Chapter 330 Forerunner

"I reject."

He said calmly:

"But it seems useless to refuse now. You are very confident in that knife."

Chen Yan knew that there was something else she hadn't told him:

About the knife, and her surprise when she concluded that the knife had been used by him.

"Mr. Chen, you are a smart man."

Alice is no longer as timid as before, and the expression on her face has not changed much, but Chen Yan still sees the ferocity of a trapped animal.

"You have access to that knife and you can't stay out of this.

If you were contaminated with the cause and effect of this knife in the zoo, you will definitely be involved in this matter in some way."

Alice showed a smile that Chen Yan had never seen before.

"The [Cause and Effect Lines] all over the world were originally scattered in all directions, but due to the changes in the stars, they converged in the [Place of Nonexistence]."

"The original mutual attraction between all things has become closer due to the existence of [causal lines], which leads to you inevitably encountering other people and things linked to certain [causal lines].

That will change everything in your life."

"And now, I'm going to prove something to you."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly ran towards the middle of the road.

She was running so fast that a steam bus whose schedule was unclear had no time to brake and knocked her away.

When the impact occurred, blood had already spread on the ground.

With a screech of brakes, the steam bus with black smoke still coming out of its chimney stopped on the track.

The door opened, and the driver, conductor and several passengers stepped out of the carriage. After some discussion around Alice's body, which had been turned into a torn sack, the conductor went to the nearest police station to call the police, while the driver evacuated the passengers on this flight.

passenger.

Chen Yan looked at her body and his mind went blank.

Why did he die like that?!

Why did she commit suicide?!

What...is she trying to prove to me?!

Chen Yan couldn't figure it out at all, and couldn't even figure out the riddle she had written before.

When my mind went blank, bus No. 306 had arrived at the stop.

He got into the car in a daze, bought a ticket, and looked at the driver's seat, only to find that the driver was no longer Donald, but a strange face he had never seen before.

It was a young Asian man, and Chen Yan could see his childish face in the rearview mirror above his head.

He immediately thought of his visit to Sergey last night, and realized that Sergey and his companions had already done that.

He was restless in his position, thinking about Alice's death on one side and Sergei and the others on the other.

In the end, concern for what Sergei had done prevailed.

"hello."

He spoke to the new driver in the language of Tianshenzhou.

The driver was obviously very excited when he heard the old news that he had appeared in a foreign country.

But for some reason, he seemed to be very restrained and even lowered his voice.

"Hello……"

Chen Yan sat near the driver's seat and asked:

"Steam Bus Operating Company, what happened?"

In the rearview mirror, the vein on the driver's forehead jumped suddenly.

"That's a big deal, man."

He did not dare to speak at first. Only because the language of Tianshen Prefecture has not yet been understood by most other ethnic groups, he dared to tell those "taboo" things in his hometown dialect.

When the driver said these words, there was an almost inaudible excitement in his alert tone.

"This morning, the office building of the Steam Bus Operating Company was surrounded by drivers and various workers. They felt that their wages were too low and wanted to steal money from the company."

Chen Yan frowned and asked, "How could it be a money robbery?"

The driver said in a low voice: "Yeah, I don't think it's necessary... If you work hard, your salary is not very low in Yanan City. How can you go to the company to steal money?"

His voice was even lower: "But... this is what came out from inside. We don't dare to think nonsense, and we don't dare to go out and talk nonsense. After all... do we still have to eat this bowl of rice in the future? Do you think so?

?”

Chen Yan asked in a joking tone: "You don't dare to go out and talk nonsense, so you dare to say it to me?"

The driver panicked for a moment, and looked at Chen Yan in the rearview mirror with more hostility in his eyes: "Brother, don't joke with me."

Chen Yan was slightly serious: "I won't make nonsense. Asians should unite instead of doing things that hurt each other."

When the driver saw his righteous words, he immediately believed him and let out a sigh of relief: "Brother, you scared me to death..."

He glanced at Chen Yan in the rearview mirror again, and then said: "Brother, I only think that you are a young man, so I dare to say these things to you...

If I were facing some old man, I would sew my mouth shut and I wouldn’t say anything nonsense.”

Chen Yan understood what he meant and said nothing.

The driver brother continued: "Probably the whole morning, the steam bus operating company has been surrounded by workers. Although they are not many in number, they seem to be organized, so no one knows what is happening in the company."

"Around noon... around 10 a.m.? There was a fierce quarrel in the company building."

"I didn't understand what they were saying...I'm not very good at Imperial English."

"I was planning to come for an interview today, but I didn't expect to be blocked outside. The people blocking me were either drivers or someone else, and they had a very bad attitude towards us... but they didn't do anything to us."

"You know, it's like the attitude of most of the Ruk people in the empire towards us."

In the next sentence, he lowered his voice further.

"At 11 o'clock in the morning, people from the police station came."

"Well...it's different from the police station. It's a police officer wearing armor and holding a gun."

"The people who blocked the road at the entrance of the company tried to stop me, but they were beaten into pieces at that time."

"They rushed into the company building, and there was a lot of gunfire."

"Then...we were called in and had a simple interview...that is, after filling in the information, we went to work at that time."

Chen Yan asked: "Where are the other people in the steam bus company? They won't all be killed."

The driver whispered: "That's not true, but a lot of people must have died, because the company's office building was sealed off, and we only saw people going in, but no one coming out."

"The person who went in... must be in trouble."

"But most of the people who stayed outside were fine...except for those who used their bodies to block the guns."

"Let's not talk about these things, let's talk about something happy!"

Perhaps he was excited because he met a fellow countryman. When he mentioned this, the young man happily said a lot:

"I'm very lucky, brother. I didn't expect that I would be able to find a job when I first came to Yanan, and the salary is not too low. During the internship period, I also received a daily salary of 6 pence.

The working hours are not long, and the steam bus does not require very complicated operations, so I can stand on my feet for the time being. I must cherish this job..."

While he was chattering, the voice on the radio on the roof of the steam bus attracted Chen Yan's attention.

"Here comes an urgent news item from the Wolf News Evening News:"

This is……

Mr. Tom Ribot's voice!

After learning the news from Chen Yan last night, he actually went to interview the workers of the steam bus operating company!

Tom Ribot's voice spoke on the radio:

"At 8 o'clock this morning, a workers' demonstration and strike broke out at the Steam Bus Operating Company. All steam bus lines were suspended. Workers surrounded the company building and negotiated with the company's main personnel.

At 9:50 in the morning, the negotiation was successful and the new contract was drafted. The workers of the steam bus operating company got the eight-hour work system and overtime pay system promised by the company management, and won for themselves [they would not be unemployed under normal circumstances]

] power.

At 10:30 in the morning, the steam bus company and the Yanan City Police Department purged workers who were striking and demonstrating. They used thermal weapons to claim 73 lives and tore up the rights that the workers had won through negotiation.

The workers' strike failed, and the initiator of the strike, Sergey, a mechanic from Souka Britain, left these words - "

Sergey's voice appeared on the announcer, and that was the last time Chen Yan heard his voice in his life.

"If we don't fight back when faced with oppression, they will take advantage of us.

If we don't speak up, we will never have the chance to speak up.
To be continued...