Why it never ends

Chapter 470 Pollution
"By the way, what about the two girls who were thrown into my study by Hester, how are they doing now?"

"Agnes is recuperating. Although Hesta gave her a first-aid injection before, her condition is still not optimistic and she is still too anxious." Zero replied, "Mayer is fine, but she often cries."

"Let's think about it... we need to find something for them to do," Anna raised her head, "otherwise they will really feel a little depressed after being bored for a long time."

"Are you going to let them out?"

"No need," Anna smiled, "Since Hesta locked them up, it's up to Hesta to decide when to release them."

……

"Officer Su Lei seems to be very familiar with this area."
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On the 2nd deck, Li Ke pushed Hesta and followed Si Lei quickly.

"Anna took me to the Hard Rock Bar here before," Su Lei replied, "She is really familiar with this ship."

"Huh? You still have time to have a drink. When did it happen?"

"On the night when we boarded the ship," Su Lei glanced at Hesta, "Jane was there at the time."

Hesta showed a puzzled expression, "Really?"

"Yes, you fell asleep at the time, and I made a special call to Qianye, after all, she is your guardian..."

Li Ke was stunned, "Qianye agreed directly? How many of you did she dare to ask you to take Hesta to a strange place at that time?"

"Agreed, there were only four of us, besides Hesta and I, and Anna and that little girl." Speaking of Zero, Su Lei lowered his eyes slightly, "When I called that day, Chiba's voice was quite tired, I guess She might not be in a very good condition at that time, so she couldn't take care of so many—"

Su Lei's voice came to an abrupt end, and she suddenly realized that there was a detail in it that she had never noticed before: from boarding the ship to now, Qianye Ren has been in good condition, apparently without any sudden illness or trauma... …

But for the quicksilver needles, there was a stage where they were extremely weak.

—Could it be that Chiba entered bullet time on the day of boarding the ship...

"I think it's out of trust," Hesta said softly, "Miss Chiba seems to have a... special trust in Anna."

"How did you find out?" Su Lei looked at Hesta, "I feel that these two people don't usually appear together."

Hesta was silent for a while. She carefully recalled everything that had happened in the past few days, and found that there was really no evidence that the two of them were particularly familiar. Back then, when Avinash saw Anna at the pier in the port of Havre, he immediately changed her. A friendly and respectful expression, Miss Chiba has never seen such a change.

But Hesta was very sure that Ms. Chiba must have participated in many things that happened on this ship at a deeper level... It's just that the two of them seemed to be strangers than ordinary people on the surface.

Li Ke suddenly remembered the matter of Chiba's anger at Anna this morning, especially the fact that Anna disappeared in his room strangely, but when she told these stories, neither Su Lei nor Hesta seemed very surprised.

"It's not uncommon for anything to happen to her," Hesta laughed. "Even if her dead body appeared in front of me tomorrow, I would only think that this person might be tired of being a human, and I want to be a ghost."

"So," Si Lei fell into deep thought, "There is indeed a bit of intersection between Anna and Qianye, you all think so, right?"

"I can't tell..." Hesta said softly, "I feel that there is something tacit between them, should I say, a tacit understanding?"

During the conversation, the neon lights of the Hard Rock Bar appeared in the sight of the three of them. They stopped talking, but at the same time quickened their pace.

"Hello," Su Lei called to stop a crew member, "Where is the self-service station—"

The crew heard the intention of the three people at once, "The service station is not working now, and the machine for the self-service procedure is broken, and it can't be repaired at the moment. If you have anything to do, you can go directly to Ms. Putinna."

Li Ke asked: "Who is—"

"It's the bartender here," Su Lei replied proactively, "Let's go directly to the bar to have a look."

Today's Hard Rock Bar is as deserted as ever. Except for two spotlights on the bar, the rest of the area is gloomy, with no lights or people.

"Where do you want to sit?" Rico lowered his head and asked Hesta.

"Hmm..." Hesta glanced at the position of the bar counter, "Over there."

Su Lei laughed, "You were sitting there last time, you know?"

Hesta was surprised for a moment: "Really."

"Me, you, Anna, Zero." Su Lei pointed to the seats in front of the bar in order, "Do you still have any memories?"

Hesta shook his head.

The bartender in a black vest walked from the dark to the light again, "Good evening, ladies."

"Hello, let's go through the formalities of appointing an adjudicator in advance." Hesta took out his boarding invitation letter, and Su Lei immediately put his own invitation letter on it, "Do you need us to provide other identity information? Like a ship card?"

"No need." The bartender smiled and accepted the two invitations, "Please wait."

The bartender left the bar, Li Ke looked away, and looked at the two people beside him, "So are we catching up?"

"It should be," Su Lei said softly, "...but it went so smoothly, it feels a little unreal."

"Would you like a drink later?"

Si Lei frowned: "Jane now—"

"She doesn't drink, and she doesn't touch these things when she's in good health...I'm asking you."

"I don't drink either," Su Lei replied, "If you want to drink, we can wait for you."

"Forget it..." Li Ke sighed, "That's boring."

The bartender appeared in front of the three of them again, and Li Ke and Si Lei stood up straight at the same time.

"Sorry, three, since the invitation letter is in a polluted state, this situation does not meet our processing requirements." The bartender placed Hesta and Sulei's invitation letter on the cold marble table, and gently pushed To their side, "Therefore, the verdict is 'rejected'."

"...Polluted, what do you mean?"

"We explained this to the previous adjudicator, didn't he pass it on to you?"

"what?"

"'Designate the adjudicator in advance, the successor is required to bring an uncontaminated boarding invitation letter, and go to the self-service station on deck -2 with the current adjudicator'," the bartender repeated the content on the sticky note, "And the invitation you brought was tainted."

"No, what is 'polluted'?" Su Lei unfolded his invitation letter, "Was it damaged, or—"

"It is indeed contaminated," the bartender smiled, "We are also sorry."

"but--"

Hesta raised his head: "Are the two letters in a polluted state, or is it only one of them?"

"Both are tainted," the bartender replied.

(End of this chapter)