Why it never ends

Chapter 386

The cat didn't move.

In the silence, Agnes gradually felt some discomfort. The white cat's eyes seemed particularly indifferent and arrogant. Even though she knew cats were always like this, it still caused her displeasure.

"The Duke."

A strange female voice came from outside the door, and Agnes immediately hid in the darkness, her breathing became tight again—what "Duke"?Is there anyone else in this theater?
The cat meowed at this moment.

A familiar black figure stepped into the backstage door, and Agnes quickly recognized the little girl next to Anna. She walked up to the white cat and bent over to pick it up.

"Are you here, Duke?" the girl murmured, "Stop running around all the time."

Agnes' palms were already sweating—what the hell, it turned out that "Duke" was the cat's name...

She aimed the gun at the girl's back.

—Who knows if the conversation with Mr. Gobelin was overheard by this person?

The girl holding the cat in the dark seemed to be unaware of all this, she turned and walked towards the exit, Agnes' muzzle followed her back all the way, Agnes was almost breathless during the sharp struggle , she felt dizzy for a while, and the blue light in front of her eyes was like a wave of the tide.

Reason told her that the person must be dealt with here, but for some reason, the hand holding the trigger just couldn't be pressed down.

A few seconds later, the girl holding the cat disappeared at the door.

Agnes could hear her evenly paced footsteps coming from the direction of the theater, the sound gradually faded away, and the people disappeared.

In the backstage room, Agnes slowly squatted down. She recalled what happened just now in a distraught state. Sweat rolled down her forehead. She didn't know whether she had made a weak decision, and now she regretted it a little. .

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"...It's so small, here." Hesta looked at the exhibition hall of the Shengming, "It's small and empty, I thought there would be a lot of things here."

"It's still small? Isn't this the size of an ordinary museum?" Li Ke raised his head and estimated the height of the floors here. "This place is at least as high as three of our rooms."

Hesta didn't answer - if compared with the cabin room, this place is of course very spacious, but compared with Anna's "luggage room", the size of this place is not half of that there.

There are some portraits and landscape paintings hanging on both sides of the aisle, and there are also gifts displayed in the glass showcases. Most of them come from some dignitaries and wealthy people, and some names are even slightly familiar to Hesta and Rico.

When they walked to the middle of the exhibition hall, they saw that a central open space had been specially opened up to display a huge group photo. Lico and Hesta stepped forward to take a closer look. There were about 800 people in the photo, and they stood energetically. A port, staring intently at the camera, everyone laughing.

Hesta looked at it for a while, "...these are the passengers who participated in the rescue incident in the 'No.12 waiting room'."

"Well, yes." Li Ke looked away from the introduction board on the side, "It's basically the same as what Ms. Mantel said."

Hesta pushed the wheelchair and moved forward an inch, "...they are all amazing people."

"Amazing," Anna's voice suddenly came from the front, "Isn't this also a tyranny of the majority against the minority?"

Hesta frowned slightly, "What?"

"The result of the secret ballot was 562 : 17, that is to say, there were still 17 people on board the 'Shengming' who objected to allowing passengers from the epidemic area to board." Anna looked at the text on the introduction board, "Among the passengers in the epidemic area Well, it's lucky that no one gets chelation—but what if someone does, and what if something happens after boarding and the situation gets out of hand?"

"Obviously, that would be another story," Anna continued, "Once upon a time, there were seventeen sane people on this ship who tried to prevent a disaster from happening, but everyone forcibly ignored them, causing a disaster. Huge casualties... Do you think this kind of accident is enough to be included in your mercury needle's large-scale accident table?"

"Then do you have a better solution?" Hesta asked, "while saving the lives of the passengers in the epidemic area and the passengers on board."

"No."

Hesta glanced at Anna and said nothing.

"Look at your expression now," Anna laughed, "You want to say, shut up if I can't come up with a better way, don't you?"

"...I didn't say that."

"Then do you think so?"

"It's hard to consider everyone in any decision, and everything has a price," Hesta looked at the group photo, "Instead, I think your assumptions make these people's decisions more noble-even in difficult times, there are still Some are willing to take risks to rescue others."

"Is it courage, or blind obedience?"

"What do you mean?"

"If passengers from the epidemic area boarded the No. 12 waiting room and found that some of them were indeed infected with chelation disease, how many of the more than 500 passengers would quickly turn against the vote? The attitude of the crew and the crowd How much influence did the attitude of the opinion leaders in the process play in this process? Did these people truthfully and completely explain the consequences of this choice to everyone?
"Don't forget, Jane, how many people in Habitable Land have completely lost their memory of chelation disease..." Anna's voice suddenly became very soft, "The passengers on the ship really fully understand the risks they are about to take ?"

Hesta only felt a stagnation in her chest, and she looked at the group photo in front of her again—the sun was shining on everyone's bright smiles, everyone stood together, and the joy of remaining alive after the catastrophe connected everyone closely.

"...I'm glad you're not on that ship, Ana."

Anna laughed even more happily, "Is there any way, sometimes people can only choose between a bad option and an even worse option... Ignorance, on the contrary, brings the best results."

Rico carefully looked at Hesta and Anna, and in the sudden silence, she slowly raised her hand: "It's seven twenty friends, I bet it's already dark outside."

Ana turns her electric wheelchair again.

Near the exit, Hesta saw an ivory bust of a woman hanging on a dark blue velvet curtain wall.It was an adult woman in palla, and the four chains flew around her shoulders to imprison her, but she didn't realize it.

She just closed her eyes docilely, with a peaceful expression, as if immersed in a beautiful sleep.

"The figurehead." Anna looked up at the sculpture, "Since the Iron Age, sailors have liked to fix some totems or statues on the bow of the ship in order to obtain blessings. It is the soul of a ship and also symbolizes the soul of the voyager. will."

(End of this chapter)