"But this is the fact." Xia Yibing looked at Esther who was rubbing her eyes and Heidi who was in deep thought. "The last words Rob left in his notebook... Aisuen and I analyzed it and felt that his thinking had been abnormal for a long time."
"Considering that they were almost a day ahead of us, we had to race against time if we didn't want him to arrive at Depp-Valtina Ice Lake before us."
The basic logic contained in Robo's last message has been messed up.
He said he saw the light, and they had to consider the possibility that Robo had been contaminated. He was obviously a little crazy and incoherent. A person in this state, and a transcendent, could cause more harm than one could imagine.
Esther and Heidi had no objections. Esther was worried about Robbo, and even though she was tired and sleepy she still insisted. Heidi didn't care at all. She was the one wearing the least clothes among the people present. Bing Lanluo was not afraid of the cold at all.
But Bing Lanluo is not the only one who is not afraid of the cold...
Seeing Heidi only wearing a shirt and a coat and telling Esther to wear more clothes, Hitzfeld wondered what Annual Ring was trying to do.
Flowers that bloom from ice and snow are naturally not afraid of the cold. Although common sense has it that most tropical plants cannot survive in extremely cold areas, is the "Crown of Vulcan" an ordinary tropical plant?
She wasn't sure.
After all, she was not specialized in this. The leaves of the "Crown of the God of Fire" were the material for the potion of violent temper, but the effect was limited to this. As far as Hitzfeld knew, this plant was not violent enough to survive in the extreme cold of minus forty or fifty degrees Celsius.
It is not ruled out that a mutation has occurred. If the "Crown of the God of Fire" can really go one step further, the principle behind it... well... it's like we also have to use flames to keep out the cold. Maybe this is also the reason why she is cold-resistant.
Now Hitzfeld is most curious about two things. One is what is buried under the ice lake of Valtina. Robb obviously discovered something seven years ago, because according to the description in his notes, Esther's disease has a tendency to worsen. It is hard to say whether the girl can survive for seven years under this trend. It is not ruled out that he found a way to delay Esther's disease seven years ago. Everything is buried under the ice lake.
The other was the annual rings and Heidi. She had indeed examined Heidi's dreams and understood everything she had experienced in her life, that is, since she awakened her spiritual perception and consciousness. Judging from this "dream book" alone, there was nothing wrong with Heidi, but she still could not find any secrets about Heidi's life experience.
In other words, she did not confirm in this way whether Heidi was a real Ice Orchid Tree Man, or a tropical plant as Ms. Yusilian said.
If there really was a means of confusion, it must have happened before Heidi awakened her consciousness.
Yes, that was the only explanation - that was what happened before she first woke up, and the tree rings might have concealed her true species in some way. Even Heidi herself didn't know about it, so it was useless to examine her nightmares or her inner thoughts.
I am just curious now, why does Annual Ring do this?
If it was for protection, why wasn't even Heidi herself allowed to know?
After thinking for a while, and taking advantage of the fact that they hadn't set off yet and it wasn't that hard to talk, Hitzfeld approached Esther and asked, "Do you remember Robb going out seven years ago?"
Esther was stunned for a moment, and replied weakly: "It seems not..."
"In fact, I don't quite remember when he moved into our house," Esther said. "When I was a kid, my strange illness was more serious than it is now. I was often locked in the house, and my consciousness was not very clear."
"So when did you start to get better?" Hitzfeld asked again, "I see you're no different from an ordinary person now, and Rob is relieved about you."
"That was probably when I was about ten years old." Esther frowned, "My family found a doctor at the time... He said he brought some special medicine..."
"What kind of special medicine?"
"It was a dark brown liquid, a little salty and a little bitter, and I did feel much better after I drank it."
"What is the boundary difference of this 'improvement'? Can you explain it to me?"
Xia Yibing came closer and added.
"Before taking the medicine, I had the same symptoms I mentioned..." Esther grinned, "I was more afraid of heat than now... My skin would sag when the disease broke out... Then I became unconscious... My memory was fuzzy... Then after taking the medicine, I was in my current state - I still feel uncomfortable with high temperatures or even normal temperatures, but it's not as serious. As long as I wear a hat and wear something thicker, I can hold on."
