While answering, Kurumi felt a little surprised.
She felt that Hitzfeld seemed to have become even more...strange, because in her past stereotypes, the people who would pay attention to such things should be Tree Rings or His Majesty Alwin.
"This is the pattern." Hitzfeld saw that she was confused and smiled at her. "Of course, ordinary people can't control it, but if you never think about these things in your daily life, you won't know what to choose when you need them."
This was even more profound, and Walnut didn't understand what Hitzfeld was going to choose.
"There's one more thing." Her master spoke again, "When I came back this afternoon, I noticed that many places in the Bridge Street District were digging up the soil to build roads... Go and find out what they are planning to do."
"No need to ask, Master." Walnut continued, "They are actually building a small power station... It's a symbol of prosperity. I guess the electricity demand there has reached the standard."
Really? That should be a good thing indeed.
"Leave some aside and go get some rest." The girl continued to read the letter with her head down. "I probably won't be going downstairs tonight."
Hu Tao nodded, picked out some of the best beef for her and put it in a pot, then brought in a cylindrical stove and placed the pot on it.
The master knew how to light a fire in the stove, so she thought for a moment and put a note on the pot, telling Hitzfeld not to forget to open the window for ventilation when eating the hot food.
After all, she remembered that the owner of the body was a human being, unlike Walnut, who could not withstand smoke and fire in a sealed room.
Then she stepped back, so quietly that Hitzfeld didn't even hear the door closing a few steps away.
"Corrupted Blood...Spirit Sea Virus..."
After a few minutes, she sighed and asked, "Is this why you stopped?"
[The Sea of Time cannot be opened any further.] The mysterious master wrote on the paper, [We know too little about this secret realm. Its origin can even be traced back to before the Age of Disaster. I already regret opening it.]
"Whether you regret it or not, it will come back." Hitzfeld snorted, feeling that the mysterious main light had taken away those obsessions but did not inherit his wisdom.
"Don't forget, the Spiritual Sea of Dongquan Island is different from other places. This phenomenon has lasted for more than a hundred years. If you hadn't gone to Shuangshen Peak to interfere, that would have been the first place where the Time Sea would have revived!"
The mysterious master was choked by her and didn't respond for a short time.
Hitzfeld thought for a moment and asked her, "Is there no knowledge about the Sea of Time among the knowledge inherited by the Mysterious Lord?"
[No.] Another Hitzfeld answered quickly, [That is the promotion system of the evil followers. All knowledge exists to serve this system. It is difficult to even separate them. There is no record about the sea of time.]
"Very good." The girl nodded, "This shows that our enemies also know nothing about this thing."
If Black Owl could still activate simultaneous vision and let Xia Yibing catch a glimpse of such a scene, she would definitely be shocked by the girl's recovery speed.
After seeing everything clearly in a short time, the sadness and sorrow quickly faded away from her. Sitting at the table was a calm and wise young detective who could almost abandon all emotions and think about problems rationally.
[You are better than me...]
The mysterious master obviously also noticed this.
[Compared to you, I am too hesitant. Sometimes I always seem to be looking ahead and behind. Even if there were no Corrupted Blood, I would not necessarily be able to innovate the system.]
"That's because you haven't seen enough." Hitzfeld said calmly, "If you inherited all my memories, you wouldn't be so entangled."
[You mean 'bad things have happened, all the extra emotions are not as good as calming down and solving the problem'?]
"Yes."
They asked and answered questions here, deepening their understanding of each other, and soon Hitzfeld had a feeling that "I am indeed chatting with myself" - the mysterious master really understood her thoughts.
"Stop talking nonsense."
She turned the nearly full paper to a page and placed her right hand on the blank page.
"Describe how you opened the sea of time and how to close it."
[Strictly speaking, I just pushed open a half-open door.] The mysterious master answered.
[I am your sad obsession, my yearning for that kind of life... that condensed possibility, so some information that you might normally ignore is very eye-catching in my eyes, including the book "Travels in the South China Sea".]
"Have I seen it before?"
[Yes. ]
"…You blocked my memory of having seen it?"
[It’s not blocked, it’s taken away.]
"Is there any way we can reintegrate?" Hitzfeld began to curl his lips.
Even though she had accepted the mysterious Lord, the feeling of having her memories out of control was not good.
[I have grown to the point where I can think independently. I no longer need to take away your memory. I will never do this to you again.]
"I have another question." Hitzfeld hesitated for a moment but decided to ask.
"From what I understand, although many extraordinary people have experienced the tearing of consciousness and personality, no one has ever been able to communicate calmly like us."
[That's because your brain is no longer human.]
The mysterious master's answer made her stare.
[Can't you feel it yourself? Those evil eye tentacles wrapped around your brain.]
[As a human being, as a carrier of divine blood, you are constantly purifying it, constantly refining it, so as to deepen your control over it and make it available to you.]
[But this change is interactive; as you change it, it also changes your brain.]
[Because it is sealed, it cannot touch your heart. This is the only thing it can do.]
……
At the same time, Dongquan Island.
Opening a pair of shining eyes in the darkness, Xia Yibing rolled over and got out of bed, and began to put on her clothes without any hesitation.
She remembered that there were two slices of bread with cheese on the table. She groped for them and held them in her mouth - they would help her solve her hunger after waking up.
She didn't sleep for long, only two hours at most.
But she was used to this schedule, which she always did when she was in a hurry, and she tried to break her sleep into several segments, which would only last half an hour at a time during the busiest times.
Of course you will feel uncomfortable at first, dizzy and feel like you might die suddenly at any time.
But those days came and those two hours were enough to refresh her and get back to work.
Putting on thick warm stockings and a muslin shirt, she went to the transmitter, pressed a few buttons, and sent out an instruction.
