Chapter 71: Feeling a Bit Wasteful
The manager of the department hesitated when it came to Uesugi Kiyoshi's words, but the deputy manager couldn't help but speak up.
"Are you saying that you can't guarantee that we will be able to handle the Ami Keyue Fault incident three days from now?"
"Yes."
"How is that possible, you are Uesugi Kiyoshi after all!"
"..."
For the first time in his life, Uesugi Kiyoshi felt the burden of being an idol.
"Ozaki!" The manager quickly stopped his companion's rash behavior, and then explained with a smile, "She actually wants to know how we should explain to the people if we can't solve it in three days."
"If we can't solve it in three days, then we'll solve it with the people."
Uesugi Kiyoshi sighed and added some more information.
"However, with just a few tens of thousands of people, dispersing, detaining, controlling them, are all possible, and it's for their own good... Why, what's with that expression on your faces?"
Everyone shook their heads in unison, withdrawing their frightened expressions.
"It's nothing, we were just overthinking it, hehe..."
"Well then, let's continue working!"
More detailed information quickly presented itself in front of Uesugi Kiyoshi.
Although Ami Keyue Fault stretched for several kilometers, trying to engrave all the people from the entire country, even the whole world, may be a bit too ambitious.
In reality, after counting, there were only over a hundred and four thousand cracks.
And currently, there were already twenty to thirty thousand people who had reached the foot of the mountain.
Could it be that by sheer coincidence, all the viewers who caught a glimpse on the internet and TV are all among these hundred thousand human-like figures?
The experiment results have disapproved a point.
Uesugi Kiyoshi brought in a big eater from Tokyo, who can consume fifteen thousand calories in one meal, showing a huge difference in body size before and after eating, yet both can feel the call coming from the cracks.
And these calls come from cracks in different locations.
In other words, the human-like cracks on the Ami Keyue Fault are not actually matching with specific individuals as others might think, but more like molds.
Molds that encompass all possible body shapes of humans.
No matter how your body shape changes, whether fat or thin, there is always a fitting one for you.
Therefore, Uesugi Kiyoshi's initial plan of selling tickets for a buffet has to be abandoned.
Of course, it is also easy not to let people enter, as he soon thought of another way.
The Ami Keyue Fault has some powerful attraction and a one-way path feature. It also allows people to survive even if their bodies are severely twisted. Other than these three points, it doesn't seem to have any other special characteristics.
So, what if we just seal the hole with cement or put a collar around the neck? Wouldn't that solve the problem?
The results of this experiment were also very disappointing.
Even though the volunteers couldn't enter their own humanoid cracks, they still couldn't find peace and return to their normal lives. Some even resorted to using any means possible to fulfill their desires by entering the crevices.
"Why don't we just completely destroy the fault line?" curious Eri Kamei asked, "Is it because we can't?"
Uesugi Kiyoshi hesitated for a moment and said. It's not because of that, but because it seems like a waste to do so...
Of course, if even the last attempt fails to work and there are no new ideas, then sadly the Ami Keyue Fault will have to be destroyed.
On the third night, support from Fukushima Prefecture arrived at the Ami Keyue Fault.
It was a huge truck carrying a house with a drill device attached to the front, which looked quite strange.
After pointing the drill at the base of the fault line, the workers whistled, and another beautifully dressed youth jumped out of the car.
He cleared his throat gently, and the windows of the house opened suddenly.
"Lord Sen, Lord Sen..."
A woman named Numake stared at the handsome young man in black clothes, drooling uncontrollably.
The Black Clothed Beautiful Youth responded with a professional smile, and with the help of others, took off his shirt and tied himself in front of the window.
"As long as you can catch me, I can let you..."
"Ohhh..."
Is a half-naked dream lover comparable to photos and handshakes?
Ms. Numake immediately became excited, giving it her all with the drill spinning like the wind. Even though the rock of the Ami Keyue Fault was extremely firm, it only took one night to split the fault in two.
To be precise, it wasn't even light out when work finished.
"How do we stop this, um, Numake Multi-Purpose Vehicle?" asked Uesugi Kiyoshi with great interest.
The operator from Fukushima awkwardly smiled and replied, "Just stop Ms. Numake's desire to move forward."
So, how do we do that?
Before Uesugi Kiyoshi could ask, he noticed a Black Clothed Beautiful Youth tied outside the window, being controlled remotely towards it.
The figure was then pulled into the house, the window closed, and the vehicle came to a stop.
So that's how you stop it...
After drilling through the fault, the next step is to separate each human figure.
This task is naturally carried out by the Headless Sculptures.
The engineers marked the zones on the fault surface based on the direction of the cracks, and then precision processed it with the Headless SculptureAze Xima type rocks.
"The stone in B12 row 51 has caused you trouble!"
With sincere apologies, the rocks at the corresponding position melted into slurry, flowing on the ground, dividing the human forms.
......…
Daikyo Mineno really didn't know how he spent these days.
Every night, he had the same nightmares. In the dreams, he was a prisoner about to face punishment, which was squeezing into a hole similar to his body size.
The unimaginable sense of confinement made him wake up drenched in sweat, screaming in horror every time.
Those who hadn't clearly seen their own cracks were all like this, let alone Yoshida Otoha and Nakahisa Kiyokyo.
The two of them had almost not slept nor eaten in these three days. If they endured for a few more days, they probably wouldn't have the energy to climb Ami Keyue Fault again.
Luckily, the agreed time finally arrived.
Early in the morning, Daikyo Mineno and the other impatient people crossed the line, walking along the mountain path and quickly climbed to the place shown on TV.
However, it was all in ruins, with sudden appearing and disappearing faults.
"Where is it? Where is it?"
Nakahisa Kiyokyo and Yoshida Otoha looked around but couldn't find their target. As their faces turned uglier, a sweet announcer suddenly directed them where to go.
"Dear guests, welcome. Please head east for a thousand meters. You will find what you are looking for there, at the Ami Keyue Fault Fitness Club!"
