Anna's study was silent, with only the candlelight dancing and making a beeping sound.
Hesta watched in the dark for a long time, but never heard any suspicious noise. A quarter of an hour later, she walked out of the shadows and came to Anna's desk.
There was a white candle standing on yesterday's candlestick, and a folded piece of letter paper was pressed under the candlestick. She frowned slightly and took out the letter paper.
At this moment, the white cat named Mei Shijin jumped on the table. Its long, fluffy tail tilted upwards, brushing Hesta's wrist as it crossed the table in front of her.
Hesta stroked the cat's tail.
The white cat withdrew its tail and sat upright in front of the table, its ears twitching.
Hesta ignored the cat. She unfolded the letter and there was a line of elegant handwriting on it:
"You came anyway and left in a hurry last night. Do you regret it?"
Hesta took a deep breath, raised her eyebrows slightly, and continued reading.
"It's a pity that I'm not here tonight, and I won't be here tomorrow night. You don't have to come to this study to find me in these two days. I don't have much to tell you, only one thing: I didn't lie to you last night. It is absolutely safe, not just because someone is protecting you, but every female passenger on the Shengming is absolutely immune in this game, no matter which side they are on, no matter what they have done. options, their names have been crossed off my death list.
"Still don't understand what I'm saying? This is normal. If you want to understand everything, you have to be in the game yourself. If you don't take risks, you can't get in."
The message ended abruptly here. Hesta looked at the back and saw that there was no writing there.
There was no signature on the letter paper. Hesta took out her "Boarding Instructions" from her pocket. She compared the short sentences behind the "Instructions" with the words in the message in front of her. As expected, the handwriting of the two was exactly the same - Anna is Al Bodonica, she was the initiator of the short sentence behind "Instructions".
The cat at hand suddenly meowed, and Hesta glanced at it. The white cat had stretched out its limbs and was lying on its side on the table. When it turned over, half of its belly was exposed.
Hesta still ignored it. She put the letter on the candle and lit it, then threw it into the silver plate on the table.
The fire in the plate suddenly lit up, and the paper quickly turned into ashes. Hesta turned to leave, but the white cat was already lying at her feet. Hesta quickly jumped away, and the cat immediately got up and clung to her.
"...What's wrong with you?" Hesta pinched the back of the cat's neck and pinned it firmly to the ground. "The night before yesterday, you scratched my paw when you touched it, and today it's sticky here again?"
The white cat remained silent, its front legs fluttering in the air, and its lower body gurgling on the ground. Hesta let go and did not get up.
"I'm warning you," Hesta said coldly, "I'll be rude to you if you follow me again."
The cat lay there, looking up at Hesta, but he really didn't move.
Hesta was surprised but also found it funny. Maybe the tone just now was too fierce, so the cat understood a little bit of the meaning.
She stepped over the cat and left.
In the showroom aisle that was retreating rapidly, Hesta thought about the message he had just seen. It's no accident that these successive deaths are all men, but what is Anna's goal? Slaughtered the monks of thorns and the followers of Roboglier on the high seas?
Perhaps there were more than 20 soldiers killed by Zero at the Grace Theater last night. Maybe the man named Bernhard was also one of Anna's targets.
How convenient.
A ship on the high seas is like an isolated island, and there will be no other mercury needles coming to stop it. No matter the passenger's status or wealth, he can't escape in this vast sea no matter what...
Compared to the time when she had worked so hard and put herself in danger, Anna actually found a place that took advantage of the right time and place. What was even smarter was that Zero died in the first place, in front of everyone - what about a dead little girl? Committing a crime? Not to mention a middle-aged man with limited legs and feet...
She has figured everything out, right?
There was no one patrolling tonight, so I guess Si Lei's suggestion must have been taken into consideration. Hesta walked across the open deck, and the heavy rain hit the hull, making a shocking sound.
Before entering another building, Hesta stopped suddenly, turned around and looked around - there was no one behind him.
Although there was no evidence, she always felt that Miss Chiba had been tracking her in the dark.
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Near two o'clock, Agnes woke up from the severe pain in her shoulder. She opened her eyes and saw Meyer lying on the head of the bed. Meyer didn't even change his clothes and fell asleep sitting there.
The dim nightlight reflected the outline of the room, and Agnes felt sad but did not wake her up.
Agnes stayed awake for a while. She realized that her painkillers had expired prematurely, and the wound on her shoulder seemed to be burning with a living flame. She leaned on the pillow in despair. The pain when she was still was unbearable. When she tried to twist her neck or raise her other arm, the involved muscles made her feel like she was being tortured.
In the darkness, she heard the sound of a lock bolt being pried outside.
The sound was very soft, and there were no more footsteps after that. In a daze, Agnes wondered if she was burned out, but then she saw the door to her room slowly open.
"Who is there!"
Meyer suddenly woke up from his sleep. Agnes endured the pain and stood up, trying to hold the gun beside the bed.
"It's me." Hesta's voice came from behind the door, "Don't be nervous."
Goodbye Hesta, Agnes felt like she was facing a powerful enemy. She loaded the gun in disgust, but was immediately grabbed by Hesta's wrist. Agnes watched helplessly as the other party took the pistol away - she didn't know where Hesta had pinched her. She pinched her so hard that her whole hand lost all strength.
"What's wrong with you," Hesta whispered, "Didn't I say that the gun must be kept loaded? If you think about touching the gun when something goes wrong, you won't be able to catch up with anything."
Meyer stared blankly at the big man who suddenly arrived, and it took him a while to realize: "...how did you get in?"
Hesta threw out a key card and Meyer caught it with both hands - the number of the suite they were in was written on the key card.
"This...where did you come from?"
"Took it from Bree. He is sleeping in the medical observation room tonight." Hesta replied calmly, "I have something to ask you-"
"Hesta! Why did you frame me!"
Hesta glanced at Agnes who was shouting hoarsely, "What did I falsely accuse you of?"
"I didn't give you any "Guide" at all——"
"The Guide is in the prop safe at Grace Theatre. Isn't that what you told me?"
Agnes's eyes widened slightly, "What..."
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