I've read a lot of files, but I don't remember any plans related to the Arctic...
Xia Yibing suspected that Nian Lun knew about this plan, and the reason why she took Heidi to curse the ice lake seven years ago was related to this plan.
Could it be that crazy Rob's suspicions were true?
She wasn't sure anymore.
From the perspective of the Security Agency, the Arctic does not have many resources, a fact that has been recognized by all the previous directors, including Batti Villefort.
But you have to know that the Security Bureau does not represent the correct answer. Because the Security Bureau itself - even its model and structure are imitations of the library agent system, and compared with the Wheel of Fortune and ancient groups such as the Tree People, they are still a little immature.
It is also an unspoken fact that the Tree People know far more secrets than the Security Chief.
But the Tree People wouldn't hide any important news from the King, right?
When we set out, Elwen didn't say anything. Was it because the Tree People thought the secret of the Arctic was "unimportant" - or "not dangerous" and therefore didn't tell her; or was it because she knew the secret but didn't say it because it was "unimportant" or "not dangerous"?
After thinking about it, Xia Yibing even slowed down her chewing frequency.
She suddenly lost her appetite, threw away the bones and went to wash her hands.
Hitzfeld glanced at her, then turned and asked, "Can I know why you went to the North Pole?"
Aisuen...
Xia Yibing paused while washing her hands, feeling deeply moved.
Her angel was still observant, intelligent and considerate.
"Guess." But Heidi kept it a secret, and her smile became mischievous. "If you guess right, I can agree to one condition of yours."
"Any conditions are acceptable?" Xia Yibing raised her eyebrows.
It just so happened that she had been thinking that there was a lot of room for discussion in the field of protection. There were close protection and protection across several rooms, it all depended on what Heidi would choose.
As for Xia Yibing, she definitely didn't want Heidi to get too close to this place. After all, Hitzfeld lifted the restrictions on her this time, and she was still thinking... cough! She was still thinking about whether she could get a bloated belly after she came back, so she naturally didn't want to be disturbed too much during the journey.
But how to express it was a difficult problem, especially in front of Hitzfeld. She had to consider the girl's emotions, lest she pull back the restrictions out of shame and anger, and then she would have no place to cry.
So isn't now the best opportunity?
It can keep Heidi away and take care of Aisuen's emotions. Heidi probably won't think too much about it - the premise is to guess the puzzle!
"I'll do it!" Xia Yibing stretched out her hand to signal the girl not to move, because she felt that she had read Villefort's message and got inspiration from Hitzfeld, so she was more or less confident.
"I guess..." She pondered, "The Arctic... in the beginning... from a very, very ancient time, it may not have been shrouded in extreme cold... in the beginning, there may have been a lot of plants there, including some branches of the Tree People..."
"Oh?" Heidi showed an interested look. "Go on, Sheriff."
"And I also know there might be a secret over there..." Xia Yibing frowned, "It could be the 'God-given Road', or... maybe the Tree People have some plan over there, a very ancient plan..."
"This plan has been around for many, many years. Could it be one of your secret bases? And she has to go check it out every few years, so she naturally wants to bring someone who is resistant to cold with her, so she chose you!"
Xia Yibing spoke faster and faster, staring at him and asking, "Is that so?"
"I'm sorry..." Heidi wanted to shake her head when she saw this.
"She's coming to find you." Hitzfeld suddenly said.
Heidi's body suddenly stiffened.
"I was right, wasn't I?" Hitzfeld smiled. "You are Ice Orchid, and you can only grow in extremely cold places... Rob didn't tell us how he met you at the time, so we were mistaken in our thinking at the beginning. It is also possible that you didn't go together, and Her Majesty the Tree Ring went to the North Pole alone to wake you up!"
"Your sum is the correct answer." Heidi clapped her hands softly. "Very good, Lord Count."
"I'm just taking advantage of this... Besides, you can just call me Aisuen."
Heidi revealed in the previous conversation that she already regarded the two of them as friends, and since he had a good impression of her, Hitzfeld didn't mind making close friends with her.
"No." Heidi looked at her and then at the sheriff next to her. "If I call someone like that, they will definitely be unhappy... Let's compromise and call you Hitzfeld."
"I actually—"
Xia Yibing opened her mouth.
"Isn't it so easy to see?"
"I do this for a living too~" Heidi smiled happily, "Those kids lack experience, but as for me... when I saw the way you looked at each other at the beginning, I naturally understood some things."
