"Like the Willis." Robbo nodded heavily.
"They are just a bunch of primitive people with protruding ears... If they can do it, why can't we? Their navigation technology at that time only supported the construction of small broken ships less than 20 meters long. Can you imagine that, Sheriff? If we find that path, we can break the blockade of the gray fog!"
He was a little too optimistic about this matter.
Even if he seriously considered the possibility of success, Xia Yibing did not think that this path would have the good effects he said after it was discovered.
Because she had traveled on a submarine in an ocean covered with gray fog before, she knew how harsh the marine environment was. In addition to the deep sea, sea monsters, and storms, one had to be wary of the ubiquitous gray fog walls. Those walls seemed to have physical forms, but in fact they might be portals to another dimension. If one accidentally walked into one, it would be difficult to come back.
So this is the problem - Xia Yibing suspects that the North Pole portal and the God-given road are a leftover gray fog node.
It's all teleportation anyway, so is there any difference?
Hitzfeld continued to look at the information, looking thoughtful.
She didn't speak, and Robo didn't speak either.
Xia Yibing didn't say anything either—then the remaining three children didn't dare to speak even more.
Until a sparse noise came from afar, and it was the other children who changed their clothes and came to the dining car.
“Very exciting and inspiring research topic.”
Hitzfeld closed the notebook.
"Excuse me, can I take this home to look at it?"
"Go ahead." Robbo nodded.
"I know about your achievements... I'm not afraid to tell you that I would be proud and honored if I could arouse your interest in this matter."
"Isn't that why you agreed to come to Nian Lun..."
Xia Yibing's tone was somewhat unfriendly.
"What do you owe her?"
"You don't think this is my first time there?" Robo laughed.
"Not really... I went there once about seven years ago, and I almost lost my life there. It was she and her servants who saved me."
"Her servant?"
"You will see her soon in Trierred."
"Oh yeah, her name is Heidi."
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Woohoo... The two-in-one monster is attacking me...
Chapter 15 Perspective (Two in One)
After returning to the room, Hitzfeld immediately sat back in the small corner of the bed by the window, placed the thick document on the table and began to read it.
"You seem to care about this thing a lot." Xia Yibing came over and asked obscurely, "But the problem is that the term 'God-given Road' is too unpopular."
"The world is so big, and there are so many legends. It's normal that some of them are unpopular, unknown to most people, or even not recorded in writing."
But there are examples of agents defecting, and I don't think any legend involving that place will be ignored by Batty, because he has actually been there, and he will not joke about his own life.
This is what Xia Yibing thought in her heart... She thought it was very likely that Villefort - and even all the directors before Villefort, they all thought that the "God-given Road" was ridiculous.
Simply put, this concept does not exist. They believe that the story of the Grimm brothers is fictional and that the navigator Daly was a madman who died following the legend. They have sufficient data and documents to prove this - proving that this theory is nonsense.
Then the attitude I just showed to Rob Murphy can really be considered very polite.
She thought suddenly.
Using tax money to support such a paranoid lunatic, ah... our King Elwin is really too kind.
"You doubt the authenticity of 'The God-given Road'?" Hitzfeld looked up at her. "Do you think it's fake? It doesn't exist?"
"I..." Xia Yibing hesitated for only a moment before she decided to confess: "Yes, I don't believe what he said."
"If it's really such an important thing, Sarah can't remain indifferent to it. The 1836 Navigator Plan will not miss the exploration of the North Pole. You know, this is related to breaking through the gray fog! No matter which king it is, they will be interested!"
"But no one has ever done this. I haven't even seen many records." Xia Yibing spread her hands in the air. "Isn't this obviously just a pure rumor?"
There are many rumors like this, such as you can see ice mist blown by the Ice and Snow Goddess on snowy days, don't panic when sinking into a swamp, you can escape by silently reciting the name of the 'Mother Earth' and so on.
But what is the truth? According to the case files Xia Yibing had read, the so-called "Ice and Snow Goddess blowing ice mist" was just an illusion created by a group of street urchins who were high on drugs, and all the adventurers who tried to escape by chanting the name of God would eventually become broken bones in the swamp rainforest.
