Why it never ends

Chapter 378 Inspiration
As she spoke, Hesta glanced at the envelope. She put down the diary and picked it up. When she felt the weight, Hesta raised her head unexpectedly, "...empty? What's inside?"

"It's just empty." Su Lei said softly, "This envelope is exclusively for the 'Shengming', but it's only sold in the cruise ship's store. It's impossible for Dietrich to get it before boarding the ship, but It was in the trash can on the day Dietrich was killed."

"Someone sent him a letter?"

"This is the only reasonable inference, but there is nothing relevant in the surveillance." Su Lei said softly, "And the original contents of the envelope are also missing—if it really exists."

Hesta suddenly realized something, "What about Fritz Grüning, is there anything similar in his current room? And his whereabouts today..."

Su Lei didn't answer, she stared at Qianye.

Chiba smiled: "...Why are you looking at me like this?"

"You said last night that the only thing you care about is to protect Bo Shanfu himself to reach the fourteenth district safely. As for other matters, you will cooperate as appropriate. Is this sentence still in effect?"

Qianye's expression turned to doubt, "...I'm sure that's not what I said? But what do you need specifically, let's listen to it."

"I have some questions to ask you," Su Lei said softly, "If you can tell the truth, you can answer them, otherwise I hope you can just keep silent and don't lie to me."

Qianye hugged her arms in silence, "Say."

"On the boat," Su Lei put his hand on the table, and slowly approached Chiba, "does chelate really exist?"

"exist."

"What's the reason?"

"Confidential."

Qianye answered firmly, which made Si Lei hesitate.

Hesta suddenly felt that this conversation seemed familiar—last night, Su Lei also asked her suspiciously how much she knew about this murder, and she gave the same firm answer at that time, but she really wasn't lying .

Hesta secretly glanced at Qianye's expression, and for a while, she was also a little uncertain whether Qianye's "existence" was the truth or a lie.

"What do you think?" Su Lei suddenly turned to Hesta.

Hesta was startled, "...I don't know."

"You have so much experience fighting chelates, don't you have any judgment?"

"Well...the behavior of the chelate this time is not typical." Hesta frowned, "but it's hard to say, sometimes 'not typical' is a kind of 'typical'..."

Hesta put on a serious expression and analyzed seriously, but he followed Su Lei's guess in his heart - if this is another mercury needle capable person pretending to be a chelate to commit the crime, the scope of the murderer will be narrowed suddenly : Rico, Chiba, and Hesta himself.

Or, at this moment, there are other hidden mercury needles on board, and they have never been seen in public, so they are not among Su Lei's suspicions at all, but Qianye must know their existence.

If under such circumstances, Chiba avoids the topic, then her role in this case seems a little suspicious...

Hesta glanced at Chiba again.

rather say……

Miss Chiba has been very suspicious from the very beginning...

As the thought came again, Hesta's voice stopped completely, and her thoughts were like two parallel carriages, and when one of them suddenly went out of control, the other also veered off the track.

"...And then?" Su Lei followed Hesta's words and asked.

"Sorry," Hesta said with empty eyes, "...I kind of forgot what I said just now."

"You said that as long as the murder is not random, the murderer's motive can be traced. Even if the other party is a chelate, you can also try to deduce its action rules."

"...Oh, yes." Hesta held his forehead, "then...uh, then..."

motivation...motivation...

Hesta felt that Qianye seemed to pat himself on the shoulder, "Don't force it, you haven't had lunch or medicine yet, have you?"

Su Lei looked at the straight-eyed Hesta, "...you haven't eaten yet?"

"Aren't the lunch boxes still put there properly?" Qianye pointed to the corner not far away, "Where can I eat without taking off the bags?"

Hesta was still sitting there with a blank expression on her face, and the conversation with Anna in the morning resurfaced in her mind—that hellish golden age, that long gone but still left a huge influence on Rob Griller, that The youth organization that has passed away and was completely buried by history...

A kind of unraveling intuition gradually took shape in Hesta's heart:

If Alec is a false god, then the people on the Ascension at this moment are not fake works from the golden age, just like Rob Green and Rob Grier, the Briar Monk and the Boycott Monk...

This wonderful echo suddenly caught Hesta's full attention, and she hardly had any leisure to think about other issues.

Confusion of thoughts raced through Hesta's mind—an idea she would never have had before this morning; but after leaving Anna's study, Hesta suddenly realized that the whole thing had another possibility. .

In fact, people with the ability of mercury needles don't need to be mercury needles at all.

She doesn't even need to be human...

"Hesta!" Qianye's stern voice awakened Hesta suddenly, she raised her head blankly, her face pale.

"...don't scare me," Su Lei held Hesta's shoulder, "what's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine." Hesta replied dryly, "I just suddenly... thought about it."

Qianye looked at Si Lei with some displeasure: "Don't ask her for such things in the future, I took her on the boat for vacation, so what's the matter with you taking her to work overtime all the time."

"I need to hear Jane's thoughts," Si Lei replied, "Her perspective can be said to be very precious—"

"Then please distinguish the occasion clearly—"

"Officer Su Lei."

Following Hesta's sudden opening, Qianye and Si Lei fell silent for a moment.

"I don't think we need to worry too much." Hesta said softly.

"...how do you say it?" Si Lei asked.

"If we do nothing, maybe clues will fall from the sky."

"what?"

"We haven't figured out what the murderer is doing so far. The murderer may be more anxious than us about this." Hesta was silent for a moment, "Just... a personal experience."

……

When Li Ke returned to the room, Su Lei had already left, and only Chiba, who was processing some documents, and Hesta, who had just eaten, were left in the room.

Chiba looked very busy, and Hesta would glance at her from time to time—in the past few years, Hesta had never seen Miss Chiba do anything like this against the clock.

"You came back just in time." Qianye closed the computer, "I'm withdrawn, you wait for Si Lei to change shift at night."

"Will Su Lei really come? I just met her in Grüning's cabin." Li Ke shrugged slightly, "I think she is very busy now."

"It depends on her situation," Qianye glanced at his watch, "If she doesn't come, Ling will come to take your shift."

(End of this chapter)