Xia Yibing had to confirm the extent of its threat. She did not show any mercy just because the thing knelt down obediently. She raised her hand and slashed at it with a knife, stopping suddenly in front of its throat.
Esther's breathing stopped.
She now knew that it was not Robo, but it also had Robo's appearance, and she still couldn't help feeling a little worried.
Hitzfeld stared at the strange man's expression.
She noticed that its expression had not changed so far.
From the time it appeared to the time it knelt down, and then to when Xia waved the knife to try to intimidate it, the facial features and muscles did not move at all, as rigorous and rigid as a robot.
No...it should be more like a robot than a robot. You know, those mechanical apostles can't have such a rigid expression!
Is it pretending?
still is……
She didn't need to guess anymore, because Xia Yibing had already chopped off its head with a single cut.
"what!"
Esther let out a scream.
"That's not him!"
Heidi held her down and emphasized it to her.
"We're staying here! You better not look!"
On the other side, Hitzfeld and Lily quickly moved over and began to inspect the two "corpses" of the thing.
"You won't blame me, will you?"
Xia Yibing looked at her.
"Do not."
The girl shook her head.
"You did very well."
Things of unknown origin have been confirmed to be not human beings. So if we don't kill them, should we keep them for the New Year?
This was different from a pack of wolves. The wolves gave her a feeling of being absolutely docile, not like this thing at all. Her spirit could detect nothing.
Although there were gloves blocking her view, Hitzfeld was still cautious. She used a branch to fiddle with the severed head, first checking the cut surface.
is normal.
Bones, tendons, blood vessels... everything is there, there's nothing wrong with it.
Hitzfeld continued to call for support from the ice skates.
"Cut it open."
"I want to check its brain."
Xia Yibing did as she was told and inserted the knife into the center of the skull. She then turned the knife handle and a fine crack appeared on the iron-blue and stiff face.
"Crack!"
Like a coconut shell, the skin and bones of the head split open on their own, splitting the entire face in two and exposing the innermost organs.
"this……!"
When Xia Yibing saw what was inside, her eyes widened.
There is indeed human brain tissue inside the skull, but only half of it.
It's not the kind of half divided into left and right... but the half from front to back - only the bottom layer and the back half of this brain are made of flesh and blood. The front half, which is near the forehead, has an ice crystal texture and looks like a transparent ice sculpture!
What's the situation?
Frozen?
Hitzfeld poked the back half of the human brain with the branch and it went in without much resistance.
The temperature was indeed too low. The surface of the human brain had hardened not long after it was exposed. A pinkish-white liquid began to flow out of the part she had pierced, and then it was frozen in less than a second.
Then poke the front half of the crystallized human brain.
It is obviously much harder and branches can't penetrate it at all.
"Knife."
Hitzfeld called for backup again.
The long Xia knife stabbed down from above, and the first strike actually slipped on the ice crystal man's brain.
Xia Yibing's eyelids twitched. She gripped the knife handle tightly and stabbed it down again, piercing directly through the ice crystals, with the tip of the knife penetrating deep into the snow.
"It's ice..."
Hitzfeld fiddled with the broken ice crystals.
"Pure ice..."
The situation is somewhat unbelievable.
You know, even if a person is frozen to death, his body temperature will not be lost so quickly.
This is the case even when dead, let alone when alive. No matter how high the body temperature of a living person is, it is impossible for them to tolerate ice hidden in their brains and remain solid all the time.
Shouldn't it turn into water?
Or does this weird creature simply not have the body temperature that a normal life form should have?
Recalling the various abnormalities that the weirdo had displayed after his appearance, Hitzfeld narrowed her eyes. She seemed to have never seen this guy exhale white air...
Don't you need to breathe?
Or is it that the body temperature is below zero and breathing is not enough to form white mist?
Looking up at Xia Yibing, she found that the woman was studying the torso of the corpse next to her.
She was looking at the feet...?
What's wrong with its feet?
"There's a drawing of Rob's bare feet in Esther's sketchbook," Xia Yibing whispered, "Rob's second toe is sticking out in the picture above."
