"No."
“It’s just something that leans towards the laws of nature.”
"Yes."
"That's why you're so lenient with the Arctic."
"Exactly."
Hitzfeld asked no more questions.
At this point, many confusions have been solved, and she also needs to slow down and sort out the messy information.
"I was supposed to investigate your situation, why did it become an interrogation?"
The annual rings chuckled.
"This is a necessary procedure." Xia Yibing stared at her intently, "I'm not done yet! How can you ensure that this loose defense can resist evildoers?"
"First of all, this is not a loose defense." Nian Lun stopped laughing. "With Heidi watching, I can find any abnormalities immediately. Do you think I didn't know that the ancient witch was replaced? Where were you when I was watching him two years ago?"
"Then why don't you keep watching?"
"I don't have that much time." Nian Lun shook his hair. "I have so many things to do... and New Orwater has a large number of troops deployed. More than 60% of our forces are deployed there. It is equivalent to a fortress defending the Arctic direction."
The implication is that even if something goes wrong in the Arctic, she can ensure that precautions are taken.
Xia Yibing did not think too much about it. After all, this was the Arctic, with extremely low temperatures of minus 40 to 50 degrees Celsius all year round. It was unrealistic to expect the tree people to station a permanent presence here, and it was also difficult for evil disciples to penetrate into such an environment.
Extreme cold is a natural barrier.
It can brush off a lot of people.
While they were arguing with each other, Hitzfeld quietly frowned.
At present, many truths have come to light.
A compressed history.
The poles are shifted and the equator is swapped.
The tree people’s plan to create a god.
Why did Thoreau Lawrence defect to the Arctic?
Dr. Grimman and the ancient witch Geyeso exchanged identities.
The secrets of the Rob Murphy family.
...She already knew all these things.
But there is still something hidden beneath the ice, and that is the source of all this, the source of those brilliant light waves.
On the one hand, they still haven't figured out what these light waves are.
The Tree People can only use this thing to inherit the Netherworld Fruit Tree. They can't chisel open the bottom of the palace - that is, the ice surface where they are standing at the moment. Naturally, they can't touch the thing that fell to the bottom of the lake, and they can't even figure out what it looks like.
On the other hand, Hitzfeld noticed that there was something wrong with the spacing of the light wave bursts.
According to the memory of the tree rings, it erupts only once every thirty years.
The interval is too long. The previous generation may not even be able to wait for the next thirty years, so she was forced to take the risk.
Then why, today, according to Sintara's description, the outbreak has become once every thirty days?
One month interval... is about thirty days, right?
How many times the difference is this?
Is this due to natural change over time, or has human influence accelerated it?
Instinctively, Hitzfeld leaned toward the latter.
Because the source is buried under the ice lake, this gradually accelerating impact...if it happened on its own, according to normal thinking, the corresponding situation should be "the temperature in the Arctic is warming, and the unknown existence under the ice is slowly thawing."
The only reasonable explanation is that the impact is intensifying due to thawing.
But it didn't.
The Arctic has always been this cold, and even the locals say it is getting colder.
That doesn't seem possible.
More like artificial.
For example, Robbo's visit seven years ago, or Year Ring's behavior in conceiving and giving birth to Heidi seven years ago, may have been exacerbated by their behavior.
But why?
What Hitzfeld couldn't understand the most was that there was a huge gap between Rob and Nianlun.
Even if Rob had become a transcendent at that time, he was still a human being. Even with the help of Heidi's fruit, he came to the center of the lake - it was already amazing that he could have done such a thing. How could he have triggered the curse and accurately obtained the memory of "Solo Lawrence"?
This can't be a matter of luck.
There are so many messy memories, not only of humans but also animals.
There was no such luck to get someone's memory accurately. He must have done something to trigger something hidden in the center of the lake.
But how did he do it?
Turning to ask Rob, Rob only said that he heard some unknown sound.
Hitzfeld still frowned in confusion.
This only shows that the thing may have consciousness, but it does not explain why Robbo was favored.
There must be some commonality.
No one else can do it, not even the other tree people.
There are only Tree Rings and Robo, and even Solo Lawrence.
After all these years, only the three of them were touched.
What do they have in common?
Suddenly, an idea flashed through the girl's mind.
She remembered...
I remembered the one I saw outside the palace.
The statue holding a baby.
"..."
A huge panic came out of nowhere.
She suddenly lowered her head and looked at the icy ground beneath her feet.
Chapter 52: Destined Reunion Across Time and Space (Two in One)
At the moment this panic arose, the icy ground also changed.
The ground shook slightly, causing the entire Ice Crystal Palace to shake and tremble. The others immediately looked up at the walls and ceiling of the building, their brows furrowed with nervousness, and Xia Yibing even shouted, "Is this what you call safety?"
Robo opened his mouth. He was already weak, and now he was at a loss for words.
But in his mind, "the safety of the Ice Palace" is absolutely true. Unlike others, he watched this palace take shape from scratch - seven years ago, when he fell and was touched by that voice, he saw in his dream that an extremely gorgeous and majestic palace was rising rapidly on the ice field. The blizzard blew out its rough skeleton on the lake, and the sweeping ice and snow laid bricks and tiles on the skeleton, creating a palace almost out of thin air. The degree of magnificence and the overall area were much more exaggerated than the palace in reality.
But Year Ring knew more. She took a few steps back cautiously, standing back to back with Heidi. She said quickly and seriously, "...This has never happened before."
