"I can help you with things, and even... be your servant after I leave." Claire took a deep breath, "But you... I hope you can give me some 'common sense' in the supernatural and mysterious field, so that I, as a servant, can make fewer jokes."
Really smart.
Hitzfeld, who was observing secretly, nodded slightly.
She changed the address so quickly, it seems that she is very clear that her future fate depends entirely on the other party's thoughts.
She was bought for 50,000 pounds as a "prohibited item", which means that Black Mask can deal with her as he pleases, whether to take her away from Farrell Palace or keep her.
If she did the latter, she would be dead, and if she did the former, she would undoubtedly become the other party's subordinate. Since she had seen the blood and cruelty of this world through this shock, it would be extremely stupid for her to continue to be "disrespectful".
And she even emphasized that she only wanted to get "common sense", that is, things that the other party believed everyone in this circle should know.
Such knowledge is usually of little value and will not cause pain or disgust to the other party. She was cautiously testing the bottom line because she actually did not know much about Black Mask's personality.
Who knows what made her buy her?
The Fehlem family, which follows the "human desire" route, are zombies that eat people. There is no guarantee that other branches will also turn themselves into man-eating monsters.
"You are very smart in your calculations~"
But Black Mask was undoubtedly a smart person, and she could see all of Claire's changes at a glance.
"But even if it is common sense, it is common sense in the extraordinary world. For a mortal, letting you know that this place exists is a gift. How much are you willing to pay for this knowledge?"
This stumped Claire.
She was a servant sold to the Fareham family, and, as the man said, belonged to Farrell House in body and soul, a palace that drove her without paying a salary at all.
The money had all been converted into local currency and subsidized to her family. From that moment on, Claire William no longer had control over her own destiny.
"You can do anything to me." After thinking for a while, she said to the woman with great courage and perseverance.
"No matter what... even if you want to eat my flesh, as long as you don't kill me immediately... I will..."
"Stop!" Black Mask raised his hand to stop it.
Claire shut up and noticed that the other person began to look her up and down again.
This made her feel very uncomfortable, as if she were an animal being put on the market to have her parts picked out.
“Although there is no direct evidence that awakening spirituality is related to willpower, people with strong willpower do make up the majority of this circle.”
Black Mask curled his lips, and muttered in a tone that Claire couldn't hear clearly, but Hitzfeld could read the lip movements accurately: "Maybe this deal has the potential to make money..."
"From now on, you will address me as 'Ms. Sistah'."
She put some distance between them.
"Were you a maid here before?"
"Yes, it is!"
"Stand up like a servant."
Claire was stunned for a moment, put her feet together, and folded her hands in front of her to hold down the hem of her skirt.
This was something she had been trained in repeatedly before going up the mountain, and it had almost become an instinct under the threat of the whip.
"Very good." She received the compliment. "Now anyone can tell who you are. Next, don't say anything. I will give you a chance to ask questions."
So, Claire began to follow Siesta in the manners of a maid, moving with her among the small circles of cloaked people and masks, watching her standing among them familiarly, listening, witnessing, and speaking from time to time, mumbling a bunch of words.
She didn't know whether these people were speaking other languages or she was unlucky not to have come across an English-speaking group, but she could never understand a single thing these people said.
Ms. Siesta handled it with ease.
During a gap, the other party finally spoke to her again: "Those small circles are actually trade fairs."
"Each circle represents a region or branch. It depends on the organizer's preference. Some people recruit participants based on region, while others recruit participants based on branch."
“The former wants to trade things that are unique to the region, or even favors, such as hiring someone to do something.”
"The latter probably means that you or your students want to advance and need the mysterious materials of this branch route."
"Branches?" Claire repeated.
She didn't quite understand.
Based on what she had learned from the chapel during this period, the mysterious world did have many branches.
But the Felum family is taking the "human desire" route, right? The "human desire" route itself is a branch, and the exchange banquet they hold should also be based on the "human desire" route, right?
How come there are so many different branches of the circle?
"Branch." Sista nodded. "If I hadn't rescued you, and if your talent happened to be so good that they couldn't bear to eat you, then you could probably become a transcendent of the 'human desire' route."
