He took out the sheets and mattress for washing, and took out a new set from the cupboard to replace them, but Hitzfeld's mind was replaying Xia Yibing's shy expression just now.
Although it is wrong for her to be so willful, I am also responsible for not being able to reject her willfulness.
She sighed.
She didn't deny that she enjoyed it sometimes - watching the mature and independent female sheriff in black stockings put aside everything and give her her whole body and soul, being so madly and unreservedly obsessed with her, the feeling of being trusted and relied upon was intoxicating.
I can't help but think, "Sometimes she gives me a sense of security, but at this time it should be my turn to give her a sense of security."
So gradually I became a little depressed and didn't know how to refuse her.
An hour later, the two sat in the empty restaurant, enjoying the underwater scenery while enjoying the fish fillets with sauce.
The fish fillet was fried in hot oil, the skin was crispy and the inside was tender. It was braised with sauce to fully absorb the flavor. When you take a bite, you can first taste the contrast of the two tastes, and then the tenderness of the fish meat and the rich aroma of the sauce. Even Hitzfeld, who doesn't like fish very much, narrowed his eyes slightly and secretly sighed that the cooking team arranged by Alvin is really professional.
The clock pointed to 2 ., which explained why they were the only two people in the restaurant.
Others either went back to their rooms to rest or were working at their posts. If they wanted to wait until 3: at the earliest for the restaurant to become lively - they had to wait until the people who were off shift came down for a midnight snack.
There was no need to wait until now. If Hitzfeld hadn't been dragged in by the woman to take a shower together, they should have been sitting here an hour earlier.
"Really? Alvin wrote you a delayed intelligence?"
After swallowing the last piece of fish, the woman wiped her mouth with a towel and took the notebook handed to her by the girl.
She first flipped through the thing roughly and found that the last page was torn out.
look up.
Hitzfeld's expression was not very natural: "This is what I got it like."
Xia Yibing believed it for the time being.
"So this is what you're talking about." She turned the page to the front again. "She thinks that the organization she mentioned, the Blood and Bone Mage Society, is controlling Aman?"
"Alwin wouldn't keep emphasizing this for no reason," Hitzfeld confirmed. "Since she said that, she must have found out something herself."
"Why doesn't she explain it more clearly?"
Xia Yibing raised her eyebrows and closed the notebook.
Shen Shen nagging.
Everything was speculation, everything was a hint, there was no solid evidence to prove anything, and she didn't understand the significance of what Alwin had sent her.
If it was to point out the existence of the Blood and Bone Mage Society, then there was no need to do so. After the case of Ves-Bakinsa, they had become highly alert to this.
There is a lot of evidence that the woman came from overseas, so she was either a Goliath or an Aisha, and her so-called home destination could only be these two places.
If she is a "blood mage" and it is finally discovered that it is the blood and bone mage who is disturbing the situation in Goli, then maybe they can catch her in Ivanria.
"I think."
Hitzfeld breathed in gently.
"She has something to hide."
"She wanted to tell us something, but she couldn't say it."
"She has her own purpose in this book, and her thoughts, everything she wants to tell us, is very likely hidden in this book."
Xia Yibing narrowed her eyes and savored it: "So you are looking for me because..."
"Decoded." The girl nodded.
She is self-aware and knows that her knowledge of cryptography is not as good as those professionals.
And when it comes to professionals in this field... who on this ship can compare to Xia Yibing? Who can compare to the director of the security bureau?
Without further ado, Xia Yibing simply agreed and took out a pen and paper to start calculating on the spot.
"The sound scale method...is not right."
"The interval method...is not right either."
"Well, I can tell you there's some code here because some of the wording doesn't follow normal grammatical rules, but she seems to be using a very new method... the old methods don't work with this."
"Come on." Hitzfeld was just trying to cheer her up. "If anyone can do it, it can only be you."
The woman's heart melted by her flattery, and she happily burst out with even more enthusiasm and devoted herself to her work, and in the end she really achieved results.
"I am not sure……"
When it was almost dawn, Xia Yibing had a half-happy and half-sad expression on her face, and she was writing and drawing on the paper.
"The rules apply... I'll call it the 'coordinate method', which is to convert all the ciphertexts into data coordinates, and connect the lines based on these coordinate points."
"But this result..."
She stopped writing and stood the paper upright to show the girl.
Hitzfeld squinted and saw many black dots on the coordinate structure. The woman connected these black dots with line segments to form the shape of a seabird.
What does it mean?
Hitzfeld's head is as big as a bucket.
Alvin...
She couldn't help but complain.
You are kidding me...
Chapter 49: Transfiguration Target
As time passed, the sky became completely bright.
From time to time, early-rising crew members would come to the restaurant to eat, and then they would find these two people sitting in the corner, writing, drawing, and discussing, and no one knew what they were studying.
"The data and coordinates are all right." Hitzfeld calculated it himself using the woman's method. "Connecting the coordinate points according to this result, the most reasonable result is 'Seabird'."
But what do seabirds represent?
"Black Owl?" Xia Yibing guessed, "She means that we should use Black Owl to explore some things...something macroscopic that can only be seen from a high altitude?"
"How does she know such a thing exists?" Hitzfeld asked back with a glare.
"..." Xia Yibing was speechless and could only spread her hands.
"You can try, but I don't think that's what she means." Hitzfeld wrote down his guess and frowned. "I'm more concerned about what makes her so afraid."
"Indeed." Xia Yibing tilted her head. "She is already a king... The supreme ruler of a dynasty actually still has something she is afraid of, and she has to tell us quietly in this way... Could that thing still be alive?"
When she said this, her expression became somewhat sinister, as if she recalled some disgusting memories.
