At 2:36 pm, Valenti ran out of breath to the underground parking lot. She saw Hesta waiting alone at the exit.
"Jane!" Valenti shouted from a distance, waving to Hesta, "come here."
Hesta trotted over to Valenti's side.
Valenti squatted down and asked, "How long have you been waiting here?"
"I arrived at 1:50," Hesta replied. "Miss Chiba asked me to meet here at two o'clock and said she would take me out."
Valenti let out a long sigh and took Hesta's hand, "I'm sorry, I'm late... I've made you wait for so long in vain. Chiba had something to do in the afternoon, so she sent me a message asking me to come over. I’ll take you back, but I was in a meeting in the afternoon and didn’t look at my phone…”
Hesta took out his cell phone and looked at it with some confusion - there were no missed calls or unread messages.
"But Miss Chiba did not contact me."
"That's how she is." Valenti showed a helpless smile, "I've informed you of the matter once, so I won't say more... You have nothing else to do in the afternoon, right?"
Hesta nodded.
"Then come to the library with me. I just have to organize some documents...come and do me a favor, okay?"
"Um."
Hesta agreed and started walking back with Valenti. After a few steps, she looked back around the parking lot again.
There is indeed no sign of Miss Chiba here.
Did she miss the date? Why?
"Miss Chiba seems to be very busy recently?" Hesta asked suddenly.
"Yeah, it's not easy for her to find time to go back to Tan Yi. During this period, she went to many press conferences and participated in many meetings..." Valenti paused, "With the nature of the work, it's not Method."
"How long will she stay in Tan Yi this time?"
Valenti looked up and thought for a moment.
"Three days...right?"
Hesta sighed softly. If she missed today, she wouldn't be able to wait for the weekend - she also had a heavy training mission in the coming week.
Valenti smiled, "Do you miss her very much?"
"Um."
"Then you can write her an email and tell her what you have seen and heard at the base recently." Valenti said softly, "She should be very happy to receive it."
…
In the next few days, Chiba did not show up at the base.
At dusk on the third day, she sat alone on the bell tower on top of the church in the old city, overlooking the entire city at sunset. Flocks of pigeons flew over the city, like a tangible wind.
Chiba is sitting on the long neck of a gargoyle on the top of the church. She will leave here by boat in two hours, and she is killing the waiting time in her own way.
The street lights on the livable streets turned on one after another. People left the office area and walked onto the streets, flocking to pubs and restaurants. Chiba could not hear the sounds below, and no one below looked up.
The wind whistled high up, and the hem of her clothes flew like a flag.
Suddenly, Chiba heard some small noises. She looked sideways and saw Valenti walking tremblingly toward her on a temporary steel suspension bridge not far away.
Due to years of disrepair, the narrow wooden ladder that originally led to the top of the bell tower has long been broken. This steel plate was used by roof repair workers to send empty stone buckets down, so it is only about a hand wide.
Valenti stepped on the steel single-plank bridge and approached slowly. Under her feet was nearly a hundred meters in the air.
Chiba held her breath almost immediately, and her back curved like a stretched bowstring - she was always ready to catch Valenti's missed kick.
However, everything went smoothly. Valenti finally walked to the hanging corridor on the top of the clock tower safely. Seeing that she wanted to continue walking out to the gargoyle where Chiba was, Chiba immediately stood up. body.
"Don't move!" She jumped up onto the corridor with a slender step, turned over and jumped into the iron fence, "...Are you crazy? How dangerous it was just now!"
Valenti laughed loudly, but proudly crossed his arms to Chiba.
The setting sun in the distant sky gradually faded, and the sunlight was like a river of gold. Chiba and Valenti stood together behind the iron fence engraved with angels and iris flowers. Chiba frowned, "How do you know I'm here?"
"My guess."
Under the setting sun, Valenti sat on the ground. Her face reflected light and dark colors due to the shadow of the fence. She looked up at Chiba.
"Do you still remember, before the base was rebuilt, we came to the old campus here to take classes for half a year. At that time, you liked to sneak here alone."
Chiba raised an eyebrow slightly, "Really?"
"I just happened to be in the city today to deliver documents. When I passed by here, I was thinking, will you be staying here too?"
Qianye snorted softly and looked at the half-dark sun, "The scenery here is beautiful."
"Indeed." Valenti looked in the same direction as Chiba, "From here, the entire old city is more beautiful."
"What kind of documents are you sending, and you have to make a special trip to the city?"
"You know, my supervisor has been working on Sean's behavioral analysis."
"Oh." Chiba was indeed somewhat impressed, "What did you analyze?"
"It's interesting," Valenti said with a smile, "We feel that Sean is going through a change. For example, yesterday, he wrote his first email to Mr. Weir, in which he applied to purchase a bunch of electronic components, such as sensors. ……some type of."
"Huh?" Qianye was quite wary, "What does he want to do?"
"He may be trying to solve some practical problems in daily life - he got his hand stuck in a microwave oven in the cafeteria some time ago."
As soon as Valenti mentioned "the hand is stuck," Chiba understood the specific reason. She stretched out her five fingers to the sky, "It was really difficult in the first half year of installing the prosthetic body. Just get used to it. These hands can do There is more to it than flesh and blood. However, when it comes to Sean... this is not necessarily a good thing."
"I understand, for now, he wants to try to modify the appliances around him, such as refrigerators and ovens. As long as he can remotely control the opening and closing of doors, he no longer has to worry about being stuck on something. We will follow up Follow-up." Valenti said with a smile, "But I don't think Sean will cause trouble to Jane in the future."
"Really, the reason?"
"One thing I never thought about before is why he suddenly targeted Jane." Valenti said softly, "Although Sean has been doing bad things secretly, he is not an impulsive and reckless person. On the contrary, after entering the base with Calvin, he was very cautious. He was very cautious in everything - Sean would try his best to avoid anything that would be punished on the surface.
"However, Jane is a living person. She is not a program that can be deleted or debugged arbitrarily. It is difficult for a living person to be completely controlled. Since Sean wants to trouble Jane, he must understand that as long as Jane He will speak up and ask for help, and the base will immediately discover his bullying behavior and punish him.
"But even so, he still enjoys it, which can only explain one point,"
Valenti looked at the dark blue sky in the distance.
"For Sean at the time, the pleasure of intimidating and teasing Jane far outweighed his fear of punishment from the base."
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