Hesta looked into the distance. When everything calmed down, she bent over with her knees bent and sat on the ground covered in sweat.
Rico avoided the flesh and blood scattered on the ground and jumped close to the corpse and half of the skull.
"Look," Rico picked up a broken metal ring with a pen, "it's a neck bomb."
"I wouldn't be surprised if anything appears on this ship again..."
"How are you?"
"Don't ask questions like this again," Hesta unbuttoned his collar and fell backwards with some weakness, "I'm fine, I'm fine."
…
About twenty minutes later, Si Lei rushed to the scene. The sea was covered with clouds and it seemed like it would rain soon. The area where the bodies were scattered had been cordoned off with an isolation zone.
At the edge of the isolation zone, Rico and Hesta stood silently.
Si Lei looked at the two young men, "...why are you two again? Didn't you go back to sleep?"
"I suddenly wanted to come out to enjoy the wind." Rico replied.
"My idea." Hesta continued.
The three of them looked at each other in silence.
Si Lei put on his gloves and said, "Tell me what you saw."
Rico described what happened in this way and that. Not long after, the crew member who opened the window at a high place was also brought to the scene. The descriptions on both sides corroborated each other, and the story was quickly restored to a rough outline. .
Si Lei looked up at the flagpole in the accident. It had the same metal texture as the ship's hull. The diameter of the flagpole was not thick. Even if there was no explosion, it would be very dangerous for an adult man to hang on it.
"Why did he climb up the flagpole? Is he looking for something?"
"I don't know. When we saw him, he was gesturing to us, to the effect that we should keep quiet." Rico replied, "We wanted to go back to find Bree, and then the gentleman opened the window and shouted. And then... 'boom'."
The crew members on the side couldn't help but trembled with Rico's onomatopoeia.
After recording the key information, Si Lei closed the black notebook. She turned around and ordered two soldiers to prepare some materials for taking fingerprints, and asked another crew member to go to the control room to say hello.
Several thorn monks finally arrived at the scene. Everyone's eyes were red and swollen. Apparently they had not recovered from the conflict last night. Si Lei took them to the corpse to have a look. Several of them were very surprised. The identity of the dead man was almost recognized, and the men wept and whispered "Ashley."
Hesta watched it all.
"One a day."
"Huh?" Rico turned around, "What?"
"I said the murderer's rhythm is basically one per day."
"...There are only twelve Thorn Monks in total," Li Ge thought for a while, "At this rate, they won't be able to survive for half a month."
Not far away, Si Lei turned around accidentally and suddenly found that Hesta and Rico were still stuck in place like two wooden stakes. She walked closer and said, "You can go back first. It's going to rain. Don't run around."
"Is there anything else we need to do?" Rico asked.
"No need for now. If I have any other questions later, I will come to you."
"Okay," Rico nodded, "but we won't live in the original room now."
"Where do you live?"
Rico asked Si Lei for a notebook and pen, and wrote the location of Chiba's room on a new page, "We should all stay here from now on."
Si Lei took it and took a look, "Okay."
"Then we-"
Before Rico finished speaking, Hesta suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the crime scene not far away, "...that, the wheelchair."
"Let's get a new one from Mantel first. This one can't be returned to you for the time being." Si Lei looked at Hesta, "It won't be occupied for a long time. I just need to go over all the evidence at the scene first." Summary check.”
Hesta sighed softly, "...Okay."
…
On the way back, the two walked side by side. Hesta's pace had completely returned to normal, and he no longer needed Rico's support or deliberate waiting.
"Why do you care so much about that wheelchair? It seems to me that you don't need it at all now."
"...You can't just throw it away. Turan carved flowers on it."
"What was carved?"
"The flower is just an ordinary little red flower. I used to secretly stop taking the medicine for a while. Later, every time I insisted on taking the medicine for fifteen days, Tulan would carve a small red flower on it for me... Now the color has faded. But the outline is still very clear, just on the side of the left armrest... Why are you laughing, what's so funny about this?"
"I thought that just because Liz liked to do this kind of thing, Turan had learned it at some point!"
"I'm going to take that wheelchair with me anyway..."
At the corner, a figure suddenly bumped into him. Rico and Hesta dodged at the same time. The man suddenly stopped and lost his balance. Rico grabbed his arm. Fortunately, he didn't fall. However, a figure in the man's arms The book fell out of hand instantly and fell to the ground.
"Are you okay?"
"without……"
The two recognized the person at once, "Ah, Ms. Mantel, we are looking for you. We need a new wheelchair, and Officer Si Lei asked us to come to you."
"New... a new wheelchair?" Mantel held up the hat on her head and quickly leaned over to pick up the book on the ground. She patted the non-existent dust on the cover delicately and put the cover of the book in her arms. , "Do you want it now, or should I send it to you later?"
"Anything is fine," Li Ge said, "It depends on your convenience——"
"Just now." Hesta said suddenly.
"Let's go this way. I'll take you to get your things first, and then we'll register. Is that okay?"
"Thank you," Hesta looked at the book in Mantel's arms, "What book is that?"
"When the Forest Sings", and it is signed by Ms. Anna Kosolova," Mantel said happily, "I was really surprised that I had the luck to meet her on this trip, and I have never met her. Recognize her, you know - oh, sorry, I forgot that you are the guests who boarded the ship with Ms. Anna, you must know better than me, haha, look at my excitement - "
"We're not familiar with each other," Hesta said calmly.
"Huh?" Mantel looked over in surprise.
Hesta pointed to the book in Mantel's arms, "What is this book about?"
"...It's just a popular science prose about the forest." Mantel hugged the book in his arms tighter, "When Ms. Anna was in her twenties, she once returned to live alone in the uninhabited snowfield of District 14. She lived for seven months, and the main line of this book is her memoirs of those seven months, interspersed with a lot of interesting knowledge.”
"Can I see it?"
Mantel immediately took a step back: "No."
Just as Hesta was about to promise that she would read it carefully, Anna's unrecognizable book came to mind, and what she originally wanted to say suddenly became hard to say.
"If you want to read it, you can wait," Mantel smiled. "This book is something I always keep by my side. I also have two books for reading, which I can lend to you later."
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