The cat didn't move.
In the silence, Agnes gradually felt some discomfort. The white cat's eyes seemed particularly cold and arrogant. Although she knew cats were always like this, it still caused her displeasure.
"Duke."
A strange female voice came from outside the door, and Agnes immediately hid in the darkness, her breathing became tight again - what "Duke"? Is there anyone else in this theater?
The cat meowed at this moment.
A familiar black figure stepped into the backstage door, and Agnes quickly recognized the person as the little girl next to Anna. She saw her walking up to the white cat, leaning over and picking up the cat.
"Are you here, Duke?" the girl murmured. "Don't keep running around."
Agnes's palms were already sweating - what the heck, it turned out that "Duke" was the cat's name...
Her gun was pointed at the girl's back.
——Who knows whether the conversation with Mr. Gobelin just now was overheard by this person?
The girl holding the cat in the dark seemed unaware of all this. She turned and walked towards the exit, with Agnes's gun muzzle following her back. During the fierce struggle, Agnes was almost breathless. , she felt dizzy, and the green light in front of her eyes was like a wave of ocean waves.
Reason told her that she had to deal with people here, but for some reason, the hand holding the trigger couldn't press it down.
After a few seconds, the girl holding the cat disappeared through the door.
Agnes could hear her evenly rhythmic footsteps coming from the direction of the theater, the sound gradually became fainter, and the people moved away.
In the backstage room, Agnes slowly squatted down. She was recalling what had happened a little distractedly. Sweat fell from her forehead. She was not sure whether she had made a weak decision. She already regretted it. .
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"...It's so small here." Hesta looked at the exhibition hall of Shengming, "It's small and empty. I thought there would be a lot of things here."
"Is this still small? Isn't this the size of an ordinary museum?" Rico raised his head and estimated the height of the floor, "This place is at least as high as three of our rooms."
Hesta didn't answer - if compared with the cabin room, this place is certainly very spacious, but compared with one of Anna's "luggage rooms", the size here is less than half of that.
There were some portraits and landscapes hung on both sides of the aisle, and gifts were also displayed in the glass display cabinets. Most of them came from dignitaries and wealthy businessmen, and some of the names even seemed slightly familiar to Hesta and Rico.
Walking to the middle of the exhibition hall, they saw a central open space specially opened to display a huge group photo. Rico and Hesta stepped forward to take a closer look. There were about seven or eight hundred people in the photo, and everyone stood in high spirits. At a port, everyone is smiling as they stare at the camera intently.
Hesta looked at it for a while, "...these are the passengers who participated in the rescue incident of 'Waiting Room No. 12'."
"Well, yes." Rico looked away from the introduction board on the side, "It's basically the same as what Ms. Mantel said."
Hesta pushed the wheelchair forward a little further, "...they are all amazing people."
"Isn't it amazing?" Anna's voice suddenly came from the front, "Isn't this also a tyranny of the majority against the minority?"
Hesta frowned slightly, "What?"
"The result of the secret ballot was 562:17, which means that there were still 17 people on the Shengming who opposed allowing passengers from the epidemic area to board the ship." Anna looked at the text on the introduction page, "Of the passengers from the epidemic area, "It's lucky that no one gets chelation - but what if someone does, and something goes wrong after boarding the ship and the situation gets out of hand?"
"Obviously, that will be another story," Anna continued. "Once, there were seventeen sane people on this ship trying to prevent a disaster. However, everyone ignored them and caused the disaster. Huge casualties... Do you think this kind of accident is enough to be included in your Mercury Needle's large-scale accident list?"
"Then do you have a better solution?" Hesta asked, "At the same time, save the lives of passengers in the affected area and passengers on the ship."
"No."
Hesta glanced at Anna and said nothing.
"Look at your expression now," Anna laughed, "You want to say, if I can't come up with a better way, shut up, right?"
"...I didn't say that."
"Then do you think so?"
"It is difficult to take everyone into account in any decision, and everything has a price," Hestad looked at the group photo. "On the contrary, I think your assumption makes these people's decisions more noble - even in difficult times, there are still Some people are willing to take risks to rescue others."
"Courage or blind obedience?"
"What's the meaning?"
"If after those passengers from the epidemic area boarded the waiting room 12, it was found that some of them were indeed infected with chelation, then how many of the more than 500 passengers would quickly defect to vote against it? What is the attitude of the crew and How much influence did the attitude of the opinion leaders among the crowd play in this process? Did these people truly and completely explain the consequences of this choice to everyone?
"Don't forget, Jane, how many people in the livable land have completely forgotten about chelation disease..." Anna's voice suddenly became very soft, "The passengers on the ship really fully understand the risks they are about to take. ?"
Hesta felt a depression in her chest, and she looked at the group photo in front of her again - the sun reflected everyone's bright smiles, everyone stood together, and the joy of surviving the disaster closely connected everyone.
"...I'm so glad you weren't on that ship, Anna."
Anna smiled even more happily, "What can you do? Sometimes people can only choose between a bad option and an even worse option... Ignorance brings the best results."
Rico looked at Hesta and Anna cautiously. In the sudden silence, she slowly raised her hand: "It's seven twenty, friends, I bet it's already dark outside."
Anna turned her electric wheelchair again.
Near the exit, Hestad saw an ivory female bust, which was hung on the dark blue velvet curtain wall. It was an adult woman wearing a paratha, and four chains flew around her shoulders to imprison her, but she was unaware of it.
She just closed her eyes meekly, with a peaceful expression, as if she was immersed in a beautiful dream.
"The bow of the ship." Anna looked up at the sculpture. "Since the Iron Age, sailors have liked to fix some totems or statues on the bow of the ship in order to obtain blessings. It is the soul of a ship and also symbolizes the voyager's destiny. will."
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