"Let me ask you first, what kind of person am I in your eyes?"
"...Ga?"
Xia Yibing was slow to react.
"A detective? A superhuman? A warrior? Or an ordinary girl with the Eye of God embedded in her?"
"..." Xia Yibing was sure that she couldn't react.
She had no idea how to answer.
"If—I mean if."
Hitzfeld gradually stopped stroking, turned his head little by little, and met those eagle eyes directly.
"Suppose one day I become a criminal."
"Will you choose to arrest me?"
Chapter 81: Liar
What nonsense is she talking about!
If Xia Yibing was shocked before, then at this moment, she felt horrified.
Criminal? Aisun? How do these two words connect?
She even asked me what I would do if she were a criminal? What was she trying to say?
Most people would just laugh it off or even pay little attention to it. But Xia Yibing is different—she is not a vase director. She has many years of experience in investigating cases before taking this position.
It was this experience that reminded her and made her think immediately that the line between a good person and a criminal is indeed very thin.
But that only applies to people whose emotions are about to collapse... They either actively choose to become the chrysalis of the nightmare, or passively accept the corruption of evil and then fall. How could Aisuen... ?
Wait... Lilith-Gregg?
Startled, Xia Yibing thought of a dead person.
She didn't mean to think of that woman, it was just that Hitzfeld's current state was a bit similar to the other person's before he stepped into the abyss.
"Ga!" Some bad thoughts arose in her mind. Xia Yibing hurriedly controlled the black owl to scream, and shook her head fiercely under the gaze of the girl.
"Reject? Or do you think this assumption is too ridiculous?" Hitzfeld smiled. She thought it was interesting to substitute Xia Yibing for Black Owl.
If it were a real black owl, this appearance would make it look majestic and ferocious.
But if she regarded it as a substitute for that person, its appearance would appear petite and cute... Sometimes she would even have the urge to hug the big bird in her arms and ravage it.
"Ga ga!" The black owl kept calling intermittently, nodding and shaking his head, looking even more stupid.
"Forget it." Hitzfeld didn't dwell on this topic. Although she knew that breaking the topic down into sections would definitely give her an accurate answer, she had already planned to say something, so this step was unnecessary.
She will understand, and then she will have to make a choice.
"Nian Lun should have some guesses about the evildoer who was killed in the last case, and I... I am roughly sure that you contacted her before sending Black Owl to deliver the letter to me, so I can assume that you know him? The mechanical doctor who controls the black flame?"
I know.
The woman lying on the bed nodded. Hitzfeld guessed correctly that she and Nianlun also communicated through letters.
After all, Hitzfeld had become like this, how could she not be curious, how could she not care about the reason why she became like this? The only thing that could be traced back here was what she had experienced in the previous case, so of course she had to find the annual ring to understand all the details.
Moreover, she is different from others, she is the director of the Security Bureau, the head of Shadow Lion, and her authority level far exceeds that of Li Ang and others, which allows her to obtain more intelligence support.
All the details, the parties’ statements, different angles, and different time periods.
It can be said that even if she stayed in Wayne Port in person, what she investigated would not be more detailed than that information.
Is she going to tell me a secret?
Xia Yibing guessed.
According to the meaning of the tree rings and the results she deduced from the information, the reason for Aisuen's trauma was from her family.
Hitzfeld is a family of secret keepers. This family is very mysterious. The only thing they know so far is that there are all kinds of strange things in Hitzfeld Manor.
But how did this manor come about - when was it built specifically, why were all those Hitzfelds lying in the cemetery, and why did Aisuen Hitzfeld suddenly appear near the manor and be brought back by Lilith Gleit.
There is still no clue about all this.
So it's really not difficult to guess - the girl she likes is such a strong person. Since she has ruled out lovesickness, then if it's not related to her family or even her life experience, she can't understand how she could be so depraved.
Through the confessions of Leon and others, Nian Lun believes that what Dr. Mechanical said before he escaped caused her great harm...most likely describing how he tortured and killed her parents.
Xia Yibing has a different opinion on this. She doesn't think things will be that simple.
Because Aisuen was very strong. If it was just this kind of stimulation, she would not have stayed where she was and not chased after them - she should have been like Sheriff Rand, eager to avenge them with her own hands.
It's not this, and it's not that either.
In the end, she came to a result that seemed absurd at first glance: Dr. Mechanical told Aisuen something that was enough to shock her worldview, which was probably that her parents were still alive and held high positions in the enemy camp.
This was the only way to explain why the girl didn't chase him. She must have been stunned by this statement, just like Xia Yibing when she first knew she was a Latadian.
Xia Yibing didn't feel anything about this. There were all kinds of people among the Shadow Lion agents, not to mention people like her whose parents were also evil followers, there were even a few who had killed their parents and relatives with their own hands.
So if nothing unexpected happens, she should tell me this...
But contrary to her expectations, Hitzfeld just touched upon the subject and went back to talking about what she had done when she went out yesterday.
This was the most relaxing moment for Hitzfeld since she met Black Owl. She felt relieved - since it was a secret that could be shared with an outsider like Raymond Portman, there was no need to hide it from Xia.
So she went into great detail.
