The day before classes resumed, Chiba, who had just returned from District 14, drove her car to the base again.
She moved several meetings around until she finally found the afternoon and evening today. Chiba planned to take Hesta out for a walk during her last half-day vacation.
She prepared a very special gift for Hesta, and she was looking forward to Hesta's reaction when it arrived.
The agreed time is two o'clock in the afternoon. However, Chiba had just arrived from the city hall in Tanyi City. She was just trying not to be late and didn't pay attention to the specific time. When the car stopped, she realized that it was just past 1:26.
With a rare half-hour of free time where she didn't have to do anything, Chiba flattened her seat and turned on the music station. She adjusted her lying position and prepared to relax for a while in the parking lot of the base.
However, just as she took out the blindfold, before she could put it on, she saw Molly standing not far away.
Molly was instructing two young faculty members to help her move boxes. She was driving a four-seater small car, and the black body looked like it had seen better days.
Chiba watched for a while, then got out of the car and approached, "Hey, Molly."
Molly glanced at her gently and said, "Good afternoon."
Chiba glanced at Molly's trunk and the back seat of the car. A total of six or seven cardboard boxes of different sizes filled all the spaces. The cardboard boxes were all carefully sealed with tape and numbered.
"What are you doing?" Chiba asked, "Moving?"
Molly didn't answer immediately. She adjusted the position of a cardboard box on the edge of the trunk, and then put down the back cover of the car.
She waved her thanks and goodbye to the two young men. After they left, Morley turned back to look at Chiba, "It seems you didn't read the recent base announcement."
Chiba pursed her lips, "Indeed, if these school affairs are not pointed out to me specifically, I usually just file them away——"
"I resign." Morley said concisely, "The new order officer has arrived today, and she will be responsible for all the subsequent affairs of the base."
Chiba stood there and watched Molly check her rear door. After a while, she narrowed her eyes and said, "...Wait? Where are you going?"
"Both Districts 4 and 11 have reserve bases to be built. I may go there, but I may not. I'll wait for instructions from the headquarters," Morley said lightly. "Before that, I will take half a year's leave and not accept any requests." Work."
"Why?" Qianye followed Mo Li, "You have been here for more than 20 years, why do you suddenly want to resign?"
"Don't you understand, Chiba?"
Chiba laughed and said, "Just because you have cooperated with my work during this period?"
Molly didn't answer, just closed the trunk lid and walked to the cab.
"Moli," Qianye followed closely behind Moli, "I am responsible for all the consequences related to Hesta. As for the chelate jailbreak, I have already written a report. This is pressure from Robert and the others. Being too big will cause problems in our internal work - people will make mistakes, and the higher-ups are not going to pursue it seriously... What are you doing by punishing yourself like this? Is there any misunderstanding between us? "
Mo Li scolded, "No misunderstanding, Qianye, you did a good job——"
As she spoke, she opened the cab door and Chiba almost immediately stopped her hand.
“I can explain if you’d like to listen.
“The coalition government in District 3 is not the only one that wants to steal people from us. At least Districts 1 and 11 have been making such moves since a few years ago.
"Although now, the coalition government of the third district has put all the responsibility on Robert alone, behind this plan to snatch people from the reserves is their temptation to us. Not only them, all the regions are watching Follow us. If we fail to guard the border this time and do not give a strong enough counterattack, our reserve bases in other regions will be faced with powerful enemies. Special times have special methods of doing things. Isn't this difficult to understand? Molly?"
Molly glanced at Chiba.
"...Two years ago," her voice was calm and indifferent, "when the Gringoire brothers were deeply involved in public opinion because of deer hunting when they first entered the base, we withstood all the pressure and never announced them in the end. This is the base’s protection of newcomers. Chiba, what about you? As Hesta’s guardian, you not only directly gave a close-up of her face, but also actively slandered her personality——"
"The municipal government has long published Hesta's old photos. What's the use of digging into the portrait now? In two years, she will officially change her job and start taking over the chelate hunting mission. Today's devil The image is just an interesting silhouette of the future hero when she was young - who would blame her because a mercury needle is too sharp?"
Molly sneered, "Then I only have one question, Chiba."
"you say."
"Does breaking the rules give you pleasure?"
Qianye was slightly startled. She looked at Mo Li. The hatred and provocation on his face made her feel that all the words she just said were in vain.
Qianye raised her left eyebrow slightly and lowered her head slightly, "...how to say?"
"You already have the so-called evidence needed for the overall situation, don't you? If you want to destroy Hesta's perfect image in the public eye, you only need to show the video of Hesta beating Sean and the 'short tweet' It's enough to put the name Lane' together - but did you stop there? You didn't.
"You secretly instigated Hesta to attack Sean with a gun. You encouraged her to respond to violence with violence. In order to facilitate this plan, you opened the door for her. You trampled on the rules of the entire reserve base... What do you want to tell her? I am also thinking about the overall situation? Do you think I will believe it!"
Every word of Molly's words was like a sudden burst of lava. This was her long-simmered anger. Her hands waved with the emphasis of every word, and a lock of black hair on her forehead fell off and hung over her left eye. Before.
Chiba sneered, raised her hands, and gave a few sparse applause.
"The lesson is, Molly, where were you when Sean was doing whatever he wanted by taking advantage of the technical loopholes in the base? Where were you when Hesta was being harassed? When she needed help-"
Molly interrupted Qianye's words sternly, "These are the rules in a livable land, Qianye, these are the fangs of civilization. No civilization can completely protect the weak from bullying - whether in the wilderness or in the In a livable place, weakness is the original sin. There is no rule that can protect everyone's every aspect like a greenhouse. Civilization can only draw a theoretical bottom line, and how to deal with conflicts above the bottom line is exactly what Hesta's most important task is to Things you need to learn at the base!
"Let me ask you Chiba, Sean has been causing trouble for so long, has he caused any substantial harm to Hesta? Did he let her break an arm or a leg - no.
"Because in the past two years, we have taught this kid from Hekla what the rules are. It is the iron rule of the base that no bullying will be tolerated. Any harm he does to anyone, once it is confirmed, he will have to pay for it. corresponding price.
"In contrast, Hesta must also learn to use means other than resorting to violence to protect herself in confrontations. She should learn to use her own eyes to see more options - besides holding a gun to someone's head, she could have found other options. The method of protecting oneself within the established rules is what I will talk about today. If she cannot learn this method, she will never learn how to live in a livable place.
"If you can't guarantee that Hesta will be as strong as you in the future, and you can't guarantee that she can defy all the rules like you, she will sooner or later run into a more domineering and difficult opponent, and by then she won't know how to find the right one. Even with the protection of rules, you can’t overpower your opponents——”
Chiba sneered, "She will! She will be like me -"
"Then she will become a marginalized person like you!"
Molly's voice was like a bell, sternly interrupting Qianye's words.
"She will be alone forever, like a wandering spirit, like wildfire, wandering alone forever, not accepted by anyone!"
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