"I admit that I wanted to use you at first... I threw a seed that had been contaminated by the knowledge of 'human desire' to them as an ambush."
Sista raised an eyebrow.
"But you didn't suffer any loss, did you?"
"If it weren't for me, you would have died long ago."
"What's the next plan?" Claire shook her head to indicate that she didn't want to hear this and asked her business in a dry tone.
"If you must discuss this now..." Siesta blinked, "They want you to return to Farrell Palace and continue to work as a maid."
"What if I refuse."
"Don't you want to know about Anna William's news?" Sista said, "We can't infiltrate that island yet. If you want to save people, you must first obtain intelligence. There is no better place than there."
Claire bowed her head and fell silent.
Sista didn't rush her. She asked the waiter for the same food and began to enjoy it slowly.
"Why are you trying to win me over?"
Claire asked her after a while.
"What on earth do you see in me?"
"Of course it's potential." Sista shook the knife, "You know... the instigator of the final battle of the stage play that just ended should actually be you."
"I?"
"You should have shown obvious signs of degeneration within half a year." Sista said seriously, "But you didn't. Instead, you looked even more tender..."
"So you used the high-level potion to blow up the conference room?" Claire frowned. "Did you want to get hurt on purpose?"
She reacted - even if Meng was corrupted, the "supernatural enemy" did not come to catch her before, which means that she has the means to cover up the aura of corruption.
But after she was injured, this method was no longer effective, and that was why she was targeted by the hounds! That’s why she was killed!
"Why?" she immediately asked, "What benefit can you get from letting them kill Meng? ... Aren't you trying to unite the extraordinary people?"
Sista shook his head, looked at the hall and pursed his lips.
Claire quickly understood what she meant, and the two of them went straight upstairs to room 205, where they set up a magic mist to isolate the wiretaps. Only then did Siesta reveal the information: "Because she must die! If she doesn't die, we will be the ones to die!!"
"...I don't understand." Claire shook her head.
"I'll try to keep it simple." Sista stretched out his hand and gestured in the air.
She first raised her right hand, as if to compare her height with others: "This thing above is 'mystery'."
Claire nodded: "Yeah."
Sista pointed his left hand to the floor again: "Mortals standing here are unaware of what is above their heads."
"Ah."
"And then a little bit above that, in the middle level... is where the extraordinary people are, which is where we are."
"Ah."
"Think of your little pet as those 'hounds'." Sista stared at the black spider Clairen that emerged from her hair. "They have been trying to block the 'mystery' and cut off its influence from top to bottom."
"And 'Meng' is the best of this middle class, the one closest to 'the top'."
"Once such a person becomes corrupt and obsessed, he will try to pursue the mystery and gain knowledge at all costs. This behavior will definitely bring the mystery closer to the lower class, which is something the hounds will never tolerate!"
"Then can't they just kill her?" Claire still didn't understand.
Siesta just sneered at her, shaking his head as he sneered.
"Let me put it another way," she said. "The hounds regard the mystery itself as poison, as a plague... At this time, someone tries to contact the plague. If she succeeds and really brings more plague to the world below, causing the influence of the plague to spread and spread in the netherworld... Do you think those people will just kill her and stop there?"
"No." Sista helped her complete the answer, "They will go completely crazy! The balance of the underworld will be broken! They will not stop until all the hidden extraordinary people are killed!"
"How can mystery be a plague?" Claire shook her head. "Farley told me that we can't spread that knowledge widely..."
"No, because they will predict it." Sista nodded, "But do you know that the mysteries of the underworld are limited?"
"There is a fixed total amount - even if the person who possesses the mysterious gift dies, that power will not return to the mysterious source. It will escape and spread throughout the world, and be absorbed equally by all extraordinary people!"
It took Claire a long time to digest this shocking truth.
Then she asked Siesta: "So the cause of Mon's death was..."
"She wants to reach level 6!" Sista exhaled, "The countless extinct extraordinary families have proven that level 6 is the dead end. They can tolerate level 4 and level 5 surviving in the world. As long as we hide obediently... and don't spread pollution... they are happy to maintain the balance."
"But level 6—"
She paused.
"Legend has it that after reaching level 6, one can directly receive knowledge from the mysterious source into the lower world."
"I don't know what it's like... but it's a taboo! The taboo of taboos!"
"You understand what I mean, Claire? The Gate of Life is not afraid of them, nor does it want to be their lackeys or serve as free labor to persecute our own people. But someone must make a sacrifice before we find a way to fight them."
Claire finally figured everything out.
The supernatural enemies, the hounds, want to limit the total amount of "mystery" that spreads in the mortal world.
When they think the total amount is acceptable, they are too lazy to take it too seriously and are willing to maintain that balance.
But once the "mystery" of the underworld exceeds the limit, they will choose to kill all the extraordinary people of that era.
Meng wants to reach level 6, perhaps hoping to stop the process of degeneration.
But no matter what her purpose is, once she succeeds, the "mystery" brought by the 6th-level extraordinary being... will cause its total amount in the mortal world to exceed the limit.
Then everyone will die.
It seems that the Gate of Life is not confident in fighting against the extraordinary enemy...
Muttering silently to herself, Claire began to ask about the details of it all.
"You just said that the Earth is the lower world... What do you mean? A mysterious source from the upper world? From another world?"
