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Chapter 51 Commonalities (Two in One)
While she was talking, Nian Lun raised her hand and snapped her fingers. No one knew how she did it, but her wooden body - the shoulder area suddenly expanded with more than a dozen holes.
She turned sideways and sprayed a silver mist out of the hole, covering the three children, Vera, Grande and Nette, and also wrapped up Dr. Griman.
They quickly fell unconscious under the effect of the silver mist.
"I didn't kill them." Year Ring explained, "The principle is the same as Heidi's fruit, which is to supplement nutrition. But if you supplement too much, your body will go dormant to ensure absorption, which is not a bad thing for them."
Of course, she didn't intend to give Grimman this benefit. She just used it as a means of hypnosis.
Once this is done, she will personally interrogate this evil leader.
"Annual rings...!" Heidi took a few steps towards her and looked at the plant fork extending from the neck of the annual ring. It was connected to her own neck, just like a lotus with two stems.
Is that so? Because I am a clone, my body is almost the same as hers, so she can easily hide the seed in my body and use this method to create a wooden clone that can be remotely controlled.
Heidi was very talented. She immediately saw through Nian Lun's tricks, and also realized that everything she did along the way was probably under the other party's attention.
She didn't mind being monitored by the years, she just didn't mind being unaware of it.
"...Their memories will be adjusted." Year Ring withdrew his gaze from the comatose people and turned to look at Heidi. "I know this may be difficult for you to accept. As compensation, you can ask me a question."
This was an unexpected change. The original plan was to have Heidi stationed in Trierred, relying on pure force to gain a place in the business guilds. Many caravans coming to the Arctic would ask her to escort them, and even if there were suspicious people along the way, they would inevitably have to take a ride with the business guild.
This means that everything is basically under Heidi's surveillance, and being under Heidi's surveillance is basically under her surveillance. She can mobilize the Arctic deployment without leaving her home.
Thinking of this, Year Ring looked at Hitzfeld.
The plan was ruined by her.
This girl who was pitied by her in the past has now become equal to her with her own abilities, and even surpassed her.
"Only one?" Heidi said with a self-deprecating expression, "I thought I was very important to you..."
"It is very important." Nian Lun nodded without hesitation.
Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing observed from the side and found that the tone of her voice was completely different from what they remembered.
Nian Lun used to speak in a cold tone, but think about how she likes to dress... A beautiful woman who dresses like Cleopatra, wears a veil and smokes a pipe, her tone of voice always carries a natural charm.
But this time it wasn't there, absolutely not there.
Her tone was cold, chilling to the bone, as if it had changed with the ambient temperature, even though she was actually using this tone to soothe people.
"Is it so important that you lied to me...and monitored me?" Heidi unconsciously clenched her fists. "Or are you afraid that I will betray you? Would I be sorry to the Tree People if you told me all this in advance???"
"You won't." replied Tree Ring.
"Why then?"
"You can't keep a secret."
Heidi paused.
It seemed like a nonsensical accusation, but she immediately remembered that Hitzfeld had once peered into her deep nightmares.
But that was to clear the suspicion on me...and the reason for the suspicion was precisely because I didn't know anything about the Arctic!
She became determined. How could they be confused?
It was because of the concealment of the annual ring that the preliminary investigation was so difficult, and I was also suspected and had to prove myself in this way. If she had told me everything earlier, I would not be suspected, and she would not have to open her heart to anyone to let them read those secrets.
"It's not just that time. You're just too trusting of others. You don't manage your boundaries well."
Nian Lun shook his head. "I have to take into account your lack of experience. You will make mistakes. You will leak secrets that are fatal or endanger the entire kingdom without any subjective consideration."
"That's why I kept it from you. Do you accept this reason?"
"..." Heidi was silent. She didn't want to answer.
"I'll take that as your consent." Nian Lun nodded. "If you have no problem with that, I'm going to go deal with the great detective."
"Yes!" Heidi looked up, her eyes twinkling, "What kind of tree are we?"
…Good question!
Xia Yibing thought it was brave, and then she immediately looked at the Murphy father and daughter who were stunned.
The two people did not use hypnosis, probably because they had something else to ask them.
But who cares! At worst, we can just erase their memories. Isn't that why the bureau has so many dream weavers?
"Sniff sniff~"
Lily walked silently to the front of Vera and the other two, her nose moving back and forth nearby.
It is chasing the remaining silver mist.
It has feelings, and that is a wonderful thing for it.
Hitzfell kept staring at Nianlun's expression. She wanted to know how the treeman leader would treat this promise.
"You should have some guesses in your mind."
After a pause, Annual Rings said.
"You already know that Binglanluo can't produce that kind of fruit."
It really can't bear fruit.
Hitzfeld was sure.
The reason why they were able to reach the center of the lake was because the snowstorm inexplicably stopped, and also because of the help of Heidi Fruit.
Vera and his companions were saved by the fruit.
And Robbo.
The reason why he was able to reach the center of the lake directly seven years ago was definitely because of that fruit.
"There are sixteen species of trees that can produce this kind of fruit among the branches of the tree people." Year Ring exhaled faintly, "There is only one tree species that can produce fruit and can transform into other families at will."
"That's the Netherworld Fruit Tree."
"You and I, we are the only remaining Nether Fruit Trees."
Hitzfeld thought that pretty much explained it.
There are many legends about the Nether Fruit Tree. In the oldest mythology, they were not originally the followers of the goddess, but believed in another hostile god and possessed the element of "darkness" themselves.
A forest of Nether Fruit trees is completely dark. Their branches and leaves are so dense that they completely block out the sky. At the same time, their fruits will emit fluorescence in the dark, just like stars in the night sky.
"This fruit is actually poisonous." Annual Ring said frankly, "When you stand under the tree and look into the 'darkness', the 'stars' you see are poisonous."
