Hitzfeld was a little dazed.
The amount of information was not small, but it was not enough to make her lose her composure in public. The reason she was stunned was that she thought of the things that Lengdis asked her to get.
Will his legacy be related to the Mechanical Kingdom?
Assuming that the Kingdom of Corrupted Blood is the power of the evildoers, would the Kingdom of Mechanical God be the one that Coldis left behind to fight against the evil god?
The Blood and Bone Mages might be in league with the evildoers... They are all from the Corrupted Blood Kingdom, so what is their motive for controlling Aman? What can they gain by turning people into animals?
And most importantly, could it be that Alvin had foreseen all this, and therefore asked them to come to Goli first... to investigate Ivenria first?
Vaguely, she felt as if she had grasped something.
Is there any key clue... The little tail struggled and moved in her hand, but she just couldn't figure out the whole appearance of the thing and had no way of figuring out what the clue was.
"Maybe you want to offer sacrifice?"
Darent guessed.
"It will be offered as a sacrifice to an evil god or something. Once everyone has transformed, we can start the ceremony."
"Not like that." Xia Yibing shook her head.
"Most evil rituals involve blood sacrifices, and turning into an animal does not involve bloodshed."
"So it's to spread panic?" Darent guessed again, "But people's reactions are normal..."
"It's not like we're just playing... like seeing what kind of animal everyone will turn into in the end..."
"Just like you, Ethan, if you were to change you would become a Rottweiler."
"What are you talking about!" Ethan was furious. "You are the one! You will turn into a wooden toad!"
“…I might know.”
Hitzfeld said suddenly.
Everyone looked at her immediately.
"I see." She gradually turned her gaze to the monkey.
"Indeed."
“…They are looking for someone.”
Chapter 50: Prayer
No matter how Darent or Ethan tried to persuade him, Hitzfeld refused to speak. He just asked them to go back and rest, and then he made the announcement himself, requiring everyone, except some posts, to gather for a meeting in ten minutes.
"Esun...even I can't know?"
Xia Yibing followed the girl all the way, with a look of longing on her face all the time.
"I just think I've spoiled you too much..." Hitzfeld said unhappily, "Shouldn't you be the one who comes to ask me like them? Use your intelligence and think about it carefully. The information we got is the same."
These words were a bit harsh. Xia Yibing certainly didn't want to be looked down upon for her real skills, so she frowned and began to think.
"I can give you a hint." Hitzfeld checked the time. "That was what the girl named Glen reported at the first time. She accused them of being 'spies of the Mechanical Kingdom.'"
"This in itself shows the political inclination of Ivenria at this moment!" Xia Yibing's eyes lit up, "It supports the Corrupted Blood Kingdom!"
The two kingdoms of God were fighting each other. If Ivenria remained neutral, then Gran should not have said so. Instead, he should have accused Leon and others of being "spies sent by the Kingdom of Corrupted Blood or the Kingdom of Machinery."
But she only mentioned one of them, which means that in her opinion - her subconscious mind already knew and determined that Ivenria supported the other one, and she couldn't say bad things about the Corrupted Blood Kingdom at that time, otherwise her life might be in danger.
"She's very smart." Hitzfeld nodded. "Before I met her, I couldn't say whether she did this on purpose... Maybe she had expected them to eavesdrop. This girl is quite scary."
I think it's even scarier that you can see through this the first time.
Xia Yibing swallowed her saliva. Of course, she didn't dare say this to his face.
"Then we can be sure -" she continued to reason, "the Corrupted Blood Kingdom has a certain degree of control over Ivenria, otherwise Glenn wouldn't have to be so cautious about public opinion in this regard... So the Corrupted Blood Kingdom wants to get something from Goli - from Ivenria."
"And there is discrimination here... They only restrict and control the merchants from Sara, so that they can only move within the palace, and do not threaten their personal safety."
"But when faced with the suspected 'Mechanicum spy', Leon and the others reacted so strongly! This shows that the trend of catching spies has long been formed in the local area. The reason why they paid special attention to the Mechanicum scouts is probably that what the Corrupted Blood Kingdom wanted to get from Ivenria would help them defeat the Mechanicum and become the final winner of this war."
"Not bad." Hitzfeld clapped his hands lightly. "You performed very well. The logic chain was perfect. It's just that you were a little slower than me."
"Thank you." Xia Yibing grinned and said, "You don't have to say the last sentence."
"We still have five minutes until the assembly." Hitzfeld took out his pocket watch. "Counting the time it takes us to walk there, you have about three and a half minutes to present your reasoning."
"Don't be anxious!" Xia Yibing paced in the corridor, pinching her temples.
"Give me some time...Give me some time..."
Hitzfeld wanted to laugh when he saw this.
She thought back to the time when Bilbo and Gollum first met.
Of course, she didn't dare say this to his face.
"You said they were looking for people?" Xia Yibing frowned, still not understanding the connection. "By turning people into animals - using this method - to find people?"
“Seabird,” Hitzfeld reminded her one last time. “You drew it yourself…”
"Don't!" Xia Yibing raised her hand to stop her, "I can do it myself... It's almost there, almost there - oh, I get it!"
