Hitzfeld was certain that the thing had come from the fork in the road behind.
The wooden man told them not to look back...
Will everything be okay if I don’t look back?
She thrust her hands into the armpits of her jacket, determined to shoot at the first sign of movement.
The two of them squatted stiffly in the tunnel, holding each other's hands.
pat...
pat...
The stench was getting closer.
Hitzfeld rolled his eyes and saw a twisted thing that looked a bit like a combination of a giant slug and a giant python clinging to the top of the tunnel and crawling over bit by bit.
At the front end of its body there is a huge mouth that is half a meter wide and filled with intersecting sharp teeth.
This isn't its only mouthpart.
There are dozens of mouths densely packed on its body, each full of sharp teeth, and saliva always drips out as it twists and crawls.
After waiting for a long time, the strange snake finally disappeared around the corner ahead.
"It couldn't have missed us."
Xia Yibing guessed.
"It must be controlled... the command 'keep crawling forward' was imposed."
"I think I know what these tunnels are for..."
"Let's go."
"As long as you don't look back at them you'll be fine."
Next, while passing through the tunnel, they saw no less than twenty nightmare monsters.
There are giant spiders and centipedes.
There are deformed fish monsters with arms and legs.
There are half-human, half-insect deformities.
The variety of things greatly enriched the girl's horizons.
Madame had drawn more nightmare monsters in her notebooks, but looking at the sketches was not the same as seeing them in person.
"Whether it's Shadow Lion or other departments, more than 80% of the nightmare monsters we capture every year will eventually fall into their hands."
Xia Yibing explained to Hitzfeld.
"They said they were going to use it for experiments... but I've always been curious about what would happen if such a huge group of nightmares got out of control."
"Now you don't have to worry." Hitzfeld said, "They can control nightmares."
At least it's simple control.
The thrilling journey lasted nearly an hour.
Just when Hitzfeld thought they might have to walk until dawn, after passing the next straight turn ahead, a heavy wooden door finally appeared in front of them.
The door was not locked and opened with a slight push.
They entered a small wooden house which was a bit cramped but fully equipped with all the necessary household facilities.
"welcome."
Sitting behind the table was a black-haired woman wearing a veil. It seemed that she had been waiting here for a long time.
This is a very sexy woman.
Plump figure and slender waist.
It's completely big where it should be big, and small where it should be small.
She was wearing a translucent white gauze dress, and every move she made was filled with a unique temperament.
If Hitzfeld were to describe her...she was like a goddess from a misty lake walking out of a painting.
Elegant and mysterious.
Shrouded in fog, I can't see clearly...
"It's you!"
Xia Yibing's face changed, and her right hand reflexively made a knife-holding gesture.
She will never forget this man.
At that time, on that night when she sneaked in, it was this woman who taught her a lesson.
There were endless roots and branches... covering the sky and the sun, and they kept pestering her until she was completely exhausted. She could only let them tie her up and hang her on the ceiling of the library for a day and a night.
"I am Ruth-Annulus. The patriarch of this generation of the Annals family."
But the other party didn't even look at her.
From the moment the two of them entered the cabin, her eyes had been fixed on Hitzfeld, and on her eye mask.
"I know why you came."
She held out her left hand to Hitzfeld.
"Before I actually met you in person, I didn't expect that there were still secret keepers lingering on..."
Chapter 49: Two Devourers Combining into One
"What exactly is a Secret Keeper?"
Hitzfeld asked, seizing the opportunity.
"Also, the nature of the Wheel of Fortune... the Woodmen... what's going on with you?"
She would not treat the person opposite her as a human being just because she was a beauty.
Because the wooden man behind the bar said, "His Majesty the Crown of Annual Rings is more noble than the human king."
The guy who would be described like this.
Right?
She wouldn't be human anyway.
Xia Yibing also pricked up her ears.
She had found the answers to the secret keeper and the Hitzfeld family in the library.
But it was just a little bit, the record was incomplete. And a series of very strange things happened after she decided to borrow the book.
