"Yeah, I know." Hesta nodded.
"Then I have nothing else to do." Turan took a step back, "You can rest early."
"By the way, why didn't Miss Turan go to training with the army tonight?" Hesta suddenly said, "...Is it because you want to take care of me?"
"Haha, that's not the case." Turan turned around and smiled, "Their kind of physical training is meaningless to me. If I want to improve my bullet time... I have to think of other ways."
Hestad didn't know what he was referring to, so he just whispered: "I wish you good luck."
"I hope so." Turan smiled and made a fist gesture to Hesta, and then walked quickly towards his room.
Hesta watched Turan leave. She really got to know this brown-haired and green-eyed Katla girl tonight.
…
In the next few days, even though Liz was away, Sean didn't cause trouble again.
The first proactive attack achieved good results, which really made Hesta a little happy. She originally wanted to tell Qianye this change in person as soon as possible, but strangely, Qianye didn't show up for several days.
In the past few days, the person who came to pick Hesta up for shooting practice in the center of the city was an old man in a suit and tie. He always appeared when Hesta was not in class and took her out of the base to participate in shooting practice.
The old man's hair and beard are both silver, and the two mustaches on his upper lip are neatly combed. He wears a black vest over a snow-white shirt, and a very well-fitting black trousers and morning coat.
His eyes are very thin, and he looks like a gentleman when he is not smiling. But when he smiles, his eyes are narrowed into slits, and it is difficult not to think of a fox with malicious intentions.
Molly seemed to know this person, because she was not surprised at all when she saw this person picking up people instead of Qianye.
As the two greeted each other, Hesta heard Morley call him "Mr. Elu."
Hesta heard them chatting. Morley asked Chiba if his body had recovered, and the old man replied calmly, "Almost."
"Is Miss Chiba sick?" Hesta asked.
Neither of them answered her.
Another week later, Chiba finally showed up, but this time she was in a wheelchair.
The left half of Chiba's face was wrapped with a bandage, and the entire left eye was covered. Elu pushed Chiba from behind, remaining silent as before.
When he got in the car, Hesta noticed that Chiba's right trouser leg and left sleeve were empty. It was only at this moment that Hesta finally understood the meaning of "Has the body recovered" that Moli asked before? It seemed that Chiba was seriously injured, so serious that two of her limbs were amputated.
After getting in the car, Chiba said nothing about his changes. Hesta looked sideways several times and found that Chiba was resting with his eyes closed.
She was indeed quieter than usual today, but as soon as she entered the shooting range, the energetic Chiba came back again. She prepared a special target for Hesta - the circular target 25 meters away was replaced by a human figure, each of which was a hostage and gangster being held hostage.
The "gangster" only showed one arm and half of his head, while his body was completely hidden behind the "hostage".
During training, Hesta could not help but glance behind her from the corner of her eye. Miss Chiba was holding a crutch with one hand, and the golden rooster was standing there independently.
For half the afternoon, Hestad was a little absent-minded. She was really not sure whether it would be rude to directly ask "Why are your hands and feet missing" in a livable land when the other party did not take the initiative to mention it.
Just as she was struggling with this, Chiba's crutch hit Hesta on the back unexpectedly.
"Don't hunch!"
The slender crutch was like a whip, and it felt hot when it hit her body. When Hesta came back to her senses, she realized that she had shot the "hostage" with another bullet.
Chiba sighed.
Hesta glanced at Chiba and said, "Sorry."
Chiba suddenly laughed, "This... is also an idea."
Hesta heard a bit of sarcasm in Chiba's words, but didn't understand it.
Qianye held the crutch with one hand and jumped forward: "When you really meet the robbers in the future, just shout directly, 'Listen to the gangsters inside, the hostages have been killed by me now, you come out and surrender as soon as possible. '...Which bad guy can't be caught without restraint?"
Hesta's face turned red.
She took a deep breath, "...I'll do it again."
Chiba was noncommittal, she looked at the newly erected portrait target in front of her and fell into deep thought - she could indeed feel that Hestad was a little worried today, but she did not expect that in this case, Hestad's shooting level would drop so much. quick.
"Concentrate," Chiba said sternly, "No matter how many distractions have happened before, when holding the gun, put all your thoughts on your shooting target - if you still want to survive .”
Mr. Elu wore earmuffs throughout the whole process and stood upright with a professional and kind smile on his face.
On the way back, they went to the "White Steamship" together again. This time Chiba only got two canalei, and Hesta got a new fruit tart. The store brought a cup of hot cocoa as usual, and she drank it. And done.
That night, Liz discovered a stick mark on Hesta's back while taking a shower. She immediately asked if any training officer in the base had violated the operating rules and punished Hesta corporally.
Hesta tried to change the subject, but Liz was determined to get to the bottom of the matter.
Seeing that he couldn't be fooled, Hesta had to improvise and said that when he and Qianye went out in the afternoon, they bravely knocked down a robber on the road, but accidentally received two sticks from the man.
Liz's hand that was rubbing bubbles in her hair suddenly stopped, "Qianye will let you do something brave by yourself?"
"She also helped, it was mainly her," Hesta began to make up for it, "It's just that I rushed out first, so..."
Liz sighed, "When I went to see Rico today, I found that Chiba had an appointment for a surgery at the base this week... Is she sick?"
Hesta was silent for a while, "Maybe... he was injured."
Liz let out a thoughtful murmur in the mist, and finally said softly, "Anyway, it's quite rare for these active-duty mercury needles to go back to the reserve base to make an appointment for surgery."
"Why?"
"Although our underground hospital here is also very advanced, it is still slightly inferior to the core city. After all, the mother city is inside the core city, and some equipment is not convenient for long-distance transportation." Liz said softly, "I heard The doctor who said he was going to operate on Chiba this time was temporarily sent from the Core City."
Hesta thought of Chiba she saw today, "That's it."
…
That night, Valenti finished his work, immediately changed his clothes and rushed to the underground hospital at the base.
The clock pointed to nine o'clock in the evening, two hours after Chiba finished the operation. This point is well beyond visiting hours, but Chiba's ward will always be an exception. At any time, all visitors will be notified to Chiba by a nurse in the ward, and she will then decide whether to meet.
Valenti only waited outside for a short moment before the nurse came out and told her she could go in.
In the white ward, Chiba didn't sleep either.
She sat there wearing another pair of spare glasses, Chiba's unusually long hair hanging loose. She holds a red pen between her middle finger and ring finger, which is shaking rhythmically with the ups and downs of her fingers.
Various paper documents were scattered across the entire hospital bed. Some papers had brief red annotations written on them. Ellu was silently sorting out the old manuscripts on the bedside table.
