Why it never ends

Chapter 117 Kindness
As Ava spoke every word, she watched Hesta's reaction.But to her disappointment, Hesta's expression has been very indifferent.

Nothing in these conversations seemed to stir her heart.

Ai Wa stood in front of the window without saying a word. She looked at the quiet late autumn outside, her brows were deeply furrowed.

"I thought about it for a long time, wondering why you would do this. I guess there are two possibilities. The first one is bad: maybe you are innocent and kind by nature, so you never think about it; the second one is more serious. Oops - you think about it, but you don't care.

"Which one is it?" Ava asked Hesta in a low voice.

Hesta looked at Ava's back, "...does it matter?"

Ava suddenly looked sideways, and a kind of power shot out from those eyes, "Isn't it important?"

Hesta fell silent again, an attitude Ava knew all too well: it was a kind of obstinate obstinacy.

I'm afraid that Hesta didn't listen to so many words he said just now.

Ava sat back at the table and sat directly opposite Hesta.

"...I said earlier that Chiba is the worst reserve, do you want to know why?"

Hearing Qianye's name, Hesta finally had a reaction, and she raised her eyes again, "I just wanted to say that what you said is completely unreasonable, there has never been a mercury needle as good as Miss Qianye—"

"Looking at combat alone, maybe that's the case," Ava said coldly, "but Chiba has never thought about what will happen to her after she is 30 years old."

Hesta was taken aback.

She really couldn't refute this point.

Her first joint battle with Chiba took place in November 4624, when a tide of chelates occurred in the Stone Rift Wasteland at the southernmost tip of Sector 11.

When they received the order to "join the battle", the salvage operation of the AHgAs combat force on the Cracked Stone Wasteland had just ended, and a total of 7 children who had awakened for the first time were brought out from the hinterland of the polluted area by the mercury needles.

This number is far less than the estimated number, but because the mercury needles participating in the salvage operation were keenly aware of the existence of the "deformers" during the operation, the operation was suspended shortly after it started.

For the entire AHgAs, it is inevitable to take risks in battle, but whether to implement them depends on the benefits-in any case, a mercury needle with rich combat experience is much more valuable than a group of people who have not yet become Reserve seedlings.

AHgAs cannot bear the burden of compromising veterans in order to save a few rookies with unknown prospects.

After the salvage operation team withdrew, AHgAs left the "deranger hunting team" with 10 hours of combat time-it was said to be a team, but in fact there were only two people, Hesta and Chiba.

They sneaked into the polluted area alone, Hesta was in charge of luring the aberrants to appear, and Chiba was in charge of hunting them down.

The two of them had to end the battle and evacuate within a set time—the Cracked Stone Wasteland was an extremely remote place, so it was not considered a wasteland with preservation value. At the end of 10 hours, regardless of whether they had successfully hunted down the Aberrant or not, 207 B3-21 bombers would fly over the entire contaminated area at altitudes ranging from 7000 to 8200 meters above sea level.

At that time, 461.7 tons of incendiary bombs and 27 tons of fragmentation bombs will completely annihilate everything on this land together with chelates.

Hesta will never forget the Chiba she saw in this battle.

She had heard some descriptions about Chiba's battle from Liz: Chiba's posture when facing the enemy often made people feel that she was not trying to defeat the opponent, but was planning to die with the opponent.

There is actually a problem with this description.

Hesta believed that the person who came to this conclusion must have watched Chiba fight from a long distance—because Chiba seldom pierced the eyes or nasal cavity of the chelate from the front like other mercury needles, she It is even rare to use the triangular army thorns uniformly equipped with mercury needles by AHgAs.

Chiba always likes to go around behind the chelate, with her right arm tightly holding the chelate's lower jaw, and at the same time, piercing the chelate's frontal lobe with a 36cm long ice pick from above the eyeball.

This ice pick is affectionately called "the scalpel" by Chiba, because the chelates "killed" by her are often still "alive". After being crushed, they lost all desire to kill and turned into docile and dull walking corpses.

Perhaps from a distance, this kind of hugging from behind does have the meaning of "to die together", but Hesta who is nearby has a completely different impression.

Everything is just the opposite: there is no moment when Qianye will be more gentle and compassionate than when she is hunting chelates. Regardless of the gender, race, or age of the opponent, she always treats every controlled soul equally—if This stuff really exists - relief from their bodies overrun by chelating bacteria.

To these extremely dangerous enemies, Chiba always has an equal measure of kindness.

Hesta once wanted to imitate this elegant fighting style, but at the price of being gnawed off four fingers by chelates in a subsequent battle.

But also because of this, she understands the danger of this fighting style more deeply than anyone else.In fact, Qianye is not able to get out of the body every time, she is not injured, and once she is injured, it must be a serious injury.

Hesta sometimes wonders if Miss Chiba has a distaste for being alive, so she uses such an extreme way to fight against chelates?But this seems to be a bit contradictory, because I am afraid that no one's will to survive can be as strong as Qianye. Regarding this point, most of the doctors who have treated Qianye should have feelings.

But Hesta also heard Chiba say more than once, "In fact, people don't have to live that long at all, and it is enough to live to be 30 years old."

Perhaps, Chiba's definition of "alive" is different from most people's.

"This is Miss Chiba's freedom." Hesta looked at Ava, "No matter how she plans to spend her life, that is her freedom."

"I've heard this kind of talk too much... Should people have the freedom to let themselves go into the abyss?"

"...what do you mean?"

"In a few decades, you will know what I mean." Ava said in a deep voice, "I can count the friends Chiba Masaki has made over the years with one hand, but the number of friends she made for me What about the enemy? Maybe they can already form a small country.

"What if she was not as lucky as she thought, did not die on the battlefield before the age of 30, but unexpectedly lived a long life, and accidentally lived to my age, what would she do?
"At that time, her body could no longer withstand the battle on the front line, and she had to return to the habitable land. Would her enemies here just let her go?
"All those who have been trampled under her feet will rise up one by one, and these people will gather together to hunt like wolves and tear her apart mercilessly.

"Who can protect her until then? Can you?"

(End of this chapter)