Lily lay beside her, and the Blood Crystal Crow squatted by the stove, also looking intently at the center.
"She herself has similar symptoms?"
"Maybe not……"
"Is there any?"
"When I was sick as a child, it was my mother who took care of me," Esther said. "I was sick but my mother was fine. I think she probably... doesn't have this disease."
Then her mother can be ruled out as a suspect?
Xia Yibing was eating biscuits nearby, thinking that the "source of the disease" should not be Maren Murphy.
It couldn't be Robbo either.
Rob is his stepfather, and Esther is not his biological daughter. So the biggest suspect is Maren Murphy's first husband, the mathematician who died early?
So the mathematician has been to the Arctic glacial lake?
Judging from the information and clues collected so far, the source of everything is in the ice lake.
Many, many years ago, the "curse" of the ice lake was triggered - whether it was done by "Depp" or not, it was triggered anyway. It might not be caused by the extremely cold weather. Xia Yibing thought there was a good possibility that it was the confusing curse they had experienced in the past few days.
This curse is extremely powerful and strange. Not only can it connect the lives and memories of different species and transform them into each other, it can also directly transform the purest ice into flesh and blood.
The Ice Lake Warrior may be the product of this transformation.
There were no survivors.
The early human groups that lived near the ice lake were completely wiped out in this large-scale confusion curse, and those that survived were merely their copies - humanoid monsters transformed from ice crystals, who simply inherited their memories!
And then... Xia Yibing estimated that for some unknown reason, the curse disappeared.
This confusion never occurred again, and no more mutations and icemen were created. After completely inheriting their identities, the icemen that had already appeared mistakenly believed that they were actually humans. They had human appearance, heartbeat, and thoughts, and moved to the bottom of the glacier to form villages, and then intermarried with the southerners who came here, gradually forming the Ice Lake Town.
Until today, the curse comes again.
What caused it to be triggered again?
Esther is a Wayne, and so is his mother. They cannot be the descendants of the first intermarriage between the Iceman and normal people. The time span is too long. If all the descendants of the Iceman have the same disease as Esther, they could not have gone unnoticed for so many years. This disease must have been discovered by the medical department long ago.
So it should be that mathematician.
Xia Yibing suspected that the reason why the Ice Lake Curse was triggered for the second time was because of that mathematician. It was very likely that the guy went to the Ice Lake to explore and was accidentally infected with the curse. Then he died there in person, and the one who ran back was a copy.
This clone then married Maren Murphy and gave birth to Esther.
Only this can explain the time span.
Wait a minute…
Thinking of this, Xia Yibing suddenly stopped chewing.
I came to the Arctic glacier with nothing to do.
Have I seen this kind of behavior somewhere before?
She remembered that the agent who defected from the message left by Villefort was called Solo Lawrence... Didn't he defect for unknown reasons and then run to the Arctic glacier for unknown reasons?
Batty had come to Ice Lake Town before to trace his footsteps. Batty did not go up the mountain, but according to the records he left behind, Solo Lawrence did go up the mountain!
Could he be that mathematician?
Could it be that he was the first person to trigger the Ice Lake Curse, and then because the original curse was flawed, his clone had defects in his body shape, appearance, and memory, so the Security Bureau did not notice that someone like Solo Lawrence had returned?
That really explains it perfectly...
Then Lawrence and then Rob...
Damn, no wonder Robo is so obsessed with exploring the Arctic glaciers!
What the hell is this God-given road? He was just helping his wife find clues left by her ex-husband, right?
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case. Xia Yibing chewed the biscuits hard, with excitement flashing in her eyes.
Did Aisuen find out?
She might have discovered something, but she would never have thought that Esther's father might be Solo Lawrence!
This time I am finally ahead!
Xia Yibing waited happily on the side, wanting to tell the girl about her discovery after they finished their conversation.
She didn't wait too long. After all, Esther...she didn't know much. From the conversation, it could be seen that her mother, Maren Murphy, obviously knew the inside story, but she had been hiding behind the scenes. She was not here, and there was no way to find her to verify anything.
"Aisun?"
The girl was taken by Heidi to a corner to rest. Xia Yibing went up to Hitzfeld and saw her using the cut snow fox fur as a rag to wipe the blood stains on the notebook.
"Open it quickly! Open it and take a look!"
The Blood Crystal Crow was making a fuss nearby.
"Handwriting that can be sewn into the body of that weird thing!"
"There must be a big secret in there!"
You are such a talkative bastard.
After glaring at the crow, Xia Yibing's eyes also fell on the notebook.
That’s okay.
Anyway, there is not much here, just plenty of time.
First read what is written here, and then check the answers.
As if to assert her sovereignty, the woman squeezed next to the girl, put her arm around her with her right hand, and rested her chin on the girl's left shoulder in a very brazen manner.
From this angle, his face was almost touching hers.
Hitzfeld was already accustomed to this kind of intimacy, so he didn't show any reaction and continued, opening his notes while wearing gloves.
[I am Rob.]
