Near noon, the presiding judge adjourned the trial.
This was not only a short lunch break, but the trial originally scheduled for the afternoon was also cancelled-all the jurors scheduled were suddenly wiped out, and the next trial would have to wait for another five working days at the earliest.
Suddenly, everything has to start from scratch.
At the same time, the news quickly spread throughout AHgAs with the announcement of the internal court——
The mercury needles in the fourteen regions were suddenly told that several of the aberration hunters they had seen or heard about in the past ten years were actually the same person, and they were a young man who had previously been unknown internally. This How could it not arouse heated discussion among people.
The same thing happened to Tan Yi, and to Victoria's team. In view of Victoria's previous ambiguity, most people did not realize who this somewhat "too special" Hesta was. It was not until the specific battles she participated in were announced that everyone truly felt her weight. .
Victoria immediately began to fight for the 004 office, hoping that the headquarters could temporarily lift Hesta's ban and allow her to participate in the encirclement and suppression of "assassins".
In the application report, Victoria stated that Hesta might fall to the assassin's side, but considering that this was an existence that could have a significant impact on the assassin, she was willing to take this risk.
But as expected, Office 004 sternly rejected this request. In the current turmoil, no one would be so reckless as to release the client to work directly.
Victoria still refused to give up, and later she and Endai made a special trip to Bruno City, hoping to see the legendary mercury needle again. However, this time Hesta refused their request to meet. According to Campbell, the people who came to Hestad during this period were like crucian carp crossing the river. To be fair, she saw no one and no one was exempted.
Victoria could only lament that she always missed opportunities.
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In the independent prison, life seemed to slow down again.
For Hesta, this period of time was very much like the days when she first entered the reserve base - she was recuperating in the hospital like she is now, and so many people suddenly sent greetings, sent flowers, and even proposed A request for a visit.
But unlike last time, most of the long letters sent this time were written by Mercury Needle, who had cooperated with Hesta.
The letters were so passionate that Hestad couldn't remember the names on many of the envelopes, but when she opened them and read their words of comfort, those faces and voices came alive again.
In their letters, they all mentioned that they had searched for Hesta after the battle, but they all discovered that there was no such person in the third district. If the results of this trial had not been announced, they would not have known about this brave man. The soldier is actually in prison at the moment.
Although the praise and description of Hesta in the letter felt strange to her, she still read every letter sent carefully while she was recuperating in the independent prison.
Almost suddenly, Hestad became interested in how other people viewed her. She suddenly discovered that once the compliments in the letter were placed on Liz, everything became just right.
She liked Liz so much that she could almost really feel the deep affection and concern behind some of the words... It was almost exactly the same as her feelings for Liz.
This complete misunderstanding and sudden sincerity surprised Hestad - how could these letter writers conclude that she was a noble and tragically implicated innocent person based only on their brief encounters on the battlefield.
So she read it over and over again, trying to find answers in the text. Some of them were read so many times that she could almost recite them.
She remembered that Ava once said that there is a huge gap between how a person actually lives and how he should live. If someone gives up what ordinary people actually do for what they should do, then this person is not preserving himself, but destroying himself.
But Ava, how on earth can a person... differentiate between her "should live" and her "actual life"?
Hestaki's. A long time ago, this was not a problem for her - in Short Ring Alley, anyone who couldn't tell the difference deserved to be exposed in the wilderness and die without a burial place.
But after joining AHgAs, the two began to become highly unified: trusting AHgAs's intelligence and instructions, trusting one's companions, and trusting one's own abilities - this is the basis for all victory, and it is also the basis for survival on a battlefield where accidents occur frequently. The bottom line requirements.
After being exposed to the battle sequence, there is no longer a difference between "should" and "actual" in Mercury Needle's life. If something is "should be done", then it must be "actually executed" - any preliminary Any carelessness may bring unpredictable blood costs.
Until... later.
Until she noticed the clues of her mother's death, until she saw what happened after Liz's death... Hestad finally saw the huge gap between "should" and "reality" again.
Everything emerges with clear boundaries - the difference between her being a "mercury needle" and an "assassin", the difference between being a sharp blade and being a person... But between the two, which one belongs to "should" and which one Belongs to "actual"?
Which side is the life that must never be given up because of the other side?
Hestad had no answer.
But this didn't affect her choice at all. She didn't even think about other options in this matter.
The trading field of fate is turbulent, and self-preservation and destruction are like two sides of the same coin. If she wants one side, she must accept the other side - the justice in her heart will not be upheld for a day, and she is in such a world. It's like being in purgatory, so whoever wants to survive has to take risks alone again and again.
Almost instantly, Hesta felt the loneliness that a dead person had felt - she thought of Liz again, she always thought of Liz, eleven thousand times.
Hesta looked at the handwritten letters in her hand again, and suddenly had some new thoughts. There was such a huge wave now, maybe she should seize the opportunity and be braver.
Unfortunately, she couldn't go to Ava at the moment and tell any of her friends about this sudden realization to ask for their advice. She just folded and aligned the letters in silence, and put them aside. A powerful torrent flowed from her heart to her whole body.
Maybe we've been on the same path all along and I just realized it today.
Perhaps, this is the only way to go.
