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"Why did you let me go?"

He didn't answer.

Of course, I can't just give up like this, tightly clutching his sleeve to prevent him from leaving: "Why?"

Help for no reason, let alone from regulators on the opposite side, makes me very uneasy.

He lowered his eyes, glanced at his cuff, and probably understood that I would not let him get away for a while.After being silent for a while, he said in a cold voice: "...I have an old relationship with the Yegel family."

"Old?"

I repeated this word in doubt, can you let me go twice in a row just like this?I didn't quite believe it, but he took the opportunity to pull back his sleeves, turned and left.

I have trouble with my legs and feet, so I can only watch him go away, and I can't help but sigh inwardly that I slipped away a chance to get to the bottom of it because I didn't pay attention.

"Are you old with Yegel's family?"

I don't believe it, this person has a meticulous personality, and he is merciless when weeding out survivors, but he is special to me because of the sentence "old".

Unless it's...some special, "old friend".

"Joseph De La Thornes... De La... Could it really be him?" I sighed lowly.

"Beth Fenley, are you okay?" A voice suddenly sounded from behind, interrupting my meditation.I looked back and saw Emily and Emma standing right behind me.

"You?" I didn't expect Miss Doctor and Miss Gardener to be nearby.

Emily smiled apologetically at me: "I'm sorry, Beth Fenley. We ran out only to find that you didn't follow... We heard your screams and thought you were caught by the regulators, and you have been hiding in the Near the hospital, I just didn't expect...he actually let you go."

It turned out that they saw it.I was thinking about how to explain it in my mind, but I heard the gardener say bluntly: "Look! Emily, just like I told you, the supervisor is not necessarily so cruel and terrible. !"

Emma probably forgot Mr. Philanthropist who has been eliminated.

"You can't let your guard down, who knows what he's thinking?" Emily said, and then looked at me again: "Let me treat your wound."

In fact, my feet didn't hurt so much anymore, but I still didn't refuse the doctor's help.She took out the needle tube she carried with her and gave me a little injection, and my feet didn't hurt at all.But even though the pain was gone, I still had to be careful when walking. Emma volunteered to support me.

So he found another cipher machine and started to decipher.

Emily glanced worriedly at the outside of the cabin: "It won't work like this, the three of us get together, and if the regulators find us, we'll easily be wiped out."

Emma said naively: "But didn't the supervisor let Beth Fenli go? Maybe he won't attack us."

"That's not necessarily true." Miss Doctor said meaningfully.

When I saw the eyes of the two men fall on me, I quickly said, "I don't know, I'm still in a daze until now. I thought I was going to be eliminated this time."

Emily was a little hesitant, as she said, the chances of being discovered would increase greatly if they were together all the time.She looked at me and Emma, ​​we were both injured.Miss Doctor couldn't help but sighed.

I saw her embarrassment, thought for a while, and said, "Or you two should leave first, anyway, I can't run away, and if I meet a supervisor, I can only hold you back."

Emma held my hand: "Miss Beth Fenley, you can't walk like this, how can we just leave you like this! Even if we leave, we still have the risk of being discovered by the regulators, besides, I think Don't worry too much, since the supervisor let you go just now, maybe he will let us go too?"

Emily heard this, so she said to me: "Among Survivors, you are the only one who has communicated with that supervisor, Beth Fenley, can you be sure that that supervisor is really that easy-going personality? "

Of course not, he wouldn't even bother to answer my questions.

As long as the photographer stood there, with that cold and aloof appearance, anyone could feel the coldness and alienation mixed with the snow-like beauty.

He is the sky pointed at by the spire of the cross on the unattainable St. Peter's Basilica;

I sighed and shook my head: "Actually, I never understood why he let me go."

The lady doctor frowned so much that it could kill a fly.In the end, in order to hurry up, Emma and I continued to decipher the cipher machine of the cabin, while Emily went to decipher the cipher machine of the gate on the other side.

I have no objection.

Miss Gardener took the initiative to stay with me. Although Emma's personality has always been very enthusiastic, I found that she seemed to become more cordial to me suddenly. While repairing the cipher machine, she said to me: "Beth Fernley, Do you believe that regulators have feelings too?"

I'm a little surprised that she would say such a thing, the supervisor's feelings?I think of course there is, just like the clown gets fun from playing and torturing the survivors, just like the killer in the fog will hum happily in the chase, I don’t think they are a group of emotionless people like some survivors biology.I have also talked with some supervisors, and was even released by one supervisor-just thinking of that person's blue eyes that cannot see through emotions, my heart beats a beat slower.

There is no doubt that the Overseer has thoughts and feelings of his own, and the photographer... I have never been able to guess his emotions.

My heart was very complicated, and finally I gave the answer Miss Gardener wanted to hear: "Of course."

A big smile appeared on Miss Gardener's face with some small freckles.

