Why it never ends

"Think about it! Otherwise, I'll come here to find you—"

"But I don't think you want to, or rather, you don't need to..." Anna gently scratched the hair on her forehead, "You don't care at all."

"Is this thing so complicated?" Lico dragged the chair and slid half a step towards Anna, "I had another question..."

"what?"

"The last voyage—the one mentioned in Robeau-Grillet's diary, when did it finally land?"

"...a few months."

"Should we not need that long?" Li Ke looked at Anna, "After all, there are not many people on this ship."

"You are very concerned about the end point of this voyage?"

"Of course..." Li Ge lightly tapped his finger on the table, "You belong to a god-man of unknown origin, and you will probably run away when you get off the boat; as for Chiba, she didn't show her face during the whole process, so after the fact, you will be chased by him." At most, she failed to fulfill her duty of rescuing civilians when she was responsible—but she came out with a mission, and as long as Bo Shanfu finally arrived in District [-] safely, the people on both sides would not embarrass her...

"Jane is different." The smile on Li Ke's face gradually faded, "Even if you kill all the passengers and soldiers on this ship, as long as Si Lei is still there, she will definitely explain what happened here Report it... AHgAs's independent investigation organization will not treat the killing on the ship as a game, and it's hard to say how much responsibility they will put on Jane's head."

Not far away, Putina opened a new bottle of absinthe. During the silence, the soft sound of the cork was very clear.

Putina took out two colanders engraved with repeated patterns, and sprinkled ice water on the two sugar cubes. The moment the water droplets fell into the absinthe, wisps of white mist emerged.

When the drinks were prepared, Putina suddenly raised her head, "I forgot to ask, both of you don't mind drinking ice, do you?"

Li Ke and Anna shook their heads at the same time, and took the wine glass over.

"That's really troublesome," Anna smiled, "I do have a surefire solution, but I don't know if you will take the exam or not..."

"Tell me?"

Anna raised her glass to Li Ke and lowered her voice, "Why don't you kill Si Lei before getting off the boat?"

Rico still had that faint smile, and she raised her glass to respond to Anna. The two wine glasses collided lightly, and the wine swayed in the glass.

"...Good idea," Li Ke whispered, her eyes fell on Anna, and she didn't leave for a long time, "Why didn't I think of it."

"You know, what Su Lei is holding—I mean about Hesta, but it's not the only one. Once Hesta's previous actions in Tanyi are discovered, the number of years she will face in prison , it probably started a hundred years ago..." Anna shook her glass, "These old and new debts will always be settled... Don't you think so?"

"Really." Li Ke nodded in agreement, "And then? When do you plan to dock?"

"I'm afraid it will be faster than expected."

"But there's just not a concrete statement, is there?"

Anna raised her glass to Rico again, but Rico just perfunctorily lifted the wine glass from the table.The two were still chatting, and the topic returned from the ship to Anna's hometown. There were unexpected laughs from time to time, but Putina, who was standing aside, always felt that there seemed to be something missing between the two of them.

About half an hour later, Rico began to look at his watch frequently, and then quickly left.

Anna watched Li Ke go away, her expression was a little gloomy.

"Are you all right?" Putina asked.

Anna came back to her senses, "Why do I look bad?"

Putina wiped her wine glass and said in a low voice, "Didn't you start looking for the proverbs for Ms. Rico when Ms. Hesta came last time? Why didn't you want to mention it when she came in person today... ..."

Anna didn't answer, she stared at the melting ice in the glass.

"Some things are really strange," Anna said in a low voice, "'It happens that those who seem to be the most intense idealists are the easiest to turn into complete non-idealism'... From cynicism to cynicism, it seems that there will always be only A thin line."

Putina was thoughtful, "...Did you say Ms. Rico?"

Anna lowered her eyes.

"It's also Chiba."

……

In the corridor on the fifth floor, five men clasped their hands, put them on the back of their necks, and squatted in the corner of the wall.

They all had more or less exposed wounds, and one of them was still bleeding and looked very weak.

Hesta's wheelchair has been smashed, and the fallen parts and deformed frame are like a pile of scrap iron, falling not far behind her.

"Let me ask you one last time, where is Fayence now?"

"...Don't think about it, no one will say it." The man squatting on the far left replied in a low voice, "Call for a new adjudicator election as soon as possible, you don't deserve to sit in this position—"

Before the man finished speaking, Hesta kicked him over.She stepped on the man's neck, and the hard and uneven soles immediately made the man's face turn red.

"Jane..." Su Lei called out in a low voice—it is really easy to kill someone if you are not careful in this posture.

Hesta relaxed slightly, "...I recognize you, you are the one who insisted not to read the "Detailed Rules" from the beginning."

The man laughed, and blood slowly seeped down the corner of his mouth.

"It's true that we didn't react fast enough, but... it wasn't too late either."

"Really," Hesta smiled, "Tell me, what did you all react to?"

"All of this...everything on board is a conspiracy," the man tried his best to turn his head, trying to give Hesta a shocking gaze with his red eyes, "From the rules on paper, to the executors, and then As for the few of you...the so-called adjudicators...none of them are really on our side."

"Who says we're not on your side?" Hesta said coldly, "Who is Officer Su Lei running around for these days?"

The man tried to find Su Lei's position in his sight, but as soon as he moved, Hesta stepped on the ground again, his chest hit the ground hard, and he seemed to hear the slight cracking sound between the bones.

Su Lei took a step forward, "Tell me first, why did you want to ambush us—and use Jacqueline as bait!"

"Hi, Officer Su Lei..." The man's voice was weaker, "I'm sorry, I don't want to do such a thing, I actually respect you very much, you are a good woman—"

"Don't talk about that!" Si Lei snapped, "It's only a matter of time before we catch Fayence, and now make it clear that you are actively cooperating, and when Fayence is caught—"

"Then kill me." The man said in a deep voice, "After I die, my name will be written among brothers..."