Why it never ends

Chapter 324 The Monk
The three fell silent at the same time.

"...'No' waiting room 12?" Turan whispered, "Then where are you going to wait for the ship?"

"Now you can board the ship directly. The 'Shengming' has a direct passage without going through any waiting room."

Turan looked at Hesta again, and then at Si Lei, "This is not right... wait for me to make a call."

"If you're trying to call the AHgAs station or your reserve base, I just got in touch with them."

"Then what did they say? Did you tell them all this?"

"I've said it," Su Lei walked to Hesta's left and sat down, "They said it was indeed strange, but Hesta's trip this time is part of a confidential mission, and they have no right to interfere."

"...Then who has the right—" Turan came to the answer by herself in the middle of her sentence, "but we can't contact Miss Chiba right now."

"That's the problem." Su Lei took out his boarding instructions again, and reread them carefully, "I think we have two choices now—"

"I'm going out," said Hesta suddenly.

"But it might be a bait." Su Lei looked towards Hesta, "Originally you could board the ship directly, but now this letter will lure you to hang around in the port hall... I don't really recommend doing that."

Hesta slowly turned to Su Lei, "It's okay, I don't think it's a big problem."

"...you are the biggest problem." Su Lei pressed Hesta's shoulder, "What if some corner of the corner suddenly rushes out and a group of people carry you away, I really might not be able to catch up with you." Got it."

"It's me." Turan lowered his voice, "If I enter the bullet time here, another mercury needle will rush over in less than ten seconds. What are you afraid of?"

"but--"

Hesta gently pressed Su Lei's wrist, "Don't worry."

"How can you rest assured? Before I meet Qianye, I can't let you have any mistakes—"

"If there is real danger, Ms. Chiba will definitely give an early warning," Hesta whispered, "If there is no early warning, it means...the risk is controllable."

……

It was nearly two o'clock, after Su Lei called Chiba more than a dozen times and still no one answered, she and Turan could only push Hesta's wheelchair and leave the medical room.

The clouds in the afternoon blocked the sunlight, but the sky and the earth were still extremely bright. The crowds were bustling under the glass dome of the Havre port hall, and everyone followed the signs to their own waiting room. There was order in the chaos.

In order to avoid attracting attention, Hesta took off her coat—along with the twenty or so medals, and hung it on the back of the wheelchair, and the three of them went down the crawler elevator from the third floor to the first floor in silence .

Along the way, Su Lei was very anxious, and Hesta's words could not convince her at all. Obviously, Qianye's sudden loss of contact was a very bad signal—she might have encountered a more serious accident, so serious that she couldn't tell Hester at all. Star alert.But whether it was Hesta or Turan, the two young girls directly ruled out this possibility.

Going directly to the ship is a relatively safe choice, but at the same time, another matter is also of concern to Su Lei. Both her and Hesta's boarding instructions mentioned that "the risk of being late is immeasurable". What does risk mean?

"Officer Su Lei?" Turan's voice woke Su Lei from his contemplation, "Did you hear what I just said?"

"Excuse me, what did you say?"

"I said, we can go to the first floor to look at the map of the port hall, and then see if we can split up—"

"I refuse," Su Lei hardly thought about it, "We should never take the initiative to separate."

"But there's only one hour left now, in terms of efficiency—"

"Believe me, splitting up at a time like this must be the worst option."

"...Okay, okay, but relax, Officer Su Lei, you seem a little...too nervous?"

Su Lei didn't refute, she took a few deep breaths and turned her attention back to the present moment.

Looking for a non-existent No. 12 waiting room in the port of Havre, Su Lei suddenly remembered the No. 12 corpse she had been trying to find at the Rohan Palace last winter, although today she already understands how it happened However, the cold feeling in the middle of winter still flashed back suddenly, which made her tense up.

"...Turan." Hesta spoke again in the wheelchair. She looked ahead and whispered, "The eleven o'clock direction..."

Both Su Lei and Turan looked in the direction indicated by Hesta calmly, and in front of them on their left, there were about a dozen men with highly uniform clothing styles standing in a circle and talking.Most of them are muscular, with short hair, some look 27 and [-], and some seem to have just entered puberty, and each of them is carrying a huge travel backpack and an identical black suitcase.

Turan saw at a glance that one of them was holding the Shengming ship ticket envelope.

They slowly passed by these people, and heard some words such as "there is no waiting room 12 here", "the office of the "Shengming" just called me back, and they don't know what boarding instructions are at all"——Obviously, This group of people is also the passengers of the Rise, and they are arguing about the waiting room that does not seem to exist.

On one of the men's knapsacks, Hesta saw a gold medallion: every man here wore one of these, except that some pinned it on their chest and others on their sleeves.

Hesta pretended to scan their luggage casually, and saw the badge clearly read:

Briar Monk.

Hesta quietly averted his eyes before the eyes were noticed by others.

Soon, the three of them stayed away from the crowd and came to the map wall of the Havre port on the east side of the hall. This wall showed the structure of the entire Havre port hall, including the space on the ground floor and the basement floor.

Turan and Su Lei each took some photos, and then pushed Hesta to the outside terrace to talk.

Through the glass door, Turan quickly saw several men also running to the map wall to take pictures—the same group of people who were standing around talking just now.

"Didn't the officials notice the abnormality in advance?" Turan looked at Su Lei, "The 'Shengming' has a passenger capacity of more than 6000 people, so if someone carries private goods into the ticket behind the shipping company's back, it will be a big deal. How much work is it?"

"Indeed...but the number of passengers on the Shengming this time is less than seventy."

"what?"

"I can't reveal too much...but this voyage is not open to the public," Su Lei said in a low voice, "I heard that this is the last voyage of the Shengming, and when the ship arrives in District [-], it will be Donated to the local port museum to be converted into a new exhibition hall."

(End of this chapter)