"You have been taking care of her all these years?"
“It’s hard to say care, because Ms. Anna taught me so much.”
"what?"
"...It's hard to explain in words." The female voice in the earphone paused for a moment, "Are you also a student of Ms. Anna?"
Chiba's head tilted slightly to the other side, and her eyes fell back to the dial in her hand again. Her expression was so focused, as if there was nothing else worth paying attention to except the countdown at this moment.
The world quieted down, leaving only the spinning second hand.
Six minutes later, Chiba stood up from his seat. Almost at the same moment, Zero came online again: "Sorry, Ms. Chiba, someone tried to return underground, which caused a slight delay."
"Have Turan and Si Lei both gone up?"
"They have reunited and are about to arrive at a safe area."
"Okay," Chiba walked toward the door, "Where are you going next?"
"Theoretically, after cooperating with Turan to evacuate the crowd, I should return to Anna. Is there anything else you need me to do?"
"Help me bring a message to Anna."
"Please say."
"Look east."
…
Above the sea, the sun is shining brightly.
After the crew helped Anna into the wheelchair, they realized that Hesta was also a patient with limited mobility. The crew discussed for a while and decided to ask someone to carry another wheelchair down. These things went on for a while, and finally, two crew members stayed in place to accompany Anna and Hesta, while the rest returned to the hull to pick up their things.
"It's such a short journey, there's no need..." Hesta frowned, "I can follow you -"
"The temperature is so high now and you have walked for such a long time. You still need a wheelchair. It is so convenient."
"Wouldn't it be more...convenient for me to just go on the boat and rest?"
The man patted his thigh with both hands and pursed his lips: "...I'm sorry, in short, it's not convenient to board the ship now."
Hesta looked directly into the other person's eyes, "Why?"
"No comment... But we, we will try our best to provide some help to every guest, for example..." The man looked around and quickly took out an unopened bottle of mineral water from his companion's backpack, " Do you need water?"
Hesta did not reach out to take it. She looked at the smooth white back of the hand and the rough mouth of the person in front of her, and suddenly felt that a certain string in the depths of her mind seemed to move.
"How long have you been working on the Shengming?"
"For a long time."
"How long is a long time?"
"About...three years...right?"
Hesta looked at the rusty metal stairs not far away, "Where is the barrier-free passage to board the ship from the pier?"
"Barrier-free access...well, barrier-free..."
"There is still some distance at the other end," another relatively silent crew member took over. He pointed in the direction of the stern of the ship and said, "There is an elevator over there. You can go from there-"
Hesta laughed, and suddenly without warning, he pounced towards the talkative "crew member" from before. The other party subconsciously blocked the attack and pushed Hesta to the ground with a sideways throw.
"Pay attention to your behavior, madam!" The man stood up quickly and glanced at Hesta who fell on the ground with some disgust. He began to worry that he had struck too hard. He adjusted the position of his tie and his tone remained the same. Displeased, "There is no such thing as messing around -"
Hesta, who was lying on the ground, sneered again. She touched her left cheek, which seemed to have a little scratch. There was no blood, but it hurt a lot.
She supported the ground with one hand and reluctantly stood up, "I knew you were not a crew member of the Shengming at all..."
Everyone held their breath. The man whose identity was exposed on the spot was a little embarrassed. He stood there with an ugly expression on his face. Anna sat on the wheelchair and looked at the man's face with interest - obviously, until this moment , this person hasn’t noticed that his pocket has been scratched.
The only real crew member at the scene was covered in cold sweat and didn't know what to do.
"What are you talking about?" The man's voice was a little annoyed, "Is it so difficult for you to stay here for a while? We kindly rushed down from the ship to give you -"
"Your name is Sanders Rand, right?" Hesta dropped an ID card and a soft pickup holder at his feet, "Explain why you... His identity appears here?"
The man's face slowly turned red. His name and rank were printed on the certificate on the ground, with the words "United Government Special Operations Agency" at the top.
"I...I have nothing, nothing to do—"
"Don't play this trick of pretending you don't know who I am..." Hesta was about to reach out to get her ID, but suddenly remembered that those things were all in the pocket of her uniform - and that uniform was probably still wearing it. On the back of an old wheelchair.
Hesta's expression flashed with annoyance for a moment. These careless things have happened too many times recently... She took a deep breath, and her left hand that had no place to place quickly stretched from the pocket of her coat to her right arm, and then He lightly dusted the dust on his cuffs.
"You should know what the siren just means." Hesta said expressionlessly, "In areas where chelates are found, you should unconditionally obey the instructions of the mercury needle and cooperate with all operations to suppress the enemy. What are you doing here... explain!"
Following this questioning, the man suddenly felt a shudder. The identity of the person in front of him was indeed easy to recognize - her hair color, her missing right arm, the name "Jane Hestad" printed on her ticket, and at the same time The person who responded to these three pieces of information must be the one from ahgas... But he really didn't expect that the sense of oppression brought by Hesta was so strong that he was even a little unsteady at the moment...
Soon, everyone felt like this - the ground began to shake again, and a series of thunderous explosions exploded from the bottom of the sea. People didn't know what happened. They only saw the sea water near the port undulating violently, becoming Muddy.
Some heart-wrenching cries and gasping exclamations came from the crowd in the distance. Hesta looked back following the source of the sound, and soon saw the port hall located in the center of the pier, like a bird in the middle of nowhere. A stormy brick ship, it rocked back and forth at an angle that was not architecturally intuitive, and then began to sink downwards.
Many escape passages leading to the negative level gushed out of sea water at this moment. This sight once again aroused the screams of tourists on the shore - these escape passages gushed out of sea water, which meant that the entire underwater hall below had been completely destroyed by the sea. Swallowed, but only half an hour ago, there were hundreds of people hanging out in that magnificent underwater world, spending this ordinary afternoon together.
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