The sound of Si Lei scribbling notes rang out in the quiet room. Hesta turned her head and saw Si Lei taking out her black-covered hard-cover book again - it recorded all her thoughts.
"Aren't you tired, Officer Si Lei?" Hesta asked softly.
"...I said it's okay."
Hesta stood up from the bed again. She walked over to Gustav and sat on the floor as well.
"Take out what's in your pockets and show me again," Hesta's tone was nonchalant, "everything."
Gustave didn't speak, but immediately did as he was told. Although Hestad didn't look at him, Gustave could still read some hostility on Hestad's face, which made him involuntarily look in the direction of Rico. Moved a few inches.
The paper clip, pencil stub, and tape measure were placed in front of Hestad.
Hesta touched the pin and pencil and played with them in his hand, and whispered: "On the day we boarded the ship, I remember that quite a few of you Thorn Monks directly stored their luggage, and only a few chose to bring their hand luggage on board, right?"
"……yes."
"Then why did you all carry suitcases at the dinner party at Bishop's Restaurant?"
"Ah, that's because, before entering the restaurant that day, we happened to meet the luggage cart containing our luggage in the corridor outside... At that time, Mr. Bree thought that each of us had some emergency tools in our suitcases, so It’s better to bring something with you…”
Hesta raised her head in surprise: "So you went all the way empty-handed and only picked up your luggage before entering the restaurant?"
"Um."
This answer really made Hesta feel a sense of black humor. She would never believe that the cart full of Thorn Monk luggage appeared there "by chance". Letting the victims enter "Waiting Room No. 12" with their luggage may be exactly what Anna wants - by the time everyone realizes something is wrong, it will be too late.
...It can be imagined that Anna must have been extremely proud that night.
Rico listened with great interest: "So, someone must have deliberately induced you to violate the "Instructions" and bring your luggage into the restaurant?"
"It's not just them, we also encountered it." Hesta said softly, "That afternoon we met a crew member transporting luggage on the open deck. That person asked us about it, but Officer Si Lei refused directly. .”
Li Ge saluted Si Lei, "Awesome, officer."
"It's just a coincidence." Si Lei replied.
"So," Hesta put the paperclip back on the ground, "it seems that your intended death lies in these three things."
The little color on Gustave's face immediately faded, and he was obviously a little unable to react to the sudden turn of the topic.
"I guess he was stabbed to death with a sharp instrument or strangled with a rope," Hestad said calmly, holding his face with one hand, "Just like Dietrich's half-marathon coin. You can see him running on the boat before he died. One day—"
"That's enough," Si Lei looked at Hesta, "What happened to you tonight? Why do you keep threatening others?"
Hesta raised her head. She finally found some familiar feelings in Si Lei tonight. However, Si Lei's annoyed gaze only lasted for a moment before he turned elsewhere. After a brief adjustment, Si Lei looked at Gustav, and his voice quickly returned to its previous indifference.
"Listen, whatever the murderer originally planned tonight, it's not going to happen."
Gustave was trembling and sobbing. He hugged his knees tightly with his hands and buried his face in his arms. This time, even Rico poked the back of his head to no avail.
"To clarify, I am making predictions, not threats," Hesta looked at Si Lei's face intently, "I think it might be more beneficial for him to remain as vigilant as he is now -"
"Jane! Don't apply the situations you saw in the last case directly to unrelated people - you can't assume that just because some people have suffered unreasonable misfortune, they are equally guilty!
"There are still many ordinary people living in this world. Do you know what ordinary people are? They are sometimes good and sometimes bad. When they are good, they are not as good as saints and Buddhas, but when they are bad, they are not that bad - if people are here If you fall into imperfection morally, you have to sacrifice your life. Then few people in this world can survive. You, me...even the murderer himself, everyone is the same!"
Li Ge involuntarily raised his hands to block between himself and Si Lei - Si Lei's long sentence was like a physical wave of air. Li Ge was neither good at nor liked dealing with such quarrels, but She still looked at Hesta with some curiosity.
Hesta was still sitting cross-legged beside Gustav, her head always raised.
"...My assumption is that some people are paying the price for the mistakes they made in the past;" Hesta held his right arm against himself and pointed his left hand at Si Lei, "Your assumption is that these passengers on the Shengming are all 'Ordinary people', whose assumption sounds more unrealistic -"
"Who gets to decide 'reality'? Determine 'whose' reality?"
Si Lei's questioning almost followed Hesta's words so closely that even before Hesta understood the meaning of these two questions, she had already continued:
"If this was a livable place, no law could force a citizen to testify against himself, but not here... I know it's not here! It's even worse here, because no victim here is asking for justice from the perpetrators, only High-ranking people judge people at will, taking life and death, and no one cares!" Si Lei restrained his voice, "You asked me earlier what my plan is tonight - my plan tonight is to break it, this kind of cruel killing behavior It has to stop!”
"Yes, isn't this plan already a consensus among us," Rico interrupted at the right time, "otherwise we wouldn't be here tonight -"
"Even if every passenger on this ship is guilty of heinous crimes, and not killing them is not enough to make the people angry, where is the evidence of their evil deeds? Is it enough that the murderer himself has seen and confirmed it? Is the murderer's claim that he deserves the crime absolute justice? So who Is the yardstick used to measure murderers accurate!?"
Li Ge sighed softly. It was obvious that her attempt to smooth things over just now had no effect at all. If the noise continued like this, she might not be able to notice even if there was a huge movement outside... She was just about to turn her head and hold Hesta away. He retorted, only to find that Hesta had fallen silent.
"Okay, okay," Rico gave a light high-five, "I suggest that if you still expect me to deal with the enemy in time, today's fight will end here... How about entering the silent time?"
