They have been feeling the scorching heat of fire at close range for years. With their current mechanical power... this level of fire is no longer enough to truly kill it!
As if to confirm her guess, the burning floating islands shed their soil shells one after another, gradually revealing their organs.
Tentacles fly, granulations wave...flesh, blood, and fascia are woven into a network. They condense together to form a blood core in the center that beats like a heart.
This thing began to radiate terrifying gravity after it appeared, like a celestial body suspended in the air. Large pieces of land in Xinoujin were torn into pieces and suspended in the air under the pull of gravity, and were sucked over bit by bit, and pulled and crushed by the blood nets.
"Lost..."
Feeling that half of the palace was being torn apart, slowly tilting along the crack that had just been made, Xena grinned and lowered her head.
She also didn't have the strength to control Ji Yang to fight against such a terrifying monster.
"Do not."
Suddenly a voice appeared above my head.
She looked up suddenly and saw that it was the young detective with gray eyelashes.
She had come up to me without me noticing, holding something wrapped in black cloth, something unknown.
I only heard her say word by word: "Eat it."
“We still have hope.”
Chapter 186 Alessia Awakens
The wind was whistling, and the cold wind blew open a corner of the black cloth slightly, revealing a glass test tube and a liquid creature piled up underneath the test tube.
Alessia didn't say anything. She first looked at the bewildered Queen of the Kingdom of God, then turned her body back, and her two slightly bulging eyes met Hitzfeld's head-on.
Why didn’t I realize it before… She’s also a beautiful woman.
His hair was grey, and he looked haggard and malnourished compared to normal people. However, his eyelashes of the same colour enhanced his strange eyes, making them look less bizarre and terrifying. Instead, they looked sacred and a little cute.
Looking at Hitzfeld like this, Alessia couldn't help but recall the conversation she had with her a few hours ago, when they were still in Neptune City - when they were about to set off.
"Good morning, Sister." It remembered its own sarcastic tone. "When are you going to ask me the fourth and fifth questions?"
It remembered the other party's answer word for word: "Right now, I want you to tell me right now, whether there is a strange flesh-pillar tree in the memory of the Blood River."
The picture of time was distorted, and everything seemed to have returned to the past. The little water man in the test tube immediately showed a surprised expression: "You actually admitted that it was the third one?"
It had made a pact with the girl: if she needed it, she could ask it for possible answers, and if it could answer five times, she would set it free.
Although there was nothing human-like about her, Alessia had a good understanding of humans. After all, she grew up in a human village and spent a lot of time in human settlements. After discovering the differences between herself and humans, she had doubts and felt pain, but these did not affect her understanding of humans... She was confident that she could tell a person's general character in a short time.
This is not difficult, not at all. Because fear is the catalyst of sincerity... Just like the rotten bones buried deep under Goliath's palace, only it can see their ugly appearance and curse before death most clearly.
And through this period of time to get to know Aisuen Hitzfeld, Alessia thinks she is a good person.
To put it bluntly, he is a pushover.
It's not that she is too kind, nor that kindness is not an excellent quality. It simply feels that this girl always insists on some principles that are incomprehensible to others, and this kind of persistence is more likely to suffer losses in a place where the rules are more vague.
She had revealed some of her past, not much information, but Alessia could more or less guess it.
A sensitive identity... not valued... attacked by evil people... and a tragic life story that can be said to be an exclusive template for the protagonist of third-rate novels and picture books.
It just wants to say - what's the point?
Some people said that there is no such thing as depravity in the abyss, because everything is just for a better survival. The more chaotic and crazy the people are, the more suitable they are to survive here. Her persistence may be useful to herself, but it is worthless to the whole world.
Unless she could change most people and make them like her, she would eventually die. When she died, everything would change back to normal. The things she had worked so hard to please the upper class to maintain were so fragile.
Of course, it didn't care about that. It could see that the black-haired woman with a ponytail always had some prejudice against it, and she seemed to think it was stupid, which was good... Anyway, it wouldn't say these things, so let her think so.
Until this time it couldn't help it because someone surprised it. It didn't understand why Hitzfeld suddenly broke the principles he insisted on.
Alessia defines her as "a polite girl who seems inexperienced and gullible, but is actually very meticulous and values the logic of the development of things more than anything else."
It clearly remembered: the first question in the agreement was the war of ancient gods.
Through the memories passed down to it by the Blood River, it told them part of the truth about the ancient war of gods and disclosed a little bit of the battle process between the Blood Knights and the Nine Evil Gods. This also accelerated its recovery - it found that by mobilizing and elaborating on this memory, it began to remember more things.
The second question is about "Diat-Klebatoral", which leads to the whereabouts of the god's corpse.
Alessia used this to mock Hitzfeld, mocking her for claiming to be smart but never thinking that the corpses of the nine knights were the cage that trapped the gods.
So she is also very cunning.
The agreement did not mention whether it was a big question or a small question, so she took the opportunity to get a lot of information from us, but that was not recorded.
When it comes to this, she is not innocent. Instead, she behaves like a seasoned hunter, cruel and greedy, not missing any chance to gain profit, and must squeeze out the value of the target.
This is her principle... one of her principles for investigating cases. It is precisely because it understands this that it does not understand why she would admit it.
Admit that the "confirmation" not long ago was forced upon it as the third question.
"I got some information from Master Luca about the patrols on the ground in Oujin City." Hitzfeld told it at the time, "I need you to confirm the authenticity of this information for me, otherwise I can't let my companions take risks."
By the way...this kind of caution is also one of her principles. She is not rash, but conservative, as if she has suffered many losses.
Verifying the message was no problem at all, and it wasn't difficult for Alessia.
