"This is impossible……"
Everyone was shocked. They widened their eyes, thinking that the girl was making random guesses.
But Eugenie's reaction quickly silenced them - the young man pursed his lips tightly and his eyes suddenly became extremely sharp.
"No...that's not right."
Hitzfeld then overturned the reasoning.
"You should know that I couldn't have been in Kerge at that time... Kerge is too far away from Port Wein, so you couldn't have suspected it was me... That was someone who looked similar to me."
"You saw someone who looked similar to me. You suspected that she was related to me, so you kept fleeing in the direction of Metz. There were actually many better routes to escape from this country, but you chose Metz... because Metz is closest to Sarah, and your purpose was to come to find me..."
"Yes... You can't find that person anymore, so you can only ask me for help... This can also explain why you suddenly didn't want to escape after encountering us. Your explanation at the time was that you wanted to repay Kaloni's kindness, but your subsequent series of actions conflicted with your statement."
With every word she said, Eugenie's face became uglier.
If Xia Yibing hadn't been holding the gun against him, he probably wouldn't have been able to help but turn around and look the girl in the face.
"Your target is also the Dragon God's treasure."
Hitzfeld affirmed.
"You're looking for Old Baal's secret for this, and you're planning to travel so far to find me for this... So it seems that Mr. Deka is indeed very charismatic. He must have instilled in you a set of lofty ideals..."
"This is all for the purpose of... putting an end to the chaos that has lasted for hundreds of years in Talignan!"
Eugenie growled.
"He has the ability! He also has the qualifications!"
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Wright interrupted him abruptly.
He couldn't stand this kind of sanctimonious guy, so he walked up to the young man and asked him sarcastically: "Then how do you explain that you want to bring your wife? Huh?"
"Don't you love her very much?"
"You took her with you on such a dangerous matter. Do you want someone to be buried with you if something happens to you?"
"Or do you simply regard her as a tool, and plan to use your connections to force her to help you after you find her (referring to Hitzfeld)?"
Eugenie moved his lips.
You can see that he really wants to defend himself.
But it seemed that he had something to hide and ultimately he was unable to speak.
"That may not be the case."
Just when the atmosphere was about to collapse, Hitzfeld spoke again.
"I think... Mr. Copperfield does this because he loves his wife so much."
"What do you mean?"
Wright, Moore and the others were stunned again.
"Mimic."
Hitzfeld uttered a word, and their faces suddenly changed.
"He doesn't let his wife socialize because he wants to protect her and doesn't want people to see her face... He also probably feels... that there's no need to get involved with a group of people who are doomed to die."
"It's easy to explain why he took her with him, because he was afraid - afraid that when he saw his wife again, she would be transformed into something else."
With a sigh, Hitzfeld stared at the trembling young man's back.
"Although it may be a little late, Mr. Copperfield, I still want to say it."
"You are making a deal with the devil..."
Chapter 79: Kaloni-Deka's Plan
As soon as this sigh came out, Eugenie trembled even more violently.
At the same time, this completely broke through his psychological defenses. He simply gave up the persistence he had been holding on to and looked into the void with a calm expression: "...You are one of the few people I admire."
"You are cautious and have revealed too many flaws." Hitzfeld did not think there was anything praiseworthy about this reasoning.
Eugenie is also a very capable agent. If he is allowed to do his job without any constraints, the plan he made would not have so many loopholes.
But now the constraints not only exist but are also huge - it is obvious that the man he is loyal to has a secret deal with the Mimic, and their ultimate goal may be the Dragon God's treasure... and because Eugenie is too wary of the Mimic, he has to bear the huge flaw of Jerry.
"So your goal is to find the Dragon God's treasure and use the secrets that may exist in the treasure to strengthen the Hot Spring Dragon Family?" Xia Yibing asked with narrowed eyes.
This matter is even more confusing because they still don't know what the treasure is.
"Yes!" Eugenie admitted straightforwardly. He slowly turned his head to look at the others and said frankly, "Our goal is to put an end to the chaotic era of Talignan."
The ideal with the era as the suffix seems a bit too grand no matter how you look at it. But we must admit that the Wenquan Dragon Family is qualified. They are one of the three dragon guards and the ruling class of this country.
"It is precisely because of the chaos in Tarinian that we are always invaded by evil spirits and disturbed by all kinds of degenerates and evil species." He continued, "If it were not for this background, I think the Death Party would not have been so easy to grow and develop - if this was a peaceful city like Wayne Port, those people would have nothing better to do than sell their lives to the gangs!"
"After living here for a while, I thought so... So you can imagine how touched I would be when the leader I was loyal to told me, 'Yes, I think so too, really join me and let's do it together'."
