To be honest, Xia Yibing was still a little scared, but she believed that Laurel would not betray her daughter.
And if there really is a secret to becoming a god hidden in it, then this opportunity is extremely rare.
So what if I’m afraid?
You have to do it even if you have to bite the bullet.
The two of them flew to the top of the cave without any instruction and were less than fifty meters away from falling into it.
Xia Yibing wanted to pull the girl in, but failed.
She turned and looked up, and saw Hitzfeld looking up at the sky where they had been suspended.
Gray hair was flying, and she couldn't see her face, but she could probably guess what her expression should be.
"Aisun."
After thinking about it, Xia Yibing gradually tightened her wrist.
"I……"
"I know I'm not very good at comforting people."
"I don't want to tell you those things... which seem meaningless now."
"But you still have me!"
"I will accompany you..."
"Whenever."
This was the most serious tone Xia Yibing could use.
She hoped Hitzfeld would at least be feeling better.
"I am fine."
Hitzfeld stared at the place where Laurel had disappeared before, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.
From the moment she came up with the idea of "coming to the Arctic no matter what", in addition to exploring the truth here, she had another purpose, which was that she wanted to change her identity.
She wanted to empathize with her in a similar way to how Laurel saw her, and to understand her heart in this way, and she wanted to be closer to her.
And she did get what she wanted.
At this moment, she no longer faces suffering as a single person.
This is not to say that she still has Xia Yibing, her lover; it is not to say that she still has Nian Lun, and Alvin, and so many friends who can support her behind the scenes - that is not what she means at all.
Rather, she had successfully transformed herself into Laurel's position.
She understood her mother.
I have to fight as a mother too.
Chapter 57: The Road to Origin (Three in One)
Hitzfeld was somewhat impatient, so he turned around and took the initiative to pull Xia Yibing down.
Aisuen... She is a little stronger than I thought...
The woman was a little surprised. It wasn't that she looked down on Hitzfeld, but the nature of this encounter was different after all... She had originally thought that the other party would be depressed for a while, and she was still brewing words of comfort, but she never expected that the girl would cheer up so quickly.
That being said, it seems that Aisuen touched the lower abdomen twice when talking to Laurel just now.
Frowning secretly, Xia Yibing felt quite conflicted at this moment - if this guess was true then she should be happy, even ecstatic, but from an outside perspective, that child whose existence was unknown, her two creators were about to be in danger.
Can they come back safely?
Perhaps it was this fact that gave Aisuen the strength to carry out his determination, but that was only subjective. Objectively, the mother's condition would definitely be affected by the fetus and become weaker.
Considering how important what they were going to do at this time was, Xia Yibing was not happy as usual. She felt that no matter what, it was most important to ensure that they could return safely, and children could wait until later.
But if you think about it, you can understand that the girl's current condition may be entirely dependent on this news. If you go against her at this time, you will definitely not end up well.
Besides, it was too late to say anything now, and it was impossible to specifically affect the physical condition in reality. Xia Yibing just felt a little regretful - if she had known that there would be such an important scene at the end of the trip to the North Pole, she should not have accompanied the girl in her mischief.
"What are you thinking?"
Near the cave entrance, Hitzfeld suddenly stopped, turned around and glared at her.
She was very sure that it was not an illusion, Xia Yibing had been absent-minded.
This couldn't always be the case. She knew that Laurel would never joke about such things, no matter how erratic she was. In other words, this journey couldn't be completed by Aisun-Hitzfell alone. She had to have a "guardian", and this person couldn't be taken lightly.
"You... can this work?" Xia Yibing decided to express her concerns appropriately, but she didn't dare to touch the taboo topic. She could only ask from the side: "When was the last time you slept? Can you hold on mentally?"
"She didn't mention this hidden danger, which means it's OK." Hitzfeld was dissatisfied with why she became so nagging, "Stay close to me, don't let me be the one to protect you in the end."
After saying this, without waiting for Xia Yibing's reply, she pulled her hand away and fell into the lava cave alone.
Xia Yibing raised her eyebrows and quickly fell down to follow closely.