"After all, if she likes or loves someone, she can't hide it in her eyes." She sighed, "This is what I admire most about humans. In comparison, the emotions of tree people are too indifferent."
"So you are only 7 years old now?" Xia Yibing asked.
"...Isn't that rude? Rob didn't say what month it was seven years ago, I've already been 8 years old for almost half a year."
"You are over two meters tall...8 years old..."
Xia Yibing still felt it was outrageous. For the first time, she regretted not bringing Ashley along on this trip. The strong girl would definitely have a lot in common when meeting Heidi.
"In short, I was indeed awakened from the ice field by Your Majesty," she said. "From the moment I regained consciousness, the first person I saw was Your Majesty."
"She awakened my soul and told me, 'We are all descendants of the Nether Fruit Tree.' She taught me the traditional art of transformation of the Tree People. It took her more than a year to make me become like this."
"So she went there just for you?" Hitzfeld asked curiously.
"Do the Tree People have a way to sense their own people?"
"What you are asking now belongs to the internal secrets of an entire race." Heidi shook her head, "I can't tell you this. This is the foundation of our existence."
"Then tree people can also be born in this way?" Hitzfeld changed his perspective, "Not only inheritance, not only internal cultivation... can she also identify which plants are descendants of the Nether Fruit Tree?"
"Of course." Heidi agreed with her, "It's just that there are very few such examples, and not all plants are related to the Nether Fruit Tree."
"Then you must be very precious." The girl raised her eyebrows, "Annual Rings must value you very much."
"In a way, she is my family." Heidi nodded. "She said she had arranged everything for me and asked me if I would like to go back to Wayne to work with her."
"I refused."
"At that time, I had just developed spiritual consciousness and was full of curiosity about everything in society. After rescuing Rob, we traveled around the country, and I finally decided to settle down in Trierred."
"why?"
“I feel very at home here.”
Heidi spread her hands.
"I had already integrated into this place before Naris came. I was living with it in my own way, and I also wanted to understand humans by doing this - Year Ring always said that I was not fully developed yet, and she thought I really needed this kind of exercise."
"..."
"..."
Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing were both silent. They were wondering if Nianlun had some other purpose in sending Heidi to protect them.
For example, they can be listed as "special examples of human social behavior" for observation and study.
She really wasn't afraid that Heidi would grow crooked.
"As for Rob, the man you were concerned about at the beginning, there's actually not much to say about him."
Heidi fiddled with the wine glass at hand.
"He...how should I put it? We met him on the way down the mountain after leaving the ice field."
"He was alone at the time, with no food or tools, and even the clothes he wore were extremely thin."
"Nian Lun told me that he was abandoned by his fellow troop. Those people took away everything useful from him and left him here to freeze to death."
"And we - we certainly couldn't just sit there and watch this happen, so I gave him some branches and vines, and some tree rings, and we used the vines to weave some clothes for him. I also produced some fruits so that he wouldn't starve to death due to lack of water."
"We thought he would be grateful to us after he woke up and would go down the mountain with us, but the reality was beyond our expectations."
"He's going up."
"He said that the reason he came here was to uncover the secret buried under the Cursed Ice Lake. If he fails to achieve this goal, he might as well die here."
"He's a weird guy, isn't he? We couldn't persuade him anyway, so we got him a wooden sword and left him the tent we brought with us, and then we went down first."
"As for whether he came back from the ice field and solved the mystery of the ice lake, we did not pay attention to this later."
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten about this person."
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After typing this time, the symptoms in my left hand are slightly better.
I think it's a matter of typing habits. Some people use five or six fingers to type, but I only use two fingers. I feel the wear rate is indeed higher.
Anyway, I hope it's nothing serious~ I still have a lot of stories I want to write~
Chapter 18 On the Platform (Two in One)
After the meal, it was agreed that Heidi would pay the bill.
Xia Yibing wanted to pay the bill at first, because she felt it was embarrassing to be treated by another woman when she was with her girlfriend. But she soon noticed that the store clerks and bosses all knew Heidi and gave her a discount, so she gave up the idea.
Coming down from Bailey's Lamb House, Heidi waved goodbye to them.
"I have some things to take care of, so you can hang out near the station or something. Anyway, I'll come find you before we leave, so don't worry about me not being able to keep up."