"That's right! I think so too! But Mr. Riley has always believed that the supervisors are monsters without emotions, obviously..." She said, her voice gradually weakened.

I was about to say something when I suddenly heard a familiar sound of taking pictures, and I continued to ask calmly, "Obviously what?"

Miss Gardener hesitated for a moment: "I... nothing."

Seeing this, I smiled slightly and looked out the window: "Why are you so obsessed with this issue? Even if the regulators have their feelings, it doesn't have much to do with us, does it?"

"That's not necessarily true!" Emma immediately refuted me: "Maybe it's... related, Miss Yegel, haven't you just received help from the supervisor?"

I fell silent, staring down at the constantly rotating axle of the cipher machine, and slowly said: "I don't know... I don't know what he's thinking..."

Probably because she didn't know how to answer these words, Emma was also silent.

"Actually, I really should thank him well...Although he may have been just a whim, he really helped me...I didn't dare to think of such a thing before. After all, it is the supervisor's task to eliminate survivors, and I didn't either. How can I repay him..." After I finished speaking, I stared at the cipher machine under me again, and fell silent.

Emma seemed to want to say something, moved her lips, but finally didn't say it.

After deciphering in silence for a while, I entered the last few letters, and the small light above the cipher turned on.Emma, ​​who was standing next to the cipher machine, wobbled, and suddenly fell down without warning.

At the same time, I received a reminder that Emily was caught on the ground.

——After the world collapses, the survivors who were tied to the carnival chair by the photographer will fall directly to the ground.

I didn't tell anyone about Joseph's ability, so Miss Doctor didn't understand that neither together nor separately could escape the photographer's pursuit.

Seeing Emma fall down, I immediately understood that he must have come here at a certain time that we didn't know.It's just that he didn't show up, he just tied the image of Emma beside me to the carnival chair, and then went to hunt down Emily.

He let me go again.

Maybe he didn't want to be grabbed by me like before, so he didn't show up, but he should have heard my conversation with Emma.

So... what did he think?

I watched Miss Gardener struggling on the ground in bewilderment and powerlessness, trying to get up, so I supported her: "Slow down, Emma."

I have experienced the feeling of being forced to fall to the ground. Although there is no wound on my body, I am dizzy and have no strength.

At this time, I noticed that Miss Doctor had already sat on the Carnival Chair. If the Overseer wanted to catch another prey, he should already be on the way.

I am inconvenient in my legs and feet now, and I am like a useless person, and Emma will not be able to heal in a while.I sighed and quietly waited for the hunter to arrive.

Although there is only one cipher machine left, the three survivors including me have no hope of escape.

Whether it was groping slowly to find the last cipher machine, groping slowly to open the gate;

I was basically out of form in this round, and I was not eliminated because there was a supervisor who was unwilling to arrest me... But the reason why I was out of form was precisely him.Thinking back carefully, it seems that every time a game is dominated by a photographer, I am very embarrassed.

Lost the badge for the first time and took the carnival chair.

The second time he fell to the ground and was caught, rescued and then blocked into a corner.

The third time he sprained his foot directly.

——If he hadn't insisted on letting me go, I should have lost myself many times like Helena, lying on the bed extremely weak.

Thinking of Helena who has not fully recovered, I should be grateful in my heart, but I don't feel very happy, because this contact with Joseph made me realize more things——I am determined to figure it out , The reason for his unclear attitude towards me.

I was quite calm at this moment, many thoughts flashed through my mind for a while, and then slowly calmed down.Glancing at Miss Gardener who had gradually recovered, after so long, the sense of crisis remained silent, and I suddenly realized that he might not come.

……Because of me?

Guessing this, I couldn't help but sneak a pendant hanging around my neck that was hidden by the collar—it was a relic left by my mother.Like my mother, I am a person who will not give up until I reach my goal. There is one thing that I will do by any means.

When I looked away from the gray-white sky of Odiris Manor, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years, Miss Gardener finally healed herself successfully.I quickly helped her up, but it was too late to save Miss Doctor at this time, and Emma and I could only watch the carnival chair tied Emily rush up into the sky, with regret written all over our faces.

"If only I hadn't sprained my ankle, then I can still save Emily." I blamed myself.

Emma's complexion was not good either, she looked at me the same way, and said, "It...it's not your fault, Beth Fenley."

I heard her whisper, "It's because we were too careless."

I can fully understand Miss Gardener's complicated mood at this time, no matter what the truth is: I was let go and Emily was eliminated.So the wisest thing to do is to keep silent.

We found the last cipher machine in silence until the door was successfully deciphered and opened. As I guessed, Joseph did not show up.

Miss Gardener waited with me at the gate for a while, and finally helped me to leave.There was a strange atmosphere between the two of us until we got back to the manor.

I know that the next days will not be peaceful.