"Kaloni Deka is just a dreamer." Wright Sally said bluntly, "I know him... He has been to Bowen and treated me to a drink. We are even equal partners in business. Excuse me for being frank, but this man has very deep thoughts. You have no idea whether he is thinking of breaking the contract at any time when he is talking to you seriously."
"That's your personal bias." Eugenie shook his head. "I don't see how breaking the contract will do him any good."
Forget about other things, but this is a coup, it’s treason!
Could it be that by finally breaking the contract and saying that it had nothing to do with him and selling out all his subordinates, he could prove that he was not the mastermind?
Impossible... Once it reaches that point, it means the coup has completely failed, and no one on this line will survive. There is no need for Kaloni to lie about this.
"Tarignan has maintained the current chaos for more than two hundred years." Sixus said, "It's not that no one has had similar ideas during this process. Why do you think you can succeed?"
"Because they don't have this opportunity!" Eugenie said with shining eyes.
"The Dragon God's Treasure?" Xixus understood now - it turned out that the Dragon God's Treasure was the catalyst and the final driving force that tempted these people to take this step.
"You have never seen what's inside, so you won't understand its meaning..." Eugenie nodded and closed his eyes, as if he was imagining the scene inside.
"There are many traps in the tomb... Once you open them, you will find countless silver coins, gems, and golden statues. There are also heavy armor forged with unknown metals and manufacturing techniques, huge knight's guns, and heavy shields that are larger than the trap doors!"
"You know what's behind it is the key?" he said excitedly, "Especially when we opened the third floor and found more than 2000 strange saddles inside! Can you imagine how we felt at that time?"
Saddle? Is there anything exciting about a saddle?
The others didn't react at first, but Eugenie had mentioned heavy armor, heavy shield, and lance before, so they immediately realized -
“Dragon Riders!?” This time it was Ma Kai who screamed. The fat detective howled like a pointy-headed mole, “Impossible! You must be mistaken!!”
The Dragon Riders are nothing more than a legend... People have not even discovered any "dragon"-like skeletons to date, so such an army certainly cannot possibly exist.
He was more inclined to believe that Eugenius was wrong, or even if he was not wrong, it must be a fantasy creation, a special burial object - for example, many kings liked to cast statues of various goddesses and place them in tombs.
"Even if it's true, what's the use?" Hitzfeld looked at Eugenie.
She thought more deeply: Those saddle equipment were obviously prepared for the war of the Dragon Riders, but there were no dragons in this era, and the training methods of the Dragon Riders had long been lost. There was no need for the Deka family to get too excited about these things, right?
Unless they make another discovery that might make these things useful again.
At this point, she even had a somewhat absurd association: Could there be more than 2000 live dragon eggs buried in the fourth floor of the dragon tomb?
"Whether it is useful or not is not something that can be defined by an individual." Eugenie still had his back to her and didn't look at her, but his words were very meaningful: "Individuals cannot determine the trend of the times, just like the mechanical sun that rises over the ancient Eastern country..."
"Really?" Hitzfeld nodded. "So you didn't ask Mr. Sally for advice to crack the tomb mechanism."
"That's right." The young man pursed his lips. Although he was surprised that she guessed it, he still raised his neck proudly.
"You've finished?"
"…This aspect is confidential. I cannot tell you."
"That means we're just a little bit short of it." Hitzfeld continued to nod.
Eugenie's face turned a little ugly.
"But judging from your plan to kill Mr. Sally and silence him, your progress is very far... to the point where you no longer need his help." Hitzfeld held his chin up, "So you should have completed the hardware. What you lack now is the power core..."
Eugenie's face was no longer just ugly, he began to twist and turn like someone with ADHD.
"Dragon God Fire?" Hitzfeld suddenly looked up. "You want to arm a large army of dragon riders driven by machinery, and then just wait to take out the Dragon God Fire from the fourth floor of the tomb to launch a general attack?"
Eugenie closed his eyes and pursed his lips, vowing not to say another word to her.
Others were talking about this, they thought the Hot Spring Lord's plan was too crazy.
"Indeed... some of these structures don't look like simple mechanisms, but are closer to machinery and mechanical engineering..." Wright pondered, "At the time, I just thought they encountered more sophisticated mechanism doors. Now it seems that they got inspiration from those structures and greatly advanced the manufacturing process."
Afterwards, no matter how Hitzfeld tried to pry open Eugenie's mouth, he remained silent as if he were mute.
Finally, he had to drag Jie Li out to play the emotional card, and he reluctantly said: "I can only say that I didn't lie."
