The three of them fell into silence at the same time.
"...'There's no waiting room 12?" Turan whispered, "Then where do you go to wait for the ship?"
"You can board the ship directly now. The Shengming has a direct passage and does not need to go through any waiting room."
Turan looked at Hesta again and then at Si Lei, "This is not right...wait for me to make a call."
"If you want to call the ahgas workstation or your reserve base, I have just contacted them."
"Then what did they say? Have you told them all this?"
"I've said it all," Si Lei walked to Hestad's left and sat down. "They said it was indeed strange, but Hestad's trip was part of a confidential mission and they had no right to interfere."
"...Then who has the right -" Turan said mid-sentence, and she came up with the answer herself, "But we can't contact Miss Chiba now."
"That's the problem." Si Lei took out his boarding instructions again and read them carefully, "I think we have two choices now -"
"I want to go out." Hesta said suddenly.
"But this may be a bait." Si Lei looked at Hesta. "Originally, you could board the ship directly, but now this letter will lure you to wander in the port hall... I actually don't recommend this."
Hesta slowly turned to Si Lei, "It's okay, I think it's not a big problem."
"...You are the biggest problem," Si Lei held down Hesta's shoulders, "What if a group of people suddenly rush out from some nook and cranny later and carry you away, I really may not be able to chase you. Get on."
"I'm here." Turan lowered his voice, "If I enter bullet time here, other mercury needles will come over in less than ten seconds. What are you afraid of?"
"but--"
Hesta gently pressed Si Lei's wrist, "Don't worry."
"How can you rest assured? Before I see Qianye, I can't let you make any mistakes——"
"If there is really a danger, Miss Chiba will definitely give a warning," Hesta whispered. "The lack of warning means that... the risk is controllable."
…
Near two o'clock, after Si Lei called Qianye more than a dozen times but still received no answer, she and Turan could only push Hesta's wheelchair and leave the medical room.
The afternoon clouds blocked the daylight, but the sky and the earth were still extremely bright. People were bustling under the glass dome of the Havre Port Hall. Everyone followed the road signs to their own waiting room. There was order in the chaos.
In order to avoid attracting attention, Hesta took off her coat, together with the twenty-odd medals, and hung it on the back of the wheelchair. The three of them walked silently along the crawler elevator from the third floor to the first floor. .
Along the way, Si Lei was very anxious. Hesta's words could not convince her at all. Obviously, Qianye's sudden loss of contact was a very bad sign - she might have encountered a more serious accident, which was so serious that she could not tell Hesta at all. Star warning. But whether it was Hesta or Turan, these two young girls directly ruled out this possibility.
Boarding the ship directly is a relatively safe option, but at the same time, another thing also worries Si Lei. Both her and Hesta's boarding instructions mentioned that "the risk of being late is immeasurable." What does risk mean?
"Officer Si Lei?" Turan's voice woke Si Lei out of his thoughts, "Did you hear what I just said?"
"Excuse me, what did you say?"
"I said, we can go to the first floor and look at the map of the port hall first, and then see if we can split up -"
"I refuse," Si Lei said without much thought, "We should never take the initiative to separate."
"But now there's only one hour left. From an efficiency point of view-"
"Believe me, splitting up at this time must be the worst choice."
"...Okay, okay, but relax a little, Officer Si Lei, you seem a little...too nervous?"
Si Lei didn't refute. She took a few deep breaths and returned her attention to the present.
Looking for a non-existent waiting room No. 12 in the Havre port, Si Lei suddenly remembered the twelfth body she had been trying to find at the Rohan Palace last winter, although now she already understood what happened there. However, the cold feeling in the middle of winter still suddenly flashed back, making her nervous.
"...Tulan." Hesta in the wheelchair spoke again. She looked forward and whispered, "Eleven o'clock direction..."
Si Lei and Turan both looked calmly in the direction indicated by Hesta. To their left, there were about a dozen men in uniform clothing standing in a circle talking. Most of them are muscular and have short hair. Some look like they are in their mid-twenties, and some seem to have just entered puberty. Each of them is carrying a huge travel backpack and an identical black suitcase.
Turan saw at a glance that one of them was holding the Shengming ship ticket envelope.
They slowly passed by these people and heard words such as "There is no waiting room No. 12 here" and "The Shengming office just returned my call. They don't know the boarding instructions at all" - obviously, This group of people are also passengers of the Shengming. They are arguing about the seemingly non-existent waiting room.
On the backpack of one of them, Hesta saw a golden badge: every man here wore such a badge, but some pinned it on their chests, while others pinned it on their sleeves.
Hesta pretended to scan their luggage casually and saw clearly written on the badge:
Thorn Monk.
Hesta quietly looked away before anyone else could notice.
Soon, the three of them moved away from the crowd and came to the Havre Port map wall on the east side of the hall. This wall was painted with the structure of the entire Havre Port Hall, including the three floors above ground and the first underground floor.
Turan and Si Lei each took some photos, and then pushed Hesta to the terrace outside to talk.
Through the glass door, Turan soon saw a few men running to take pictures in front of the map wall - the same group of people who had been standing around talking just now.
"Didn't the official notice something strange in advance?" Turan looked at Si Lei, "The Shengming can carry more than 6,000 passengers. If someone goes behind the shipping company's back and smuggles private goods into the ticket, this will How much work will it take?"
"Indeed... but the total number of passengers on the Shengming this time was less than seventy."
"What?"
"I can't reveal too much... but this voyage is not open to the public," Si Lei whispered, "I heard that this is the last voyage of the Shengming. When the ship reaches District 14, it will be Donate to the local port museum to be converted into a new exhibition hall.”
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