The woman turned back suddenly, her face flushed with excitement, and she shouted, "It's the Silver-eyed Seagull—"
"They want to find the family of the sea god Colossus! There are two such families. One is the split-toothed shark, the symbol of the Angelo family, and the other is the silver-eyed seagull—"
"At this time, Aman has been controlled by them. This means that they have already obtained one of the two major elements. The remaining one is naturally the Silver-eyed Seagull. However, the bloodline of this family has not been passed down as stably as Angelo's, so they have to use this method!"
Basically, she was able to deduce the truth by herself. This feeling made Xia Yibing feel very happy: "Is this actually the case? It's so mysterious... Who could have thought of this?"
"Alwin." Hitzfeld was not as excited as she was. "She gave us a hint a long time ago."
“……” It was like a basin of ice water poured on the woman, extinguishing the flames of her excitement.
Yes.
She thought about it for a long time, and only got the answer with the help of Aisuen. It turned out that Queen Sarah had known it for a long time.
No...how is this possible?
Xia Yibing was puzzled. No matter how she reasoned, she couldn't figure out how Alwin, who was far away across the ocean, could have calculated this without leaving her house.
"Everria is shrouded in a new layer of 'rules'," Hitzfeld concluded. "The 'rules' determine that everyone has a unique true self. People get along and live under the cover of the 'rules', and gradually become like their true selves."
"They are indeed, and can only use this method to find the silver-eyed seagulls."
"I have a guess." She turned sideways, "Alwin was able to calculate this, probably because of the impact of the Sea of Time on her."
"The Sea of Time is a mysterious object left by the Sun King, and the Orb of Nature is also hers. I merged them with reality and nothing seemed to have changed on the surface. But since she said that she could learn about the Blood and Bone Mage Society from the awakened memories of her ancestors, it's normal for her to see something else."
"Perhaps this includes some secret method of blood mages that can turn people into animals like this."
"She knows more than we can guess right now."
Xia Yibing was silent for a while, then looked up and said, "Looks like I have to work overtime."
"Yes." Hitzfeld patted her on the shoulder.
"She gave us much more than just that one book."
“Think about how many books there are in the library.”
“This is a big project~”
……
At the same time, in the northern continent of Icarolin, in the capital of Sara, Wayne Port, her master quietly left the palace by car.
Without an escort, or even an attendant if Russ-Annual-Rings were not counted, the sedan moved smoothly down the road, through the landscape and into the cemetery.
"Is everything arranged?"
Noticing that the car had stopped, Alvin looked up and asked Year Ring.
"It's been arranged." Year Ring said, "The news has been completely blocked. Now no one knows about it."
"What are the funeral specifications?"
"It's all kept simple. As you can see, I'm afraid there will only be two of us here to pay our respects."
"very good."
After saying this, Alvin opened the door and got out of the car.
"His Majesty!"
The annual rings scared her half to death.
In a way, Alvin is the strongest person in the world today.
But there is a prerequisite, she has to ride on the mechanical sun.
After the sun sets, Alvin's combat effectiveness will drop sharply. Not to mention the evildoers, he can't even deal with a street thug.
Although in theory there is the suppression of divine blood, any Sara people would have to kneel down before her as soon as they saw her face...but they are in disguise now, with black masks on their faces, and they have to be seen.
Fearing that something might happen to the other person, she quickly got out of the car and chased after her, pulling down the brim of her hat to hide her face while trying to use her body to shield the girl from the wind.
Both men were dressed in disguise, wearing black top hats and medium-thick black trench coats.
This kind of dress would not be very conspicuous in the city, let alone in a cemetery - most of the mourners are almost the same.
Fortunately, everything is fine.
They entered the mourning hall, completed the ceremony, and witnessed the burial of the coffin.
It was really simple, and just as Nian Lun had said, there were only the two of them mourning the whole time.
The simple tree rings themselves seem a bit unreal.
When she came out, she heard crows circling and calling overhead. When she turned her head, she saw a bus whizzing past.
"clang--"
"clang--"
"clang--"
The bell tower stands at the end of the street, transmitting its sound with the gentle spring breeze.
Everything seemed to be as it should be.
But the tree rings know that this is not the case.
It shouldn't be like this.
This shouldn't be the case.
"According to the time, they should have arrived in Goli."
Only Alvin was quite happy. He was not angry when she pulled him back from chasing butterflies. Instead, he smiled and said to her, "Do you think they solved the puzzle successfully?"
"Your Majesty trusts them so much, they will definitely succeed."
"Sure?"
"I think so."
"It must succeed..."
Elwin whispered in the spring breeze.
"Apis Cube..."
"I have delivered the key to the door of the secret room."
"The rest depends on you."
Chapter 51: Water Monster
Waking up from his dream again, A'man sat up suddenly and gasped.
This seemed to have become a daily routine, sometimes during the day, sometimes late at night, but whenever he could fall asleep, he could never wake up normally according to past standards.
Sometimes he thought his condition had worsened, but everyone - whether it was his confidant Alfonso or the court doctors, they all said that he was getting better and recovering at an unprecedented speed.
During the day, Aman would generally understand and agree with them. He actually didn't know why he thought that way, but he just felt that what they said made sense, and he couldn't help but want to believe it.
