderer actually committed suicide, and after he committed suicide, the police officers present began to kill each other, which is why so many people were killed and injured. ”
"Wow! Big news! Betty's eyes sparkled, and the blood of the news edition boiled in her heart.
Yi Annie frowned: "This kind of strange thing, under normal circumstances, a gag order would be issued, right?" ”
Betty nodded: "But after you know the truth, don't you feel a sense of pride when you look at those people who don't know the situation?" ”
"Heh," Yi Annie pulled the corners of her mouth with a dry smile, "The 5,000-year history of Huaguo tells you that there are some things that it is better not to know. ”
While the three reporters were secretly taking pictures and whispering in the corner, Inferno also took a turn around the scene, and then walked straight to Anne with a large group of people behind him.
"Hey, what's going on?" Looking at the menacing group of people, Annecy flinched.
Inferno came to Iannie: "What did you find downstairs?" ”
"Huh?" Among the people who raised the question mark were Betty, Victor, Schind, and the officer, as well as Anne Eanne.
Anne and Betty were amazed at Inferno's magical perception, while the others didn't know what was going on.
Xiande couldn't help but feel a little smug after being surprised, his vision was really good, otherwise why would he let this Asian girl enter the murder scene of the apartment building together.
Yi Annie was stunned for a moment, and asked in the principle of not wanting to know anything: "I don't know anything, is it too late to leave now?" ”
Inferno scoffed, "Don't make a fuss. ”
This tone is like a conflict between young couples.
For a while, a few people looked at Yi Annie and then at Inferno, no matter how they looked at it, they were not a pair.
Betty looked at the people on the side and said, "Can you tell us what's going on here?" ”
Inferno looked at Xiande, but the police officer next to him spoke first: "These three people are all reporters, is it really good to tell them?" ”
Inferno curled the corners of his mouth slightly: "Even if they write about this in the newspaper, probably no one will believe it." ”
"Heh, that's true, when my workers called the police at the beginning, didn't anyone believe it?" Xiande squinted at the police officer on the side.
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It's better to start at the beginning.
(Anne Yi's inner OS: I don't want to know!) )
Originally, Changhu Provincial Park was not owned by Nuo Province, but the ancestral property of the Xiande family, and later after the family moved out of Nuo Province, this land was donated and became a provincial park.
Therefore, when he came to Nou Province to develop this lake woodland, he used not only the power of money, but also a little family influence.
Of course, the main purpose of his family's use of this influence was to allow the children of the family to settle some of the things left over from the past, which was also a decisive event for their family to leave here.
Xiande's family came to Summer City nearly 300 years ago during the Anglo-French War, when their family was a very powerful warlord family, which basically led most of the early work of North American colonization, and also looted huge resources and wealth in the process.
Summer City was the first stop for the British to land on the North American continent, facing the Anglo-French battlefield, so the family also established itself here.
Almost 100 years ago, his family was renovating the long lake woodland they owned, but unexpectedly unearthed a piece of underground remains of the aborigines.
At the time, the people in charge of the renovation were not very concerned, because in the course of their family's development, they had seen countless Aboriginal relics. Therefore, the person in charge of the project directly asked the workers to dismantle the ruins, empty the contents of the contents, and asked a well-known appraiser in London to come and see if there were any collectible items.
The only thing that is strange is that this ruin is actually in the most primitive territory of their family, and it has not been discovered for two hundred years.
At that time, the indigenous people were still under the crackdown of the North American government, and their items were widely circulated in the market, often of little value, and the appraisers found nothing special, only appraised some of the jewelry with fixed value.
Therefore, the family doesn't pay much attention to the rest of the things, so a few members of the family who like antiques can pick and choose at will.
By the time things came to light, it was too late.
More than 100 years ago, when Summer City and the whole of Canada were entering the stage of major construction, there were many immigrants, which created favorable conditions for a major disaster.
The rapid influx of people has also been accompanied by a flow of people into the interior of Canada. Sometimes, before they even had time to register in Summer City, a boatload of people was pulled directly into the St. Lawrence River to build a railroad between Quebec and Ottawa.
Personnel management is very chaotic, and the police receive several reports of missing people every day, but because many of the missing people are not even on the list of Xia Cheng residents, and the police force is seriously insufficient, it is impossible to find them.
At first, the police didn't care about it, but it didn't start to feel that something was wrong until hundreds of reports of disappearances were received a day and an entire residential building was wiped out.
Xiande's family, who regarded themselves as the emperor of the local area, knew that this incident was likely to jeopardize their tax revenue, and immediately launched an investigation using the family's private soldiers.
Because this thing was too easy to do at the beginning, the perpetrator did not hide the fact that all the people in the whole building disappeared, leaving a lot of clues, and the family soon discovered the clues.
One of the family's several antique dealers, the direct son of the family, can also control a part of the family power, and it is he who did the kidnapping of outsiders.
And the use of these people is actually human animals!
The antique dealer was found to be suffering from a terminal illness of the willow species, and he found a rite of life in the antiquities he had previously received from the Aboriginal ruins. He planned to follow that method and bury a large number of people alive at certain nodes on the Xiacheng Peninsula, and planned to use the lives of the entire Xiacheng Peninsula to renew his life.
He believed that most of the family's clan lands were outside the Xia Cheng Peninsula, so there would be no harm.
But the family doesn't think so, and the Xiacheng Peninsula is about 90% of the population of the Xiacheng area, and many of their family children work and live in it. If these people all die unexpectedly, it will also weaken the power of their family.
Moreover, this sacrifice is not a one-size-fits-all event, which, according to several other family members who have studied Aboriginal history, is a chronic and potentially contagious 100% death, during which the dying person may be possessed by the demons of Aboriginal history and do even more terrible things.
However, this life-sustaining ritual has already begun to be launched, and sending people into the Xiacheng Peninsula area to destroy the ritual node is basically the result of no return.
Therefore, the more radical managers in the family planned to directly destroy the entire Xia Cheng Peninsula, and used this method of blowing up.
Using their family's power, they brought in a freighter laden with high explosives from New York, and the plan was that in a few hours, the arriving freighter would crash headlong into the Summer City Peninsula and destroy the entire peninsula.
During this time, they also informed the family members and stakeholders who worked and lived on the peninsula as much as possible to leave the peninsula area before the ceremony was over, before the peninsula was blown up, and of course, if possible, the civilians on the peninsula as well.
It was obviously especially difficult to get all civilians out, so one of the family members, a doctor who worked at a hospital on the peninsula, chose to stop the explosion without knowing the magnitude of the incident.
With the help of several colleagues, he connected to the ship's communication system and informed the innocent crew members of the ship's true purpose of intending to blow itself up.
Although it was too late, and the fuse of the explosives had already been ignited, the crew members who had been called upon by him managed to stop the freighter's advance.