Why it never ends

Chapter 206 The Presence
In Victoria's darkroom, Chiba sat cross-legged on the table, watching Victoria working not far away.

"Have you ever thought of another way of doing this?"

"What?" Victoria didn't look up, but just lowered her head and immersed herself in the film and a pile of medicine boxes in front of her.

"Or, just let it go."

Victoria stood still and looked up, "Who? The assassin?"

"It's in the dark, we're in the light, it can stop its actions at any time, hibernate for a while and then come out, but we can't stay in Tan Yi forever." Qianye said softly, "Anyway, it seems that there are only a few enemies , It is estimated that it will be over after killing."

"It did say so." Victoria withdrew her gaze. "When we met at the Central Hospital before, the assassin revealed that Tanglar and Villefort are the only targets left."

"Isn't that good." Qianye held his neck with one hand, "It seems that these people have done a lot of bad things in their lives, maybe how many people are looking forward to the justice from heaven, and besides, just a few people died, The sky in the livable land will not fall..."

Seeing that Victoria didn't respond, Chiba asked again, "You don't think so?"

"I don't think so." Victoria answered crisply.

Qianye's eyes were puzzled, she leaned back slightly, looked at Victoria as if she was looking at a statue she had never seen before, "... I always thought you were not the kind of justice envoy who would accept death, but did you also? ?”

"Also? Who else is beside you?"

"Si Lei? Molly?" Chiba blinked, "... Ava?"

Victoria laughed unconvincingly, "Ava is not... Don't compare people like Molly with Ava—"

"...Okay, okay." Chiba symbolically raised her hand to block it, "So why?"

"The consequences of this kind of thing can't just look at the moment. If the assassin's killing in the habitable land is costless this time, then the bad impact it will bring will be immeasurable." Victoria said as she spoke. , while walking to the sink and turning on the tap to wash her hands, she glanced at Chiba, "Why, don't you believe me?"

"Tell me, I'm listening."

"Do you remember how the crime rate of the mercury needle was brought down in the first place?"

"uh-huh."

"Rely on the chip." Victoria gave the answer directly, "Since Office 004 decided to force a chip into every mercury needle, so as to achieve the purpose of monitoring the time of their bullets, the internal crime rate has dropped directly from 7%. It's below 0.2% -- that's one operation, nothing else.

"Office No. 004 used so many punishments to combat crimes before, but they were useless. I couldn't help it. On the contrary, after the monitoring chip was installed, many heavy punishments were cancelled. Except for a few cases with extremely bad influence and extremely cruel methods, the When the sentencing exceeds the livable place, the remaining punishment methods are not even small troubles-deductions, fines, confinement... even imprisonment for more than three months is rare.

"But now Mercury is the most law-abiding group of people in the world, why?"

"Because... 'can't escape'?"

"Yes," Victoria replied quite emphatically, "It has been less than 004 years since Office 50 activated the chip, and not a single mercury needle that breaks the law and discipline can escape the eyes of the investigators. This is the best deterrent.

"Now suddenly there is an assassin who murdered three citizens of the third district in a high-profile way through some means - most likely in cooperation with AHgAs high-level personnel. This is already a very bad example. If we can't It's brought to justice, and that's showing everyone that 'crime with impunity' is possible. You open this Pandora's box and you don't know what's going to come out.”

"...It's a bit exaggerated." Qianye smiled, she didn't look into Victoria's eyes, but just stared at a raised piece of floor wood in front of her feet, "There are many undetectable things in the Habitable Land." Unsolved case—”

"Mercury needles are different!" Victoria immediately interrupted her, "The contacts, technical means, and even the bargaining chips that a mercury needle can reach are beyond the reach of an ordinary person. Compare, even imagine.

"You probably have long forgotten how you feel as an ordinary person, Chiba, you mercury needles who grew up in the reserve base all have this common problem."

The room fell silent.

Qianye didn't ask any more questions, and she didn't respond to Victoria's accusation just now.She just sat there quietly, lost in thought again.

Victoria went inside and out a few times, and she developed all sixteen black and white photos.

For the convenience of viewing, she took a string and hung all the photos on it with small wooden clips.

She turned off the red light in the dark room and snapped her fingers, "Qianye!"

"Huh?" Chiba looked up blankly.

"Come and see!"

Chiba jumped off the table and walked to the hanging photo.

The biggest advantage and disadvantage of the Kappa II camera is its size. Although it is portable and can be operated with one hand, it often loses focus when capturing moving scenes—however, in the pictures taken by Stella , out of focus is not criticized, and even it itself is an integral part of the story.

Victoria studied the details.

Although she has strong dissatisfaction with Stella's behavior tonight, when she looks at these photos, she still thinks of the saying that everyone who uses the Kappa II has heard: If you shoot well Not good enough because you're not close enough.

Stella's behavior tonight strictly implemented this principle.

The blurred outlines of the characters show their astonishing speed. Stella photographed the assassin's unilateral abuse of Zoe from a bird's-eye view, and also photographed its struggle with Victoria inside the clock tower.

What sets these photographs apart from any other photography is the "presence" of the photographer.

Because the photographer himself is "on the scene", every audience standing in front of this picture will see the most realistic battle along her previous field of vision... This kind of vividness is unmatched by any long-range capture, and it is also expensive .

Thinking of Stella's rhetoric not long ago, Victoria suddenly wanted to laugh - there was some sincerity in Stella's sophistry tonight.

She can see it.

Soon, Victoria came to the place where Chiba was standing. Since just now, Chiba has been standing in front of a photo without moving away—it was the moment captured by Stella's last fall. The Assassin's dive is filmed from above.

Qianye covered her chin with her right hand, and walked aside without saying a word.

"This is..." Victoria suddenly noticed a detail.

Chiba's heart sank, she turned her head and saw Victoria pointing at the underside of the assassin's mask in the photo.

"Qianye... Come and see, are these eyes?"

(End of this chapter)