How could it be in this form...?
"Don't think about it, it was indeed me."
Hitzfeld did not express his opinion, and Xia Yibing naturally took the lead, "Have you even forgotten the tone of my speech?"
"This...are you Miss Imaer?"
"it's me."
"…I think not only me, but everyone needs an explanation."
"I will explain it to you, but you need to gather those people first. I have something to ask you."
Chapter 146 Identical entities in different planes
Half an hour later, in a temporarily used empty room, Ethan, Darent, the Cornerell couple, the duo of priests, Tenize... a total of seven people sat down here.
They were facing a low table, on which sat a majestic Borean sea eagle.
Darent sat closest to it, and he was talking, recounting the series of experiences of the Pierre since it separated from Iverria.
He was also the only one among the people present who looked normal and did not think anything was wrong. The others all looked a little strange, staring at the North Wind Sea Eagle in a daze.
"We said goodbye to the mechanical guys... We planned to explore the Seahorse Fjord first. This is because someone looked through the notebook left by Aisuen and found a place name circled in it - Colosseum Port, and Colosseum Port happened to be across the fjord."
"We did find the place, we managed to get ashore... blah blah... and then we found a wonderful neighborhood... blah blah... there was a movie theater... blah blah... and we brought all the equipment back."
"Then we ended up in the Blood Sea for no apparent reason." Darent spread his hands. "We came here and encountered the fleet of Xiude Jinlis being chased by the Robot Man. We thought they were enemies at first, so we thought we could help the Robot Man capture them. But he led us to a weird place called the Black Fog Sea, where we met Mr. Eight Hands again. He grabbed us and threw us away... When we woke up, we found that we were in this place."
"Then it was Heidegger's idea. He said he wanted to dig a ditch, wasting a few days of our time. But when we dived down, we found that there was a thick layer of stone walls all around. We were completely trapped in this damn place."
"You make it sound like this is my responsibility?" Ethan couldn't help but interrupt, "How can we get into the water without digging a ditch? Do you know you can't get out if you don't get into the water?"
"I mean we can go into the water later." Darent looked at him with disdain, "Do you understand the power of hope? If you don't go into the water, everyone will at least have a hope. If you find out the situation, everyone will give up. Is this the atmosphere you want now?"
"Don't you have any responsibility? Who told you to tell them that this bird could contact them?"
"They blamed me for eavesdropping... and what I said was not wrong, right? Look, isn't this a connection? You were also in charge of that case at the time. Let me guess, could Heidegger not have seen her transcript?"
"I told you not to call me Heidegger!"
Ethan was furious and stood up to grab the man by the collar. The others then woke up as if from a dream and started to try to persuade them to stop fighting or to make peace. After a lot of talking, they finally managed to pull the two men apart.
"It seems like they are really going crazy." Black Owl said, this was the feeling from Aisuen Hitzfeld.
These people were not like this originally, take Ethan for example. Ethan has a straightforward temper, but he is not a powder keg that can be easily ignited.
Darent had teased him many times in the past, and he had never seen him unable to restrain himself from hitting anyone.
The same goes for Darent. He can flirt with people, but if someone gets angry with him, he will back down faster than a rabbit and it is impossible for him to have such a strong rebellious emotion.
This is what happens when one is locked up in a sealed space for a long time and loses hope of escape. One's mental will is worn away bit by bit, and one's personality gradually changes.
Fortunately, the discovery was not too late, so it does not mean that there is no hope.
There's a term called the catfish effect... The "awakening" of Black Owl is like throwing a catfish into stagnant water, and more or less, everyone's mentality and spirit have changed to a certain extent.
After all, the Pierre only had one captain.
No matter how much Teni has performed beyond expectations during this period, they only have one backbone, and her name is Aisuen Hitzfeld.
"Let me confirm again." Straightening his collar, Ethan looked at Black Owl, "There are two people in here now... The director and Hitzfeld are both here, right?"
"Yes." Big Bird nodded, "I'm Hitzfeld."
"Very good!" Ethan was in high spirits and asked first, "Now you know what happened here... How is the situation on your side?"
Hitzfeld spent a few minutes briefly describing how they ran to Neptune City.
Some details were omitted in the middle, not because she wanted to hide it from her companions, but because there was no need to say too much. The most important thing now was to investigate the space that trapped them and find a way to help everyone escape.
While she was communicating with these people, Xia Yibing took a break.
She hasn't recovered yet. She did it once in Dongquan Island and was very tired at that time, so every minute of rest time is precious.
And most importantly, she had confidence in Hitzfeld.
Aisuen has led everyone out of trouble many times. She always has a way. It is indeed most appropriate to let her handle this matter.
She thought so, and so did Ethan and the others. Everyone rushed to provide her with various details, from the questioning of Captain Shude and Billie... to the exploration of this isolated island... the human skin roll that was found... to ensure that there were no omissions.
