"How to say?"
"All the passengers and more than four hundred accompanying soldiers died on the same ship, and it was not a shipwreck, but a murder," Hesta murmured softly, "This kind of impact, and the chelate slipped into the habitable land What's the difference?"
Rico was silent for a moment. She picked up the crumpled "Male Awakening" again and quickly found the corresponding chapter from the table of contents. After reading ten lines at a glance, she frowned.
"...Is this the effect that who wants it?"
Hesta could not answer.
Although there are still many mysteries that remain unsolved at this moment, there is one thing she is very sure of: Anna must be in a good mood after last night - that kind of happiness that gives back to others in the same way, no one can truly understand it except those who have experienced it. know.
Not far away, Si Lei ended the conversation and quickly returned to the two of them.
"Did you find anything?" Hesta asked.
"No," Si Lei replied, "Mantle is here to get painkillers. She has dysmenorrhea, and her name is indeed written on the list..."
Li Ge heard the regret in Si Lei's words: "Who do you think she came for?"
"Um."
"Officer Si Lei..." Hesta adjusted his sitting posture, "You don't want to capture the thief first, do you?"
"You can't keep following her rhythm," Si Lei whispered, "You're too passive."
"Don't think about it now, it's impossible." Hesta whispered, "I finally understand now that she controls this ship from top to bottom. As long as the ship is still at sea, no one can Shake her position."
"...I don't think so, it all depends on man-made things."
"Yes, of course we have to," Li Ge answered, "But we must first figure out what this person wants to do. Officer Si Lei, have you read this?"
Rico handed the book over.
Si Lei glanced at it and frowned. She muttered in a low voice: "The only thing that can truly arouse human fear is a large number of deaths at the same time. Once this requirement is not met, its deterrence will be greatly reduced. No one will stop driving because of car accidents. But after a plane crash, many people will cancel their flight plans..."
Si Lei lowered his hand holding the book slightly.
"I can write this kind of conclusion ten or eight times in ten minutes. Where does it come from? Are there references? What does it say? Who wrote this?"
Si Lei closed the book and looked at the author's name - Robbeglier.
"Oh," Si Lei snorted, "He also studies social psychology?"
"Anyway, judging from the situation last night, even if the people Bernhard brought did not have tickets and were not even counted as passengers, they would still not be able to escape the disaster," Hestad whispered, "No matter who it is, as long as Everyone must abide by the rules here when staying on this ship... It’s just that passengers have one more way to die than other ship passengers.”
"You mean the death invitation to the banquet?" Rico asked.
"Yeah." Hesta nodded, "Let's go, let's go to the infirmary first, and we'll talk about the details later."
The three of them approached the infirmary together. Before entering the door, Si Lei suddenly remembered something and turned back to look at Hesta.
"If Helen hadn't offered to follow me tonight without mercury needles, what were you going to do? You can't let Rico go to a banquet every night."
"...Of course not," Hesta opened the door of the infirmary, "I have other ways - risk-free ways, as long as you are willing to cooperate."
"Should I cooperate?" Si Lei was a little surprised, but the lights in the infirmary already illuminated her feet, so she had to stay silent for the time being.
There was a familiar smell of alcohol.
Most of the wounded who were sent last night are currently recuperating in the inner treatment room, and the room is very quiet. Hesta glanced in the direction of the nurse on duty and found that it happened to be the one who had taken care of her before.
The nurse also recognized Hestad and stood up and walked towards her, "Are you okay, Ms. Hestad?"
"fine thanks."
The nurse looked at her deeply, "...you recovered so quickly."
Hesta smiled and said, "Officer Si Lei has something to confirm with the injured last night, which may take some time."
"About half an hour." Si Lei added.
"Of course." The nurse stood up, "...this way."
The nurse led Si Lei to the side of the room, and Hesta leaned towards Rico, "Did you feel that she looked at me a little strange just now..."
"I just wasn't paying attention." Li Ge whispered, "Maybe you recovered too quickly and surprised her?"
"...What are you doing?" Hesta looked at Rico - she was squatting in the corner of the infirmary, observing something unknown.
"This place feels a bit familiar to me." Rico stood up, his eyes slowly glanced upward from the corner, and then suddenly turned back, "I said the wall here reminded me of Robbe-Grillet's study last night, do you believe it? ?”
"Letter," Hestad replied, "but I have not seen Roboglier's study."
"That room was particularly strange. A lot of adhesive-like colloids suddenly appeared on the corners of the walls, turning the room into a secret room almost instantly - a real secret room, airtight..."
Rico went around behind the nurse's desk.
"Interesting... there is a similar chest of drawers under the table over here."
Rico opened the drawers one by one, and the top layer was locked.
She glanced at the table and took out a bunch of keys from a small porcelain bowl next to the pen holder. After roughly observing the shape of the keys and the size of the keyhole, Rico quickly picked out one of them.
There was a crisp sound and the drawer opened.
Rico's expression turned serious.
"What's wrong?" Hesta stood up, "What did you find?"
"Look, what is this?"
Rico handed a sign-in board with thick manuscript paper in front of Hesta. The paper only had the words "Medical Station Temporary Registration Point" written on it, but the headers of each column of the form already indicated its purpose.
"Risk passenger, ship card number..." Hesta narrowed her eyes, "Guardian."
In the corridor, with the ding-dong sound of the elevator opening, a group of noisy voices came from far away. Rico quickly put everything back in place. Almost the next second she finished, someone rushed in covered in blood. Come in.
"Doctor! Doctor! Is anyone here? Someone committed suicide! Save people, save people quickly!"
Hesta glanced at the man - he was holding someone in his arms, the man who was scolded by Bernhard not long ago for opening the elevator late at night.
Judging from the wound, he probably committed suicide by drinking a bullet. The bullet penetrated the brain stem, and it was impossible to save him.
"Let's go out and wait," Hesta said softly, "it's too noisy here."
Rico pushed Hesta out, and the two returned to the corridor.
"I see," Hesta murmured, "That makes sense... Helen is the registered guardian here."
(End of chapter)
