A few minutes later, Si Lei and Turan appeared from different directions. When they discovered Hesta and Anna, they all shouted "Jane!" in unison.
Turan brought back Hesta's uniform jacket, and she put the clothes casually on the back of Anna's wheelchair - Zero came back with Turan. Zero leaned over and whispered something in Anna's ear, and Anna calmly adjusted the direction of the wheelchair.
"Are you okay on the ground?" Turan asked.
"It's hard to say," Anna spoke before Hestad. "If you don't come back, she might go crazy?"
"I... no!" Hesta looked at Anna with some dissatisfaction and changed the subject, "How is it underground... have you met the enemy?"
"Completely..." Turan shook his head and walked to Ling's side, hugging the girl's shoulders, "But Ling was really helpful!"
Turan excitedly described their actions underground. She first caught up with Si Lei, and the three of them briefly gathered together for a while. Si Lei went to the broadcast room first, while Turan and Ling evacuated the crowd from the east and west directions respectively. They each ran half a circle along the main road, and followed Si Lei's announcement to point out the direction of the nearest escape route to all passengers still underground.
During this process, Zero was indeed "very experienced and cooperative" as Anna said, helping Turan and Si Lei save a lot of time.
"Today's young people are really amazing," Turan admired. She looked at Anna, "I never asked before, what do you do? Are you the grandparents who came out together?"
"Let me introduce you..." Hesta whispered, "This is -"
"It's Ms. Parka, right?" Si Lei interrupted Hesta excitedly.
With the words "Ms. Parka", Anna's expression obviously changed. She looked at Si Lei in surprise, with a little confusion in her eyes, "...it seems we have really met before?"
"Yes, I have seen it!" Si Lei nodded repeatedly, "I once met you on the train in the winter of 4617. I went to the core city for an interview at that time, because there was a workstation in the core city that year. There was a vacancy for an 'auxiliary field service' position, and you were sitting across from me -"
"Si Lei, Si Lei..." Anna recalled the name with deep eyes. Suddenly, she did recall something and looked up again, "Oh... it's you, it's you, I remember, my God, you and that time It’s completely different, he’s simply a different person…”
"Yes, it's me! You remember!"
"Paka is a pseudonym, used to deceive others," Anna extended a friendly hand to Si Lei, "Nice to meet you, my name is Anna Sokolova."
"That naturalist?" Si Lei's eyes widened, and she clasped the hand Anna offered her with both hands, "I...I have read your "When the Forest Sings" - oh no, I haven't read it, but I’ve seen this book and I have a friend who’s been reading your book!”
"Really?" Anna smiled, "It's an honor."
Hesta and Turan both looked at the two people in front of them blankly.
This is the first time Hesta has seen Si Lei like this: her eyebrows and eyes are full of energy, and her words are somewhat incoherent due to excitement.
"What on earth is this..." Turan looked at Anna and then at Si Lei, "You met on the train, and what happened next?"
"That's it," Si Lei smiled and held his forehead, "I was very nervous for that interview because I was the only female among the 27 candidates who passed the preliminary examination that year, and I checked When looking at all the past candidates for that position, there was basically no feminine name - a lot of information showed that they had very obvious gender preferences when recruiting non-mercury needle workers."
"Is there such a thing?" Turan frowned keenly, "Which workstation? Bell Tower Workstation?"
"No, that workstation has now been merged and is now an action team under the Core City Independent Tribunal." Si Lei replied with a smile, "I had been sleepless for a whole week when I got on that train, and my The interview was scheduled on the fourth day after I arrived in the core city. I was really..."
"Did I do anything for you at that time?" Anna asked, "Sorry, I can't remember clearly."
"Ah, you took the initiative to ask me if I was worried about something. You said that my face looked bad, and then I told you all those things," Si Lei replied, "and you... comforted me I."
Hesta was curious: "How did she comfort her?"
"Yes...how can I comfort you?"
"You said, 'When encountering this kind of trouble, even if the problem contains structural problems, don't start from this perspective, otherwise it will increase a lot of despair. Treating personal difficulties as accidental problems and working hard to solve them will make it easier to break through the difficulties. The possibility - from now on, forget about the gender of the previous candidates and systemic discrimination as a whole, and just focus on defeating the other 26 candidates... Wouldn't it be easier?'"
"Is that just that?" Anna smiled, "...it's exactly what I said."
"They are very important to me," Si Lei said seriously. "At least, you completely changed my mentality at the time. I slept well that night...and for the next few days."
"How was the interview afterwards?"
"It was very good. I performed very well in the following two rounds of interviews, but I didn't get the position because during the final interview, the main interviewer thought that this position could not take advantage of my abilities, so he voted no. ticket--"
"What kind of bastard trick is this!" Turan's anger suddenly rose, "Officer Si Lei, can't you see -"
"No, it wasn't a trick. I got a bye that year because I beat the other candidates in the first interview, and I was voted out by the main interviewer in the second round, so no one got the position. ——The interviewer later wrote me a letter of recommendation and asked me to go to the workstation reconnaissance department... The work there is indeed much better than that of 'auxiliary field service', and there are many promotion channels."
Anna thought thoughtfully: "Who was the interviewer you met that year?"
"It's Ms. Mabel," Sirey replied. "She died the year before last. Her daughter's speech at the funeral was very touching... Do you know her?"
"We know each other," Anna nodded, "That's it..."
"I've been looking for you all these years," Si Lei looked at Anna. "I visited many Ms. Parka in District 3, but I couldn't find you - so it was a fake name?"
"You're too polite," Anna waved her hand casually, "I don't see anything that you need to thank me for in the whole thing... But I'm happy for your experience."
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