"And this is where I need your help most." She looked directly at the giant.
"Then we..." The giant rubbed his huge hands, "How can we help you..."
What a hell...
Shaking her head and raising her upper body from the ruins beside her, Ashley tapped the ground with her fingers with a gloomy face, looking at her stepmother with an extremely resentful look.
So humble to Heath, so arrogant to me.
At least I can be considered an adopted daughter!
How unfair!
"First of all, I want to ask, does your ability to think increase as the number of bacteria increases?"
Hitzfeld had no time for her; now was an important time to obtain intelligence.
At worst, I can make her something delicious at night...
Well, we can bring Emily back for dinner. It’s been a while since the whole family has been together.
"Thinking ability...?"
"It's the ability to speak." Hitzfeld said it another way.
The ability to organize language and the ability to construct language all require thinking, so putting it this way will make it easier for the other person to understand.
"It seems to be like this." The giant thought for a moment before nodding his head in confirmation. "We can't talk individually, but we can talk when we gather together..."
"Then I need you all to gather together and further strengthen your ability to speak. This may help you recall some of the things that happened during the gray fog."
"Also, I heard that you once tried to preserve the 'fire'. Although you failed, there should be traces left, right? I want to see that trace, too."
"Wait a moment." The giant took a deep breath, "We should know... yes... but it will take some time..."
It performed several similar actions in succession, and each time it did so, the surrounding gray algae fungus would pour into its body crazily. Its body expanded from ten meters to fifteen meters, then twenty meters, twenty-five meters...
Fortunately, the ceiling of this hall is not too low, so it can still accommodate it even when it bends. If it were an ordinary building, it would have collapsed long ago.
"We remembered..."
At this point, the giant's expansion gradually stopped.
“We recalled a lot of things from the past…”
"There are also traces of 'fire'. Yes... every city should have it. It is on the 'beacon tower' of the 'observation spire'. Just look for the tallest building and you will see it."
"Thank you." Hitzfeld nodded politely.
"Is it inconvenient for you to grow bigger here?"
"We can go somewhere else to talk, how about the top of the tower?"
"I will obey your will..."
He bowed to her humbly, and the gray algae that made up the giant scattered like quicksand. They turned into a torrent and disappeared into the cracks, as if they were going to the top of the tower to greet her.
"Ashley…we-huh?"
Hitzfeld wanted to pull Ashley along to follow, but the next moment, her eyes widened as if she had seen something incredible.
"His?"
Ashley bounced immediately.
"what happened?"
"Aisun."
Xia Yibing also appeared here accompanied by a black flame. Both of them stared at the goddess' expression, worried about what she had discovered.
"You're in luck, Ashley. You can find this place just by looking."
Looking up and carefully examining the surrounding structures of the hall, Hitzfeld's mouth curled up, and he was obviously in a good mood at this moment.
“No, it should be said that this place is very special…
"where is this place?"
Ashley and Xia Yibing were both confused.
"here."
Hitzfeld walked quickly inside, stepped over the cracked steps, and came to a broken pillar with debris scattered all over the ground.
There should be a stone platform there.
Below is a pillar with a diameter of about 10 cm, half a person's height, and a platform on top.
It is commonly seen in churches, mostly used to place scriptures.
"The Book of Roaring, remember?"
These words were spoken to Xia Yibing.
“It was placed here.”
Is this here?
Xia Yibing understood immediately.
Oh, is this the place?
That woman in the blue dress...is this the place where the ninth and tenth levels of the code book were swapped?
This is the starting point of destruction... Did the disaster that spread to the entire continent start from here?
"Aisun!"
Xia Yibing asked anxiously, "Then why——"
Laceres is Ceres Continent, it's just a difference in translation.
Through the death ticket case, they have learned that the civilization here was destroyed by "Desire Aberration No. 2". And that demon god is just a replica of the Gray Mist Evil God developed by Eclipse.
The civilization here should not have perished so quickly relying solely on the "evil god game".
It was the woman in the blue dress who changed the order of the final level of the code book, and everything was set in motion because of her evil deeds.
Don't worry about time.
Counting from the deadly football ticket case, it was 22 years ago that Pusangsi and his people came to this continent. But the civilization here was not destroyed 22 years ago. When they arrived here, they saw this ruin.
But if the extinction caused all the people here to turn into gray algae, why didn't the expedition team at that time get infected and degenerate?
That doesn’t make sense, does it?
That shouldn't have happened. They should have brought the gray algae back with them as well.
Even if this place was trapped in the gray fog at that time, they shouldn't have found this place at all?
"Two possibilities."
Hitzfeld commented.
"The first possibility is that they have transcended time, and the continent they found is not what it should have been at that time. What they found might be the Ceres Continent that was buried by the folded time more than two hundred years ago."
"What about the second one?"
"The second possibility is that they found this place by some coincidence. This is the real timeline... but the gray algae were consumed in large quantities for some reason, so they didn't encounter it."
"Some reason?"
Xia Yibing frowned.
"...consume a lot?"
"Aisun, you mean..."
“The answer may be right here.”
Hitzfeld shook his head, took a step forward, and appeared on the beacon tower of the watchtower, the tallest building in the ruins of the city.
