"As for that 'evil demon', to be honest, I have no idea what it wants."
"Over the years, I have been able to sense its presence, and occasionally I would have strange dreams. I dreamed that I pushed open the door and saw a luxurious treasure house... I dreamed that I was walking in the starry sky and in the fields, and even the sun was moving in my hands."
“But it never really showed up.”
"Ambition, conspiracy...it shows nothing."
"If it hadn't affected Richard that time and made him vaguely inclined to madness, I wouldn't have cared about it at all."
"especially……"
He sighed.
"With Richard's death, its dissipated spirit seemed to have died as well."
"I vaguely feel that it should still be there, but I haven't had any strange dreams since then."
"And I'm not telling you this to let you solve the problem."
"That is……"
"You are a king now. You must learn to use the power of others."
"Esun Hitzfeld, her eye is very special."
"If you feel the same way as I do in the future, you can call her over."
Chapter 60 Mysterious Death
The illusion faded, revealing Alwyn's smiling face.
Just by looking at her expression, Hitzfeld had a feeling that Alvin actually knew that he had just experienced the history she described in a flashback way.
"Real blood can sense and even resonate with real blood. It's not surprising that you feel something when you operate in front of her." Ms. Yusilian and she agree with each other, and until now, the "King of Blood" still feels sorry: "She is the most suitable person for you to combine with..."
Hitzfeld ignored her and said after considering his words, "So the attitude expressed by the late king at that time was... He had long since realized from some strange phenomena and signs that there was an autonomous consciousness hidden in the White Shadow Palace."
"I think that's the case." Alvin nodded. "As for me - I haven't had similar feelings to him. I guess it's either related to Richard Barish's death or to my being plotted against by Yinsel."
After being ambushed by Yinsel, Elwen's soul was torn in half, which would indeed affect her extraordinary perception.
"My father and I don't have the honor to know what 'it' is." Alvin continued to look deeply, "It seems that your gains in Aisha Continent are more abundant than anyone imagined."
Hitzfeld was about to argue, but he saw her raise a finger and press it to his mouth mischievously.
"Don't tell me so much..."
"You are the Count of Xiyang, the Count of Aisuen-Hitzfell... You and Imaer share such a vast fiefdom in Aisha Continent... In fact, you also know very well that the fiefdom is just a face left for me..."
"Alvin... I actually-"
"This kind of relationship is enough." Alvin nodded. "I know that my father owed her. No matter what Sarah's motives were, I must at least compensate you for that matter... So I don't care how much you have hidden from me."
She stared into Hitzfeld's blue eye and said to her very seriously, almost syllable by syllable: "As long as you are willing to stay here and continue to fight for this country, this is more important than any promise."
"Oh..." Hitzfeld turned his eyes away slightly, as if he couldn't bear such sincerity.
"Oh then... then let's analyze this case carefully first, Your Majesty." She habitually changed back to the address, staring at the dark floor and said: "We have basically confirmed several aspects... The first is that the 'Light of Salvation' may be related to Barish."
There was the sound of Daryl flipping through the mechanical Yang blueprints. Hitzfeld suppressed his inner restlessness and took a deep breath: "We have basically confirmed that the thing that caused trouble to the late king was the 'Purple Sapphire Gold Crown'. It is not an 'evil demon', but it does have the ability to disrupt spiritual thoughts and the flow of information."
It is because of this ability that Charuni has such strange dreams at night.
It sounds a bit mysterious, but it is much easier to understand if explained by magnetic field. Compared with the information of the flow of time, the "Purple Sapphire Gold Crown" is equivalent to a magnet with extremely strong interference force. This is not its own function, but one of the side effects of its function of connecting with the mother tree information library.
Even such a trivial side effect interferes with reality.
Perhaps it will periodically release waves that interfere with information. This wave is invisible and intangible, just like electromagnetic waves. It will continuously affect the biological magnetic field during the period of emission, which can induce the spiritual thoughts in the vicinity and draw them into this information storm.
It was an information storm. Compared to the purpose for which it was created, the "storm" that purpose could see, the information shock suffered by the spirits involved at this time was not worth mentioning at all. But don't forget that the real "information storm" is too heavy for mortals to bear. The chaotic information flow at this time may be just the residual effect of the last time it was officially activated, which can already cause trouble and burden to the spirits of mortals.
"I want to ask something." Hitzfeld paused, "Did the late king say that he would become weaker after having strange dreams?"
The soul and the flesh are one. The residual soul can be nourished by the physical body and restored to its original state. The physical body can also be affected by powerful spiritual thoughts. This is why most extraordinary people are not ugly.
Xia Yibing is not ugly, and neither is Hitzfeld. Zafira is also handsome without his glasses, and even if they are ordinary...they have divine light in their eyes.
