"I can think of two reasons."
"First, Master Suolan wanted to protect Old Mrs. Mei, who was still alive at the time."
"Second, she wanted to maintain stability in District 019."
"District 019 had weathered an economic crisis thanks to human-bone gems. Its efforts to cultivate Players and advance technology were finally on track. Revealing the truth about the mining disaster at that point could have dealt District 019 a heavy blow, with nothing but negative consequences."
"Just as she had concealed the kidnapping after witnessing Xia Xi Duolai Ti's death, she had also kept the truth hidden after uncovering what really happened in the mining disaster. Perhaps to Master Suolan, the living mattered more than the dead. If the dead mattered less than the living, then the truth wasn't the absolute priority."
"Then why did she still decide to reveal it?" Someone at the front of the square couldn't help interrupting to ask.
"Keeping the truth hidden doesn't mean it can be swept under the rug forever. Shouldn't District 019 atone for those innocent people who died beneath the mine?"
"Those people were sacrificed. We can't let them disappear from this world forever, can we?"
"At the very least, Master Suolan believed District 019 should remember them and repent."
"After a hundred years, many of the people involved back then had already died, and District 019 had developed enough to withstand any crisis. That was why it was the best time to bring the buried truth into the light."
"The dead matter less than the living, but that doesn't mean they don't matter."
Xu Huo paused briefly, then looked at Mattelidoreti again. "So many people died in the mining disaster: those lured there by high wages and used as sacrifices, those who died while desperately searching for the truth