"Maybe it was some method like using carrier pigeons or hunting falcons. Anyway, Eric Heidegger was considered a traitor because of this. Everyone thought he was the one who betrayed the information and disrupted the blockade layout at the time."
"Although Heidegger himself died there, all the evidence shows that he is the only one who holds this suspicion."
"Of course, this is mostly because the document's description of the situation was too one-sided, and later generations did not know the cause and effect."
"And we have now made it clear that Heidegger would not do such a thing. He is not a traitor. He has never betrayed the Security Bureau. On the contrary, he is a hero who would rather sacrifice his personal feelings for the greater good."
"Then who leaked the secret?"
Her tone became more and more vague.
"So many unreasonable things... came together, it felt like they were deliberately guiding him, leading the whole thing to a predetermined ending. Don't you think there's a hand behind this?"
"Aisun."
Xia Yibing frowned deeply.
"What exactly do you want to tell me?"
Hitzfeld just stared at the woman.
She remembered the continuation of the painting.
In the dark sky.
In the heavy rain.
Amid the cheers of the crowd.
Her sight traveled through space and suddenly came to a house with a fire lit.
"The era of Torredo is over."
"Yes, the distorted rule has lasted too long..."
"Use the blood curse to pass this picture on."
"It's time for the royal blood hidden in the bodies of the Sara people to see the light of day again."
……
"I suspect the Death Tree's files are forged."
She maintained a dazed expression and suddenly spoke.
"I suspect that the Death Tree is not a kind of sacred tree."
"It's a man-made monster."
"And it has no connection with the Eclipse Church."
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Chapter 45 I Believe in You
"Why...why do you think so, Aisuen?"
Xia Yibing stared at the girl in surprise.
If the suspicion was based on known intelligence, she would not be so surprised. But Hitzfeld's suspicion was completely groundless, and could even be said to be... treasonous!
She believes that the Death Tree was man-made and that the incident has nothing to do with the Eclipse Church.
Who else could it be?
That was a horrific natural disaster that had lasted on this land for at least 160 years. Who could have created such a thing?
Who can allow it?
She is blatantly alluding to the royal family!
I knew she would react like this...
Seeing Xia Yibing so surprised, Hitzfeld also felt quite helpless.
Given Xia's loyalty to the royal family and the Security Bureau, it was too difficult for her to believe some of the messy clips I had seen.
She may be willing to trust me on things that have nothing to do with faith and loyalty, but once it is involved, it will probably be difficult to convince her.
That's why Hitzfeld didn't directly talk about the visions he saw.
Because she had no evidence for this matter, she just suspected it.
"I'm not saying that's the royal family..." She explained to the woman, "Let me ask you another question, Xia... If someone mentions the name 'Toledo' in discussion or conversation, would they be talking about someone else?"
"Of course not!" Xia Yibing knew what she wanted to ask, "King Torredo, you should have read his information. He is the founder of Sara. He led mankind to open up a future in the darkness! After that, no one dared to use this name. This is the people's respect for him."
"Then if there is a group of people who attempt to overthrow the rule of King Torredo - or the rule of his descendants, they will definitely not be members of the royal family."
"That's obvious."
"Then we shouldn't have any disputes." Hitzfeld breathed a sigh of relief, "The one who created the Death Tree wouldn't be a member of the royal family."
"Aisun..." Xia Yibing narrowed her eyes and stared at her again with a deep, inquiring look, "What else did you see..."
To create a natural disaster of the magnitude of the Death Tree artificially is not something that can be accomplished by just a few people.
No matter who those people are, they must have a large research team. And there are not many people with such strength in the entire civilized world.
Not the Eclipse Church, nor the royal family.
She couldn't possibly be preaching about the group, could she?
"It's not a cult either!" Seeing the woman's increasingly weird look, Hitzfeld explained to her anxiously: "In short... you can understand that I saw some people plotting..."
"Plotting to overthrow King Torredo?"
"Yes... and they also said that they would use the family blood curse to transmit the image of the Death Tree's explosion, as if it could be a special signal to awaken something... They also mentioned the 'royal blood hidden in Sara's body'!"
Hitzfeld's voice grew deeper as she spoke. This was the first time she doubted what she had seen.
Isn't it strange.
A force that is not part of the Eclipse Church and wants to overthrow the royal power has been hiding in the shadow of the royal power for at least 160 years without being discovered or even heard of.
