Chapter 1726: Chapter 1726: Records from a Century Ago
Although they didn’t have a al, Xu Huo and the other two took a group photo with the person in charge, and as they left, each received a pin embedded with small pieces of gemstone.
After leaving Haiyin Company, the three of them boarded a flying car and headed to the company they were “employed” at.
“Quick, see if there’s any important information!” Shen Fei impatiently opened the shared terminal. There were more than twenty folders, each with a number in front of it. After just a glance, he was a bit disappointed, “Files starting with E indicate they’re not important information, which is the recognized numbering thod in Zone 019.”
Xu Huo split the screen and placed it in front of him, opening each folder to check, “Previously, materials with a higher number might not retain their original numbering over ti. Perhaps so not-so-important materials have been downgraded to low-level directories.”
He found two video files numbered D and selected them to play.
The content was rather chaotic, coincidentally recording the situation before and after the mine collapse. It seed to be filming a promotional video at the ti, accidentally capturing the collapse scene, and the crew shooting the video was also affected, with the filming equipnt dropping to the ground.
In the skewed lens, the mine began to collapse from one side. A large number of stones rolled down along the slope, coming to a halt suddenly due to the abrupt subsidence of the mountain. In a short ti, a third of the mountain sank into the ground. Faintly, one could hear soone shouting, “The ground’s cracked,” but most of the people outside the mine were desperately running out, having no room to shout.
Though the mountain’s subsidence got stuck in the middle, the remaining half of the mountain seed hollowed out from the middle. The entire shell suddenly sank downwards, yet it didn’t visibly shatter, with only loud reverberations echoing without end.
The video continued to record until the collapse ended, after which a large number of rescue personnel arrived. The mine’s person in charge also led the remaining employees to join the rescue efforts. Soone was speaking next to the video:
“Surely they must be buried under the mountain…”
Looking at the tistamp on the video, Xu Huo found the rescue news from that ti based on the address.
“This accident surprisingly only claid over fifty lives.” Shen Fei imdiately sensed sothing was amiss, “Such a large mine, with hundreds working inside at the sa ti?”
“Concealing the number of casualties?” Zhu Zhongliang wasn’t surprised, “That’s not unusual.”
“Would the mining company really recover all the bodies?” Ke Youming doubted, “The ground’s split, surely so would’ve fallen into the deep crevices. We’re talking about a mountain here, not a tunnel on flat land. Over a hundred years ago, Zone 019’s technology wasn’t advanced enough for that.”
Shen Fei opened another video. Judging by the scale of the rescue, it seed they genuinely intended to clear out the mountain.
However, Xu Huo knew that was unlikely. Since there were video records, the news at the ti didn’t ntion whether the underground fissures were newly ford or pre-existing, indicating this issue was glossed over.
As for that mine, it’s astonishingly still being mined. Two years after being sealed, a small news report ntioned new shallow gemstone mines erging due to geological activity, and the Hales Company directly drilled a shaft nearby to excavate them.
It sounds absurd.
Even more absurd is that all the bodies of those who died in the accident were reportedly found.
Even though by that ti Zone 019’s evolution had been ongoing for quite so ti, a 100% recovery rate still seed unrealistic.
Of course, it’s most likely that Hales Group falsely reported the numbers. The figure of over fifty isn’t the actual count but rely the number of bodies eventually found, so only those were reported.
“Wasn’t there anyone who voiced objection afterward?” Ke Youming was puzzled, “Their relatives’ remains were gone, yet they allowed Hales Group to publicly issue false information.”
“Most likely, only those who had recovered remains appeared at morial ceremonies. These individuals probably knew sothing, but it’s been too long ago. So didn’t live to the present, and we’ve contacted several, but didn’t gather anything useful.” Shen Fei paused, looking at Xu Huo, “These data might not hold much significance.”
From the beginning, the three of them didn’t quite understand why Xu Huo went to great lengths to forge an identity for this trip; instead of finding these “false reports,” it would be more effective to directly seek out those involved.
Human mory can be flawed, especially over ti. Many things, even the person themselves, may not clearly rember. Even recent mories, when retold frequently, tend to have details unintentionally added or omitted.
Public news reports aren’t trustworthy, and the deceased’s families may not have a complete picture. Only firsthand materials can provide a glimpse of what occurred back then. Even if Hales Group has edited out important parts, the details can still reveal sothing.
For instance, after watching these videos, Xu Huo got a general sense that Hales Group, at least in rescue efforts, was genuinely sincere. Even so company executives sacrificed their lives, and after the governnt recognized the fallen as martyrs, the company compensated their families generously.
Possibly falsified casualty numbers, along with long-term pre-existing underground fissures, continuous mining by the mining company, low seismic frequency, unusually high accident rates, and too many deaths in accidents… integrating this information easily suggests that these mining companies might be doing the sa thing—deliberately causing casualties.
Of course, destroying a mountain to achieve this goal is a self-damaging move, ordinarily, one wouldn’t assu it’s intentional. But apart from this reason, it seems hard to explain everything.
Followers of certain religions might engage in extre behavior, but such actions are not widespread. aning perhaps a few mining groups might experience such incidents due to irrational decision-makers. Zone 019 is vast, so it’s unlikely. Moreover, there wasn’t such a prevalent religion back then.
“No,” Ke Youming said at this ti, “I don’t quite understand, were those naless casualties important?”
“Even if there was so degree of false reporting, we’ve visited a few mines and found no disturbances.”
“Could it have been the Cannibal Players at the ti causing trouble?” Zhu Zhongliang proposed a possibility, “Perhaps due to so reason, there were a large number of Cannibal Players back then, acquiring food this way and then destroying mines to cover cris. Zone 019 Governnt probably found such incidents appalling and, thinking it might tarnish the district’s image, erased all related information.”
“It’s not impossible,” Ke Youming looked around, “Does that an ‘the resting place of the deceased’ refers to those killed by Cannibal Players? That would be even harder to find, then.”
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