She couldn't see...what the meaning of these things was.
Spell initials?
Can't spell out the name.
No matter how you combine them, I can't read them.
Is it just a list?
"Felix! Felix!"
Ashley yelled from the side.
"It's Fat Grandpa! Fat Grandpa's name is also in it!!"
!! ?
With a shudder, Hitzfeld suddenly remembered that when Lindworm had introduced her to the information about the village, he seemed to have mentioned that there was a farmer with this name.
Oh……
She seemed to have a little idea of why the Wyrm Village gave her such a weird feeling.
Although not everything, she has grasped the specific things.
It is the village of Worm. As a native village far away from civilized society, many people in the village have names, and they are all relatively normal names. Even if they are used in the city, they will not appear abrupt.
This matter itself is unreasonable.
If you look at it this way...
With some expectation, she searched carefully through the second half of the list and finally found the key information she expected.
Mogali-Drumil.
She found the name.
So it can't be wrong.
This list records outsiders.
They were stranded travelers who were swept to Brays Island by a storm outside or inside the Crystal Sea.
The villagers of Worm stole their names.
Or there is another possibility.
Those villagers are themselves...
Chapter 32 Death Island
"…Are you kidding me?"
Frick lay on the slab, staring at the two boards.
About half an hour ago, under the pretext of visiting a companion, the gray-haired girl came in wearing that somewhat funny-looking "bed sheet skirt" and told him everything she had discovered today.
To be honest, Frick didn't really believe it at first.
After all, "this is an island of death, an island of cannibalism, and everything on the island is full of malice"...such speculation sounds a bit too outrageous.
After all, they were saved by the villagers, weren't they?
The villagers rescued them, treated their injuries and illnesses, and brought them food and water. This was all a favor.
Even though he himself couldn't stand the way some female villagers looked at him, at least he could distinguish these aspects and didn't develop hatred for Worm Village.
Last night he had thought that if there was a chance to escape from this haunted place and solve the mystery of the Crystal Sea, he would definitely ask the Central Diocese to send someone over to see if there was a way to bring these villagers back to civilized society so that they could live a more stable life.
Then Hitzfeld came over to him today and told him: That's not possible, most of these people are problematic, and there is a high probability that they are fucking zombies.
Yes - zombies - that was indeed the word she had used.
Frick had never heard of the word; she had simply made it up.
He wanted to retort that all this reasoning was untenable and absurd.
But Hitzfeld continued to provide proof, and Frick also felt that some of the problems did exist.
such as--
"Felix, Mogali, Pilsen... We wouldn't be surprised to hear names like these in any part of Sara, but you have to understand that this is not a civilized society. It's just an isolated native village."
"The people here, except for Ashley who knows a little bit of Sara language because of Britney's education and can spell a few words, the others can't even read a single letter."
"Who gave them the names? Themselves? ... Have you ever seen a native tribe with a man called 'Felix'?"
"Never." Frick whispered, "According to the current paradigm, most of the natives in many tribes have no names at all..."
Because it's not useful.
It's a small circle in itself. We see each other every day. We have an impression of each other and just know who is who. Even if we have names, they are difficult to pronounce in the local dialect. How can they be so fashionable?
"Also." Hitzfeld continued to add weight, "I asked Lindworm and Ashley before, what is the approximate period for the castaways to arrive at Brays Island."
"Lindworm obviously didn't want to answer this question. I had to hold on to it and finally got the answer out of Ashley. His attitude was problematic."
"Why didn't he want to answer? Because he was afraid that I would find out from the interval data of the castaways landing on Brays Island that they had the opportunity to form an organization!"
"You said organization..."
"Let me ask you first, Frick, how many years ago did Britney Skye disappear?"
"Seventeen years."
"She was 21 when she disappeared. Ashley is fifteen now. She said her mom jumped off a cliff and disappeared three years ago. What can you find out from this?"
"Can you find out... Britney has lived in Worm Village for more than ten years?"
"That's it."
"But what's the problem here?" Frick didn't understand her train of thought at all.
"It's a big problem..." Hitzfeld snorted, "Because in these seventeen years, Crystal Sea has never lacked guests."
"The parish has been offering a bounty for the Crystal Sea. The reason why Torres and Cybertron have invested so much energy in the research of the Crystal Sea is that they are short of money. They want to get the bounty!"