How could such an illogical thing happen?
Even if every person in power in Sarah is a fool, there must be smart people under him.
That's a full 160 years.
Didn't they find anything... not even the name of the organization?
But she did believe in the existence of this organization.
Because the natural disasters of 1941-1943 were so strange. It was not like the Black Snake, and she could not see what the enemy wanted to do at that time... This time her eyes directly let her see part of the answer - they seemed to only use the Death Tree as a warning?
At the cost of Amiron's destruction? Just to send a warning... a message?
This was even more crazy behavior than the Eclipse Church. She just couldn't figure out who they were and what their motives were.
"Did Villefort really say anything to you?"
She placed her hopes on Xia Yibing.
"No." The woman shook her head, her face a little dazed, as if she was thinking about something.
"But I did remember a secret message... I once saw a record in a file about royal history, which mentioned 'Amiron'."
"The tone of the description is obviously referring to those three cities, because between the lines it highly praises this word, and it says that King Sara at the time wanted to use these cities as rewards..."
"Whose reward is it?"
"A prince." Xia Yibing shook her head. "A prince he loves very much... But many ministers and even the prince's mother are against this. They think it is equivalent to establishing a second kingdom in Sara."
"Do you remember his name?"
"I don't remember... No, that's not right! The name wasn't mentioned in the record! Because it was just a passing mention, and the appointment was rescinded after everyone united in opposition, so no further details were mentioned later."
The Hitzfeld people were a little numb.
She thought that it couldn't really be done by the cult.
From the cult's perspective, they are the most likely ones to take measures to warn the king out of fear of his incompetence.
"It can't be the cult." Xia Yibing shook her head. "You don't know much about this history. I tell you clearly that the Xieyang Cult cannot betray. All of their high-ranking officials from top to bottom are members of the royal family and the Wheel of Destiny. No evil followers can infiltrate them."
"are you sure."
"Sure." Xia Yibing narrowed her eyes, "Because... I only heard about this matter, I'm not sure if it's true... There are rumors that the Pope must have the blood of Sarah in his body."
such.
Hitzfeld roughly understood.
Although the rule based on blood ties is not wise, it is indeed the most stable one in this period.
With such control, the suspicion of being a cult group is not high.
And if they wanted to warn the king, they didn't need to destroy three cities and millions of people. I was crazy to doubt them in the first place...
"I think...assuming that what you saw is true, someone hiding among the nobles must have planned everything."
Xia Yibing is still looking for the suspect.
"You mentioned the 'family blood curse'. This is an obvious clue... There are not many clans that are qualified to use this thing. Only those extremely ancient families with many collateral branches are suspects."
"And they may not be unrelated to the solar eclipse... maybe they were unrelated before, but not necessarily now... so this is still a rebellion of the evildoers in the final analysis."
"What are you looking at me for, Asun?"
She looked up and found Hitzfeld staring at her in surprise.
"No……"
Hitzfeld looked away.
"I'm just a little surprised... because I don't have any evidence right now, but you..."
Willing to believe me and seriously analyze the information I provided.
Why does she always touch me like this...
"You underestimate the Devourer."
Xia Yibing smiled faintly.
"The abilities of the Devourers are varied. Seeing hallucinations and nightmares? It's not without precedent in history."
"If your eyes really come from the Sun King, from the Supreme Goddess, as you speculated, then it is equivalent to the incarnation of the sun."
“It was supposed to be the light of the seventh day.”
"It's no big deal..."
"But I'm still not cleared of suspicion!" Hitzfeld interrupted her sternly, and his face became troubled again.
I am very touched.
But you shouldn’t… this unprofessional attitude can be deadly to detectives and police officers!
Xia Yibing stared at her for a long time and then did something that she had never expected and even made the police officers who were supervising them almost jump up.
She hugged her.
Ignoring all warnings and consequences, he grabbed her wrist, pulled the unaware girl into his arms, and squeezed her hard a few times.
"?"
Hitzfeld's expression almost froze.
"Idiot...don't you see what time it is now?"
Xia Yibing gently stroked the girl's head and whispered softly in her ear.
"You are someone who can face the evil god without changing your expression. Even I can't do that."
"I don't know why you are so wary of other people all of a sudden... But I am sure, Aisuen... I am sure that no matter what happens, I will trust you..."
"Believe in everything you say and do..."
