Why it never ends

Hesta solemnly took the thin black volume.

"Yes, certainly."

……

Back in the room again, both Su Lei and Li Ke sat down tiredly.

Hesta looked at the thin book in her arms in a daze for a moment, but did not flip through it. After a while, she raised her head and looked at Lico, "What's wrong with you this morning? Why are you so injured? Now you can Did you say it?"

Li Ke yawned and opened his eyes, "...Someone attacked me last night."

"Then you still look like you don't care?" Si Lei looked at her suspiciously, "Is it serious?"

"Didn't they all say that people almost disappeared? How could it not be serious?" Li Ke turned sideways on the bed, "Since I left this room early this morning, several people have been following me. I didn't think too much at first. Seriously, but when they were about to reach Chiba's room, they suddenly made a collective attack."

"Are these people ordinary people or—"

"It should be the same group of guests and crew as last night's banquet," Li Ke replied, "and their movements are faster and their attacks are more aggressive... My situation at the time was no longer suitable for combat, and I must find a safe place as soon as possible. place to rest, so I was really taken aback by this sudden situation."

"Uh...then she knew last night and registered this morning." Li Ke didn't understand the reason for Su Lei's sudden excitement at the moment, "doesn't it affect anything?"

"It's not her." Li Ge replied very positively, "If it's Qianye, I'll recognize it right away—"

Su Lei touched his forehead.

"Then... did Helen also think of this, and that's why she doesn't want to go with us?"

"Anna." Zero's voice came from the headset, "Bernhard is leading someone to disassemble the elevator, and seems to be planning to visit our deck."

"According to this, Su Lei should have been allowed to go to the banquet alone last night," Li Ke said. "She might be less risky if she went alone, but walking with me will increase the level of danger she encounters?"

"Look at the "Detailed Rules." Hesta put the booklet on the table, "maybe the answer is in it."

"Maybe the two of you were able to escape from the sky last night because it was the result of planning - the thrill is because this level is set according to the limits of the two of you, so successful escape is a high probability event.

"It all makes sense," Li Ke looked at Si Lei, "After yesterday's morning meeting, the reason why you didn't find the names of Helen and Gustav on the second floor was because the list hadn't been synchronized at that time. ——She should have taken people to the infirmary to register before the morning meeting."

"What's wrong?"

Si Lei let out a low moan, and just as Li Ke was about to turn the page, she suddenly pressed her hand.

"There are not many people on this ship who can successfully attack you... Chiba is one of them?"

Hesta and Rico finally reacted.

"Ok?"

"It's her?" Si Lei murmured for a while, "But how do you know—"

"...You mean, the person who attacked you from behind wasn't one of the nine people who attacked you in the first place?"

"At the same time, once the plan goes wrong and the traps they set in advance exceed your upper limit, an evacuation mechanism will be triggered immediately to ensure your personal safety."

"No hurry." Li Ke pressed Si Lei's neck, "The man who strangled me from behind didn't do anything to me. This man just took off my two earrings and threw them into the sea. Then, the nine men who had been chasing me stopped."

"Oh!" Li Ke clapped his hands suddenly, "In other words, the movements are indeed a bit similar."

Anna wore glasses, and calmly turned the pages of the book in her hand.

"...It's also very strange, I probably don't know it."

"Why would she do this?"

"Yes, this person is here to save me." Li Ge replied, "Because I was already in the safe room when I woke up again, and the wounds on my body had been treated... But I can't remember last night What happened in the end, anyway, there is no pain."

Su Lei instantly realized the danger, "That is to say, even if we leave the banquet safely, it does not mean that we are completely safe. If we walk around in the ship in the middle of the night, we may still be attacked."

"Helen knew about this rule the night before, and she told Tacia about it, do you remember?" Si Lei looked into the eyes of the other two, "She didn't know about it this morning!"

Turning over the empty title page, the three of them saw the same risk warning as the opening chapter of the "Detailed Rules".And the "rule of three" that Helen knew in advance is at the beginning of the chapter.

"It should be..." Hesta wanted to say "Zero" at first, but when it came to his lips, he changed his words again, "The person we fought against near the power room."

"You don't have the slightest impression of the person who restrained you from behind?" Su Lei asked, "What about the smell? If that person was very close to you at that time, you should have smelled something, right?"

"I was hit by them a few times, and I was a little confused... Actually, if it was really a place where chelates are rampant, I shouldn't let myself be left alone in that situation," Li Ke put his hands behind his head and looked at Gao "Later, we went from the deck to the viewing platform outside. There were nine people who attacked me, none of whom were familiar."

"Yeah." Li Ke nodded, "It's possible."

"It didn't work," Li Ge corrected again, "I shouldn't be able to escape, because I was strangled by a person from behind."

"It must be," said Hesta, holding her face. "There will be no one else but her."

Si Lei's heart ached when he heard that, "...then how did you manage to escape in the end?"

"Then it can basically be ruled out that it's Chiba?"

"And then?" Hesta asked with concern.

Hesta was silent for a moment, "...I have a guess."

"wrong."

"It's impossible!" Su Lei said in a deep voice, "Because learning the rules must happen after registering as a guardian—otherwise where would she know the guardian's rules?
"This version of the rules can only be obtained by risk passengers and their guardians," Su Lei continued, "and the nurses in the medical room just said that one day risk passengers are lifelong risk passengers—do you understand what this means?"

"That is to say... Helen has long been the guardian of a certain passenger on the ship?"

Su Lei walked to the phone, "Then we have to give Helen a call."

"Why do you think of her..."

……

"Leave him alone, let him tear it down."

"Helen seems to be planning to bring Gustav to the dinner tonight."

"...Is that the little boy that Su Lei saved?"

"Correct."

"She's still very smart." Anna moved her glasses slightly, "I can tell at a glance that there is a real iron law on this ship."