She knew that Hitzfeld had insomnia, but she didn't understand why the girl came out at this time.
"I feel like something's wrong and want to take a walk around and take a look," Hitzfeld replied.
In fact, she could have used the excuse of going to the bathroom to act alone, but when the words came to her lips, she remembered the overly cautious Knight Raymond.
Chapter 71 Time Disorder
"Then go back." Hitzfeld made the decision as soon as Walnut warned him, and turned back and ran towards the fire.
They did not encounter any obstructions during the process because the distance was not far. They were within Ali's alert range from beginning to end and could be seen directly with the naked eye.
"What happened?" Ali stood up, frowning, and instinctively felt that there was something wrong with their sudden change of route.
"Wake up Instructor Portman," Hitzfeld said bluntly. "We have to find a way to get through the night."
"?" A big question mark appeared above Ali's head, but soon, his eyes suddenly widened, as if he had seen some incredible magical sight.
In fact, it was indeed magical... He saw the surrounding woods come alive, and the branches of the water hollyhocks were dancing wildly like tentacles under the moon. All the networks built by thick roots entangled on the ground began to wriggle, including the place where he stepped... the whole world was shaking!
He was completely stunned and had completely forgotten what to do at this moment. He just stood there stiffly, watching those tentacle-like branches wrap around him.
Hitzfeld rushed over from a few meters away and kicked him, waking him up, then added: "Go call for help!"
Ali finally woke up from his dream. While blaming himself for his poor performance, he went to call for help and woke up Raymond Knight and Ashley who were still sleeping.
really weird……
Hitzfeld glanced over there as he and Walnut dodged being caught by the branches.
She saw it very clearly. The whole forest had come alive. All the branches were like monsters trying to grab people. The very earth where they stood was shaking, but the two people had not woken up yet.
This is impossible... If there is any possibility that Ashley would do this, then Raymond Portman also slept so soundly, which must mean something behind it.
With a ruthless heart, Hitzfeld suddenly stopped and reached out to grab a branch as Walnut screamed. Then, as she expected, the two of them crossed each other in mid-air without touching each other.
"It's an illusion." She breathed a sigh of relief. "Mother River... or should I say, an illusion formed by the Sea of Time..."
Before Kurumi could understand what this meant, a large area of blue light suddenly burst out from the surrounding woods.
The stars and spots of light danced wildly in the air with the night sky as the background. This scene should have been full of beauty and poetry - it would have been so if there were not more terrible changes happening at the same time.
"Huh?" Knight Lei Meng and Ashley were awake. As soon as they opened their eyes, they felt the same shaking, and then witnessed this round of changes with Hitzfeld: those water-net wood seemed to be turning into pure flesh and blood.
This is a very magical feeling that is difficult to explain clearly. It is those bright blue dots that clearly announced this change. They formed more wriggling tentacles. In theory, it should be impossible to tell whether they belong to branches or flesh and blood.
But they just feel it, they just know it.
Pretty sure these things are turning to flesh.
"Their target is not us." Hitzfeld said coldly, "This is a projection... something that happened in the past!"
The time is messed up!
The bright blue spots of light indicate that this phenomenon is similar in nature to the spiritual tides of the spiritual sea.
But the spiritual sea and spiritual tides cannot show what happened in the past, so this is the mother river, the sea of time!
"What do you mean?" Raymond walked towards her quickly, with a sinister look on his face: "Do you know something, detective?"
After all, he was an old knight with rich experience. He could tell from the tone of the girl's words that he had begun to doubt her.
"Then why did I send Ashley to you?" Hitzfeld replied lightly, "I have many ways to kill you...If you don't want to die, just stay here and don't move!"
The last sentence was growled out in a very stern tone. Raymond had already drawn out the sword and wanted to burn himself a second ago, but he lost his mind after being yelled at by her. When he came to his senses, he found that his wrist had dropped the hilt of the sword.
Impossible, why did I feel like I was facing King Charuni just now?
Before Knight Raymond could recover from his shock, the floating words continued: "The projection of the sea of time is not a real thing. Everything that appears is pure illusion."
"The real forest has not changed at all, and the place where we are standing has not changed. These are just illusions created by the sea of time from the night fog. You should not rashly disturb them again!"
