Old Qiao was dead.
When the news crashed into the crowd, everyone's first reaction was disbelief. The Jipuluo girl named Momo and the "prisoners" behind her repeatedly verified the truth of the information, then surrounded Old Qiao's mechanical head and stared at it for a long while before daring to run off and tell the others hiding in the rooms and laboratories. Soon after, more people in laboratory uniforms came rushing out from all directions to the hall to confirm the situation.
It was quite some time before anyone began cheering. Some waved whatever they could find and shouted at the top of their lungs, while others began crying softly. Gradually, all of it turned into a spreading commotion.
In the end, the Jipuluo girl, who had lost one ear and part of her body, had no choice but to run over and maintain order. She even had to arrange for some emotionally agitated "fellow prisoners" to be restrained and injected with sedatives, preventing their excessive excitement from burning away their reason and driving them to harm themselves.
She handled all of this with practiced ease, and she clearly held tremendous prestige among the people present.
The mechanical head cut from Old Qiao's "main body" was thrown onto the floor. At first, many people avoided it, but then Momo was the first to walk over and kick it in front of everyone. When she noticed that Luo and Yu Sheng did not stop her, the action "spread" almost immediately. Once one person worked up the courage, there was a second, then a third. People went over one after another and kicked the head back and forth until they smashed it against the wall and battered it out of shape.
These people seemed not to know what Old Qiao's true "original