Chapter 135: The Black Sheep in the Power Plant
The guitarist babbled about the history of the Liyong Power Plant, and everyone in the background was speechless for a while.
It's not that the lengthy narrative is boring, but because the power plant, which the former nurturing consultant enthusiastically praised, no longer exists with a bang.
Seeing him erect a tall building, feast guests, and have unlimited scenery, but after all, it is only a moment of brilliance. Director Wilhelm's ambition to reform the energy industry was just beginning when it vanished in the midst of the disaster.
"I'm sorry, but this guy Lu has always liked to talk at length, and his views are more extreme. That's why the lyrics of our band have always been written by her. ”
Bald drummer Cook had an unexpectedly good temper and broke the dull atmosphere of the scene with a spit on his back.
"It's fine." Hugo waved his hand and continued to ask the guitarist, "Did you notice anything strange during your work at the Lichong Power Plant?" Am I referring to the signs of a malignant event? ”
"Strange things?" The guitarist shook his long brown hair, "It's been a year since I left my job, how can I know the signs before the explosion, it's more appropriate for you to ask Talter about this?" ”
"No, I don't mean the explosion, has there ever been a dispute or something within the factory?"
In the surprised eyes of everyone, the detective continued to explain: "Lichong Power Plant is an outlier in the industry, and it will inevitably face the open guns and hidden arrows of its peers, as well as internal contradictions. ”
It seems that because the memory is relatively distant, the guitarist lady pondered for a while, and finally spoke-
"Maybe because of the different fields of work, I didn't feel much competition from outside the factory at that time. However, there are some different voices among the employees of the power plant. ”
"There really is." Martin, the student-looking keyboardist, was taken aback and looked at the calm detective in front of him with some admiration.
"Please elaborate." Hugo once again opened his notebook to record the information of the case, as if he smelled the smell of key clues and became interested.
"The employees at the Lichong power plant are generally very united. But when it comes to being different, I do remember such a person. Lu pondered the words and said slowly and cautiously.
"It was an electrical engineer, and the lady was vehemently opposed to William's biopower module for building the factory, claiming that luring Pokémon to generate electricity for humans was tantamount to abusing the elves. At the time, we thought the Engineer might have been a troublemaker from another factory, but now it seems that she should be on the same page as the plasma cluster that has been making a lot of noise lately. ”
"Do you remember the lady's name?" Hugo asked, holding a pencil.
"I'm sorry, I don't remember anymore." Lu replied earnestly, with a look of shame, "In the last years of working in the factory, I have completely shifted the focus of my life to the band. Although I heard a little about the inside of the factory, I didn't inquire further. ”
"It's okay, the information you provided is already valuable." The detective thoughtfully said that he didn't care, and then turned the subject back to the electrical engineer's philosophy-
"Advocate for the rights of Pokémon and believe that Pokémon should live freely without human control. That lady must have had that idea at the time, right? ”
"Yes, that's what she said at the time." The guitarist lady nodded hurriedly and added a few more words-
"But unlike the atrocities of the plasma group, which forced others to release the elves, that person only objected to forcing the elves to work, saying that it was harmful and moral. But this is actually unreasonable, we humans still have to work to make a living, why can't the elves be sucked into the factory system? Outside of power plants, there are many Pokémon that work with humans. ”
"Well, Madam Engineer did seem a little different at the time, and it was natural to be seen as an outlier."
Hugo made two more notes in his notebook, but then immediately asked—
However, these ideas do not seem to be extremely dangerous ideas. Just if you have this kind of thinking, it will not cause contradictions in the factory. Did the electrical engineer take any drastic action to match? ”
The guitarist nodded: "That's exactly what I'm going to say right away." The engineer was originally in charge of the biopower block, but after manifesting this anomalous concept, he was immediately transferred to another department by the plant director. But even so, she persistently opposed the expansion policies of the factory director, expressed inappropriate views on various occasions, and sometimes even dared to break into the meetings of the leadership to demand freedom for the elves...... She kept messing around like this until that happened. ”
"Incident?" Drummer Cook was a little puzzled, "What kind of event?" ”
At this time, guitarist Lu suddenly laughed bitterly and scratched his long brown hair embarrassedly-
"Gee, I didn't think about it for the first time. Sure enough, time is a ruthless beast that feeds on memory......"
After sighing, the musician's eyes became sad and heavy, and he said solemnly to Hugo-
"Detective Hugo, I remembered. There was a terrible accident at the Lichong Power Plant. In my opinion, it was almost a homicide. ”
"Killings?"
As Lu said this, the air in the backstage room instantly froze, and both Cook and Martin held their breath at the same time.
After all, the style of the poison gas band is punk rock rather than death heavy metal, and the sudden appearance of such a bloody word in daily life is even a little scary.
Of the four of them, only Detective Hugo continued to take notes, and strings of vague small words were stacked on the grid in the form of phrases, as if waiting for someone to crack the code.
"Please keep talking."
Seeing that the white-coat detective was not moved in the slightest, Feng Yun nodded lightly, and motioned for the guitarist to continue speaking.
"Okay." Seeing that Mr. Detective kept calm at a very high level of professionalism, the guitarist nodded and continued to dig up the memories in the depths of his memory-
"The electrical engineer was always working against William, and because of her inexplicable claims, she was unanimously hostile to the entire factory staff, and the employees often quarreled with the engineer in the absence of the factory director."
"Are there employees who support the engineer's point of view?" The detective asked curiously.
"Not a single one." Lu shook his head without hesitation, "Director William's prestige in the factory is very high, and he also treats his subordinates equally. As a result, the employees all regarded the woman as a tricky troublemaker in the factory, and even the department where she worked at the time usually deliberately targeted the engineer who disagreed with the factory director. ”
"Didn't you even remember the name of the engineer? Why would she know about her department? Although Martin looked weak, he was keenly aware of the contradiction in his companion's words, and asked casually without thinking.
"Because that's the trigger for events." Miss Guitarist sighed, and then said the heavy truth—
As the antagonism and contradictions intensified, the unexpected finally came. In a heated argument, the electrical engineer accidentally pushed an ordinary employee who spoke for the factory manager, causing the employee to fall from a high platform and causing a huge production accident. Accidents in factories are always tragic, and in this case, the ordinary employee died. ”
Lu shook his head, snorted, and continued to say his feelings-
"What kind of accident, wasn't the employee killed by that woman when he fell?"