Hitzfeld went to look at the monster's feet.
On both feet, the second toe closest to the big toe is flat and does not extend beyond the length of the big toe.
Glancing at the woman, Hitzfeld's expression looked a little strange.
Xia Yibing seemed not to see it. She muttered in a low voice: "What could be the reason..."
indeed.
Hitzfeld also began to think.
Even the faces can change to be exactly the same, it doesn't make sense that a mere toe can change to be wrong.
This is a huge flaw.
Why is it so.
What the hell is this guy?
And why his toes were wrong.
Turn around and look.
Blood crystal crows were flying around and Lily was chasing her everywhere.
A few meters away were Heidi and Esther. Heidi had her head lowered, seemingly trying to comfort the girl.
Forget it.
Or use "violence" to solve the problem.
Hitzfeld naturally lifted up his hair in front of his forehead, revealing his two eyes - mainly the enchanting golden pupil.
His left hand was loosely placed above the corpse, and his right eye was closed.
Tell me about your past.
"...!?"
Heidi's body trembled.
The Blood Crystal Crow turned its head in the air.
Xia Yibing, who was standing next to her, felt it most clearly. She felt an invisible force instantly emanating from the girl's body, spreading in a circle before she could react, spreading to the end of the darkness and completely disappearing from her spiritual perception.
Is this... the spirit of Aisuen?
This kind of vast and boundless feeling...is it really something that humans can achieve?
With her eyes wide open, Xia Yibing began to doubt whether she was wrong.
But if her spiritual perception was strong enough, she would know that her feeling was not only correct, but even a little too conservative.
If spirits were tangible things, and if she had high-altitude vision, she would definitely be able to see that this power was spreading endlessly in the forest with the gray-haired girl as the center, until it enveloped the entire black forest and swallowed up half of the large ice field before it just stopped.
Reached the limit...
Hitzfeld knew what was going on.
It is not the limit of strength, but the limit of spirit.
My spirit is still too weak. Even if I obtain the power of Abu Gesar, I cannot use it as freely as it does. I can only trace back to the past in this way, which will also cause a great loss of energy.
It's a pity.
Otherwise you could have found someone this way from the beginning.
Without further distraction, Hitzfeld began to stare intently at the corpse on the ground.
As she watched, the light and shadow of the corpse began to retreat, and it stood up again from the ground, and even the cracked head was reattached, and time returned to the moment it suddenly appeared.
So what’s next?
How did it get here?
The time scene continued to move backwards, back and forth... Hitzfeld followed the monster back to the past and watched it emerge from the ice field, naked, with its feet taking standard steps, with an expressionless face, and running wildly in a certain direction.
It's running.
Why is it running?
According to the traces of time left in front of him, staring at the footprints left by the monster in time, Hitzfeld's pupils shrank slightly.
The last footprint - the footprint left by the monster when he just appeared from the ice field, the second toe of that mark is longer.
However, as time went by, it kept running without stopping, and the protruding second toe began to wear out, being smoothed and shrunk little by little, and the toe was constantly repairing itself in the process.
Is this the reason?
It turned out that its mutation was indeed perfect at the beginning, exactly like the real Robo. But because it ran without restraint and ran barefoot on the snow on the ice field, the protruding second toe was gradually worn down, and finally it appeared as they saw it.
What about his head?
She suddenly thought of the ice crystal in the weirdo's head.
Could it be...
The hair was let down, and Hitzfeld stood up, his body shaking.
It seems that this damn place has more than just one mutation.
Xia Yibing quickly stepped forward to support her and put her ear close to her. She knew the girl must have something to say.
"Keep going north."
Hitzfeld's voice sounded a little weak, but the firmness in it was obvious.
"We are very close to the truth."
"Keep going north."
"We'll find the others."
Just like that, leaving the strange corpse behind, they set out again on the road to the ice lake.
They stopped and walked along the way, set up tents to rest when they were tired, and then moved back up and continued after a few hours. The team continued to advance in the dark and deep ice and snow forest, and finally encountered something unusual again on the second day.
