Why it never ends

Chapter 92 Reunion

The car that picked up Hesta stopped in an open space not far from St. Anne's Monastery.

Where the main church was originally located, a four-meter-high memorial monument to the nun has been built now. Under the slightly gloomy sky, it presents a moist gray-black color like a reef.

Below the stone statue, there are golden numbers etched on the same gray and black stone surface: 19-03-4623
Hesta stopped under the stele of the holy nun, and his eyes slowly moved up from the date numbers until they met the lowered eyes of the stone statue.

Only one year has passed, except for a few broken wells not far away, traces of the fire can still be seen, and everything here is covered by lush vegetation in spring.

Hesta pushed through the grass and walked deeper into the monastery, and soon found a tomb—this was specially erected by her before training last year, but no one was buried under the stone slab, only two crosses and a silver key .

On this day, she put a bouquet of flowers in front of the monument, and spent more than two hours weeding, wiping the tombstone, and then stood in front of the monument for a long time.

"I am back."

Hesta whispered.

"Goodbye."

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In October 4624, Turan and Calvin left Tanyi's reserve base.

Turan successfully applied for the quota of the joint training program of AHgAs-First and Third Districts that year, and went to study at the School of Medicine of Arendre University in the first district.

Calvin was incorporated into the reserve combat force, and officially participated in the chelate annihilation operation in the wilderness in the northwest of the third district in December of that year, with excellent results.

In October 4625, Lico left the base and was incorporated into the reserve combat force.

In February of the following year, Li and his team encountered a chelate attack on the way of patrolling the wasteland. Li Ge successfully predicted the fact that the chelate tide broke out in the nearby wasteland when he lost contact with the home team, and promptly sent a report to the nearby work site. He sounded the alarm, which not only minimized the casualties of the team, but also won valuable combat preparation time for the livable border area. He was awarded the Third District Freedom Medal, becoming the youngest person to receive this medal.

In July 4626, the defense line of the southern livable area was revived, and the coalition government of the third district rewarded some members who performed outstandingly in their positions. special permissions.

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In the spring of 4627, on a rainy morning, Liz quickly jumped off the train at the station with a small suitcase.

She just came back from a business trip in a neighboring province, and today and tomorrow are her days off, but Liz was in a hurry, apparently not feeling comfortable on vacation.

All this is because Turan and Lico will arrive in Wulian by car at eleven o'clock this morning, and they will stay here for three days-this is the first meeting of the three since the bases were separated in 4623 .

The only regret is that Hesta couldn't come, she didn't explain the reason, and the remaining three people tacitly didn't ask.

From the autumn of 4623 to now, there are two people in the base who have not appeared on the graduation list, and Jane is one of them.

There are always arrangements for the base, and if Jane doesn’t take the initiative to mention it, it must be because she can’t say it either.

Liz returned to the office by car, which was her habit of business trips-on the first day back to the city, even if it was a holiday, she would go back to the office first, so as to quickly deal with some important but not urgent backlog tasks.

At 7:30 in the morning, Liz walked into the office. She put two croissants wrapped in paper and a cup of coffee on the table, and looked up at the time.

Very good, she can sit here until 10:15, these two hours are enough for her to deal with a lot of things, after that, she can go out to pick up Turan and Rico.

At 7:45, a call came into Liz's office. She was a little surprised, but she answered it quickly.

"Hello. Who is this?"

"Hello! Lieutenant Donna! This is the Security Section! You have a visitor!"

Liz frowned, "Visitor? Who?"

"It's a lady, I'd like to see you."

"Her name?"

"Uh... She said it's inconvenient to tell me."

"Then ask her to make an appointment for me the morning after tomorrow. Today is my holiday and I won't see any visitors."

After all, Liz hung up the phone.

However, not long after, the phone rang again.

"Hello?"

"Hi Lieutenant! She said she must see you today or she won't go."

"Not leaving?" Liz narrowed her eyes suspiciously, "What... does she look like?"

"Black hair, dark eyes, uh, long hair, glasses, and—"

"I see. If she won't go, please do me a favor and drive her out."

Liz hung up the phone again.

The phone didn't ring again, but soon, Liz heard the footsteps of the two in the corridor outside - obviously, with the habits of other staff here, they couldn't rush to work before eight o'clock.

Carefully identify the footsteps, one of them should be the big leather shoes of the security guard downstairs, and the other is obviously the unexpected visitor today.

This kind of situation is not uncommon in Wulian. Although it is theoretically a place where civil servants work and idlers are not allowed to enter, in fact, the bureaucrats do not regard this place as part of the municipal system, so many rules and regulations are implemented. If it is so-so, no one will hold it accountable.

As long as the visitor is well-dressed, has a famous name, and looks like a person of status, then the security department here will rarely stop him.

Normally, it would be more appropriate to leave this situation to the secretary to deal with - but the secretaries are not at work at the moment.

Soon, there was a knock on the door outside.

Liz didn't stop writing at her desk, and she didn't raise her head: "Please come in."

The door was opened from the outside, but no one spoke, and the other party didn't seem to step into the office.

"Sergeant Donna...no, Lieutenant, long time no see."

This voice made Liz feel a little strange, but amidst the strangeness, there was also a little inexplicable familiarity.

And she said "Long time no see"...

Liz raised her head, even though the appearance of the person in front of her was completely different from the old person she had imagined when she first saw the person coming, Liz still recognized her at a glance.

This person is wearing a high-necked black dress, holding a flower umbrella in his hand, and has a tall and straight figure.

For some reason, her eyes changed from blue to black, and her hair color also completely changed, but those eyes were still as bright and alert as before, always carrying a little vigilance for the surrounding things and things.

I hadn't seen her for four years, but her stature suddenly jumped up, and the thin little girl in my memory was gone. At this moment, she was like a poplar tree, stretching its branches in the spring rain, and every leaf was full of energy.

Liz stood up immediately, and quickly walked towards the woman standing at the door. She almost bit the word "Jane" firmly in her mouth, so she didn't yell out.

"Eureka, I'm Eureka." Hesta held out his hand to Liz, "It's nice to see you again, Lieutenant Donna."

(End of this chapter)