Alwin... Alwin didn't have any idea about this, and Xia Yibing was willing to believe that Alwin really didn't care about this.
But what about the people around her?
Those ministers and generals.
Could they tolerate their loyalty to the king while there was still such a huge hidden danger within the kingdom?
So this plan can also get her out, away from Sarah and the political center of Wayne Port...
The more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. Xia Yibing even had the feeling of "sweating all over" at the mental level.
"So..." She stammered, "So it's Russell?"
Russell.
nightingale.
If there was any secret organization that could conceal such a conspiracy from the Third Intelligence Agency of Talignan and the Deathly Hallows, she felt that perhaps only Nightingale could do it.
Then many of the unreasonable things about Russell can be explained.
Including his material channels and information channels.
The rumor about Princess Hitzfeld might have been planned by him.
And it was his suggestion to come to Talignan this time.
He is the origin of everything.
When they expressed that they did not want to come to Kerge, he still insisted, but Eugenie's behavior was more obvious, so his abnormality was covered up.
"He is the most likely candidate." Hitzfeld nodded, "But it's hard to say... We currently lack evidence."
"What evidence do you need?" Xia Yibing said angrily.
"It can only be him!"
"Then have you thought about how to face him?"
"This……"
"Note that even if his plan was exposed, he did not betray Sarah." The girl sighed, "He just laid everything out in the open."
That's what she found troublesome.
If reality really requires her to be the Queen of Dragon Kingdom, how should she cope with it?
She really didn't understand and hadn't figured out what to do.
"So let's not think about these things for now."
She floated over to the woman again and hugged her gently.
"Let's continue investigating Feiche Holy Spring."
"Remember where Eugenie said the Mimic came from?"
"I think the secret lies in this projection."
Chapter 95 Feiche Holy Spring 4
The girl's sudden gentleness relieved Xia Yibing's depression a lot, and then she realized what the secret she was talking about meant.
She was referring to... what she asked when she tortured Eugenie before... Was the Mimicry dug out by the Hot Spring Dragon from the hot spring?
It can't be that outrageous, right?
It was a bit surprising. After all, Eugenie himself admitted that there was no data to verify this news. It was purely a weird legend circulated within the Deka family.
But one thing is certain, the hot spring dragon does have the power to find hot springs - strictly speaking, the power to find the water source that humans need for survival.
"Have you discovered?" Hitzfeld looked at the book left on the table. "The essence of the power of the currently known Dragon Guard families, including Old Barr's lineage, is to help the tribe survive in the worst environment."
The inherited power of the Frost Dragon is resistance to extreme heat.
The fire dragon's inherited power is resistance to severe cold.
The inherited power of the hot spring dragon is to find water sources and warm and livable habitats.
When viewed in this environment, the inherited power of the Time Dragon may be able to see through the past and the present, and play the important role of recording and storing wisdom.
So this is a survival kit for an entire civilization? Whatever these people actually do with their powers, they seem to exist for this purpose.
"So," Xia Yibing raised her eyebrows, "Do you suspect that these people... these ancient hot spring dragons keep migrating and changing their residences because they are guided by their abilities?"
"I think that's probably the case." The girl nodded. "It's impossible to mobilize so many troops just for a knife."
The Fire-Inducing Knife… If this thing is really the legendary divine weapon, the Lightning-Inducing Knife, then it is indeed valuable enough for people to pursue the secret of its creation. But at present, it seems that there is nothing special about this thing except that it is sharp. Even the name of the Fire-Inducing Knife is given to pay tribute to the divine weapon.
She didn't think that the bearded man would lead his people to move continuously because of the knife, but if there was a "holy spring" behind the knife, and the "holy spring" was constantly guiding them in the dark, then the situation would be different.
"There's one thing I don't understand." Trying to turn the pages without success, Hitzfeld stared at the wrist that passed through the pages and slowly raised his eyebrows: "What does 'holy spring' mean?"
This is an independent word.
It is not a random combination of "sacred" and "spring water", but a variation specifically based on the word "spring water".
Thanks to her excellent sense of language, she was able to draw inferences from the ancient books and documents she had read. If it were those half-baked students in Mengcheng, they would probably continue to translate this word into "spring water".
"If you mean the holy spring in Sara language..." Xia Yibing crossed her arms, "then it should be... the water of life."
"what?"
"It's the water of life." Xia Yibing repeated, and gave her an example: "For example, you are in the desert, tired and thirsty... almost dying... You know very well that there is no way there is a spring under the ground in this damn place, but as you walk, you suddenly find a spring in front of you."
“Is this the holy spring?”
"What else?" The woman tilted her head. "Strictly speaking, it has two meanings. One is 'water of life that descends in desperate situations' - similar to what I just said. The other is 'water of miracles that descends beyond common sense'."
"What's the difference?"
"Let's use the desert scene as an example." Xia Yibing thought for a moment, "For the former, the water of life means that although the appearance of this spring water is strange, it is not... well, it is not completely impossible to happen."
"It's like there are oases in the desert, right? Some small oases are on the verge of drying up, so what will be the last remaining part? Isn't it underground springs? So we shouldn't be too surprised to encounter this situation. Maybe we are just lucky."
"The latter."
