Why it never ends

Chapter 330
The exit of the escape passage leads directly to an open space outside the hall.

After putting Hesta down, Si Lei turned and walked back. Turan grabbed her, "Where are you going?"

"I have to go down again, especially those passengers who are underwater need to be evacuated."

"The staff below must have begun to evacuate, look at these people on the ground—"

"You also saw that no one followed us up!"

"But you're just a vacation-"

Su Lei didn't explain anything anymore, she took four or five steps at a time, jumping and galloping downward.

"Slei!"

Su Lei didn't turn his head, only the sound of her sinking footsteps could be heard at the entrance of the passage.

Turan supported his head, "...this workaholic!"

Not far away, Hesta sat on a rocky barricade. She looked at her dial, and the number 14:59 finally jumped to 15:00.

Hesta raised his head. In the distance, passengers were constantly being persuaded to leave by the port staff from various indoor halls and waiting rooms. There were anxious crowds everywhere on the ground. Some of these people were on the phone, and some were looking at their Some of the boats gathered around the pier, trying to reason with the staff... A few children were chasing a plastic bag in an open field, and the bright sun shone directly from the distant sky, so dazzling that people couldn't keep their eyes open.

Everything looked so ordinary, as if it was just an ordinary seaside afternoon.

Hesta looked sideways at Turan, "It seems—"

The next moment, a siren that pierced the sky came from the direction of the port hall, and immediately after that, the sirens at each dock sent out an alarm signal of the same frequency.

The moment the sound waves converged, everyone felt a real shock almost at the same time. People immediately covered their ears, and the children began to cry loudly, but under the sound of the siren, any human voice became insignificant.

Turan's expression became stiff in an instant. She and Hesta were no strangers to this kind of alarm, and it represented only one meaning:
"There are chelates infested in the alert area, and the nearby mercury needles should go to support immediately"

Turan instantly entered bullet time, and she and Hesta raised their heads towards the land at the same time. At this moment, the sky was clear and the visibility was extremely high, and any movement in the distance could not escape their eyes.

However, 20 seconds passed, the sky was silent, and no mercury needles came.

Turan looked in the direction of downtown Tanyi in disbelief—it didn't make sense.

In the 23rd second, the pier alarm farthest from the port hall began to weaken gradually, and the alarm sound on the entire ground dropped by an order of magnitude in a few seconds, only a dozen escape passages leading to the ground continued to echo harshly. the sound of.

Turan turned around slowly, looking at the staircase where Su Lei disappeared just now, suddenly, someone grabbed her sleeve tightly, and Turan turned his head—it was Hesta.

"...Don't move," Hesta used almost all his strength, "You are not... a battle order..."

"There's something wrong down there, Jane."

"It's because... something is wrong, so you..."

"I'll go down and have a look," Turan raised his voice, "If there is any danger, I will evacuate immediately—"

"Just now you were still persuading... persuading Si Lei..."

"The situation is different now than before! Su Lei is just an ordinary policeman, but we may be the only mercury needles here—" Turan frowned, and his voice suddenly dropped, "Well, I don't know Li What the hell are you and Chiba doing at this time, but I can't just do nothing..."

"...Then what if there is indeed a chelate, and the chelate is... aimed at me?" Hesta tried her best to control the muscles in her mouth, and a sudden surge of emotion made her articulate Unclear, "You're leaving, it just so happens... to tune the tiger away from the mountain..."

"I don't think this is very likely." The middle-aged man who had been silent all this time suddenly said, and Hesta and Turan looked at her at the same time—the little girl who had left earlier returned behind her at some point.

Hesta was a little annoyed, "Why do you say—"

"Oh, let's be honest, that's just a temporary excuse you made up to prevent your friend from taking risks." The middle-aged man looked at her with a smile, "Actually, you, like her, don't know anything about what's going on down there.

"Taking a step back, if the chelate is coming for you, you should ask your friends to go down and see what's going on, because the people staying below are ordinary people... you want Did these people perish because of your own cowardice?"

Turan held Hesta's hand tightly, "I participated in two mid-danger operations last year, Jane, although I was supporting it as a medical soldier, please believe that I have the ability to judge the situation... let it go."

"Zero," the middle-aged man looked at the girl beside him, "Go down with her and have a look."

"Ok."

Turan was startled, looking past Hesta, "...what? No matter how confused I am, I won't bring a minor—"

"She is very experienced and knows how to cooperate." The middle-aged man looked at Turan seriously, "Let her go down, you need manpower very much now."

Turan gave the middle-aged man a suspicious look, "I don't guarantee her personal safety."

The middle-aged man raised his hand and made a "please" gesture.

Following another sound of footsteps, Hesta watched Turan take the young girl and disappeared at the exit of the emergency passage. She sat on the ground somewhat dejectedly, panting heavily.

Behind him, the middle-aged man's voice sounded unhurriedly: "...Sometimes you have to admit that it takes more courage to choose to stand by than to be a brave man."

Hesta turned her head and stared at her: "Why didn't you say that just now?"

"Sit over here?" The middle-aged man patted the seat beside him—it was also a rocky roadblock, but it was much wider than the one Hesta sat on just now. "If you sit here now, I dare Bet, when the chelate comes to trouble you later, it—or they, will definitely accidentally hurt me.”

Hesta laughed angrily. She breathed calmly for a while, then stood up, walked slowly to the side of the middle-aged man and sat down.

The middle-aged man didn't look into Hesta's eyes anymore. She took out a lighter and a silver cigarette case from her pocket, and picked up a cigarette deftly. Before she lit the light, she suddenly realized something, "...do you mind?"

"mind."

The middle-aged man let out an "oh" in disappointment, but quickly put the cigarette back into the cigarette case.

"Smoke is very important to me, do you know why?" The middle-aged man said happily, "My family lives very long. My great-grandmother, an old lady who loves to do farm work, lived to a hundred At the age of seven, my grandma lived to be 110 years old. In comparison, my mother’s life span was shorter because she suffered from stomach cancer in her later years—but it is said that she also lived to 97.”

(End of this chapter)