"It is true that 'human desire' itself is a mysterious branch, but there are branches within 'human desire'."
"Do you know why the Fareham family are all ghouls?"
She suddenly changed the subject, and Claire could only shake her head in confusion.
"There are many kinds of 'human desires', such as greed, desire for wealth, jealousy... but there are only two most primitive desires, which are 'eating' and 'reproduction'."
"Do you understand? No matter how many branches there are within 'Human Desire', it has only two main branches, namely eating and reproduction. The extraordinary people who follow these two paths are the most powerful in this branch, and 'appetite' will even slightly suppress 'reproduction desire'. Those who choose it as their path will only become ghouls after their lives are sublimated - this kind of extremely powerful extraordinary life!"
Claire felt a chill run down her spine when she heard this.
So if you take the appetite route, you might have to eat human flesh if you want to advance?
What about taking other routes?
Oh my god, the "human desire" route that I chose and planned to use to advance my trading skills turned out to be so bloody and terrifying...
Her stomach cramped a little again, but she didn't have a drop left.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but ask in a cautious tone: "Then Ms. Xista... I don't know if you...?"
"I am a supernatural being from the Witches' Coven. The founder of the Witches' Coven took the 'research' route. We are best at identifying and brewing potions. After our lives are sublimated, we can also process and manufacture some supernatural items."
She was greatly relieved by Sista's answer.
"That's why I say you're lucky."
The corners of Sista's mouth curled up again.
"I saved you because you're a girl... If it weren't for me, even if Darken Ferrum hadn't found you, you would have been taken away by someone else. There are many people who take the 'breeding' route here, and you would have been bought and become their womb."
"After all, hunting is illegal now. A young, healthy, unopened fetus costs about 50,000 to 60,000 pounds. Your skin can be sold for money, so they won't lose money."
Is the real world so dark?
Not only Claire, but even Hitzfeld began to doubt his life.
She felt that she had lived a useless life for more than ten years before she traveled through time, and had not discovered any extraordinary events.
But why do these extraordinary factors appear?
Namiya is different because it is fundamentally different, it is divine and naturally possesses extraordinary factors.
But what about the earth?
It's impossible that all that ancient history is fake, right?
Rather than believing that those were all lies, Hitzfeld was more inclined to believe that there was some mysterious interference with the earth, causing the earth to begin to possess extraordinary factors.
She had a premonition.
Perhaps this retrospection can shed some light on the mystery surrounding the Hitzfeld family, the secret-keeping family.
Chapter 49: Worldly Secrets 2
Hitzfeld had originally been thinking that since the banquet was held at Farrell Palace and its hosts were a group of zombies, would they hold a human flesh party at the banquet and serve their treasured delicacies to the guests?
At present, it seems that the ghouls are not that barbaric, let alone eating flesh and drinking blood. She has not even seen the ghouls' transformed form.
This is a normal development - after all, this is just a gathering in the mysterious field. As the host, the Felum family provides the venue and shelter to ensure that the extraordinary people in the nearby large area can come here to trade intelligence items. They have already received benefits in advance. If they still shamelessly promote the "appetite" route at the gathering, it may only take one or two times, and other extraordinary people will never come again except those who are willing to follow or curry favor with them.
Most of the people who come to the conference have needs. No matter what grudges they have in their daily lives, for the sake of this need and to give face to the organizers, they will not have conflicts at Farrell House.
So they couldn't fight... It was normal that she didn't have the chance to see the ghoul transform.
However, Hitzfeld thought about it and felt that she might have seen the so-called zombie at the beginning of her flashback.
[Claire William, it seems that she will be taken away by the witches tonight and change her route to achieve extraordinary success, but if this is a flashback, then her final fate has already been determined.]
Claire is destined to be unable to escape that hidden "appetite". She will return to this castle palace in the future. After an accidental death, she will be thrown out and have some mysterious reaction. In the end, the thing that comes back to life and attacks tourists may be her zombie form.
[Resurrection from the dead...]
Thinking of this, Hitzfeld examined himself again.
