[Plymoz? Or Falmoz?]
[It can’t be London, right?]
It can be roughly confirmed that it is in the southern part of Britain. The first two place names are close to the southernmost part. Because of its remoteness, it is very suitable for hiding. It is also very close to the Iberian Peninsula, so it will not attract much attention from tourists who speak Latin.
London is because it is so big - it is the largest city in Western Europe and it is normal for guests from anywhere to gather here.
Sista stayed at the banquet with Claire until two in the morning. He exchanged a pair of black silk gloves and an exquisite dagger for a tattered cloth bag, and then pulled the maid towards the gate, apparently intending to leave.
Claire was a little excited, so she moved closer to her and whispered, "Are we leaving?"
"It's obvious."
"You'll take me out of here?"
"I did say that."
Sista couldn't help but look at her.
"Are you surprised? Do I look that bad?"
"No... I just..."
Claire was a little embarrassed.
In fact, the fact that Sista was willing to pay 50,000 pounds to rescue her proved that she was not a bad person, but she was still——
How to say it, when a person realizes how bad his original fate might be, facing the opportunity to change his life, he can't help but worry about gains and losses.
Fortunately, Xista knew that she was a complete rookie and had anticipated her mentality, so he did not dwell on it too much on the road.
"I thought you would stay here at least one night..."
As they got in the car, Claire couldn't help but mutter to herself.
Although she had never seen any guests come upstairs, as a maid, she had cleaned the guest rooms upstairs.
After each banquet, there were signs that the rooms had been occupied, indicating that Farrer House did provide overnight accommodation for guests.
"Only a fool would stay at the home of a local overlord." Sista sneered, "Especially when facing a group of ghouls. Why don't you guess what happened to them?"
Claire shuddered and stopped talking.
She tried her best not to think about these things, because she really didn't want to experience that nauseous feeling again.
"Sista..." she whispered.
"Ms. Sista!" the masked woman emphasized to her.
"Oh! Sorry ma'am..." Claire quickly corrected the address, "My understanding of the world of extraordinary people is too superficial. I wonder if you can--"
On the one hand, she needed something else to talk about to divert her attention, but on the other hand, she was really curious about these things.
"Let me think..." Sista rubbed his brows and felt a headache as he looked at the night scene passing by outside the car.
"I've never trained a new person before, so I don't know what to tell you."
"How about this, if you have anything you're curious about, ask me, and I'll answer anything I can, and if I can't answer anything, don't ask any more questions."
This is a method that both parties can accept.
Most importantly, Hitzfeld thought this was very convenient for him.
[Ask her the route, the route.]
[Or ask her where these things come from.]
She was almost clinging to Claire to urge her on.
This is a retrospective projection, an established fact that has already happened. Unfortunately, it will not be affected by her external forces.
But maybe it was a coincidence, or maybe these two questions were indeed basic and common sense, Claire asked similar questions one after another.
Hitzfeld felt so comfortable that he pricked up his ears and waited for the answer.
"The route is simple." Sista nodded. "The routes that are generally recognized now, I mean the 'main veins' - there are only three, namely 'seeking knowledge', 'human desire', and 'alienation'."
"I think you have a general understanding of the 'Human Desire' main vein. After all, you almost stepped into its gate. It and the other two main veins actually represent three different wills."
"will?"
"Will." Sista nodded and asked Claire, "Where do you think the extraordinary power comes from?"
"Mysterious," Claire replied immediately.
There was no need to think about it, because she had been indoctrinated with this knowledge many times in the chapel.
“It is mysterious, but the process of pursuing mystery is very dangerous. How can we transform our gains into strength? Or to put it another way - how can we use our accumulation to sublimate the essence of our life?”
Now Claire couldn't answer.
The content was too profound, and she only had a vague idea of what the mystery was, so of course she couldn't answer it.
But she was a very smart girl, and remembering the word Sista had said before, she answered tentatively: "Is it...will?"
"Yes!" Siesta slapped her thigh hard, which frightened poor Claire. "It is will!"
"How should I put it? The source of all extraordinary powers is mystery. It is what we have accumulated in the process of pursuing mystery. It seems that the biggest difference between these branch routes is how we treat this accumulation, but it is not like that. The biggest difference should be our will: that is, what kind of person we want to be!"
"Some people refuse to pay the price of morality and human form. They just want to keep exploring the mysteries and the truth of this world. The main vein born from this will is 'seeking knowledge'."
"Its branches include 'research', 'forging', 'fusion', etc. They belong to the most normal and decent group of people in this circle."
It means being a good person...
Claire had a look of relief on her face.
She was very glad that she joined a decent organization...
“But don’t take it lightly.”
