But now it seems that is not the case, and she finally sees the strangeness in it.
"There is only one possibility." Gu revealed the answer, "Your father knew that the origin of the entire family was exposed, and he knew that King Isara would not let them go, so he made a deal with the king through Batti Villefort, exchanging the lives of the entire family for your survival... It's that simple."
"impossible!!!"
The woman growled.
"He's not that kind of person! Even if it's really a deal... why should it be me???"
And my younger brothers and sisters are younger, so why did it end up being me?
"That's a question for you." Gu threw the question back.
"Is there something unique about you that makes him take a special liking to you?"
Xia Yibing stopped talking.
She remembered that it was true... her attainments in swordsmanship far surpassed those of her peers. It had nothing to do with age. When she was the younger generation's age, she had already gained some insights in this field, and this was also what her father had specifically praised.
If we analyze it purely rationally, she is neither too old nor too young, and has both development potential and relatively mature thoughts, which are things that her younger generations do not have.
It is even possible that he deliberately used that scene to stimulate her, forcing her to stimulate the talent hidden deep in her blood...
Covering her neck, she felt like retching for some reason.
Yes, thinking this way, everything can be perfectly explained.
Why didn't Villefort and Charune tell the truth?
Because they didn't believe her.
This is the simplest and most direct reason - they don't believe her. Even if Villefort likes her and even really treats her as his daughter, when it comes to the option of national security, facing the scale with her on one side and Sarah on the other, he will choose Sarah without a doubt.
She knew Villefort too well; there was no doubt that he was of that kind.
King Charuni can explain it better. He just wanted to see if she would betray him under such circumstances. From the night she survived until she learned the "truth" on the night of the Dance of the Death Tree, including a series of cases from then to the present, all her tendencies must have been secretly examined by someone.
Is it a tree ring?
It's very likely... After all, there aren't that many characters that the royal family can trust wholeheartedly.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that she is rising rapidly, holding a high position and great power at a young age, but in fact she is walking on a tightrope.
There's no way Alwin didn't know about this. If I had made the wrong choice, I would have been fired by her long ago.
It is really thanks to Aisuen that I still have love for the secular world.
Otherwise I will surely become a vengeful monster.
I must have died... a long time ago...
"Feeling better?"
After a long time, Gu handed over a glass of water.
"I'm not trying to criticize you by saying that idealism is problematic, but it's really hard for people to understand each other. Instead of wasting so much energy on intrigue, why don't you try to control power yourself?"
Xia Yibing looked up at him and said after a while, "You want me to stay in Elsa."
"Be Elsa's king." Gu immediately responded.
"Your goal is to drive away the gray fog, right? So you can do it anywhere."
"Master Eric once told me in an extremely unwilling tone that the position should have belonged to her... I actually agree with this statement."
"The Oath-Defenders are the most legitimate bloodline heirs. Compared to us, the Niangs are just remnants of the old times. What qualifications do they have to hold power?"
"If it were me from before, you would be dead."
Xia Yibing turned her head away.
But now.
Damn... she was moved.
"So let me see the mistress."
The dagger is revealed in the ancient map.
"By the way, does she have a good figure?"
Chapter 158 Sunset 6k
"You have also read those notes. You should know how bloody the contents are."
On the way to the Blood Mage Guild, Hitzfeld was analyzing the case for Bislow, "No matter how bad a person is, if he keeps doing this kind of thing, he will accumulate huge pressure, unless he is mentally abnormal and can even get pleasure from these actions."
"The abnormality you mentioned is actually not uncommon in Neptune City." Bislo said.
"But not Luca," Hitzfeld immediately added, "I haven't known him for long, but I know him well enough. He's not the kind of person who would take pleasure in this. He actually has lofty ideals."
It doesn’t matter whether it’s really noble or not. The person is dead anyway, so there’s nothing wrong with her saying that.
Bislo thought about it for a while and had to admit that she was right.
"So he was frightened because he had conducted too many blood experiments? He was afraid of the results of his experiments, so he developed the abnormal habit of writing a diary and writing those confessional sentences in it?"
“That should be it.” The girl nodded. “Many of those sentences seem meaningless. In fact, they don’t mean much to us. They are just his way of venting stress. But they indirectly prove that such a thing does exist, and it scares Luca.”
