Chapter 26 Chapter Fourteen: The Fall of Blackrant

After the fugitives closed the gate firmly, they immediately came to recruit and bandage the numerous wounded.Jeanna in Balsac and Amijie.With the help of Floras, they tended to them tenderly.Thus did fate play tricks on men, and they found refuge in the den of their enemies. After the bandaging was over, another task was immediately placed in front of the girl to feed these unfortunate people who had been tortured by hunger for several days and nights.Everyone went to each floor to search carefully, and finally found some food to satisfy their hunger.But the situation is still so serious that the inevitable outcome can only be postponed for a few hours.

It is eleven o'clock in the morning.The explosions continued, and the happy boys shouted in the square in front of the palace, sometimes banging on the gate a few times, and William.The curses of Fairy's gang.However, the fugitives knew that the fortress they were in was almost impenetrable. As soon as she had a chance, Jeanna asked Ameijie.Floras: Why did they leave the factory and come to the battle in the square in front of the palace when there is such a disparity in strength?The reporter told her what happened after she left.He said that after Tongale finally sent the long-awaited signal, Marcel.Camare immediately sent several packs of explosives and a large number of weapons to the second block via aerial cableway.The besieged people then gathered at the gate of the factory, ready to take part in the battle should the uprising begin.

Half an hour after the weapons were delivered, there was the first explosion.This is a gate in East Galle in the demolition of the fence between the Black Residential Area and the Residential Corps Residential Area.The house burned.Negroes poured into Civic Corps housing estates, destroying everything in their path.The rest was already known to Jeanne.She saw with her own eyes that the blacks were driven back so quickly in the square in front of the palace that she and Louise had no time to go to support them.It is true that the workers had already left the factory, but they had to retreat immediately, because most of the blacks had already fled from the square.

They had to go back to the factory, where they had a rough night.The failure of the uprising has not allowed them to hold on to killing Gary.Kiriel's hope.However, they had the opportunity to be spectators in the continuous series of big explosions.The cause of the explosion, Jeanna does not yet know. Amijay.Floras explained that these explosions were done by Marcelle.Camare did it, he himself went completely insane. As we know, Marcel.Many of the abnormal behaviors shown by Camare are extremely disproportionate to his steady thinking ability.The genius inventor is often on the verge of madness, and a string of events in the last month has literally driven him mad.

The prisoners who escaped to the factory revealed about Gary.Kiriel's crime was the first blow to him; the second, heavier blow was Daniel.The facts confessed by Fran.After the truth came out, Kamare was getting closer to madness day by day. Providing weapons to Dong Galle was Kamare's last act of sobriety.When the sound of the first explosion was heard, and the Negro housing complex and the Civic Corps housing complex were on fire, the people around the engineer saw: His face suddenly became pale, and he grabbed his throat with one hand, He seemed to be out of breath while muttering incoherently.The only thing that can be heard clearly is this sentence: My career is over!My career is over!Repeated softly and endlessly, for almost a quarter of an hour, shaking his head constantly.Then, straightening up suddenly, beating his chest with his fist, he cried out: God curse Blekrant!

He hid in the tower and climbed to the top, closing all the iron gates behind him along the way. The defense facilities of the factory tower were the same as those in the palace.Now no one can get close to him, just like Gary.It's like Kiliel is locked up on the balcony.As Camare walked up the tower, he was still repeating a sentence: God curse Blekrant! Almost simultaneously, an explosion was heard from the second block. Under the leadership of Rika, several workers immediately rushed to the power workshop regardless of their own weak health, and cut off the power supply on the tower in an attempt to isolate the tower from the outside world.But Kamare had stored energy there, even a dynamo powered by liquid air, enough to last him for a few days.The explosions continued, but his hornets stopped their defensive circle dance and fell into the ditch, so they restored power to the tower.At this time, although Kamare had lost his mind, he still activated the Hornets.In this way, the night passed.

At dawn the next day, Camare was seen standing on the platform of the tower and delivering a long speech to the people below.However, people's ears only catch a few words, such as: God is angry!The sky is on fire!Total perish!Finally, he yelled in a voice that could be heard from every corner of the factory: Run for your life!Run for your life!Then it disappeared into the tower. At this time, the first explosion sounded on the left bank of the river.The explosion took place inside the factory, terrifying its inhabitants.So they decided to leave the factory to try their luck, because what they can choose now are only two different ways to die.

