Qiao Na was a man who did things quickly and efficiently. After telling her how much power Puen currently controlled and when the specific deadline would be, she planned to leave.
"Wait a minute, Jonah." Hitzfeld called her.
"May I ask...why did you and Felkin..."
"Why are our voices different from others?" Joanna half turned around and looked at her sideways.
Hitzfeld nodded quickly.
The female crawler looked more agile. Although Jonah was not very tall, being at the same level as Hitzfeld, her legs were much longer than the girl's. At this moment, with her legs spread out and wearing a black cloak, she looked really imposing.
Like a nimble leopard, also like an assassin in the night.
"I don't know." Just when Hitzfeld thought she wouldn't get an answer, Jonah spoke up, "Maybe it's because we seldom talk, and people who seldom talk have deeper voices."
This statement is quite scientific.
If it was before, Hitzfeld would not be so sure. But now that they have cracked the grammatical logic and even the pronunciation rules of Worm language, she knows very well how much strain it will put on the throat to speak this language for a long time.
Over time, it becomes a habit, and even if you change to another language, you can't change it, and then you will become like Ripple... So this should be what Jonah said.
"Don't leave in a hurry." Hitzfeld carefully walked around and sat down on his bed.
"There are a lot of things I don't understand here... I feel like you're not too old. Can we talk more?"
Joanna didn't answer immediately, but she paused for a moment after taking a step forward, showing that she was also hesitant.
Suddenly, she turned around and pounced on the girl silently like a real leopard, strangling the girl's neck with one hand and pressing the other hand, as if holding a sharp weapon, against her temple.
"You're trying to trick me..." Qiao Na said in a trembling voice, "What do you want from me!?"
"Nothing." Hitzfeld tried his best to stay calm and said with a breath held: "I just want to ask for some more details... For example, you just told me to be careful of the emperor... I didn't quite understand."
"Huh!" Her neck was loosened and she quickly covered her mouth and gasped.
This female alien... She looks so delicate, but she has so much strength with one hand!
If Joanna wanted to, she had no doubt that the other party could strangle her to death with one hand!
"Emperor..." Maybe because she understood the request or was too afraid of the word, Joanna stopped targeting her and sat down beside the bed.
"Do you know how many heads the emperor has?"
"I don't know." Hitzfeld pinched his neck and told the truth.
She really didn't know.
She heard all the news about the emperor insects from Weilencel and Smail. At that time, they only said that there were multiple emperors, but they did not say the exact number.
"I... ahem! I don't even know where they came from."
This is just pushing the envelope.
Although they had only spent a short time together, she could already tell that Jonah was a very introverted person.
Withdrawn, aloof, and unsocial.
Because as she said before, she rarely speaks - rarely speaks her native language, which is not normal.
She never intended to kill her, but she was indeed very sensitive, as could be seen from the fact that she always wore a black veil.
Yearning for civilization and advocating awakening, they began to hate this natural appearance.
Such immature... children are usually easy to extract information from. Although it is a bit immoral, Hitzfeld no longer cares about that.
"The emperor is a worm and a man transformed together."
She was slightly surprised by Jonah's explanation.
She remembered the murals she saw in the illusion.
People transformed...those murals can't be real?
Doesn't that mean that the body beneath the Creeper's cloak really has—
Thinking of those holes and the things wriggling inside them, she instantly got goosebumps.
"What are you thinking?" Qiao Na looked at him strangely. "It's not a disgusting process. They just want to eat people. Only when they eat enough people can they advance to the extraordinary level with the help of other emperors."
"Eating people... Extraordinary..." Hitzfeld pondered, "Are you eating us or you?"
"It will be all right."
"What does extraordinary mean... Is there anything special about being an emperor?"
"They all say so. I don't know." Qiao Na turned her face away stiffly. "But only the emperor is the true believer of the ancient god. Only the emperor... can hear His voice."
"Him?"
"Great existence."
Hitzfeld thought.
“Where do most emperors live?”
"Deep in the plains."
"Is it far from here?"
"Not far away. They come back often. They are in the caves around the city walls. Some are in the cracks."
Hitzfeld grinned slightly.
The area of this underground cavity is very large, but the ancient city of Sos is right next to it. She has also seen large holes and rifts on the edge when she toured the city before.
It was pitch black and bottomless.
She also speculated whether it was a giant insect's nest, and after getting confirmation, she still couldn't help feeling a little scared.
“That’s not actually eating…”
Seeing that she hadn't said anything, Qiao Na suddenly added a sentence.
