The latter topic involved Hu Tao's identity and origin, but she didn't pay any more attention to it.
Until now, Walnut himself has pointed this out - he himself also thinks that there are problems with it sometimes!
"So you didn't answer at first because you were afraid of being chased away by me..."
Hitzfeld stopped what he was doing and looked at Walnut with a half-frown.
"Yes." Pinocchio bowed to her desperately, "Kumi will correct myself! I hope the owner will not abandon Kurumi."
"I won't chase you away." Hitzfeld shook his head, "This may not be your responsibility."
"Really?" Kurumi stood up straight with joy, then tilted her head: "...Why isn't it Kurumi's responsibility?"
In its view, it is a serious sin for a servant to offend his master, even if there is a reasonable reason.
What's more, it doesn't even have such a reason. Even if it is not driven away, it will have to accept the punishment.
"Because..." Hitzfeld's expression was not very good.
What could she say?
She was quite sure that the changes that occurred in Pinocchio were the influence of the identity of the "mysterious master".
She ate the mysterious source and gained all the knowledge stored by the other party. These things did not mean they would not exist if she did not use them. They were a kind of authority, and to put it more seriously, they were even the key to becoming a god.
It’s just that he is not a good god, but an evil god of those ugly systems.
But a key is a key, and authority is authority. This is something extraordinary, and if she gets it, she must bear the consequences.
This may manifest itself in giving her a mysterious aura.
This temperament is changeable, like a fog. Sometimes it is unclear, and sometimes it guides outsiders based on psychological and emotional changes, and even amplifies their inner emotions.
So what should she say... Was it me who caused you to become so rude when telling Kurumi?
She knew that was never her intention, but it still sounded so indecent.
Rubbing his temple, Hitzfeld began to wonder why he hadn't discovered this earlier.
She thinks it's because she's still shutting herself in.
The changes should have started when Xin Lei came back from Line 4. During that time, she locked herself in the house and saw almost no one. Li Ang and Ethan didn't see her several times when they came, so she naturally didn't notice...that they would be affected by this thing.
As for the living beings around her, there were basically only Ashley and Lily.
Lily seemed to be closer to her than before. She would never have dared to imagine that a dog would take the initiative to care about its owner and let her rest and sleep.
Ashley didn't seem to have changed much, but on the one hand, Ashley only came back one day a week, so the time we had with her was limited; on the other hand, she was a very carefree person, so it was understandable that she wasn't affected.
Hitzfeld thought again of the two winter sparrows, and of the black owl who was extremely ferocious and violent toward outsiders, but at least behaved properly toward him.
It seems that it is not that she has any personal charm, nor can she be a Disney runaway princess. It is simply that the mystery has distorted their will.
"It is indeed forbidden knowledge!"
After sorting out the logic, she couldn't help but sigh.
She was already very careful, but she was still inadvertently invaded by the mystery.
Is this considered pollution?
What if she never discovered it? Would she become a mysterious carrier without realizing it, allowing the forbidden knowledge to erode others through her?
Thinking of this, Hitzfeld couldn't help but shudder.
You have to know that the focus of her research at this stage, the most important project is to reshape the extraordinary system.
This is no joke. If she cannot tame this knowledge and is only used as a tool by it, then if she thinks she has succeeded and those people are willing to believe that she has adopted this system, the pollution may spread to every extraordinary person in the justice camp.
The consequences were too terrible and the impact was too bad. She didn't dare to think about what the worst consequence would be. She was just glad that she discovered it early.
"Body owner?"
Kurumi tried to wake her up tentatively.
"This... Miss Hitzfeld?"
"Remember not to tell anyone about what happened today," Hitzfeld warned it, "including the Treemen. Remember that."
"I've got it~" Kurumi nodded seriously.
"Go get Lily. My feet are a little cold and I need some foot pads."
"I'll go right away~"
After watching Walnut leave, Hitzfeld continued to think.
It seems that I am not yet a true "mysterious master". My self-isolating behavior has invisibly provided protection for others.
But to tame all that knowledge, that process required experimentation, and I happened to lack the regulatory materials.
Not long after, the sound of running was heard outside.
Walnut slammed the door open, holding the confused Sherries in his arms, and said happily: "Master! The foot pad is here!"
"Wang!?"
"Just put it down there."
"Woof???"
Feeling her master's two black silk legs pressed on her back, Lily was stunned for a long time before she reacted, and began to turn her head and grin at him.
Hitzfeld kicked the dog in the nose, and it simply turned over, belly up, and started pretending to be dead.
It doesn't matter, the fuzz on my belly is warmer.
Hitzfeld stroked the dog's belly with his toes and asked Walnut, "Is your heart the essence of evil?"
"Yes." Walnut nodded.
"A term that is rarely heard... What is it?"
"I've only heard Elder Aardman talk about this once."
"Tell me about it, I want to know."
"The essence of evil spirits is the condensed crystal of spirit and flesh. It is the condensation that evil spirits may leave behind after death. It is very precious. That's what he said."
"Evil condensation?" Hitzfeld was stunned.
"Yes."
"What does it look like?"
"A small, white, granular rock."
"But I've killed many evil spirits and have never seen anything like this."
"If it's so easy to get, it can't be that precious~"
It makes so much sense that I can't refute it.
"Evil essence..." She muttered the word.
"The evil essence plus holy water can create the puppet's heart... What is this holy water?"
"Hutao doesn't know~" Pinocchio shook his head, "Hutao doesn't have such a high status, so Hutao doesn't know about this."
"I'll ask the tree rings myself later."
Hitzfeld was no longer troubled.
But she was basically certain that there should still be evil essences in the library.