It seemed normal, but the expressions of all the staff who received the information changed drastically.
"Kingdom Alert?"
"This is... Level Nine!"
Chapter 86 Method
[The opening of the Sea of Time was an accident.]
In the quiet night, warm light shines on paper and pen. The only sounds in the room are the rustling of the pen tip and the girl's barely audible breathing.
[At first, I didn’t know what that meant. I just thought of it as a simple natural phenomenon.]
[Just like the spirit sea and spirit tide, ordinary people are afraid of them, that comes from ignorance and lack of understanding... The spirit sea and spirit tide are just a kind of wonder formed by the excessively strong consciousness in the previous life. They cannot interfere with reality and do not pose any threat to reality.]
[That’s what I thought… so I set out on the road to find the ‘Mother River’. I thought, ‘Since this thing once existed in the world, and it existed for a long time in the past, and it didn’t seem to have any bad consequences, then if I can reproduce it, it shouldn’t cause a strong interference with reality.’]
"You are letting your emotions get the better of you." Hitzfeld commented on his other self. "Those bad guys are also trying to figure out its secrets."
She was referring to "Nachimore", the evil undercover agent mentioned in Xia Yibing's previous letters who had been killed by her.
There were many evil undercovers, and according to Xia Yibing's descriptions and boasting to her, many such people had been caught. But few of them had been lurking for so many years like Nachimore.
Hitzfeld thought about this matter herself. She felt that if she were Xia Yibing and put herself in the position of Director Shadow Lion, she would be a little confused about what the enemy was thinking.
The defenses of Dongquan Island are so strict that Nachimore should have anticipated today's situation before she decided to lie in ambush.
She couldn't go back, and she probably had no chance to pass on the information. Even if she knew all the secrets on the island, she couldn't escape, so what was the point of her being an undercover agent?
Even if she succeeded, Dongquan Island would be nothing more than a branch base of Shadow Lion. Unless she could kill all the good people on the island and release all the criminals in the prison and bring them back to the mainland, the damage she could cause would be limited.
At that time, Hitzfeld didn't know about the Corrupted Blood Man and the Spirit Sea Virus, so it was normal for her to think this way.
But today—even though she already knew these two elements, looking back at this idea, she was still inspired by it.
That was Nachimore's purpose of lurking: the evildoer might have come for the Sea of Time from the beginning.
Dongquan Island's special spiritual sea has existed for so many years, and it was not heavily guarded from the beginning, so some unimportant information leaked during the transportation of goods... This is actually normal.
Yes - the evil disciple may know very little about the Sea of Time. No matter what Nachimore researched on the island, she was unable to send her results to Elsa in time.
But she must have been studying it for a long time, and her influence on it is deeper and more far-reaching than anyone thought.
The mysterious Lord believes that the Sea of Time is harmless, which is based on her understanding from books.
She had not considered that the current Sea of Time might no longer be the secret place described in the books. It might have already turned into a horrible hotbed that nurtured wandering spirits and hatched monsters.
"How did you do it?" Hitzfeld asked. She couldn't wait to know how the other party pushed the door open.
[It's not as complicated as you think.]
[We can all do it, because we are almost the only ones in the world who can awaken it.]
What do you mean?
Hitzfeld was stunned for a moment, then she quickly realized: the other party was probably talking about the ability to look back from the left eye.
Yes, the Sea of Time can trace back history, but didn’t she often do that before?
It can be said that Aisuen Hitzfell is the "small sea of time". Her functions are almost the same as those of the sea of time. It is estimated that the mysterious master used this feature to open the door.
[I used Backtracking on Twin Peaks.]
The answer also confirmed this speculation.
[I didn't expect it to turn out like that... I just did it with the mentality of giving it a try, but just like a spark igniting charcoal, the flames spread there instantly... I realized that I had accidentally awakened a beast.]
[It was so big, so vast, and so majestic... At that moment I felt the breath of the tree again, as if it had been stored in its body for a long time and was just waiting for me to release it all at once.]
Is she talking about Bartlett's tree?
The girl's face twitched, and she felt that anything that might involve that thing, that is, the element of the origin mother tree, would be extremely troublesome.
“…This process is much simpler than I thought.”
[It's not that complicated. Maybe just like you said, it will wake up even without me.]
"Is it alive?"
[I'm not sure, I don't feel it is alive.]
“Does it have a physical body?”
[It depends on what level of entity you are referring to. It certainly doesn’t exist in reality, but I have speculated that its roots are hidden in the dream world.]
"According to ancient texts, the Sea of Time existed before the gray fog descended." Hitzfeld frowned. "This is a product of local mythology. Why is it mixed up with the dream world?"
[I don’t know, maybe they are behind this.]
they?
The girl was stunned again, and then a chill ran down her back.
That's true...
Just because the evil followers don't know doesn't mean the evil gods don't know either...
To those things, the heretics are probably just livestock; they don't care what the believers think.
Then the level of trouble increases a lot.
She frowned in thought.
Her original thought was that as long as the evil followers knew enough information and did not interfere, she could discuss with the mysterious master and find a way to close the Sea of Time.
But if there is an evil spirit behind this...
Moreover, there was no sign of manipulation on the surface. If this was really confirmed, this new evil god must be extremely cunning and could not be compared to the "experimental subjects" she had encountered in the past.
"It'd better not be this possibility."
[It's unlikely.] The mysterious master comforted her, [Those things can't even accurately locate the coordinates of Namiya, and they need to use the eternal night once a week to check. If they can directly control the dream world and capture a secret realm of the God Lord, they would have projected down long ago.]
"I hope so." Hitzfeld sighed.
"You have a deeper understanding of those knowledge points than I do... In your opinion, is there a way to destroy that thing?"
[It’s difficult.] The mysterious master said.