As time went by, it could remember more and more things. The blood river had tributaries intertwined with each other, and the amount of information it could obtain was far more complex than outsiders could imagine. It quickly determined that all the information was true.
But it was a little clever in the middle, and asked her in a joking tone: "You asked me so many questions before, how about these be counted as one question?"
Hitzfeld ignored it, thinking she hadn't agreed.
Of course I can't agree to that.
The initiative is in her hands. The contract was so hastily drawn up...
"Are you curious why I agreed and admitted it?"
Hitzfeld looked around, casually walked to the bed and sat down, picked up the test tube and looked at the little water man inside, and suddenly smiled: "Because it doesn't matter anymore."
"I have no idea what you're talking about, Detective."
"It's simple. I know some things, and through these things I guessed other things. If my guesses are all correct, then it doesn't matter whether our agreement counts or not."
"What do you mean!?" Alessia was shocked. "It doesn't count? Are you going to default on your debt?"
There are two ways to default on a debt. One is to keep it imprisoned and not let it go; the other is to destroy it and make it completely disappear.
Alessia was extremely scared. She suddenly realized that her mind was still not clear enough. She actually made a contract with someone when her life and death were controlled by that person. This was really stupid!
"No." Hitzfeld gradually stopped smiling and looked at it calmly with a look that frightened Alessia: "I mean, you don't want to leave."
"……I don't understand."
"I think you should understand."
"My body can't even fill this tube!"
The little water man angrily rammed the barrier, "I'm only this big! Do you understand what you mean? The intelligence of animals is related to the size, proportion, and capacity of their brains! You don't let me go out to eat and grow up, but you expect me to have the ability to understand beyond yours?"
"Say it again."
"what?"
"Say what you just said again."
Alessia thought she was probably crazy.
Either she was crazy, or that black-haired woman had done something to make her sad. In any case, she was abnormal and very weird.
But the look in her eyes was quite scary... Under pressure, it still did as it was told: "You mean... 'You require me to have an understanding beyond yours'?"
"The previous sentence."
"'Let me out to eat'?"
"Correct."
Hitzfeld chinned: "You can eat."
"It's obvious."
“You can eat everything.”
"It's obvious!"
"Not only things with concrete forms, such as people, trees, and rivers, you can even eat rain, clouds, and wind."
“This is my talent!”
With every word she said, the little water man in the test tube would straighten his chest a little bit, as if it was his glory and he was proud of it.
Until her next words came: "But you can't do that outside."
"Gah?"
It widened its eyes: "What outside?"
"Outside the Elsa Continent." Hitzfeld looked at it. "You were sent outside the Blood Sea. You went to Goli, looking for something. Your performance there was terrible... You couldn't even do anything with a mechanical floating city. You couldn't even digest humans completely."
Alessia twitched the corner of her mouth, wanting to refute, but she felt that what she said was the truth.
It is getting weaker.
……why?
"Because that is not your world." Hitzfeld gave it the answer, "Your world is here, in Aisha Continent, in the Kingdom of Corrupted Blood. You are Alessia, who was born to devour all souls. You are not someone's child, nor are you a servant sent by Insel, because you are him himself, the soul he separated through the 'Mother of Conceiving'."
"...???"
The little water man opened his mouth, shocked by her words.
"Impossible!" Then it rammed the test tube wall with all its might, "What a crazy woman! How could I be that villain!!!"
If some information needs to be verified by it, it will inevitably know the information itself, so Alessia also knows the person "Yinsel".
This crazy woman in front of me even asked it! She asked if it was sent by that guy!
But how could it be possible——
How could I be Yin Seul?
Alessia couldn't help but recall her earliest memories - those when she hadn't yet discovered her devouring talent and was just a human - and a human cub at that.
Yes...it was at that time that I floated down from the upper reaches of the blood river...
At that time, the Human King would arrive soon after that time. Not only was his location far away, but Yin Sel should have been playing his dirty tricks in Oujin City at that time. How could it have anything to do with me?
"You know that Master Luca is doing experiments for the Human King, right?" Hitzfeld asked it again.
At this time, Alessia didn't care about whether this was a problem or not. She nodded hesitantly: "I know a little..."
"Do you remember what the experiment was like?"
"Collecting the flesh and blood of the great clans to extract blood core power... It looks like a transplant operation. Are they testing whether they can be matched?"
Alessia wasn't sure, but it was the only possibility she could think of.
Hitzfeld shook his head: "Those are the undead from the experiment."
"what?"
"I mean, the experiment has already been completed. Everything that Master Luca has done is just repetitive work on the basis of completion. They are ineffective. Their only function is to deceive people and make those who have noticed the experiment suspect that it is still going on."
“?……???”
“I didn’t think so at first.”
Throwing the test tube onto the mattress, Hitzfeld stood up and walked to the table to look out the window.
"I have more important things to focus on. The lies of the two kingdoms... the betrayed apostles... But in the end, I feel like something is wrong."
She turned around: "Because this does not explain the purpose of the experiment."
"Now I know that Oujin City is controlled by the Human King. The probability of Yin Seer hiding there is very low. If he is not there, he will not be able to enjoy the results of the experiment in the first place."
"Combined with his usual cautious and meticulous style...it looks like he has already set up the chessboard for us to enter, so I can't help but wonder if he has already enjoyed this achievement."
“Even… the result itself is right in front of me.”
"..." Alessia was silent for a while, and then said in a low voice: "So you think the goal of those experiments was to collect the blood core information of all living beings, and they eventually created me."
"Yes."
"Borrowing 'Mother of Pregnancy'?"
"Yes."
