Why it never ends

Chapter 272 Silhouettes
"Chelation disease... is it the kind of disease that turns a person's hands into pincers after suffering from it?"

"Ah."

Alvira raised her brows slightly in surprise, "...It's not a rumor, it's true?"

"Ah."

"...It's so pitiful." She sighed softly, "Where is the Hekla Wasteland?"

"To the west of the third district, it's far away from here." Calvin said softly, "But it's very close to the fourth district, just across the father river."

"Father River?" Alvira felt a little strange, "Why is it called this name?"

"I'm not too sure, maybe it's because the children in the Hekla Wasteland are either orphans or have only mothers.

"When I was young, I used to swim over with some goods on my back, exchange some things with the people on the other side, and then take them back to the alley to sell.

"The river will freeze in winter, so it's more convenient to walk, but if there are too many people buying and selling, I won't be able to get a good price."

Alvira nodded, "I heard that people who suffer from chelation will become renounced. Is this true?"

Calvin nodded.

"...Even if it is your own child, will it hurt?"

"Maybe, I don't know," Calvin said softly, "When the Hekla tragedy happened, I hadn't even heard of chelation disease. When I found out what happened, the way out of the city was blocked. At that time, everyone said that there were mutated chelates outside the city, and they would die if they went out. It is better to wait for rescue in the city...

"We hid in a ditch behind a warehouse. At that time, several rounds of fighting broke out because of the looting of supplies. The corpses were piled up like a mountain. Everything that could be robbed had been searched, and no one came."

"That's lucky." Alvira said softly.

"It should be that the smell of corpses covered up the smell on our bodies. If we had changed to another place at that time, maybe we would not be able to live today." Calvin said softly, "My mother is a very smart woman, she has already stocked up Water and food, I even got a sheepskin blanket from somewhere... It was not a difficult time, but Xiao En suddenly fell ill and had a high fever, so my mother decided to go to the trader to see if he could Can't get medicine.

"Sean and I were waiting in the ditch ... A lot of things happened after that, but there was no danger.

"One day I woke up and felt that the world was very quiet, especially quiet. Chelates are always very noisy, and they always like to make some scary noises for fun when they fight with each other... But that day I suddenly discovered that, There is no sound at all.

"The mercury needle is here."

Alvira listened intently.

"They wanted to take us away...but Mom didn't come back," Calvin paused, "I know where traders usually hang out, so I took Sean and ran to that place.

"We started to search from the basement, and every room was spared. On the first and second floors, there were rotting corpses everywhere. I couldn't tell whether they were people or chelates. I identified them one by one and removed them one by one. , until I heard Sean crying in the attic suddenly.

"I walked up slowly...there was no light, and the corridors were dark. There was a bedroom in the attic, and there was a bathroom in the bedroom, and I heard Sean in it. When I opened the door, there were fragments of mirrors and some on the floor. Scattered soap pieces, a red plastic cup was crushed, and there was a toothbrush or something next to it, the floor was full of mud and blood, and there was a brown towel under the foot of the bathtub...

Calvin looked up.

"Then, I came out."

Alvira stood up, and she gently hugged Calvin who was sitting, and slowly patted his back like coaxing a child.

"It will get better, the suffering of the past is over, and you will have a bright future."

"……can you?"

"Yes," Alvira whispered, "You and Sean will both, and I will pray for you together."

……

When the sun was about to set, Su Lei drove to a barren pasture outside Tanyi City.

A dozen or so police officers had fenced off a clearing in the flattened grass among the grass, where a sleek car was parked—the car Roger had been driving the night he disappeared.

Su Lei briefly inquired about the situation at the scene. The police station had taken a large number of fingerprints from the steering wheel of the car. After comparison, it was completely consistent with Gray in the Viscount's manor.

In just a few days, the Tanyi Police Department mobilized surveillance images from various intersections in the city. They used artificial intelligence to partially restore Gray's driving trajectory that night from thousands of hours of surveillance footage—this incident It shouldn't have been so difficult, but because of the severe solar wind at the beginning of the month, most of the equipment in the monitoring area was damaged to varying degrees, which caused a lot of interruptions in Gray's itinerary, the most concerning one was from the night "Evaporation" between 01:30 am and [-]:[-] am.

Afterwards, he and his car appeared in the road's field of vision again. This time, his car drove calmly and drove directly to the suburbs.Now the car is alone in the wilderness, but the others have disappeared.

The only thing that was certain was that Gray was the only one in the car from beginning to end.

"Are there any suspicious traces in the car? Like blood?"

"No."

"Grey's servant said he came out with a lot of luggage, are the things still there?"

"Uh, no, there are only a few golf clubs in the trunk..."

"Is there nothing else?"

"Yes, but it's not luggage. You can take a look. This is the list."

Su Lei took the list, which listed dozens of personal items, ranging from cosmetics, perfumes to medicines...the list goes on and on.

"Is it all here?" Si Lei asked.

"It's all here."

Su Lei handed the list back.

"By the way, there is another piece of news that came from the police station half an hour ago—Mr. Gray's family called from the [-]th district, saying that they are sorry for the death of 'Nightingale'. It was a waste of police force to alert the police, and they have already contacted Mr Gray, so that we don't have to track Gray's whereabouts."

"Really, where is Gray now?"

"Well...they say it's inconvenient to disclose, this is the privacy of the citizens themselves," the policeman replied, "If we still have doubts about the Nightingale case, we can directly contact Gray's attorney in Tan Yi, and he will take full responsibility for the consultation with us. communication...have you read Nightingale's autopsy report?"

Si Lei laughed, "Look, it is indeed suicide."

The policeman observed Si Lei's expression: "It seems that we really don't have to...?"

"Check the car again, as well as the nearby residents, and ask every household to see if anyone noticed anything unusual that night." Su Lei raised his head, "On your list, at least there are still missing items. same thing."

(End of this chapter)