Old Qiao is dead.
When this news hit the crowd, everyone's first reaction was disbelief. The Jipulo girl named Momo and the "prisoners" behind her repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of this information. They circled Old Qiao's mechanical head for a long time before daring to run and deliver this news to others hiding in the rooms and laboratories. Soon, more people in lab uniforms rushed out from various places to the hall to confirm the situation.
It was quite a while later that people started cheering, waving whatever objects they could find, and shouting, while others began to cry quietly. All of this gradually turned into an infectious clamor.
In the end, the Jipulo girl, who had lost an ear and part of her body, had to run to maintain order. She even had to assign people to tie up some overly emotional "inmates" and inject them with tranquilizers to prevent their excessive excitement from burning out their sanity and stop them from self-harm.
