Why it never ends

Chapter 96 Farewell
A month later, Hesta, who had completed the patrol mission on the southern border of the third district, learned of Liz's death. Neither of them believed a word of the conclusion given by the police.

Not to mention how the mercury needle, whose audio-visual perception has been greatly enhanced after entering the bullet time, can't even detect an enemy nearby, not to mention that it's not someone else but Liz. An almost ridiculous error.

And in the past four years, Liz's determined changes in Wulian have shattered the comfortable life of many people. Compared with accidents, they are more willing to believe that this is a deliberate murder against Liz personally, and there must be something wrong in it. Telling conspiracy.

After speaking with the two on the phone and reading all the relevant documents sent by Turan and Rico word by word, Hesta sat alone at the table in a daze. Like Lan and Rico, great rage gushes out after a heartbreaking grief.

She just felt dazed, and her mind was sometimes light and sometimes heavy, as if she was in an unreal dream.

The morning when she parted with Liz still flashed in her mind. She remembered the hug at the time of parting, Liz's hearty laughter, the dark and shady corridor outside Liz's office, and after opening the door, with her old friend. There was joy in each other's eyes at that moment.

A month has passed, and it is said that on the day of Liz's funeral, the flag of Ulian Province was flown at half-mast for her. Her story and the name of Askia monopolized the newspapers around that week.

Now, all the ripples have subsided, and the whole world has come out of the tragedy of a mercury needle being accidentally sacrificed in a habitable place, while the earthquake on Hesta's side has just begun.

She applied to go back to Wulian alone. She had already missed Liz's funeral, so she should at least go to her grave to take another look.The base approved her application and granted her a two-week vacation. She didn't have to go back to Tan Yi first, she could go directly to Wulian from the southern border and recuperate there.

Stepping out of Wulian Central Station again, it was still a rainy day.

Holding a black umbrella, Chiba waited for her in the empty station square.

The two went to the AHgA apartment in the north of the old city together by car, and when they stepped into the lobby, Hesta saw Calvin carrying his luggage and entering information at the front desk.

Seeing Qianye, Calvin stopped what he was doing, turned around and saluted, and Qianye waved to him, signaling him not to care.

Calvin's eyes fell on Hesta behind Chiba again, but Hesta didn't look up from the beginning to the end. Half of her face was sunk under the brim of her brown hat, and she looked a bit downcast.

"Why are you here, have a mission?" Chiba asked casually.

"I'm on vacation for the past two days," Calvin replied, "It just so happened that Sean came here to attend a white hat breakfast meeting in the past two days, so I came to see him."

Chiba looked at Calvin's two large boxes—indeed, it looked like luggage for two people.She glanced around, but didn't see Xiao En.

It is estimated that Hesta was discovered again, so he hid in advance.

"Which room do you live in?"

"C507," Calvin showed the number plate he just got, "where are you and Jane?"

"C514." Chiba replied, "It seems to be on the same floor."

After taking the key, Qianye took Hesta a step ahead. The moment he passed by Calvin, he looked at Jane and whispered "sorry". Jane didn't answer, but turned to Calvin's The direction nodded slightly.

In the early morning of the next day, the rain stopped for a while, and Chiba drove her to the Wulian Memorial Cemetery in the northern suburbs. Along the way, Hesta leaned against the car window, looking at the rapidly receding scenery beside the road.

The wet and cold wind in the rainy day made her eyesight a little bit open, she was wearing the red velvet blanket that Liz gave her, thinking about the past in a daze.

Most of the meritorious veterans and other public officials who died in the line of duty are buried in the memorial cemetery in Wulian. As a posthumous honor, a small number of honorary citizens are also approved to be buried here after death.

The cemetery was quiet in the drizzle. A pure white cat walked leisurely among the blue-gray tombstones, stopping from time to time to stretch or lick its paws. Sometimes, it raised its head quietly and looked at them without dodging.

In its emerald eyes, two humans walked silently towards the center of the cemetery.

The surface of the newly repaired stone tablet is smooth, with Liz's code name, her military rank, and the dates of birth and death printed on it. The white marble in front of the tomb is full of commemorative stone slabs the size of palms—this is the funeral tradition of the third district, where life The deceased will carve some praise or heartfelt words to the deceased on these stone slabs, and leave them permanently beside the tombstone of the deceased until the wind and sand bury them together with the cemetery.

Hesta lowered her eyes and read one by one. After a while, she bent down and knelt down in front of a granite-textured commemorative slab, and saw the words on it:

She died young,
Neither love nor worry,
fall like golden stars
rise like unthankful flowers
For a moment, a distant song was like a flash of lightning, which quickly and powerfully pierced through time, taking Hesta back to a night four years ago.

That night, they talked about the golden age, about the songs passed down from then, and Liz once hugged her accordion and smiled to herself and Turan: "My grandmother taught me another song, Do you want to hear it?"

Tears much bigger than raindrops fell on the stone slabs. Hesta's two hands tightly held the stone that was frozen in the rain. Her bare hands were quickly lost in the cold wind. Without consciousness, the world on the ground is still so cold, what does Liz lying on the ground rely on to keep out the cold?
In this uninhabited cemetery, Hesta cried uncontrollably. She knelt down in front of Liz's tomb, her forehead pressed against Liz's monument, and she whispered Liz's name in an indistinct voice. , but the old friend in the grave can no longer answer.From now on, one of them will sleep in the ground for many years, and the others will only cherish the thought of her forever, until the day when death allows them to reunite.

On the way back, Hesta kept his eyes closed, and his entire eye sockets and nose became red from continuous crying. The car stopped in front of a traffic light at an intersection, and Hesta suddenly looked at Chiba nearby.

"Do you understand the truth about Liz's sacrifice?"

"Not very sure," Qianye replied lightly, "but I think the report given by the Wulian Police Station is credible."

"It's impossible!" Hesta frowned in disbelief, her voice was broken by excitement, "You know Liz clearly, you know her, she can't—"

"Yes, I understand, Liz is excellent, a dying criminal can't kill her with just a gun."

Qianye looked sideways at Hesta, she thought about the wording, but after much deliberation, she couldn't find a more euphemistic way of saying it.

The green light turned on, Chiba looked at the road ahead, and stepped on the accelerator.

"...But when the incident happened, she was at the end of the restricted time."

(End of this chapter)