Why it never ends

Chapter 1190 Interruption
Late that night, Rico tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.

Suzy was helping her keep watch tonight, watching over Arevalo. She knew she should go to bed early so she could take over Suzy's shift tomorrow afternoon, but Rico winked and rubbed his eyes, turned over and grumbled from time to time, and finally got up from the bed and washed his face.

——She heard the entire conversation between Hesta and Eleven that night.

She didn't mean to listen. Hesta came back in the middle of the night and suddenly ran off to take care of the children, so Rico took a few detours, that's all. She was still sneering when Hesta was seriously lecturing Eleven, but she didn't know that the conversation between the big and the small would end with her name.

Now Rico couldn't laugh anymore.

Rico felt extremely embarrassed when she thought about Hesta coming to apologize to her tomorrow. She had nothing to explain to Hesta, and she didn't want to hear her explanation - her anger was very real, but it was not entirely directed at Hesta.

At this moment, she still harbored a subtle hatred, but she didn't know who to direct this hatred at - she hated Hesta, hated Sahame, hated Eugene, hated Xiaosko... and even hated Liz.

She hated each of them, but she loved them so much, loved each of them. She cherished them even more than her own life. However, these people - these people whom Rico regarded as close friends, were eager to take risks with their lives, as if there were some dangerous things in their hearts, and they all put these things before their own life and death without exception.

How can one not hate this?
These days, whenever Rico thinks about this, her back teeth are about to break.

However, this is something that cannot be explained in the world, and does not need to be explained. How should a person choose his own life? Does he need to explain the reasons to others? If Hesta walked up to her and asked her "What happened to us", what else could she do except answer "Nothing happened"?

Could she knock Hesta unconscious and then lock her up in an iron cage for life to ensure that she would never do anything extremely dangerous again?

...Then she might need to prepare a lot of iron cages, after all, she has to lock so many people in them.

Li Ge had to start reflecting on why every one of his friends was like this - this was probably not a coincidence.

She walked to the table in boredom and poured herself a glass of water. It was raining outside the window, and Rico leaned against the window and watched for a while. She half-closed her eyes, thinking about what Hesta would say to her tomorrow. She remembered the conversation with Turan not long ago, and thought that maybe she should give Jane a way out earlier...

Thinking of this, Rico couldn't help but frown - sometimes, it is really not easy to push open the half-open door!

……

The next morning, Rico showed up after a long absence and sat in the restaurant to eat with everyone. She pretended to know nothing, but kept an eye on the figures around her to see from which direction Jane would appear.

However, until the end of breakfast, there was no sign of Hesta in the restaurant. Rico felt a subtle disappointment. She looked away and realized that Turan, who was sitting next to her, had not spoken much all morning and looked very depressed.

"What's wrong with you? Didn't you sleep well?" Rico asked.

Turan looked at her in surprise, and just as he was about to say something, he swallowed it back. "What's wrong?" Rico was even more surprised.

"I'll tell you later. Let's talk outside." Turan replied weakly.

The two soon arrived at the garden outside the palace. Rico was still involuntarily searching for Hesta's shadow in his sight - however, her shadow was nowhere to be found.

"...Many people aren't out and about at this time," Rico whispered. She looked at Turan and added, "I mean Victoria."

"Indeed, many people are not here right now," Turan said softly, "Victoria is on a business trip, Zoe and Simona went to the city to attend an event, and Jane suddenly received an order to go to Awad Prison again last night—"

"What?" Rico turned around suddenly.

"Didn't you receive the push from Office 2 last night?"

"...I didn't look at my phone." Rico began to search his pockets.

"The first district - the entire first district - lost contact for two hours last night," Turan said. "All communication base stations and optical relays were paralyzed. The entire district seemed to have suddenly disappeared from this world. It is said that the mother city of the first district suddenly triggered an alarm and activated a certain protocol on its own. Basic communications were restored two hours later, but the mother city cut off a large amount of power supply. It is not clear yet what caused it."

As Turan spoke, Rico checked her mailbox and subscription messages. She quickly scrolled down and found that there were more than ten emails and waiting messages from last night to today. Rico quickly slid the screen and clicked on the latest message at the top:
Emergency notification and response instructions regarding the complete communication interruption in the first district

Attention all members of the battle sequence:
From 23:46 to 2:02 last night, the first area experienced an unprecedented communication interruption. During this period, we tried to restore contact through various channels, but all failed. All ground communication equipment and submarine optical cable synchronization feedback in the area were silent.

Two hours after the incident, basic communications were partially restored under an unknown mechanism, but during the same period, the mother city shut down the main energy supply channels of multiple areas, which directly led to the paralysis of the power grid and disorder of facilities in the first area. Currently, the area is still in a moderate state of chaos. The recovery work is led by the first district joint government, and it is expected to take 2 to 6 hours to complete the initial redeployment. The mercury needles in each district do not need to respond.

It is worth noting that at 2:03, the Mother City's on-orbit communication relay station automatically broadcast a highly encrypted message, the decoding result was: "Boundary Agreement has been terminated". After preliminary cross-analysis by Offices 2 and 5, the following facts can be confirmed at this stage:
1. The incident was not caused by natural or military conflict, and no traces of external attack were found. So far, no region or organization has claimed responsibility;

2. 12 minutes before the incident, an unknown frequency pulse appeared over the mother city;
3. At this stage, the Mother City is in a silent state, all entrances and exits have been closed, and the mercury needles inside are temporarily disconnected. At present, we are continuously recording the electromagnetic activities and structural changes of the Mother City;

This incident has not yet been graded, but all members of the combat sequence are requested to remain highly alert.

Subsequent announcements shall be subject to internal notifications. Without authorization, no one may make any form of personal interpretation of the incident or convey unauthorized information to the outside.

Office 2
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"When the incident happened yesterday, Office 2 contacted Jane and asked her to go to Awad Prison alone, and she went." Turan grabbed a handful of hair. "It's terrible. I wonder what's happening in District now."