[It is greed.]
After a long while, it finally chose to give an answer.
[No matter what kind of inheritance seeds they are, they were not left in this world out of malice. The reason why these cities have been hit by disasters one after another is not because they are evil, but because someone deliberately took advantage of people's yearning for beautiful things.]
"The Ice God Fruit represents the desire for power, status, and hope, while the Wisdom Fruit represents the desire for wisdom." Hitzfeld helped her complete the answer. "So their plan is to spread the 'seeds' in human settlements, select a small number of people to enjoy the wonders of the fruit, and thus inspire their inner yearning and desire for various things. Then they carefully control the situation and impose strict restrictions on their needs."
"In this way, in order to realize their wishes more efficiently, those people will become more and more extreme in their actions. In the process, the 'seeds' will spread throughout the city through them. In the end, the madness and greed that grew in the entire city were completely absorbed by an unknown existence..."
"And this unknown existence is the ultimate purpose of the Eclipse Church's planning - they want to create a true evil god."
[… Exactly.] The fruit tree began to shake again.
[You really surprise and intrigue me. Ezun Hitzfeld.] It continued, [I also have a question for you.]
"what is the problem."
[Their plan is so secretive that even if there are flaws in all the arrangements, without any evidence, even the wisest people cannot speculate all of this out of thin air...]
"Of course."
[But I saw the process of your inference. If you will excuse me, it seems to be close to conjecture.]
"You want to ask," the girl smiled, "Why is it that after going through the three cities of Orwater, West Grant, and South Sinze, so many high-level agents and so many wise men...they couldn't figure out the conspiracy, but I was able to figure it out so easily?"
no reply.
This is equivalent to the default.
"The answer is simple."
Hitzfeld opened his lips and uttered a long, slow sound.
"that is because--"
……
"I do see what she means."
In the room of the Wicker Bar, Xia Yibing breathed a sigh of relief after reading the entire notebook.
Indeed, after Hitzfeld's advice, it all seemed so obvious.
But no one had thought of the key before...
Even when the catastrophe broke out in West Grant, no one cared about these things. They just wanted to find the evil and monsters and fight against them.
This is the difference in vision.
It is also a difference in pattern.
"Then if you say so..."
She suddenly turned her head and looked towards the window.
"We don't have much time to react."
Chapter 76 I Come from the Dark
Just as Xia Yibing was hesitating, a knife suddenly hit her head heavily.
"Boom!"
"Don't say so many incomprehensible words!"
The red-haired nurse complained, "I am also a member of the organization, okay?"
"What did you realize? Tell me as clearly as possible!"
"Dreyeman..." Xia Yibing had been frowning and glaring at her, but her expression softened a little after hearing that.
Yeah.
she thought.
Not only will they have to face the possible outbreak of battle, but transmitting the information back to Wayne is also an important task.
I definitely can't get away, and Lu Xi'er is a good person to report the news.
"Go through these things quickly first." Thinking of this, she threw the notebook in her hand to the nurse, "Hurry up, we are short of time now."
"Wulong, wulong, wulong, wulong..." Lu Xi'er muttered to himself. After getting the notebook, he flipped through it very quickly and then rolled his eyes at Xia Yibing.
"What a mess this is recorded in... It doesn't seem to be related to what we are doing now?"
She really thought so. Although the contents recorded here were detailed, including daily observation reports of West Grant for a long period of time, the contents recorded here did not provide any clues to the disaster that broke out in West Grant later... or the difficulties that Nan Xinze was facing now.
Only those red words seem interesting... maybe Hitzfeld has discovered some clues.
But then there would be no need to worry about her, right? She also didn't understand why Xia Yibing insisted on her reading those black words.
"The Dream Fairy appeared much earlier than what is spread outside." Xia Yibing took a deep breath. "According to the records here, her deeds were already spread in many slums of West Grant more than a year before the disaster."
This is the most important thing in all the records in this notebook, but Lu Xier still doesn't understand: "That's just a legend. It can't prove anything."
"Don't you understand yet?" Xia Yibing spoke a little faster, "Whether it's Orvot, West Grant, or even Nanxinze, these three cities are all protected by the Xieyang Stone Carving!"
"Why are both the royal family and the library so secretive about the disaster in West Grant? Isn't it because everyone believes that something that can break through the stone protection and spread evil is no longer a simple evil creature, but an evil god! It is a monster that cannot be resisted by human power!"
"But what is the truth? The truth is that this is not the case at all! The reason why these places are in trouble is not because of the evil gods... Although there may be an evil god behind these disasters, it is not the cause! It is not the one that broke through the stone defenses!"
"What exactly do you want to say, Agent?"
Lu Xi'er frowned, and his expression finally became completely serious.
"Only the 'Evil God' can directly break the power of the Jiyang Stone Carving... This is recognized by all bishops and district heads. The incident in West Grant has lost too many elite members of the kingdom, and even this cannot save the city... Tell me, besides the Evil God, what else has such power?"
"Of course it's them!" Xia Yibing said this almost viciously.
"The Xieyang Stone Carving can only prevent evil spirits from invading people's dreams, and to a certain extent, stop the evil that grows from dreams! But if humans are willing to degenerate - it can do nothing!"
