She suddenly recalled her past life in the monastery. At that time, she was often on the bell tower of the church, overlooking the road in the distance.
Every year on the monastery's open day, some families who have been vetted by the two nuns, Alma and Gerdin, enter the monastery and adopt the children they like. At that time, she and Bo Heng would wait together on the bell tower, guessing which children would be selected this year and could leave here with their adopters.
New parents mean a new home and a new life. This itself is part of the monastery's charity, but she and Bo Heng have never been in the sight of the adoptive family - Bo Heng voluntarily stayed in the monastery and did not want to leave in this way, while Hesta, for various reasons, Never brought before a human being.
At this moment, Hesta's attention was no longer on the physical pain. She looked at the end of the road. Miss Chiba's fast words disappeared into the distance along with the folding car... Now she Standing high again, all the gentle elders and kind friends in the past had left her, and she was still alone.
"Do not be afraid."
Hesta suddenly felt a pair of hands pressing on her shoulders. She turned her head and saw Valenti looking at her with a smile.
"I'll take you to the dormitory, okay."
…
The dormitory building for the reservists is a very retro four-story building. The first and second floors of this building are distributed with lounges, training rooms and small book lending rooms. The third and fourth floors are the real dormitory areas, and the boys are on the third floor. , the fourth floor for girls. There are toilets and public bathrooms at both ends of these two floors.
Hesta followed Valenti and slowly walked up the old steps - there wasn't even an elevator here.
"There are more than 200 active mercury lamps in the entire third district, and there are 67 reservists in Tanyi City. Except for a few children who are participating in internships, most of them live here." Lundy smiled and said, "Where's your room? Let me see...it's at No. 403, ah."
Valenti's voice suddenly stopped, and she suddenly laughed: "Your number ends in 403, and it turns out that the dormitory you were assigned to is also 403 - you and the number 403 are really destined."
Valenti's voice was gentle and cheerful as she showed Hesta the two fitness areas and common room on the first floor. It is now around four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone is attending classes in another teaching building, and the entire dormitory area seems empty.
According to Valenti, you have to wait until after seven o'clock in the evening to see people coming back one after another. They will stay in the gym and library until ten o'clock, and then go back to the dormitories on the third and fourth floors to sleep. This is the case every day.
However, when passing the bathroom, the two of them heard a faint sobbing sound at the same time.
The smile in Valenti's eyes disappeared almost immediately, replaced by a kind of worry caused by concern. She asked Hesta to wait for her where she was so that she could go and see what happened, but Hesta still Follow her and follow her to find the source of the cry.
The sobs in the bathroom overlapped with the sound of water. In the corner of the women's locker room, they quickly saw a girl sitting in the corner. She was wearing short-sleeved clothes and squatting on a wooden flat stool against the wall. on the bed, burying her face in her arms, her wet brown hair covering most of her face.
Valenti recognized her immediately but did not approach.
"Okay, okay, Miss Hesta." Valenti left there quietly, and quickly informed his companions of the news on his mobile phone, "Let's go, I'll take you to see you s room……"
Hesta looked back with some concern, "Don't you need to worry about that person just now?"
"Someone will come looking for her, but maybe she'd rather be alone for a while now."
"You know her?"
"Of course." Valenti smiled, "I know everyone here - her name is Turan, and she also lives in 403."
Turan, Hesta remembered the name. She thought for a while, "Why is she crying?"
"Well," Valenti thought carefully, "I think it's because her time is too short to join the frontline team and directly participate in the battle against chelates - she has always wanted to be their One, just like Masaki.”
"Is she seriously ill?"
"No," Valenti gave Hesta a strange look, "Why do you ask?"
"You just said her time was too short..."
"Ah..." Valenti suddenly realized, and then smiled, "That does not refer to the rest of her life, Miss Hesta. Miss Turan is very healthy, participates in various trainings and is very diligent. She will definitely live for a long, long time... …The 'time' I refer to is the 'bullet time' of each mercury needle, which directly determines how long they can stay on the battlefield when fighting chelates."
Hesta's pace slowed down slightly, "What is... bullet time?"
Valenti was a little surprised, "Didn't Masaki tell you?"
Hesta shook her head.
Valenti: "From the time the mercury needles are discovered to when they can actually go into battle, they usually have to go through two awakenings. The first time usually occurs when they encounter chelates for the first time. As for bullet time, the mercury needles are in the 'second time' A talent that everyone will have after awakening... You have seen chelates with your own eyes, haven't you?"
"Um."
Valenti paused, "Did you have any special feeling when you faced the chelate head-on?"
"A special feeling..." Hesta was silent for a while, and the strange sight of everything slowing down suddenly came to mind again, "A little bit."
"About 78% of mercury needles will feel something strange when they first wake up, usually burning or pain in the body." Valenti said softly, "After awakening for the first time, the mercury needles will emit... A unique aura that makes them identifiable to their own kind.”
Hesta's steps froze slightly. She lowered her head with some concern and sniffed her clothes.
Valenti: "Haha, don't worry, ordinary people can't smell this smell. Only a small amount of chelates and some mercury needles with a particularly sensitive sense of smell can detect it - not to mention that the smell itself is very weak. , and it will disappear after you awaken for the second time.”
"Really..." Hesta murmured softly.
"These are all small things, don't worry about them." Valenti continued, "After the second awakening, the emergence of 'bullet time' is the change that attracts the most attention - it refers to the ability of mercury needles to maintain their combat status. Time. During this period, our speed, strength, vision, hearing... will all be greatly improved."
"...as fast as a bullet?"
"It can be understood that way." Valenti replied, "A mercury needle in this state can easily catch a flying bullet."
