"There are several rules on his Supreme Praise that made me feel very confused when I first boarded the ship..."
Anna did not answer Hesta's question, but kept talking about her own topic. Hesta had long been accustomed to this. She did not interrupt Anna's words, but walked to a chair aside and sat down.
Anna yawned lazily, "You became the judge too early. As a result, you didn't have the chance to go to the banquet. Otherwise, you would have had the chance to experience the feeling of agnosia."
Hesta recalled for a while, "...you mean the last few items of the night activities?"
"That's right," Anna smiled, "Roboglier will randomly inject hallucinogens into the passengers attending the night banquet. It's too early for you to become the arbiter and you won't have the chance to attend the night banquet. Otherwise, you can experience it yourself." What does it feel like..."
"No need." Hesta whispered, "I'm not curious about that kind of perception."
Anna laughed, "Have you met Gustav?"
"Which one do you mean?"
"Then I saw it." Anna said softly, "It seems you are not too surprised."
"I saw it once last year."
Anna groaned in hindsight, "Yes, yes, I even forgot..."
"I thought you delayed letting me go to the banquet because you were afraid that I would see something. Is it because the adjudicator can't go to the banquet?"
"You are wrong, the adjudicator does not have to attend the banquet." Anna corrected, "Roboglier is a person who likes to use metaphors very much. To put it nicely, it is to hide deep meanings, and to say it worst, it is to make things mysterious. There is almost no isolation in those rules. The terms, they either reflect the order in real life, or... they are just to cover up his deeper intentions."
Anna's words stopped abruptly. In the sudden silence, Hesta realized that Anna had thrown a puzzle to him. This puzzle did not even have specific questions, only a few scattered images: a few rules for night activities, hallucinogens , the copied Gustave...and the bad taste of Robbeglier.
The sound of rain fell on the windows, and the pale searchlights continued to cast moving light and shadow in the museum.
Hesta lowered her eyes, "...I don't understand."
"Is it so hard to imagine?" Anna looked at Hesta in pretended surprise, "It seems you are not that smart."
"..."
"Every risky passenger who is taken to the night banquet will be taken to the fourth deck for consciousness uploading, and then displayed on the service rack on the second deck. In other words, as long as she has been to the night banquet once, her right to use it will be Open to all guardians," Anna said softly. "If this news spreads, then all risk passengers and potential risk passengers on the ship will be wary and resistant to the banquet invitation... This is not what Roboglier wants to see. , then what should be done?”
Hesta was silent for a long time and finally said, "...Write it into the rules."
"Yes, as long as you put the answer to the mystery in a subtle way, everything will become wonderful," Anna said softly. "Perhaps one or two guardians will have a conscience and tell others what happened to them on the second deck. Companions, even passengers who tell them about the risk, but no one will believe them - because it is clearly written in the rules that the risk of night activities is cognitive problems... not to mention, other guardians will stick together."
Anna looked at Hesta, "It's a pity that there are too few guardians on your trip, and they are scattered, which is not interesting at all."
Hesta listened without saying a word - even though she had seen the copied Gustav with her own eyes, even though she had heard Tasia talk about the special services for guardians on the second deck, the connection between them, She really didn't think about it deeply...
"Thankfully I gave you a hint in advance," Anna mocked again, "Sure enough, as long as you put the answer on the riddle, you won't see anything..."
"You mean the motto on the invitation? Who can rely on that kind of words——"
"How did I understand it?" Anna smiled and raised her eyebrows, "You are the slowest to react among all the adjudicators I have ever seen. Do you know why?"
Before Hesta could speak, Anna continued. She touched her forehead with a smile and said softly, "Because people who have grown up in honey pots have dull minds and cannot think of complicated things. "
Hesta thought for a while and said nothing. She just stared at Anna with a complicated expression.
"What are you watching me do?" Anna asked.
"I was just thinking that you must have been in trouble because you can't speak well." Hesta said softly, "It's just a guess, it may not be correct."
Anna frowned slightly.
At this moment, there was a loud sound in the distance - someone kicked open the door leading to this deck. At this moment, Anna's earphones rang again, and Zero once again urged Anna to leave the museum.
"Why are you running?" Hesta said coldly, "Don't you have an army of simulated people? Why did your people immediately become like birds and beasts and disperse as soon as the rescue team from the coalition government arrived..."
"Give way, young man," Anna said softly, "I don't expect you to respect your elders, but at least don't cause trouble to them."
"Tell me why, or you won't get through here."
Anna looked at Hesta. After a moment, she leaned back on the chair leisurely and whispered, "Zero, send someone up, I am blocked here by Hesta."
"Don't even think about fighting me. Both of my legs are broken. The reason I can move now is simply because I entered bullet time and was forced to hold on." Hesta whispered, "I don't know how you treated Si Lei. , but now it seems that I have no chance to enjoy your special medical care. If someone accidentally maims my leg during the fight, someone will bear a grudge against you."
"...you threaten me?"
"Is it considered a threat?" Hesta twisted his neck, "You can forget it."
Anna narrowed her eyes and chuckled twice, "Looking at how energetic you are now, someone will definitely be very happy."
Hesta was about to say something when she suddenly jumped to dodge instinctively - she heard the sound of a sharp weapon approaching suddenly, was it a bullet? blade? She wasn't sure. As he was falling, Hesta looked back and saw a small silver object flying over her. She grabbed it from the air and found it was a broken fork.
A crew member wearing protective clothing came into view immediately. The man was not willing to fight, and went straight towards Anna. Hesta immediately reacted, "...You just don't take my words seriously?"
Although her lower body seriously affected her speed, Hesta still relied on the advantage of the terrain to block the way of the attacker. They fought back and forth for several times, and Hesta quickly found a flaw. She accurately grabbed the opponent's blindfold and used a little force. , tearing off the entire mask with it. At the same time, she turned around and raised her legs mercilessly to show this person her strength.
However, the moment he saw that face, Hesta's pupils contracted, and the next moment, a dangerous intuition suddenly came over - this feeling was unprecedented, uncontrollable, and very strange...
She found herself falling out of bullet time.