Therefore, there is no need to pay any attention to such rumors. They are not even worth recording in detail. The most you can do is to mention them to prevent colleagues from wasting their time.
"Well, let me give you an example." Hitzfeld shook his head, lifted one of his black silk legs and placed it on the other leg, "Do you know Gulliver's Island?"
"Yes, it is the largest island in the north. Go straight ahead along the Crystal Sea and you will see it not far from the land."
"You understand ancient Sarai and have studied some obscure languages. Do you know what the word 'Gulliver' stands for?"
"I..." Xia Yibing frowned and looked thoughtful.
"I know 'Gre', which means plant. But there are no plants there... I'm not sure... its source language is Sara, maybe not even ancient Sara. It should be a name used by the locals in an even more ancient time."
"Let me ask another question." Hitzfeld just shook his head. "The Kolan Islands are an archipelago located in the southern waters of Goli. Were they called the Kolan Islands from the beginning?"
"Of course not." Xia Yibing shook her head. "This is because the Goliaths discovered the Kolan Island and named it based on its characteristics, which is 'a place where many sea turtles live'. 'Kolan' means 'turtle' in ancient Sara language."
She thought Hitzfeld would say something else, but she found that the girl was just staring at her with a smile.
Ah!
Then she finally came to realize that Kolan Island was given such a name only after it was discovered by the civilized world. What its original name was, whether there were natives on it, and what the natives called it were all unimportant to the civilized world.
Because no matter what the natives called Kolan Island, civilized society would not recognize it. They only recognized the name given to it by the discoverer - Kolan Island, so it has been called Kolan Island since then, and even the gods cannot change this impression.
By the same token, the same should be true for Gulliver's Island.
Perhaps there had been native tribes on Gulliver's Island before, but the people who discovered Gulliver's Island and named it in this way must have come from the civilized world.
Then the language used to name it must also come from the civilized world, so it cannot be out of my cognition...
The woman squinted her eyes in confusion. She didn't understand what the error was.
"You're not wrong," Hitzfeld answered the riddle. "'Gulliver' means 'plant', and 'Gulliver' means 'stone covered with plants'. You should know all of this, but you just don't dare to stick to your own judgment."
"Of course I wouldn't dare." Xia Yibing frowned, "Because the real Gulliver's Island doesn't fit this description at all."
There are rocks covered with plants... Not to mention covered with plants, there is not even a blade of grass in that damn place now, it is just a wasteland covered with solid ice and thick snow.
"That means you, and some other people, are still stuck in the stereotype and can't break free." Hitzfeld said with a smile, "We have mentioned before that this world has undergone more than one major change. This major change includes essential and physical changes, and can even make the overlapping worlds merge into one, condensing into what we see today."
"Then have you ever thought about... Xia, have you ever thought about the fact that this change includes the weather - let me be more specific - including the concept of 'extreme cold'?"
"Is it possible that in ancient times, when Gulliver's Island was discovered and recorded, the Arctic was not actually cold?"
"It may not be spring-like all year round, and it may not be as suitable for life as a tropical rain forest, but it is enough for the remaining ice and snow to melt into water, irrigate the entire vast land, and help seeds sprout and bloom... Is it possible that 'Gulliver's Island' was covered with vegetation when it was discovered?"
Is it possible to explain it this way...?
Xia Yibing was speechless. She found that the girl's words did make sense.
No...it not only makes sense, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.
But can I be blamed for this?
If it is any other person - she means a normal human being with a lifespan, as long as he/she cannot break free from the limits of lifespan, then his/her cognition, experience and perspective will definitely be confined within this limitation.
He/she can only live for about seventy years. It is impossible for him/her to observe from the perspective of an "immortal species"?
This kind of perspective... a perspective that easily spans hundreds or thousands of years of time. She had only experienced this in the purest tree people, such as Russ-Annual Rings. How come Aisuen now observes things in this way?
"It should be the residual effect of contact with the crown."
