She stared at Hitzfeld and said to her word by word: "I want to end the Gray Mist Era!"
"I will help you." Hitzfeld continued to lean comfortably on the pillow and stretched out a small hand. "How? ...The supreme promise from the Mechanical Princess and the Mysterious Lord~"
Xia Yibing shook hands with her seriously, then hugged her tightly in his arms while she was stunned and confused, even spreading his legs to hold her - rubbing her body hard like holding a quilt when sleeping.
"Aisun...my Aisun..."
After taking several puffs to satisfy his craving for fragrance, Xia Yibing let her go and smiled again: "...I've had a good rest!"
"Come on, Ethan and the others must be waiting impatiently."
After returning to Black Owl's body through Descending again, the two were embarrassed to find that for some reason, this silly bird had hidden itself in the gap between the locker and the bed, and its body was squeezed very uncomfortably.
After finally coming out, Black Owl asked those people in Xia Yibing's tone: "Did you catch it just now?"
Ethan immediately pointed at Darent: "He did it."
Darent pointed at Ethan at the same time: "It's him!"
"I don't want to hear your nonsense!" Xia Yibing was determined to regain her dignity. "Tell me... You have the most profound understanding of the environment here. Is Aisuen's discovery useful?"
"It's useful! And it's very useful!" Li Ang said impatiently, "We went into the water to explore on the third day. How should I put it? I feel like this is like a teapot with a bulging base."
He gestured and said, "The base of the teapot bulges upwards, forming the island we are on now. The crater in the middle may be connected to the external blood sea."
"We discussed it and thought that the crater might be a spatial image. Its appearance is an omission in this sealed space. There is a certain possibility that it corresponds to the destroyed tomb in the Blue Sea Tombs."
Hearing this, Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing were both stunned.
Is there such a thing?
This was something they had not expected...
"How did you think of guessing this?"
Although they were advised to think openly, this kind of thinking is too open.
"There are still some clues." Baliu said, "This island is not small. The 'crater' I found is not exactly in the center of the island, which means there is a possibility of other 'craters'."
"After all, it has been confirmed that this place is the tomb of the Nine Knights." Saibot also wanted to participate in the speech, "Maybe the entire island is part of the tomb? Maybe they are buried under the sand?"
"You think the reason why the crater and the blood fountain inside appeared is because the tomb in the blue sea was destroyed. Because the things in the tomb came out, this place in the different planes was torn and bulged, and a crater appeared. Is that what you mean?"
"That's it."
After a while of discussion, Hitzfeld asked them if they were sure where the blood spring in the crater led to.
Everyone shook their heads - who would dare to go down there? This place was like a prehistoric relic, no matter how brave you were, you couldn't possibly go there to investigate.
"There are two possibilities now." The girl took over Black Owl's body and began to analyze it in detail. "The first possibility is not the case at all. You are just guessing."
“I don’t think we’re guessing…” Darent shook his head.
Ethan kicked him and he was forced to shut up.
"You guessed the second one by chance, but where the blood spring under the crater leads to is a question."
After looking around, everyone looked normal.
It seems that they have all thought of this - after all, that is a blood spring, and underneath it is the blood sea water. If the outer area of the island is a sealed space called a "teapot", then the blood sea water surrounding the island may have originally erupted from the inside of the crater and then spread to the surrounding areas of the island.
If this is the case, then the crater is actually the exit.
The bloody seawater could flow in from there, which meant that it was connected to the outside world, and they could get out by finding that road. However, there was a very serious problem: the Pierre was too big, and they simply couldn't carry such a large submarine up the hill.
Someone suggested using explosives, but I won’t say who it was… Anyway, he was stared at with death stares by everyone.
You're crazy enough to use explosives... Don't forget that this damn place is a tomb. Under the white fine sand may be the bones of the evil god that merged with the nine knights. What if such a big noise alarms them? This is simply courting death!
"Then we can only use the ramming method." Teni spread his hands. "It's not like we haven't tried it before, but we always rammed it outwards. If the bottom of the island is really bulging upwards as Cornerel guessed, then the barrier at the bottom will be thinner. We can ram that position and maybe we can break through it."
This is actually a very risky move, because no one knows how sensitive the evil god's corpse is to vibrations, let alone whether that part is thin.
But at least it was hope. Ethan immediately asked Hitzfeld if he could spread the plan to others - that is, those crew members knew that they needed hope to turn around their morale.