"Although you may think I'm crazy...but we are just trying to end an era of chaos. We want to restore order so that people can live a stable life. Is this wrong?"
"No one said you were wrong." Hitzfeld tried to interrupt him, "That's not the point..."
"The point is that you dragged us into this!" Xia Yibing said coldly, "You keep saying that you don't want to murder us. Yes - you don't want to, but after entering the vortex, can our fate still be what you want? You may only intend to dig out the relationship between that person and her from Aisuen, but what if she doesn't know? What if she really doesn't know but your master doesn't believe it? Will they just let us go like this?"
"…I can only say I'm sorry."
Eugenie opened his mouth and lowered his head dejectedly.
"The progress of the Undead Party is faster than ours..."
"We... have no other choice..."
"So you are racing against time." Hitzfeld finally understood the current situation thoroughly.
Queen Milanka and the Undead Party are on the same side. They have received support from the Frost Sky Dragon and are attempting to unite the Dragon Guard family and all scattered bloodlines - in this way they can create Dragon God Blood and use it to completely open the Dragon Tomb.
The Deka family, to which Eugenie is loyal, cannot do this. In order to get ahead of the Undead Party, they must find a way to find out how the "mysterious man" entered the fourth floor of the Dragon Tomb. In the current situation where they can't find her, the only straw they can grasp is Hitzfeld, so Eugenie is obsessed with taking her back.
Chapter 80: Her Royal Highness the Princess
The "Firebird" drove out of the tunnel, spewing black smoke as it moved forward through the mountains.
Hitzfeld sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the beautiful scenery slowly receding outside the window, with a gloomy expression on his face.
Not many people could see this, but Xia Yibing was definitely one of them. She came over with a bowl of meat porridge and sat next to the girl, and her right hand wrapped around her waist in an extremely subtle way.
"Xia..." Hitzfeld was suddenly awakened from his thoughts.
The touch on her waist made her blush a little. She quickly glanced to the side and the opposite side, and made sure that this was a blind spot for Sixus and Jelly's vision, and that the opposite side was also blocked with a black cloth. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief and gave the woman a reproachful look.
Unexpectedly, Xia Yibing became even more aggressive. She suddenly hugged her tightly and rubbed her face against hers vigorously.
"Xia...Xia!" Hitzfeld screamed, "If you keep doing this——"
"What if you keep doing this?" Xia Yibing did not play by the rules. When she was about to fight to the death, she was suddenly let go. "I understand what is more important now, but I think no matter how important it is... even if the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow, you can't not eat."
It's the third day of the journey.
Kerg was just around the corner, and would arrive in less than eight hours. But Hitzfeld had been immersed in analyzing the situation these days and had eaten very little.
Plus, she has insomnia and doesn't need sleep, which makes her look even more exaggerated. This state of not eating and not sleeping secretly makes the woman worried.
"It may seem like I don't eat much, but the food I do eat is high-calorie..." Hitzfeld tried to justify his behavior with modern nutrition science.
For example, sausages, eggs, fried meat slices and the like... and the puffy, crispy wheat bread, she ate a lot of it.
But these words were not enough to impress the woman. Xia Yibing still scooped up a spoonful of porridge and put it to her mouth, as if to say, "I won't leave unless you eat it."
What else could Hitzfeld say? He could only open his mouth and let her feed him.
… Mainly, the woman’s domineering behavior reminded her of the time when she was forced to drink milk.
That feeling was a bit too ecstatic, in some ways even more ecstatic than breaking through the final bottom line. She had a strange feeling of being forced to be filled up. She definitely didn't want to do that again, so she decided to eat the porridge first...
"Jeli said that their cooperation with the Mimics is not in-depth, and the Mimics do not only have a cooperative relationship with the Deka family."
After feeding them porridge, the two of them snuggled together to look at the scenery and talk about the current situation. Xia Yibing directly expressed her opinion: "This is consistent with our previous speculation. After all, they are monsters. The Undead Party would never dare to disclose their existence."
"Of course they don't dare..." Hitzfeld responded dryly, but before he could finish his words, he was smeared in the mouth with a handkerchief.
She couldn't help but glare at the woman, who looked at her seriously: "Madam should have taught you that you should wipe your mouth after eating."
Hitzfeld rolled his eyes again, snatched the handkerchief from her hand, wiped his mouth viciously, and then tucked the handkerchief into his sleeve viciously.
As for the topic... the roots of the Undead Party are those huge grassroots members. Those people can turn into demons in order to survive, looting, killing and doing all kinds of evil, but they may not have the awareness to completely associate with the evil.