"I see." Hitzfeld lowered his head and thought for a while, then asked, "Was your mother home at the time?"
"what?"
"I asked you if your mother was there when you took the medicine - when the doctor came."
"No." Esther was sure, "She's not here... Only Rob is at home taking care of me. He said that's his friend and he invited her through his connections."
Hitzfeld pursed his lips and said nothing.
Xia Yibing raised the corners of her lips and smiled with a hint of playfulness.
Even Heidi came over and touched the girl's head, saying, "You are so naive..."
"What's wrong?" Esther looked a little horrified, she didn't know what she had said wrong.
"That doctor is fake."
Xia Yibing revealed the truth.
What specific medicine? How can there be a specific medicine for such an unheard-of disease?
The development of any drug requires a lot of effort and luck. Even if the doctor accepted private funding from Robb, a short period of 3-4 years is too short and too little compared to the energy and resources required for drug development.
So the doctors and the special medicines were all nonsense. Most likely, Rob discovered something during his trip to the Arctic, and after returning, he spent two or three years researching a treatment drug based on this discovery, and found a time when Maren Murphy was not around to trick Esther into drinking it.
"Let's get going."
Hitzfeld had a bad feeling.
"We must defend the ice lake before he does."
Dark brown...liquid...savory and bitter...
She didn't want to think about it, but Esther's description inevitably made her think of blood.
Robbo returned alone from his first trip to the Arctic, and if there was blood, it was most likely his own blood.
What on earth did he do seven years ago?
What did he do to the Cursed Ice Lake?
Feeling the situation was becoming more and more urgent, Hitzfeld took Lily with him, turned the blood crystal crow into a red rope and tied it to her hair, and continued on the road with these people, heading north without stopping.
On the way, they encountered some strange things.
First, there was the Iceman - a second group of Icemen fled southwards, and this group of people made them particularly terrified, because according to speculation, the closer to the ice lake, the stronger the power of the confusion and mutation curse. In other words, these things should have been affected near the ice lake, and they started from there.
As they get closer to the ice lake and encounter these strange creatures, the distance they have to travel becomes shorter, which means less time for mutation. In other words, the further they go in, the less perfect the physical mutations of the ice men they encounter.
So you can guess what the situation is... Some of these ice men were covered with thick fur.
This shows that they were not human at all before.
They are wild beasts, white bears, arctic wolves, snow foxes... They have absorbed the confused memories of humans and mutated into this image.
This kind of thing is too disgusting from both a moral and professional perspective. Xia Yibing killed them one by one with a knife. They were as dumb as puppets and did not resist even when their heads were chopped off.
Heidi was surprised by this phenomenon and speculated that the reason might be that "human memory is difficult to integrate."
It was difficult for both beasts and humans to fully absorb the memories of another person, and she thought that was why the ice men didn't resist - their minds were thinking about other things at the time.
"The first time we met the Iceman," Heidi said, "if we had met him later, giving him time to complete the fusion of his memories, he might not have resisted."
"Yes." Xia Yibing added sarcastically, "It will also awaken its sense of shame and find a way to get itself some clothes, and then when it sees us, it calls itself Robo - can we really tell them apart?"
Heidi was silent.
Indeed, her idea was a bit stupid. At that time, let alone resistance or not, they would not have the intention to kill at all.
"There is another situation."
Hitzfeld paused briefly to catch his breath.
As they walked forward, the snow on the ground began to harden, so they no longer had to pull their feet out of the deep snow like pulling a carrot every time they walked. However, due to the hardening and crystallization of the ground, they still had to expend a lot of effort to maintain their balance.
Very slippery.
If you are not careful, you will have a big fall.
"That's when we encounter them early enough."
"It's too early for them to completely fall into this state of receiving memories. I think they are most dangerous at that time."
Her prediction was correct.
Two hours later, they encountered the third and fourth groups of icemen.
