"When are we leaving?" Hesta asked.
"Look at you," Yu Xuekun turned around, "When do you want to set off?"
"I want to go to the quarantine facility to see Eleven first," Hesta replied, "After that, I can leave at any time."
…
The next day, Yu Xuekun went out alone early in the morning.
Hesta slept until nine o'clock and went to the quarantine center according to the address left by Yu Xuekun, with Yugali accompanying her all the way.
The two changed trains twice and finally arrived at the quarantine office one kilometer away from the quarantine facility. However, when they arrived, they were told that Eleven had sneaked out of the quarantine facility the night before—there were now nine The team is trying its best to search for the whereabouts of this child. Once it exceeds 24 hours, the Mercury Needle will have to intervene.
When leaving the quarantine office, Yujiali glanced at the temporary checkpoint leading to the quarantine station from a distance, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh - with so many people watching and such tight guards, how did Eleven escape?
"Eucalyptus?" Hesta, who had walked more than ten steps, stopped and called back.
Yugali immediately followed, "Where are we going now?"
"I'll go to the place where I bought the phone before," Hesta whispered. "The record should still be there. I'll check my number."
"You don't have to worry too much. I think she is very lively and can even escape from the quarantine facility. This is not something ordinary people can do."
"I have to tell her I'm alive anyway."
Yugali said nothing more and just followed Hesta to a shopping mall.
More than an hour later, Hesta finally recalled her own number, but still couldn't dial it.
The only good thing is that Eleven's cell phone was not turned off, but no one answered it.
Hesta dialed the number over and over again, and on about the seventh or eighth time, someone rang the phone.
Hesta stood in front of the public phone with the microphone in hand and stood there for a long time before hanging up. But soon, she dialed Yu Xuekun's phone again - this time, the phone was picked up immediately.
On the other end of the phone, before Yu Xuekun could speak, Hesta had already quickly expressed her needs: "Madam! Can you help me check the location of another phone?"
…
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Hesta and Yugali came to the shanty town in the southwest of Mei County.
This place is in the opposite direction to the countryside where they lived before. Although both of them were here for the first time, relying on Yu Xuekun's verbal instructions, they quickly arrived near the target point.
This area is full of yards that are sloping out from the road, and the clothes and dry goods that are dried create a special salty smell.
Yugali looked at the muddy road under his feet with some worry. Seeing that the dark clouds were gathering in the distance again, he was afraid that it would rain again in less than half an hour.
"Jane, we are now-"
"Shh." Hesta made a silent gesture, and Yugali was suddenly stunned. The moment Hesta turned around, she vaguely caught the change in Hesta's face - I wonder if it was at this time. Because of the thick shadow, Hesta's eyes seemed different from before.
Hesta took out the third mobile phone she bought in the morning and dialed Eleven's number again.
"This way."
Hesta put down her phone and suddenly turned to walk behind her. Yugali reluctantly followed. Just when he was about to ask her what new clues she had, Hesta pushed open an ajar door and stepped on it. We entered a small yard filled with discarded plastics and various snakeskin bags.
"Jane...you-you can't just break into someone else's-"
Halfway through her words, Yugali's voice stopped suddenly. At this moment, she vaguely heard the ringing of a mobile phone in the house.
She hesitated for a moment and looked around - there weren't many people outside at this point.
Yugali quickly came behind Hesta, "...Have you discovered anything?"
"Look." Hesta took a step back.
Yugali bent down and looked into the room through the gap at the bottom of the curtains - in the middle of the living room, on a dining table filled with miscellaneous items, a familiar style mobile phone was ringing loudly.
“The phone was stolen on Eleven?”
"No," Hesta whispered, "this is her home."
"how do you know--"
"It smells like her in here."
Yujia Li sniffed hard, "...really?"
Hesta didn't stay outside the window for too long. She walked around the path next to the house and walked through another crooked alley.
Yugali followed her nervously. Hesta would sometimes stop, especially at some forks in the road, and Yugali guessed that she was judging which direction to go—but how exactly?
The road gradually became wider, but the smell in the air became stronger and heavier, and Eucalyptus covered her nose.
The surrounding residential buildings gradually disappeared, replaced by huge piles of garbage.
Raindrops began to fall, and Hesta became even more anxious than before. She quickened her pace, and Yugali could only barely keep up by running.
Seeing Yugali being thrown further and further away from him, Hesta had to stop temporarily until Yugali could catch up again.
"What are you looking for?" Yugali asked breathlessly, "We...we seem to have come to the garbage dump..."
Hesta did not answer, but murmured in a low voice, "The rain will cover up the smell, we must be faster."
Yugali nodded with some understanding, "Okay."
Heavy rain falls.
The rain mixed the stench of the garbage dump into a new mixture. Eucalyptus originally tried its best to avoid the filth on the ground, but under the wash of the rain, this attempt was in vain.
She watched Hesta stepping up and down on the mountain of garbage, pulling here and stepping there, and finally climbed over on a horizontal wheel with her bare hands.
"Jane! Where are you going!"
Yugali's eyes followed Hesta all the way up until her back disappeared. Yugali looked around, trying to find a road that was gentle enough to walk on, but before she could get around to the side of the garbage mountain, Hesta reappeared in her sight.
Also appearing together was Eleven who was dying in Hesta's arms.
…
In the evening, Yu Xuekun came to the temporary hospital on the outskirts of the city, which was responsible for treating patients at risk of chelation infection.
Yu Xuekun was only halfway through writing the accident document yesterday when she heard from Yugali roughly how Hesta found Eleven from the shantytown today. She almost immediately heard the key and had to put down all the work in her hands and go to the hospital. Come here.
While Eleven was resuscitating in the operating room, Yugali and Hesta sat in the corridor outside the operating room and waited. The hospital called the police almost as soon as they received the patient - any girl with injuries all over her body was sent here like this, they would have to call the police.
The police who came here to check almost immediately confirmed that this was the child who had escaped from the isolation center before. They couldn't help but take Hesta back to the police station for questioning. Fortunately, Yu Xuekun arrived in time and once again asked the police officer in the name of AHgAs. She got someone in her hands, but for this she had to go to the police station herself.
