“That morning, she rushed to the police station to join the investigators at around 10 o’clock. At that time, there were seven hostage detention locations identified, all of which were properties owned by criminals.
"The police blocked all signals in the building involved in advance to prevent criminals from informing each other, and then they began to crack down one by one.
"The first few sieges went relatively smoothly, so Liz did not participate. Starting from the fourth location, the police were responsible for negotiating or exchanging fire with the smugglers. Liz would sneak into the mansion or apartment from another location to find the imprisoned hostages, and then Take them away.
"This kind of cooperation has happened several times before, because Liz's combat speed is very fast. When the number of hostages is small, she can remove the hostages from criminals with minimal fighting - or even no fighting. They were smuggled out one by one under their noses. When all the hostages were rescued, the police would officially charge.
"The last hostage holding place that day - the place where Liz died, was a winery. It was a castle with a very complex structure in the countryside. Liz sneaked into the castle at 17:41. A total of seven hostages were rescued at 17:45, 17:49, 17:52, 17:53, and 17:54. When the last hostage was rescued, Liz asked the police to give her another quarter of an hour. Must go back again.
"At 18:16, Liz returned to the castle, and there was no news after that. It was not until 19:44 that night that the police finally captured the winery after more than an hour of fierce fighting. At the same time, they found Liz not far from the exit. Zi's body. Near her were two children, one 9 years old and one 11 years old.
"We speculate that this may be the reason why Liz returned to the scene - she wanted to save the two children. Unfortunately, after she was shot, the two children should have tried to escape on their own, but failed, and they all died in the end. Less than twenty meters away from Liz, the causes of death were all gunshot wounds, and one of them had a broken right arm.”
Hesta's brows furrowed tightly, "...What are the origins of those two children?"
"They are the children of a housekeeper in the winery. They were not originally included in the rescue list. According to the testimony, on the morning of the incident, the smugglers suddenly drove away all the winery servants out of caution. The two children had been there before. Living near the cellar, they still had a fever that day, and no one took them away.
"We brought back Liz's body, and after examination we found that she fell out of bullet time at 18:21. Liz's intermittent restriction time was 17 minutes, 18:37 - which is the time of Liz's death. At the end of her conditioned time.
"Liz entered bullet time at 1:22 pm. Her bullet time lasted for 12 hours and 36 minutes. This margin was more than enough to cover the following battles, and her heart rate and blood pressure did not change too much before and after she dropped out of bullet time. The big change shows that there was no accident at that time, so there is only one explanation left: she voluntarily quit bullet time."
This is the biggest doubt in the emails between Turan and Rico. How could Liz voluntarily quit bullet time in such a dangerous place?
But Hesta understood the reason almost immediately.
She recalled that many years ago, when she was in a rage and almost wanted to take Sean's life, Liz arrived in time and rushed to hug her - the price of that time was Hesta's shoulder bone fracture.
"I guess," Chiba said softly, "Liz was afraid of hurting the two children, so she chose to stop the bullet time and wait for the restriction time to end in the cellar. There are at least two reasons why she made such a choice. First of all, she had run this escape route several times and was relatively familiar with it. Secondly, at that time, the police were already fighting with the criminals near the main entrance, and the enemy's main firepower was concentrated on the east, so she took the risk... Unfortunately, she made the wrong bet."
Hesta's hands trembled uncontrollably, and she covered her face again, falling into violent and silent sobs.
The two drove back to the apartment. In the garden parking lot facing the street, Chiba parked the car. She was not in a hurry to go back to the house, but motioned Hesta to get a document on the car console - that was Chiba once read Liz's file in the archives of the underground base. Now she copied it and placed it in front of Hestad.
Then, Chiba got out of the car and smoked a cigarette.
When Hesta finished reading, Chiba used a lighter to light the documents that recorded Liz's life. The flames quickly licked the black and white words into ashes in the drizzle. Chiba casually threw them on the wet ground and used His feet kicked the remaining blank paper into the sewer.
"Don't tell anyone about these things you saw, including Turan and Rico." Qianye said softly, "I show these things to you to let you know that this is not just an accident. This was Liz's choice, and even if she had to do it over again, she would still do the same thing.
"Maybe she wanted to overturn a destiny, Jane. She just failed, but she may not be in pain."
Hesta's consciousness was a little numb at the moment. Chiba's words were like a voice coming from a distance. She had no strength to think about it carefully.
"...How do you know?" Hesta murmured.
Chiba laughed, seeming to be a bit self-deprecating. For some people, some nightmares are so frightening that they are willing to pay any price to quell them.
In the rain, Chiba took Hesta's hand and led her slowly towards the entrance of the apartment.
"I just know it."
…
That night, Hestad stayed up all night, but when she stared at the infinite darkness in front of her in the room without turning on the lights, she seemed to have sunk into a dream from which she could not wake up.
An imaginary cellar stretched across the memory, and her eyes seemed to be Liz's.
In her dream, she stumbled on the stairs leading to the underground winery and heard the cries of girls coming from the end of the dark road.
The cries were coming near and far away, not only from Wulian, but also from the basement of the apartment at No. 12 Boatman Street.
A small room where the sun never shines, a killing between close relatives.
Hesta was exhausted, she had cried so much that her head and eyes, and every joint in her body seemed to be aching.
She remembered Liz's words and what she said in her ear, "If I need any help in the future, I will let you know."
you lied to me.
You didn't say anything to me at all.
Over the past few years, you have remained silent on the issues where you need help most.
But in a daze, she seemed to hear Liz's voice again.
Liz smiled as usual with some helplessness.
"Everyone has a shadow that they don't want others to know... I know Jane must have it too, right?"
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