The third group of ice men are no longer completely defenseless. Although their resistance is limited to "instinctively dodging when the ice blade comes", they are fundamentally different from the previous ones.
The fourth group of icemen began to fight back weakly. They were still stupid and looked very stupid, but as long as you dared to obstruct or attack them, they would distort their expressions, stare at you and roar, and try to pounce on you and bite you with their claws... and teeth.
Xia Yibing still killed them one by one with her sword, praying in her heart that they would not come again.
But maybe she was praying to the wrong person.
Just twenty minutes later, Lily began barking frantically ahead.
This was very abnormal. Lily was a very smart dog. After seeing the Iceman's "weakness", she was no longer afraid of this human-like monster. She remained calm during several encounters and did not even open her mouth to bark.
But this time the scream was so loud that everyone immediately became alert.
boom!
boom! !
boom! ! !
The ground is shaking.
As Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing stared in amazement, a tall giant slowly walked out of the darkness ahead.
OK, now I know what happened to the half-giant at the beginning...
Hitzfeld's eyes widened - it wasn't a giant at all! It was a damn... wooden golem carved from ice and snow and transformed into flesh and blood!
The giant was obviously born not long ago, and the outer layer of its body was all solid ice. When the flashlight shined inside, one could see a spine condensing and forming inside, but the most horrifying thing was not this, but the wood grain that was rigidly copied by the ice surface!
"Aisun!"
Xia Yibing turned around and shouted at her.
"I know." Hitzfeld stared at the giant coming over.
She knew this guy.
Back then, in Blackwood City, they left Flo Street together, looking for a way to escape in the fog. Then a wooden golem fell from the sky and smashed a whole car of people into meat patties!
That was one of her most profound memories, how could she forget it?
How dare you forget?
so it is……
That Aurora...
As his thoughts turned, Hitzfeld finally sorted out the cause and effect.
So it was because I...
Just because I saw the "Aurora" in the sky...
That person would mutate into a half-giant...
This is the most reasonable explanation.
Because there is no one else here - only Xia and I have the memory of that scene, in other words, the wood golem giant only exists in the memories of the two of them. It is true that their "mystery" is high enough - she herself is the reason for the person, and Xia is the reason for the contract with her - they will not be affected too much by the "Aurora", but this does not mean that they cannot affect the "Aurora" in turn!
They looked at the light band floating in the black sky. They looked directly at it, and their gazes were undoubtedly a kind of contact. At that moment, the memories that should have been instilled into their brains were offset by the mystery that Hitzfeld possessed. She was almost not affected at all. At the same time, the deepest memories from Hitzfeld's brain were reversely projected and instilled into the Aurora light band. The light band obviously acted as a "transit station" or "hub", and once again, the memories obtained from her were instilled into everyone who dared to look at it at this moment!
That's why there are wood golems.
This is simply a replica of my worst nightmare!
Hitzfeld clenched his teeth, feeling extremely angry.
The afterimage of the dead bone ice needle flashed by, and Xia Yibing was just about to consider whether to fight, when she looked up, she saw the giant's head exploded.
It's like a scene of fruits exploding.
Aisuen seemed really angry.
Ah... Come to think of it, except for the fact that her strength was not enough when facing Yinsel and those great ones, her strength has long exceeded the limits of ordinary extraordinary people.
But she never really needed to do anything.
The initiator of the Ice Lake Curse is blessed...
Looking at the giant's corpse falling heavily to the ground, crushing a small section of the ice surface, Xia Yibing felt quite gloating and took the initiative to move closer to comfort the girl.
"I am fine."
Hitzfeld took a deep breath behind his mask.
Her emotions fluctuated only for a moment, and she quickly regained her composure and sternly warned herself - from this moment on, unless she found a way to solve the problem, she would never be allowed to look directly at the "Aurora" with her own eyes again!
One eye...it shouldn't be a problem if you only use your left eye.
Otherwise, it would not just be the wooden golem that was copied. Whether it was what Abu Gesar had seen or what the Mechanical Sun Goddess had seen, it was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
So, I can’t use my right eye…
I can't use my own "human eyes" to see it.
