Why it never ends

Chapter 183 Eclipse
According to the informant, this is a "normal phenomenon" in Duanmingxiang: After all, these people are not ordinary people. They have skills and backgrounds, and they live very comfortably in the wasteland.However, they usually send their family members to a livable place, and a small number of people will let their family members stay with them. Once they realize that their time is approaching or they perceive other dangers, they will immediately prepare for their relatives to retreat.

That's why this kind of thing often happens on Duanming Lane. When a person dies, everything related to this person suddenly evaporates from the world, as if they never existed.

Joan Valerie has many enemies. One of the main reasons why she chose to live in Duanming Lane is that the place name itself is deterrent, which can scare off quite a few people who want to provoke.

She has taken in many children in Duan Ming Lane, and it is said that she will secretly train these children to serve as killers for herself——Joan has opened a gambling shop and tavern in Duan Ming Lane, even if there are people who want her life in Duan Ming Lane Not a few.

In the last period of Joan's life, she quietly exchanged these family properties into amazing wealth, and the children who had been around her disappeared one by one.

It wasn't until someone later met a child who had lived with Joan in other wastelands in the third district that people were sure that Joan had indeed sent away the people around him.

By comparison, old Charlie's reputation was a little bleak.

Old Charlie was a widower, and it was said that his family had been happy in his youth, but had somehow come to a state of divorce. 20 years ago, he suddenly brought back a daughter from outside, and soon had a granddaughter.

No one knew the details behind this, so everyone speculated that this was his woman and child, and some people even came to make fun of them, but old Charlie didn't explain, or even ignored them.

The rumors could not arouse his waves, and gradually dissipated.The woman and the child lived in old Charlie's backyard and didn't show up very often.

In the summer of 4619, old Charlie and his general store suddenly emptied out, and before that he is said to have inquired about a way to a wasteland in the fourth district - so he may have accidentally messed with something he should not have messed with. suddenly decided to run away temporarily.

There is a lot of evidence that he will poach airdrops, which also requires precise marksmanship, so it barely meets Chiba's criteria for finding someone.

These sudden clues were completely beyond Chiba's expectation. She thought that Jane had already had very good experience in using firearms before receiving her own special training, so she started the investigation from the aspect of shooting.

"Do you have any impression of the names of the mother and daughter adopted by old Charlie?"

"The child doesn't know. The mother's name should be Sylvia. She is very small and thin. She doesn't seem to be from the third district, but I don't know where she came from."

"What about the hair color?"

"The most common chestnut hair? I can't remember. They don't go out very often."

Qianye didn't talk more with the informant, and she had to investigate the rest by herself.

……

At dusk, Hesta opened his eyes and woke up again from a short rest.

She heard someone enter the room around five o'clock in the afternoon, and although the person's footsteps were very light, she was quickly awakened from her sleep.Immediately afterwards, she smelled the aroma of food and knew that it was dinner, so she didn't get up and pretended to be asleep.

After putting down the food plate, the man stepped back lightly.

Indeed, as the warden said, this place is not like a prison at all, but like a hotel.

The dinner prepared for her by the Independence Prison consisted of roasted duck breast, red wine and a plate of mashed potatoes, but for some reason there was no knife and fork.She grabbed a piece of meat that had cooled down with her bare hands, and scooped up a mouthful of mashed potatoes with her index and middle fingers, without touching the wine.

Hesta finished the meal standing at the table chewing.After the plate was empty, she casually wiped her hands with the square towel under the plate, then turned and went to the bathroom.

After a while, she came out with a few changes of clothes and looked like she was about to take a shower.

The warden, who watched all this in front of the surveillance, was a little discouraged and a little annoyed, "Is this person dumb? She doesn't know how to speak? How can I tell Campbell about her situation when she looks like this?"

The monitoring personnel on the side moved their throats slightly, "...and lethargic, and don't like to talk. Could it be that they have chelation disease?"

"No, she won't have chelation disease." The warden took off the earphone impatiently, "You can keep watching, and report if she has any abnormalities."

"Ok."

After the warden left, the monitoring personnel pulled out the magazines hidden under the device. He crossed his legs and looked at the empty room on the screen for a while, then put on his earphones and began to read the half-read report.

Only the sound of water in the bathroom.

Hesta stood quietly in the mist, watching a person slowly walk out from behind the storage shelf in the corner.When she came in to wash her hands just now, she noticed that there was an extra shadow there, and several possibilities appeared in her mind at the same time, so she took the clothes from the outside and made a look like she was about to come in to take a bath, so as not to stay in it for a long time or go in and out of the bathroom frequently arouse suspicion.

At this moment, Hesta only turned on a wall lamp in the bathroom, and she couldn't see the outline of the person in front of her at a glance.

However, as the opponent slowly approached, Hesta's eyes widened——

The person who came was a woman with red hair, blue eyes, about the same size, about the same height and build, and a missing right arm...

During the seven or eight steps from the toilet to the bathroom, Hesta felt that the hair color, skin color, and facial contours of the other party were all being fine-tuned rapidly.

When the man walked in front of her, Hesta held her breath involuntarily.

She saw herself.

An identical face, a perfect replica.

All of this is inexplicably weird, and Hesta doesn't know if it's true, or if her perception is disturbed by the light in the mist, causing some hallucinations, but just now, she did hear some strange mechanical knobs The sound... like the faint sound that a camera lens makes when it focuses.

The visitor raised his left hand, and a line of words floated in his palm——

"I am an eclipse"

For a while, Hesta finally understood what Ava meant when she asked Ava how she would identify someone coming.

Soon, the subtitles on the palm of the eclipse changed:

"I'll take your place and theoretically I can stay here until November 11th, the eve of your court appearance"

Hesta opened his mouth slightly, took a deep breath, and the subtitle in the palm of the eclipse immediately changed to:
"Don't talk, someone is listening"

Hesta raised his left hand and patted his heart, indicating that he knew this.

She looked around, looking for a tool that could write on her behalf, when the palm of the eclipse suddenly fell flat, and a keyboard image made of red light appeared in the midair filled with mist.

"Please"

(End of this chapter)