"Is it... the result of his experiment?" Bislo's expression became serious. If so, he could hardly imagine what Luca had researched in private.
"It may not be a definite result." Hitzfeld did not make a final statement this time. "When a person develops a fear of a series of behaviors, everything related to that behavior can trigger the same emotion. Maybe it's not a specific thing. He may just be afraid of the environment. That is, he doesn't want to live in the union dormitory, which is heavily guarded and safe enough, but gives him nightmares every day."
"This is a very novel guess." Bislo exclaimed, "Ah... This is the first time I've seen someone understand people's minds so carefully. Excuse me, what did you do originally?"
"Hasim-Shude was originally a seaman. I thought you already knew my information."
"I just think your performance is too different from what the information says."
Bislow might have just mentioned it casually, but Hitzfeld secretly became alert, wondering if his performance was too outstanding and made people doubt his identity.
Indeed, detectives and police officers are only valuable in relatively stable areas. For example, in places with constant wars, do they need police? They need the army to suppress them.
This is the case with the Corrupted Blood Kingdom. Even though there is no civil war now and the entire northern part of the continent is unified, the death rate in many urban areas is extremely high due to low productivity and inadequate plague prevention and control. Many people are starving to death at a young age because they don't have enough food, not to mention that there are also factors such as the weird blood beasts that kill people in secret.
Killing seems to be the eternal theme here. In the largest city on earth like Neptune City, new bodies can be found in the dark alleys every day, so what can a detective do here? The locals are used to it, and no one has ever studied how to solve the case.
That's why Bislow said that he had never seen this kind of analytical ability. It's not that the people here can't do it, but that they didn't think about doing it from the beginning.
During the conversation, the Blood Mage Guild was already in sight.
It is worth mentioning that the two did not take a car because the place was not far away, only one street away from the Bloody Hand Hotel - this further confirmed the girl's guess that Luca would rather find a place to live near his home than live at home, which makes people suspect that there are indeed dirty things in his house.
"Has the Sea King City ever been attacked by evil spirits?"
Standing under an archway building, Hitzfeld asked while looking up at the clock tower behind.
"Yes." Bislo nodded, but he didn't quite understand why she asked this question for no reason.
"What is the principle behind the evil attacks?"
"What……?"
"That's why they attack."
"Is there any reason for this?" Bislo raised his eyebrows. "They are also living creatures. They attack us because they want to eat us. Isn't this simple?"
"Sea King City is looking pretty good now. It seems that you have defended it very successfully."
"That's because there are so many strong people here!" Bislo sighed, "Blood mages, blood butchers, and hundreds of Savior Sisters... If you pick any one of them and take him to the border area, he can rule a city. They alone can solve the evil disaster facing the small city."
"It means that the impact of evil spirits is nothing to Sea King City."
"That's right! In a small town, you may encounter gray fog and dark clouds oppressing the urban area. In the worst case, you can see wandering spirits flying around and devouring essences wantonly. But in the Sea King City, at most there will be some hidden things, and they only dare to stay in the outer city area and dare not come in."
"What does that line of words mean?" Hitzfell pointed to the huge sign of the Blood Mage Guild.
Bislo looked up and saw a line of small dark gold characters below.
[In memory of the comrades who died in the War of Defense, may their souls rest in peace.]
Hitzfeld had been observing his expression and noticed that when he saw this line of words, his brows were tightly furrowed.
"A little too long ago." Bislo closed his eyes gently.
He knew the existence of this line of words.
Due to his job, he would visit here every once in a while, so he was naturally familiar with the gate and the sign. But just like the more familiar a place is, the easier it is to ignore the details of the gate, he no longer spent energy to pay attention to these things.
Just like people don’t pay attention to the couplets on the door when they go to work every day, and students don’t pay attention to the small words on the sign when they enter and leave the campus every day.
"Come on." He beckoned Hitzfeld to go in quickly. "I know what you are curious about. I will tell you on the way."
The two men entered the room, and the guards following them immediately stood at the door. Only two of Bislo's confidants followed, hanging a few steps behind.
"That plaque is to commemorate the dead, that's right." Bislo was explaining to the girl, "But they were not killed by evil spirits, or in other words, they were not killed by ordinary evil spirits."
