Rico pushed Hesta back into the house, only to find that there was an extra note on the small round table where they were sitting around not long ago.
Hesta saw the first line at a glance: Save us!
Hesta held the note in her hand:
Help us!
We were locked in a dark room by the mercury needle Jane Hestad. It was below the surface of the ship and looked like a warehouse. There were cultural relics and fossils everywhere, and there was no living person in sight.
Help us! We are Agnes and Meyer. No matter who you are, please help us convey the content of the note to more people. Jane Hestad has no right to imprison any passengers on the ship and restrict our freedom at will. She is committing a crime. !
Further down, are the signatures of Agnes and Meyer.
Hesta turned to the back of the paper and looked at it. There was a piece of double-sided tape on the back of the paper with some white cat hair stuck on it.
"Where did it come from?"
"That cat." Si Lei replied, "I met it on the way back, and this note was stuck to the cat's back."
"Has anyone else seen it?"
"I don't know." Si Lei replied, "There was no one else around me at the time."
"Okay." Hesta smiled, tore the note into half and threw it into the trash can nearby. "Next time we see that cat, we have to catch it."
"Did you really lock them up, these...sisters?"
"Um."
"Why?" Si Lei frowned, "What did the two of them do -"
"Gobelin may want to silence them," Hesta said softly, "I am saving people."
"……Really."
"Otherwise, I don't have any grudge against these sisters - oh, Agnes planned to assassinate me before," Hesta glanced at Si Lei with a smile, "Is this considered self-defense?"
…
Early the next morning, just after seven o'clock, Si Lei heard a knock on the door.
She got up to look and found Tasia standing outside with several men.
"What's wrong?" Si Lei opened the door, "What happened?"
"Rene didn't go back last night," Tasia looked at Si Lei. "These people insisted that Rene went with me last night and wanted to cause trouble for me, but Ms. Hesta took him away on the way yesterday. Gone...they don’t believe me no matter what I say.”
"So you are here...?"
"Is Ms. Hesta awake?" Tasia asked in a low voice. "I want her to testify for me..."
"Not yet. We'll talk about it when we get to the theater at nine o'clock. I'll pass it on." Si Lei looked at the people behind Tasia and said, "If it's more convenient for you, you can come in and wait."
"May I?"
Si Lei opened the door wider, and just as Tasia entered, several people behind her also wanted to move.
"Stop," Si Lei shouted, "You guys are always inseparable from Rene. Why did you all leave first last night?"
"Mr. Blumber asked us to leave first!" one of them said, "He said he had something to talk to Tasia, so we just--"
"You just came together to trouble her so early in the morning?"
"no……"
"If you're in a hurry, go to the theater and wait," Si Lei said coldly, "Everyone living here is a lady. It's not convenient for you to come in, so let's go."
The glass door slowly closed, and Si Lei took Tasia to another room after hearing the door lock snap.
Tasia still looked a little shocked, so Si Lei boiled a pot of hot water for her and asked her to sit down on an unoccupied single bed.
"Ms. Hesta and the others..."
"They are in another room, they should be ordering food at the moment." Si Lei replied, she picked up the tablet on the table next to her, "Have you eaten? If not, let's go together, so you don't have to go to the restaurant. .”
"Okay, let me take a look..." Tasia took the tablet from Si Lei. She glanced at the mirror inside the locker not far away and suddenly covered her face with her hands.
"...What's wrong with you?" Si Lei asked.
"Sorry..." Tasia lowered her head, her expression suddenly became embarrassed, and even her ears began to turn red.
"What's wrong with you?" Si Lei squatted down, "What's wrong with you?"
"...No, no," Tasia smiled awkwardly, "I was in a hurry to go out today and forgot to put on makeup. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's so rude..."
Si Lei didn't understand, "Aren't you feeling unwell?"
Tasia covered her face and shook her head repeatedly. She put the tablet aside and stood up in a hurry, "Can I borrow your bathroom?"
Si Lei raised his hand towards the bathroom room, and Tasia fled there as if taking refuge.
The sound of water came from the bathroom.
Si Lei stood at the door holding the tablet, "What did Rene tell you last night?"
"... He didn't say anything," Tasia's voice came, "He just told me some things about his time in the wasteland. I thought it was just a casual chat, but I didn't expect that he came to me specifically to talk... …”
"He didn't say anything disgusting, did he?"
"No, no," Tasia replied quickly, but after the words came out of her mouth, she realized that she should answer yes to this question.
"That's good." Si Lei said softly, "This person seems to have some evil intentions, so we'd better stay away from him as much as possible."
"OK, all right."
Outside the door, Si Lei's footsteps gradually walked away. Inside the door, Tasia held the sink and looked at the water. She suddenly remembered what René said last night about women in the wasteland selling their bodies for bread.
Thinking of Rene's gaze last night, Tasia felt her hands tremble slightly, and a feeling of disgust suddenly came over her, like a limp armyworm crawling onto the back of her hands.
Tasia gripped the edge of the sink and gritted her teeth.
If only people like René could disappear forever.
She took a deep breath and took out the divided foundation, concealer, blush, eyeliner, eye shadow and lipstick from her handbag - she deliberately stuffed these small items into her handbag just to prevent an occasion like today.
Facing the mirror, Tasia began to put on her makeup. As the freckles on both sides of her nose and pale cheeks were covered up by smooth, bright makeup, a familiar sense of security returned.
In order to make herself look more aggressive today, she deliberately adjusted the angle of her eyebrows and added a darker shade to her cheeks. However, the lipstick color was still too bright, and she would have to go back to the room to change the color later.
After looking back and forth for a few minutes, Tasia breathed a sigh of relief. She bent down to put away her bottles again, and when she stood up again, she carefully spread her bangs back to make their curvature look more natural.
"Tasia? Are you okay yet?" Si Lei's voice came from outside.
"Ah, okay! I'll come out right now!"
For the last time, Tasia looked at herself in the glasses.
If she could see René again today, she would make sure to let him know that she was not a woman in the wilderness.
(End of chapter)