Unfortunately, they had an encounter with the merry boy in the square in front of the palace.After their team was divided into two groups here, a group of people squeezed straight to the gate of the palace, hoping to get Gary.Kiriel's protection, another group was forced to retreat to the river bank.However, they closed the gate on the square wall facing the river bank when they retreated. This group of people is easy to see in the palace.They were hungry and exhausted, and they had no courage to launch a new offensive against the enemy, nor did they have the determination to go back to the factory to join the insane engineer, so they simply lay down on the ground, although the enemy on the right bank of the river and the balcony of the palace could do nothing. Shoot at them without hindrance, and they are left to their fate.

Jana.It was a blessing in misfortune that Buxton found among them her friends, including her dearest nephew, all safe and sound from the terrible massacre! Jeanne had just been comforted when suddenly there was a dull thumping sound from the upper floors of the palace, which came from the balcony.The robbers who had been trapped there tried to lift a stone slab from the balcony and make a hole to come down.But the slate is very strong, but if William.The Faireys were not starving, they were easy to achieve.Even so, by six o'clock in the evening, they had opened a hole in the floor of the verandah and descended to the fourth floor.

Jeanna and her fellow sufferers hid on the third floor, closed the iron door leading to the fourth floor, and listened for movement. Jana.Buxton took this opportunity to ask Balsac and Ameijie.Floras recounts what she has experienced since leaving the factory. At about seven o'clock, the ceiling on the third floor began to shake under the heavy impact.William.Fairy and his gang continued their work after a short break, and the people on the third floor had to go down again. To get through the ceiling of the third floor is as laborious as that of the fourth floor.Until two o'clock in the morning, the banging sound in the palace continued.Then there was about two hours of silence, William.Fairy and his gang had already descended from the fourth to the third floor.At last the exhausted gang of robbers rested again.

