Chiba pushed an empty wheelchair and walked from the direction of the barrier-free passage. The iron bridge in the sky cast a shadow on the ground. When Chiba passed through it, her silver eyes looked particularly clear.
Anna looked at the visitor from a distance, her eyes always showing some confusion, some dangerous and focused sadness, like a night traveler looking at the lonely moon from a distance - but Qianye never glanced in her direction.
Chiba walked up to Hesta: "Where is your wheelchair?"
"Underneath……"
Hesta tried to explain, but Chiba had already asked the next question: "So why are you just standing here?"
"We were not allowed to board the ship."
"Not allowed by whom?"
"Him." Hesta raised his hand and pointed at Rand not far away.
Qianye turned around, and the moment their eyes met, Rand couldn't help but shudder. He was familiar with Qianye's eyes at this moment - just like the woman standing next to Hesta at this moment, it was the mercury needles entering the bullet. Sign of time.
"I'm just executing the order. You - you understand the reason - before..." Rand raised his hands, his tone was both urgent and vain, "No stray people can be allowed to enter the cabin before..."
"Yes, you did a good job. I picked up these people," Qianye raised his chin towards the thorn monks at the other end, "You go and do what you should be busy with."
"……learn."
Rand immediately trotted towards the bow of the ship, where someone was already organizing the passengers into an orderly queue.
"Can you leave?" Chiba looked at Hesta.
"able."
"Okay, Tulan, come up." Qianye patted the empty wheelchair in his hand.
Turan immediately understood what Chiba meant - she sat in the wheelchair, closed her eyes, and exited bullet time. After 27 agonizing seconds, everything was back to normal.
Qianye pushed Tulan and led the group of people behind him to move slowly toward the stern of the ship.
"Can you take off the ID around your neck and let me see it?" Si Lei asked.
"sure."
Si Lei took it and looked at it carefully, and found that it said "United Government Special Operations Agency" written on it. Si Lei couldn't help but frown: "When did you become a member of the Special Operations Agency..."
"This is one of my jobs during this trip. I'm not really on vacation." Qianye glanced at Si Lei and smiled, "I was originally worried that I might not have time to look after Jane because I was busy on the road. Can you It’s great to be together.”
Si Lei sighed and returned his work permit.
"We have been calling you before, why didn't you answer the phone?"
"There was something wrong with my mobile phone signal today. I couldn't answer calls and could only send and receive text messages -"
"We also sent a dozen text messages...or dozens."
"...Really?" Chiba stopped and took out her mobile phone from her pocket. After checking her inbox, she was a little surprised, "Ah, it's really...I was too busy in the afternoon, so I didn't see it."
Si Lei looked hesitant to speak.
She didn't believe a word of Chiba's explanation: everything that happened in the past half hour was so dangerous - the collapsed hall, the explosion on the seabed, and the inexplicable chelate alarm... any single Bringing it out could kill Hesta. During this period, not only did Chiba not show up for the entire process, she didn't even have a single phone call or text message...
Is this reasonable?
...obviously not.
Looking at Qianye's side face, Si Lei fell into deep thought.
Everyone came to the door of the elevator. Turan got off the wheelchair and replaced Hesta. From the moment she sat in the wheelchair, Hesta was like a doll that had completely unwinded. She closed her eyes and rested without saying a word, holding her luggage tightly with her left hand, too tired to say a word.
Turan put his hand on Hesta's shoulder again and sighed softly in his heart.
The elevator began to rise. No one in the car spoke. Following the crimson metal gap, everyone looked at the Shengming in front of them.
In theory, they understand that all cruise ships are huge, but they don't feel this deeply when they are on the ground. As the elevator climbs, they begin to truly realize what the height of "76 meters above the waterline" actually means - This passenger ship, which can accommodate 6,000 people at the same time, is equivalent to a twenty-story building on land just above the water.
"Who came up just now?" Si Lei suddenly remembered this.
"Guess it."
"...How do you guess this? At least give me a hint."
"No prompt—"
"Is it Bo Shanfu?" Anna said calmly.
Si Lei turned his head: "Who?"
"You guessed it right." Qianye still looked at the Shengming in front of him, "That's him."
Turan reacted, "Is that the linguist?"
Anna nodded.
"Then I know who it is," Turan looked at Si Lei, "There were rumors in the past few years that District 14 wanted to take him back, but every time the negotiations came to nothing, nothing came of it - I still I thought the third district never planned to release him."
Si Lei thought for a while, and after Turan said this, she seemed to have some impression.
"Is it the scholar with pulsaphobia?"
"Yes, that's this guy. Bo Shanfu doesn't seem to be his real name." Turan raised his head and thought, "What is this guy's real name..."
In the wheelchair, Hesta suddenly opened her eyes. Amidst everyone's chatter and laughter, she was vaguely aware of some subtle abruptness: Anna and Miss Chiba seemed to have not spoken much during this whole journey.
When she was alone with Anna just now, the middle-aged man almost never stopped talking - she could talk about any topic, she was obviously good at talking and willing to talk... Thinking back to Avinash's warmth when he met Anna before, Hesta turned his attention to Chiba again.
There seems to be something unusual in this indifference.
"arrive."
The elevator car door and safety door gradually opened. Qianye and Turan walked out first, followed by Si Lei. She pushed Anna's wheelchair and carefully passed the empty groove in the middle of the metal door. Then, Hess Ta felt her wheelchair moving. She turned around and saw the little girl who had followed Turan underground holding the armrests of the wheelchair.
"……Thanks."
"You're welcome."
If it weren't for her help, Hesta would have almost forgotten that there was someone standing next to her.
"Your name is Zero...isn't it?"
"Um."
"Is this a name or a surname?" Hesta asked softly. However, after waiting for a long time, she did not hear the answer from the person behind her. She suspected that her voice was too soft for the other person to hear, so she spoke again, "'Zero' is your—"
"It's just a title." Zero's voice was brisk, "It doesn't matter whether it's a surname or a given name."
Everyone walked towards the deck along the temporary iron bridge at high altitude. The high wind made Hesta unable to open her eyes, and also blew away what she originally planned to say. She raised her hand to cover her forehead - in the strong sunlight, the Shengming not far away looked like a dazzling dream.
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