Why it never ends

Chapter 45 The White Ship

On this day, by the time Chiba and Hesta left the "White Ship" and entered the "Bang Bang Club", it was already more than half an hour later than expected.

Hesta noticed that there was also a simple world map on the wall here. Taking advantage of Chiba's registration information, she began to search for the location of "Viluchinsky" on the map.

At first, she looked around the Askia Wasteland, but found nothing, so Hesta then enlarged the scope to the entire third area, but still couldn't find it.

She had to start from the left end of the map and look at it bit by bit. Finally, she found her target - at the easternmost end of District [-], there was a piece of land extending downwards out of the sea like a long beak. The middle end of the beak is marked "Viluchinsky" in writing.

Between Askia and Vilyuchinsky, there is an entire [-]th district plus half of the third district—this distance of nearly a thousand kilometers already accounts for almost one-third of the entire map.

No wonder Mrs. Daria said that she has not been able to go back for more than ten years...

This is really too far.

……

At night, Chiba sent Hesta back to the base. On the way, Hesta told Chiba about the confrontation between himself and Sean a few days ago.To her surprise, Qianye didn't seem to be happy for her.

"Miss Chiba, what do you think of this way of handling it?"

Chiba pursed her lips, "...very good."

"I think I can procrastinate like this first." Hesta said softly, "Next I plan to talk to Calvin, he doesn't seem as unreasonable as Sean, if I can get his help, I will Believe that things will get better."

"What can he help you with?" Qianye asked lightly.

"Give me some warning?" Hesta replied, "Since their brothers are always inseparable, he must be the person who is most familiar with Sean's state. If I have both Liz and Calvin who is familiar with Sean, Is it better anyway?"

On the dimly lit road, another car drove head-on, the light and shadow of the headlights illuminated Chiba's face, and then quickly dimmed.

Hesta saw Chiba lost in thought, as if pondering some difficult problem.

"Is there something, I haven't thought about it enough?"

"No," Qianye said slowly, "It just... makes things more complicated."

Back at the apartment, Hesta pushed open the door of 403, the room was pitch black, and Turan and Liz were not there at the moment.

Hesta guessed that they might be in the gymnasium or library on the second floor, and she put the desserts brought back from the white steamer into the refrigerator.

The warm orange light in the refrigerator shone on her face, and she was a little dazed looking at the strawberry tips on the fruit tart.

Until now, she hadn't figured out exactly what the "complexity" Chiba was referring to—no matter from which point of view, she chose the solution with a lower cost.

Perhaps Ms. Chiba felt that it would be better to teach Sean a lesson?

But to devise an ingenious plan and to interrupt his bullet time just right with a gun, the complexity is only higher.

Hesta closed the refrigerator door.

Maybe...Miss Chiba has such a personality.

She had sent the pistol in silently before, and she didn't say what she was going to do when they met again. She didn't express her thoughts until she followed her in the shooting range with live ammunition for the first time. Come.

For Ms. Chiba, there is probably a line between "communicable" and "non-communicable". Only when she feels that the other party has stepped into the category of "communicable" will she speak her mind.

If so, then we can only wait.

About half an hour later, there were footsteps outside the door, and Liz and Turan entered the door one after the other.

The two smelled the unusual buttery aroma in the air almost immediately, and Turan saw the strange paper bag next to the refrigerator.

Hesta poked his head out from his room, "I brought some snacks from the city center, do you want to eat?"

……

On the table in the living room, three people sat in a row around the big white square table, and Liz sat in the middle. She carefully removed the red ribbon on the carton, and inside were four small square cakes that were put together.

Turan and Liz sighed at the same time—since they came to the base, they had almost forgotten the taste of cream cake.

The two ate heartily, and when there was only the last bit left, they felt a little bit reluctant.

"The previous few missions were all directly to the destination. They didn't give us reserve time to hang out at all," Liz said, "I have only been to the city center once so far——I still sat in the car every other time. Looking through dark gray glass."

"I really want to go out and have a look." Turan bit the metal fork and sighed softly, "I almost forgot what it looked like outside."

Hesta really didn't expect the two to stay in the base for two years.

"Essentially, the base does not belong to Tanyi City, nor does it belong to the third district. When you step out of the base, it is equivalent to walking from one administrative district to another—do you understand that?" Liz explained ,

"Regular mercury needles enjoy a certain degree of regional freedom, so they can come and go in some large areas at will, but if our reserves want to go out, there must be a reasonable reason," Turan added, "like internship tasks, Visiting relatives--"

"Let's not talk about that...I envy you." Liz looked at Hesta, "When will you go out next time, I have to figure it out."

"It doesn't look at me, but at Miss Chiba's time," Hesta replied, "It may be Monday morning, Wednesday morning, Thursday afternoon, Friday morning, and any time of the day on Saturday and Sunday."

Turan lay on the table, looking at the empty cake box, "What's the name of this store? I'll go and have a look next time I have a chance."

"White steamer," answered Hesta.

Liz's eyes widened a little, and she repeated the word softly, as if meeting a dear friend who had reunited after a long time, "Where is the boss from?"

"Vilyuchinsky Wasteland, over there in the [-]th district," Hesta replied. "The landlady's name is Mrs. Darya, and she also told me about Askia."

Liz let out a heartfelt sigh—this sigh was full of surprise and satisfaction, Liz had a smile on her face, and the coincidence brought by fate suddenly fell on top of her head like an unexpected gift.

"Do you know?"

Liz shook her head, "I probably don't know him."

Looking at Liz's changing expression, Turan couldn't help being curious: "White steamer...is there any allusion?"

"It's that song."

Liz hummed softly—Hester quickly recognized that it was an Askia ditty that Liz had sung when Liz took her to learn the battle song of the mercury needle a few weeks ago.

Liz was playing the accordion that day, and under the soft morning sun, she sang softly in a language that others could not understand:

Is there a river wider than yours, Enese?
Is there any land kinder than thee, Enese?
Is there a greater misery than yours, Enese?
Is there any free will than yours, Enese? (1)

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(1) Quoted from the first volume of "White Ship".Enesi means "Mother River".

(End of this chapter)