Chapter 165 - Thief (2/2)
Around three in the afternoon, Parkland's team finally left Before they left, Parkland's soldiers had burned the bodies they had dug up, and the ruins of the factory were once again set ablaze It was just that this flahly efficient fuel was rapidly burning and disintegrating the hurance of the meat wafted in all directions However, those who smelled it did not look well at all So
The process of burning continued for thole hours When dusk approached, the flauished
The ruins of the factory had been cordoned off by the security forces and the clean-up would continue for several days But before that, it was the duty of the security forces to relocate the nearby citizens who had been implicated in the explosion
There was no mayor in Windmill Town In addition to the security team that maintained order, there were only four or five elderly residents who forency , ho until their houses were rebuilt
The toas not rich, and most of its residents would work in a nearby e for a srowing crops such as potatoes, but the land is now not only barren but also radioactive Although the crops that were groeren't mutated, due to their low yields and radiation, their sales weren't good Therefore, the far most of their days without food
The only person who made money in the toas the owner of the water wheel bar Although the shoddy beer brewed in the bar was hard to drink, theto drink cold shoddy beer from the bar for a few cents after a hard day's work Mr Halt, the boss, had made so To that end, when the committee asked him for financial aid to help the poor inhabitants repair their houses, Mr Halt readily agreed
A successful businessic behind a sheep's hair The money they had donated today would be reclai when he got ho day, and Mr Holt had forgotten how long it had been since he'd had it so exciting Now that he was tired, he decided to take a bath before going to sleep However, he heard his wife's curses co from the balcony
”What's the matter, dear?” Halt asked
His wife ca as she walked: ”It's all because of that explosion at noon that bleay all the clothes you left hanging on the rooftop”
”Forget it, forget it We're lucky that we're still alive If we lose our clothes, we'll lose it” Mr Holt did not mind, and after a feords of consolation to his wife he went to the bathroom
Halt's wife e It was also because the sheets were not bloay, but only a few pieces of clothing were bloay What kind of logic is this?”
She obviously didn't understand the crux of it, and there was a lot of houseaiting for her to do, so she didn't have the spare energy to think about it
In the dark wilderness, a figure could be seen on the road The figure es as it hway
Occasionally, when they stopped, the people who appeared were clearly wearing clothes that didn't fit therey-blue jeans were too wide, as if they earing someone else's clothes
If Mr Halt's wife had seen it, she would have realized that her husband's clothes had not been bloay by the wind, but had been stolen By this time, the thief on the road seeot off the road and walked past a stretch of dry sand, and behind a feers that had stopped working, the silhouette of a city looht