This is the influence of the spirit. People with bright eyes will never be ugly.
Charuni was caught in the information storm and had such a dream, which must have been a burden on his mind. After waking up, his mental state must have been bad, and his physical body felt weak.
"He didn't mention it." Alvin shook his head. "But this matter is easy to check... You know, Russ once took care of my father. The Tree People have records of all the anomalies of the kings since the founding of Sara. If he mentioned it, then it should be there."
Is it similar to the description of "On a certain day in a certain year, Charuni Asfin Sara could not sleep at night, got up early, and felt weak"...
Hitzfeld's expression became a little strange, but he still reminded her: "It's not just the late king's, there are others too."
"Oh? What does Aisuen mean...?"
"The interference waves released by the Purple Sapphire and Gold Crown cannot affect only the late king." Hitzfeld nodded, "This is a wide range... It is indiscriminate! So every time the late king has a strange dream, other people in the court will feel the same way."
"That will make it easier to investigate." Alwin's eyes flickered slightly. "I can understand your first point... After all, it seems that the 'Light of Savior' is likely to know about the crown, and this is basically a secret that only Richard Barish knows... Then what about the second point?"
"The second point is what I said before. He should have used Bai Mulin to share the pressure that the crown had on him."
In fact, this was just Hitzfeld's suspicion at first, but as she learned more information, she felt more and more that this was the case.
Baimu is a special plant that obtains nutrients by absorbing the spiritual thoughts emitted by living things. Many people think that this is the whole secret of Baimu, but few people know that if Baimu is classified more strictly, it should not be classified as a pure plant.
"Bai Mu trees, or Bai Mu forests, have always been special life forms that are half plant and half animal." Ms. Yusirion began to chatter, "They are plants in reality, but they are not so honest in dreams... If they don't get enough spiritual nourishment in reality, Bai Mu will start to become active in the dream world, and the rigid branches in reality will become soft and bent - it will drive them like tentacles, inserting into all the spirits it can find to absorb nutrients."
Hitzfeld said the same thing to Alvin almost at the same time, and then added: "This means that Bai Mu himself has a spirit."
"It is a special life form that can nourish its own spirit and absorb spiritual thoughts to grow. Every surviving Baimu seedling can be regarded as a newborn spirit, but these new spirits have abnormally died in batches over the past few decades."
"I think there is only one possibility, that is, they were consumed as the price of gaining certain powers."
That was her conjecture.
The trunk of the Baimu tree can be regarded as a creature with a powerful spiritual mind. She suspected that Richard Barish operated it in this way: he first gave the tree enough nutrients to help it sow the seeds of Baimu Forest, and then waited for a batch of Baimu seedlings to grow up. He then found a way to bring the crown over and share the "information storm" with these Baimu seedlings.
In this way, the hidden danger of connecting the mortal consciousness to the huge database was greatly reduced. The knowledge that was enough to burst his spirit body first passed through the spirits of all the seedlings, and those seedlings died because of it. In the end, the remaining and filtered part of the knowledge was absorbed by him.
And Hitzfeld knew very well how addictive this feeling was.
She had already witnessed once in Nan Xinze the consequences of indulging desire in the forbidden fruit called "wisdom".
The trunk of the Bai Mu tree will definitely be affected. Perhaps this is the real reason why, even though Richard has been dead for so many years, it still cannot produce Bai Mulin.
"The next step is to verify it." Hitzfeld looked at the thoughtful Alvin, "In addition to the two files, I also hope that Your Majesty can help investigate the process of Richard's execution..."
But Alvin looked surprised.
"O Asoun, Richard was not executed."
"And then...what did you say?"
"I mean Richard was not executed."
Alvin nodded.
"My father did have that thought, but later I checked the files on this matter and found the truth in another volume, which was that Richard Barish died 'strangely'."
"He died in his bedroom bed just as the firing squad arrived at his door."
Chapter 61 Brewing Inspiration
Hitzfeld once again pulled an all-nighter.
No longer in full control of the "main plot" of staying up late, tasks were delegated to Daryl, and the feeling of being forced to stay up late in order to take care of the servants' work was quite novel to her.
But there was nothing she could do about it, because it had taken her so long to last. She had promised to help Alvin improve his penis, so she had to take it seriously, otherwise she would become a procrastinator, the kind of person she hated the most.
"actually."
In the morning, on the way back to No. 221, Daryl was driving while talking to the girl in the passenger seat: "Your Highness, you don't have to pay too much attention to this case."
She didn't know how to say it, but in Daryl's heart, many of the things Hitzfeld was doing now were evil.
Aisuen Hitzfeld is the only designated successor of Mechanical Doctor Coldis. She is the princess of the Mechanical Kingdom. Her biggest task at this stage is to study hard in order to take charge of the Mechanical Kingdom in the future.