The first was that she planned to report the matter - because if the information was not available in the organization's internal file library or archives, the contributor could obtain certain merits.
No Shadow Lion agent would complain about having too many merits. Don't forget, it was because of enough merits that Lilith Gray was able to apply for retirement so easily.
But Shadow Lion refused to accept it.
They determined that this matter was false and a made-up story, and they found a lot of evidence in the files to prove it.
The second one directly prompted her to give up investigating the matter: in less than a week, the agent and the people from the Archives Department who had rejected her before seemed to have amnesia and had completely forgotten about the incident.
The most important thing was that she received a hint from Villefort, asking her to think more about the training she received when she first joined the organization.
There was no training when I first joined Shadow Lion. The instructor just kept reminding me to be "shy".
So Xia Yibing immediately realized that it was the Wheel of Fortune that was taking action.
They don't want these secrets to get out.
If she insisted, her next mission might be extremely difficult.
"The Secret Keepers...actually they are not considered as the clan." said Year Ring.
"Many people believe that the Secret Keepers have gifts from God, such as bloodline or divine power... But that's not the case. They are just ordinary people, mortals who have made up their minds."
"The Hitzfeld family was once one of countless mortal families like this. They hid themselves very well, and with the blockade of Ling Yan, if I didn't pay special attention to them, even I wouldn't be able to find them."
Does that mean she can find out if she wants to?
They both noticed her words at the same time.
"As for the Woodmen...can I say that we are the real masters of this land?"
The two of them stopped breathing at the same time.
"King Sara doesn't trust us, but he's afraid of our power. This seems foolish to me."
When it comes to this topic, Annual Ring finally shows some emotional fluctuations.
"In 1800, the Kingdom of God traveled far away, and foreign gods invaded. The entire civilized world suddenly became shabby, and the development progress was almost cut in half."
"Who helped humans preserve the flame of civilization?"
"Who protected you in the beginning when humans were helpless against the evil?"
"Who created such a huge organization, with roots and veins all over the country, secretly protecting the vulnerable human beings?"
“It’s all us.”
"Sarah wasn't here at first. They came here because they saw that it was safe enough and under our protection."
"After receiving such a favor, those idiots didn't thank us, and they are still suspicious and wary of us... Sometimes I really think... that humans should just go extinct."
Appeared!
Hitzfeld couldn't help but complain in his heart.
A classic line that appears in any storybook where alien races exist!
Of course, the focus here is on the chronological events revealed by the other party.
1800…?
Traveling to the Kingdom of God...?
The invasion of the outer gods...?
What does this mean? Could this be the truth behind the evil spirit?
"Don't look at me like that~"
Nian Lun snorted, twisted his waist, picked up the pipe from the table, half lifted his veil and started smoking.
"The heritage of the Woodman tribe was also interrupted by the catastrophe. I don't know what happened in 1800 or before. This is just what my tribe pieced together, combined, and guessed based on the remaining documents... You can just treat it as a story~"
Considering that she is most likely the ruler of the Wooden People, the Wheel of Fortune, and the Library, the more she says so, the less likely it is that others will actually do so.
This kind of cunning willfulness.
Hitzfeld had a feeling that Russ-Ring's true age might not be very old.
"Don't think of us as too mysterious, and don't treat us as monsters like nightmares."
She exhaled smoke.
"To put it bluntly, the Woodman Clan just wants to continue its existence, that's all."
"You've told us so many secrets today, are you trying to silence us?"
Xia Yibing stared at her with a bad look.
"How could it be... These are not even secrets." Nian Lun sneered.
"You think these are secrets and are of great value. Why don't you think about what they can change?"
"Can you turn back time?"
"Resurrecting the dead?"
"Solve the problem of everyone being surrounded by nightmares?"
"Or is it of any help to the case at hand?"
"None of them... Just like the only value of antiques is antiques, these things have no meaning, they are just illusory legends."
"Then it's time to get down to business." Xia Yibing pushed Hitzfeld from behind.
