Valenti's heart suddenly rose, and for a moment, she even stopped breathing.
She turned back quietly, and Hesta had turned around at some point, looking at Ava intently and directly.
Hesta's expression was so natural and sincere, as if she was completely unaware that her words might sound offensive to others.
Valenti quickly glanced at Ava again - Ava was still driving the car as before, her expression unchanged.
There was a brief silence in the carriage, but it was soon broken by Ava's laughter.
"Yes, Jane, just like me."
Hesta tilted her head and thought for a moment, then resumed her previous sitting position, "That sounds good."
"Of course it's good." Ava still looked at the road in front of the car, she still smiled faintly, "In short, what I want to say is that every strange and abrupt system you see now has its own corresponding blood behind it. The lesson - Forty years ago, it was nothing new for mercury needles to do evil in the wilderness or in habitable areas."
"So that's it." Valenti responded softly.
Ava stopped the car in front of the traffic light. Her eyes were a bit playful, "Sometimes, the reason why the entire system can operate continuously and smoothly depends on some shackles that are difficult to break, right?"
Valenti laughed.
Ava's joke suddenly reminded her of a past incident a few months ago.
When she first met Ava, Ava glanced at the wedding ring she was wearing on her left hand and asked her if she knew the origins of the custom of women wearing rings after marriage.
At that time, she replied that this seemed to be passed down from the golden age. The two parties exchanged rings, indicating that they would jointly restrain their behavior after marriage, always alert themselves, and remember the vows of loyalty to each other.
Ava shook her head and told her that as early as the Black Iron Age, people had the habit of wearing rings. At that time, rings symbolized power, and kings would even engrave their seals on the rings for convenience.
But that's just for men.
Most women in the Iron Age lived in the family. They would get a wedding ring (usually a copper ring or an iron ring) on their engagement and wedding day. Wearing this ring means that she will be married from now on. Later, she needed to remain eternally obedient and loyal to her husband. In exchange, she had the power to take care of the housework for her husband.
Of course, the husband does not need to wear a wedding ring.
After saying these words, Ava changed the topic and talked about work again. That night, when Valenti got home, she looked up the origin of the wedding ring, and the result shocked her, "men and women exchange rings." This custom did indeed appear much later than she imagined - it was not until the end of the Silver Age, when the world went through several technological iterations and began to experience frequent global thermal weapon wars, that exchanging wedding rings became mainstream.
At that time, men often went to the front line soon after getting married. On a battlefield that is dangerous and far away from home, a brooch, a ring, or a necklace with a small photo - all these jewelry that do not take up space take on new meaning and value.
Before that, wedding rings were indeed “jewelry” unique to women.
Before meeting Ava for the second time, Valenti took the initiative to take off her wedding ring to observe Ava's reaction. The conversation went as usual from beginning to end, until Ava suddenly called her out before she left.
"You feel much refreshed today." Ava smiled at her, "Goodbye."
After that, Valenti never touched Ava's minefield again. Although she believed that her marriage to Virgil was obviously different from the men and women of the Iron Age, she wisely understood Ava's likes and dislikes—— Ava remained friendly as long as she avoided talking about anything marriage-related in front of her.
Fortunately, Ava seems to be in a good mood today. She doesn't seem to care about Hesta's inexplicable association just now, which makes Valenti relax a little.
To be fair, of course Valenti loves Ava, but her love for Ava is always at a distance. After all, under Ava's perseverance, there are many stubbornnesses that she cannot understand, but seeking complete understanding is originally A luxury, Valenti knew this very well, as long as there was mutual respect, it was enough to be friends.
"By the way," Valenti suddenly turned around and looked at Hesta, "Why were you suddenly detained by the workstation?"
"Because I can't tell where I went when the crime happened last night." Hesta replied, "I was alone in the house at the time, but no one can prove it for me."
"How could it be?" Valenti's eyes widened, "Didn't they retrieve your chip data?"
Hesta raised his right hand, "This is the major suspicion they identified - this hand was only put back this morning. But due to confidentiality regulations, I cannot explain the reason to them."
Valenti was stunned, and quickly realized - yes, Jane has not yet awakened for the second time. She can only use her talent as a mercury needle when she faces the chelate.
This is precisely the fundamental reason why she is able to catch herself by surprise in various "trapping and killing of aberrations" operations.
Although Hesta also possesses excellent combat capabilities in a non-bullet time state, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can do with flesh and blood to cause Baron Fernand to die in such a tragic way that his bones are crushed. thing.
The murderer could only be a mercury needle that can spontaneously enter bullet time, or an extremely special aberration.
Until this moment, Valenti didn't understand why Ava had to make a special trip today - due to confidentiality regulations, Hesta could not directly explain the above reasons to the mercury needle in the workstation, so Ava could only come forward to " The 002 office has confirmed that the mercury needle has no ability to commit crimes" and took her out.
The car quickly drove to Paul Street, and Ava stopped the car at the entrance of the alley where Valenti and Hesta lived together.
Before getting off the bus, Ava handed Valenti two tickets. Valenti took them curiously, with a momentary expression of surprise.
"Oh...could it be that musical that recently started touring again?"
"Yes, I'm not interested in this kind of story," Ava said lightly, "but the starring roles this time are Judith and Francois - aren't they your favorite singers? I'll give it to you."
This kind of musical was hard to get a ticket for in Tan Yi's time, let alone in the province of Niah.
Valenti turned back immediately, "Jane, are you free tomorrow night?"
"She is free." Ava smiled, "I will apply for a night leave for her."
Hesta was staring at the small puddle on the roadside in a daze, her expression returned to tiredness, and she didn't look up until Valenti called her name.
Seeing that Valenti and Ava were looking at her, Hesta realized that they might be talking about something related to her. She stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay," Valenti replied, waving to Ava, "Thank you!"
Ava raised her eyebrows to express her acceptance of Valenti's thanks, then she looked ahead again and left.
After parting with Valenti, Hesta returned to her room alone.
After nearly half a day of detention and interrogation, she was indeed very tired. After closing the window, she took off her black wig, and her short red hair like a flame was revealed again.
They are all wet with sweat and stick to the scalp very snugly.
Hesta walked slowly to the small side table and cast iron chair by the window, curled up her body and put her face on the table just like she did before in Short Ring Alley.
Closing her eyes, she felt calm again.
In fact, she and Ava didn't chat in the public hall of Lager's workstation in the afternoon.
She was silent the whole time.
Ava only said three sentences in total.
"I know it is you."
Immediately following:
"I don't know how you do it... and of course I don't care."
at last:
"Next, do you need help?"
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