The White Town Still Had Seventeen Children
Can she hear us?
Bepo lay down beside the Medical Kit, and after counting to seventeen, he even slowed his breathing.
Chopper adjusts the megaphone.
"It cannot be confirmed at this time; movements in low temperatures may be a muscle response."
Luo raised his hand and tapped the side of the box three times.
There was no response.
He knocked twice more.
This time, after waiting for about ten seconds, a soft sound came from inside the Medical Kit.
Bepo turned to look at him.
"Captain, she's back."
"Don't speak."
Luo struck the hammer again.
The third person represents Luo Yi.
The two dots represent Emma.
Seventeen represents everyone.
Seventeen knocks followed from inside the box, the last one being delayed and weaker.
Chopper immediately grabbed Law's hand.
"That's enough, she can't move anymore."
"She knew there were people outside."
"That's why we need to take it slow."
Outside the Transfer Station, Drake had already secured the first spare hull beam beneath the cargo channel.
The Parasite String grazed the wetsuit, leaving a tear on the shoulder.
Luo used the room to transfer the wire to the empty hospital bed.
There are three more on the left.
The sound of water coming through the communicator drowned out Drake's reply.
Izo looked at the pressure gauge.
He only has twelve minutes of oxygen left.
Franky urged, "The second anchor point is just above. Don't climb along the wall; step on the drainpipe."
Drake grabbed the drainpipe, and as soon as his foot touched it, the entire pipe came off the wall.
Seawater washed into the old mine bed.
The blueprints are wrong.
Iceburg said, "That's a drawing from twenty-two years ago; the pipes are long since rusted."
Why didn't you say so sooner!
"I just pointed out that the load-bearing capacity is insufficient."
Is arguing about this going to do any good?
Luo moved the detached pipe back to its original position and used two empty hospital beds to plug the gap.
"Drake, come back."
"One more fixed point is needed."
There isn't enough oxygen.
"Come back after you're done."
I said, "Let's go back."
The sound of metal fasteners clicking could be heard over the radio.
Drake wedged the last hull into the rock.
"Go back now."
Luo used the ROOM to transfer him into the isolation pod.
After the seawater was drained, Drake coughed a few times while leaning against the wall. His wetsuit had ripped open on the side, and blood was dripping down his arm onto the floor.
Chopper glanced at it from afar.
"Press on the wound first, I can't leave here."
"Fine."
"Don't say it's nothing, there are bandages in the second layer of the first-aid kit."
Bepo ran over to help bandage him.
Once the external load-bearing was completed and the Parasite String tightened again, the Transfer Station was not dragged.
The countdown to the trade sent by Doflamingo immediately stopped.
[Transfer blocked]
[Preparing to destroy observation samples]
Luo connected all sixteen sets of underground equipment to the ROOM.
"If anyone dares to make a move, I'll relocate the Transfer Station to the Dressrosa Royal Palace first."
Doflamingo did not respond.
The Throne, however, began to perform sample cleaning.
The temperature of the first set of equipment is rising.
Chopper shouted, "Those organ samples will rot!"
Is there any point in preserving them?
"Have."
Luo looked at him.
Chopper produced sixteen lists of children to be evacuated.
"These are proof that they lived, and proof of Amber Lead Syndrome; the government cannot burn them."
Vegapunk proposed backing up the data.
Chopper shook his head.
"Data can be claimed to be falsified, but samples can prove they died from long-term poisoning."
Sengoku immediately ordered the North Blue Marine Branch to prepare medical preservation equipment.
Luo did not agree.
"Samples will not be sent to the Navy."
"If you don't trust the receiving personnel, you can have me sign."
"They were sent away with signed documents before."
"So, who do you plan to give it to?"
Chopper said, "Leave it to the doctor."
"Where is the doctor from?"
"The results are jointly kept by hospitals from various countries in North Blue, with each hospital retaining a copy, and all test results are made public."
Robin added, "Names and samples must be kept separate to prevent children from being used as research numbers again."
