Why it never ends

Rico propped her chin with her hands, rubbing her cheeks with her ring finger and little finger, thinking about Hesta's conclusion, "It can't be said to be a privilege, but..."

"And," Su Lei said in a low voice, "how do you distinguish between strong and weak? What is your definition of strong?"

Rico's brows furrowed even deeper.

After a while, she raised her hands: "It's so complicated...can I drop this topic?"

There was a brief silence in the room.

"I seem to understand what you're talking about," Hester took over, "asking for help means speaking up, and speaking up means that the person asking for help has to bear the consequences of self-exposure, and a person who can bear the consequences is often not at a disadvantage , even if her situation is indeed very difficult, she is still... a person who can act."

Li Ke happily said "Yes", she nodded, "Yes, that's what I mean."

Su Lei lowered his eyes slightly, "Some things are true, and opening your mouth means risk."

"You think they don't know how to ask for help," Hesta looked forward, and his brows gradually frowned, "Actually, they are using silence to protect themselves, because the situation is so precarious that they can't even bear the risk of asking for help."

"……simple?"

Hesta blinked and stretched out his hand to Si Lei. Su Lei quickly understood Hesta's meaning and handed over the blue brooch.

Hesta looked at the brooch in his palm.

"Because asking for help is the behavior of the strong, so don't worry that asking for help will make you look weak." Hesta tilted his head slightly, as if asking softly, or talking to himself, "This is right Who said that?"

Rico didn't understand Hesta's meaning, "...a person who doesn't want to look weak?"

Hesta was silent.

"Would you like to help you not go back?" Si Lei asked.

"Forget it," Hesta whispered, "No need."

She put the brooch next to the alarm clock on the bedside table, looking a little disappointed.

The phone in the room came to mind at this moment, Li Ke got up to answer it, and Su Lei looked at Hesta, "When do you plan to read the "Guide"?"

"After dinner," Hesta lay back on the bed again, she closed her eyes, "I'm still a little sleepy, let's go to sleep."

……

At nine o'clock in the evening, the three of them cleaned up their makeshift dining table together. The exhaust system in the room was pushed to the maximum gear, and the aroma of food in the air was fading rapidly.

Li Ke went to the safe to enter the password, and quickly took out the "Guide" contained in a kraft paper file bag.

Si Lei was sitting upright in her chair, her eyes followed the things in Li Ge's hands until the portfolio was placed on the table.

Su Lei waited for a while, but Hesta just stared at the paper bag, not knowing what to think.

"Do you need me to take it apart for you?" Su Lei asked.

"No," Hesta replied.

Hesta picked up the paper bag with his left hand, fixed it on his chest with his right arm, then quickly untied the white cotton thread wrapped around the mouth of the bag with his left hand, and dumped the documents inside onto the table.

An old white card then fell, hit the corner of the table first, then turned over and fell at Lico's feet.

Li Ke leaned over to pick it up. As soon as she got started, she found that the texture of this card was very special. It was as thin as paper and felt like glass. It's not like normal plastic at all - it's much heavier than plastic.

"...a ferry ticket?" Li Ke glanced at the text on the card, "Is this a ferry ticket?"

Hesta and Su Lei looked sideways at the same time. Under the light, this white card shone brightly, like the nacre on the inner wall of a shell. The big black title on it was very clear:
**Port of Leoparden·“Supreme Tribute” Cruise Ship Boarding Card·Fourth Ship**
**Basic Port of Leopden - Vilyuchinsky Royal Seaport**
**15/05/3647 Embarkation**
**Seat number S_117SF**
**Limited to take the passenger ship on the same day, lost will not be replaced, please keep it properly**
Rico pointed to the headline, "Do you know where Raleigh Puden is?"

"I don't know..." Hesta looked at Su Lei, "Where is Officer Su Lei?"

"I'm not sure," Su Lei frowned and thought deeply, "I have the impression that there seems to be an abandoned town with this name in the area around the port of Havre. I saw it on an old map before... It should have disappeared a long time ago. Let's live."

"Is it such a coincidence?" Rico put his arms in his arms, "Havre port, we set off from there, and then the end of our voyage is also to Vilyuchinsky. But I'm sure there must be no royals in Vyborg." Seaport, how can there be a port with this name now—”

"This year is 4632, isn't it?" Hesta said suddenly.

"That's right," Li Ke looked at her strangely, "Why did you even forget this?"

"No," Hesta pointed at the ticket, "Then what's the matter with this date, is it printed wrong?"

Su Lei and Li Ge looked at the number Hesta pointed to at the same time, and they realized that the year on the ticket read "3647".

The three were silent at the same time.

3647.

4632.

That's about 1000 years from now...

The last two digits of the current year number are smaller than the last two digits of the number on the ticket. If the 3 in the thousands digit is printed incorrectly, are the following numbers also printed incorrectly?
"The year 3647, is that... the 'Golden Age'? Li Ke still hadn't recovered from the shock, she stared straight at the table with her eyes, and after a while, she whispered again, "Is this a "Golden Age" ticket?" "

Hesta turned the ticket over without saying a word, and a line of eye-catching red handwriting came into view:

** Return at any cost!Return immediately!Close to shore!This sea area is not the original route! **
"This line," Li Ke immediately responded, "isn't this the piece of paper we picked up in the Air Navigation Museum that day? I remember this is what was printed on that piece of paper."

"Yes," said Hesta softly, "maybe... this is the original?"

The three of them looked at the signature at the same time.The handwriting of the few short lines above was already very scribbled, and they could barely figure out the meaning of each word based on the context, while the inscription in the lower right corner was even more confusing, like a heavenly scripture.

... It can be seen that the person who left it at the beginning wrote in such an urgent and flustered situation.

"What the hell is this writing?" Li Ke looked left and right for a long time, "it looks like a sheep's head when you look at it, but it looks like a child fishing when you turn it upside down..."

Su Lei was also confused, she stared at the signature without moving.

"...Is the initial letter R?" Su Lei whispered, "Is it R?"

A thought flashed in Hesta's mind.

A terrifying conjecture came to mind.

Looking at the ticket again, Hesta immediately recognized the name on the ticket.

She stretched out her index finger and middle finger, tapping the face of the ticket lightly:

"...Robogrillet."