Noon the next day.
Valenti was sitting alone in the cafeteria. She looked down at her phone and tapped the keys with her thumbs.
Valenti: My friend, you are finally online.
Chiba:?
Valenti: Did you read the email I forwarded to you?
Chiba: Jane’s list of needs? Look, do you want me to reimburse you? The base shouldn't be so poor.
Valenti:…
Chiba: Sister, if you have something to say, please tell me quickly. I’m about to get on the plane.
Valenti: Why did Jane want these things on her first day at the base... Do you have any idea?
Chiba: None.
Chiba: If you want to know, you should ask her herself.
Valenti: Of course I'm going to talk to her. We have our first conversation this afternoon... But why don't you seem worried at all? She had just been through something tragic like that, and this information could be important.
Chiba: Hahahaha
Valenti:?
Chiba: It’s true that she just experienced a tragedy, but don’t forget that she grew up in Short Ming Lane before entering the monastery. Children have never seen big winds and waves. On the first day after entering the base, I asked you for some furniture to decorate and scared you for a moment... Stay calm, Valenti, there won't be any big problems with the person I choose.
Valenti: ...So why did you choose Jane? I've heard several people discussing this topic today.
Chiba: Ha, I just think her smell is a bit special
odor?
Valenti raised her head for a moment to think, and saw Hesta standing directly opposite her holding a dinner plate. She was startled involuntarily.
"Sorry, did I scare you?" Hesta said softly.
"Ah, no..." Valenti came back to his senses.
Today Hesta is wearing the uniform she received yesterday, a white shirt over a dark blue sweater, and a gray pleated skirt underneath. There is a gold embroidery pattern on the left chest of the uniform top, which is from the reserve training base. The emblem is a long sword that penetrates the claws, with the letters AHgAs underneath.
"Can I sit here?" Hesta asked.
"Of course." Valenti symbolically dragged the dinner plate towards her. She glanced at the new message on the screen of her mobile phone. Chiba's profile picture turned gray after leaving the words "Boarding, for nothing" Go down.
"Are you still used to living here yesterday?" Valenti put the phone away.
"Well, I talked to Liz for a long time yesterday, and I also met Turan and Rico, but we didn't talk in depth." Hesta replied calmly, "I have received two hours of course selection training this morning, but I still There are a lot of things I don’t understand. I plan to go to the course selection system in the computer room and check it out after I finish my conversation with you in the afternoon."
"Very good." Valenti smiled, "It seems you have found the rhythm of life here."
"Well, thanks to Liz, she told me a lot about life."
The two of them lowered their heads to eat. When the meal was over, Hesta followed Valenti directly to her talking room.
On the way together, Valenti thought about what Chiba said not long ago, "She smells a little special," and involuntarily leaned closer to Hesta.
She could indeed smell some of the scent of mercury needle children on Hesta, but this was actually very common on newcomers.
What is Chiba's so-called special...?
"Miss Valenti?" Hesta's voice interrupted Valenti's thoughts again. She came back to her senses and found that she was already standing in front of the door of the conversation room.
"Ah, I'm sorry..." Valenti immediately started to get the key card, "I always get lost in thinking about something, and end up forgetting the things in front of me, please don't mind."
"I don't mind." Hesta looked at Valenti, "On the contrary, I feel that my time with you is very relaxing."
Valenti was amused and said, "Thank you..."
The conversation room is empty. There are two gray metal cabinets placed side by side on one side of the wall. There are many thick document folders inside. There are two orange-yellow single sofas diagonally opposite to each other by the window, close to the door. There was a sandalwood desk beside him. Valenti stepped forward and opened the computer on the desk, and called Hesta to come over and fill out the psychological scale first.
Hesta learned the operation from Valenti for a while and quickly got the hang of it.
The base is currently using the Symptom Self-Rating Scale-270, which was newly revised last year and replaced with norms. It follows the seven-point Likert scale and has a total of 270 questions, ranging from anxiety, depression, and antisocial behavior. There are 17 mutually exclusive dimensions to examine the subject's current psychological state, and the reliability and validity are very high.
What makes this new revised scale better than the old version is that it has two new sections, the "Vanity Scale" and the "Defense Scale" - this section contains a total of 30 questions, specifically for lie detection.
Generally speaking, ordinary people will score very low on these 30 questions. However, if someone deliberately hides their true thoughts for the purpose of "beautifying themselves" or "passive defense", and instead chooses to look more good or correct answers, then their corresponding scores for such questions will become very high.
This means that his entire questionnaire is not credible.
These 30 polygraph questions were scattered among the original 240 questions, which greatly facilitated psychologists like Valenti. She could easily use this polygraph scale to see whose measurement results were unreliable. , and understand the other party’s tendency to lie to a certain extent.
About half an hour passed before Hestad submitted the scale.
Valenti had already adjusted the camera on the side and started talking with Hesta.
Today, their conversation only stopped at Hesta's life at the base in the past and the next few days.
Hesta often looked at the camera placed not far away. Like all newcomers, she was not used to talking in front of the camera.
"Will anyone access these videos or recordings?" she asked softly.
"Yes, but only a very small number of people will have access authority." Valenti replied, "Including me, there are only four people in total, oh no, five - including Chiba. In most cases No one will touch them, all image data are only kept as archives, if there is a problem with your future development, we will try to find the reason through these materials."
Hesta stared at the red dot on the camera with complicated eyes, "I understand."
There is actually a lot that Valenti wants to know about Hesta, such as the girl's early memories, her birthplace and childhood, the education she received in Short Call Lane and St. Anne's Convent, some daily entertainment, and important Life turning points and choices…
But Valenti also knows that these questions won’t have answers now—it’s far from time to talk to Hestad about these deep topics.
But she didn't have to worry, because conversations like today's would continue to happen once a month, and then increase or decrease as appropriate until they reached adulthood.
The clock struck 3:50 p.m., and Hestad rose from her seat to say goodbye to Valenti. When she opened the door to the interview room from the outside, Valenti sat back in front of the computer to look at the results of Hesta's questionnaire.
As expected, she had just dragged the page to the results page and saw the red words "Invalid Measurement" displayed on the screen, with a line of black text below -
"The subject's "Defense Scale" score is too high, and the results of this questionnaire cannot be trusted. "
