Tsunami?
He saw no such signs at all.
"Ah, it's just to prevent the murderer from going completely crazy." Hitzfeld pursed his lips and smiled, "But if I must say, if he really has that kind of personality, we won't even have a chance to evacuate the townspeople."
"Sorry Hitzfeld...I don't understand." Dailin and Bill both looked confused.
"It's very simple." The girl raised her hand and pointed to the ground below. "Ms. Feti said a long time ago that there is a volcanic site under the beach. Have you ever considered that this site may be revived?"
"Impossible!" Bill was shocked.
Of course, he also knew the geography and history of the beach, and he was familiar with the volcano theory, but even so -
Even so, how big is the entire beach area?
The small town, which can accommodate 60,000 people, occupies less than two-thirds of the land area of the beach, not to mention that a small half is hidden under the sea. This is the range of the entire Pushen Crater!
If it came back to life, wouldn't that mean that the Poussin Crater would become an active volcano? And everything inside the crater - including the town - would be a crater? Could it collapse?
There is no crazier hypothesis than this...but Bill also admitted that if this could be true, then all the mobilizations on the beach so far would not be exaggerated.
If a volcano of this size erupts, the consequences will be devastating if it is not diverted. No one on the entire Bartlett Beach will be spared, and even now he feels his legs shaking a little when he steps on the ground.
Probably not...
It won't be so easy to come back to life...
"Actually, it's inevitable." Hitzfeld shook his head and sighed.
"This volcano - let's call it that - is so large and magnificent that it ranks at the top of all volcanoes. It must have been located on a fissure that crossed the seabed. It must have been squeezed up by the movement of the earth's crust and collided with the land to form a beach."
"Isn't this a good thing..." Dai Lin murmured, "It has moved away from the crack zone, away from the most active area of the magma veins, so it will not come back to life and will not erupt..."
"But it's too big and has penetrated too deep into the earth veins," Xia Yibing said. "We've checked the map and based on mathematical calculations, there's a good chance that this kind of crustal movement will create cracks that will spread from the abyss all the way here and connect with it."
That is to say, there is a high probability that there is always magma flowing under the beach...
Bill's face turned pale when he heard this.
His legs were no longer just shaking a little, he even had a slight hallucination and felt that the ground beneath his feet was shaking every moment.
"I... I don't understand, Hitzfeld," he stammered, glancing around the empty chapel.
"Since it is a natural disaster... this level is indeed higher than a homicide..."
"It's not higher than the murder case." The girl corrected him, "They are one and the same. They can both be connected to the murderer."
"Yes! That's what I wanted to say!" Bill glared, held his cane between his legs and stretched out his hand, gesturing in front of him like a funny circus performer: "...Why does he have this ability?"
What he didn't understand even more was why they only knew about it now?
Such a dangerous thing...consequences!
She was asking them to relocate the townspeople... wasn't she?
As a result, there was no one in the town now, but she wanted them to stay here and wait for the final exploration together?
Bill couldn't see what was so great about this, what the hell - that was a volcanic eruption!
Why don't we run away together? Are you afraid of losing your life if you stay here?
He looked at the girl in confusion, not noticing that her hand had quietly emerged from her sleeve and was holding the hand of the woman with the ponytail.
"teacher?"
Dai Lin's low cry came from the side.
When he turned around again, he was even more shocked to see a person who should not have appeared at this time.
Descartes-Lavos!
He was wearing a scaled-down old version of silver armor, with a solemn face and holding a Kellward Crusher warhammer. He was sitting at the end of the corridor with a sword in his hand, and the church courtyard was on both sides of him.
what's the situation……
Bill's forehead was covered with cold sweat.
His professional qualities were absolutely qualified. After he came to his senses, he keenly discovered that Descas-Lavos was in front, and Hitzfeld, Xia Yibing, and Lu Hill were behind, blocking him and Dai Lin in the middle.
This is not the way to treat your fellow man.
He immediately thought: Hitzfeld had not concealed the news of the volcanic eruption from others - this could be seen from the fact that Dr. Sixus and Ms. Feti had been transferred away.
But he kept it a secret only from his own people.
Oh no, judging from Dreyerman's reaction, she knew about it too.
Coupled with this scene, it looked like she was afraid that someone in the team would know her plan, and she didn't want to alert the hidden person...
Bill knows himself well. He can say that he has a clear conscience and that he has absolutely nothing to do with the murderer.
Then there is only...
He turned his head mechanically and looked at Dai Lin with surprise, astonishment and disbelief - the golden knight who carried the titles of "genius" and "holy grace".
Will the Golden Rank betray me...
This...is impossible...
"In theory, those who can pass the Gold Trial are noble people, and at least they will not be enemies of humans."
The girl's voice came from behind.
"But everything has its limits. The extreme of nobility can be extreme. Maybe he himself doesn't realize it."
"Am I right?"
"It was sent here by the tsunami eighteen years ago."
"...Mr. Atlans."
Chapter 56: Tsunami Children 2-in-1
The clear voice echoed in the courtyard.
In the fall of 1985, facing the students who were identified as suspects, Descas-Lavos could not help but think of the girl he rescued from the sea.
At that time, he still maintained the habit of going to the beach every year, because he could never let go of this place and his sins, and every year he needed to stay here for a while before he could get back to work and life.
So naturally, he caught up with the tail end of the tsunami. When he arrived in Bartlett, the biggest wave of tide had receded, and he saw ruins everywhere... Houses made of wood and stone were all submerged in water, some of which had begun to rot. The water surface rose and fell with the tides, carrying up one pale corpse after another.