She felt that her spirit was different.
With her ability to observe the world, every air current and ripple became traceable in her eyes. She easily performed two rolls, and her spirit body flew down in the air, catching up with Hitzfeld before he completely flew down, and stretched out his hands to hug her tightly.
The girl wanted to break free immediately.
It wasn't that she was really angry with Xia Yibing... She wasn't that petty. It was that she had just witnessed the "death of a blood relative" once again. Even if it was just a destined death, a projection of time on the ice wall, she would inevitably be depressed. For a long time to come, she would instinctively resist another person hugging her like this.
Because it always reminds her of Laurel's arms. She is indeed attached to and addicted to that arms, and she also wants to immerse herself in and experience the woman's arms as if they were Laurel's.
But that would conflict with the determination she had made because of her identity change.
The departure of parents usually changes a person's character and state to a great extent. It is said that when parents are alive, life still has a place to go, but when parents are gone, life only has a way back... Blood relatives are the last defense against death. When this defense is gone, one suddenly feels like facing death.
Not everyone can face all this calmly.
Not to mention that she almost simultaneously went through the next stage of identity transformation—from a child to a real adult, and then from a real adult to a parent.
She already has to be stable and mature... Even though she has actually done quite well in this regard before, she just thinks it is not enough, and she will try every means to find some shortcomings to make herself appear more stable.
Then she would not be able to accept such an embrace with peace of mind.
That was tantamount to denying her idea... She knew very well that she couldn't blame Xia Yibing. The woman was just caring about her. No matter what happened, she would be the one who supported her the most and loved her the most, but she was temporarily resistant to this kind of care.
She couldn't hide in the other's arms and reminisce about the past like a young girl after experiencing two drastic changes in her mentality.
She is no longer qualified...
"I'm always daydreaming!"
Xia Yibing felt that she still understood her very well. Hitzfeld's mentality at the moment was so complicated that even she couldn't explain it clearly, but she thought that this kind of thing could be solved with a more brutal solution.
Hitzfeld was struggling and resisting, so she brutally suppressed him. No matter how the girl twisted her, she would not let go. Her arms were like an iron hoop locking the girl's waist, and she was taking her into a brand new world.
call--
Both of them thought they had an illusion, as if they had passed through a membrane.
Is that really a membrane? Is it some mysterious manifestation, or is it simply a barrier formed by hot air in an illusion above the cave?
Don't know, and it doesn't seem that important.
The world in front of them was rapidly receding like a ring of fire. They didn't have time to say anything to each other. It was more like their spirits were sucked in than falling in - they were directly sucked into the spiral magma in the deepest part of the cave and disappeared from this world.
crazy!
On the conscious level, Hitzfeld forgot to struggle and just stared at everything that was flying by in front of him with wide eyes.
They were falling - still falling rapidly, and from the spiraling golden ties around them she could barely guess that their spirits were being sucked into the innermost part of the cave, but why was this road like this? It was completely different from what she had expected!
Laurel...Mom, she doesn't really want us to drill into the center of the earth through this lava tunnel, does she?
“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—”
Compared to her, Xia Yibing was much more bold and unrestrained. The woman hugged her tightly and shouted at the top of her lungs.
It wasn't the high-pitched, piercing scream that seemed to be engraved in a woman's instinctive consciousness when she was in danger. It was a shout - a little deeper, and much longer than a scream.
Is Xia crazy too?
The noise sounded a little too funny. Hitzfeld didn't want to think about it that way, but the woman's scream sounded too much like a female version of Tarzan - her mind was full of such images.
"When you feel uncomfortable, shout more often. It is good for your body and mind."
After shouting, Xia Yibing turned her head and bared her teeth at her.
"Whether you are a disaster victim or a noble, everyone has only one life."
"How can you be so calm when facing a possible death crisis? Of course, you should concentrate all your emotions and burst them out at this moment. Only then will you be worthy of this life~"
Her statement is somewhat similar to the poem in "Interstellar".
As her hair flew past, Hitzfeld stared at her in a daze.
