"He has already said it!" Si Lei held his hand on the door frame, "If you want to hear it, I will repeat it to you!"
The air was silent for a moment.
"Okay, you tell me and I listen," Hesta took a step back, "Why are you trying to hurt me..."
"I didn't mean to hurt you——"
"You're so fierce." Li Ge raised his hand from a distance, "You were so loud just now and your expression was so scary."
Si Lei took a deep breath.
"...That was not my intention," Si Lei said softly, "But I apologize, I should be gentler."
Hesta retreated to the spring bed that Si Lei had just set up and sat down.
"Dietrich had a childhood sweetheart in the place where he originally lived," Si Lei began to narrate. "Later, in order to join the Thorn Monks, he cut off contact with the girl. The girl came to see him several times, but he refused to meet her. Finally, The girl committed suicide."
Hesta looked at Si Lei, "Whose statement is this? Dietrich himself, or Bree?"
"There's no difference between the two. Bree didn't have much contact with Dietrich's parents," Su Lei replied. "All the stories I told were Bree's confession from Dietrich's last prayer." What I heard here, rounded off, are all Dietrich’s own words.”
Si Lei stood by the door and re-inserted the door bolt.
"Dietrich gave the girl many plaster sculptures, all of which he carved by himself, including small animals, flowers and plants. The little girl also liked them very much - he mentioned it once in his diary with Gruning. The quarrel was caused by this."
"...I have an impression," Hesta said softly. "At that time, Grunin bought back many owl villains - what about the 'devil'? He wrote in his diary at that time, who was the 'devil' he encountered repeatedly? ?”
"That's the little girl who died." Si Lei replied.
Li Ge raised his left eyebrow upon hearing this, "...I don't understand a bit? Is he hallucinating?"
"This is a bit bizarre," Si Lei crossed his arms. "Two weeks before boarding the ship, Dietrich began to see the dead girl frequently around him. Sometimes he was standing on the street corner, sometimes just standing there. Beside his bed...
"According to him, more often than not, he would suddenly see a familiar face in the crowd, but when he took a closer look, he realized that it was an illusion - so he wrote about it repeatedly in his diary, and he couldn't sleep. Okay, if you can’t eat well, you need to talk to Bree.”
Hesta did not say a word - this matter may seem bizarre to others, but to her it seemed concise and clear, and even pointed directly in a specific direction:
Who can make the dead "return" to the world?
zero.
At this moment, Hesta was even more certain that Anna's plan was not a spur-of-the-moment idea. She must have started preparing for it a long time ago... There were so many passengers on the ship, and just collecting information about them all was an unimaginably complicated task. project.
But after thinking about it, Hesta realized that maybe things were not that difficult. For Zero, processing one person's data is probably not much different from processing fifty or five hundred people's data.
...What's more, who said there can only be one "body" for Zero?
With Anna's aura of hands and eyes that reach the sky, she can bring out hundreds of androids who are no different from real people with a wave of her hand. With various identities and appearances, they can sneak into the targets she has targeted... What is impossible? .
"So why did the girl commit suicide?" Hesta asked softly, "Is it really suicide?"
"Not sure."
"...Why do people commit suicide?"
"it may be because……"
Just as Si Lei was about to speak, he suddenly remembered Alvira's death. When she looked into Hesta's eyes again, she felt that the question raised by Hesta seemed to have a profound meaning, and she should not answer it casually.
"...People's emotions are always very strong when they are young." Si Lei said softly.
"Yeah."
"I don't know," Si Lei replied, "We don't even know what the girl's name is now... These are all guesses and cannot be verified."
The two looked at each other.
Hesta quickly looked away and stopped asking, which made Si Lei suddenly feel a little sad. At this moment, she suddenly no longer cared about Hesta's joking and teasing tonight - Hesta had once stood in the position of "assassin", and she would definitely have disgust for the current victim, and for her Murderers standing in the same position have some natural identification, which is also just human nature...
Si Lei closed his eyes and pinched himself.
"...I have also seen dead people recently." Gustav said suddenly.
The other three people in the room looked sideways at him.
"It's my grandma," Gustave's face became more peaceful. "She is a painter. I often painted at her house when I was a child. She loves me the most."
"What does 'saw' mean?" Si Lei became wary, "In a dream? Or somewhere?"
"I can't tell," Gustav smiled cautiously, "It all feels like an illusion. I saw her passing me on the way to Bishop's Restaurant this morning - when I turned around I realized that I had mistaken the elderly janitor aunt for her, but the moment I mistook it, the feeling was very real.”
"When else?"
"Well... before I got on the ship, one morning, I was sketching in the garden - I don't usually sketch, I just bought a flower stand that day, so on a whim, I wanted to draw the light and shadow at sunrise," Gustav whispered. , "Then I saw my grandma, holding her satin umbrella, standing on the opposite side of the artificial lake, waving to me."
"...You read that correctly?"
"How could I be wrong?" Gustav shook his head. "Even if they are old people who look alike, how can they even be dressed the same? And that umbrella - that is her special treasure. They were all kept in the cabinet. Only one year when we invited a photographer to take family photos at home, she took them out and used them as props...I was so impressed."
"Have you told anyone else about it?"
"Are you talking about my grandma? No... no one would believe this kind of thing," Gustav looked at the floor with a shy expression, "And Dietrich and I are in different situations. , this is not a nightmare for me, I miss her very much, whether in a dream or in reality, as long as she comes to see me, I am very happy, she never thinks that I should go to a doctor—— "
"When was the first time you saw her?" Hesta interrupted Gustav's gentle recollection.
"About... right after we arrived in Tanyi - because we have to board the ship from the Havre port, everyone must meet here first," Gustav frowned and recalled, "Probably... it was five Early next month."
Si Lei and Hesta's hearts moved slightly at the same time - and the timing of Dietrich also matched.