There was naturally nothing to hide about this matter. Hitzfeld nodded in agreement, and Ethan ran out immediately.
The door was not closed, and after a while, the people in the cabin vaguely heard a burst of cheers outside, as well as whistling and stamping sounds.
"It seems like you've been having a very boring time lately." Hitzfeld wanted to laugh.
"I'm not bored anymore!" Darent even took out a trumpet from the box and blew it at the Borean Sea Eagle, almost sending the big bird flying.
"I still have time tonight."
Ordering the others to hold Darent down and teach him a lesson, the girl flapped her wings and flew to the shelf, "Why don't you take me to see those movies...?"
If we talk about the biggest discovery of the Pierre, it must be the port of Colossae under the tombs.
If Xia Yibing went out to sea partly for her and partly to explore her family background, then Hitzfeld went out to sea basically for this.
She wanted to know what kind of legacy Coldis had left her.
"No problem!" Li Ang patted his chest, "Come with me... Baliu, you take care of them."
Compared to Darent, Cornerel was still rough but meticulous. A group of people were walking back with a Borean sea eagle in a mighty procession.
Because the projector requires a larger wall space, it has always been placed in a corner of the restaurant.
When they arrived at the restaurant, there were not many people left. There was a lot of unfinished food on the table, indicating that the noise they heard before came from here.
However, most of the instigators are now unable to sit still. They all ran outside, some taking measurements and some looking at the sea, hoping to regain their freedom in the next "Operation Ramming".
Sending Darent to clear the table, Leon lifted a layer of oilcloth from the corner to expose the equipment inside.
Very rude construction.
Hitzfeld commented on them the moment he saw them.
But machines are wonderful things. Sometimes the cruder and more primitive the mechanical structure is, the more industrial beauty it possesses.
Refer to the Nano Iron Man suit or Nano Transformers. There is no flammability at all without the assembly and transformation process.
These two things... can be considered to have this kind of industrial beauty. She watched Li Ang fiddling with these things and her heartbeat began to speed up unconsciously.
Ok?
On the other side…the body in the room on the second floor seemed to be hugged a little tighter.
Is this her way of comforting me?
She felt a little itchy in her heart, but at the same time, as if she had been given courage, the girl gradually became less nervous.
Whatever you want to tell me, Father.
I think I'm all set.
"These are the two tapes we picked out that we couldn't understand." Li Ang said with his back to them, "We played the other tapes once and recorded all the contents in text in this little notebook."
He turned around and threw the notebook to Baliu, asking her to help turn it over to the two people.
"But these two are the only ones we can't read or understand." He clapped his hands and stood up, "because we can't understand that kind of ciphertext."
The projector was already casting light and shadows onto the wall, but Hitzfeld had no time to read the contents of the book, because as soon as the show started, Coldis's strange face inlaid with gears appeared.
"I'm not sure if we have this chance, but how should I put it... maybe there is still a place in my heart reserved for miracles. Just think of me as a joke or venting my emotions. What I mean is that if there is really a chance for you to see this tape, I will be very, very happy and happy."
It was indeed the language she had imagined.
Yes, for them - and only for them - this language is the safest.
For a moment, the girl felt her eyes getting hot, but she forced herself to suppress the impulse and continued watching without saying a word.
Naturally, the others couldn't understand it at all, including Xia Yibing, but they could all feel that Hitzfeld could understand it. The former did it by observing the Borean Sea Eagles, and the latter did it by sensing the heartbeat through touch.
The Robotech in the picture breathed a sigh of relief, as if, for him, having taken this first step, it would not be difficult to say anything later.
Hitzfeld thought he would say something cliché, like maybe he would apologize to her and say, "I'm not a good father"; or maybe he would vent all his pain and longing and say, "I actually love and miss you very much."
But she didn't expect that Lendis would say this later:
"I have imagined many times what I would do if I were to educate you... It would not have anything to do with kindness. Instead, I would first cultivate your vigilance, because you have no idea how much evil is lurking in this world."
"To give you an obvious example, you wouldn't be so stupid as to trust something whose true nature you can't see clearly and which you are sure has intelligence, and stay with it for a long time, right?"
Hitzfeld was stunned.
Although she knew it was a coincidence, she did think of Alessia.
Chapter 148 Turning Point
After waking up, Hitzfeld felt that he had done nothing wrong in this matter.
