Why it never ends

Chapter 360 The Duke
The man was at a loss for words for a moment, but then he lowered his head and smiled, "No, it's not acquaintance... At best, it can only be said to be 'recognized'. You are Ms. Jane Hurst, aren't you? I was lucky enough to read it last year Some news about you, from Mr. Campbell."

Campbell...

The name was so old it seemed almost from the last century, and it took Hesta a moment to remember who he was.

"I think I may have offended you in some way just now." The man looked into Hesta's eyes, and his eyes showed a little apology, "Although I don't know the reason, please forgive me, I definitely didn't mean it .”

Hesta looked at the man's business card on the table, which said "Heinrich Gobelin".

She held the business card between her two fingers, "Stop sneaking around me again."

"Feel sorry……"

Hesta handed it back to Gobelin. The man was a little surprised, but he still reached out to take it.Li Ke was watching this scene, she was always vigilant.

Suddenly, Li Ge looked sideways to the heights.

"careful!"

A bullet was fired obliquely above the three of them. The bullet hit the business card between Hesta and Gobelin impartially. The bullet pierced through the paper and sparked golden sparks, causing the two to retreat immediately. .

Rico has already stepped on the table and stool beside her and flew up. She stepped on the lampshade and statue on the wall and flew along the wall, quickly approaching the point where the bullet shot out. Come, she saw a faint shadow jumping to a higher place in the hall at an extremely fast speed.

Immediately afterwards, there were several more gunshots - Goebbels not far away had drawn out his pistol and shot towards a higher place, but his bullet was like a golden pen, its function limited to depicting the trajectory of the attacker.

That black shadow had astonishing agility. After smashing the four glass windows, it fled from the hole at the highest point.

Rico didn't go after him, she immediately returned to Hesta's side.

"Are you all right, Jane!"

"……fine."

Goebbels was still looking at the shattered window, gasping for breath, his .45 automatic pistol still clutched tightly in his hand.

The gunshots caught the attention of everyone not far away, and a burst of footsteps and shouts came from the corridor at the other end of the hall.Someone pressed the chandelier switch here, and the entire dark hall finally became bright.

Almost at this moment, Hesta once again felt a pair of gray-blue eyes flashing past from the side of her back, and before she realized that she should take action, some kind of fighting instinct made her catch up.

Li Ke reacted faster, she hugged Hesta's waist from behind, "Where are you going?"

"there!"

Seeing that the two mercury needles were about to leave, Gobelin chased after him in a panic, "Where are you going!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Ke had already led Hesta out of the hall, and they followed the outline of the building all the way up, disappearing from Goebbelin's sight.

The guards on the ship and some daring passengers had already chased after them. Some thorny monks called out the name of "Gobelin". He glanced in the direction of the exit again, but quickly returned to the crowd.

After a while, Si Lei also rushed to the scene from the monitoring room. She left the crowd and walked towards Gobelin.

"Where are the two girls?"

"They... went outside, outside, above!"

Su Lei immediately drew his gun and rushed out. Gobelin followed unhurriedly. He observed the movement around Su Lei, and was not in a hurry to rush out of the hall first.

Su Lei had already arrived on the open-air deck, and as soon as she appeared, she heard Li Ge's voice from above, "Officer Su Lei?"

Su Lei looked up and saw Li Ke standing alone in the gap between the second deck and the third deck.

Su Lei put down the gun, but didn't put it away.

"Why are you alone, Jane?"

"Inside." Li Ge pointed to a long and narrow entrance behind him, "Only one person can enter."

The crowd had already flowed slowly from the hall to the open-air deck, and Goebbelin was at the front. Standing behind Su Lei, he also looked up at Li Ke who was standing on a high place.

There was a strange noise, and people saw Hesta's red hair again. Her left hand was tightly across her chest, and she only relied on her legs to maintain her balance.

"What are you doing!" Su Lei asked loudly.

Only then did Lico jump down from a high place with Hesta in his arms, and the two of them landed steadily. Only then did people see an old white cat lying in Hesta's arms, and this cat was madly barking at everyone. He gasped, but Hester held the cat's neck tightly, preventing it from moving.

Si Lei was stunned, "...you saved a cat?"

Hesta shook her head, she panted and forcibly raised the cat's head, "Eyes... look at its eyes..."

Su Lei leaned down, and by the light on the deck, she saw a pair of cat's eyes that looked like jewels.

"...Why are the cat's eyes gray?"

"It's gray-blue, you can see it when you go to a bright place." Hesta said with difficulty, "The exhibition hall... when it was in the underwater exhibition hall..."

Su Lei suddenly remembered the "gray-blue eyes" hidden in the dark that Hesta mentioned at the time, and she finally understood: "So what you saw...was a cat?"

"……maybe."

While screaming, the cat scratched at Hester's sleeves, and kicked its sharp claws on her hard uniform jacket, making a loud "crack" sound, until a young voice came from behind the crowd:

"Duke?"

The word "Duke" made Hesta hesitate for a while. At this moment, the cat slapped the back of Hesta's hand fiercely. She retracted her hand in pain, and the white cat landed gracefully.

The cat jumped over the crowd and quickly jumped into the arms of a girl. Hesta followed the cat's whereabouts and saw Zero and Anna.

The white cat lay in Zero's arms and whimpered in grievance, while its little head desperately burrowed under her arm.

Hesta didn't care about the bloodstains on the back of his hand, and walked quickly in front of Zero.

"Is this... your cat?"

"Yes, it belongs to Anna." Zero said softly, "We have kept it locked in the room since we boarded the ship, but today I don't know what happened and ran out."

"...what do you call it," Hesta whispered, "Duke?"

"Yeah." Zero nodded.

On the side, Anna opened her arms towards Zero, and the girl carefully placed the cat on the blanket on Anna's lap.In Anna's arms, the cat was extremely docile, with its head resting on Anna's palm, allowing her to stroke its chin.

Hesta looked down at the white cat, "What's the name..."

"It's the name of a cat. 'Duke' is just a nickname," Anna replied softly, raising her head, "or, you can also call it 'Myshkin'."

(End of this chapter)