What those two corpse movers said before, "break through death and level up to come back"...what does it mean?
Is there a fundamental difference between the extraordinary people on Earth and those in Namiia? Does this difference also include the fact that they have one more chance to pursue the mystery when they die, and as long as they succeed, they can sublimate their lives and return again?
There are still a lot of doubts, mainly because she can't understand why there is such a big difference between the two sides.
At present, to be frank, the cultivation of the extraordinary people on Earth is systematic, and this system is much more complete than that of the extraordinary people in the Namibian world.
The extraordinary people on Earth have many upgrade routes. They can steadily sublimate their life forms according to these routes and gain powers far beyond those of ordinary people.
For example, the Felum family, who follow the "human desire" main line and the "appetite" branch, if that form were zombies, their physical strength would be enough to overturn a light tank.
As for the extraordinary people in Namiia, apart from retaining their most profound nightmares and finding ways to get out of them - stimulating their spirits by experiencing despair and pain again and again, using this method to burst out more powerful spiritual thoughts to assist in battle, they are no different from ordinary people.
Before meeting her, Xia Yibing was just a mortal with relatively good skills. The Changxia Sword was a magical weapon for cutting evil spirits and nightmares, but it could not cause any harm to creatures in the real world.
Is this too much of a difference?
How could there be such a big difference... It was the Namibian world that had the mysterious origin, but the Earth seemed more like a blessing from God?
After some thought, Hitzfeld thought that this might be because the mystery of Namiia had been cut off.
There are no more "mythical particles", are there?
Based on her experiences and observations on the seabed, the Namiia world with a complete heritage, the extraordinary people there are far more powerful than she knew.
That is not a degree that can be fully summarized by the term "superhuman". It is more like a spellcaster, someone who can freely manipulate the power of the elements.
[Instead of dwelling on this, it is better to think more about where the mysterious heritage of the Earth came from.]
She laughed at herself.
This is really weird, because if what she thought was right, the mystery of the earth came from Namibia...
But hasn’t Namiya’s mysterious heritage been cut off?
Their own systems have been shattered, so how can any knowledge be passed on to Earth for development?
From another perspective, if they really can come up with such knowledge, why don't they use it themselves, but bring it to Earth?
[No...] Thinking of this, Hitzfeld was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered how she got here.
The Book of the Dead
[The Felum family is a group of extraordinary people hiding in the mortal world. They practice the inherited mystery, the "knowledge". Judging from the fact that others are willing to acknowledge that they are the masters of this area, they are not unsociable...]
[That is to say, although they eat people and their true image may be a distorted monster, if we must strictly use a large system to divide them, they are the same as the witch coven and the extraordinary people who take the "research" route.]
[They are in this big system, all of them are extraordinary people in this big system, they are all pursuing the mystery, and the author of the dead soul fragment is one of them...]
This means that the mysterious source that these Earth's extraordinary people with a heritage are pursuing may be an evil god.
…a terrible conclusion, but a lot of evidence points to this line of reasoning.
The Book of the Dead is the product of evildoers who, in pursuit of immortality, power, or mystery itself, are willing to sell their bodies and souls to evil gods and research various evil paths.
Ghouls are just one of many evil paths. If something like this can be mixed together to form a big system, all the branch routes within that system are destined not to be the right path.
Hitzfeld began to focus more on discerning Sista’s communications with others.
She was eager to know what other routes there were.
But unfortunately, her language talent was not good enough to learn a new language fluently in a few hours.
She knew Chinese, English, a little Korean, and Japanese; otherwise she knew only a few words in French, German, Russian, and Latin, all of which Sista happened to speak.
But she did not gain nothing. For example, she could at least determine the approximate location of Farrell Palace from the language she could not understand.
[Not English or any variant of English, nor any Eastern language, but located roughly in Western Europe.]
[But Claire speaks English, and the servants also communicate in English, which is enough to show that the base of the Fareham family is in an English-speaking country, and these people are all selected from English-speaking areas.]
[The English-speaking area has a base of German, French, and Latin speaking customers. Judging from their clothing, the climate in this area is relatively mild... This is a place that meets these characteristics.]