"Princess Katina." Hitzfeld knew who she was referring to. "That is, Sheena... Sheena Blowhaven Victoria."
The true leader of the old royal party, the sower and controller of the Tree of Death, the interpreter and witness of the eternal life of divine blood, and a descendant of the goddess like Elwin.
That woman, that extremely dangerous woman. Although she was defeated in the end, and Agent Grim and Princess Xilu who possessed her fragments were controlled, there was still an uncertain factor - Princess Vona was not found.
She disappeared, and no matter how the Shadow Lion searched for her on the Icarolin continent, there was no trace of her. Some speculated that she was killed by the evil followers, and no one knew where her body was buried. Others speculated that she had betrayed the continent and had followed the evil followers to the Elsa continent.
No matter which possibility it was, it was disturbing not to find her. The two couldn't think of any other powerful official in the White Shadow Palace who could make Alwin so afraid, but if it was Sheena, it would explain it.
"Xina... She once realized that I was investigating her through a connection." Hitzfeld said softly, "Grim became the bearer of her fragment because he drank the three-fresh bean soup. This connection is based on 'blood'."
"Alwin and she share the same blood." Xia Yibing added, "They are the people with the closest blood in the world. If Xina is still alive, she might be able to see some of Alwin's plans through this mysterious connection."
After discussion, they felt that this was most likely the case.
Elwin suspected that this ancestor was not dead, but was hiding somewhere and trying to cause trouble. Perhaps she could feel that something was watching her, so she didn't dare to say many things openly, but had to find ways to find loopholes and let Hitzfeld discover them himself.
After discussing this, both of them felt a little hungry.
Only then did they realize that they had been busy on this matter for the entire night. They ordered breakfast with the crew and sat in their original seats, wolfing down the food.
"Hitzfeld." Ethan suddenly came down to look for someone, "Maps is back... You'd better come up and see for yourself."
The girl and Xia Yibing looked at each other, wiped their lips, and went up with him.
As they walked they asked, "Why doesn't he come down?"
"Oh, he said he was afraid he might have some infectious disease, so he insisted that we go up."
"infectious disease?"
"Yes, he said that thing can turn people into monkeys."
What is all this mess?
Hitzfeld pinched his temple, not knowing what expression to make for a moment.
The group went up to the observation tower and climbed up the ladder.
The covering bushes had been removed, and two crewmen stood on the shore with guns in hand, watching Darent from a distance. Hitzfeld also saw a monkey squatting on his shoulder.
"Captain!" The crew finally regained their resolve when they saw her coming up, "It wasn't us who wanted to draw our guns... He forced us to point guns at him!"
"You can go now!" Darent interrupted them and also told the newcomers: "They haven't had any direct contact with me since we met. We kept a distance of five meters. They should be fine. You can let them go."
"What on earth are you playing at?"
Hitzfeld walked up to him while paying attention to the terrain under his feet, and looked at him with a frown, "You tore off the mask? Where are those two people?"
Things like infectious diseases and curses...those things are effective on mortals, but they can't stop her, Hitzfeld.
Before Darent could speak, the monkey on his body pounced on the girl with strange chirping sounds.
Hitzfeld stepped back quickly, while Xia Yibing stepped forward, grabbed the monkey's fur, and lifted it up in the air by the scruff of its neck, causing it to struggle and squeaking.
"Maps!" Ethan came up unhappily, "Bringing assassins to commit crimes? You can do it——"
"Shut up!" The wooden man gave him a sidelong glance of disdain, "You have no idea what we've been through!"
He didn't waste any time and just described everything the three-person team had experienced.
As expected, everyone who heard it for the first time, including Hitzfeld, was shocked.
Waking up and turning into an animal is already very strange.
But what is even more bizarre is people’s attitude. It can be said that the social atmosphere in Iverria is completely abnormal.
"Baliu believes that Aman has been controlled by someone, or at least bewitched," said Darent.
"What's her basis?" Ethan asked.
"'Woman's intuition.'"
"…Mapsdalen!"
"That's exactly what she said~" Darent spread his hands, indicating that he was helpless.
"Oh! But there is another reason. She said she couldn't find 'Mary' no matter how hard she tried. 'Mary' - she said the captain would understand the name when he heard it."
"Ms. Mary is his confidant and lover." Hitzfeld nodded in confirmation. "The two of them have a very close relationship and are inseparable. It would be a mistake to not be able to find Mary."
Unless Aman was a heartless man who abandoned Mary in order to choose a concubine, or even killed her cruelly.
But is Aman that kind of person?
From what Hitzfeld had known of him in the past, apparently not.
He even has the spare time to be a knight-errant or a chivalrous thief. It is no exaggeration to say that he hates evil and is extremely hostile to evil. How could he possibly do such a thing?
It seems that he is really being controlled.
"So this monkey is one of ours?"
Xia Yibing picked up the monkey again and looked at it.
“Give, give, give…”
The monkey looked at her pitifully, holding its two front paws together and shaking them up and down, as if begging for mercy.
Xia Yibing raised her hand and threw it out. It bounced nimbly on the ground, jumped onto a tree, and used the trunk to gain momentum before jumping back onto Darent's shoulder.
"What nonsense."
The woman's eyelids twitched.
"You have to do such a dangerous operation by yourself. They should come back with you...!"
The original plan did not require the first wave of scouts to do anything. As long as they could find out the basic situation of Ivenria, they would have completed their mission.
She felt that this might be the reason why Hitzfeld did not tell these people about the existence of the "Blood and Bone Mage Order" at the beginning, but now that Leon was acting on his own, they might very likely come face to face with this extremely mysterious supernatural organization.
