Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 346 The Dust Settles
"Major Chi is right." Mann actually laughed and clapped his hands. "You have no right to judge me. If you shoot me to death here, you will be charged with murder. The punishment waiting for you is a minimum of fifteen years in prison and a maximum of death penalty."
He walked around the sofa, looked down at Valentina who was pinned to the ground, and snorted with disdain.
At this moment, Chi Hanfeng suddenly raised his gun and pointed it at Mann.
"That's right, we are not qualified to judge you, but I don't need the qualifications."
"Bang!"
The gunshot rang out again, and this time, it didn't miss.
There was a bloody hole on Mann's chest. He lowered his head in disbelief, watching the blood gradually spread around the muzzle of the gun.
"You...you can't kill me...I...I am..."
Everyone was stunned, including Valentina.
"After all, those 141 brothers are my subordinates. I am the one who should avenge them... As for you, Valentina, you have to live well for us... Mann is dead, don't do anything stupid again."
"Bang!" Another shot, another bloody hole appeared on Mann's body. He leaned against the sofa and his body slowly slid down.
"Bang, bang, bang!" As if venting his anger, Chi Hanfeng pulled the trigger continuously until all the bullets in the magazine were used up. At this time, the soldiers in the private room finally reacted as if they had just woken up from a dream, and they all raised their guns and aimed at Chi Hanfeng.
"Don't shoot!" The officer in charge shouted, "No one is allowed to shoot without my order!"
The soldiers looked at each other, then lowered their guns slightly and pointed them at the ground.
At the officer's signal, two soldiers took out handcuffs from their pockets and walked towards Chi Hanfeng.
Although Mann's crime is unforgivable, Chi Hanfeng's behavior has seriously violated the laws of the Ark, and he may spend the rest of his life in prison.
But at the moment he was handcuffed, the black-clad follower who was squatting in the corner suddenly jumped up, took out a pistol that had been hidden under the sofa, and pointed it at Chi Hanfeng!
In a flash, before he could pull the trigger, Asano Akira had already thrown the long knife, nailing the follower's arm to the soft wall of the private room.
"Fuck! Who was responsible for keeping an eye on this guy just now? Go back and lock him up for a week!" The officer in charge cursed subconsciously, stepped forward quickly, and kicked the pistol that fell on the ground away.
"Cuff this guy, too."
"Wait a minute." It was Asano Akira who spoke. He walked forward and said, "I have something I want to ask him."
The officer was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Ke Lan - he was a close confidant of Maginot's men, so naturally he could be considered a member of Ke Lan's side.
Ke Lan nodded.
"Marshall, where is he now?" asked Akira Asano.
The follower snorted twice and did not answer.
Asano Akira stretched out his hand and grasped the hilt of the knife.
No one saw what changes happened to the long sword, and even the blade did not tremble. But the moment Asano Akira grasped it, the follower's face was completely distorted - his facial features were squeezed together, his legs twitched wildly, and intermittent screams continued to come out of his throat, as if he was enduring some great pain.
But the long sword in Asano Akira's hand did not move at all.
“I…ah…hiss…ah…ah…I say…I say!”
Asano Akira pulled out his knife, and the man immediately fell to the ground, curled up into a ball.
"Marshall, where is he now?" Asano Akira asked again.
"...South...South District 16..."
Hearing the place name, Ke Lan and the Hound looked at each other. The latter frowned and mouthed to Ke Lan.
"The troublesome place." Ke Lan understood the other party's lip language.
Indeed... District 16 South is a very troublesome... and special place.
"Hey, hey..." At this time, Leighton, who looked puzzled, squeezed over and asked in a low voice, "Aren't there only fifteen districts in the South District? Where did this...Southern District 16 come from?"
"Southern District 16 is not on the Ark." Ke Lan said, pointing to the top of his head, "It's in the sky."
"In the sky?"
"Yes. The so-called South 16th District is actually a large low-Earth orbit space station." Ke Lan said, "This space station was built in the year 902 of the New Era, which was the second year after the Ark landed on Alpha. The original purpose was to be used for scientific research... But later, for various reasons, the Ark terminated those research projects and abandoned the space station."
"Then how did this space station become... the South Sixteenth District?"
"That was about twenty years later... At that time, the mining industry of various consortiums gradually flourished. They hired exploration teams to search for mineral veins all over Alpha and build mining bases... As a result, a large number of retired miners who suffered from radiation sickness could not be dealt with. These people were a mobile source of radiation, so it was impossible to place them on the Ark. Abandoning them in the wilderness would not comply with the laws of the Ark and would easily attract public criticism."
Ke Lan took a breath and continued, "So, more than a dozen leading companies in the mining industry jointly discussed and decided to buy the abandoned space station, renovate it, and use it to house the miners suffering from radiation sickness. Compared with building a special shelter in the wilderness, using the existing space station can save a lot of costs - the scale of this space station was designed to accommodate thousands of staff members, and all kinds of daily living facilities are also available. After the expansion, it can easily accommodate 20,000 to 30,000 radiation sickness patients.
Until now, the companies involved in this accommodation plan have been sending patients and daily necessities to the space station on a regular basis.”
"Although it is a space station, the actual space inside is almost the size of a block on the Ark," added Hound.
"Southern District 16 is actually just a common name." Ke Lan paused, "This space station has another name...'Sick Village'."
"I'm going to the sick ward." Asano Akira wiped the blood off the blade on the sofa, sheathed the sword , and walked in front of Ke Lan.
"To Marshall?"
"Well, he took good care of me when we were at the experimental base..." Asano Akira said, "He had the strongest talent among us, but he was also the first to suffer backlash... At first, the nerves in his legs were completely necrotic and he couldn't walk... Then he became paralyzed all over... I heard from the researchers that his brain also suffered backlash... He was sent away before the experiment was stopped, and I always thought he was dead."
