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In the wasteland, a settlement of over 500,000 people was undeniably large, but when broken down, it was still just 500,000 people. If the same thing had happened in Triumphant City or Ideal City, a disturbance involving a few thousand people would have been little more than a sneeze.
But in Boulder Town, which was riddled with entrenched issues, that sneeze became the fuse that ignited a full-blown crisis, nearly knocking out its front teeth in the process...
The next day at noon, Yalek, head of security at the Vega Trading Company, rubbed his ruddy, alcohol-sweetened nose and crawled out from a mountain of empty liquor bottles.
Sometimes he felt he might be an awakener too, just not obviously so. He once followed his boss to the northern suburbs and stayed at the Highway Town Hotel. There, he saw so-called awakeners in blue coats keel over after five or six drinks, but he himself was a genuine, undefeated heavyweight drinker.
That was why the boss always brought him along.
On one hand, he was big enough to intimidate the malnourished factory workers. On the other hand,...
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