"The latter is..." Xia Yibing narrowed her eyes, "You are sure that there is no oasis here, and you have also explored the underground conditions here and confirmed that there is no spring below...but you still dug it up."
"That's impossible."
"It's impossible that it's called a miracle..." Xia Yibing spread her hands towards the girl, "Besides this example, there are other examples where water was dug up when it was certain that there was no spring nearby. This kind of water is generally called a 'holy spring'."
"Then is the holy spring I saw in some churches before..."
"Yes, I am sure of that - in many small places, holy springs came first and churches came later. Wherever the holy spring was dug, they built the church there."
“What if it’s not dug out?”
“Then just build it.”
Hitzfeld frowned, thinking.
"I don't think you need to worry about this." The woman floated over and scratched her head. "As for this holy spring, some years ago... I mean about 180 years ago, when the gray fog evil was still wreaking havoc, holy springs did appear in many places and miraculously saved many lives. But this thing is basically just a legend in modern times."
"The holy spring phenomenon has disappeared?"
"Phenomenon?" Xia Yibing was stunned, then nodded in agreement, "Your description is quite apt... Yes, rather than saying that the holy spring is something inherent, it is better to say that it is a phenomenon... This phenomenon existed a few years ago, but it has never appeared since. Many newly built churches claim to be built based on the holy spring, but in fact, they are all fake holy springs, forged by bribing geologists and deceiving the public."
Hitzfeld twitched the corners of his mouth, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether she was trying to amuse him or not.
"Do you feel hypocritical? Actually, it is necessary." Xia Yibing said in a dull tone, "If lies can make people live and work in peace and contentment, then I would rather be a liar."
"You are a liar." Hitzfeld said suddenly.
He said he trusted me, but in the end he suspected I would hide information.
"???"
Xia Yibing stiffened her neck and stared, pointing her finger at her face, not knowing where she had said something wrong again.
"Hey~"
Hitzfeld grinned slightly, chuckled with a bit of gloating and a bit of cunning, and found her confused look particularly funny.
The retribution soon came... a woman came over and hugged her tightly, insisting that she explain where the accusation of being a "liar" came from.
"I still have to read...let go!"
Hitzfeld struggled desperately.
It's really weird. Both of them should be in the form of consciousness, so why can they touch each other? And even though there are clothes between them, it feels like they are touching directly on the skin and even trigger the throbbing of the soul?
"Don't let it go!"
Xia Yibing was already a little unhappy - because of the Nature Orb. She didn't know whether it was jealousy or some other emotion, but she just didn't like that thing.
She doesn't care about dead things.
But it is conscious.
If he is conscious, how can he hide in her body?
Isn't that taking advantage of her?
"Unless you explain it to me clearly!" She held the girl's chin from behind and turned her bitter little face to the side very firmly.
"otherwise……"
"What else?"
"..."Xia Yibing didn't know what to do.
Kiss her?
Or should we study whether the clothes in ghost form can be taken off?
“…” When Hitzfeld realized that she didn’t speak, he immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing again.
It should have been just a joke or a soft move... Why did you make her have evil thoughts...
Now, this idiot Xia has never taken things seriously. If she insists on doing this to me... then wouldn't that be -
boom! ! !
A beam suddenly fell down, startling both of them.
They didn't bother to explain and looked around, and were surprised to find that the whole house was collapsing.
And it was not a natural collapse, it was man-made.
Someone was demolishing the building. They saw with their own eyes that the construction team knocked down the building, collected all the usable materials, packed them up and loaded them onto trucks, and followed the convoy heading west.
And in this process, they seemed to be anchored to the fire starter. They could only appear wherever the fire starter was.
It was now hung on the bearded man's belt, chasing him against the wall of the carriage to withstand the bumps.
The man was holding a map and reading it while drinking water.
Then he pointed his finger in the northwest direction, to a small, misty valley.
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From Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing's perspective, this journey would be too weird.
What was strange was time… sometimes it seemed stretched out, and for a long time—they even thought a week or half a month had passed—the surroundings remained motionless.
But sometimes it is shortened, for example, the little boy "Amiu" and the little girl "Tori" who appeared before, were only 8 or 9 years old when they just appeared in the last second, and they left in a blink of an eye, and when they came back, they looked like 14 or 5 years old.
They couldn't tell exactly which time was slowed down and which was fast-forwarded. They only knew that the team soon arrived at the location he aimed at on the map: the northwest valley shrouded in mist.
Hitzfeld asked Xia Yibing if she knew where that was, but the woman didn't know much about it.
After all, when she met the girl, she was only 25 years old. It was already amazing that she could understand so much of the mess in Sarah's country, but as for the foreign countries... she thought she didn't have the energy to know everything.
"But I am sure of one thing." She suddenly seemed to remember something, "The map in reality, I mean the one in the same location... There should not be this place on the map plate of Talignan."
"Are you sure?" The girl stared.
"This place is next to a small lake." The woman nodded. "There is water, mountains, fog, and a surrounding valley. This is very obvious on the map. You won't make a mistake if you see it once..."
The two looked at each other at the same time, and could see the excitement in each other.
If what Xia said is correct, it means that this misty valley that actually existed in history has disappeared from its original location forever due to mysterious reasons.