Alessia is valuable, and the memories of the Blood River may be traced back further than any hero bones. Even though they now know how Aisha Continent developed from ancient times into the Kingdom of Corrupted Blood, there are still many details and doubts that need to be verified.
For example, why did the Neon family become the final winner of the hundred-year bloody war? Was it the Undead Fleet that supported them... and so on.
The efficiency of the Hero's Bone is still too low, and the Blood Temple is only in big cities. If nothing unexpected happens, their next step will be to go to Oujin City to attend the birthday banquet of the Human King. Then there will only be one chance to spy on the nightmare of the Temple. If they really encounter a problem, who else can they rely on except asking Alessia and expecting it to abide by the contract and answer.
And she was very sure that she didn't really believe Alessia.
Although, this little thing no longer looks aggressive or lethal after it turns into that appearance, it can even be said to be... a little bit... cute.
But let's not forget what they saw in the pipes of Iverria's palace.
There were hundreds of skeletons scattered all over the ground. Some of the skeletons had been hanging there for so long that they had faded and stuck to the wall, while some of the skeletons looked new, with pink blood still covering their surfaces...
If Hitzfeld had to describe that scene, he could only use an analogy from a sea monster movie made by an Earthling. Sometimes she would even imagine how Alessia used her body to roll up some people with water, wrapping them inside her body, and then sucking their blood out from under their skin alive, using her own digestive juices to corrode them into skeletons.
So she could never have any empathy for Alessia because of the way she was.
Empathy is for people.
This thing is not a human being.
However, Lengdis' words reminded her again - although she had never let down her guard against the little water man, she often trusted the glass tube too much.
I need to find something... something really solid and sturdy to ensure this guy can't escape no matter what.
After a brief moment of daze, she gradually heard Lengdis talking endlessly: "...Yes, I must train you well and focus on educating you in this aspect! Because damn, if you can see the tape, it means that something here has found you. I don't care if it's the Outer God or the so-called Sun King - I don't care who it is, I must make it clear to you that you can only trust yourself in this world! Don't even think about any friends, elders, lovers, etc.! These things will kill you!"
But I don't think so, father.
Hitzfeld remained silent.
She knew that when this video was recorded, Coldis was still the extremely radical Doctor Mechanic. He lived in pain with hatred and malice towards the two worlds. For him, there was really no one he could trust. The only person who could make him lose his composure and say such heartfelt words in "secret code" was himself.
She knew it, so even though she didn't think so, she wouldn't blame the man.
"Then, I have to introduce it to you in a very grand manner." The doctor in the picture rubbed his hands and took an oil painting frame from the side.
Oh, and he can draw, too.
He can draw and loves to draw - in fact, he was a painter before he became a corpse stitcher. To put it in a more metaphysical way... Hitzfeld has such painting skills without long-term training, and a big reason for this is from this gene.
She stared at the painting carefully and saw that it was a portrait of a man.
Unlike Lengdis, this man didn't have a mechanical body. There was nothing about him that didn't look human. If there was anything weird, it was that his face looked a bit contradictory.
He had a beard, a thick curly beard, not long or big, but enough to make him look ten years older than he was twenty. But to be honest, apart from the messy hair, he was really young, with fair skin and deep eyes... Oh, by the way, if there was anything strange, it must be the corner of his eye, where Hitzfeld actually saw a few fishtail wrinkles that were deliberately carved.
Who is this?
"Yinsel." The doctor looked down at the painting as if introducing a product, and at the same time raised his head and glanced outside the camera.
"If I remember correctly, I recorded a conversation with him before. The name should be "The Truth of Bloodline". It involves some philosophical and theological things. If you watch that first, then you may understand why I feel so angry towards her."
The truth about bloodline?
Hitzfeld was stunned when he heard this.
Good man, so the film technology was already invented by Lendis a long time ago, and he just used it for his own amusement? Oh, at least he knew to record these secrets for her...
"Page 36." Li Ang whispered beside him.
"what?
"Page 36 - I just heard him say 'Yin Seol'. Is that the correct pronunciation? Then you must be talking about that person. Page 36 is about Yin Seol, and the tape is called "The Truth of Bloodline."
It was difficult for Hitzfeld to flip the page using her wings, so Barrie helped her find the right position, but she only read a few lines before turning her attention back to the film.
Obviously, you can read the contents of the book later, there is no need to miss this "movie".
She has realized how precious this opportunity is.
"I want to tell you how dangerous this guy is." The doctor tapped the picture frame gently.
