Why it never ends

Chapter 985 Visitation

"I have nothing to say to you two," Eucalyptus exhaled through his nose, "Don't just stand there, come over and help! Qiqi, Eleven, both of you come over too, these are your things, you have to clean them up yourselves!"

Four people gathered around Eucalyptus and hurriedly stuffed all the items on the table into Eucalyptus' big bag and the two children's small bags, filling them up.

After breakfast, several people cleaned the table together.

"What time are you leaving today?" asked Eucalyptus.

"I'll be leaving in a minute," Hesta replied. "I have some errands to do on the way."

"Be careful on the road," Eucalyptus looked at them, "Now that we have arrived and are about to go back, send a message to let everyone know that you are safe."

"Okay." Hesta nodded, "I hope you have fun tonight too."

……

The flight from Emmanlia to Brazi took about 70 minutes. On the plane, Hesta kept looking out the window.

"What are you thinking about?" Rico bumped her elbow.

"...I think it would be better for you to stay in Emanlia and be with Eucalyptus and the others," Hesta said softly, "I'll just go to the prison, nothing will happen."

Rico exclaimed and began to count on Hesta's fingers: "Victoria, Zoe, Ende, Theresa, Susie - what, five mercury needles following them is not enough? Do you have to add me?"

"I'm completely fine, Rico," Hesta looked at her, "I'm different from when I was on the ship. You can trust me to do anything--"

"Even if you have never been sick, I will come with you. It's not about your condition." Li Ge said, "There are too many accidents in this world, Jane, sometimes you don't know where the danger will come from... But as long as I am here, you have an extra layer of protection."

Looking at Rico's serious eyes, Hesta was suddenly moved.

Brazi is a small town located in the middle of District 12, between mountains. Awad Prison is located on a cliff west of the town. Hesta and Rico did not take the winding mountain road, but started directly from a plank road at the foot of the mountain that was almost vertical to the mountain, pulling a chain and climbing up quickly.

This place has been an ascetic monastery since the Bronze Age. Countless monks have tortured themselves here, and the rock walls have left the whispers of countless generations of laborers. Among the overgrown weeds, Hesta has seen more than once a few short sentences in classical language chiseled, such as:

“Pain! Pain!”

"Endless waiting!"

The two watched and laughed.

Then they walked upward and came across some scratched words. They spent a long time looking at the incomplete marks and finally realized that someone was writing down his favorite food and birthday wishes.

"I don't know why these people built a monastery in a place like this," Rico said as he climbed, "They don't mind the trouble."

"The monastery I stayed in before was also on the mountain," Hesta continued. "It should be to stay away from the filth of the world. People believe that hard work can temper a person's soul."

"Is it useful? Tell me, how do you feel about the tempering of your soul?"

Hesta laughed out loud, and their conversation and laughter echoed in the mountains.

  About forty minutes later, the two reached the top. Hesta turned around and reached out to Rico, pulling her up. They dusted off their hands and suddenly found a stone slab under their feet that was a different color from the one next to it. Hesta used her feet to rub the dust off the stone slab and found two lines of words written there:

"Now. Peace. Wholeness." "Now. Lord. Am I closer to you?"

Hesta smiled and looked at the columns of Awad not far away - he didn't know whether he was closer to the Lord, but he was already at the prison gate.

The two walked side by side through the deserted grass and came to the metal gate of the prison. When they tried to find the doorbell with their eyes, the black gate with dense bars had slowly moved towards the walls on both sides and finally completely disappeared into the thick rock wall.

At this moment, they both saw the surveillance camera hanging in the mouth of the monster statue.

"Walk."

Hesta took the first step, followed closely by Rico.

"Have you been here?"

"No."

"Then how do you know which way to go?"

“There will be some hints.”

Sure enough, when the two men passed through the slightly dim porch, a rumbling sound similar to that when the door opened came from the east, and the two men followed the sound.

Awad Prison still retains most of the monastery's buildings. Hesta walked through it, constantly recalling the scenes of his childhood life in St. Anne's Monastery. The old abbot and Sister Gerding seemed to appear at the next corner at any time. Sometimes a gust of wind would make Hesta look back - who knows if it was the wind brought by a group of children running?

"simple?"

Hesta came back to his senses and was suddenly glad that Rico was here.

The monastery was only the outer shell of the prison, and the main building of the prison was embedded in the mountain. Starting from a certain iron door, the cold light of electric lamps completely replaced the natural light, and the huge bricks and stones on both sides of the building were replaced by modern materials without any gaps. The decoration style here was exactly the same as the base. Hesta looked at the connection between each corridor and the corridor - it was these places where a steel plate that could trap the chelate and mercury needles at the same time could be dropped at any time.

After the biometric information test, the identity information of Hesta and Rico appeared on the screen at the same time, and the red words "Access Denied" appeared under Rico's image. A door slowly opened in front of the two people, revealing a passage of about 20 meters. At the end of the passage was another door, and each door had the same biometric information detection port.

"It seems that this is the only way I can go." Rico looked at Hesta, "I will go to the lounge on this floor in a while. When will you come out?"

"The maximum visiting time here is only 120 minutes," Hesta replied, "Taking into account the delays in the journey...it should be about two hours."

"Okay, I'll wait for you here." said Rico.

"Ah."

Hesta said goodbye to Rico and walked forward quickly. The door closed behind her, and doors opened in front of her. Hesta counted her steps and felt that she had walked about six meters down. She held the letter of introduction in her hand and kept her ears open to the surroundings.

Hesta had thought there would be at least one or two administrative staff to show the way and introduce the place, but no, the continuously opening passages led her to a closed room. After the final identity check, the door opened, and Hesta walked in, and saw a woman lying on the floor. She had her back to Hesta, and she was motionless.

Hesta walked to the transparent partition in the middle of the room and half-crouched down.

"Hello," she knocked on the partition, "Are you Arundha Desai?"