At midnight, the sky began to rain, and the calm sea surface that had not been rippled for a long time began to surge.
During the half month at sea, the sea was mostly calm, so much so that passengers often forgot they were on a passenger ship when huddled in the cabin. The crew once again carefully checked every fixed point on the ship to ensure that nothing would move out of place as the ship rocked.
While sleeping, Si Lei heard a noise. She opened her eyes and saw two crew members.
"Ms. Si Lei, I'm sorry to disturb you, but there may be some bumps on the next voyage. We need to secure you to the bed to avoid-"
"what time is it?"
"Now?" The crew member glanced at the time, "Twelve o'clock and five."
"I want to go out for a walk..."
"Maybe I didn't make it clear, but it's 12:05 pm."
"Can you go for a walk with me?"
"Of course not." The crew member frowned, "You need to take a good rest now."
Si Lei smiled and said, "...If you wake me up at night, how can I have a good rest?"
She moved her body carefully and tried to sit up halfway, but the pain she expected did not appear. She barely endured any pain and straightened up.
"Huh……"
Si Lei tried to move her arms. Although there was still sharp pain in the joints, the two burns on her forearm and upper arm seemed to have subsided. She tore off the bandage - and sure enough, the ulcerated flesh inside had condensed into a light of scars.
After a moment of shock, Si Lei immediately looked at the crew, "You... how did you do it?"
"It's because you had a good rest that the wound healed so quickly." The crew member replied with a smile, "So, go to sleep."
"……impossible."
Si Lei almost immediately recalled the wound on Hesta's right arm. As a mercury needle who has used mechanical prosthetics for many years, the skin near the nerve interface in her right arm would become inflamed and infected from time to time. The doctors at the base are good at prolonging life, but they have nothing to do with this kind of skin infection. They can only remove the prosthetic body, prescribe some anti-inflammatory and sterilizing drugs, and wait for the wound to heal. Fortunately, the recovery speed of people with mercury needles is significantly higher than that of ordinary people, so this process is not too painful after all.
But Si Lei did not explain in detail. She just looked at the crew, "Even the inside of a mercury needle cannot do this -"
"It also depends on which district the mercury needle is in." The crew member replied, "It still has something to do with the development level of the local core city... You have been staying in the third district, right? Even if you go to the fourteenth district to have a look There won’t be such a fuss.”
"Really?" Si Lei looked at her doubtfully.
The crewman put his hands together helplessly: "Please, officer, it's really late now, let me get off work! You have been lying in bed all day, and I have been working solidly all day... Let me help you quickly. A fixation to prevent the wind and waves from hurting you in the middle of the night, okay?"
Si Lei repeatedly confirmed the fixing device used by the crew - it was indeed just an ordinary buckle, and she could open it at any time if she needed to.
"Thank you for your cooperation!" The crew member looked at the empty vase on Si Lei's bedside, "Oh, please wait..."
She left the ward and returned quickly, holding a bouquet of white flowers.
Si Lei recognized the flower almost immediately, "Jin Zhi?"
"Do you recognize it?"
"I recognize it. I heard it from a friend before." Si Lei said softly, "Don't these flowers bloom in winter?"
"No one cares about the flower season now. No matter what kind of flower you want, you can cultivate it in the flower house." The crew member put the freshly cut golden gardenia into the vase and gathered the flower branches. "This is our nurse island tonight." The flowers we just changed, no one will look at them outside anyway... I'll bring them in and let them accompany you!"
Si Lei frowned slightly but said nothing.
She thanked the crew and lay down again. She didn't open her eyes again until the lights in the room dimmed.
She slowly raised her injured arm, carefully feeling the changes in her body.
Is this amazing healing power really due to technical differences in different regions?
impossible.
Even though Hesta belongs to the mercury needle's branch in the third area, she has obviously been to many places to perform tasks, and the combat area is not limited to the third area. And based on Si Lei’s understanding of AHgAs, their internal cross-regional cooperation is very close and is almost unaffected by regional separation. If there is a new technology for rapid wound healing in any core city... Hesta cannot be excluded. outer.
The crew is lying.
Si Lei sat up again, and she still remembered the story she heard Stella tell in the car last winter. A woman who had served in the Daihe Temple since she was a child resisted the heavenly fire dropped by her father three times. Finally, she was defeated by the West Wind God and transformed into a golden gardenia, scattering across the mountains.
Si Lei took out a golden gardenia from the vase and held it in his hand.
Even winter flowers can always be cultivated as long as someone wants them... In other words, it is reasonable for someone on the Alecto to want the flower that was the incarnation of the pious temple guardian. Bar.
But the crew member just now said that these are the flowers that were just changed on Nurse Island tonight, and no one is looking at them outside...
Is there really no one watching?
In other words, there will be no one outside tonight.
…
At two o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock rang.
Rico yawned and sat up. Just when he wanted to call Hesta, he realized that she wasn't sleeping at all.
"Hey." Rico snapped his fingers in front of Hesta, "What are you thinking about."
"Do you remember that a few years ago at a base in the Fourth District, there was a training officer who harassed the newly recruited mercury needles."
Rico narrowed his eyes, "I'm a little impressed."
"I remember that during the trial, although the mercury needle kept pleading for mercy and said that both parties were consensual, the training officer was still dealt with directly."
"Yes." Li Ge nodded, "How old was the training officer at that time, and how old was the newcomer? No matter what the attitude of the mercury needle was, the training officer must be fully responsible for this matter."
"Do you remember the exact ages of these two people?"
"The training officer is in his forties, his name seems to be Dilik or Drucker... Mercury Needle is sixteen, his identity has not been announced."
"How was the training officer treated? Was he fired?"
"Not only that, but he also had his military status. In the future, not to mention the coalition government allowance, this person can only receive pension according to the minimum income level."
"But he himself was not punished, right?"
"No, apart from the treatments just mentioned, his identity was only exposed at the time, and his subsequent employment was subject to some restrictions... I guess it may be because sixteen is not a particularly young age in the fourth district, so the penalty was relatively light."
"What if the person involved is younger?"
"How small?"
"Twelve years old? Thirteen years old?" Hesta said uncertainly, "Maybe——"
"Then he must be arrested and sentenced." Rico replied.
