The time was approaching nine o'clock. In the medical room, Hestad folded his arms and faced some food on the small table in front of him, completely unmoved.
"It's been a whole night, aren't you hungry?" Rico asked.
"Hungry," Hesta replied.
"Eat if you're hungry."
Hesta looked at Rico, "Unless you let me out."
Rico brought the entire dinner plate in front of him, "...OK, eat it if you like."
She started chewing heavily in front of Hesta.
Hesta's throat moved and she looked away, "...If you really want to confine me here, I will not only not eat breakfast, but also lunch and dinner - and I will not drink water."
"You've been hanging on to water anyway," Rico pointed to the hanging bottle above Hesta's head, "I'll ask the nurse to add two bottles of glucose to you later."
"I'm injured. I need to supplement protein at this time..."
"Then you eat."
"I'll eat it if you ask me to see Si Lei."
"Don't even think about it."
"Then I won't eat."
"Then don't eat it."
Rico stuffed the last remaining intact hard-boiled egg into her mouth. She chewed it for a few times and swallowed it whole.
Looking at the empty plate in front of him, Hesta scratched his head and said, "...Aren't you worried about Si Lei's situation? Even if you don't let me go, why don't you go and take a look yourself?"
"I took a look at you when you were sleeping last night. You are fine." Li Ge said softly, "It is best for both of you to lie down and not move now, which is the most reassuring."
Hesta took a deep breath, "I can't be absent for too long, otherwise Fayance and the others will cause trouble -"
"Let them stir things up." Rico raised his chin. "He has the ability to stir things up here. I'll let him know what I'm doing here."
Hesta let out a helpless sigh and leaned back on the bed, "...what will it take for you to let me out? You have been helping us before - whether it's me or Si Lei, you All--"
"I can't control what Si Lei does. If you can persuade me, I can persuade you. If you can't persuade me, I will pull you down..." Li Ge raised his feet and put his ankles on the edge of Hesta's bed. "I wish I knew you were like this. I stopped you a long time ago! Yes, you can enter bullet time, but you couldn't handle the situation last night - "
"I couldn't handle it, but when the pseudo-chelate attacked Gustav, I also participated in the close combat, and you didn't keep me aside because of my physical condition..."
Rico frowned, "We didn't even know at the time that these things were arranged by Anna!"
"Now that we know everything, shouldn't we feel more at ease?"
"Can it be the same?" Rico's voice became a little irritable again, and she glared at Hesta, "The reason for taking risks at that time was because I didn't know who the enemy was or where the enemy was, so I had to let you stay by my side— —”
"Now you can follow me to see Si Lei," Hesta whispered, "I didn't say I wanted to go alone..."
"But is there any need to take risks now?" Rico interrupted Hesta again, "Si Lei is here to save people, what are you doing? Playing such unrealistic tricks with Anna on this ship Is home worth risking your life for?"
Hesta adjusted the pillow behind her.
"I have always felt that Si Lei is like my peer. There are only a few moments when I realize that she is much older than me... Have you ever felt like this?"
The last topic between the two came to an abrupt end. Rico failed to follow Hesta's thoughts for a moment. She frowned slightly, "What?"
"I just suddenly remembered," Hesta looked at Rico, "If there was no Su Lei on the ship, we wouldn't be so deeply involved in this matter."
Rico laughed a few times and said, "You might as well look for the reasons in yourself. If you hadn't suddenly participated in the election for that judge, I wouldn't-"
"Do you have to calculate further forward?" Hesta said softly, "Start from the time you board the ship."
"It's hard to say. I should have gone over to help at first. After all, this kind of situation is also part of our rescue obligations..." Li Ge held the back of his head with both hands, thinking about everything at that time, "But it is true that I will see thousands of people later. Ye’s reaction, if she hadn’t done anything, I would have been more inclined to pull away—people on these ships are so weird.”
"But because Si Lei has always been on their side, we also joined." Hesta whispered, "Because for us at that time, joining would not necessarily be more dangerous, and withdrawing would not necessarily mean safety. ...So when Si Lei insisted on saving people, we compromised."
"That's right." Li Ge thought for a while, "I also thought at the time that I might be able to catch the instigator by following Si Lei's method. With that kind of reliance, everything would be revealed -"
"So at the beginning of boarding the ship, Si Lei, as a non-mercurial needle minority, occupied a dominant position among us - because she was the most stubborn and determined one among us."
"...Huh?" Rico lost track of Hesta's train of thought again. She looked at Hesta's face, "What do you want to say?"
"This conclusion also exists in a group," Hesta whispered, "'In a group, as long as there are 3%-4% of the uncompromising minority, they will devote themselves to fighting to defend their immediate interests. creed - defend it even with your life and soul, until the entire group submits to the preferences and choices of the minority."
"……What?"
"A conclusion cited in Roboglier's book." Hesta looked around habitually, "Oh, the book is not in my hand now, I can't translate the original text to show you..."
Rico's eyebrows raised slightly, "Can you please stop mentioning that tattered book that Anna gave you -"
"I'm trying to explain why this game is important," Hestad raised his hands in a gesture of surrender. "I've been thinking before, why did Rob Greene have no experience in this voyage?" Passengers of the train - such as Meyer, such as Tasia, now I understand, this is how his 'Eden' was built.
"He is different from Robbeglier. He doesn't care that there is a group of followers in his team who are not firm - these people have moderate views, weak temperaments, and do not even fully agree with his theories - it doesn't matter, because they They are kind, they can act as the glue of the group, and once things come to a head, they will immediately compromise with the stubborn ones - in this way, the entire group remains a place dominated by a minority, the most intolerant of people. Get the final victory.
"If the Shengming arrives in District 14 safely and everything goes according to Rob Green's plan, then the second Eden in the world will definitely be built soon - because Rob Green will definitely build it. It won’t be a male world like Robbe-Grillet’s, which completely excludes women. In his plan, there are places for ordinary people everywhere.”
