Chapter 62: Sin

"What do you regret? I regret not having a child. You must have never heard of this Chinese poem: "When I am old, I have no child to answer the door; when I am sick, I have Viya to accompany me." Xiao Songhe pretended not to know what Ito was talking about.

"Everything you do is for others. You pay for the radiation testing at your own expense. And while you are persuading others not to come back, you are still staying here." Ito laid out the words directly.

Xiaosong shook his head. "We came back only because this is where we have lived our whole lives and we are reluctant to leave. As for others, I didn't ask them not to come back. Don't make decisions for others on your own regarding such important matters of life. I just put the truth I could find here for others to refer to. If I must say, I really want to do something for future generations."

Ito understands this mentality, but finds it difficult to put himself in their shoes. He used to be obsessed with superheroes and advocated personal heroism. If the good things he did were not recognized by them, he would inevitably feel lost.

It's not so much a sense of justice as a desire for the spotlight.

"Perhaps one year later, or five years later, forgetful people will not remember your efforts, just like the nuclear wastewater discharge plan was to last for a total of thirty years, but now it's only been a few years and many people have forgotten it," Ito continued.

"You may not have experienced Minamata disease or something like that. Actually, I haven't experienced it either. I only heard about it from my father. In my opinion, any outcome is understandable. The only difference is that if someone is affected by radiation and gives birth to a deformed offspring, or the child is born with a serious illness, that is unforgivable. Bringing them into this world is already without their consent. Don't you think it's too cruel to impose so much pain on the baby?"

Xiao Songhe seemed to be thinking of something and looked a little sad.

Ito passed away, and he was thinking in his heart, why would a person without descendants care about other people's descendants until his death.

"Just know how to do good things and don't ask about the future. I understand Chinese poetry. Old man, just consider it as a thank you for the meal you treated me to." Ito looked up at the sky. The weather in July changed suddenly. It was sunny just now, but now a layer of dark clouds has gathered.

He still remembers the conversations between those old men.

The forces that want to stop them should be Tokyo Electric Power, local capital and local official family forces.

Let's start with Tokyo Electric Power Company and select a few middle-level figures. Someone should know who is responsible for dealing with these old men.

Although eliminating the person in charge cannot fundamentally solve the problem, it is enough to repay the kindness of a meal.

He no longer had the idea of ​​fighting for the rights of strangers like Xiao Songhe.

a few days later.

Nicholas, deputy director of TEPCO's General Affairs Department, who is working from home in the center of Fukushima Prefecture, discovered that several TEPCO managers who worked at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant seemed to have disappeared in the past few days. There were no task reports, and when he asked their subordinates and families, they all claimed that they had not seen them for several days.

This made him a little annoyed. After all, many of the people working there were external employees who needed to be managed by the headquarters, while many people from the headquarters were reluctant to work there. Every time he had to bribe or threaten them, or transfer some incompetent people there, which led to frequent safety accidents among employees.

Even if you're not an employee of our department, you still have to pay for the medical expenses, you bastard!
However, the disappearance of these people was too strange, so he arranged for the security department to check to see if someone was behind it.

However, he did not expect that a day later, the head of the security department claimed that he had found important information and needed to report to him in person.

Nicholas attached great importance to it and arranged the meeting place at his own villa, with the date being around noon today.

He also asked the servant to prepare a relatively sumptuous lunch at home while waiting for the other party to arrive.

But why is he so unpunctual today?
I called, but found that the phone was turned off.

Nicholas frowned, and lost his appetite when he saw the delicious food on the table.

Just when he was almost reaching the limit of his patience, a voice sounded from the opposite side of him.

"Minister Nicholas, thank you for your hospitality."

Nicholas looked up suddenly, and was surprised to find that there was someone sitting opposite him? !
And he was a suspicious guy wearing a hat and sunglasses.

Looking at the food in front of him, many of them have already been tasted, which means that the other party sat opposite him and ate lunch without him noticing. If he hadn't asked, he might not have noticed the existence of such a person until he left.

Nicholas looked at the door of the restaurant and didn't know when it was closed. He slowly moved his hand into his pocket, intending to call for help.

"Mr. Nicholas, I advise you not to do this."

Ito Makoto warned nonchalantly.

Nicholas forced a smile and said, "Where is this friend from? Do you need money or something? I can help you to the best of my ability, even though I am just a company manager and my debts are greater than my assets."

Ito interrupted him and said, "I have heard from many dying people that you are responsible for dealing with Xiao Songhe's family?"

Nicholas' Adam's apple rolled, beads of sweat seemed to appear on his forehead in an instant, and his eyes began to drift.

Something was wrong. Ito felt a little strange. Why did he feel so guilty?
As far as Ito knew, they were only bribing or threatening the old people, and they did not do anything excessive. At least they abided by the bottom line of the law.

For them, this can even make them moral role models.

"This name seems a little familiar, you know? Actually, my Japanese is not very good-ah! F**k-"

Ito had no patience to listen to his excuses and simply grabbed his arm, and a flame burned out of nowhere.

"It's you, ah! Ito Makoto! I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!" Seeing that he could not struggle free and recognized this wanted extraordinary person, Nicholas began to beg for mercy with a painful face.

Ito burned it for a few more seconds until he smelled the smell of burnt meat and then let go.

"Tell me, why do you do this?" Ito began to ask.

Nicholas howled for a long time with snot and tears on his face, then he sat on the ground with difficulty and looked at Ito with fear.

"Yes, it was the Suzuki family's idea. I just cooperated with them and sent some nuclear wastewater over regularly. I really didn't expect that Xiao Songhe and the others were related to you. And before Suzuki's proposal, I had always wanted to solve the problem through a peaceful solution. Otherwise, if those old men really wanted to take action, they could have used a more direct method."

Nuclear wastewater. Ito felt a chill in his heart.

Even though he had committed murder and arson in the past, he was still shocked by this answer.

"So, if they asked for it, you gave it to them?"

"I, I, we are also an outside force. After all, the local forces are more powerful in this place, and the Suzuki family has people in the official community, so it's not easy for us to refuse." Nicholas tried hard to play the victim, hoping to save his life.

“How does it work exactly?”

".More than half a year ago, through a construction project, the water supply of the leader organizer Xiao Songhe's home was replaced with a separate water supply, which was treated nuclear wastewater."

"Isn't it said that treated nuclear wastewater can even be drunk?"

"Hehe." Nicholas laughed hoarsely while enduring the severe pain. "Even if it's true, we have to distinguish the degree of processing it has undergone, not to mention hehe."

If Ito before was simply wanting to repay the meal, now he wanted to see what color the blood of a person who could do such evil would be.

(End of this chapter)