The next second, Sista's face quickly enlarged, forcing her against the wall of the carriage.
"The witch coven... does not have the ability to restrain every member. Perhaps some people cannot resist the temptation and change their ways, or even... fall."
"You'd better not have too much unnecessary kindness towards this world just because I saved you."
"I...I know..."
"The remaining two." Sista sat back and pinched his fingers.
"The remaining two types are more unscrupulous than the other."
"People who choose to pursue knowledge as their main path are usually rational and conservative. They know how to assess the situation and are more likely to stick to themselves in the face of temptation. But you also know that there are not all such people in the world. On the contrary, only a minority of people have such qualities."
When introducing the last two main routes, Sista's face was not very good. Anyone here could see that she looked down on them.
"Some of them don't want to be so conservative and want to follow their own desires, using their most primitive instincts as a driving force to elevate themselves. The route driven by this will is 'human desire'."
"I won't mention the name of the branch 'Human Desire'. It's not a good word. You can imagine it yourself."
"But the extraordinary people who take this path are not the most dangerous in this circle."
Sista lowered her voice again.
It sounds like a horror story.
“No matter how crazy ‘human desire’ is, as long as it is not completely depraved, it is at least ‘human desire’ - as the name suggests, it is ‘human desire’. It has a foundation: you must at least admit that you are human.”
"With this foundation as a constraint, you can see that even ghouls and vampires will disguise themselves to look glamorous and beautiful. They follow rules and can communicate, so I have the opportunity to exchange you for 50,000 pounds."
"But 'alienation' is something completely different."
"Only the most paranoid lunatics would choose this path... They are no longer bound by their human identity. Human rules, laws, and morals are invalid for them. They are willing to do anything to obtain mysterious accumulations. You'd better pray that you don't meet these guys in the future."
Sounds like Izabella.
Hitzfeld was stunned for a moment.
"That……"
After a brief silence, Claire asked in a low voice.
"With 'alienation' as the main vein, what are the branches?"
"Unwarranted curiosity."
Siesta laughed, shaking her head as she did so.
"Don't you know either?"
"I know a few, but I'm not sure if they count..."
Siesta grinned, a hint of disgust on his face.
"And I'm sure that's far from their limit..."
they?
Hitzfeld was quick to notice that she had changed her name.
Does this mean that those who take the "alienation" route are likely to abandon their original human bodies and unscrupulously transform themselves in various ways in pursuit of power and their own biochemical life forms?
She thought first of Darent.
Then I thought of the robot centaur burning with black flames and the neurotic mechanical doctor.
"I don't want to talk about this anymore."
Sista was very willful and wanted to end the topic.
"What about the source?"
Claire asked quickly.
"Let's just consider this as the last question! Madam... I think... I really want to know why all this happened..."
"Source." Sista sank into silence.
The silence lasted so long that Hitzfeld thought she might not answer, and then she spoke again: "You asked a philosophical question."
"what……?"
"Something like the three ultimate questions in philosophy - how the hell do I know where it comes from?"
Sista became a little irritable.
"The mystery has always been there since I was born and taught until now... Everyone can awaken their spirits, and then gain accumulation through delving into the mystery. This accumulation may be knowledge or materials, but if you ask me about the source, I can only tell you that I don't know."
"After all, they have always been there." She looked over, her eyes deep and somewhat scary.
"Located in the void, high above... the mist and dust are the tentacles of mystery. Those who pursue the mystery will gain something..."
"Ma'am? Ma'am??"
Claire was a little scared and it took several calls to wake her up.
“That’s the mystery.”
Sista said to her after coming back to her senses.
"It's everywhere, but you can't see or touch it. You can only see it from the remains."
"Oh, right."
Sitting a little further in, she leaned forward again as if she remembered something.
"Another piece of advice - if you have the opportunity to go alone, it's best not to go to that forest in northern France."
Hitzfeld's heart nearly skipped a beat.
Claire asked normally, "Why?"
"Ah... because that's a restricted area. Anyone who enters there will never be able to come back."
Chapter 50: The Witch's Trial 1
Just from Siesta's warning, Hitzfeld knew that he had not guessed completely right.
The occasional Latin accent of this woman was intentional. She was not going to take Claire to Spain by ship, but to change direction on the sea and go to France.
Witches coven in France.
Only in this way would she remind Claire "not to go near the forest in northern France" - this means that one of the witches' hidden bases is likely to be very close to there.
The next flashback was a high-speed skip, and Hitzfeld saw them arrive at the dock and board the boat, drifting on the sea for a few days as she thought. When they stepped on solid land again, the people around them - even if they were still speaking English, they couldn't help but reveal their French emphasis when reading some words.
