"Red velvet—red velvet!!" Richie suddenly rushed over crazily, grabbing the photo album as if grabbing the only light in the darkness, "It's definitely the red-haired Hesta, except for her There won’t be anyone else! You, you go check--"
"Viscount." Schmidt coldly interrupted Rishi who suddenly went crazy. "Your father was such a graceful gentleman when he was alive. You are simply embarrassing him by acting like this."
Rishi lost his voice again. His anger was like a spark that burst out too quickly. It flashed for a moment and then fell silent.
Li was looking forward to the old police inspector. He opened his mouth several times to say something, but could never say a word. He slowly knelt down in front of Schmidt and could only choke and shed tears.
"Why are you so pessimistic?" Schmidt's voice softened, like a father. He stretched out a hand and put it on Rishi's shoulder. "Think about it, how many difficulties have we gone through together?"
Rich held the old man's hand as if holding a life-saving straw. He tremblingly kissed the joints on the back of Schmidt's hand, and then pressed the old man's hand tightly to his forehead.
"This time, we will have the last laugh like before," Schmidt said softly, "Relax."
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Time passed by, and a dim light was rising in the wilderness. Hesta, who had managed to escape all the pursuers, was returning to the province of Niah.
Her whole body was soaked by the cold sea water - Chiba and a dozen mercury needles who came one after another drove her from Tan Yi to the coastline in the west of the third area. It was already the edge of the continent. She jumped into the sea and finally escaped.
Tonight there was lightning and thunder on the west coast of District 3, and the storm stirred up huge waves on the sea. For several moments, she even doubted whether she could return to land alive.
But luckily - she's back, and it's still dark.
The wind blew across her exposed skin, like a sharp carving knife, but Hesta had no time to care.
Every morning around five o'clock, Alga and the others on the early shift would go down to the cellar to check the wine storage. Usually they would not look towards the cells, but would pass directly by with the lamp on, so even if they did not return in time , it should and may not be discovered.
But she couldn't take the risk again.
Tonight's surprises...are already too many.
Hesta looked at the road ahead and ran all the way.
The light and shadow in the distant sky are changing almost at a speed visible to the naked eye. The sun is rising from the east, leaving no room for error.
About to be exposed.
About to be exposed.
About to be exposed.
Fields, forests, birds, rivers, howling wind——
Hesta gritted her teeth.
No……
I must not...
During her selfless running, the scenery on both sides of Hesta's field of vision had become blurred, and many complex and unfamiliar smells entered her nose one after another: the humid fog in the morning, the embers of firewood used for heating at night, the embers from the river and the The wet rot and fishy smell of the swamp...
Overcoming all these obstacles, the smell of the city suddenly emerges.
It was gray smoke mixed with concrete, cement dust and exhaust gas, but with a faint fragrance of cinnamon and cardamom. It came from the factories and streets the night before, as well as the outlying residents who got up early before dawn this morning. Tea soup made with spices.
She smelled the insignificant olive trees - they were used as street trees and dotted every street in Bruno.
At the end of Cannon Avenue, she saw the golden dome of Bruno's Palace of Fine Arts silent in the faint morning light, and Ava's white villa was also close at hand. However, Hestad's heart suddenly sank the moment she saw Ava's courtyard. end--
She saw a newly erected clothes rack standing on the grass at the back of the yard, which usually meant that the girls on the morning shift had gotten up.
She didn't have time to think about it. Taking advantage of the silence in the whole yard, Hesta quickly returned to the cell along the secret door leading to the underground.
The basement was extremely quiet, and Hestad listened carefully. After making sure that there were no footsteps inside or outside, she removed her arm as quickly as possible and put it back into the black box. Then, she lay down on her bed as usual. On the bed, he exited bullet time.
This moment felt like being in a suddenly accelerating elevator. Every part of the body quickly became extremely heavy, as if an invisible and majestic force was suddenly pressing down.
She closed her eyes and couldn't move at all.
About a few minutes later, the basement door opened, and Aya walked downstairs with a flashlight on.
In the darkness, Hesta listened carefully to Aya's movements.
Aya paid careful attention to her steps as before, lest she make any noise that would disturb Hesta's rest. However, when she was about to reach the ground, she suddenly stepped on the air, staggered forward a few steps, and finally fell to her knees on the ground.
Hesta's heart suddenly lifted.
Aya endured the pain after falling and sat on the ground to relax for a while. When the pain subsided, she stood up silently.
Before leaving, Aya deliberately looked in front of the cell for a while. Only when she was sure that Hesta was not awakened by the movement she made did she breathe a sigh of relief and turn towards the wine cellar.
At the same moment, Hesta, who was lying on the bed, also breathed a sigh of relief.
About a quarter of an hour later, Aya left, and Hesta was once again the only one left in the basement.
There were no lights in the basement and everything was gray. Hesta turned over with difficulty and looked up at the dim ceiling above her head. After a brief absence, the memory of last night suddenly emerged, like the surface of the coast suddenly exposed before the tsunami.
This was an unprecedented fear that had never been brought to her by any chelate or even aberrant before - last night, for the first time, she truly saw the "enemy" side of Chiba.
The time pointed to six o'clock, and Ava appeared at the stairs of the basement. She used a cane and slowly went down step by step until she came to Hesta's cell.
Aya walked in front of the old man. She first knocked on the window to wake up Hesta, and then helped Ava get a chair. Just when she was about to turn on the light, Ava called her.
"There's no need to turn on the light, it's fine as it is now." Ava said calmly, "It's too dazzling to turn on the light now."
"Okay." Aya responded, "If you need anything, call me."
Ava nodded happily.
It wasn't until Aya left the basement again that Hesta actually came out of the quilt - her damp clothes and hair had left a large water stain on the entire sheet.
"Turn on the light." Ava motioned to Hesta to turn on the lamp on her desk.
Through the light, the old man saw several scratches on Hesta's left arm. There was a faint bruise on her right cheek below the cheekbone. In a few hours, it would become more obvious.
"Are you ok?"
"It's okay." Hesta sat on the bed, leaning his elbows on his knees. "It's just a little skin injury."
Ava looked at Hesta, "Perhaps you can tell me why there was an aberration alert in Tan Yi last night?"
