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Chapter 66 The Strange Disease

Uncle Hai: "If it wasn't for my abnormal brain, why would I come here! Everyone is crazy, lunatic, and that old woman is especially crazy. I hope to die in the village, Brother Qi, I really hope I am one of these people Baba's dead, don't know anything..."

Brother Qi stood up slowly, and just as he lifted his buttocks, he leaned against the cave wall in pain.Looking down, the right knee was swollen, and the right leg could not be straightened. It was not known whether it was a fracture or a dislocation.

His face was pale, and he thought to himself, what should I do if my leg is injured, how can I climb a ladder of more than 100 meters?

He jumped up and down to Uncle Hai, and comforted him, "Don't worry, we'll get out safely."

"I can't get out. There are all lunatics here, Xu Mengsi, mother, idiot, and me! We deserve to be buried in this stinking hole, eating carrion like bedbugs, not seeing the light of day, and dying like bedbugs, rotting in the In the hole!" Uncle Hai was extremely angry, he spoke incoherently, tears flowed from his dirty face, and finally his voice had turned into sobbing.

His aura was vented in two or three strokes, his whole body was as soft as noodles, and it was difficult to stand up.Enduring the pain, Brother Qi leaned forward, hugged Uncle Hai's shrunken body, and patted his back to comfort him: "It's okay, you won't die."

"I'm going to die...but I don't want to die here...Brother Qi, help me..."

Brother Qi doesn't know what to say, he can't comfort people, he can only let silence to calm Uncle Hai's emotions.

A voice from the entrance of the hole said coldly: "Zhang Penghai, you are the big boss now, you say what you say, why are you still the same as before, crying when you have something to do?"

Uncle Hai's voice trembled: "Xu Mengsi... let go... let me go."

Xu Mengsi looked down at him, and said disdainfully: "This matter has nothing to do with Brother Qi, so don't pester him. Brother Qi will leave now, you stay here."

"No! You are kidnapping and murdering, I... I..." Uncle Hai couldn't continue, he had no bargaining chips, and he was slaughtered.Frightened, he hugged Brother Qi tightly, stretched his arm and said, "If you don't let me go, Brother Qi won't leave!"

"Brother Qi, leave him alone, come up. Are you injured?"

Brother Qi was so hugged by Uncle Hai that he couldn't stand still, and the wounds on his body were burning hot, making him extremely uncomfortable.He pushed Uncle Hai away, leaned against the rock wall and said, "You fucking calm down!"

"How do you want me to calm down? Brother Qi, you won't abandon me, please, don't go..."

Brother Qi didn't speak, but thought in his mind.Of course he had to leave, if he didn't leave, the two of them would die together, and if he went out, he could still find help.But Uncle Hai's mental state can make him leave?

The afterglow of the evening is reflected on the lake, like molten gold, bright and uncertain.The excavators and water pumps were running at full capacity, cutting off the water source and pumping the lake water at the same time. The roar of the machines startled the birds and fled in all directions.

Cheng Tianlu and Xiao Hu stood side by side by the lake.Xiao Hu picked up a stone and swung it vigorously. The stone fell into the water. The movement was great, but the throw was not far away.He stomped his feet in annoyance: "Mr. Cheng, you are not here to watch birds, are you? Please explain about Zhang Penghai."

"Explain what?"

"Why did he come to this park? What does he have to do with the people in this park?"

Cheng Tianlu smiled slightly: "I can tell you, but what do you exchange for?"

"Exchange? Don't push yourself too hard. If you don't say it, don't even think about leaving today!"

"I didn't want to leave at first. The birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant here. I can live forever. But the missing persons don't know if they can wait? Kidnapping cases usually tear up the ticket within 48 hours, and now it has passed... almost 24 hours."

"What do you want?!"

"Information is exchanged for information. I'll answer your question, and you answer my question. It's fair."

How could Xiao Hu have been coerced like this before? He wished he could sink Cheng Tianlu's body at the bottom of the lake and make him shut up forever.But the Skynet above his head was too depressing, and the idea of ​​completing the task as soon as possible prevailed. "Okay! You answer my question first."

Cheng Tianlu: "No, I'll ask first, and you answer."

"you……"

Cheng Tianlu said with a smile: "Respecting the old and loving the young are the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. I asked first. What happened in Bozikou 45 years ago? Why were all the villagers evacuated?

After the evacuation, why get a fake instead? "

The little lizard-like eyes looked at him indifferently: "These are two questions. I can answer you - it's been so long, it's not newsworthy."

"Don't worry, I won't write it out."

Xiao Hu was silent for a few seconds, let out a breath, and then said: "More than 50 years ago, a gold mine was discovered in Bozikou. The villagers used to grow tobacco, but when they found gold underground, they all went to pan for gold. It became famous, and experts came to investigate and said that there may be more than 300 tons of gold mines underground. What kind of concept is that?"

Cheng Tianlu exclaimed: "The current national gold resources are only more than 1200 tons, which is a very large mine source!"

"Yes, it may be the largest gold mine in Asia."

Cheng Tianlu gasped: "No wonder the Belgians are involved."

"It used to be a remote village with a simple life. The ancestors have been farming for generations. People's hope is to have enough food and multiply their children and grandchildren. Once the gold mine was dug, people's hearts changed. That day brought many people to mine mines without permission. It is very rampant, and the local village officials are inexperienced and can't manage it. So the government plans to rectify the private mines and let organized state-owned enterprises with scientific talents manage them. The Belgians are here to do preliminary surveys. The major shareholder of this multinational company It is a Belgian company, and there are some scattered small shareholders, the background is very complicated, and Mr. Sannan’s family also has shares. This company is also listed in the United States, and its market value was once very high.”

