Why it never ends

Chapter 1043 Speculation
There was a long silence.

The young Mercury Needle was not in a hurry. In fact, every Mercury Needle who came here had different reactions when they first learned the truth, but she always had enough time to wait for Victoria to react.

After a long while, Victoria spoke softly, "...You didn't think that you could trick me into taking the bait by placing an actor far away and pretending to give me a few electric shocks, did you?"

"…This is your defense," the young man said with a smile, "but you actually know in your heart whether what I said is true or not."

"Bring the boy here," Victoria said softly, "or I can go over there."

"What are you going to do?"

Victoria chuckled: "You have already injected me with inhibitors again. Are you still afraid that I will go to save people?"

"...Of course not," the young man said, "It is precisely because you have been injected with an inhibitor that we have to pay more attention to your safety. Now you cannot protect yourself from any person with the ability of mercury needles, do you understand?"

"Let me talk to him in person," Victoria said, "otherwise, I won't believe a word you say to me tonight."

The young Mercury Needle fell into a brief thought, but soon she nodded: "If you insist, then I will have no choice but to..."

"What's your name?"

The young woman opened her mouth to answer and almost uttered a short voiceless consonant, but she stopped and quickly changed her pronunciation.

"Weirsin," she said softly, "I'm so glad you remember this name."

……

Hesta sat beside the dying assassin, confronting the three young Mercurys who were still trapped in their cages.

"Who told you to come and kill me tonight?" Hesta said.

"When will your people arrive?"

"It's hard to say. It will take at least two or three hours."

Another young man immediately grabbed the cage and said, "Can she hold on for two or three hours with this injury?!"

"You ask me?" Hesta crossed his arms. "I'm not a doctor. How would I know?"

The two big guys in the cages knelt on the ground with ferocious expressions. They looked at their companions with red eyes.

"Answer my question," Hesta continued, "Who told you to kill me? Who are you?"

One of them raised his head coldly: "Can't you guess this?"

"There are probably a lot of people who want to kill me right now. If you don't tell me who you are, who will know?"

"..."

"Deep anchor?" "Don't you know that?"

"Why are you trying to kill me?" Hesta asked. "I showed mercy to your people at the beginning. Is this how you repay me?"

Several people said nothing.

"Even now that your companions are dying, you refuse to tell us the coordinates of your base. Instead, you ask me, the victim who was supposed to die in your hands, to help you solve the problem at hand." Hesta said, "I actually helped you. Do you know why?"

Hesta paused for a moment.

"Because you are mercury needles," Hesta said, "each mercury needle was snatched from the wasteland by AHgAs at great risk. You——"

"So you deserve to die." The oldest mercury needle interrupted Hesta's words. At this moment, she suddenly dared to look directly into Hesta's eyes, but only for a moment, she immediately lowered her eyes, "A person like you, with such an identity and such a position..."

Hesta thought thoughtfully, "Deep Anchor has had some problems lately, hasn't it."

The three young men raised their heads at the same time.

"It seems true." Hesta stood up and walked slowly in the narrow room of the basement. "I felt it was strange early on. On the night of the old Independence Day, if you wanted to spread chelation disease in the city, you shouldn't have hung a few empty boxes under the hot air balloon. Hanging empty boxes means you are issuing threats. Logically, I should have received an invitation to negotiate, but no, nothing happened. It's like you suddenly disappeared from this world, and there was no follow-up at all...

"Is this ridiculous?"

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The oldest reserve gritted her teeth, but when she saw Hesta looking at her with a hint of triumph in his smile, she immediately adjusted her expression to look disdainful and confused.

Hesta walked to the wall and turned back suddenly.

"This is my first time in District 12, but I grew up in a reserve base, so I know what the normal atmosphere in the base is like. I haven't come into contact with your people, but my friend was transferred here a few years ago. She made close friends here and lives in harmony. It can be seen that the mercury needles in District 12 and District 3 are no different.

"So, I am very sure that even if such a tragedy happened in this place, even if many familiar friends died tragically, we, the Mercury Needles, would not want to retaliate against civilians. There may be a few people who are obsessed with this and are determined to take this path, but it will never be the choice of the entire group—"

"What do you know!"

"But Deep Anchor," Hesta looked at the lamp hanging on the ceiling and ignored the interruptions of the young men, "Deep Anchor still appeared. At first, your revenge was very targeted, and more and more Mercury Needles chose to join in, until 'Old Independence Day'... Although it was not you who caused the main casualties that night, you threw modified chelates in the theater - unfortunately, this batch of chelates was annihilated by a group of newly transferred Mercury Needles before they started killing, but in your plan, you had already decided to let the innocent audience in the theater bleed that night...

"And this expansion may not have been agreed upon by all members of Deep Anchor—"

The young man gritted his teeth and said, "How funny! You got it again!"

"I've already explained the reason," Hesta looked at her, "and I was also there for the operation that night. There weren't many of you on the scene. For an operation like this, with intelligence support, a small team of less than ten people can complete all the arrangements. When the matter is settled, that small group of people can force everyone to get on the ship with them.

"It should have been like this," Hesta said. "After all, the main body of AHgAs has completely evacuated here. Even if some people disagree with Deep Anchor attacking civilians, what can they do? Not to mention that AHgAs have left, even if the old base is still there, with our usual style of doing things, we will only be cautious and dare not rashly get involved in local affairs... However, something unexpected happened."

Several young men looked at her with burning eyes.

"Because, on the night of the terrorist attack, during an emergency meeting of the coalition government, a mercury needle suddenly appeared and retaliated against the terrorists who had invaded the AHgAs safe zone with an extremely tough attitude - this was unprecedented in history, and it gave those mercury needles who were unwilling to continue cooperating with Deep Anchor hope again."

"So, during this period, a split occurred among you - this is why you have remained inactive since the terrorist attack." Hesta looked at the people in front of him, "Am I right?"