What kind of efforts? Of course, efforts to prepare for ruling the Kingdom of God.
How to learn? Of course, learn the mechanics, engineering, and various mysterious and bizarre private crafts left by Lendis.
Hitzfeld glanced at her and didn't answer.
She actually knew what Daryl was thinking. She... how should I put it? She now completely understood Coldis and had basically untied this knot in her heart. But if she had to completely calm down and learn the mechanical transformation technique that Coldis left behind, she probably couldn't do it.
On the one hand, that thing is too weird. It is true that robot horses, rail kingdoms, and mechanical floating cities are all powerful things. This technology can even combine the body, soul and machinery of life.
But isn't this similar to some kind of alchemy? Something like the alchemy of life... the process is much more cruel than that.
That's the other part - she could never forget what she had glimpsed through Coldis' nightmares, the repeated electric shock experiments, the test subjects who were tortured to the point of deformation, all these images told her how much sin and blood this knowledge was stained with.
She is not Richard Barish, who can remain calm and deceive his superiors and subordinates in order to gain knowledge, and throw himself into it without hesitation.
Maybe she will learn it eventually, but that must be because learning this knowledge can save more people.
And she needs some time to buffer, during which time she plans to focus on solving these cases.
The owner refused to respond, and Daryl did not ask further questions.
Anyway, the mechanical apostles have plenty of time, and the mechanical body does not have the hidden danger of natural aging. If there is a problem, just replace the parts. The heart core affects the lifespan of the apostles, but it does not need to bear the burden of the flesh, and the lifespan of the heart is greatly extended.
According to Daryl's own estimation, she can live for at least another 100 years. If the young master is willing to inherit the legacy left by the master, thoroughly understand the knowledge, and further transform her on this basis, even replacing her heart with a mechanical structure, then she can almost live indefinitely.
Of course, this is not without side effects. The role of the flesh and blood heart in this body is the carrier of the soul. If the flesh and blood are abandoned in order to survive, it means that Daryl will become a more powerful mechanical soldier.
Is she still "Darryl" then?
In other words, can she still be called an intelligent life?
This was something Daryl had never considered; in fact, she had no concept of it at all.
After returning home, Daryl guarded the door while Hitzfeld went upstairs to get clothes and take a shower.
Hitzfeld liked taking a bath, not only because she was cleaner than the Sara people, but also because when the hot water washed over her body, when the heat flowed down from the back of her head and the pores all over her body opened under the stimulation of the warm steam, her mind would be more active.
A comfortable hot bath helps to bring out inspiration, which is very important for people who make a living from inspiration.
Because of this, she always takes a shower first. She thinks a shower is more effective than a sitz bath.
With anticipation, the girl turned on the shower switch, and a small stream of water began to sprinkle, and the water temperature was still relatively cool.
After waiting for a while, until white mist began to rise in the shower room, Hitzfeld placed his body under the water curtain, closed his eyes, and breathed a sigh of enjoyment.
After a night of hard work and thinking, she felt reborn at this moment.
But soon the enjoyment turned into fear - she felt a pair of hands coming around her armpits and reaching to the front, taking control of her two freed pieces.
"it's me."
Perhaps because he was afraid of scaring her, Xia Yibing's mischievous expression was revealed in the white mist.
"I just happened to be back and heard the sound of water inside. Why don't we take a shower together? This way we can save water."
"..." Hitzfeld remained silent.
At first glance, it makes sense. Under normal circumstances, two people washing together can indeed save water.
But the problem is that if two people wash separately, each person takes an average of about 30 minutes, while if they wash together, it often takes more than an hour.
So where is the water saving?
Wouldn't this mean more flow?
"Oh? Are you thinking about something impolite?" Xia Yibing raised her eyebrows. "Let me emphasize first - I am not a person with vulgar tastes."
"Sit down."
She pushed the girl to sit on a small stool and said, "I'll rub your back first. Tell me, what did Alwin say to you?"
"It's nothing more than the matter of the Mechanical Yang and the Secret Keeper Ceremony... You should ask what I talked about with Alvin."
Regardless of whether Xia Yibing has any vulgar tastes, it must be admitted that her back-rubbing skills are pretty good.
Hitzfeld sighed comfortably and told her the conversation that took place in the White Shadow Palace in the mist. At the end, he said, "The only thing I didn't expect was that Richard was not executed. This is simply incredible."
When an elderly person with a disease dies is not decided by him or others. It is normal for Richard to die at any time, and she should not be surprised.
But here’s the thing – Richard is no ordinary guy.
He is a "thief of wisdom". He does not use low-level methods like Nan Xinze, but directly steals knowledge from the origin of the world through imitation of ancient artifacts.
