Why it never ends

Chapter 16 Defense
noon the next day.

Valenti sat alone in the cafeteria, looking down at her mobile phone, her thumbs tapping rapidly on the keys.

Valenti: My friend, you are finally online.

Chiba:?
Valenti: Did I forward your email?
Chiba: Jane's list of needs?Look, do you want me to reimburse you?The base shouldn't be so poor.

Valenti: ...

Chiba: Elder sister, if you have something to say, hurry up, I'm about to get on the plane.

Valenti: Why did Jane want these things on her first day on base...do you have any idea?

Chiba: None.

Chiba: If you want to know, you should ask her herself.

Valenti: Of course I'm going to talk to her, we're having our first conversation this afternoon...but why don't you act like you're worried at all?She had just been through a tragedy like that, and this information could be important.

Chiba: Hahahaha

Valenti: ?

Chiba: It's true that she has just experienced a tragedy, but don't forget that she grew up in Short Ming Lane before entering the monastery.I have never seen such a big storm, kid. On the first day I entered the base, I asked you for some furniture for decoration, and you were startled...Keep calm, Valenti, the person I choose will not have any major problems.

Valenti: ...so why did you choose Jane?I've heard several people discuss this topic today.

Chiba: Ha, I just think her smell is a bit special
odor?

Valenti raised her head and thought for a while, and saw Hesta holding a plate, standing directly opposite her, she was involuntarily startled.

"Sorry, did I scare you?" Hesta said softly.

"Ah, no..." Valenti recovered.

Today's Hesta is wearing the uniform she received yesterday, a dark blue sweater over a white shirt, and a gray pleated skirt underneath. There is a gold embroidery pattern on the left chest of the uniform jacket, which is from the reserve training base Badge, a long sword piercing pincers, with the letters AHgAs underneath.

"May I sit here?" Hesta asked.

"Of course." Valenti symbolically dragged the dinner plate to her side. She glanced at the new news on the phone screen. Chiba's profile picture was grayed out after saying "boarding, for nothing" go down.

"Are you still used to living yesterday?" Valenti put away the phone.

"Well, I chatted with Liz for a long time yesterday, and I also met Turan and Lico, but I didn't have a deep chat." Hesta replied calmly, "I have already received two hours of course selection training this morning, but still There are many things I don’t understand, I plan to go to the course selection system in the computer room after finishing the conversation with you in the afternoon.”

"Very good." Valenti smiled, "It seems that you have found the rhythm of living here."

"Well, thanks to Liz, she told me a lot about life."

The two ate with their heads down, and when the meal was over, Hesta followed Valenti directly to her conversation room.

On the way together, Valenti thought of Chiba's words not long ago, "Her smell is a bit special", and involuntarily leaned towards Hesta.

She could indeed smell some of the children of Mercury needles on Hesta, but this is actually very common on newcomers.

Chiba's so-called special... what is it?

"Miss Valenti?" Hesta's voice interrupted Valenti's train of thought again. She recovered and found that she was already standing in front of the door of the conversation room.

"Ah, I'm sorry..." Valenti immediately began to take out the key card, "I always think about some things and forget about the things in front of me, please don't mind."

"I don't mind." Hesta looked at Valenti, "On the contrary, I think the time with you is very relaxing."

Valenti was amused, "Thank you..."

There is no one in the conversation room. On one side of the wall are two gray metal cabinets side by side, and there are many thick file folders inside. There are two lemon yellow single sofas facing each other obliquely, near the door. There was a sandalwood desk next to it. Valenti stepped forward and turned on the computer on the desk, and called Hesta to come over and fill out the psychological scale first.

Hesta followed Valenti to learn how to operate for a while, and got started quickly.

Currently, the base is using the Symptom Self-Rating Scale-270, which was newly revised last year and replaced the norm. It complies with the Likert seven-point scale method and has 270 questions in total. 17 mutually exclusive dimensions are used to examine the current psychological state of the subjects, and the reliability and validity are very high.

What makes this new revised scale better than the old version is that it has added two new parts, the "Vanity Scale" and the "Defense Scale"-this part contains a total of 30 questions and is specifically used for lie detection.

Generally speaking, ordinary people will score very low on these 30 questions. However, if someone deliberately hides his true thoughts for the purpose of "beautifying himself" or "passive defense", he chooses to look more good or correct answers, then their corresponding scores on these types of questions will become very high.

This means that his entire questionnaire is not credible.

These 30 polygraph questions were scattered among the original 240 questions, which greatly facilitated psychologists such as Valenti, who can easily use this polygraph scale to see who's measurement results are not credible , and understand to a certain extent the other party's tendency to lie.

About half an hour passed and Hesta submitted the scale.

Valenti has adjusted the side camera and started talking with Hesta.

Today, their topic only stopped at Hesta's life at the base in the past and the next few days.

Hesta often looks at the camera placed not far away. Like all newcomers, she is not used to talking under the camera.

"Will someone retrieve these videos or recordings." She asked softly.

"Yes, but only a very small number of people have the permission to call." Valenti replied, "Including me, there are only four people in total, oh no, five—including Chiba. In most cases No one will touch them, all video data are only kept as archives, if there is a problem with your future development, we will try to find the reason through these materials."

Hesta stared at the red dot on the camera complicatedly, "I see."

There are actually many things Valenti wants to know about Hesta, such as the girl's early memories, her birthplace and childhood, the education she received in Short Ming Lane and St. Anne's Abbey, some daily entertainment, and important Life turning points and choices...

But Valenti also understands that there will be no answers to these questions now - it is far from being able to talk to Hestad about these deep topics.

But she doesn't need to worry, because the conversations like today will maintain a frequency of once a month in the future, and then increase or decrease according to the situation until they become adults.

The clock ticked 3:50 pm, and Hesta got up from his seat to say goodbye to Valenti.When she opened the door of the conversation room from the outside, Valenti sat back in front of the computer to see the results of Hester's questionnaire.

As expected, she just dragged the page to the result page, and saw the words "invalid measurement" displayed in red on the screen, and there was a line of black text below——

"The subject's "Defense Scale" score is too high, the results of this questionnaire are not trustworthy. "

　Thanks to Xiao Yunyan and Chihuo Shilu No. [-] for the monthly ticket reward~

　　
　
(End of this chapter)