Qianye picked up the man in front of him and ran quickly towards the exit of the old building. Several prison guards who heard the sound almost chased Qianye out.
"Ma'am! What's wrong with her?"
"She has an emergency and needs treatment," Chiba replied while running, "It's okay, I'll take her to the central hospital."
"Do you want to send us medical treatment first——"
"Your medical room is occupied."
Qianye returned to the car with Eclipse in her arms. She took out her car keys and quickly started the car. The prison guards at the door cooperated and opened the door for Qianye.
The car drove about two blocks away from the independent prison. Sun Eclipse got up and moved again. She reached out to the charging port on the passenger side and tried to push away the plastic piece on it. However, before she could exert any force, Chiba suddenly pulled out One hand pressed the piece of plastic.
Sun Eclipse looked at Qianye in disbelief - maybe Qianye was worried that she would accidentally touch her and blocked her with good intentions?
"Hand...I...adapt..."
Sun Eclipse raised her hand, and dark brown lines appeared on her ring and middle fingers. The skin on her fingertips expanded and cracked along the lines, and two bone joints appeared where the joints should have been.
"Isn't there still four minutes left? What's the hurry?" Chiba swatted her hand away and glanced in her direction, "Where is the person who sent you here now?"
At this moment, Eclipse completely understood the threat in Chiba's tone.
"You...mean..."
"Anna Sokolova." Chiba looked forward with a calm expression, "Where is she?"
…
At four o'clock in the morning, Campbell and Hestad sat across from each other.
Hesta had a fixed belt on her chest. Her left eye was bruised, and there were six or seven blood stains on her right cheek. The bleeding mouth at the corner of her mouth was covered with a thin layer of scab. Several bruises and small wounds were scattered on her neck and arms. And on the calf, it looked very miserable.
Hesta's eyes were half-open, her gaze still directed toward the ground.
Although the girl was still silent at this moment, Campbell could feel that her silence today was different from any time in the past.
"It's almost dawn." Campbell suddenly said, "Tomorrow is your court day."
Campbell saw Hesta's brows furrowed with suspicion and some exhausted helplessness.
"...They can't doubt other people so casually." Hesta murmured and closed her eyes, "Even if I don't plead...these charges...should not fall on me..."
Campbell nodded in agreement, and if Hestad could look up at him now, he would see his eyes shining with sincerity.
"You should have read all the materials I prepared, right?"
"Um."
"Is there anything you want to say to me, or is there anything else you think I should know?"
Hesta breathed a long sigh of relief. She finally opened her eyes and looked at Campbell. Campbell was pleasantly surprised by that look - it was the look a junior looked at an elder, although there was still some distrust in it.
"I'm sorry..." Hesta whispered, "During this time... I shouldn't..."
"There's no need to mention this. It's crucial for you to think carefully about the question I just asked."
Hesta was silent for a long time, which made Campbell almost hold his breath.
"I... did lie before..." Hesta whispered.
"What lie?"
"When I was at Ava's place, she... once questioned me about what happened in Short Ming Alley..."
Whenever Hestad spoke mid-sentence, Campbell would nod between pauses to show that he was listening.
"I've read the material on this," Campbell replied. "You said you were an orphan - is this the lie you're referring to?"
Hesta's expression became painful, perhaps because of the injury, perhaps because of the memories, but all of this made her soft whisper sound more real.
"Actually, I haven't always lived alone. There is someone - no, some people, who have been... taking care of me."
…
Outside the independent prisons, public opinion is boiling.
As a deliberate serial murder case, it is mysterious, public, and even has some legendary meaning that people like to hear about. At the same time, it is different from other heinous crimes because ordinary people will hardly feel threatened by it.
——Just the fact that all the deceased were in high and powerful positions made this case sound quite righteous.
But the panic it sparked among some people was unprecedented.
When Hoffman was killed, the dignitaries had not yet reacted, but the murders of Rich and Schmidt sounded the alarm in their ears, and a crusade against the "assassins" was launched in the news and newspapers: a civilization The world will never tolerate such a desperado.
However, the more bloody and brutal a case is, the more vitality it has among the people. Although no one knows who is under the mask of the assassin, this does not affect people's imagination at all.
No one likes a non-praising name like "Assassin". In various rumors created by people themselves, they call the Assassin "Alecto" or "The Punisher". This name comes from the tenth The ancient myth of the southern part of District 2 is the youngest and most violent god among the twelve vengeful gods.
According to legend, Alecto, the punisher, was born from the eyes of Dehe, the god of the earth. She was born to be cold, cunning, and powerful. She was abandoned by her father Ebay on a desert island as soon as she was born, and became her eleventh sister. When she was found, she had been raised by hyenas on a deserted island.
Alecto is always the image of a six-year-old girl. She holds three thorn chains with spikes in her left hand. One can make people tell the truth, one can make people miserable, and one can cure diseases and evil spirits, and even cause people to die. Resurrection.
The girl's right hand is holding a skull - that is the head of Gaihe, the first generation god of war.
Because she grew up in the wilderness, Alecto was completely unconstrained by the world. She often escaped from everyone's sight and went to play outside alone.
Alecto likes to pretend to be a human child who accidentally wandered into the fairyland, playing tricks on passing fairies, or sitting by the Shinto in the Mountain of the Gods and overlooking the human world. If anyone looked at her harshly while driving by, she would show up on the spot and whip the offender's face with a chain of thorns. Among the many stories, the one in which Alecto provoked the Sun God and the God of War was the most popular. famous.
The young Alecto did not inherit Deh's kindness and generosity at all, but inherited his mother's sensitivity and wisdom - after all, she was born with Deh's eyes, so she was born with a pair of eyes that can see through good and evil at a glance. No matter how eloquent the perpetrator is, whether he has a crown on his head, or he is a god, she will always quickly inflict cruel divine punishment after seeing through their lies and hypocrisy.
So the gods went to the Gulf of Lebanon three times to launch a crusade against Alecto - the court could not tolerate the misbehavior of girls, especially since several of the villains she had executed to death had already won the forgiveness of the gods.
