Chapter 5
A finger in the night breeze
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"Sheilor would see you, it's because after the mine disaster, your mother have raised him for two years, he is thankful for that... But you must make it clear for yourself, he is the one not wanting to get into trouble the most, just let some words to be rotted in the belly." The already returned to the downstairs of the Bell Tower street apartment Levi gave a stare at little Johnny, he also had some worries in his mind, after all this little guy was just a ten years old boy, it would be not that great once he spilled out some words.
The little guy flatted his lips, it seemed like that he was scared to cry by Levi's fierce eyes, although Levi's eyes were always that clear, bright and lovely, but all the orphans wandering around the Bell Tower Street knew, the sixteen years old leader was how ruthless when he really launched the maliciousness.
No one knew where Levi put that metal shaft which was in his hand, he was holding a bottle of beer to fill his mouth at this time, he sat under the road light and hummed the tunes, it looked like that he was somewhat satisfied. The little guy was daunted to look at him, he hesitated for a moment, but he still couldn't help to ask, "Brother Sheilor seldom comes back to the Bell Tower Street in these two years, what is he doing any way?"
"Who knows? But this boy likes to play the workmanship since he was little, who would have thought that he would be this malicious, do you still remember that thing we both saw that year?" Levi drank down the beer in one gasp; he clicked his tongue in admiration.
"I was only five years old at that time, I had already forgotten." The little guy licked his lips and looked at the beer in Levi's hand, it seemed like that he was some curious. The life of the orphan of the East Forest regions was secured, but if they wanted to find the things with the alcohol in, it really had some difficulties, the liquor of the black market was really too expensive.
"That's right, that time I was also only eleven years old, Sheilor was only ten years old." Levi threw the beer bottle to the not far away garbage pile under the street light, he had a deep breath, on his that young and slightly childish face, a few numbness were appeared, "If not for that thing ten years ago, I'm afraid that we are still all in the school, perhaps we have already passed the entrance examination of the professional certificate, gone to the West River university... Or even... Or even gone to the capital planet as the exchange students."
The street light pulls these one big and one small two figures very long, shrouded on the distance garbage pile, a black cat walked through the shadow, the scattered yellow pupils found nervously, there were no mouse appeared again today, everything appeared so lonely and deathly stillness.
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Ten years ago that mine disaster caused more than three hundred miners buried underground, the most terrible thing was that the mine collapse spread into the temporary apartment area, a lot of visiting family members also died in misfortune, nobody knew how many families burst therefore for that.
This incident shocked the whole federal human society, in the science and technology well-developed present, such disastrous death tragedy let numerous officials fell. The direct department officials of the capital homeland security committee and the governor of the West River state, resigned in succession under the pressure of the media. There were three officials sentenced criminal penalty, even the vice affairs secretary who was responsible for the safety matters of the East Forest Region was also sentenced to four years in prison.
The response of the federal government and the judicial system couldn't be said not quick and intense enough, but it couldn't recover those lives after all. This event of mine disaster brought the last heavy blow to the originally on the stagnated edge mining industry of the East Forest Region, the Crystal Mine United company went bankrupt just like that, it was in custody by the federal government.
The incident had very deep influence, but a few people thought that for those orphans, it's a very great influence to this life.
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The orphans who rallied and demonstrated on the Bell Tower Street during the day were the victims of the mine disaster event. Levi was such one of them, the little guy was such one, and Sheilor also was such one.
Sheilor was one orphan of this group of the orphans, but more accurate to say, he was one of the alternative kind of the orphans. In those years, he didn't have any envy eyes to look at those glamorous gang leaders; he just liked to watch others to repair the electrical equipments in the grocery store on the corner of the street.
He this person looked not so strong and sinister violent, instead, his face always carried the thick smile, no matter how difficult the environment was; it couldn't seem to let him have the slightest bored.
--But it's very strange, those aggressive orphans didn't dare to provoke him, even vaguely, all the orphans in those three streets respected him in some certain ways, this kind of respect was largely from that Levi respected Sheilor from the heart.
Five years ago, because of the contingent strike of the government at one time, one of the hidden in the shadow gang was forced into the back street of the Bell Tower Street where the orphans occupied, and with their cold-blooded and tough, they took control of the already abandoned for a long time block successfully, in just two hours, there were three oldest and had the most courage to resistant orphans died in the cleaning.
The normally looked like very arrogant orphans, before they could evolve into those dark forces successfully, in fact, they were just some showy little lions.
The had not been participating in the mass organization activity Sheilor was missing that day, then the had been unable to get down deep into the lower level streets, the West River state police force and the support of the military region, suddenly through an underground pipeline trench, went into the large area land behind the Bell Tower street.
A lot of people died, the orphans returned to their own place, the hatred of the three died orphans was paid back as well. But no one knew, in that cold rainy night, the always numb but cheerful Sheilor, at the outside of the garbage dump, with an abandoned elbow hydraulic pipe of the mecha, stabbed the last escaped leader of that gang to die.
Besides the trembling Levi and that little guy who were crouching sandwich inside of the stone boards of the abandoned factory dining room, that year, Levi was eleven years old, the little Johnny was five years old, and Sheilor was just ten years old.
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"Four years ago?" Hidden the face in the clothes hat Sheilor repeated the words once what this in front of him middle-aged man said, he smiled happily, he was sure that the other party was trying to cheat on him, rather than knowing that most feared memory in his own heart, "Four years ago I took part in the makeup exam which was presided by the state education admission office."
The deputy director Paul looked coldly at the youngster in front of him, he knew that the other party absolutely had the connection with that farce this afternoon, but he also couldn't confirm his own judgment, how a youngster could know well about the internal journey arrangement of the police department, and how could he know the contradiction and struggle between those upper levels?
"I want to know who is behind your back." Paul Long thought that his own cold tone was proper, the asking point was also especial accurate, of course, he also didn't think that these wandering in the Bell Tower Street orphans wouldn't know who he was.
However, after Sheilor heard this question, he couldn't help to bow down his head and had the wry smile. He shrugged his shoulders, as if he didn't see this in front of him middle-aged man who was staring at him like a black dog, he walked to under the bright street light and was ready to go home to sleep.
Paul Long held the baton tightly with his hand.
The youngster stretched out a slender and stable finger.
He pointed to the dark
area behind the street light and said, "There are totally five electronic monitors over here, you belong to the police system, you are not the judge, nor even the people of the Management Committee, you can't find a way to get rid of the record, so I advise you not to try to take action on me... If you have anything want to say, please go to get the proof first, I will cooperate with the investigation."
The deputy director Paul had a flicker of cold meaning in his eyes, his body had a froze, he said after a while, "Casual inspection, I need to read your chip."
Sheilor turned his body around, but he still didn't take off his hat, he said cordially, "The deputy director of the second police station would be scolded into shit tomorrow by the governor, and might even get on the TV news for today's parade, who would believe that he would also have the idea in the early morning, attend to the matter personally, to have the casual inspection to a harmless thin and weak youngster?"
That finger which had been pointing to the electronic monitors in the dark shook slowly in the quiet night, Sheilor bowed down his head and said sincerely, "I'm a good man, believe me, all these what I have said are for your consideration."
Paul Long suddenly felt that the calmness or the honest of this didn't know the identity youngster was somewhat terrible, the suspect in his eyes was getting stronger and stronger; his hand was holding the baton tighter and tighter.