She started with "Travels in the South China Sea", then moved on to the annotations, to the adventure at the Twin God Peaks... the mysterious pool of water... the ridges reflecting the sun's shadow... the spiritual sea of time surging past, she told her everything.
In the middle, he even used pen and paper to outline the terrain on a blank piece of paper, drawing a dark forest with a mysterious atmosphere, making the woman on the other side of the sea almost feel as if she were there.
Xia Yibing was shocked when she heard this. She immediately thought that Hitzfeld did not mention this for no reason.
Sea of Time...Sea of Spiritual Time?
Could the special spiritual sea on Dongquan Island be the Sea of Time?
This seems to correspond. Xia Yibing thought of the error in time just like Ethan - she also believed that the sea of time had disappeared for nearly two centuries at least in the area of the Twin Gods Peaks. The changes in the Twin Gods Peaks may not be the result of natural evolution. There may be someone manipulating it behind the scenes.
So……
Her thoughts raced in her head.
Let’s assume that the Spiritual Sea of Dongquan Island, the God’s secret realm that I imagined, is the Sea of Time.
There is a sea of time on Dongquan Island.
At the same time, the time sea of Shuangshen Peak was awakened recently.
Can I assume that the time when the anomaly occurred on Dongquan Island corresponds to the time when the incident occurred on Shuangshen Peak?
Spiritual Sea...Dream World...
I was also once pulled into the dream world and saw Aisuen in the chaos.
A lot of spirits emerged at that time... Could it be that was also the Spirit Sea, or the Time Sea, and it was located in this manor?
Somehow, Xia Yibing seemed to have understood something.
Dongquan Island.
Twin God Peaks.
Hitzfeld Manor.
The three locations were connected in a line.
The Spirit Sea is a mysteriously outlined passage that leads directly to the dream world - just like the "Corrupted Blood" she encountered on the reef, its wandering spirit also fled into the dream world and disappeared.
This……
Xia Yibing didn't really want to think in that direction.
But she heard from her subordinates that before she woke up that day, the observatory had seen "a phantom of a girl made of blue light" on the beach.
The other person's clothing, general appearance, and even the position he was standing in were, as she recalled, exactly the same as when Aisuen left.
Plus that dream.
And the strange question that Aisuen had asked her earlier.
She had to assume a possibility.
That is...
If the person who manipulated the changes in the Twin God Peaks and then affected the changes in the Spirit Sea of Dongquan Island was Aisuen Hitzfeld——
"Then it should be me." Hitzfeld admitted at this moment.
Xia Yibing's heartbeat almost stopped.
She even forgot to control Black Owl and just stared at the girl through her eagle eyes, expecting her to say that it was just a joke.
"Although I may not have taken the initiative to do it, it is definitely related to me..."
Hitzfeld smiled and continued writing and drawing on the paper.
"I'm not sure if you've talked to Year Ring about the mysterious Lord, but I can tell you in more detail here."
Speaking of the "mysterious master", she couldn't help but think of the caution and fear she had been experiencing during this period.
She recalled their two "face-to-face" communications and the special way the "mysterious master" communicated with her.
And the relief and happiness that arise when you are sure that the other person is "not you".
But it's all fake.
If she was just something in my head, there was no way she could get past this collar and control my right hand.
"She's a liar."
she said softly.
"Just like I lied to him."
Chapter 82 The Real Murderer
Without giving Xia Yibing enough time to react, Hitzfeld described the process of his discovery of the existence of the "Mysterious Lord".
"I must have hidden something at home. It could be another torn me..." she said, "including but not limited to masks, clothes, incense-making materials... I must have made a deal with some nobles, and I am still coveting the Nature Orb by using them."
"..." Xia Yibing's heart was broken when she heard that.
Indeed, she has been in this business for many years and this is not the first time she has heard a criminal describe the crime process.
But she never thought that one day the person who would say this to her would be Aisuen! The person she had chosen to protect for the rest of her life!
why?
She couldn't help but scream in her heart.
Why is that you?
Why did things turn out like this?
She knew how serious the matter had become... To give the simplest example, there were many reward and punishment regulations within the Shadow Lion system, but the iron rule that overrides all regulations is "merits and demerits are not equal."
Translation: A person cannot use his merits to offset his sins. No matter how much he has contributed to Sarah and others, as long as he crosses the bottom line, he must be punished accordingly.
Even these mastiffs in the shadows are like this, not to mention that Hitzfeld is not in the system yet.
She was able to be so detached almost entirely because of Alwin's "favor". There were already a lot of people in Wayne Harbor who were unhappy with her. It was conceivable that if this matter were to be exposed, they would force Alwin to change his words and they would definitely execute her!
Do not……
But she quickly denied this possibility.
This is not to say that Xia Yibing couldn't accept it - she really couldn't accept this result, but she also quickly sorted out the key.
The biggest contradiction at the moment is that people have died.
Let's assume it was Aisuen...her emotional model changed and became similar to Lilith Gray's original state - this was basically the worst guess Xia Yibing could make.
Let's assume that she became like this because she restarted the time sea phenomenon on Shuangshen Peak and affected the spirit sea on Dongquan Island through mysterious channels, causing it to transform into the time sea as well - and causing casualties in the process.
That is, the agents... the crew... and the "Corrupted Blood".