Seeing Xia Yibing's expression of first realization, then frowning, and finally staring at him with worry, Hitzfeld guessed what she was thinking.
"The touch may have only lasted for a moment, but what I experienced..." She shook her head, "I may not be able to remember much, but I can feel that time was stretched. I was forced to integrate the remaining information in the three eyes in that state."
"Remaining information?"
Xia Yibing looked back at the motionless box.
"...Didn't Yusilian say that it could be hedged?"
"Only a tiny part will remain." Hitzfeld still shook his head.
"Don't worry... The truly harmful knowledge has been offset. What remains is what they have seen and heard, which is what they have spent a long time after being stranded in Aisha."
"The key is this long time." She raised her head again, trying to curl her lips towards the woman. "It can be considered a price, or a side effect... It directly caused my perspective to deviate from the scope of normal humans. Just like the 'God-given Road' mentioned by Robb, when I first heard it, I even thought, 'Could this have happened tens of thousands of years ago, or even hundreds of millions of years ago'..."
"Aisun!"
Xia Yibing nervously wanted to hug her.
"You!... Why are you like this? I told you it's okay! It really is okay!"
Hitzfeld wasn't lying to her.
Compared with the impact caused by the message left by my mother, this side effect can be said to be insignificant.
It doesn't affect my daily life, so why bother? It's like I've been seriously injured again...
But Xia Yibing didn't think so.
She is distressed.
If you feel sorry for someone, you should hug them.
Even though Hitzfeld had promised her that and expressed his feelings to her many times, she still felt heartbroken - she felt extremely distressed by the heavy responsibility that this fragile body had to bear.
"tell me……"
While hugging Hitzfeld's body, she pressed her face against the girl's shoulder and sighed.
"Tell me how I can help you..."
“I’ve actually wanted to talk about this for a long time…”
"But I dare not..."
"I'm afraid that one day you will disappear..."
There were too many complicated emotions. The woman was speechless for a moment and couldn't express specifically what she was worried about.
Yes - because Hitzfeld had promised her that, she was not worried that the girl would think too much. She was indeed very happy that she thought so.
But there is another reality, that is, ever since Aisuen Hitzfeld encountered the mechanical doctor Coldis, she obtained the knowledge inheritance of the tenth-level mysterious master from his dream, and later awakened her true spirit and inherited the powerful power of the Dead Bone Ice Needle. The gap between them seems to have been gradually widening.
Now, Count Hitzfeld can even control the mechanical Yang, and she also controls the "Original Blood". As long as she is willing, she can open up two new inheritance paths of "Blood Mage" and "Secret Mage" at the same time.
And what about yourself?
Xiasha-Imaar still only has a long Xia sword.
Although relying on the advantage she had gained in Talignan, that is, the symbiotic relationship, which enabled the two of them to communicate with each other's souls, and they were in perfect harmony in everything they did, which could be called a resonance of soul and flesh, she also used this to evolve Changxia into an ice sword. Its combat power could be said to have broken the limit of what could be achieved in the current spirit stage, and it almost increased in the same proportion as Hitzfeld's improvement.
But the gap is still widening.
Look... She almost didn't understand what she was saying, and her observational standpoint that was completely not that of a short-lived person. And what was the idea that Hitzfeld had expressed through the crow's mouth before?
She said she wanted to fight for... the future of both the new mother tree and Namiya to exist at the same time.
She said that she wanted to take the ladder to heaven, and wanted to use the mother tree's closeness to her to ascend to the throne of God in this era.
Xia Yibing certainly hopes that she will succeed, but if she succeeds...how big will the gap between them be?
She dared not think.
I dare not even ask.
"I will try to find a way to have the best of both worlds."
Such a voice suddenly came from above my head.
When he looked up, he saw Hitzfeld smiling at him with his head tilted.
"When I said I was willing to live for Xia, I didn't mean to live only until the end of your life..."
"I will also consider ways to make Xia accompany me forever..."
"I know you'll be concerned..."
"I know everything..."
But I am already very satisfied.