"This is just our speculation. In fact, this theory is very controversial." Sista nodded, "But I personally believe it, because the mystery left no trace in the ancient history. It appeared suddenly. Combined with the fact that the people of that family have the power to travel through time and space, I suspect that they may not be from here..."
"Maybe they and Mystery are both from outer space?"
"Maybe... you really have a childlike heart!"
"You chose me because I can hide my corrupt aura?"
"Yes, I asked Farley to observe you for a long time, and your appearance has not changed. This is a very rare talent. You have the possibility of becoming a 'Dark Manifest'."
"But I am still on the path of concurrent cultivation, which will accelerate my distortion. Moreover, the Farrell Palace knows my background. Will they take in a fallen person?"
"What they call corruption is actually the third main path of 'alienation' that I mentioned before, but Fali also told you, right? In fact, there is no difference between us and the extraordinary people who have not fallen. When we reach the stage of 'blindness', we will still be distorted. We just accelerated the process."
"It means that there are corrupted people hidden in the Farrell Palace—and even in all supernatural forces."
"Yes, just like lice on a horse's back - there are always lice. So you don't need to worry about them killing you as a heretic."
"What exactly are the dead bone ice needles?"
"A long, thin needle, the murder weapon left behind by those people."
"The murder weapon?"
"It should be the murder weapon... the hound, the extraordinary enemy, but their most prominent name is 'the corpse stitcher'. Some people speculate that they can use that needle to control life and death, and even resurrect the dead."
"You asked me to return to Farrell Palace not just to let me explore the island, right?"
"There is intelligence that the owner of Farrell Palace is secretly formulating a battle plan against them. If that is true, then the fishy smell in the Farrell Islands may be caused by a grand blood sacrifice."
"Blood sacrifice..."
The scene that Hitzfeld saw was gradually covered with a veil of blood.
"Don't worry, Claire... Your mother is a rare manager. She is different from those natives. I don't think they will use her as a consumable."
That night, Claire and Siesta talked a lot.
She learned a lot of unheard-of secret information, and also confirmed the main task given to her by the Gate of Life this time - to find out the reasons for the recent unusual movements of Tit-Fellum, the owner of Farrell Palace, and his true intentions.
If it is confirmed that this person wants to declare war on those people without authorization, or intends to break through to level 6 like Meng, then Claire must dissuade him from doing so at all costs.
"Will he listen?"
Claire raised an eyebrow.
"You know what it means at all costs?"
Sista narrowed her eyes.
"If your mother is still alive after this incident, you know that she will also be tainted by the 'knowledge'."
Claire stopped talking.
According to what the other party said, it was impossible to hide what happened in the Faroese Islands from her mother. The people sent by the Fereham family were quite respectful to her and at least explained some things to her.
Then she can no longer be a mortal...
Once the extraordinary enemy starts to go crazy, she will also become the target of the hounds...
"I'll try."
After thinking about it, the young witch made a promise carefully.
"As a condition, if you can eventually convince Farrell Palace to join you, I want her to be free."
"make a deal."
Seeing that all the goals of today's encounter were successfully achieved, Sista smiled sincerely.
"I'm still too conspicuous here...see you when you get to England."
Picking up her hat, she made a move to go.
"Sista!"
Claire called out to her.
"Do you know what the nature of the 'Dark Manifest' is?"
The woman looked back puzzledly and moved her lips: "I'm not sure... I also heard it from those people..."
As she spoke, she fell silent.
Because Claire William, the extraordinary being she brought up, was opening her mouth wide, with nine rows of neat and dense teeth in her mouth.
It was so dense...Sista got goosebumps all over her body.
“It’s not like I haven’t changed.”
Claire shut up.
"Tell me about Sista."
“Do we really have a future?”
Chapter 62: The Bell
With Siesta's arrangement and secret help, Claire returned to Farrell Palace and was arranged by Tit-Fellham to be the clerk of the underground palace.
Yes, Farrell Palace on the top of the mountain is just a cover. The real palace is hidden inside the mountain, and it is here that Claire truly sees those Farrells.
Hitzfeld watched the entire process, but the more she learned, the more questions she had to sort out.
[Such a long history... Of course, I now know that the God's Eye will not show me meaningless things, but this should be the first time... It gave me feedback for the purpose of "self-protection."]
Hitzfeld was uncomfortable describing the left eye in this anthropomorphic way, because it was like admitting that there was a living creature living in her eye socket. But she didn't know how else to describe it - she thought the left eye was really afraid.
It was afraid of Dr. Robotnik. Ever since Hitzfeld began to get entangled with the evil district leader, his left eye had never been normal.
The extraordinary people on Earth actually think that the Hitzfeld family are "corpse stitchers"... Are they really not mistaken?
[It is clear that the information I found in Changxia... in Namibia, is just a family of secret keepers. When I was a child, I saw normal scenes every time I visited the manor. Whether it was the relatives... uncles and aunts or their children, they also mentioned where the children went to school during their casual conversations. This can't be fake, right?]
It's very contradictory - if there are two completely different statements, one of them must be wrong.
Hitzfeld didn't want that to be him.
Even though she was becoming less and less confident.
In the projection screen, after dinner one day, Tit-Fellum chose to call Claire to the study to talk.