"It is this money that has long been stimulating those who are short of money, forced by life, and have a little confidence in their luck to take risks."
"They have been to the Crystal Sea."
"Some just cruise in the shallow seas and the outer seas, write some random reports and go back to fool the authorities. Some go into the deep sea and never come back like Britney."
"What about them?"
"Can I assume that they also encountered a storm and a waterspout and came to this island?"
"But according to Ashley, she has never seen any other outsiders in the past three years. Recently, she only saw us. What does this mean?"
"This means that either Ashley is lying, or these people are unlucky. The probability of being thrown onto the cliff and crushed to death is 100%. None of them were rescued by the village."
"Of course there is another possibility." Hitzfeld tilted his head, "They were killed before they came into contact with the village and were seen by Ashley."
"The thing in your hand is most likely a list of victims."
“And that’s just part of it.”
"The number of people who actually died on this island and were swallowed by the crystal sea is at least dozens of times more than that."
Hitzfeld said a lot in one breath.
Frick stared at the two lists in silence, his knuckles trembling slightly.
"Let's go back to the issue of the organization..." Hitzfeld sighed and continued his inference.
"As I said earlier, many people have explored the Crystal Sea and disappeared in these seventeen years."
"What about before that?"
"Before the diocese passed a law declaring the Crystal Sea a dangerous place that should not be explored."
“Are there fewer people going?”
"Even if we limit the survival rate to 1%, based on the fact that Britney survived for at least ten years, there must be stranded travelers who met on the island within ten years."
"As long as they don't have any diseases and there are no external factors, I think they can live here for another ten or twenty years. In other words, if the first person in distress is blown to this damn place, theoretically, within twenty years, he can expect more 'companions'. These people will have the opportunity to leave the village and form their own organization, thus leaving behind a 'legacy' in this way."
"But no, at least not according to Lindworm."
“Perhaps there are still traces of the castaways left in some places on the island, but it seems that he is trying his best to avoid us thinking about this.”
"There's something wrong with Lindworm, Flick."
"There are problems in Worm Village, and there are problems in the entire Brays Island!"
"do you understand?"
"It's not just us."
"There are others who may be alive."
"Everyone is in danger!"
"……I see."
Frick put his things down and looked out the door at the dark night.
"Can you make sure that what you are saying now... is not being monitored?"
"Okay, Ashley will be on guard outside. She's the only person in the entire village that I can somewhat trust."
"I decided to trust your inference. But Hitzfeld, have you ever thought that maybe they are never afraid of exposing these secrets, or that the key to solving the problem is never to discover the secret... but how to escape from here?"
“I already have an idea about this.”
Hitzfeld lowered his voice again.
"I need time."
"At least we have to wait until the next Eternal Night."
Chapter 33 Coveted
Hitzfeld went back.
She thought Britney was probably a special case because she not only left this list, but also left several books to Ashley - these were theoretically the legacy of their ancestors, and she was surprised that they were not destroyed by the villagers.
Ashley also said that Lindworm tried to take the slate, but she hid it every time.
She did not hide those books. They were placed right in front of Lindworm, who instead described them as "meaningless."
She felt there were some hidden mysteries that had not been discovered.
It’s even possible that the books themselves—perhaps in the shuffled order of their pages—hold secrets.
As a Devourer who didn't need to rest at night, she couldn't wait to go back and study them.
At night, the temperature drops sharply.
The door of the stone house is just a big wooden board, which can only block the wind but cannot keep out the cold.
Frick was in good health and didn't feel the cold, but the news Hitzfeld had brought him not long ago made him unable to sleep.
Even though he had already used blood magic to inform Garo of the news and asked them to pay more attention to the Sky Hunters, he still couldn't help but wonder what other secrets Worm Village was hiding.
There is a problem here, and this has been confirmed.
But the question is how.
Are the villagers zombies or victims whose memories have been erased?
Why does this phenomenon and cycle exist?
What is the Hot Wind Festival that Ashley mentioned? Why could Britney survive on the island for so long, but then commit suicide by jumping off a cliff at the Hot Wind Festival?
And so on and so forth…There is still a series of mysteries that plague them, and even Hitzfeld is not sure.
Now Flick is completely convinced.
He had to admit that some things were not suitable for him to study.
It's okay for him to deal with those officials, but he really has a headache when it comes to investigating cases and making inferences seriously.
Thinking of the troublesome things, he turned over.
