The elevator runs smoothly, and through the monitoring in the upper right corner of the car, Hesta's expression is captured in detail, including eyebrows, eyes, the skin near the nose, and even a little extra dynamic wrinkles.
However, she always looked ahead calmly, without fear or anger.
The elevator arrives and Hesta enters the corridor. A crew member saw her from a distance and was startled at first, then quickly ran to the Hard Rock Bar.
After a while, someone came to Hesta, "Hello? May I ask -"
"Are there any wheelchairs on your floor?" Hesta asked.
"some."
"Push one over here," Hesta stood there, "I'm a little tired."
The crew was a little surprised, but they did as they were told.
At Hesta's command, the crew quickly pushed her to the counter where the bartender was.
"Good evening, Ms. Adjudicator!" The bartender's eyes narrowed into a thin line, "What would you like to have?"
"Give me a special boat pass that will give me exclusive peace of mind the entire trip."
The bartender didn't seem to hear clearly: "...what?"
Hesta did not explain. She looked around at the furnishings here and seemed to suddenly think of something: "Is Joanna your real name?"
"...What's the problem?" The smile on the bartender's face faded a little, "Although you are a distinguished guest, it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want here?"
"Is that so? When we last chatted, you said you had been working on this ship for ten years." Hestad paused, "If it was only ten years, you should still be you, right?"
The bartender didn't answer.
Hesta looked at her, "Ten years is a long time, but if you put it on a larger time scale, ten years is just a short moment, not worth mentioning."
"What did you think of? You might as well just say it."
"That has nothing to do with the purpose of my trip," Hestad lowered his eyes slightly, "I just came to ask for a ship card."
"I'm sorry I can't give it to you." The bartender replied directly, "You are now the arbiter. What do you want the boat card for?"
"I want to meet Robbe-Grillet, which may be misleading - I want to meet that Robbe Greene."
"Why?"
"Are you Rob Green?"
"no."
"Then go ask your superiors. I've come here, don't let me go in vain..." Hesta coughed lightly and adjusted her posture. "For me, being alone like tonight Opportunities to go out are rare.”
The bartender frowned and thought for a long time, "Okay, please wait a moment."
…
On the sixth deck, Rico found the right moment and lured away all the enemies standing in front of her.
She kicked off the wall, did a somersault in the air, and kicked the glass window not far away with both feet at the same time. However, the expected sound of shattering glass was not heard, and Rico felt a sharp pain below his knees instead.
It was only at this moment that she was shocked to find that the "window" that originally reflected the night view of the sea had turned into a broken gray-white screen, and her two feet were deeply stuck in it, which instead fixed her whole body to the wall.
Several crew members took the opportunity to swarm up and try to catch her. Rico endured the pain and kicked through the wall beneath him, jumping out of the siege again.
Si Lei, who was nearby, had already drawn her gun. In this fatal gap, she fired four bullets in succession. Two shots hit the wall. One shot hit a crew member's calf, and the other shot penetrated the back of another man's hand.
However, no one shed any blood.
Si Lei had no time to notice these details, but Rico had already seen some familiar electric sparks from the wounds - the injured limbs of these crew members were very similar to most prosthetic limbs with mercury needles used to replace missing limbs.
"Stop! Stop everyone," the waiter who had been holding Si Lei suddenly ordered loudly.
Following this order, the crew members who were rounding up Rico stopped, and the waiter stepped forward and picked up a sapphire earring from the ground.
"Li Ge, are you okay!" Si Lei stepped forward quickly, "Are you injured?"
"No, it's a small matter..."
"Excuse me," the waiter raised the earrings and looked at Rico, "is this yours?"
Rico subconsciously put her hand into her pocket to confirm that the small box she got from Gustav was indeed missing. She glanced at the ground and quickly picked up the other one.
"Yes, it's mine."
"...I'm sorry, Ms. Si Lei," the waiter's eyes suddenly became serious, "there was some misunderstanding and we hurt your guest."
Rico was unhappy: "Who are you apologizing to?"
"Oh, of course, I'm sorry for you, Ms. Rico." The waiter looked at Rico, "But you should wear your accessories when participating in such an event. In that case, this kind of thing will not happen."
"You deserve to be beaten if you don't wear it, right?"
There was a burst of laughter from the crowd. Rico turned around and glared at those people, and the men stopped talking.
Several women with their hair tied up in high buns covered half of their faces with folding fans and shook their heads silently.
The waiter stopped explaining. He looked at Si Lei and said, "Please go this way."
Rico took one last look at the "window" she had just tried to climb over. Several crew members had already begun to dismantle the display panel that had been damaged by her kick. But standing here, she could still feel the wind blowing from the direction of the "window". It wasn't until Si Lei called her that Li Ge quickly chased after her.
"What were you looking at just now?"
"That window," Rico replied, "is too real."
"Fortunately you're okay, otherwise I would really-"
"The people I fought with just now feel a bit strange. They all seem to have prosthetic limbs..."
"Prosthetic limb?" Si Lei turned around again, but the crew members had disappeared. "Did you read that correctly?"
"Definitely not." Li Ge lightly bumped into Si Lei and lowered his voice, "Your shots were really accurate."
Si Lei smiled.
"I now understand a little bit about the rules related to elevators..." Si Lei looked at the road ahead, "The reason why we have to stay away from the elevators that stop on the -2 floor is because such elevators may contain elevators that come up from the -2 floor. guests, if the elevator door opens on another floor, it would allow those people to access the wrong deck."
"Yes, it is possible."
"Then there's the one that requires us to take the stairs. I was wondering if it was a wrong rule just now, but then I realized it wasn't. After all, it was a nighttime activity suggestion for ordinary passengers. We must not be ordinary tonight. Passengers. And all the rules...are designed to prevent ordinary passengers from disturbing the activities on this floor."
"Let's be careful in a moment." Rico looked at the earrings in his hand again, "To be on the safe side, we can stay until twelve o'clock tonight at most. What do you think?"
"Okay." Si Lei nodded, "We'll enter the restaurant later, let's try to see if we can contact Jane and Qianye first."
(End of chapter)