"You can't eat them at 'night', you have to eat them during the 'day', which means climbing up to their crowns and popping your head out on the side where you can see the light. Only the fruits in the crown part are completely non-toxic."
"At the same time, there is only one on the top. It has been soaked in the essence of the sun for a long time. Eating it will bring great benefits to any life."
“……” Heidi stared at her in silence.
"Don't blame me for hiding it. This matter is of great importance after all." Nian Lun looked at her frankly, "My mother, the previous generation of Nian Lun, created me in the same way. There is only one Nether Fruit Tree left in the world. She has lost the ability to give birth to living seeds, so she can only rely on this method to give birth."
"So you're right to think of me as your mother."
"You are my child, the heir I created with my own hands."
"I..." Heidi lowered her head and pinched her temples.
"I need some time to digest this..."
"Okay." Nian Lun finally smiled again.
She understood Heidi. After all, as a mother, she was monitoring her life at all times... She knew that once Heidi gave in to her - as long as she took the first step, it basically meant that she accepted it.
She has actually accepted this reality, but she is just too stubborn to admit defeat and refuses to truly acknowledge her as her mother.
"It's our turn, Hitzfeld." She walked slowly towards this side, the connecting roots on her neck lengthened little by little, and at the same time a superficial gauze dress quickly formed on her rough wooden body.
"Before, I didn't ask about many things because I was concerned about your mental problems. But since you were able to come to the North Pole following some mysterious guidance, I must find out what happened to you."
It's not that she doesn't care about the friendship between the two sides, but it's her job.
She knew very well that Sarah's current prosperity was actually built on the ice. If the ice shattered accidentally, everyone would fall into the extreme cold abyss.
Evil followers, foreign gods... there are too many hidden dangers. She can't relax for a moment. This is the oath that each generation of the rings made to the previous generation when they inherited the tribe.
Hitzfeld didn't think the growth rings were excessive.
You must be kidding. She can even monitor and use her own daughter. No matter how good my relationship with her is, there is no way I will let her go easy on me in this regard.
So the conversation was more or less normal: "When did you first discover the Arctic anomaly?"
"A long time ago. I can't tell you the exact time, but it was roughly after the gray fog invaded."
"One hundred and fifty years?"
"Even longer than that." Year Ring pondered, "There used to be a place here that I couldn't figure out. I inherited some ancient knowledge from my mother, including her investigation of the Arctic. In this memory, I have a very strong feeling that it is at least two or three hundred years away from today. But when I actually looked up the classics in reality - even the records in the tribe only stated that it was discovered about 150 years ago."
compression.
Xia Yibing immediately thought of the videotape she had seen on Aisha.
It seems to be a conversation between Lengdis and Yinsel, which Yinsel said himself in the movie, and time has been compressed.
"So now I understand." Year Ring nodded. "I guess the timeline distribution is like this... First, they came, and the gray fog evil killed most of the creatures in Namiia... The whole world fell into a dark and gloomy doomsday era for a long time. It was during this period of time that was compressed."
"During this compressed time, the poles and the equator became abnormal. They exchanged identities. The poles became the equator, and the equator became the poles... Then time returned to normal, and Toredor began to gain the support of the tree people to establish Sara."
The subsequent history is roughly the same as what is recorded in historical documents.
"You have already noticed something strange here." Xia Yibing frowned, "Do you really want to use it to create a god?"
"Don't look down on your ancestors just because you were born in 'peaceful times'."
Nian Lun was not so polite to the woman, and the two of them had never gotten along well.
"Do you know how brutal the war was? In a city as big as Nanxinze, you could wander around for ten days and nights without finding a single normal living person. The ground was filled with rotting corpses and overgrown with weeds. Living people were tortured into monsters by nightmares and hunger. Compared to today, everyone back then was living in purgatory."
"There's no need to talk about this topic any more," Nianlun concluded. "We've talked about it many times... You all understand. I just want to say that many decisions that you may not understand today were inevitable choices given the environment back then."
"They wanted to create a god. I guess they must have been desperate at that time."
"Did they succeed?" Hitzfeld asked softly.
She knew there wasn't any, but something in Annual Ring's words made it worth asking.
As expected, Nian Lu shook his head and said, "It's not that easy to create a god. You don't have that level of understanding... It's like a group of rats digging out planks and nails from the ruins and trying to build a palace. Who can do such a thing?"
"But it's not without gain." She changed the subject, "This curse... let's just call it a curse. We found that this thing would regularly emit a kind of light wave energy outwards at that time, and the cycle was about thirty years."
Thirty years.
Hitzfeld frowned.
This is much longer than the sobbing intervals that Sintara mentions in the present day.
"This kind of light wave can imprint memories. If the energy of the emitted light wave is pure enough, that is, it does not contain any messy information, then it can be used to imprint everything about yourself and create another you in the world."
"This is very dangerous." Xia Yibing said.
Because who knows what the other you is thinking.
"My mother was almost at the end of her life." Nian Lu ignored her. "No matter how long the lifespan of the Tree People is, she lived long enough... She immediately thought of using this light wave energy to create a new self."
"A new offspring who is young enough to inherit everything from her, born in an alternative way - that is, me."
"The God-making Plan did fail. Not only did it fail, but the out-of-control energy also caused the tragedy of Ice Lake Town and led to the emergence of a cursed group of people, the Ice Lake Warriors."
"Most of their special abilities are obtained by overdrawing their life force, and they are indeed more afraid of hot weather."
"But it was precisely because of the experience she gained from the God-Creation Project that she was able to successfully create me."
"Are you sure it's not self-aware?" Hitzfeld asked.
"determine."
"It has never actively harmed anyone."
"No."
"I have never eaten anyone on my own initiative."