Lin Qi added the proposal to the voting page.
[Sixteen samples from victims of Amber Lead Syndrome are being used for public medical documentation; trading and weapons research are prohibited. Families can apply for burial upon their arrival.]
The Five-Party Seats were quickly approved.
The cleanup process has been forcibly paused.
The serial numbers on the sixteen sets of equipment began to fall off, and the names engraved on the bed boards were entered one by one.
Luo Yi.
Emma.
Nuo'er.
Feiya.
When the list reached the eighth person, a character was missing.
Only one end of the bed board remains.
Luo checked the records of Lami's fifth awakening.
She had once read out names along with the knocking sounds.
"Luo Yi three times, Emma two times, Nuo'er five times."
The girl in the recording counted to eight, then stopped and asked, "What's your name?"
Four knocks were heard coming from the pipe.
"No name?"
Four directions again.
"Then I'll call you Xiaosi, okay?"
The device beeped four more times.
Chopper filled in a temporary title on the eighth file.
[Xiaosi]
The names that followed were also found in the recording.
After all sixteen files were recovered, the Throne requested that the person responsible for the deaths be identified.
[Original Guardian]
[Flevance Hospital]
[Natural progression of the disease]
[No one is responsible]
Luo deleted all four items.
Add a fifth item.
[Decision-makers in Amber Lead mining and those Executor lockdowns and crackdowns]
Kingdom Seat has yet to confirm his participation.
The man who had previously removed the silver badge reappeared.
"The order to eliminate the enemy was jointly carried out by the coalition of neighboring countries and the World Government; the former royal family was not directly involved."
Luo asked, "Who approved the mining?"
"The former royal family."
Who received the report?
"The former royal family."
Who was piloting the evacuation boat?
The man glanced down at the silver badge on the table.
"Also from the former royal family."
"Then let's vote."
"I have confirmed that the descendants of the Flevance royal family will be held accountable."
What responsibility should be pursued?
"Compensation, trials, and the hostility of the North Blue nations."
Luo said, "You just said that descendants do not take the blame for the sins of their ancestors."
"Do you agree?"
"Remember what our predecessors did; those who did not participate should not be punished."
What about compensation?
"Pay off the royal estate first."
The man remained silent for a long time.
"Those assets have already been distributed to future generations."
"Then return it."
They won't agree.
"Let them explain it themselves."
More than a dozen people logged on to the Kingdom Seat in succession.
Some requested anonymity, others claimed they had never been to Flevance, and still others tried to prove they were unaware of the source of their inherited property.
Luo made public the inventory of the former royal family's assets.
Every estate, every merchant ship, every chest of jewels bears the mark of the profits from the Amber Lead.
The argument gradually subsided.
The man who removed his silver badge cast his confirmation.
"I own two estates; hand them over first."
"Can you represent other people?"
"Cannot."
"Then I'll only remember yours."
The Kingdom Seat lights up.
The conclusion regarding accountability has been approved.
The sixteen children's files no longer indicate death from infectious diseases, but instead uniformly state "long-term poisoning" and "delayed treatment due to lockdown."
The seventeenth file was then opened.
Lami's name has finally been removed from the list of observed samples.
[Trafalgar Lami]
[Status: Alive]
[Medical decision-making authority: to be confirmed after the individual's recovery]
After reviewing the vital signs, Chopper began unlocking the final lock on the Medical Kit.
Luo stood in front of the box door, but did not reach out.
Bepo asked, "Captain, aren't you going to open it?"
"Let Chopper drive."
"Why?"
"I am a surgeon."
"So what?"
Luo looked at the face that had not yet been revealed behind the observation window.
"When she wakes up, what she needs is her brother."
When the box door was opened, an old medical record hidden inside the insulation layer fell out.
The signature section belongs to Doctor Trafalgar and his wife.
The diagnosis was made eight days after the burning of Flevance.
In other words, at least one of Luo's parents survived the fire.