As she said that, Hesta's eyes glanced at the envelope. She put down the diary and picked it up. The moment she felt the weight, Hesta raised her head unexpectedly, "...Empty? Where is the content inside?"
"It's empty." Si Lei said softly, "This envelope is exclusively for the Shengming, but it is only sold in the cruise ship's store. Dietrich cannot get it before boarding the ship, but It turned up in the trash the day Dietrich was killed."
"Someone sent him a letter?"
"This is the only reasonable inference, but there is no relevant content in the surveillance." Si Lei said softly, "And the original contents of the envelope are missing - if it does exist."
Hestad suddenly realized something, "What about Fritz Gruning? Is there anything similar in his current room? And his whereabouts today..."
Si Lei didn't answer, she stared at Qianye.
Chiba smiled: "...why are you looking at me like this?"
"You said last night that the only thing you care about is protecting Bo Shanfu himself from arriving in the 14th District safely. As for other matters, you will cooperate as appropriate. Does this sentence still take effect now?"
Chiba's expression turned doubtful, "...I'm sure that's not what I said? But let me tell you what you need specifically."
"I have some questions to ask you," Si Lei said softly, "If you can tell the truth, you can answer, otherwise I hope you can just stay silent and don't lie to me."
Qianye hugged her silently, "Say."
"On the ship," Si Lei put his hand on the table and slowly approached Qianye, "Do chelates really exist?"
"exist."
"What's the reason?"
"Confidential."
Qianye answered decisively, which made Si Lei hesitate.
Hesta suddenly felt that this conversation seemed a bit familiar - last night Si Lei also asked her suspiciously how much she knew about the murder. She also gave the same firm answer at that time, but she really didn't lie. .
Hesta secretly glanced at Qianye's expression. For a moment, she was a little unsure whether Qianye's "existence" was the truth or a lie.
"What do you think?" Si Lei suddenly turned to Hesta.
Hesta was startled, "...I don't know."
"You have so much experience fighting chelates, don't you have any judgment?"
"Well... the behavior of the chelate this time is not typical." Hesta frowned, "But it's hard to say, sometimes 'atypical' is a kind of 'typical'..."
Hesta put on a serious expression and analyzed seriously, but in his mind he followed Si Lei's guess - if this was another case of a person with mercury needle abilities pretending to use chelates to commit a crime, the scope of the murderer would suddenly be narrowed. : Rico, Chiba, and Hesta herself.
Or maybe there are other hidden mercury needles on the ship at this moment. They have never been shown in public, so they are not among Si Lei's suspects at all, but Qianye must know their existence.
If Chiba avoids talking about this topic under such circumstances, then her role in this case will appear slightly suspicious...
Hesta glanced at Chiba again.
rather say……
Miss Chiba has been very suspicious from the beginning...
As this thought appeared again, Hesta's voice stopped completely. Her thoughts were like two parallel carriages. When one of them suddenly went off the track and lost control, the other immediately veered off the track.
"...Then what?" Si Lei asked following Hesta's words.
"Sorry," Hesta's eyes were empty, "...I kind of forgot what I just said."
"You said that as long as the murder is not random, you can trace the murderer's motives. Even if the other party is a chelate, you can try to infer its action rules."
"...Oh, yes." Hesta held her forehead, "Then...uh, then..."
Motivation...motivation...
Hesta felt as if Chiba patted her shoulder, "Don't force it, you haven't had lunch yet and haven't taken any medicine, right?"
Si Lei looked at Hesta, whose eyes were straight, "...you haven't eaten yet?"
"Aren't the lunch boxes still well placed there?" Chiba pointed to the corner not far away, "Where can we eat without opening the bags?"
Hesta was still sitting there expressionless, the conversation with Anna in the morning reappeared in her mind - that hellish golden age, that Robbeglier who had passed away but still left a huge influence, that A youth organization that has passed away and was completely buried in history...
A kind of intuition gradually took shape in Hestad's heart:
If Alec is a false god, then the people aboard the Ascension at this moment are not fakes from the golden age, just like Rob Green and Robbeglier, the Thorn Monk and the Boycott Monk...
This wonderful response suddenly caught Hesta's full attention, and she had almost no time to think about other issues.
Confusing thoughts were flying in Hestad's mind - there was an idea that she would never have had before this morning; but after leaving Anna's study, Hestad suddenly realized that there was another possibility in the whole thing. .
In fact, those with mercury needle ability do not need to be mercury needles at all.
She doesn’t even need to be human…
"Hesta!" Chiba's stern voice suddenly awakened Hesta. She looked up blankly, her face pale.
"...Don't scare me," Si Lei held Hesta's shoulder, "What's wrong with you?"
"I'm fine." Hesta replied dryly, "I just suddenly... got distracted."
Qianye looked at Si Lei unhappily: "Don't ask her for this kind of thing in the future. I brought her on board for vacation. What's wrong with you taking her to work overtime all the time?"
"I need to hear what Jane has to say," Si Lei replied. "Her perspective is very precious—"
"Then please distinguish the occasion clearly——"
"Officer Si Lei."
Following Hesta's sudden opening, Qianye and Si Lei fell silent at the same time.
"I don't think we need to be too anxious." Hesta said softly.
"...How do you say it?" Si Lei asked.
"If we do nothing, maybe clues will fall from the sky."
"What?"
"We still haven't figured out what the murderer is doing. The murderer may be more anxious about this than us." Hesta was silent for a moment, "Just... a personal experience."
…
When Rico returned to the room, Si Lei had left, and only Chiba, who was dealing with some paperwork, and Hesta, who had just eaten, were left in the room.
Chiba looked very busy, and Hestad would glance over at her from time to time - in the past few years, Hestad had never seen Miss Chiba doing anything so fast against time.
"You came back at the right time." Qianye closed the computer, "I'm withdrawing, you wait until Si Lei comes to change his shift in the evening."
"Will Si Lei really come? I just met her at Grunin's cabin," Rico shrugged lightly, "I think she is very busy now."
"It depends on her condition," Chiba glanced at her watch, "If she doesn't come, Zero will pick up your shift."
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