"Self-degradation..." Lu Xi'er frowned, still not quite understanding the deeper meaning.
"Take a look at these records..." Xia Yibing took the notebook back from her and read aloud: "'March 3, sunny. The legend of the Dream Fairy is still circulating in the largest slum in the south. The homeless people chant the name of the Dream Fairy more than they pray to the goddess. This seems incredible. Don't these idiots know whose power is protecting them?'"
"And this paragraph... 'March 3, light rain. The story of the Dream Fairy is spreading more and more widely. I don't know what those people are thinking to actually believe that someone can fulfill their three wishes... If I weren't hindered by this job, I would definitely catch these bastards, these stupid and lowly heretics!'"
"And this paragraph...'On June 6, it rained heavily. The police dispersed another group of heretics who gathered on the road and blocked traffic. When they marched, they would shout the name of the Dream Fairy and call on others to join them.'"
"And the most obvious one... 'September 9th, sunny. I witnessed heretics gathering on the road again. This time they completely occupied the main road leading to the west of the city... Those policemen were so late in arriving. They are really a bunch of useless people.'"
"Take a look." The woman shook the notebook. "This information can be said to fully reveal what our enemies are doing... This is the same principle as Nan Xinze's newspaper war, both of which are to spread things like 'primers' and 'seeds' to cause those people to degenerate, but those bastards think this is not really 'heresy'! They never thought that the problem would lie in this!"
"Wait for me...Agent Xia Sha..."
Lu Xier pressed his temple, raised his eyebrows and was stunned for a while.
"You mean... the newspaper war that took place in Nanxinze, those serialized novels... their purpose of existence is not to pollute people's bodies, but to pollute... their hearts?"
It sounds too fantastical.
Too metaphysical.
"Didn't you just hear it with your own ears?" Xia Yibing said coldly, "First, they used the holy fruit of wisdom to seduce a group of people to fall, and then used newspaper wars to spread the word to the lower classes of the city about 'what life in the real upper class is like'."
"I know... there are stories like this every day. But they are few in number and cannot form a large scale. Moreover, the high price of each book is not something that ordinary families can afford."
The price of a book is not that expensive. Most people can afford it.
But being able to afford it is one thing... whether you are willing to spend enough money to live on for more than a week on it is another.
"Newspapers don't have this flaw." Xia Yibing closed her eyes.
"The low price makes it accessible to everyone. No one noticed the problem, so they manipulated the novelists unscrupulously and published the serials for a month and a half..."
One and a half months.
During this month and a half, I wonder how many people learned for the first time what the life of rich people is like by reading the serial stories.
Those bastards are all manipulated. Although the stories they write are disguised as various themes, the connotations of them all are promoting luxury and enjoyment.
Through these stories, they learned that
It turned out that the items they had worked hard for years to touch were just toys of the nobles.
It turns out that the debt that was weighing them down was just the money for a meal from the rich.
It turns out that the happiness that they have to work so hard to pursue is just a rag in the hands of the young master.
It turns out that a life that you think is rich is so lowly in the eyes of some people.
Too many “originals”.
What kind of impact will this have on those simple people?
What they will eventually be transformed into.
From what she saw and heard in Nanxinze during this period, she could see the trend.
What frightened and angered Xia Yibing the most was that she found herself powerless against this trend.
If people are contaminated by evil spirits.
Corrupted.
Fallen.
She was more accepting.
But that's not the case.
The vast majority of people are not polluted and have no physical deformities.
They have a change of heart.
I can no longer accept the real me.
When newspaper wars become a trend and the luxurious life depicted in the stories becomes a popular legend, people will even resort to lying, borrowing and other means to disrupt the existing social order in order to fit into the circles around them.
And what emerged in this process...
It is true greed.
So this is why Xia Yibing said that they are short on time now.
If this is the truth behind the newspaper war—she has basically confirmed that this is the case because the library obviously does not want to alert the Xieyang Stone Carving by not accepting believers—then Hitzfeld may not be able to delay for much longer.
You know, according to Hitzfeld's conjecture, the Dark Snake can peek into people's hearts through dreams.
Now that she knew the truth, she couldn't sleep until Nan Xinze's hidden danger was completely resolved - and even then, it might not last long.
As long as the enemy reacts, they will definitely detonate all of Nan Xinze's "bombs" in advance, trying to forcibly awaken the Black Snake.
Now Xia Yibing only hopes that the so-called Black Snake has not awakened yet.
Because judging from the enemy's actions in the three cities, it would be very difficult to control this evil monster.
It took several years for Allwater to be transformed and destroyed.
The destruction of West Grant also took more than a year to plan.
The enemy is spending less and less time on layout.
One can only hope that they haven't collected enough greed.
"Uh……"
Looking at her packing her things as if getting ready to go out, Lu Xier didn't know what to say for a moment.
she……
I still haven't recovered from the shock.
Because the truth seemed too puzzling to her.
She does follow the agent's orders.
But she still didn't understand why people would have such terrible consequences after reading those stories.
"boom--"
There was a gunshot.
The gray-haired girl stood there with a gun in her hand. The camera zoomed out little by little, passing through a hole that was emitting smoke.
The hole is in the tree trunk.
