Kaidan Game Train: A Chapter 1710: 1710: Open-Book Exam

Chapter 1710: Chapter 1710: Open-Book Exam

When discussing this topic, one must talk about the policies regarding mineral extraction in Zone 019.

Zone 019 has relied on exporting gemstones to develop its economy for a long ti, but in the early days of mining, it did not have the technology level it does now, so many problems were deliberately or inadvertently overlooked, such as whether mining would cause geological issues and the corresponding redial asures.

So large mines require long-term developnt, and mining equipnt and plans can be gradually replaced, so safety is naturally not a worry. However, in so smaller places, it’s a one-off deal where everything that can be profitable is extracted, and issues like mine collapse or other problems are not considered. Since these places are far from densely populated cities, if sothing does go wrong, as long as it doesn’t have a major impact, resources will not be spent on repairs later.

Of course, these are minor issues. Zone 019’s gemstone mining has had a dark and bloody history a long ti ago when mining relied on manpower, and the technology wasn’t sufficient, so many mines had accidents. According to official statistics, over 80% of mining sites had fatalities. The area with the highest number of deaths was Mount Tienchain, which now belongs to the governnt and continues to supply gemstones. The largest accident killed 127 people, but that was not the only incident.

The Zone 019 Governnt did not cover up these accidents but handled the aftermath with utmost sincerity, such as sufficient compensation and apologies. Those responsible at the ti, from the top down, either resigned or were dismissed. The governnt also recognized those who died in these incidents as “martyrs” because they contributed their lives to the economic developnt of Zone 019.

With the gradual developnt of technology, every mine now has a very perfect mining plan before extraction, and with the use of chanical beings, dangerous work no longer needs to be done by humans personally, so there have been virtually no casualties later.

But for legacy issues like those near Tingting Flower Town, the governnt has a non-committal attitude, as they haven’t affected Zone 019’s developnt anyway.

Xu Huo bid farewell to the old lady’s house and went to the small plaza in the town where recreation and entertainnt were situated. The tour group had finished their half-day tour and was now eating, while the players who were alone or with two or three companions gathered inside a bar.

He joined in the fun too.

There were currently seventeen players inside the bar, including the three players Xu Huo t outside Soran’s Forr Residence. Most people sat apart from each other, with only three tables having more than two people.

“Everyone staying in the town is here now,” the long-haired male player stood up and said, “Everyone is here for the ‘Ember Girl’, so I’ll skip the pleasantries, how about we all work together to clear the instance?”

“So many people clearing the instance together?” soone imdiately questioned, “I’m not doubting your sincerity, but with so many people, wouldn’t it be hard to divide the rewards?”

The long-haired man didn’t care at all and said, “The rewards for clearing the instance are another matter, isn’t our most urgent goal to clear it? Although forty days isn’t short, you wouldn’t think it’s long if you knew how many places Master Soran visited in her life. The painting could be hidden in any place she visited, and even if we don’t need to search every place carefully, at least so places where she lived longer and had special aning need a visit, and it’s impossible for just a few people to handle such a large workload.”

The one who questioned was a man who looked to be around thirty and seed to habitually stroke the scar on the back of his hand while talking, “So ca earlier, so later, did those who ca early really not find any clue?”

Everyone was a bit silent, not because they wanted to monopolize information, but they indeed didn’t have much valuable gain. Master Soran’s life has almost been thoroughly researched. Not to ntion her fanatics, even Zone 019’s existing Advanced Collection of Information Terminals can use big data to calculate her personality, behavioral choices, and even genetic profile. Over the past decade, fans and players searching for the “Ember Girl” have verified all this information one by one, so thoroughly that they’ve even found out which stray cat stole Soran’s illegitimate child’s misplaced small items.

So this instance is like an open-book exam, and whether one can clear it depends on analyzing these clues to find what’s truly useful, not soone accidentally knowing a little insider info unavailable to others.

“Today we wandered around the town, and what the townsfolk say is more or less the sa,” a curly-haired female player said, “Aside from knowing that Master Soran is indeed a genius as critics say, there’s nothing different from ordinary people.”

Honestly, in so divisions where Evolution Potion has been used for quite so ti, the ergence of a genius isn’t surprising, and Soran is not even considered outstanding among such geniuses. Hence, for most people, she is just an ordinary person whose life’s biggest ups and downs were her father passing away and her mother remarrying when she was young and gaining fa at thirty. After becoming famous, her life was as stable as a straight line, marrying a senior fellow of a different field introduced by her teacher, having three children via an artificial womb, a loving marriage, and decent children, followed by the marriage of her children and the birth of grandchildren, then grandchildren’s marriage and the birth of great-grandchildren. If she lived longer, possibly even great-great-grandchildren were born.

Of course, this isn’t unusual in Zone 019; the point is her life post-fa was so blandly stable over a century that one hardly knows where to start.

Those vague analyses on the Collection of Information Terminals seem logical, but people have already verified them, and they are virtually useless.

“If you really want to trace all the places Soran lived over that century, even with more people, it’s not enough. After all, she was a painter,” another hat-wearing male player remarked, “She visited no less than a hundred places, and thirty of those places she lived for over a year. I don’t think the ‘Ember Girl’ could be hidden in these places, sa goes for the clues.”

So agreed with his view, and a middle-aged man in white clothing with mourning bands spoke up, “We should highlight the key points first.”

“Tingting Flower Town is where Soran grew up, and it’s the starting point of the instance, making it the most important.”

“Additionally, I think there are several significant places: one is where her mother resettled after remarrying, her mother’s cetery, places where she got married and gave birth to her children, the places before and after each of her the changes in her paintings, the place where she recuperated, and finally, her own grave.”