It is a tragic scene that is hard to describe in words. Some of the corpses have been soaked and rotted, and the most horrifying thing is that they will explode from the inside due to intestinal methane. They will become a breeding ground for small animals during the tides. Some shellfish will attach to them, and hermit crabs will hollow out their bodies to build nests in them. Their bone marrow will not be wasted, as tiny bone-eating worms will drill in through any holes and eat them from the inside out.
So when Desca had just rescued a family from the roof and sent them to the boat, standing there, he looked out and saw many bones in the water.
He could hardly restrain himself from revealing his identity so that he could use it to attract more people from the cult to organize a rescue.
He would have almost done so if the rescue team from a nearby city had not arrived in time, with enough people and supplies, and it seemed that there would be no major problems.
I disguised my identity and helped for a long time, and I pulled quite a few people out of the water.
Why did I fall in love with her at first sight?
A little dazed, a picture appeared in my vision.
It was on the boat, a thin child was leaning against the edge of the boat and vomiting violently, and a gray-haired man was beside her helping her to vomit.
The reason I say "she" is because the child was almost soaked, so even though she had short hair and freckles on her face, you can still tell from some of her proportions that she is a girl.
"How weird." The man murmured as he patted her, "You are definitely the weirdest person I have ever met. You didn't feel anything when you were drifting in the water for so many days. It should be just as bumpy on the boat...but you get seasick?"
"No one says that people who can swim can't get seasick." The girl gasped and wiped her mouth with her hand. "Besides, I couldn't swim before...it's just..."
At this point, she suddenly got stuck, as if she had said something she shouldn't have said, and quickly turned her head away.
“Just what?” The man was intrigued. Seeing that the girl didn’t want to pay attention to him, he simply guessed: “You couldn’t swim before but you can now… Oh… I’m sorry, I’m so sorry…”
He realized that there was only one possibility for this statement to be true, that is, the other party learned to swim by relying on his survival instinct in a desperate situation.
Of course, it would have been difficult to survive just by swimming in the high tides of the past few days. Those who survived were all lucky ones, but this probably did not include the girl’s family.
If I insist on bringing this up, I'm afraid it will bring up her sad memories.
“No need to apologize.” The girl shook her head. “The fact is, I don’t have any parents.”
"You're lying," the man said. "Everyone has parents... but that's another sad story."
“I’m not sad.” The girl still shook her head, “Because I was a fool before and didn’t even know the concept of parents.”
The man was really surprised when she said that.
Later, he asked some sailors and surviving residents of the town and confirmed that there were indeed some children in the town who were born with intellectual disabilities.
Not only are they slower than others in reaction, but their comprehension is also very poor. Some of them who have no parents can only live together, relying on the relief water from the townspeople every day, or finding ways to catch fish to survive.
"How strange... Is this common?" The man handed a cigarette to the person opposite him and took out a match.
"Pretty standard, huh?" The sailor took the cigarette, lit it, took a puff with great intoxication, and then said, "In fact, if you've been to those big cities, you'll find that there are quite a lot of kids like this."
"What about their parents and families?"
"Some died of evil spirits, and some simply died of illness." The sailor laughed, "You can say they died of poverty, because they couldn't afford medicine. A fever could cost a life."
“……” The man opened his mouth. It was the first time he heard of such a group.
Maybe Wayne is indeed too prosperous, so prosperous that... this kind of phenomenon is not allowed to exist on the streets. Those children may have been sent to orphanages.
But he still didn't understand: "But why do they have problems with their intelligence and brains?"
"Your question is a direct exposure, sir." The sailor looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to this, so he lowered his voice and said, "Because the poor...are always poor."
"Poor people don't have as many measures to protect the fetus... Similarly, it is difficult for poor mothers to get enough nutrition during pregnancy. When you can't take these measures, the probability of problems with the baby will increase greatly."
"..." The man opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.
"Don't ask such revealing questions next time... Not everyone has studied like me. Some people here just hate you."
Having said this, the sailor wanted to leave.
"Wait!" the man called out to him.
"I want to ask something." He pointed at the thin girl leaning against the distant mast, "Do you know that girl?"
"I don't know him..." The sailor shook his head after carefully identifying him. "They are usually dirty and have dark skin, but this one has quite white skin... If I had seen him before, I would have remembered him."
"She said she was a fool before, but I just talked to her and she's very normal! She's even smarter and more mature than her peers!"
"Ah, this happens... Some kids become smarter all of a sudden. You don't know why, but the result is good."
"So maybe she got hit on the head by something." The sailor nodded: "She's lucky. If she really recovers, there are many people here who are willing to adopt her."
The disaster took too many lives. Some children lost their parents, and some parents lost their children.
"What if I want to adopt her?" the man asked.
"That's definitely better." The sailor nodded.
"For someone like you... if I had the chance to follow you to a big city, it would be much better than staying in this shabby place~"
But I didn't adopt her in the end.
Deka's eyelids twitched slightly.
Because I can vaguely see his shadow in her.
"I'll ask you again, are you sure your name is Dai Lin?"
"determine."
"It's really strange. You were a fool before, but you can actually remember your name?"
"Some animals in nature have a memory that only lasts a few minutes, but they still remember how to hunt every time."
"Is this instinctive? Just like when you learned how to swim?"
The forward trend was forcibly halted.
In his sight, the petite girl turned around and stared at him with overly calm deep blue eyes.
"I don't mean to laugh at you." Deka frowned, "but your reaction is really too intense. It makes me feel like... like..."
It seems a bit exaggerated, like someone who has lived on the sea for a long time suddenly comes ashore and cannot adapt to going from going with the flow to being down to earth.
The girl ignored him and turned away.
"Don't worry... Dai Lin!"
