Why it never ends

"...Okay, thank you."

"Are you tired?"

"No." Hesta whispered, "Is it very far?"

"Not far, about 10 minutes." Yu Xuekun replied, "Let's sleep in the car."

The car drove onto the street in the early morning. Even though they were far away from the workstation at this moment, white smoke was still rising from the block where the fierce fighting took place last night.

Smoke rose slowly in the windless sky, visible across the city.

On the driveway, Yu Xuekun looked into the rearview mirror from time to time, and Hesta noticed the gaze, and looked straight into the other's eyes in the mirror.

Their eyes met again, and Yu Xuekun smiled awkwardly, "Sorry."

"It's okay, what's the matter?"

"Is it convenient to ask?" Yu Xuekun pinched the steering wheel with both hands, "Who is this person you are looking for, this 'Eucalyptus'?"

"Friend," replied Hesta.

"But Chiba told me, you grew up in the third district, and you rarely came to the fourteenth district when you were performing missions. How did you know each other?"

"...I just met these two days." Hesta turned his head and looked at Yu Xuekun's face, "Are you familiar with Miss Qianye?"

"It's hard to say, I won't see her once in 800 years," Yu Xuekun laughed, "but she is often instigated by her to do this and that."

Hesta laughed, "It sounds like Miss Chiba trusts you a lot."

"Yes," Yu Xuekun shrugged lightly, "otherwise I wouldn't be able to hand you over to me."

The two were silent for a moment.

Hesta looked ahead and suddenly asked, "It was indeed chelates that haunted the workstation last night, wasn't it?"

"Are you asking me?" Yu Xuekun was obviously a little surprised, "Aren't you the one who fought against them last night?"

"Just asking," Hesta whispered, "If it's a chelate, then the residents here will move next—"

"We have not moved here for a long time. Chelation disease is not terrible. The incubation period is so long, and the latent symptoms are so obvious. We just need to do a good job of disinfecting and observation in the follow-up," Yu Xuekun replied, "The third district is still there. Curbing chelation with old-fashioned isolation?"

"Yes." Hesta replied, "This is more thorough."

"... Ha, this method is not suitable for District [-]," Yu Xuekun laughed, "You can't let a person from District [-] keep giving up land, especially when that piece of land is her hometown."

Hesta glanced in Yu Xuekun's direction, "What does your scope of work roughly include?"

"What do you mean, do you mean my current job content or—"

"No," Hesta's voice was a little softer, "it's what I can find you about."

"In theory," Yu Xuekun smiled, "anything."

Hearing this answer, Hesta frowned instead, "...Really."

"...But actually, it doesn't mean that I can solve all the problems for you," Yu Xuekun adjusted the steering wheel and turned a corner, "It just means that no matter what the problem is, you can bring it to me and talk about it, and then Let's see how to fix it - you can think of me as your counselor on base.

"But I'm not the same as them. I'm not responsible to any organization except you and Chiba. So when necessary, I may leak the content of our conversation to Chiba, but other than that, there will be no fourth party." I personally know what we talked about...you can rest assured to leave the confusion you encountered to me." Yu Xuekun glanced at Hesta again, "So you can understand?"

"Probably." Hesta looked out the window again, "but I don't think I need any special help."

"What is your language level now? How much have you learned in the past month?" Yu Xuekun asked, "Can you go shopping alone?"

"...can buy things." Hesta replied in a low voice, "but it doesn't depend on language."

"Didn't Chiba find you a language teacher on board?"

Hesta shook his head.

"Then you have been off the ship for more than a month, do you have an accompanying interpreter?"

Hesta continued to shake his head.

"... Qianye just threw you down like that?"

Just as Hesta was about to refute, Yu Xuekun threw a small black box towards her, and she caught it with one hand.

"What is this?" Hesta asked.

"Translator." Yu Xuekun replied, "The accuracy rate is mediocre, but it should be enough for daily life. You don't have to worry too much about language issues. Most people in Orange Town can speak a little common language."

While the two were chatting, Yu Xuekun parked the car in a parking space on the side of the road.

Hesta got out of the car from the other side, and when she was about to leave, she suddenly found that the parking space was very precisely locked—she was concentrating on studying the translator in her hand just now, but she didn't realize that the front and rear private cars almost passed the cars on the ground The line fits exactly against the outline of Yu Xuekun's car.

"Come on?" Yu Xuekun stood at the entrance of the corridor and waved to Hesta, "On the third floor."

Hesta hurried after him.

……

This is a small apartment with two bedrooms and one living room. All the furniture in the living room has been covered with white cloth. It looks like it has been deserted for a long time, but there is no dust on the cloth.

"I was transferred to Orange Town the year before last, but I have to come back from time to time... The house here has been kept." Yu Xuekun took out two pairs of the same black cotton slippers from the shoe cabinet in the entrance, "But usually no one I’m going to live, I’ll tidy up the living room and the bedroom.”

Hesta followed her all the way to the study, opened the door, turned on the light, and saw a small square room in front of her.At first glance, the whole room is very clean and pure, but upon closer inspection, the room is actually full of things—just like the house that Miss Valenti rented in the province of Nia, every corner of the place is filled with large and small objects. Fill it to the brim.

The difference from Miss Valenti's is that in Yu Xuekun's study, except for the light yellow light, most of the things here are white and green in different shades.

A narrow and long wooden table separates the third of the room by the window. The tablecloth is painted with layers of monstera, and the computer and keyboard are pressed on it.A small red alarm clock stands next to the mouse, which looks out of place compared with everything around it.

Yu Xuekun glanced at the low sofa next to the wooden table, "Sit?"

Hesta didn't answer, she walked slowly along the cabinet at hand, her gaze quickly fell on a turtle shell.

"...I've seen this," Hesta pointed to the tortoise shell and the doily with gossip under it, "for divination?"

"interested in you?"

Hesta shook his head, "Someone did the calculation for me before, although I didn't use this prop."

"Where?"

"Near Viborg."

"That's normal," Yu Xuekun turned on the computer, "People from the South Fourteenth District often go there to climb mountains on vacation... or something."