Cheng Tianlu had already found out about this matter, but when he heard the name "Sang Nan", Cheng Tianlu still felt like he was poked, and felt uneasy.Xiao Hu continued: "The preliminary survey is to confirm the scale of the vein. You know that the investment in mining is huge, and the project will only be launched after the survey finds that there is indeed something underground."

"Did something happen in the preliminary investigation?"

"No. The survey will take several years. Before the results came out, a strange disease appeared in the mine. First, many villagers suffered from headaches, numbness, convulsions, some could not walk, their vision deteriorated, and their hands and feet were deformed. They offended the God of the Land, held sacrificial ceremonies in the mines, stipulated that no more than the quota should be mined for gold, raised funds to build temples, and so on.”

Cheng Tianlu thought, it turned out that Domi’s painting was about a sacrificial ceremony. He was young and keen at the time, and he added a lot of his own cognition and imagination, and recorded the uneasiness, numbness, and weirdness of collective worship at that time, which seemed surreal .

"The situation is getting more and more serious. Five or six out of ten children born later have defects. There are especially many children with mental retardation, epilepsy, and weird temper. People outside call 'Bozikou' 'Bazikou', and Bazikou is Idiot, fool."

Cheng Tianlu roughly understood what happened: "They didn't hit ghosts, they were poisoned by heavy metals."

Xiao Hu nodded: "How can the gold mining villagers have any technology? They use the old method, amalgam. Merge mercury with gold-bearing ore to form amalgam, and burn it to extract pure gold. Mercury is poisonous, and it is released in the air. , there is a big river in that area, which passes through the village and the mine. The mining wastewater flows into the river, adsorbs on the fish, shrimp and aquatic products, and is caught and eaten by the villagers. Over time, mercury accumulates in the body, and after ten or eight years , the whole village has been poisoned."

"Fishing snails..." Cheng Tianlu said softly.When Uncle Hai was a child, he often played in the river with other children, fishing for fish and snails. He didn't know that there was poison in it.By the time the symptoms of mercury poisoning begin to appear, the organs have already been irreversibly damaged.Xiao Hu: "The year the Belgian came, the symptoms of poisoning just started to appear. At that time, people were staring at the largest gold mine in Asia, and a few mentally retarded children didn't pay attention at all. Mining is always dangerous, and the whole world doesn't care about it. With high technology and low technology, accidents are common."

"This has nothing to do with technology, it's not taking human life seriously."

Xiao Hu sneered: "If the gold mine is in operation, do you know how much it will benefit the local area? In the 80s, South Africa was the world's largest gold country, and mining accounted for 20% of GDP, making it the richest country in Africa. The local area is rich. Only then can there be good education and medical security, and for the benefit of the people, there must be a pattern.”

"That's really good. If you were to be born 40 years earlier, you must be an 'Iron Man Wang Jinxi'. Use mortal bodies to stir mud, soak poisonous mercury to pan for gold, and sacrifice yourself for the welfare of the people."

"You little yin and yang are weird, you intellectuals only talk sarcastic words, what can you do for the local area? It is a project that benefits the people. If it is completed, we will be rich."

"It's really a big piece of fat," Cheng Tianlu sighed, and his doubts became even worse: "But the fat didn't reach his mouth in the end, why?"

"There are more and more people suffering from that strange disease. Although the burning of amalgam has been banned, they did not expect that the most polluted place is the river. The mercury concentration in the river water has accumulated for many years, it is not so easy to flow away, and the groundwater is also polluted. All the crops contain mercury. The disease destroys the nervous system, the dead convulse and howl night after night, and the whole village is terrified.”

Cheng Tianlu couldn't bear it: "It's come to this point, is there no one to investigate and treat it?"

"Of course there is. But such severe metal poisoning is rare in the world. Domestic experts and Belgians set up a medical team and took the corpse back for autopsy to find out the source of the disease. Because this is a huge gold mine, foreign media heard The meaning came, before seeing the gold, they saw the dead first. They said this is China's "Minamata disease", and said that hundreds of people died, and the whole village was like hell, all of which were fabricated and smeared In our county. There are also some unscrupulous experts who have made human specimens and plan to transport them back for exhibitions. The mummy specimens you saw in the abandoned city are one of them."

"Minamata disease?" Cheng Tianlu searched the memory bank, "Is it Japan's pollution incident in the 50s?"

"Yes, it's also mercury poisoning, but Japan's industrial emissions were illegal, which is different from private mining. Development always has a price. Which advanced country does not die during the development period? The United States..."

"Okay, you don't need to explain to me. After paying the price of human life, why did it end up in ruins and a land of nothingness?"

Xiao Hu couldn't help but frowned and said, "Don't interrupt me!"

"Yes, you continue, I will not speak."

Xiao Hu took a deep breath, "You asked me why I made a fake Bozikou, because too many reporters came to inquire about 'Minamata Disease', which had a great negative impact on the image of the project and the county, so I arranged another place for people to visit, to do a decent mining demonstration, so that those people don't make it up."

Cheng Tianlu admired Xiao Hu's thick skin to the extreme, and the counterfeiter accused others of making up random things... But this is also the norm, and it is not surprising to see it.

Seeing that Chengtian Road did not interrupt, Xiao Hu continued: "It took a long time to find out that the river water and land were seriously polluted, and the villagers were properly arranged to live in various places. The original Bozikou was gone, and the name was transferred to the demonstration village—— ——It is the current 'Bozikou'. This is the truth you are looking for, are you satisfied?"

Cheng Tianlu stared blankly at the lake water getting lower and lower, thinking, these few words are the truth?No, big mistake.The most critical link has been hidden. What makes a lie last for so long and all history is hidden?There must be a bigger mistake.