The beacon tower had a roof and was hollow inside and supported by four pillars, which meant that the internal structure was not damaged too seriously. She could see the remains of the fire pit - although there was nothing left in it, not even a trace of ashes.
After walking around the fire pit, she squatted down, brushed away the dust accumulated at the bottom of the pit, and vaguely saw a line of words at the bottom.
"Don't...believe...me."
Slowly reading out the inscription, Hitzfeld continued to fiddle with it, and finally managed to find the signature.
"Don't believe...Ke Fan's flame..."
Chapter 37: The Same Person (Two in One)
Ke Fan should be referring to Xia Tian Si Chen, the Red Dragon Queen Ke Fan.
Could these words be left by the other party?
Xia Yibing also appeared on the beacon tower shortly after. The movement efficiency of these two people was so high that even the gray algae fungi that had set off earlier could not catch up.
She walked to her wife's side, squatted down and looked at the inscription she was touching, frowning and said, "So, Ceres Continent was once protected by 'Summer'?"
In the flashback scenes of "The First Hundred Years", they witnessed the death of "Ahoin", witnessed "Kefan" and the remaining sisters parting ways, witnessed "Emera" following "Kefan", and only "Haratini" was left to guard the four seasons.
They already knew that at that time, only "Emera" and "Haradini" were pure. The other two were either seriously polluted or replaced by some monster.
Ahoin's death might be an illusion. The monsters pretending to be Ahoin and Kefan wanted to mislead the remaining two people, making them mistakenly believe that "the death bell has come true" and "the whole world is safe until the next bell rings" - they should be hoping that Emera and Haradini can relax their vigilance, and then wait for an opportunity to lurk and kill them, just as they did to Ahoin and Kefan, and replace them.
The direction Ke Fan fled at that time was exactly to the west.
The world is a ball. If the ocean cannot stop her and she keeps heading west, then there is a high probability that she will come to the continent of Ceres. Perhaps during the folded time, this lost continent was ruled by her.
"Your Majesty."
Following the call, clusters of gray algae streams climbed up the tower and gathered on the beacon tower to form a giant shape.
The place here was too small, so it didn't dare to make its body too big. But it still remembered that the goddess asked it to "increase its number as much as possible", so it took a compromise: the converged part became a snake-like body, spreading from its waist all the way down, spirally wrapping around the entire tower.
"Do you know Ke Fan?" Hitzfeld clapped his hands and stood up. The first question made the giant's face change.
"You mean His Highness Ke Fan... His Highness Ke Fan who can create drought and scorched earth at will?"
"Yes, Xia Zhilong Ke Fan, that's her. Was she once your king?"
Otherwise, they wouldn't be called like this, and from the tone of their voices, the giants fear Ke Fan more than they respect themselves. That means Ke Fan must have left a mark in the hearts of these "Ceres people". She must have done something to the Ceres continent and the people here.
"Your Highness Ke Fan is the key to our survival."
After all, the neural units were strengthened. The giants actually began to use slightly complex grammar. "We became like this, and we used our bodies to preserve the fire and light the beacon fire because of the guidance and prompting of His Majesty Ke Fan."
"You look up to her?" Hitzfeld asked.
"Very respectful!"
"Then how did she lose? With such a powerful descendant of God leading you, how did you get distorted by desire...how did you get your civilization destroyed by the Desire Demon?"
"This is exactly where your highness is so smart." The gray algae giant was somewhat proud. "Such superficial things will never defeat us. Your highness must have done this on purpose - deliberately making this place look destroyed, but in fact saving almost everyone, so that we have hope to see this day! See you coming!"
This is strange.
Xia Yibing frowned.
In her opinion, the content recorded in the official history of the outside world is indeed incomplete.
There is no description of Folding in the official history. It says that "Laceres was the first continent to be swallowed by the gray fog" and "it was lost almost the moment the gray fog descended."
No one had any objection to this. This might be because the people of Ceres were still not recognized by the Kingdom of God when the gray fog descended. They were still forcibly blocked on this land. Not only was it difficult for them to hear information from the outside world, but they could not also transmit their own internal situation.
That’s why there are so few records about this place, and even the name of the mainland has been translated incorrectly.
But what is the real situation? Xia Yibing believes that Ceres may not have been lost as soon as the gray fog descended.
It had resisted, but the process of its resistance was condensed into a single moment—contained in the folded cracks of time. Just like the secret history she and Hitzfeld had retraced twice before, from the first hundred years to the third hundred years, perhaps the people of Ceres had actually fought for such a long time in that crack.
The words of the gray algae giant also confirmed her guess - no matter how long the Thres people fought! After all, they resisted stubbornly, they were not so easily conquered!
But this is very strange... because in the hypothesis, "Ke Fan" is an enemy, a monster, she and the Gray Mist Evil God should be on the same side. If she came to Ceres Continent at that time, she would definitely be promoted to a high position with her identity and power.
Then why did she lead Ceres Continent to fight so tenaciously?
Shouldn't she have caused as much destruction as possible, issued more foolish decrees, causing the people of Ceres to quickly lose themselves in the erosion of the gray fog and be polluted even more quickly?
The existence of gray algae is indeed horrifying, but compared with those monsters that have truly lost their minds, it is far from being considered pollution.
Then why would Ke Fan do such a thing?
