As he spoke with that "old granny," Sun Hang had considered two possibilities—first, that he was descended from refugees from the Yundian region; second, that he had been born in the Fallen Zone.
First, the possibility that he was descended from refugees. If so, then logically, he should not have been undocumented... Over the past sixty years, more than ninety-nine percent of the refugees who had entered the Shuzhou region had obtained legal citizenship registration. Only a tiny number of refugees living in remote, impoverished areas had remained undocumented.
Having citizenship registration meant access to a great many benefits, the most important being free education and subsistence allowances. Later, in order to expand the population of the Shuzhou region, the Federal Government had adopted a policy of accepting every refugee it could. As long as he applied for citizenship, there was no way he would be rejected. Logically speaking, no one should have been stubborn enough to turn down benefits being handed to them for free.
Besides, although Sun Hang had lost his memories of the past, judging from the knowledge stored in his mind, he should have received the Federation's nine years of compulsory education—yet children without citizen registration could not enroll in school at all.
Still, this could not be used as evidence... After all, Sun Hang did not know whether those memories truly belonged to him. What if he really was illiterate, and that knowledge had come from infected individuals he had "absorbed"?
That brought the matter back around to the original "Taotie Clone attack incident."
Sun Hang had looked up the files on the incident. Their contents were pitifully sparse. Other than statistics on casualties and property damage, the beginning, course, and conclusion of the attack had all been glossed over. Even the conclusion that it