Why it never ends

Chapter 289 New Tactics

Hesta slept until dusk, and when she opened her eyes, the bloody setting sun happened to cast on her face along the window.The flash of light made her frown, and she felt slightly dizzy.

The pain in the back and left and right arms became clear again. Hesta touched his face in a dazed way, and soon realized that he was running a fever.

She got out of bed and sat for a while, then took her temperature: 37.9.

Hesta breathed a sigh of relief. This low-grade fever should be a non-infectious fever caused by wound healing, so it's not a big problem.

After a brief grooming, she opened the door and went downstairs.

The living room was very quiet, except for a few servants who were wiping the furniture, only Zoe was sitting on the sofa alone.

"Are you awake?" Zooey put down the newspaper in her hand, "You have been asleep for a long time."

"I've been under a lot of stress these days... I'm very lethargic," Hesta replied softly, "Where are they?"

"Go out and talk, I just have something for you."

"……it is good."

When walking out with Zoe, Hesta's muscles tensed up.Perhaps because of the ambush by Victoria, she is now a little sensitive to changes in the surrounding environment.She knew that this kind of worry was unreasonable - if Victoria and the others really wanted to catch her, they could do it in her sleep today, why wait for her to wake up.

But this slight anxiety and tension can never be erased.

"Are you all right? Ill?"

Hesta shook his head, "I'm drowsy, it's just right to go out for a walk now...do you have anything for me?"

Zooey took out a keychain-sized siren from her pocket.

"Victoria asked me to pass this to you. If you need to contact us during this period of time, if you encounter any special circumstances, press it continuously, and the mercury needle closest to you will come immediately - but pay attention, it must be Only in an emergency."

"What counts as 'very urgent'?"

"You judge for yourself."

"Okay." Hesta stretched out her left hand with the palm facing up, but Zoe didn't hand over the siren. She looked at the bandage on Hesta's wrist with some concern, "...are you left-handed? ?”

"No, what's wrong?"

"Your left hand is injured, why the first reaction is to reach out your left hand to pick up something?"

In a short silence, Hesta adjusted his breathing, "...Victoria asked the same question as you a few days ago."

"Yes, what was your answer?"

"You can ask her about this." The smile on Hesta's face faded, and her voice was flat, "I'm not your prisoner."

"Haha, no offense intended..." Zoe smiled, "Okay, I'll ask Victoria—but I'm afraid I'll have to wait until the assassin is caught."

"why?"

"This is the second thing I want to tell you. Next we will all enter a period of electronic silence, during which none of us will contact you."

Hesta frowned, "...Why did you tell me such details? Don't you need to keep it secret?"

"Of course the part that should be kept secret must be kept secret, but you can't keep everything from you. This time the assassin took advantage of a little information gap to lure Tanglar into the bait. Since you want to stay with Villefort, you have to know that we What will be done, what will not be done."

Hesta listened breathlessly.

"As I said earlier, after going into electronic silence, we won't send out any more messages - just like Victoria has done these days. You won't know where we are, and neither will the assassins. won't know-"

"I understand," Hesta interrupted Zoe softly, "You plan to reproduce Victoria's ambush tactics."

"Yes."

"...Is this too risky?" Hesta pondered, "At this time, pull the large troops away from Villefort, in case the assassin finds an opportunity—"

"Who doesn't know yet." Zooey said with a smile, "Didn't Victoria give her a knife yesterday?
"We have already analyzed that although the assassin seems to have many helpers behind him, she is always the only one who is the main combat force. A person has only one pair of eyes. She may be able to grasp some of our whereabouts through some means, but to control the overall situation, for her Talking is still very difficult - especially when we don't even know what each other's plans are, as yesterday's incident is proof of that."

Hesta frowned and remained silent.

A disappearing Victoria was tough enough, and now they're all going to be scattered all of a sudden...

"During the silent period, you don't know each other's location, do you?"

"It's understandable." Zooey nodded, "But it will be very soon to regain contact."

"But it's hard to achieve effective cooperation with such a temporary connection—"

"No, Eureka, you are still using the idea of ​​catching chelates to catch assassins, but in fact, there should be no 'cooperation' in the battle against assassins."

"...What?" Hesta thought he heard it wrong, "I don't understand..."

"Because the success or failure of catching the assassin will be decided in the first second or even less. If you can't kill with one blow, everything will be over."

"I've never heard such a pessimistic statement. You are all fighters who have dealt with deformers. You shouldn't—"

"Eureka, have you heard of Chiba Masaki?"

Hesta's throat moved, "...Of course I've heard of it."

"Before you came, Chiba Masaki once participated in the roundup of the assassin. She chased the assassin all the way to the west coast, but she still chased him away. Are you confident that you are faster than Chiba?"

Hesta looked at the ground ahead with a complicated expression.

"It turns out that there is such a thing."

"In short, Endai will stay. If you encounter any unsolvable problems in the future, you can go to her to discuss it first."

After seeing off Zoe, Hesta returned to the villa alone and started having dinner.

During the dinner, she asked the butler if she knew where the Duke was now, and the butler replied that the Villefort family had already taken a car to their residence on Avenue Langfonte in the afternoon, and they probably had finished their vacation here and went home.

Hesta was taken aback again—Zoe said a lot just now, and didn't mention anything about Villefort's return to the Duke's mansion.

"Please prepare a car for me." Hesta whispered.

Just as the butler was about to respond, the two of them heard the sound of an engine coming from outside the house at the same time, and a car parked outside the villa.

Hesta went to the window—Ende jumped out of the car first, followed by Sophie and Alvira, and finally Villefort.When Villefort got out of the car, he didn't stand still. Fortunately, Nde held him tightly so that he wouldn't fall to the ground.

Hesta looked at the faces of several people not far away. Except for Ende, everyone there was pale and solemn.

(End of this chapter)