She thought that the so-called mystification was just appropriate alienation, just like the advice given by Robbeglier in the story: "You should be alone even for your daily meals and avoid letting your subordinates approach";
She thought she needed an agent to convey and execute orders in order to create a hierarchy of power between herself and others;
She thought that as long as she left enough distance, everyone could create those "imaginary creations" on their own, which could properly fill the regulatory vacuum after René's death - she even began to hope that after a while, some passengers might actually Begin to be tamed...
What a naive idea!
If she could have thought one more step after noticing the change in Tasia's attitude, she would not have made such a mistake - from the moment all passengers boarded the ship, what frightened and panicked them was not death itself, but the accompanying The complete disorder of death.
When Robbeglier's image began to collapse, they also had Gobelin, but Gobelin also kept secret about what happened on the Ascension. From that moment on, the random deaths on the ship began to disappear. A series of concrete conspiracies transformed into a vague destiny.
In just a few days, everyone experienced their fierce struggle together, and witnessed their own failure together, as if an invisible steel cage fell from the sky amid the fear day after day. In this rapid alternation of despair and hope, a few people began to show signs of collapse.
If everything continues like this, these passengers will become white rats in the laboratory who are subjected to random electric shocks. Sooner or later, the diffuse despair will drag everyone towards the abyss of learned helplessness until this "unchangeable" "Destiny" itself becomes the new order recognized by all.
Because conspiracy can be broken, but fate cannot...
is that so?
...But this didn't happen.
Why?
Hesta held her breath. At this moment, she finally realized what she had done, but it was too late - because she put the "Ascension Cruise Guide" in front of everyone.
She held her forehead, and her whole body fell into a kind of bewilderment.
Forget about the few action suggestions in the "Shengming Cruise Guide", the most deadly rule book should be the part about risky passengers and guardians - who are the people on this ship? No matter how slow they are, even if they know nothing about the former supreme praise, they will immediately understand what kind of situation they have been put in.
At this moment, she finally fully understood that vague rules in this world are better than precise rules, and no rules are better than all rules, because once people start thinking about rules and the meaning behind them, the rules will begin to fail.
Hesta felt the veins on her forehead twitching faintly.
From the moment they see the rules...people are destined to realize what they are fighting against.
Only invisible enemies are invincible.
Once there is concreteness, everything can be destroyed.
…
In the cabin corridor, a man with a mouth full of blood spat.
"...Officer Si Lei," he raised his head slowly, "can I ask you a question——"
"Shut up." Si Lei said coldly, "Put your hands back on your head."
The man smiled and put his hands back on his head.
"I have never met a character like you..." the man whispered, "you always remind me of my sister. My mother passed away when I was very young, and she was the only one -"
"Shut up." Si Lei interrupted again.
"... You are all the best women in the world." The man murmured, "Although I know it is meaningless to say this now, I still want you to know... because -"
"If you have the energy to say this, why not think carefully about Fayance's whereabouts."
The man laughed and fell silent for a while.
Si Lei stood behind him, thinking back on what the man had just said, he felt something was a little wrong - character?
After a while, the man's body began to shake, and soon he collapsed completely on the ground. He looked in pain, covered his chest with one hand, and began to vomit blood. His lifeless face looked a little sleepy, and he was obviously in a state of near-death.
Several men on the side tried to help him, but Si Lei immediately scolded him. At the same time, the man waved his hand to signal the others not to move.
The man's breathing became light and rapid, and he stared blankly at the lamp above his head.
"I'm dying again, officer, but I'm not afraid..."
Si Lei's peripheral vision kept scanning towards the elevator not far away. The copper pointer there had not changed at all. Hesta just said that he would ask Jacqueline in the room to contact the medical room... where is the person?
"I'm not trying to convince you. If...you have experienced it, you will never feel scared again..."
A smile slowly appeared on the man's face.
"Beyond flesh and blood...waking up from a dream like a...butterfly."
Si Lei's eyes switched between the stairwell, the elevator and the injured, "...Stop talking, the medical staff will be here soon."
The man's mouth opened slightly, and his eyes revealed the last bit of energy. His eyelids trembled as he looked at Si Lei, "Leave here, now..."
"What?" Si Lei didn't hear clearly.
The man closed his eyes with satisfaction.
"Okay... I'm going to get points deducted, but I... don't regret it."
Several other men also seemed to have entered a trance-like state. Each of them closed their eyes and their breathing became deep and long.
A terrible thought flashed through Si Lei's mind. Before she even had time to think, she immediately took out the door card and rushed towards the heavy glass door.
"simple--"
Time seemed to become sticky from this moment, and she felt the vibration. The blazing white light was like a raging river, starting to flow from a certain room inside the suite. A turbid figure broke through the wall of the cabin - in the terrible heat wave Before Dao came, Si Lei felt herself being pulled horizontally, and the momentary imbalance flipped her whole body into the air.
The dazzling light made Si Lei unable to open her eyes, and the deafening sound of the explosion did not reach her ears until now. She felt herself falling again, falling infinitely in the biting sea breeze.
Different from Rico's smooth landing before, this time she only paused briefly in the air for a moment, and her falling speed just entered a buffer zone before she fell heavily to the ground.
For a moment, Si Lei was almost unable to move. It took several seconds for the severe tinnitus and severe pain to slowly appear. Continuous explosions sounded above her head, and directly in front of her sight, a familiar red-haired figure lurked. Holding her body, he fell motionless a dozen steps away from her.
Si Lei's pupils shrank suddenly, and she spoke several times, but no sound came out.
"simple……"
