He was like a blade of grass in this world, thinking he could grow against the wind, when in fact the multitudes and all things could trample him underfoot.
Paige sat and listened.
Alfredo made it sound simple, but she didn’t dare think simple. Tsung Tsung Tsung said
She turned her eyes to the side of his face, her throat dry, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
He could have told her all these things, she could have solved them.
She had told them when she took them away that they could come to her no matter what happened.
“I tried to tell you, at the President’s inauguration, but you turned around and Enrico pulled you away, you have your own life, family, job.”
Alfredo let out a bitter laugh, “You’re already busy, Wind Island more than three thousand people, every time you come, people even ask you how to pay the electricity bill, even if you want to learn the words, you have to come to you a few times to make a scene … I look at you through the crowd, I’m tired for you. ”
If she thought it was a tiring job, she wouldn’t have done it in the first place.
“Adjusting to a new life would have been a lot of problems, I’m willing …”
“But I’m not willing to be a burden to you like they are, heartily!” Alfredo interrupted as he suddenly looked over at her, a pair of melancholy eyes looking straight at her.
“…”
Paige looked into his eyes, silent for a long moment, and smiled astringently, “So? You’d rather have a virus that takes out all the so-called upper class people and overturns the sky in A than tell me about it?”
Facing her eyes, Alfredo’s emotions suddenly flared up, “I didn’t want to do that in the first place!”
He placed the fish tank on the bench and stood up, looking down at her with lowered eyes, “I thought that life would be calm after I compromised, but the longer I stayed by this woman’s side, the more I realized that the original equal days we can live now are all about you desperately trying to keep those discriminations and prejudices out, and literally stepping into the plutocrat’s circle with a single step, and none of them have ever changed! ”
“…”
Paige saw Alfredo so excited for the first time.
His eyes glowed red and raw with hate as he pointed to Beauty, who he had tied up aside, “They’re still just as disgusting as ever, they don’t treat anyone but themselves as human beings, and they did the same thing to you, and as soon as they had the chance, they banded together to bite you to death like a rabid dog!”
“And then you chose that path?” Paige asked rhetorically.
“They deserve to die.” Alfredo said it with force, suddenly crouching down and clenching Beauty’s hair hard in one hand, “People like them don’t know how many hurtful things they’ve done and no one has ever cleaned up after them, just because they control the economic balance of this country, they’re emboldened to do so, and Paige, I’m going to do what you’re afraid to do. ”
“Am I afraid?”
Hearing this, Paige stood up from the bench and stared back at him questioningly, “If all the killing in the world could only be offset by killing, I would have done it long ago, and would I have had to wait until you struck today?”
“…”
Alfredo crouched down and looked at her somewhat stiffly.
“Even if you wanted to retaliate, you have a thousand ways to do it, why did you choose this one, do you think that by dropping a virus on the noble people at the dinner party, they’re the only ones who will be harmed?” Paige asked, word sharp.
It was contagious poison, and it would harm everyone.
Alfredo looked at her and lowered his eyes slightly, “With me alone, it’s all I can do.”
His body had spent time in a harsh place like Wind Island long ago, his health was very bare, how else could he take on so many high profile people at once.
Just by throwing the virus like that, he had also utilized Beauty to get into that high class dinner party.
“…”
Only.
Just because of the phrase only, he chose to do such a thing.
Paige listened, her eyes retracting from him, landing on the fish tank on the bench, and said bitterly, “Alfredo, do you really know what I meant when I gave you this fish tank?”
Alfredo’s gaze lags.
Paige lowered her head and cupped the fishbowl, holding it with both hands, “I’ve always told you that time changes everything, because I believe that after the peaceful implementation of the reconstruction of the slums, the belief in class equality will slowly seep into the hearts of the people, and the big idea will be passed down, and if these plutocrats don’t change, their next generation, or the next generation, will change as well.”
Country A would definitely become a better place by then.
She admitted that she was a little too idealistic, but she wanted the people of Wind Island to have a good life, and she didn’t want to hurt innocent people, so this was the only way she could think of.
Paige looked at the fish tank in her hands and spoke out word for word, “You hate Beauty, I can help you, but why can’t you wait?”
“Paige, I …”
“And why did it have to be you again?”
Paige said slowly lifting her face up to look at him, her eyes were soaked with exhaustion, “You know what? I got coffee thrown on me today and the guy questioned me why I was going to harm all of A for the sake of 3, 000 or so Wind Islanders.”
“…”
Alfredo stood there, his breath shuddering at the words.
“I told her, very matter-of-factly, that I was right, that it wasn’t my fault that I was going to save the people of Wind Island, and that the appearance of the Ferris wheel virus had nothing to do with the people of Wind Island, who were also victims of it.”
Paige said, a white face full of self-deprecation, “But you, you made me a joke.”
“…”
“Everything I, Paige, have done in the last few years has been a joke! A shameful joke!” Her eyes turned completely red as she raised the fishbowl in her hand and slammed it hard towards the ground.
“Bang.”
There was a loud bang.
The fishbowl was in pieces on the rooftop, covered in water stains, glass slags and small stones splattered everywhere.
“…”
Alfredo remained crouched on the ground, staring dumbfounded as the fish tank completely cracked open on the ground, and the pain in his chest suddenly spread throughout his body.
He had finally decided to do it because Beauty had drugged the fish tank while laughing.
He watched as the fish Paige had given him die one by one, one by one.
It was like he was being weighed down by a straw, weighing him down until he finally snapped.
He raised his eyes and Paige stood motionless, looking at him with disappointment, coldness etched in her eyes.
He didn’t want to be watched by her like this.
Didn’t want to.
“I’m not trying to hurt you, I’m here today to settle these things.”
Alfredo said a little nervously, before he grabbed Beauty off to the side.
“Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn-”
Beauty struggled up in fear, her eyes looking pleadingly to Paige, counting on her to save her.
“…”
Paige watched in silence, not moving.
Alfredo ripped the tape from Beauty’s mouth and took out a pocket knife to cut the ropes from her hands and feet.
As soon as the activity opened, Beauty couldn’t care less about her bound and numbed hands and feet, and hurriedly crawled and ran inside.
But they were extremely close to the edge of the rooftop, so close that it was only a few dozen centimeters.
Alfredo pushed her without a moment’s hesitation.
“Ah…”
In the light of ten thousand suns, Beauty just screamed and fell, the terror in her eyes before she fell was appalling.