The work of breaking through the ceiling on the second floor started at four o'clock in the morning.People on the second floor hid on the first floor without waiting for it to be opened.This is their last hiding place. when williamThe sun had risen into the clear sky while Fairy and the others were frantically cutting a passage for themselves, and now it was time to soberly assess the extent of the catastrophe.The whole city was almost destroyed, and only two houses remained in the quarter of the Jolly Boys, just across from the palace.But minutes after the sun rose, they also took to the sky.In this way, everything on the right bank of the Red River was completely and utterly destroyed. But the sound of explosions did not stop.Not only did it stop, but the interval between explosions was shorter.Marcel.After destroying the buildings on the right bank of the river, Kamare set out to blow up the houses on the left bank of the river.He moved carefully and deftly, blowing up workers' dormitories, workshops, and warehouses in sequence, one after the other, rather than all at the same time.It seemed to prolong his period of self-satisfaction.But the heart of the factory, the machines that powered his horrific enterprise, he didn't even move. The happy boys in the square were relatively quiet in the pre-dawn hours, and seemed to feel hopeless and ready to give up.But then they stormed the gates of the palace again, shouting and screaming. This intensified behavior caused the besieged to wonder: why were they so obstinate?Now that the whole city doesn't exist, what do they expect?Wouldn't it be better to leave this ruined city at once and go to the Niger River? A few words from the square explained the motives of the madness of the merry boys, who, feeling that their chief had betrayed them, made no attempt to rescue him.They attacked the palace so desperately, just to get the gold and silver jewels that they thought filled the whole palace before leaving the ruined city.After they planned to divide up these treasures, they went their separate ways and went elsewhere to find a paradise for getting rich. The besieged would have been happy to have their desires gratified.Unfortunately, they don't know where the jewels are hidden.Even if you know it, you may not be able to use them to get rid of these enemies. By nine o'clock in the morning, nothing had changed except for the increasingly frequent explosions at the factory.William.Fairray punched holes in the ceiling on the second floor and the happy lads banged on the gates, but the latter suddenly changed tactics.After spending a long time in vain obstinately at the gate, they happened to call attention to the stone walls surrounding the door frame.So they clanged their weapons on it for half an hour.Then there was a loud bang, and stones flew across the wall on the lower right side of the door frame.Although the door panel has not fallen down yet, if there is another blast, it will not escape the fate of being destroyed, and the dreadful gun butt can already be seen at the hole. The besieged had to take shelter in the house furthest from the gate.Joyful young man digging and charging the second mine. Almost at the same time, a loud crash came from upstairs, and the ceiling on the second floor was broken.A few minutes later, the sound of footsteps on the second floor was clearly audible, and the sound of heavy impact rang directly above their heads. The situation is hopeless.There are three or four hundred happy young men outside, who will break in within half an hour, and there are more than two dozen violent robbers above their heads, who are already able to shoot at the first floor through the hole in the ceiling.Jana, Louise.Buxton, Ameijie.Floras and Barsac tried to comfort their fellow sufferer as best they could, but to no avail.Desperate people lay on the floor, waiting for the final blow of fate. Suddenly, the situation changed drastically.Whether it is the happy boy, or William.Fairray, quit their jobs almost simultaneously.It turned out that somewhere nearby there was a loud noise that was completely different from the explosion. It seemed to be the roar of a cannon, followed by several similar loud noises.Within five minutes, a wide gap appeared in the wall at the southeast corner of the square (where it joined the fields). A few merry lads flung themselves at the opening, uttering terrible curses.Clearly, something was wrong with what they were seeing outside the gap.So they turned back immediately, discussed with each other for a while, and rushed to the right bank of the river.William.Fairray gave up the work of punching holes in the ceiling of the first floor and went up to the balcony of the tower. Before the happy boys reached the right bank of the river, several explosions suddenly destroyed the Garden Bridge and the Palace Bridge on the Red River.About fifty happy young men were killed, and the traffic on both sides of the Red River was cut off.Those who had not yet reached the bridge at the time of the explosion scurried into the river in an attempt to swim across. The square in front of the palace suddenly became empty.If you don't put the explosions that are still ringing regularly, the atmosphere of chaos and noise is suddenly replaced by a dead silence. Suddenly, there was another loud noise, and a corner of the palace fell down, and the besieged people were at a loss in horror.Marcel.Kamare's bombing project is nearing completion, so he has to escape quickly. They immediately rushed out of the palace and ran to the square.They also rushed to the gap to find out the cause of the happy boy's frightened flight.However, before they reached that place, there was a loud bugle sound outside. They didn't know that this was the signal to bring them rescue, so they stopped in amazement. It was he, then, that was Captain Marthare, as the clever reader had no doubt guessed, whose coming was heralded by the roar of shelling and the sound of bugles. He saw the pale, weak, hungry and exhausted The wretched who are tormented to be unable to stand. And when they saw soldiers appearing in the gap, they ran forward to meet them.Yet these poor creatures were so weak and agitated that they could only stretch out their hands to their own rescuers.Some even lost consciousness and fell to the ground. When Captain Martharei led his troops into the square in front of the palace, he was presented with a desolate scene: the piles of ruins on the other side of the river were smoking; The partially bombed-out building; the square in front of it was piled with hundreds of dead bodies.There was still a small group of living people in the center of the square, and the captain immediately ran towards them.Will he be lucky enough to find the one he's looking for, the one to save in the first place? He was soon relieved.Jana.As soon as Buxton spotted Captain Martha Ray, he ran towards him, and in this unfortunate girl with pale face, sunken cheeks, and eager eyes, the captain could hardly recognize that it was the time when they parted three months ago. The strong and energetic Morna.He ran up to hold her and held her in his arms.By this time, Jana had lost consciousness. While he was trying to bring her back to consciousness, there were two terrible explosions that shook the ground beneath their feet.Both the factory and the palace were blown up, and above each pile of rubble stood a seemingly indestructible tower, alone and untouched.On the top of the tower above the ruins of the palace, you can see William.Fairray, his eight advisors, nine servants, and five black guards, twenty-three in all.They leaned over the parapet and shouted for help. On top of another tower there was only one person.He circled the platform of the tower in three consecutive circles, shouting incomprehensible words to the sky and waving his arms.His voice was very loud, and although the people were some distance away from him, the following words, shouted twice in succession, were clearly heard: Disaster!Disaster befell Blackrant! These words William.Fairy heard it too.He grabbed a gun without aiming, and fired a bullet at the top of the tower four hundred meters away.The casually shot bullet immediately hit his prey: Marcelle.With his hands on his chest, Kamare staggered up the tower and disappeared. Almost at the same time, there were double explosions, stronger than ever before.Then, almost at the same moment, both towers fell with a crash, and buried their masters in their rubble: under the masonry of one tower was William.Fairey and his party, and under the other was Marcelle.Camare himself. After the deafening explosion, a deep silence followed.The horrified audience stood for a long time watching and listening, although there was nothing to see and no sound to hear. It was all over, he who had created Blackrant himself had utterly destroyed it, and all that was left was piles of rubble.Marcel.Camare's miraculous, but unfortunate creation is no more today.