"Do you remember that so clearly?" Xu Huo asked.
Old Mr. Yue smiled. "Of course. After that incident, Mattelidoreti pushed through several pieces of legislation. They included implanting tracking chips in living people, imposing harsher punishments for crimes against minors, and increasing the priority given to minors' safety in all robot protocols. In any situation, robots had to prioritize protecting minors over everyone else."
"Protections for minors were improved with every amendment to the law. The biggest change was the tracking chip. That technology hadn't been permitted before, because ordinary people believed that no one would undergo surgery lightly unless absolutely necessary. But surprisingly, the change didn't meet much opposition at the time."
"Maybe they'd done too many bad things."
The old gentleman didn't seem to feel much attachment to District 019. He regarded its present and past with calm indifference.
"What was Mattelidoreti's youngest daughter called?"
"Xia Xi Duolai Ti," Old Mr. Yue said. "I saw the little girl twice while keeping track of the government's activities. She was very beautiful. After she went missing, the government secretly sent people to search for her for a long time. But as far as I know, they never found her body, and eventually the matter was dropped."
Xu Huo nodded. "More than a hundred years ago, did the district government really work with the mining groups to cause mining disasters just to obtain human bone gems?"
Old Mr. Yue looked at him in surprise. "I didn't think you'd be able to dig up even that."
"It was a coincidence," Xu Huo said. "Xia Xi Duolai Ti's disappearance must have been connected to the mining disasters."
"There were plenty of rumors going around at the time. Players were less restrained than they are now, and government officials were prime targets for attacks.