"By the way, what about the two girls who were thrown into my study by Hesta? How are they doing now?"
"Agnes is recovering from her injuries. Although Hesta gave her an emergency injection before, her condition is still not optimistic and she is still too anxious." Zero replied, "Meyer is fine, she just cries a lot."
"Let me think about it... I have to find something for them to do," Anna raised her head, "otherwise they will really feel a little depressed after being bored for a long time."
"Do you want them to come out?"
"No need," Anna smiled, "Since Hesta locked them up, it is up to Hesta to decide when to release them."
…
"Officer Si Lei seems to be very familiar with this area."
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On the second deck, Rico pushed Hesta and followed Si Lei forward quickly.
"Anna took me to the Hard Rock Bar here once before," Si Lei replied. "She is really familiar with this ship."
"Huh? You still have time to go have a drink. When will it be?"
"The night we first boarded the ship," Si Lei glanced at Hesta, "Jane was there at that time."
Hesta showed a confused expression, "Really?"
"Yes, you were asleep at the time, and I made a special call to Chiba. After all, she is your guardian..."
Rico was startled, "Qianye agreed directly? How many of you were there at that time and she dared to directly ask you to take Hesta to a strange place?"
"Agreed, there were only four of us at that time, besides Hesta and I, there was Anna and the little girl." When talking about Ling, Si Lei lowered his eyes slightly, "Qianye's voice was quite tired when we called that day, I guess She might not be in very good condition at that time, so she couldn't take care of so many things——"
Si Lei's voice stopped suddenly, and she suddenly realized that there was a detail in it that she had never noticed before: from the time he boarded the ship to now, Qianye Renqian has been in good condition, and there was obviously no sudden illness or trauma... …
But for mercury needles, there is indeed a stage when they are extremely weak.
——Could it be said that on the day of boarding the ship, Chiba entered bullet time...
"I think it's out of trust," Hesta said softly, "Miss Chiba seems to have a... special trust in Anna."
"How did you tell?" Si Lei looked at Hesta, "I feel like these two people don't usually appear together."
Hesta was silent for a while. She carefully recalled everything that had happened in the past few days, and found that she could not find any evidence that the two of them were particularly familiar with each other. When Avinash saw Anna at the dock of Havre Port, he immediately changed his mind. A friendly and respectful expression, this kind of change has never appeared on Miss Chiba.
But Hesta was very sure that Miss Chiba must have been involved at a deeper level in many of the things that happened on this ship... It's just that the two of them seemed stranger than ordinary people on the surface.
Rico suddenly remembered that Chiba was angry with Anna this morning, especially the mysterious disappearance of Anna in her room. However, when she told these stories, neither Si Lei nor Hesta seemed very surprised.
"It's nothing unusual to happen to her," Hesta laughed. "Even if her body appears in front of me tomorrow, I will only think that this person may be tired of being a human and wants to be a ghost."
"So," Si Lei fell into deep thought, "There is indeed some overlap between Anna and Qianye. You all think so, right?"
"I can't tell..." Hesta said softly, "It just feels like there is something tacitly understood between them. Should I say, tacit understanding?"
During the conversation, the neon light tube of the Hard Rock Bar appeared in the sight of the three of them. They stopped talking, but at the same time quickened their pace.
"Hello," Si Lei called to a crew member, "Where is the self-service station -"
The crew immediately understood the purpose of the three people's visit. "The service station is not working now. The machine for the self-service process is broken, and it cannot be repaired at this time. If you have anything, you can go directly to Ms. Putinna."
Rico asked: "Who is -"
"He's the bartender here," Si Lei answered proactively, "Let's just go into the bar and have a look."
Today's Hard Rock Bar is as deserted as ever. Except for the two spotlights on the bar, the rest of the area is gloomy, with no lights and no one.
"Where do you want to sit?" Rico lowered his head and asked Hesta.
"Well..." Hesta glanced at the bar, "Over there."
Si Lei laughed, "You were sitting there last time, did you know?"
Hesta was surprised for a moment: "Really?"
"Me, you, Anna, Zero." Si Lei pointed to the seats in front of the bar in order, "Do you still have any impressions?"
Hesta shook her head.
The bartender in a black vest walked from the darkness to the light again, "Good evening, ladies."
"Hello, let's go through the formalities of appointing an adjudicator in advance." Hesta took out his invitation letter to board the ship, and Si Lei immediately put his invitation letter on it, "Do you need us to provide other identity information? Like a ship card?”
"No need." The bartender accepted the invitations from the two of them with a smile, "Please wait a moment."
The bartender left the bar, and Rico looked away and looked at the two people beside him, "So are we catching up?"
"It should be," Si Lei said softly, "...but it goes so smoothly, it feels a bit unreal."
"Would you like a drink later?"
Si Lei frowned: "Jian now——"
"She doesn't drink. She doesn't touch these things when she's well...I'm asking you."
"I won't drink either," Si Lei replied, "If you want to drink, we can wait for you."
"Forget it..." Rico sighed, "That's boring."
The bartender appeared in front of the three of them again, and Li Ge and Si Lei stood up straight at the same time.
"Sorry, you three. Since the invitations are in a contaminated state, this situation does not meet our processing requirements." The bartender placed the invitations of Hesta and Si Lei on the cold marble table and pushed them gently. To their side, "Therefore, the judgment result is 'rejected'."
"...contaminated, what do you mean?"
"We explained this to the previous adjudicator, didn't he pass it on to you?"
"What?"
"'Designate the adjudicator in advance, and the successor needs to bring an untainted boarding invitation letter and go to the self-service station on deck 2 with the current adjudicator'," the bartender repeated the content on the note. "And the invitation you brought is tainted."
"No, what does 'contaminated' mean?" Si Lei unfolded his invitation letter, "Is something damaged, or -"
"It was indeed contaminated," the bartender smiled, "We're also sorry."
"but--"
Hesta raised her head: "Are both letters in a contaminated state, or is it just one of them?"
"Both are tainted," the bartender replied.
(End of chapter)