She remembered that she had never mentioned that poem to the woman, so it couldn't be said that it was a lucky coincidence. It should be said that Xia Yibing's perception in this regard was very close to the artistic conception of the poem.
After this stimulation, she figured it out.
Whether you are strong or mature is not reflected by external things.
Xia…From her perspective, she just saw my sadness and wanted to comfort me, but I was obsessed with the idea that “being comforted by her may not be like being a qualified mother”…
Won't I hurt her?
Maybe I was deliberately imitating my mother, imitating her "everything is under control" attitude when facing us. But I didn't need to resist Xia, resist another person who loved me...
The golden flames were spinning and flying around all the time, and the golden vortex was spinning in front of them as if it had no end. The light illuminated their faces, allowing them to see each other's expressions and the deep affection for each other in their eyes. They gradually hugged each other more tightly, interlocking their left and right hands, and looked up at the vortex in front of them at the same time.
Hitzfeld had never felt time stretch so long.
Or rather, she should say that as a relatively normal lower life form (compared to the great ones), she had never had the opportunity to truly and concretely feel the existence of time in the past.
Time is not a thing at all. How can you feel if it is not a thing?
But now she had a vague feeling... She felt that the scale of time and space was revealed in this flame tunnel. They were grabbed and pulled by some mysterious force, just like the extra-dimensional fighting skills in the Saint Seiya comics, forming a twisted grid in the universe - time and space could be seen because of this. For the first time, she realized: it was because it was grabbed at that end that this grid showed spiral patterns.
Just like grabbing a piece of cloth, a plastic film, or a thin tissue, grabbing a certain point of them with force and pulling and rotating them, they will naturally produce the same patterns.
The end of the spiral is the place of origin...
It was at this moment that she realized what the origin was, and why even someone like Ms. Yusilian looked horrified when it was mentioned.
That is the source of everything.
Namibia, this world, the reason why it exists, the reason why it is called Namibia is this concept.
All births start there and all deaths end there.
Beyond matter, beyond nightmares, beyond time and space, a point hidden in the vortex of time and space.
It's hard to believe that we're heading to a place like this...
Suddenly - just as Hitzfeld was sighing, a "black ring" suddenly appeared in front of him.
From small to large, from far to near... the black ring quickly swept past them in the golden vortex. Xia Yibing was frightened by this sudden situation. She couldn't help but look back to see the black ring that was left behind and disappeared: "...What is that?"
"I'm afraid it's part of the place of origin." Hitzfeld said with a frown.
If my idea is correct, then the vortex stability will become worse as we get closer to that place.
After all, that is not the real mother tree.
She saw clearly that the world called Namiya should have two mother trees at this time. One of them was truly mature and had already submitted to the Sun King Amen-Haven. It merged its existence, its concepts... everything with the goddess. It could be said that the goddess was the mother tree, and the goddess and Namiya lived and died together.
But now they were facing an even rarer situation: Aimen-Hawen might have hurriedly led the Kingdom of God's army to intercept the tentacles of the Gray Mist Evil God reaching out to the earth in order to prevent the enemy from stealing their home. This resulted in the first time in history that the mother tree of Namiya was not in Namiya.
It was this situation that made it start to become restless, and its survival instinct was stimulated, making it want to give birth to another mother tree.
The same one that devoured Laurel.
The one they had beaten down together at Bartlett Beach.
The one they were about to touch now.
That thing is 100% not fully developed, and it is highly likely that it will not be fully developed no matter how much time is given to it. Because most of the power of the mother tree is in the hands of Amen-Haven, even if it is fully developed, it can only be a defective product and will not have all the functions.
If you look at this from an objective perspective, the "retarded world" of Namibia is just courting death.
It is totally a useless effort. There is no point in creating a new mother tree. On the contrary, the birth of the mother tree may attract foreign gods.
But unfortunately, these judgments can only be made under the premise of "having sound wisdom".
Namiya's intelligence is very low. In Hitzfeld's understanding, rather than saying that Namiya has intelligence, it is better to say that it is not as good as single-celled organisms in this respect.
