Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Power of the Giants
"What do you say! Build a factory with the power of giants! β
"That's right, instead of putting Eren under house arrest for fear of putting him under house arrest, let's turn him into a giant to help us, he's the same as the King of the Wall and the Giant of Mega and Armored Giants, he's a self-aware and intelligent giant, and he won't eat people."
"Even if I could... But what about the workers? β
"It's good to find a reason, for example, Eren is an experiment by the government, and he can become a giant test subject."
"Is this really going to work?"
"As long as the pay is raised, it will work, and after a few days they will understand that Eren is not going to eat people."
"But... We have no idea where this guy's giant power came from, so it's really good to trust him so easily? β
"Captain Hanji, if Alan wants to make trouble, he can destroy the blast furnace just now, I've known him for a while, it's obvious that he doesn't know why he can become a giant, instead of bothering to find a reason, it's better to use everything that can be used, every minute and every second is important now, we have no time to waste, the gendarmerie doesn't know when they will find a factory, if we haven't made enough guns by then, it's all over."
The candle flame flickered, illuminating the dark room, and Hanji turned his head to look at the unconscious Alan on the bed, and hesitated for a moment.
That giant is a fifteen-meter level giant, even for the battle-hardened survey corps, it is a tricky guy, when investigating outside the wall, if he encounters a giant of this level, Erwin will order to walk around.
Turning giants into labor is something that has never been thought of in the past.
After all, although the giant's power is great, there is no way to communicate at all.
It turns out that people can really become giants...
At a height of fifteen meters, the parts of the blast furnace are like toys to him, and he can lift the iron ore that takes more than a dozen people to carry like a stone.
Just thinking about it, you can know that if Alan is transformed into a giant and joins the construction of the factory, the efficiency will be increased exponentially.
The giant's secret is so close to Hanji, Hanji really wants to study Eren thoroughly, but he can't... Erwin is already in prison, and the situation is not optimistic.
I can't protect myself, and I don't have time to solve the puzzle anymore.
"Okay!" Hanji took off his glasses and wiped them, "But we still have to wait until he wakes up and ask for his permission." β
"I'll talk to him." Ian nodded.
During the night, Mikasa and Armin knock on the door outside.
After Eren turned into a giant, it took a while for him to come back, and Eren in human form was in a coma and was taken away by Hanji.
They were afraid that Alan would be treated differently, so they came to inquire about the situation.
Ian asks Armin why they are there at the wooden ladder during the day.
Armin said that it was Alan who brought it up, and that the two of them had gone together to see the iron-making furnace at work, and that they had only intended to take a peek from afar by the wooden ladder, but they had stepped on it and it had become like that.
Armin and Mikasa ask worriedly, what will happen to Alan? Will he be put to death? Why did Eren become a giant?
"It's okay, it's a good thing." Ian replied, "The giant he turned into will help us build the factory, and that must be what he wants." β
"What does he want?" For a moment, Armin didn't understand what Ian was talking about.
"You'll understand later." Ian said, "This factory is not a simple ironworks, let's go into the house together, and when Alan wakes up, I will tell you the truth." β
And just like that, Mikasa and Armin entered Alan's room.
Everyone was here, and the atmosphere was a little silent for a while.
In the middle of the night, Allen's fingers moved and his eyes opened.
Alan woke up and looked around in a daze: "What's the matter, why is everyone here?" β
"Have you forgotten? Allan. Ian said, "You've become a giant by day." β
Giant... For a moment, Alan remembered, that weird perspective, a view from above...
He remembered the image of his mother being swallowed by a giant, and suddenly vomited in disgust and retched.
"Alan!" Mikasa hurriedly stepped forward and helped Alan.
"Have I really become a giant? Mikasa? Alan couldn't believe it.
"It's okay, Eren is not the same as those man-eating giants." Mikasa reassured.
Some of the snippets flashed back in Alan's mind of the father's face, who held a needle and handed him the key to the basement, saying that the answer was there.
He felt some pain in his head and pressed his forehead.
"Let me explain."
Ian stood up from his chair.
"The giant that Allen has turned into is a giant of wisdom."
He repeated what he had said to the Survey Corps to Allen, Mikasa, and Armin.
Ian told the three of them about his origins, and at the same time told the King of the Wall and the coup d'Γ©tat, showing the completed model gun.
"All in all, that's the way it is." Ian held out his hand to Alan, "Armored giants and super-sized giants have destroyed walls, led to the destruction of your hometown, and led to the death of your family, and they, like you, are special humans who can turn into giants. β
"They're still dormant somewhere, ready to attack again one day, but we don't have the energy to take care of them right now, because the regime in charge of managing the walls is rotten, and there must be a revolution within the walls so that we can work together to deal with the enemy."
"For this goal, we need your giant power to help us build a factory, are you willing to help us?"
Alan was still digesting everything Ian had just said, and he chewed on the contents carefully.
The walls are made of hardened giants, people can turn into giants, new muskets...
It was too complicated for him to understand, and the fastest thing he understood was the two enemies, the two giants who smashed through the wall, the giants who killed his family!
All the giants must be banished!
"I see! I'll help! β
He shook Ian's hand, a fire burning in his eyes.
He is finally not the weak man who is powerless in the face of giants, now he can become a fifteen-meter giant, he has strength, he must use this power to do something!
Ian gave him this goal, so he accepted it without hesitation.
"That's... It's up to you to appease the workers, Captain Hanji. Ian nodded, "Ellen, do you remember how you became a giant?" β
Alan looked at his hands... nodded: "I can probably remember that feeling, it's blood, if it's bleeding, probably... You can succeed. β
I don't know why, although it's the first time I've transformed, but the feeling is very familiar, as if it has become a habit...