The women froze, momentarily wondering what was going on?
Antonio walked over, bent down to pick up a bottle of water in a small frame, unscrewed the cap, and looked at Carlos.
-You should say, ‘Brothers, a bottle for each of you.’
Then tilt your head back and finish the bottle in one gulp.
Katarina approached him with a burst of anxiety and stood next to him, her eyes full of trepidation….
Leonardo also approached, picked up a bottle, unscrewed it and drank it, then Diego, Moses, they all picked up bottles and drank them without even looking at them….
Eric also picked up a bottle and hesitated, he wasn’t afraid of anything but disfigurement, but he gritted his teeth, picked up a bottle, took a sip and found it just tasted like tap water, a very clean sensation, then kept going until he finished it….
Carlos’ eyes sparkled as he too opened the bottle in his hand and lifted it to drink the light.
There was one last bottle left in the frame and Ernesto came down at some point, reached over, took the last bottle and pretended to look at the crowd viciously.
-One by one, you don’t call me when you have something good to eat!
When he finished, he opened it and drank it, put the bottle down, wiped his mouth and said bluntly:
-Carlos, what’s the plan you’re scratching, squeal if you need me, that I’m off to make breakfast for my wife!
And then nothing in general, slipping away to the kitchen.
No one had the courage to tease him, seeing that the labels on the bottles they drank were all different: there was, tap water, boiled tap water, boiled tap water with tea, water from the Pesla City reservoir, water from the Dragon City reservoir wording….
The women stood anxiously by their husbands, and Romina looked at Moses to say something to him, but finally stood silently behind him….
Antonio rubbed Katarina’s head and reassured her:
-Don’t worry, it’s okay, Carlos won’t play with our lives.
Everyone nodded immediately, placating the wives around them.
All the siblings had a gleam of confidence in their eyes that touched Carlos.
After all, they had only been in Salamonsa for less than ten days and knew nothing of the situation here, but they drank the water without hesitation, knowing that Natalia had been poisoned by heavy metals….
Gathering his wits, Carlos started at the beginning and said:
-The fact that most of the men in Salamonsa do not live past 45, let alone leave Salamonsa, I learned at Nilson’s, is due to a natural – poison – in their bodies.
These were already known from the video with Micaela Thunderbolt, and Katarina immediately asked:
-I heard Micaela say earlier that they would spit blood when discussing this what’s going on?
Carlos nodded and explained:
-Since people talking about this would cause panic and want to leave this particular place of Salamonsa, and to leave, was to die a bizarre death within three months, it was unanimously decided by the Salamonsa hierarchy that everyone would be put on ‘inhibitors’. The ‘inhibitor’ would control them not to mention all this ‘poison’ stuff and if they insisted on saying it, it would hurt and they would even vomit blood.
The women would tremble…
Carlos continued:
-That poison is naturally generated in the human body so that people cannot leave Salamonsa, it must depend on something in Salamonsa. Nilson and I investigated this for a long time and we deduced that it was something to do with the water, the air, the plants, of Salamonsa.
The plant, I suspect it was that tea from the bamboo forest, Salamonsa used tea a lot, the water, as we all know, yesterday I fell into the water with Micaela and Natalia, I did not drink from the lake, they two did, Natalia is not out of danger yet, Micaela however is fine.
The crowd nodded, and the women could not help but feel a little uneasy again….
-But it was precisely this incident of Natalia’s heavy metal poisoning that inspired me to verify these inferences.
The reason for making this water drinkable is to know exactly whether only people from other countries who drink Salamonsa’s water get heavy metal poisoning?
Why are the people of Salamonsa doing well?
And, did the ‘poison’ grow in such air, water and plants?
Why does anyone from outside Salamonsa who stays here for more than three months, even after leaving Salamonsa, die?
Charles’ brow furrowed tightly, throwing out an unanswered question, sensing that the answer is just around the corner, but hidden in the mist, unseen, just a stone hammering away from revealing the truth….
At this statement, the women’s hearts grew even more uneasy, looking at their respective husbands….
Eric rubbed his face, he wasn’t really nervous, he had no strings attached…..
explained Diego:
-Don’t worry everyone, you’ve only been in Salamonsa less than ten days, you don’t drink much water and you’ve all been treated, it’s not life threatening and if we find anything wrong, we can immediately treat the symptoms.
The women then felt slightly relieved…..
Carlos paused, with a deep look, and said:
-What flows through Micaela is originally Salamonsa blood, what makes her different is that she left as a child, before the ‘poison’ had time to grow in her, and, having drunk the chronic poison that prevented her from leaving Salamonsa. The antidote, perhaps, is also in the air, the water, the plants here.
Everyone was silent….
This damned hell that prevents Carlos from staying here for long, this poison that prevents Micaela from leaving Salamonsa, from getting married and staying together….
Katarina and Olivia are extraordinarily anxious about their…
After a long while, Katarina spoke with mixed feelings:
-Mr. Carlos, you have booked our return tickets, haven’t you?
This question is really nonsense, as soon as we arrived in Salamonsa we bought the mobile card for Salamonsa at the airport, gave Carlos our passports a few days before, received the flight sms the night before and booked a flight for the day after tomorrow at 9 am….
Carlos put his hand in his pants pocket, looked at his brothers and said calmly:
-Each one has his business and they can’t be here for long.
Leonardo immediately said:
-I have put someone in charge of the company, that’s fine, I will stay as long as you need.
Moses also said:
-I did not accept the job and I can stay and help too.
Eric hastened to say:
-With Moses, a busy man, free, I am even freer, and Mr. Carlos, I am alone, is the right person to stay!
Antonio was about to speak when Carlos’ thin lips curved into a heatless smile and he said:
-Even I am leaving, what are you doing staying? I’ve deployed everything that needed to be deployed, I’ve got Nilson around, so leave without worrying.
It was so easy to say, but the sadness in their eyes could not be hidden at all, making them more and more heartbroken….
Olivia, with slightly reddened eyes, looked at Leonardo and said:
-How uncomfortable Micaela must be when so many good friends were here and suddenly they all leave, Leonardo, you go back first, I want to stay here and spend more time with her, like that time she played Super Angel and I was with her until the end…..
Leonardo instantly became anxious and took her in his arms.
-How can it be! You have a baby in your belly!
Katarina said:
-I’d better stay with Micaela, my son can be weaned and Antonio will take him back….
Antonio, although reluctant, did not object, and Olivia said excitedly:
-So why don’t we leave here in groups, one by one, and let Micaela get used to it…..
Carlos’ fists clenched and his heart ached at the thought of the imminent separation, and he took a deep breath before saying:
-There is no need, sooner or later you will all have to leave, and with each one that leaves, she will have to lose it, grieve and adapt again. Besides, Micaela must wish that all of you would not endure the pain of being separated as husband and wife. Besides, what she needs most, is me.
There was a slight pause…
Yes, Micaela was so kind and attentive, how could she accept that they would leave her husband and stay with her when what she needed most was precisely Carlos….
Everyone was becoming more and more disconsolate and suddenly there was a sad atmosphere…
Carlos’ cell phone rings in his pocket and he takes it out, it is Nilson, and picks it up.
-Carlos, I have an incoming request from Anlandana on my behalf for this Javier, coming through?