Just after reaching the fifth and a half floors, Hesta heard a series of footsteps coming from below. A team of at least five people were running up from the downstairs. She immediately stopped and turned around, pushing open the door to the sixth deck.
Sure enough, Hesta hadn't run ten meters when she heard the voices of the crew behind her, "Found it! She's here!"
Hesta slowed down - she saw several crew members appeared in the corridor ahead, all of them staring at herself seriously, or in other words, staring at the wooden box in their hands.
How can he run away... It's impossible to run away.
"Ma'am! Please don't get me wrong, we will never hurt you!"
Hesta moved slowly toward the wall.
The leader of the crew opened his hands to Hesta to show that he was not carrying any weapons. She whispered to Hesta in a calm and friendly tone: "...We just want to take back what you just took from the museum, then It’s not your thing.”
"Don't come here!" Hesta hissed in a deep voice.
It was no use, the crews on both sides were slowly approaching.
Hesta's eyes kept scanning the surroundings, trying to find a way to break out. Suddenly, she saw an entrance that was sealed with tape - it seemed to be a ventilation shaft?
She slowly lowered her waist, and the inconvenience of her legs did not affect the strength of her arms. Hesta hugged the wooden box tightly and suddenly sprinted towards a crew member. The crew members were ready, but she feinted with a shot, turned midway, and rushed towards the vent that was sealed by glue.
The tape was torn in an instant, and Hesta fell headfirst, and soon hit the bayonet in the middle of the deck. Fortunately, she kept using her arms to support the narrow wall to slow down, and she fell. Not heavy.
Several crew members immediately began to rescue. They tied ropes on their bodies and sneaked into the ventilation shaft like last time. However, things were really complicated - whenever they touched Hesta's legs and feet, Hesta would let out an extremely violent scream. .
"Her leg is broken, so she can't use any force! You have to wrap the rescue rope around her waist!"
"But she didn't cooperate at all——"
"Work hard! There should be enough room for two people underneath!"
"Ms. Hesta, can you move a little bit..."
"Ahhhhhhhhhh-"
The screams sounded again, as if someone was abusing the prisoners. Several crew members looked embarrassed and quickly pulled up their colleagues below.
Hesta readjusted her position, and while hanging upside down, she used her lower body as a shield to block the crew's sight.
She took out the golden key from the inner pocket of her clothes. As expected, the key taken out from the statue of Alecto exactly corresponded to the wooden box today.
With the snap of the lock tongue, a chip as big as a thumb fell out of the gap. Hesta bent over and pressed it with the tip of his nose.
The wooden box was opened, and Hestad took out an old video camera from inside.
Hesta was stunned for a moment. She had never seen this type of memory card and camera before. She turned the camera over in her hands. Its shape was very retro. There was a card slot at the bottom of the camera and two round holes next to it, which were obviously reserved for wired headphones.
Hesta observed the chip for a while and quickly pushed it in in the correct direction.
Press the switch - no good, only 3% battery left.
There was new movement among the crew above. Hesta glanced up through the gap and saw that no new people were coming down yet. She quickly took out her earphones, started pressing the physical buttons, and operated the interface to enter the storage folder - there was indeed a video in it, the entire film was 76 minutes long, and the title was concise and clear:
To Anna.
Pressing the play button, a violent sound came from the earphones, causing Hesta to immediately lower the volume to the lowest level. Many short and colorful bright ribbons slowly fell in the picture - someone fired a small celebratory salute.
"Hey! Anna! Congratulations! You solved all the puzzles and got this video!"
A young voice came from the earphones, and Hestad's eyes slowly opened wide, looking at this scene in disbelief - there was a twelve or thirteen year old girl in the picture, wearing a slightly deformed white T-shirt. and gray suit shorts, jumping out in a cheerful and lively pose.
This little girl reminded Hesta of the group photo in Ava's study. Her figure is very thin. Even when she waves her forearms and arms, the muscle lines on her hands are still obvious, but her whole body still looks like a bamboo pole when she stands there.
Miss Chiba...?
This is undoubtedly Chiba.
Hesta herself had also gone through this stage - she had grown so fast that her skin and flesh couldn't grow, so thin white growth lines appeared on her legs and belly. When strangers meet her, their first reaction is to wonder if the child is hungry, but in fact, her food intake at that time was several times that of her peers.
"I'm on the Alecto now. It's the Alecto you talked about in class before. Didn't you say that you were very curious about this ship, but you always missed it by accident? ? I will take you to visit it myself now!"
Little Chiba held up the camera and strode through the crowd that became denser from time to time. Hesta recognized at a glance that this was the observation deck on the seventh floor.
It was a sunny afternoon, and many people were sunbathing and chatting here. The bright sunlight fell on Chiba's body and face, as if her whole body was glowing.
"This is the observation deck. You can overlook the entire sea from here. Did you see it? There are whales over there!"
The scene turned and the camera zoomed to the sea in the distance. In addition to the leaping whales, Hesta also noticed the white tail waves of ships passing by on the sea. There was no shadow of land on the distant skyline. At the time the video was taken, the ship was actually sailing on the ocean.
The battery level in the upper left corner dropped from 3% to 2%.
Hesta quickly pressed the 32x fast forward, and the smooth picture began to freeze. Every frame changed the background. Chiba always held the camera high to ensure a good view of the picture. When one hand got tired, he Change one.
She walked down from the seventh deck one by one, introducing each corridor and each room in turn.
Hesta directly skipped parts of the sixth and fifth floors. When Chiba continued to walk down, Hesta quickly turned the screen back to 4x speed.
When Chiba on the screen started to speak, Hesta switched back to the original speed.
"This floor is still being renovated. It seems to be a big entertainment area! Look, there are many big guys here, but they haven't been put into use yet... If we want to come over to play in the future, we must fully charge our mobile phones first... You See this tip,"
The scene shifts to a yellow painted panel.
“This deck uses 380V three-phase power—industrial power!”
(End of chapter)