When they saw the first line of words, the expressions of the two people changed.
[I can't get away. I have to consider the possibility that I won't be able to leave here, so I have to find a way to take out everything I know, what I have explored now, and what I have seen, and leave it for the people outside to know.]
[Some people may know that I have been conducting research on the "God-given Way", but they must not know the terrible truth hidden in the "God-given Way".]
[I began researching this topic in 1978, and I had no idea that I would stumble upon information that would revolutionize history.]
[What kind of information is this—the North Pole and the Equator are reversed.]
"This is impossible!"
Xia Yibing exclaimed reflexively.
How crazy does one have to be to say such nonsense?
What does it mean that the North Pole and the Equator are reversed?
Can this be reversed?
She didn't think that such a thing could actually happen. It was even more outrageous than the Grand Canyon being cut out by the Sun King's sword. She immediately found a powerful rebuttal - Elsa Continent!
If the North Pole and the equator were reversed, why is the Elsa continent still in the original position on the map?
Shouldn't it flip over as well?
But she felt vaguely uneasy.
Mainly... it's just too coincidental.
They had encountered two situations before. One was that the Blood Crystal Crow said Heidi was not an ice orchid, but looked more like a tropical plant. The other was the "carbon steel", a mysterious black material that needed to be formed in a high temperature environment.
Indeed…if the North Pole and the Equator had ever been reversed, this would all be explained.
But, again - how could it be?
This shouldn't be possible, even God can't do it, right?
"It is possible."
Hitzfeld said softly.
"I guess you will use the Elsa Continent to refute it, but don't forget, Xia... the Elsa Continent was once swallowed by the gray fog and teleported to another time and space."
And the time it exists is compressed.
Xia Yibing added to her thoughts in her heart.
"Do you think there is a possibility that after Elsa Continent was separated from the planet Namiia, the planet underwent a pole deflection. No matter what the deflection is, whether the equator becomes the pole or the pole becomes the equator, after Elsa Continent returns, it will continue to exist in its original position?"
"And do you remember the 'Gulliver's Island' I told you about?"
Following the girl's words, the woman recalled a memory on the train.
……
"You are actually right. '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, because the real Gulliver's Island doesn't fit this description at all."
"That means you, and some other people, are still stuck in stereotypes and can't break free. We've mentioned before that this world has undergone more than one major change. This major change includes essential and physical changes, and can even merge overlapping worlds 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?"
……
boom! ! !
There was a sound of thunder and lightning in her heart, and Xia Yibing was extremely shocked at this moment.
She looked to the right and saw the gray-haired girl with her long silver-gray eyelashes fluttering, also looking at her with a shy smile.
"Aisun, you wouldn't have just—"
"Of course not."
Hitzfeld closed his eyes gently.
"At most, I suspected that the Arctic was indeed very hot..."
It's like Greenland on Earth.
Green, green.
The current Earth is a pale island covered with ice and snow. Who would have thought that it might once have been green?
Chapter 39: Pole Shift Theory (Two in One)
The pages of the notes were turned one by one, and as he read, Rob Murphy's long-held secret - his persistent epic research - finally surfaced at this moment.
[I call it the Pole Shift Theory.] The notes read.
[I must point out that this is not my own achievement. The main reason why I was able to discover this terrible secret was that I fell deeply in love with a woman named Maren Murphy, and after marrying her, I accepted the research materials left by her husband.]
[I must count myself lucky, because the information was right at the critical juncture, making it interesting but not alarming, otherwise it would have been seized before I could read it.]
[I have wondered many times whether Mr. Solo-Murphy deliberately wrote the material to this extent, that is, whether he had foreseen his future before he set out there?]
[I shouldn't have taken this research to heart... After all, even if the world has changed, what does it have to do with me? I only know that I still love Maren and Esther. I don't want to care about the conflicts they had in the past. I just hope that I can do my best... to always be with them. This is enough for me.]
[But Esther's condition does not allow me to hesitate.]
[Also in 1978, shortly after I discovered the material, Esther’s condition worsened.]
[I never knew this happened... We were strolling on the street, the afternoon sun was so beautiful, I turned back and wanted to hold her hand to remind her to pay attention to the crowd, and then I saw her fall off the car with my own eyes, and the exposed skin began to become loose.]
[We went home immediately and I told her I would ask a doctor to come. This was an extremely serious and rare disease and Esther must get the best treatment.]
[But Maren stopped me.]
[That was our first argument, and it was so bad. I could tell she knew something, and I couldn't help but wonder if this wasn't Esther's first attack? Was her condition getting particularly severe?]
[With this thought in mind, I questioned Maren, and she finally told me: Esther was not actually the offspring of her and a normal person, and the disease originated from her father, the mathematician named Solo.]
[I continued to press her about the truth of this man’s death, and she admitted that it was not a normal death, but that his entire body melted—in an accident, he was exposed to too much scorching sun without proper protection, and he melted, just like an ice man turning into water.]
[Obviously, this is a curse!!!]
