Why it never ends

Chapter 239 Viper
At dusk, Hesta stood in front of the window of the manor castle with a glass of water.

She looked at the guests who came to the banquet from a distance. These people were dressed in costumes and animal masks, with famous tags on their chests, chatting and laughing happily in the garden.

Even with a simple disguise, it is not difficult to identify some of them: Mrs. Alvira's beautiful blond hair, Sophie's lively and talkative and rich body language, Calvin's almost exaggerated height...these are all easily recognizable features.

Sean didn't show up all afternoon.

Hesta was contemplating when she suddenly heard footsteps behind her, and when she turned around, Victoria's hand just patted her shoulder.

"Why are you here alone? Aren't you going to guess the riddle?"

"Forget it, it feels quite boring." Hesta turned around and sat down on the sofa with Victoria. "But I want to ask, what is the origin of that girl named Sophie?"

"The origin?" Victoria thought for a moment, "I heard from Su Lei that she is the daughter of Villefort's sister, because Sophie's parents died in a car accident when she was very young, so the Villefort couple took her Take her here to raise yourself. Although she is a niece in name, she is actually similar to a daughter—didn’t you say that you don’t want to get too close to them, why are you asking this?”

"...It's nothing," Hesta said casually, "I just feel like I've heard this name somewhere before."

"When did you enter the reserve service?"

"Year 4623."

"Haha, no wonder... the old affairs officer of your base is also called Sophie, Sophie Morley, remember? She should have been transferred from the third area shortly after you entered the base."

Hesta thought for a while, and vaguely remembered that there was such a person, but he didn't have a deep impression.

"She's kind of pestering me...somewhat annoying." Hesta said softly.

"Who are you talking about? Old Sophie or young Sophie?"

"Of course it is now."

Victoria snorted lightly, and said with a smile: "Sophie seems to have always wanted to be a naturalist. A few years ago, she went out with the scientific expedition team to go to the wilderness for field investigations. In the second half of the year, she went to the core city to study. It seems that his major is also in this area... Now that there are so many mercury needles who have been to the wasteland, they must want to get to know each other and have a chat, so don't mind too much."

Hesta felt that he had heard the point, "That will cost a lot of money, right?"

"Of course, people like them go to the moors and spend millions to get started--but what's the matter, Villefort has money, and he doesn't use it himself."

As Victoria spoke, she grabbed the binoculars on the table and aimed at the crowd at the open-air banquet in the distance.

"Villefort completed the notarization of his estate last week. If he dies, half of the farm and manor will immediately belong to Sophie, and the rest will be left to Alvira and Joey. Plus Sophie's own parents It seems that there is still an inheritance, which has not been touched in these years..."

Victoria squinted one eye, "Sometimes I really envy this kind of life. I was born on Jinshan, and I have a promising hobby."

At this moment, at the other end of Victoria's lens, the dressed-up Mrs. Alvira is holding a champagne glass and a silver spoon like noon.

She tapped the cup lightly, and the people around fell silent and looked at her.

Between the candlelight and the light strip, Alvira wearing a swallow's eye ornament was talking about something, and the people around laughed from time to time, and the atmosphere was so harmonious.

This scene made Victoria a little fascinated, and even had some respect for Mrs. Alvira.Obviously, it was this woman who passed on her courage to both Villefort and Tanglars—even if the scythe of death is close at hand, even if the unknown threat is always looming, people can still make their own choices about life.

Do you live in bleakness in endless fear, or face the ruthless poisonous arrows of fate calmly, not letting go of the joy of life in every moment in front of you?

... This certainty and indifference is really charming.

Suddenly, Victoria's vision became dim - Hesta got up and stood in front of her.

"I heard that a mercury needle named Sean also joined this battle."

Victoria put down the binoculars, "Yes, what's the matter?"

"What exactly does he need to do?"

"Some technical support, he seems to be quite experienced in this area."

"This man is deliberately approaching Sophie, do you know that?"

……

At night, Hesta wandered around the house alone.

Previously, she spent about half an hour telling Victoria about her grievances with Sean when she was a teenager. His performance in the past five years has been excellent, and in terms of getting along with him during this period of time, he has indeed appeared to be very reliable, no matter in terms of technology or character.

She couldn't imagine Sean having a past like this.

This also surprised Hesta.

In the past few years, she hasn't paid much attention to Xiao En, where he is, what he is doing...it has nothing to do with her.However, when talking about Sean with Victoria today, Hesta realized that the image of this person has been completely changed.

He is "intelligent, hard-working, and thoughtful", and his only shortcoming is that he is "cowardly, and a bit inarticulate", so he "seldom leaves the habitable place, and hardly has long-term contacts with people other than Calvin", but people " Seems to be fine."

Has Sean really changed his mind?

Hesta had no expectations for that.

All of this is not just from the unhappiness at the base in the past. Whenever she recalled the days when she just learned of Liz's death, and recalled that morning in Wulian, Xiao En shivered with a copy of the consultation record. Suddenly came to her, said a bunch of specious words, she felt a chill.

She didn't really realize the malice in it until much later.

If Sean is a promising young talent in the eyes of Sophie and even Victoria today, it seems that he knows how to disguise in front of people better than before, and also understands the image that other people expect and love What does it look like.

Originally, Hesta had more things to say to Victoria, but something seemed to go wrong at the banquet in the distance, and a sudden cry broke the happy atmosphere.

Victoria proposed to talk later, and she had to go to the banquet to see first, and Hesta readily agreed.

Afterwards, she began to wander around in this empty mansion. Accompanied by the butler, Hesta pushed open one door after another and visited the rooms here.

Not long after, she heard a flurry of footsteps outside. The butler went out to have a look, and came back quickly, saying that they were the guests at the banquet. It was raining outside, and everyone took advantage of the light rain. Back indoors.

(End of this chapter)