Why it never ends

Chapter 74 Conjecture
"However, if there are some insurmountable shortcomings, it doesn't matter. In the worst case, you will stay behind like Valenti in the future. That's fine. When I retire, maybe I can find time to take you out. Go shopping."

Hesta was startled, "Where are you going?"

"Anywhere," Chiba replied, "Snow mountains, grasslands, rivers, mountains and islands—except for the [-]th and [-]th districts that have not yet been opened, you can go anywhere... By the way, I will go to the [-]th district next. District, you may not see me next month, let me tell you in advance."

Hesta suddenly fell into deep thought. She remembered the night she met Liz for the first time. At that time, Liz said that maybe Chiba was selecting candidates for her future combat team—because Chiba Masaki was rumored to be a very A shrewd person, she never spends time on useless things—"When I was in the reserve base, Miss Chiba never even served as an assistant officer."

But tonight, Qianye didn't seem to care that much about whether he could really fight in the future.

After all, she just said "it's okay if you can't get over it".

"What's wrong?" Chiba looked at Hesta who was suddenly stunned, and shook her hand in front of her.

"Uh... I'm thinking, if you're not in Tan Yi next month, won't we be able to meet the target of spending time next month?"

Chiba laughed, "The 'Reserve Guardianship Order' only needs to provide the real-time location of the accompanying period for the first two months. After the official review is passed, it is no longer necessary to share location information for the purpose of protecting privacy. So in the future, only you need each Go to fill out the form, sign it again, and that’s it. Whether I’m really here or not doesn’t matter.”

"Miss Chiba is going on a business trip to District [-]?"

"Yeah." Chiba leaned back on the chair, "I've already finished my two-month annual leave this year in Tanyi, and I'm going to resume my previous work rhythm in the second half of the year, so I can't show up as often as now, but when you meet You can still write me an email, send me a message...you can also make a phone call, but it is difficult for me to receive it."

"Okay." Hesta nodded.

Chiba babbled on and explained more details that Hesta should pay attention to.As Hesta listened, he was a little lost in thought.

When we were driving back to the base, it started to rain again. It poured fervently and stopped quickly. The short rain took away the last sweltering heat of the night.

On the way back, Hesta was still thinking about it. Before a traffic light, Hesta looked sideways at Chiba.

"Miss Chiba, can I ask you a question?"

"Ok?"

"Why are you my guardian?"

The traffic on the diagonally opposite side of the road started slowly, and the wet ground reflected the brilliant golden lights of the traffic, and the lights cast long and short shadows in this wine red hatchback.

Chiba didn't seem to hear the question, she was silent, and after a while, Hesta saw her reaching out to touch the cigarette placed in front of the bridge.

Hesta's heart suddenly suspended—is this a topic so serious that Chiba doesn't know how to speak, so that she has to light a cigarette before thinking about how to say it?
The traffic lights on the street turned on again, Chiba's car restarted, she put half of her hand outside the car window, and the night wind blew the smoke between her fingers into a bright red circle.

"Because it's the most reasonable." Qianye looked at the road ahead, "It is most in line with the 'reserve guardianship order' for me to make this application."

Hesta was silent.

She felt that Qianye seemed to avoid this question, but she could accept this answer.

The scenery outside the car window receded rapidly, and Hesta took the initiative to change the subject.

"Yesterday, I heard Ms. Morley and Miss Valenti talking about Turan... Miss Valenti was crying very sadly."

"Huh?" Qianye pricked up her ears, "Why is she crying?"

"She couldn't understand why Turan was so stupid that she would believe the lie of a chelate. Miss Valenti felt guilty about this, saying that it was because she underestimated Turan's past trauma that caused Turan's death. Today's desperation."

Qianye laughed, "What about you, what do you think of this matter?"

Hesta pondered for a moment, "Miss Valenti may be blaming herself too much. It's not her fault... It's because the chelate is too cunning that Turan fell for it."

"How should I put it...Turan is indeed a bit stupid, but he is not 'that stupid', and this is not a fool, after all, the chelate did not lie."

Hesta was stunned: "...what?"

"When the time of Acheron arrives, if the mercury needle can support its own state, it can indeed prolong the bullet time forever—but, at the moment when the bullet time is coming to an end, if you want to rely on your own will not to go to the time of Acheron Sliding is extremely difficult, and if you fail once, you will die, so AHgAs has banned such attempts from a very early stage.

"Turan would believe the words of the chelate. He must have found some key information, so he decided to take a risk."

Hesta digested it for a long time, "So, Turan's attempt...is meaningful?"

"Yes." Qianye said, "So after this incident, I admire her with admiration."

"……why?"

"Do you know how to persevere in one thing unswervingly?" Qianye said with a smile, "It's actually very simple. If you can always win in one thing and beat all your opponents, then you can It's easy to persevere. You can continue and easily put in unimaginable efforts, and at the same time appreciate happiness that others can't imagine.

"But if you keep losing, the situation is different." Qianye said softly, "I went through Turan's combat records a few days ago, and in the battle with the chelate, she kept losing—because Due to the limitation of bullet time, it is difficult for her to defeat her opponent in such a short time and such a small space, but she seems to be getting more and more courageous."

Chiba looked at Hesta, "Like her courage, don't learn her brain."

Hesta was thoughtful.

For the rest of the journey, both of them stopped talking. Chiba turned on the radio in the car. She first cut off the melodious violin solo, and then cut off a piece of pastoral symphony. When the channel jumped to a certain section During the somewhat noisy conversation, Hesta's name appeared on the radio, and several program guests were discussing the recent changes fiercely.

Chiba directly turned off the radio.

"Don't read newspapers recently, and don't listen to the radio or watch TV... Temporarily cut off your contact with the outside world, can you do it?"

"Yeah." Hesta nodded.

Chiba was originally thinking about how to explain the ins and outs of the whole thing to Hesta, but she didn't expect that Hesta didn't ask anything.

After hesitating for a moment, Qianye glanced at Hesta, "You don't have any questions to ask me?"

Hesta thought for a while, "How did Ms. Chiba know that method to prolong the bullet's time?"

"Ha, I just know. But don't tell the truth about it. Turan had better treat it as a chelate lie forever, otherwise I don't know what she will do later."

At another intersection, while waiting for the red light, Chiba opened her private collection of CDs and began to play a children's chorus.

In the heavenly children's singing, Hesta suddenly remembered Chiba's 76 hours of bullet time.

In silence, she slowly came up with an astonishing guess.

(End of this chapter)