Teni was watching from behind. He had nothing to say to her, but he was also impressed by the drastic change in the atmosphere after confirming that the other party was the young female detective.
He felt a little lonely, because this kind of recognition was exactly what he had worked so hard to get.
A hand patted him on the shoulder.
Looking back, it was Li Ang.
"keep it up."
Li Ang comforted him.
“Just keep it up.”
Hitzfeld is recording information.
To her, many of the things that happened on the Pierre could be matched with the information and clues she currently had, so she asked questions very carefully and confirmed some questions repeatedly.
"Leon brought the projection equipment. Did you bring the video tape as well?"
"Here you go. I can show it to you anytime you want. There are some ciphers in it that we can't understand. I guess Leng... Ahem! The doctor left it for you on purpose."
"Maps just said that the people chasing Captain Xiude were mechanical apostles? Are you sure they were from the Mechanical Kingdom?"
"I didn't see any mechanical apostles. Or let's put it this way - when I passed those reefs, I saw figures flying out of the damaged iron boats, but I'm not sure they were tin men. I didn't really see them."
"Is there a stranded iron boat on this beach?"
"Yes, it was broken into several sections... We didn't find anyone inside after searching, but we speculated that the possibility of the internal structure being a mechanical man is very high, more than 90%."
"Bring me that human skin scroll."
Ethan had been collecting the thing since it was discovered. He quickly ran out to get it, while Hitzfeld took the opportunity to ask Baliu and others about the progress of the exploration of the "isolated island".
Baliu began to tell her about the mountain, the bone forest, the stone tablets found on the edge of the "crater", and the deep blood spring inside the crater.
In addition, there is Cybertron, who also recounted the dreams she had come into contact with. Some of them were intermittent, but it can be basically guessed that they were dreams left by one of the nine Blood Knights.
Then Ethan ran back panting and threw the human skin roll onto the low table.
Hitzfeld tried to flip it over by flapping his wings awkwardly, but failed.
After three failures, Xia Yibing couldn't stand it anymore, so she forcibly took over Black Owl's body, lowered her head and used her beak to help her turn the pages.
After reading a few pages, they caught a glimpse of the upside-down whirlpool.
It's the thing that looks like a tornado. Darent and others just said that they speculated that these are two upside-down worlds.
"After passing through the vortex, you can travel to another world. This is a different way of traveling than the gray fog barrier - that's what we guessed before."
Ethan said cautiously, fearing that these speculations would mislead them.
After all, they already knew where Hitzfeld was now—Sea King City, inland of Elsa Continent! It was too far away from here, and the only help she could provide was those novel ideas.
Hitzfeld thought for a moment, then used the bird's beak to ask, "Have you checked the map?"
"What map?"
"Two maps - I mean, since you have already guessed in the direction of 'two worlds', why not be bolder and directly guess that this is the sealing point specially set up by the Imaar family - the Tomb of the Nine Knights?"
A group of people told her they were confused.
...What do you mean? This is the Tomb of the Nine Knights. Do they know about this?
Captain Xiu De also said this, and it is something everyone knows. What does she want to express by mentioning this?
"Didn't you say before that you found eight other stone tablets very similar to the Holy Stone Tablet at the bottom of the sea - at the bottom of the Blue Sea?"
Hitzfeld's voice drew out.
"Those stone tablets are actually the bottom of this isolated island. This is also a time and space node, connecting two different planes at the same time. What you see is just its different appearance in two different planes."
"…Have you ever thought about this?"
Chapter 147 Mechanical Voice
Hitzfeld was just guessing... because according to the intelligence that had been ascertained, it had been confirmed that there was a group of tombs in the Blue Sea that was supposed to be composed of nine tombstones. At the same time, there was also a place in the Blood Sea that was confirmed to be the tomb of the Bloodborne Knights. The two sides were indeed connected.
Moreover, she had just asked these people where they were heading, and although the answers they got were not accurate, everyone was sure that it was "northwest". Considering that they had initially passed through the southwest corner of Aisha Continent, which was the node that Bunoriel had mentioned to them, a line segment from that node to the northwest was connected, which was close to the direction they had described at the beginning, where the Blue Sea Tombs were found.
The verification method is also very simple, just compare it with the map.
The location of the Black Fog Sea is not a secret. If you spend money, you can buy a nautical chart, but it is impossible for common products to mark the locations of all the reefs. This is why a group of people in the Governor's Office had to rely on the blood map.
Hitzfeld only needs to point out the location of the Black Fog Sea on the Blue Sea map according to his memory, and this group of people will be able to compare and verify whether this place is in a similar location to the Blue Sea Tombs.