"Did Nian Lun really not tell you the secret of the Arctic?" Xia Yibing still refused to give up and wanted to find out some information. "She values you so much. From what you just said...she almost treats you as...then she shouldn't hide anything from you."
"Even a real mother can't say everything to her child." Heidi answered, looking at Hitzfeld with a meaningful look.
Then she left.
It may sound a bit shocking to say it out loud, but she really did it. In front of the two people here, she walked to a luxury car parked on the side of the road, opened the door and drove away.
"...She's doing well in Trierred." Xia Yibing was speechless and could only say this, "What the hell, why do I feel like I'm the tree person in comparison?"
Is not it?
In her impression, tree people always have noble sentiments and indifferent desires, and they are willing to make great sacrifices for only little reward - isn't this what I am like?
After working diligently for more than ten years, her life is still not as good as that of Heidi, a genuine Ice Orchid Tree Person. Just think about how Heidi collects at least 3000 to 4000 Goli silver coins for each protection fee she collects for guarding the place. Xia Yibing has the deceptive illusion that Lily has more seniority than him.
"Woof?" Lily found that the woman had been observing her since just now, and her eyes and expression were quite unfriendly. It was not stupid, and knew who could protect it at this time, so it tucked its tail between its legs and shrank behind Hitzfeld.
"Let's go for a walk?" Hitzfeld looked at the man and his pet with amusement. "In the entire North, only Trierred can get such warm sunshine. If you miss it, you will never get it again."
"Now that you've said that, wouldn't it be rude of me not to accompany you?" Xia Yibing smiled when she heard that and put her arm around the girl's shoulders.
The two of them strolled along the sidewalk, passing through archways and alleys, chatting about the customs and culture of Trierred as they walked.
The culture here is really not that good.
Heidi was right. Trierred was a city built on the basis of the Chamber of Commerce. Most of the families here were engaged in business, whether they participated in the Chamber of Commerce to control the right to speak, or worked as laborers for the Chamber of Commerce, it was always related to commerce.
This is not a very big city. The last time the city was surveyed, its population was just over 200,000, which is not as large as Kuroki City. According to current standards, it is a stretch to call it a city. At best, it is a large town.
After so much preparation, there is only one really useful thing to say - the quality of the people of Trierred is not high.
"Calculative" and "mercenary" are both good adjectives. Even worse are "greedy" and "stingy". The atmosphere here is indeed not good.
So naturally, something went wrong during the walk. Some street urchins and hooligans saw the two men walking alone on the side of the road, and they were so bold that they dared not avoid those secluded places, and followed them to cause trouble.
Xia Yibing wanted to kill them all. The more cases she handled, the more irritable she became whenever she encountered scum, because she knew too well what these scum could do if left unrestrained. Just by looking at those disgusting faces she could recall many tragedies.
But Hitzfeld stopped her.
“It’s disgraceful,” she said. “If we have to execute them, it shouldn’t be us who do it.”
"Are you worried about alerting the local gangs?" Xia Yibing stabbed a thug who was still twisting and struggling with a knife, turned his head and asked the girl with a frown.
Come to think of it, with someone like Jordan tipping off, all the local chambers of commerce and gangs should know they are coming. And they can't possibly know the purpose of their visit. They will be suspicious and afraid. If some of the idiots mistakenly think that they are here to clean up the chaos, they might make some desperate moves and delay the train.
"This has nothing to do with giving face to anyone." Hitzfeld shook his head, "Think about the light of salvation... We need such principles to go further."
"Procedural self-discipline?" Xia Yibing frowned and pulled back the blade.
"I'm willing to listen to you, but that's because I'm accompanying you this time." She whispered, "As for me, I just need to make sure someone is afraid of me."
Hitzfeld grinned. "I didn't say you were wrong."
Under the astonished gazes of half the street, the two men sent a group of thugs to the local police station. They decided to follow the local customs and let their leader decide how to deal with the thugs.
"Take a break?"
After walking across a wooden bridge again, Hitzfeld felt a little tired. Seeing a few stone piers by the river, she pulled Lily over to sit over.
Xia Yibing naturally followed her instructions. Of course, her main purpose was not to rest, but to take the opportunity to touch the girl's feet.
"Aisun's feet...what type did you mention last time?"
Holding two small feet wrapped in black silk stockings in her hands, she pressed and stroked them with her fingers, feeling the silky and rich touch. Looking at the ten toes wrapped in silk floss and curled up shyly like petals, Xia Yibing asked a question for some unknown reason.