The library is more than just a place to store books. She and Xia had been inside the library and knew that the tree people were still studying evil spirits. A large number of evil spirits and evil species captured alive would be collected by the tree people. The evil spirit essence obtained over the years must still be there.
She began to think about these materials, wondering if they could replace some of the regulated materials.
It just so happens that Dongquan Island is also a base for imprisoning evil species and evil followers. Maybe I can ask Xia if he has any channels. As long as it is harmless, I can try it...
Considering the mysterious influence, she was determined to do more experiments and more work. She slept almost in the tool room for the next few days, and planned to redraw the blueprints in a while and transform the white whale from the inside out.
There are so many routes in the mysterious branch, and both the "research" route and the "craftsman" route have ways to transform metal. For nearly a thousand years, all the extraordinary people who took this route, their experience, wisdom, and research results in their brains eventually flowed to the mysterious origin.
And if she eats it, it means that she will use all the crystallization of experience for herself.
All she lacked was practice, as well as the materials and time required for practice.
On this day, when Hitzfeld was working in her work clothes and holding her hair in her mouth, a northern sea eagle fluttered its wings and landed, bowing to her respectfully.
"Hey." Hitzfeld wiped the sweat from his forehead, "When did you become so polite...?"
After a few jokes, she put her things down and came over to unpack impatiently.
There is no gift this time, only an envelope.
Then take a look at what is written.
After opening the letter, the girl began to read it with great joy.
But gradually, her face became redder and redder, and she put the letter away before finishing reading it.
This is not... this is not something that can be viewed in broad daylight...
Big idiot Xia...
You actually sent me these weird messages...
Chapter 17: The Third Letter
Xia Yibing's letter said that he could no longer do this job. Hitzfeld simply packed up and went back upstairs, washed his hands and face, and began to read the letter carefully.
This time there were no other living things watching, so she barely suppressed her shyness and read all the excessive love words written by the woman.
It's not her fault - because she already knows what's going on.
"Xia...she and I are a little too close," she muttered.
The group from Longguo and the group from Haitan, her spirit was bound to each other to some extent, and the elements of each other were blended in their bodies.
Could it be that the "influence" that Xia mentioned in the letter was because of this - because of this connection, even if she didn't really see him, even if she was thousands of miles away, she would still be bewitched by the mystery? And thus amplify her desire for her?
So this is why she's not angry: when you find someone doing something excessive towards you, and that reason may be that you have problems yourself, it's really not easy for you to unilaterally accuse her of being excessive.
But it’s a bit frustrating…
Frowning at the letter, the girl ran a hand through her hair.
Even after being treated so harshly, you still have to keep smiling. This is not some melodramatic light novel, and I am not interested in being a comedian with a look of arrogance written all over his face.
She didn't dwell on this question for too long, because as she read on, she soon came across the difficulties the woman described later.
"Something happened on Dongquan Island again?" She frowned.
Dongquan Island... She actually had heard a little about how many things there were in this ghost place.
Most obviously, Mrs. Glee once mentioned a "mysterious retirement home" in her memoirs, saying that it was very suitable for her to make use of her remaining energy. If she had not been obsessed with Anna's fate, she would definitely have gone there.
Xia Yibing had written too much, so after reading this side, she moved on to the second piece of paper.
It was not until she had read through most of the elements of the "Nachimore Case" that she finally saw the woman's description of the "special scenery" on the island on the third sheet of paper.
"Spiritual Sea..." This was indeed something she had never thought of.
As far as I can remember, the first time I saw Ling Hai was on the way to explore the Crystal Sea. At that time, a group of people were talking in the cabin, and suddenly there was a noise outside. When I went out to see, I bumped into Ling Hai.
This is a spiritual phenomenon initiated by nature. When the spiritual sea is in progress, countless fish formed by bright blue spots will jump out of the water. They will temporarily regard the part above the sea surface - that is, the air and sky - as part of the ocean and swim there until the phenomenon ends.
The spiritual sea that Xia Yibing described was not much different from the spiritual sea she had seen, except that there were more fish, and they were a little bigger and a little weirder. It sounded like an ordinary spiritual sea.
But the consequences of contact with it are completely different.
The Spirit Sea is a harmless spiritual phenomenon. Any living creature that comes into contact with the fish in the Spirit Sea will only pass by each other, because strictly speaking, they are not from the same world - those creatures have long died.
Frick explained the legend of the Spirit Sea: the souls of the sailors who died in the shipwreck settled in the sea and were eaten by fish. Whenever the dream world approached the sea surface, these souls would jump out of the water in the form of fish, allowing themselves to be drawn into the gray fog and absorbed.
There are also claims that it was a mirage, and what they encountered was just an illusory projection, which theoretically would not produce any results.
However, if living beings come into contact with the spiritual sea of Dongquan Island, they will be assimilated.
Hitzfeld couldn't help but imagine this scene: it was an island shrouded in dark fog, with houses staggered along the coast to the south of the island. Whenever the eternal night fell, bright blue spots of light would rise in the sea. These spots of light would condense in mid-air into the shapes of sharp-fin fish, swordfish, manta rays, sharks and even whales, and then they would begin to swim towards the shore, as if that was their home.
If any unlucky person is accidentally touched by them, his body will immediately be "transformed into light spots", and he will be able to actually touch the fish in the spiritual sea, really touch them, and even grab the dorsal fin of a shark, ride on it and play with them.
But dangers existed everywhere, and he gradually realized that he didn't know how to "go back". He also found that as a member of the "Spirit Sea", he would also be attacked by other fish. He began to panic, feel uneasy, and panic.
