Hesta glanced at the wheelchair not far away, "Leave it here, let's go out directly... I think the "Guide" is just an excuse for Agnes to lure us here, there is no such thing here. "
"Okay, do you want to come down and walk by yourself?"
"Um."
The two went to the landline and tried to call the medical office. As expected, no one answered.
The further they walked toward the exit, the harder it was for Rico and Hesta to stay. There were dead bodies everywhere, and the girls could only move forward through blood.
Rico held onto Hesta's arm all the way to prevent her from accidentally falling.
"...Where can one be absolutely safe now?"
"It's hard to say where there is an absolutely safe place," Hesta whispered, "Wherever you are, it's relatively safe."
Rico smiled bitterly.
The two came to the side of the stage from behind, and the situation in the theater was worse than backstage. Hanging on the edge of the auditorium on the second floor were one or two armed soldiers who had no time to climb over the fence and escape. They were wearing gray-blue camouflage uniforms and lying there on their backs or lying on the ground. Black blood dripped down their hair and fingers. The tip falls down.
More people were thrown down directly. Their corpses fell on the soft chairs on the first floor in various postures. It was obvious that many joints on their bodies had been broken. In the dim light, Hestad could see every face. They are all written with horror and pain.
This kind of massacre far exceeded ordinary battle losses... but cruel killings.
In this silence of death, Hestad suddenly felt a shiver of divine enlightenment - this place was so much like the villages where those chelates descended. Countless battle scenes from the past came to mind, and the murderous intention and fear of chelates surged into her heart at the same time. In an instant, an extremely cold torrent seemed to rush through her limbs and torso, and she felt an unprecedented sense of clarity.
Li Ge glanced at the stage inadvertently, and his expression froze in an instant.
"Anna?"
Anna in the wheelchair looked sideways, as if she had just noticed Rico and Hesta coming out from behind.
"Why are you here? I obviously put you here -"
"Don't be afraid, little girl, relax," Anna smiled, "Zero found me, and I asked her to take me back."
"But here just-"
"It's really scary." Anna withdrew her gaze and looked up at the stage. "When we came in, a bloody lump rolled down the stairs and almost hit me... Fortunately, Zero reacted quickly and saved me." It slapped away.”
A childish voice came from above the stage: "Ana, is this here?"
Li Ge looked up in shock, and then realized that there was someone else on the top of the stage.
"I can't see clearly," Anna squinted her eyes, "Is that a safe?"
"Seems to be?"
"Who's up there? Zero?" Rico raised his head and walked toward Anna, "What are you doing up there?"
A thick rope was thrown from the air. Zero sat on a movable wooden board pulled by a crane machine, holding a black box about the same size as her upper body in her arms.
"I'm coming down!"
Following her warning, she slid down using the thick rope with one hand. Rico immediately turned over and jumped onto the stage. Sure enough, Zero failed to grasp the thick rope and fell down in mid-air. The black box in her arms also fell to the stage floor.
After a loud bang, a deep dent was made in the floor.
Zero frowned and looked down at her palm - her entire palm was covered in blood and flesh due to friction.
Zero turned around and looked at Anna, "...it hurts so much."
"We'll go back and disinfect later," Anna said softly, "Let's go take a look at the box first."
Li Ge was slightly annoyed: "How could you let her do such a dangerous thing -" her voice stopped abruptly mid-sentence, "...Jane?"
Hesta had already walked up from the side of the stage. She bypassed Zero and Anna and went straight to the black box.
Hesta subconsciously reached for the key in her pocket, but when she got close to the box, she quickly stopped.
——The black box is a password box with no keyhole at all.
Zero also trotted to Hesta. She looked at the black box for a while, and then said to Anna: "It is a wooden box, but it is painted with a layer of metallic paint, so it looks like iron."
Anna: "Really? Try it. Can you open it?"
Zero: "No, it's locked very tightly. If you want to open it, you need tools...knives, axes, etc."
Rico stood there and looked at this scene, feeling it was strange - among the four people at the moment, she seemed to be the only one who cared about the little girl's hands and why she was sent to do such a dangerous job, while the others, including The little girl herself didn't care at all.
"Riko," Hesta raised her head, "can you come and try?"
Rico patted his trouser legs with both hands, looking confused. But soon she walked to the wooden box, and just as she was about to take action, she smelled a burning smell coming from inside the box. Then, a lot of corrosive solution seeped out from the edge of the box, leaving traces on the floor. Lower burn marks.
Anna looked at this scene: "...it seems there is no need to open the box."
Hesta and Zero still took two steps back. Rico changed his gloves and forcefully opened the wooden box - everything was as Anna said. A document placed in the box had been corroded by strong acid, and the words on it were Most of the text is also unrecognizable.
Rico picked up the fragment of the document: "...it's the Guide."
Hesta covered her mouth and nose and stepped forward to look. On the piece of paper Rico was holding was the only line of text left, which read in bold font:
"...Return at all costs! Return immediately! Get to the nearest shore! This sea area is not..."
Hesta stared at it. The sentence had no beginning and no end, but its direction was clear.
"...The tone seems very strong." Hesta said softly.
Rico frowned, "That means Agnes didn't lie to us—"
"Not necessarily," Hesta glanced at Anna intentionally or unintentionally, "it may be that the manipulator behind the scenes has temporarily changed his strategy."
Anna pursed her lips in a nonchalant manner.
At this moment, Rico looked towards the entrance of the theater and said, "Someone is coming."
"how many people?"
"A lot." Rico closed his eyes and listened, "There are at least fifty."
Zero keenly ran behind Anna and pushed Anna to hide in the shadows on the side of the stage.
Half a minute later, Hestad finally heard a burst of neat and brisk footsteps coming from outside the theater. Countless gunmen filed in. Hestad recognized the people - they were wearing the white uniforms of the ship's police, with their guns muzzled. Always towards the ground.
"Who is it?" the boat policeman asked Rico from a distance.
"Ordinary passengers." Rico raised his hands symbolically to show that he was not hostile.
"Someone here just called the medical room. Was it you?"
"Yes," Rico replied, "Someone in the prop room backstage was shot and needs urgent medical treatment."
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