"If I'm not mistaken, the light waves that just escaped have already used up its 'quota'... I don't know why the current outbreak cycle has been shortened to once a month, but theoretically we will be safe for a long time to come, and this thing shouldn't have any reaction anymore..."
"That sounds good! But it's not true!" Xia Yibing continued to yell at her, "Use your experience to think of a solution!"
"Take them out." The solution given by Nian Lun was extremely simple, and the women who heard it rolled their eyes.
Didn't she know to take people out to avoid the disaster? Of course, a blizzard is more docile than being crushed to death by a landslide!
But there was no time to waste now. As the palace shook more and more violently, Xia Yibing handed the job of packing up the injured to the two tree people (after all, they were born masters of bondage) and went to pull Hitzfeld herself.
"Hurry up, Aisuen! This place might collapse soon!"
"Will not."
"What did you say?"
Xia Yibing pulled the girl but failed to move her. Instead, she heard her retort... She almost suspected that she had tinnitus or hallucinations. She paused and walked around to the front to look at the girl's face.
Hitzfeld was in a strange state. Her face was calm, but the light in her left eye was fluctuating violently, and her cheek was facing the ice under her feet, as if everything around her was not worth mentioning at all, and only the things under the ice were worth paying attention to.
What on earth is she talking about?
He shook her shoulders hard and found that she was still like this. Xia Yibing finally panicked. She was afraid that something might happen to the most important person in the team, the one she cared about the most.
"Aisun? Aisun!!!"
The vibrations were getting more and more intense. Heidi and Annual Rings had already spread out branches and vines to entangle the others. They kept turning their heads to look here, waiting for them to agree so that they could rush out of the palace together.
But it was too late.
As if to confirm the girl's words, there was no more dripping ice powder from the surrounding walls, ceilings, suspended ceilings, and columns. They stabilized again, but the shaking was not over yet.
This can be clearly guessed from the vibration of the ice underfoot and the muffled thunder coming from outside. No matter what the vibration is, it should have spread to the periphery of the palace. I don't know what happened outside.
Just when Nian Lun had lost his patience and wanted to urge them to hurry up, with a bang, an ice wall fell out of thin air from the palace gate in front of them.
What the hell?
Everyone who had come in there couldn't help but stare at the same time.
Are they going to lock them all in?
Bang...bang...bang-bang-bang-bang!
Before some people could imagine how much effort it would take to destroy that ice wall, more than a dozen thick ice walls fell or rose up one after another.
There is no obstacle. The ground is ice, the walls are ice, the ceiling is ice, everything here is ice. They can "grow" here freely, whether they fall or jump out, it is very natural.
"It wants to eat us!" Nian Lun's face finally became unprecedentedly ugly.
No matter how bold she was, she never expected that the usually docile extreme containment would undergo such a change.
Because the ice palace phenomenon is fixed and appears every once in a while, sometimes it is more than just an ice palace. Ice and snow are like dream makers and sculptors, and will carve all kinds of human statues out of thin air on the ice field in the middle of the lake.
This has happened before! I have tried it many times before. As long as I wait for the light wave burst cycle to pass and don't touch or wake up the thing, nothing will happen. Why does this change happen?
In an instant, she thought of the key, and her sharp eyes turned to Hitzfeld.
Annual Rings determined that the changes here were related to her, although she had not had the time to ask... why the other party would have a yearning for the Arctic in the distant Port of Wayne, but she just had a feeling.
Call it intuition or spiritual perception...she just thinks it has something to do with her!
"You..." Nian Lun wanted to say something else. Whether it was to ask the girl or to urge her, she had a lot of things to say to her.
But she had no chance at all. She might have overlooked that even the ground they were standing on at this moment was made of ice condensed from the icy lake water. As her thoughts raced, a thin layer of ice was spreading up from the soles of her feet.
It took more than a second for this layer of ice to wrap around her arms and legs. At the time, it was only about 1 mm thick. It was more like condensed white frost than ice, and the annual rings didn't care at all.
But when she subconsciously blinked again, the situation changed drastically.
The ice spread from her tentacles to her head in an instant, and she was completely frozen by the ice. Its thickness increased dozens or hundreds of times. She was unable to react in time and could not break free, and her movements and thoughts also stopped.
Not only she enjoyed this treatment, but also Heidi, Rob and Esther, Vera, Grande, Nate, Dr. Grimman... and even Lily!
In just the blink of an eye, seven people and one dog were frozen.
No matter whether they were standing or lying down, without resistance or trying to struggle, when the ice came, they were completely defenseless and all operations came to a standstill.
What on earth is this…!
Xia Yibing was not frightened, but she was quite shocked. She tried her best to control her emotions and not get agitated. She held Hitzfeld in her arms with her left hand and swept through the air with her right hand holding the long Xia knife. The two of them kept moving their feet and changing their positions to prevent being frozen by the thin ice.
But it seemed that her worries were unnecessary, as no thin ice attempted to creep onto their shoes.
"..." Xia Yibing initially thought that this was a misjudgment. The reason why Bing didn't jump up was because they were walking all the time. It was related to this.
But when she deliberately paused for a moment and found that this brief pause did not produce any signs of freezing, the breath she had been holding almost let out.
Just not.
No freezing.
It's hard to understand... There are so many people in the team, including a Sheldon dog, and they were all frozen, but Aisuen and I were the only ones who were not frozen!
