Why it never ends

Chapter 153 The Return
"Red velvet—red velvet!!" Rishi suddenly rushed over frantically, he grabbed the photo album, as if he had caught the only light in the darkness, "It's definitely the red-haired Hesta, except for her There will be no one else! You, you go and check—"

"Viscount." Schmidt coldly interrupted Rich, who suddenly went mad, "What a gentleman your father was when he was alive. You are humiliating him by messing around like this now."

Rishi was silent again, his anger was like a spark that burst out too quickly, and then fell silent after a flash.

Looking forward to the old inspector, he opened his mouth several times to say something, but he couldn't say a word.He knelt down in front of Schmidt slowly, only choked up and weeping.

"Why be so pessimistic?" Schmidt's voice softened, like a father, he stretched out a hand and pressed it on Rishi's shoulder, "Think about it, how many difficulties have we overcome together?"

Rich held the old man's hand as if he was holding a life-saving straw. He tremblingly kissed Schmidt's back joints, and then pressed the old man's hand tightly to his forehead.

"This time, we will have the last laugh as before," Schmidt said softly, "Relax."

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Time passed by every minute, and a dim light was rising from the wilderness. Hesta, who had managed to get rid of all the pursuers, was returning to the province of Nia.

Her entire body was already soaked in the icy seawater——Qianye and a dozen mercury needles who came one after another drove her from Tan Yi to the coastline in the west of the third district.There was already the extreme edge of this continent, she plunged into the sea, and finally had to escape.

Tonight, there were lightning and thunder on the west coast of District [-], and the storm created huge waves on the sea. For several moments, she even doubted whether she would be able to return to land alive.

But luckily—she's back, and it's still dark.

The wind sliced ​​through her bare skin like a sharp knife, but Hesta had no time for it.

Every morning at around five o'clock, Alja and others on the morning shift would go down to the cellar to inspect the wine storage. Usually, they would not look towards the cell, but would pass by with a lamp, so even if they didn't return in time , should or may not be found.

But she couldn't take that risk again.

The accidents tonight... have been too many.

Hesta looked at the road ahead and ran all the way.

The light and shadow in the distant sky are changing at a speed almost visible to the naked eye, and the sun is rising from the east, leaving no room for it.

to be exposed.

to be exposed.

to be exposed.

Fields, forests, birds, rivers, howling winds—

Hesta gritted his teeth.

Do not……

I must never...

During the ecstasy of running, the sights on both sides of Hesta’s vision have been blurred, and many complex and strange smells burst into her nostrils one after another: the moist fog in the morning, the embers of firewood used by people for heating at night, from the river and The wet rot and fishy smell of the swamp...

Overcoming all these obstacles, the smell of the city suddenly emerges.

It is gray smoke mixed with concrete, cement dust and exhaust, but it also has a faint fragrance of cinnamon and cardamom. They come from the factories and streets the night before, and the outlying residents who got up early this morning before dawn The tea soup that they boiled with spices.

She smelled the insignificant olive trees—they are all over every street in Bruno as street trees.

At the end of Cannon Avenue, she saw the golden dome of the Bruno Palace of Fine Arts silent in the twilight morning light, and Ava's white villa was close at hand. However, Hesta's heart suddenly sank when she saw Ava's courtyard. end--

She saw fresh drying racks standing on the grass at the back of the yard, which usually meant the girls on the morning shift were up.

She didn't have time to think about it, and taking advantage of the silence in the entire courtyard, Hesta quickly returned to the cell along the secret door leading to the ground.

The basement was extremely quiet, and Hesta listened attentively. After making sure that there was no sound of footsteps inside or outside, she took off her arms at the fastest speed in her life and put them back into the black box. Then, she lay down on her single bed as usual. On the bunk, out of bullet time.

At this moment, it feels like being in a rapidly accelerating elevator, every part of the body quickly becomes extremely heavy, as if an invisible and majestic force is suddenly pressed down.

Her eyes were closed and she couldn't move at all.

A few minutes later, the door to the basement opened, and Aya walked down the stairs with a flashlight.

In the darkness, Hesta listened carefully to Aya's movements.

Aya paid attention to her steps as before, so as not to disturb Hesta's rest by her own voice.However, when she was about to reach the ground, she suddenly stepped on the ground, and the whole person staggered forward a few steps, and finally knelt down on the ground.

Hesta's heart suddenly lifted.

Aya, who fell down, resisted the pain and sat on the ground to relax for a while. After the pain eased, she got up silently.

Before leaving, Ayate looked at the cell for a while, and she was relieved until she was sure that Hesta had not been awakened by the movement she made, and turned to walk towards the wine cellar.

At the same moment, Hesta, who was lying on the bed, also heaved a sigh of relief.

About a quarter of an hour later, Aya left, leaving Hesta alone in the entire basement again.

There was no light in the basement, and everything was gray.Hesta turned over with difficulty and looked up at the dim ceiling above his head. After a brief absence, the memory of last night suddenly emerged, like the surface of the coast suddenly exposed before the tsunami came.

This was an unprecedented fear, which had never been brought to her by any chelate or even aberrant before—last night, she really saw Qianye's "enemy" side for the first time.

At six o'clock, Ava appeared on the stairs in the basement. Leaning on a cane, she slowly descended step by step until she came to Hesta's cell.

Aya walked in front of the old man. She first knocked on the window to wake up Hesta, and then brought Ava a chair. Just as she was about to turn on the light, Ava stopped her.

"You don't need to turn on the light, it's fine as it is now." Ava said lightly, "It's too dazzling to turn on the light now."

"Okay." Aya replied, "Call me if you need anything."

Ava nodded happily.

Hesta didn't really come out of the quilt until Aya left the basement again—her wet clothes and hair had printed a large water stain on the entire sheet.

"Turn on the light." Ava motioned Hesta to turn on the lamp on her desk.

Through the light, the old man saw several abrasions on Hesta's left arm, and a faint bruise appeared on her right cheek below the cheekbone, which would become more obvious in a few hours.

"Are you ok?"

"It's okay." Hesta sat on the bed with her elbows on her knees. "It's just a little skin injury."

Ava looked at Hesta, "Maybe you can tell me why there was a mutant alarm in Tan Yi last night?"

(End of this chapter)