"It's almost the same..." Everyone was a little bit unconvinced at first, but after Darent took out the map and showed it to her, they could see clearly the point she pointed to with her wings. Teni was the first to mutter, "It's basically the same location as the damn place we encountered..."
"Okay, take a five-minute break." Hitzfeld retracted his wings. "You guys discuss this. I also have something to say to Director Imaar."
Without waiting for the group of people to try to stop her, she ended her descent and returned to her body with Xia Yibing's soul.
"She's gone..." Darent instinctively moved forward to catch the northern sea eagle, but found that the big bird suddenly froze for a moment, then flapped its wings and jumped to the upper bunk. He immediately shouted in despair: "Ah! She just left us like that!"
"Stop it." Ethan slapped him on the back. "I told you to take a break. Come here. I think this discovery is very valuable to us..."
Don't worry about what is being discussed over there, because that wasn't the main reason why Hitzfeld decided to take a break.
She was worried about Xia Yibing, because ever since she had read the human skin scroll, the woman's spirit had been restless and seemed extremely anxious.
With her eyes open, her body was naturally still leaning on her knees. Looking up from this angle, you couldn't even see the woman's chin, it was completely blocked by the mountain.
Hitzfeld thought about it, turned his hands up, grabbed the other person's waist in a very strange posture, and pinched it hard.
"Hmm?" Xia Yibing sat up straight like a fish that had been stimulated, lowered her head and glared at the girl: "Are you doing this to me on purpose?"
"I just want to know how strong someone's determination is," Hitzfeld said. "After all, I've heard people say, 'Don't look back, look to the future.'"
"It's different, okay." Xia Yibing smiled bitterly, feeling like she had been tricked by herself.
In fact, she did not break her promise. If she had to worry about these things, she would have been on the verge of corruption again. Her mood is generally stable now, which is not easy for someone with the last name "Imaer".
After all, in this short period of less than a day, she obtained the secret and suffered the greatest impact.
First of all, we traced back the inherited memories and clarified the general process of the Imaar family's revival and rise, confirming that they were not "villains" as revealed in some intelligence. In the beginning, they were just fighting for freedom and to save the entire Elsa.
At this point, the emotions are already very complicated. Because the subversion of the "evil theory" has made the experience of Imaar's family in Wayne lose most of its justice. Although the two people who made the decision at that time - King Charuni and Villefort - are dead, she certainly doesn't feel very good.
Let’s not say “the villains once massacred the city” at this time... Because no matter how stupid you are, you should be able to guess that even if the massacre was true, Imar’s army would only massacre the real evildoers.
Not to mention that she finally learned the origin of her family: Imaer - this human race named after the oath was actually newly created by the King of Blood Origin using himself as the foundation.
That is to say, including her, Xia Yibing, this human race was not a product of natural birth... Then how should she view the oath made by her ancestors? Is she Director Imar at this moment, or the last descendant of the Oath Guardian family?
If these messy questions were put on a normal person, they would have made them dazed and hesitant a long time ago, but her mental will was strong enough that she didn't show it until she met Hitzfeld here.
It was only when she saw the human skin scroll and the manuscript written by the person who was theoretically her predecessor that she realized the will and determination contained in those words. Only then did those repressed emotions begin to awaken, and she gradually became unable to control herself.
Hitzfeld understood her completely, so she said to take a five-minute break just to help Xia Yibing calm down.
"I support you no matter what you want to do." She did not change her posture, still nestling comfortably in the woman's thighs.
The scenery here is unique, only a fool would change places.
"As you can see... I am probably the heir of a faction now. I am not sure whether this faction has a future, but I think I should have some confidence now and tell you 'even if you fail, there will be no one willing to take you in'."
"Aisun." Xia Yibing sighed with a smile, "You are always so good at comforting people."
People who are sensitive to people's hearts are like this. Because they are too sensitive, they can always detect other people's hidden emotional fluctuations. And because they are too smart, they can always guess the reasons for the fluctuations. If on this basis, they have a delicate heart and a well-educated mouth, the soothing words they say are really powerful, and I can never resist.
"Are you sure you'll support me no matter what I do?" she asked seriously, "even if I decide to...change jobs?"
Rebellious.
Although this word has become a joke in many cases, she is serious this time - except for the last time when facing King Charuni, she has never really brought up this matter before.
"I believe you won't violate certain principles, so why should I hesitate?" Hitzfeld shook his head. "You can't join the evildoers and do evil. It's nothing more than changing your identity to fight against them... It makes no difference to me..."
"Then I've made up my mind." Xia Yibing interrupted her, "I'm going to continue doing it - and then use these two identities to put an end to them at the same time! No matter what they want to do!"
Yes, in fact, she had already figured out some things a long time ago, but she just hadn't been able to make up her mind.
It wasn't Sarah who killed their father, but this damn era.