"The only place that can kill them and make the Sea King City pay such a sacrifice is the dangerous place."
A dangerous place? A dangerous place like Purple Aurora?
Only then did Hitzfeld remember that there were such strange things in the Kingdom of Corrupted Blood.
"The evil places are alive." Bislo nodded, "They can be regarded as the top masters of this land... Anyway, for now, no human individual can do anything about them. Even the Sea King City, no, even a holy city like Oujin, can only drive them away at most, but cannot eliminate them."
"Neptune City has encountered several fierce attacks before." He began to recall, "That was when I was very young. My father was also an officer. He was late that day. I heard that he went to participate in the defense battle. I ignored the advice and sneaked up to the city wall alone. I saw countless people gathered to face that thing."
"A huge pile of standing mud." He described it this way. "They call it 'Mud City'. When it is spread out, it can be as big as a small city. It likes to 'flow' into the city at night and pave the ground. If no one finds it at the time, it can wrap up all the buildings in the city before the sun rises. The residents inside will become food, and no one can escape."
"It also has a very disgusting hunting habit, which is to simulate the small city it eats. If you have the opportunity to explore the wild in the future, be careful when you encounter an uninhabited small city that suddenly appears but is not a mirage. It is a 'quagmire city' that has transformed. Stay away from it quickly."
After Bislow and Hitzfeld introduced the "Swamp City" for a few words, someone came up to greet them.
That was the resident chief mage of the Blood Mage Guild, an old woman with a sharp face. Her name was Lin Ni.
The two men explained their purpose to Linnie, namely that they wanted to visit Luca's room and residence in the union - if possible, it would be best if his private laboratory and archived materials were also included.
It was not excessive for the governor of a place to make such a request. Lin Ni did not think there was anything wrong with it, or even if there was something wrong, she did not dare to refuse.
Someone quickly led them around to the back, through a long and narrow corridor, up a spiral staircase, and around a corner. Hitzfeld guessed that they had entered the bell tower.
The dormitories and laboratories are both in the bell tower?
Aren’t you afraid of accidents and sabotage during the experiment?
Through the manuscripts she had read through various channels, she already knew that the experiments of the blood mage and the mysterious road were very dangerous, and if one was not careful, things like blood puppets might get out of control. So at first she thought there should be a circular structure behind the archway, and the laboratory might be in the middle of the open space, so that if something went wrong, the scene could be sealed off immediately.
"arrive."
The apprentice leading the way stopped and pointed to the door in front of him. "This is where Master Luca lived when he was alive... His private laboratory is also on this floor. You can see it when you turn right and walk to the end."
"Thanks for your hard work."
"My pleasure."
The young male apprentice bowed and quickly slipped away.
Maybe his teacher would think this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but given his level, it would be too awkward for him to get along with a big shot like Bislow.
The door was not locked - Luca had a very high status here, and this entire corridor was his exclusive area, so he only locked the corridor door when entering and exiting. Since he had locked the front door, there was no need to lock this place.
Bislow had no intention of letting a young woman open the door for him. He first pushed the door inwards, but found that it would not budge. Then he pulled the door outwards, and it opened immediately.
"I've never been this deep before." Turning to see the girl staring at him, he said calmly, "The conversation will be enough up front."
The two of them looked into the house together and found a crystal spider web hanging on the door frame. A shiny, big-bellied black magic spider was hurriedly pulling it up - it didn't expect anyone to come at this time.
"That's good." Bislo waved his hand and tore off the spider web. "It means no one has been here for a while."
It was indeed a good thing. Hitzfeld was the first to step into the room, walked through the short corridor at the door, and began to observe Luca's dormitory.
This is the old man's temporary base. He doesn't live here often, but as long as he settles down in Neptune City, he will come back at least once.
It seems that he didn't come back this time?
That's strange, what did he find?
His mood was a little heavy, because it was conceivable that if Luca had not stepped into this door when he returned to Neptune City this time, there would naturally be no question of leaving any clues here.
The reason for his mental disorder might not be here, but outside the Blood Mage Guild.
Could it be that I guessed wrong?
I searched the place all over, but couldn't find anything valuable.
There were more parchments, most of which were fragments of records and maps. Some of the parchments were bound with thread. They were the experimental notes that she was very familiar with.