"It's 'symbiosis', which is the combination of a strong body and wisdom. It is said that those wills can gain immortality in the new body."
"Do you believe it?" Hitzfeld smiled.
"Do not believe."
"why."
"Because Grandpa Felkin said it was a lie, and--"
"Ok?"
"And I always feel like - like there's something telling me this is not right."
"Feeling?" Hitzfeld became more interested.
But Jonah didn't want to say more.
"I should go." She blew out the candle, stepped onto the windowsill in the dark, and looked back.
"My feelings also tell me that I should get closer to you."
"But when I got close to you I realized it didn't feel right."
"You're not the one I'm looking for."
"Maybe I should kill you."
Chapter 84: Emperor's Softness
"You ask Jonah?"
The next day, when he met Rip again, Hitzfeld took the initiative to ask about Jonah's situation.
"She was picked up by Felkin from the Rift Valley." Ripple recalled the situation at that time. "She was not very talkative since she was a child. In fact, she is similar to Pun."
"Picked it up?" Hitzfeld narrowed his eyes slightly. "When did you pick it up?"
"It must have been many years..."
"Fifty years?"
"Of course not! Probably only the first ten years or so... You can tell she's not that old."
Hitzfeld wiped her face. This was not the result she wanted.
She had doubted Jonna's identity, and when Jonna said she had a "strange feeling" and wanted to get close to one of them, she immediately wondered if she was Rola in disguise.
The names are also very similar, both have two syllables. And the pronunciations of "Na" and "La" are similar, which are also suspicious.
But if that's the case, then...Dalent said that the incident with Jura happened in 1926.
There are 1926 years between 1985 and today, 59. If Joanna is really Roula, she must be at least 50 years old.
But that was not the case. Whether it was the conclusion she drew from her own observation or what Rip said, Jonah was very young. From the time Felkin picked her up and raised her, she could not be more than 20 years old.
That's weird...
Could it be that Jonah is a superhuman among the alien species... Could her "strange feeling" be her spirit?
But who does she want to see?
If it wasn't me, then it was Darent or Xia?
It can't be Leah and Bruce, right?
Hitzfeld mentioned Jonah's ability to Ripple again, and Ripple nodded: "She does have a talent in this area. She can always sense and predict some mysterious things. For example, she pointed out Ong Sein's aesthesia in advance this time, and sent someone to remind you. It was all her suggestion."
"It's her?" Hitzfeld was a little surprised. "Why? What did she see specifically?"
"How can I know... She herself is so confused that she can't explain it clearly, so I don't understand it at all."
"You don't understand, so why do you still do what she suggests?"
"We are trying to contain Pun!" Ripple defended. "It's true that we don't know what she's thinking, but informing you is indeed beneficial to us - isn't that enough?"
"She's a good kid." Seeing that Hitzfeld stopped talking, Rip continued, "Although she's not very good at socializing, she never does evil things. She helps anyone who needs help. Even though she's qualified as a warrior, she never takes war bugs to hunt."
Hitzfeld thought for a moment and said, "You said she was taken out from a worm hole..."
"Yes."
"Isn't that similar to Poon?"
"It's different...Pun was found in the insect feces, but she is different. She crawled out by herself and there is no dirt on her body."
"Is that a rift valley? So deep? Can you climb out by yourself?"
"There are deep and shallow areas... She crawled to the shallow area and was picked up by Felkin."
"It's amazing. It sounds like someone went in specifically to give birth and cleaned up the baby afterwards."
"It's really strange."
"But this is legendary enough, isn't it? With the status of an emperor, she didn't get a prominent position?"
"Well..." Ruibo lowered his voice, "After all, what we did... Felkin couldn't possibly publicize it."
"Did Felkin find her parents in the wormhole?"
"No."
"Either you didn't find it or you didn't look for it."
"I didn't go looking for him - no one dares to do that. The disturbed emperor doesn't care who you are. You will die!"
Hitzfeld rolled his eyes.
"Then ask Felkin for me." She thought for a moment, "About fifty years ago, was there a person named Rola Daren... Never mind, just ask him directly if there was a human woman who came into contact with them."
"Human woman?"
"Yes, her name is Roula Dalent, she can play the violin and..."
"Have."
His heart stopped beating, and then he raised his voice: "...Really?"
"I don't know her name, but she can play the violin."
After Ruibo finished speaking, he pretended to play the violin and demonstrated to her twice.
"Is it this kind?"
