Why it never ends

Chapter 995 Gunshot

In the narrow space between the four of them, Rico murmured the name of his old friend, but Sahame smiled bitterly.

Rico walked quickly to her side, mumbling something, as if he was talking to Sahame, or as if he was talking to himself. She put her friend's hand around her shoulders and held him up steadily.

"What are you doing?" Victoria asked.

"No matter what happened, let's go to the hospital first," Li Ge's voice was trembling, "She's like this now-"

"I can't..." Sahame shook her head gently, "I have to... leave here..."

"She was deeply involved in tonight's attack on citizens," Victoria said. "Put her down, Rico."

"Impossible." Rico said, "There must be some misunderstanding."

"She's right..." Sahame whispered, "If I stay, I will die. Rico, send me away... away..."

"Rico!" Victoria's eyes were sharp. "You don't understand what happened tonight. Get out of the way!"

Rico looked at Hesta for help.

"…She was indeed involved," Hesta whispered back, "I'm sorry."

Rico's eyes dropped.

"It's okay," Rico said softly, looking at Hesta, "...If it was you lying here today, I would do the same."

Before Victoria and Hesta could react, Rico had turned into a swooping eagle. Holding Sahame in her arms, she nimbly passed through several broken holes in the wall and jumped out of the window sill from the other side of the building.

"Rico!"

Victoria immediately chased after him.

Hesta stood there for a second, until her body also responded to the tracking. In her mind, Rico's words were still echoing.

The two sides kept a distance of two blocks. It seemed that because they did not want to reveal their final destination, Rico kept circling after leaving the city. They circled around in the deserted village. Victoria and Hesta found opportunities to attack them from the front and back several times, but Rico broke through them every time.

Although Victoria had no evidence that Hesta was deliberately letting her go, she could clearly feel that Hesta's movements had become sluggish. Compared to when the two of them surrounded Sahame before, Hesta was now like wearing handcuffs and shackles at the same time, and could not turn around at all.

But even so, Rico, who was holding an extra person, was still in a state of decline. Victoria was unwilling to fight Rico head-on. After successfully blocking his way several times, Victoria watched Rico slip into a residential building. She and Hesta landed on the east and west sides of the residential building and began to persuade Rico to let the person go.

Moonlight poured into the room through the broken roof. Sahamei vomited blood again. She raised her head, looked at the night sky above her, and felt a bone-chilling cold.

"Forget it, forget it... Let's just leave me here, Rico, hurry up--"

"You're not dead! You're not dead!" Rico seemed to have not heard what Sahame said at all. Her voice was a mixture of surprise and pain. "I thought all of you -"

"Many people survived." Sahame smiled, "I originally...wanted to take you...to find everyone..."

"What about Anlia? Did she survive, too?"

Sahame shook her head.

They both fell silent, and in the darkness, there was only the wind and Victoria's futile exhortations, as she told them what she had seen at the opera house tonight - the women, the children, and the disguised chelates there...

"We will have to settle this account sooner or later," Sahame clenched her teeth, "Li Ge, look at me, look at me... Don't you want to avenge them?"

"To whom?"

"To everyone, all... those who enslaved us, plundered us..." Sahame was interrupted by pain before she finished her words. She closed her eyes for a while, "... Rico, District 12 has been rotten for a long time." Rico was frightened when she heard it. She suddenly realized that what Victoria said seemed to be true.

"Sahame," Rico gently held his friend's face, "Stop talking for now, tell me where I should send you, can your injury be treated there?"

"...It should be possible." Sahame tried to open her eyes, "Are you willing to come with me?"

"I'll get you there first no matter what."

Sahamei shook her head: "I'll tell you the address...you go by yourself, I...I can't hold on for too long..."

"Don't torture me, Sahame. It's enough for you to die once."

Rico looked out from the gap in the roof to look for Hesta. She decided to avoid Victoria and break out from Hesta's direction. Just as she picked up Sahame again and decided to rush out of the shabby house, a burst of gunfire came from the direction of the city.

Victoria and Hesta looked back at the same time. The gunshots were not isolated, but sounded like hundreds of people fighting in the city.

When Rico walked out of the house, Hesta and Victoria were nowhere to be seen - it seemed that they had temporarily given up on capturing Sahame and chose to return immediately.

"Okay, let's go."

"Wait." Sahame whispered, "If you really want to give it to me, you must remove the chip first... and the bionic arm as well."

Rico unbuttoned her collar, her chip buried in the eye of the raven tattoo on her right side.

"Think it over carefully..." Sahame said, "Removing the chip without permission is a serious crime. If investigated, it will be more serious than attacking citizens. Once you do this, they will never forgive you..."

"Never mind that for now."

Rico scratched in with his fingernail and dug out a bloody little piece. It had taken so long to grow that it was surrounded by a layer of tissue, and the chip was embedded in the center.

"Okay, let's go!"

……

In the car, Eucalyptus sat in the back seat with her two children.

The driver was the mother of Eleven and Qiqi. She only remembered that the child was called Anayi, but she couldn't quite remember the mother's name. Eucalyptus felt guilty and hesitated whether to ask again.

The car was almost at the apartment, and the short 200-300-meter journey was blocked all the way. The road was clear at the beginning, but it was blocked for some reason. Someone got out of the car behind them and ran to the intersection to see what happened. As a result, they found that a police car was stuck at the intersection, squeezing the originally wide lane into a gap that could only be passed at a very slow speed. Everyone was negotiating with the police, asking them to move the car.

Eucalyptus was getting a little impatient and said softly, "Why don't we walk the rest of the way by ourselves."

"It's okay, but the kids are tired."

It was then that Yujiali realized that whether it was Anayi in the front row or Eleven and Kiki, the children were all sleeping in their seat belts in a sloppy manner.

They both laughed.

"How long have you been here—"

Before the woman finished her words, a series of impact sounds startled them all, and the children were also awakened by the sudden loud noise. Qiqi rubbed her eyes and looked out the window: "Where are the fireworks being set off...?"

Outside the window, some people with terrified faces were desperately running in the opposite direction, including some families with children.

"Come on!"