Raymond's lips twitched and he tightened his grip on the hilt of his sword: "You really do know more than us."
"I just found out about it not long ago." Hitzfeld was not one to take the blame. "The book I brought with me...it just happened to record this phenomenon, and it just happened to mention the Twin Gods Peak. There have always been problems here."
The bright blue tentacles were still dancing around, continuing a certain transformation process. The others listened to Hitzfeld's words and stood still, but now they turned their eyes to Ali.
"I remember you said that." Ashley glared at him, "Is there a similar forest near your home?"
"Don't look at me!" Ali shook his head quickly. "I've been playing there since I was a kid. I've never encountered anything like this!"
"Are you sure that the book is talking about 'Twin Peaks'?" Knight Raymond turned his head suddenly.
"Sure." Hitzfeld clenched his fists.
She knew why Raymond had specifically asked her this question.
Variable elimination method: since the water-net-wood forest that Ali had encountered had never experienced the time sea phenomenon, the root of the problem was not in the forest, but in the water.
The water in the pool is most likely melted from the snow on the Twin Gods Peak. Plus, the book always describes "mountain peaks"...there must be a problem with the top of the Twin Gods Peak.
Something caused the water flowing down from above to mutate.
Perhaps there is more than one problematic pool.
The thought of this possibility gave Hitzfeld goose bumps.
She couldn't idealistically absolve herself of responsibility - if this matter had nothing to do with her, it couldn't explain why Sarah didn't notice the abnormality here for so many years.
Sarah didn't realize that there was only one possibility, that is, before she, Hitzfeld, came to the Twin Gods Peak, the Twin Gods Peak had almost no abnormalities.
Perhaps in history, a long, long time ago, it was once somewhat magical, and a phenomenon called the Sea of Time once appeared. However, with the changes of the times and the vicissitudes of life, this magic has long since disappeared.
Who awakened it from the long river of time?
Could it be... that it's really me?
"Look!" Ashley exclaimed from the side, "What on earth is this?"
Having witnessed the corpse-dissolving monster with her own eyes, not much could surprise Ashley, but the scene she saw at this moment was too weird... The roots and wriggling branches on the ground were gathering towards the air little by little, as if forming a beating heart?
First the heart, then the lungs, the liver... During this process, a huge skeleton was also being repaired and outlined. In a very short period of time, they were transformed from a forest into a 100-meter giant!
At this point, all the blue spots covering the real forest gathered into this giant. It stood in place and roared at the sky, then seemed to be hit by something and exploded... Countless blue "blood rain" and "corpse pieces" fell from the sky, took root and sprouted when they hit the ground, and turned back into a large water forest.
“…” Ali was trembling all over as he watched.
According to this meaning, the forest where he grew up playing might be the remains of some ancient mythical creature?
Fortunately, this was just a time projection. He couldn't imagine how to deal with it if such a thing really existed.
"First it flows backwards... then it flows downstream..."
But Hitzfeld understood the essence of the vision.
It is simply replaying the process of forest formation, telling all observers how this terrain came to be.
She was uneasy.
The mythical giant in the projection is so powerful...what could be able to blow it up in an instant?
Invisible attack, will the thing that launches the attack also be projected by the sea of time?
"Click——"
There was a soft sound nearby.
"boom!"
Although he was holding a sword in his hand, Raymond Portman quickly took out a gun, aimed at the location where the sound came from and fired a shot.
The bullet passed through a face formed by bright blue spots, and as expected, did not cause any damage.
It was a man made of blue light. He came out from behind a tree, dressed in a retro ranger outfit with a feather hat on his head. He held the tree trunk with his hand and looked at me with a cynical look.
Hitzfeld's heart skipped a beat, and he felt that this person looked somewhat familiar.
Then the man spoke. He pulled out a thief-looking girl from behind a tree and shouted at her, "Lead the way!"
"If you can reach the top of the mountain before dark, I will let you go."
"Did you hear that, you country bumpkin who's good at disguising himself!"
Chapter 72 History and Hope
"Who is he?" Ali asked softly reflexively.
"Ancient people, or rather ancient nobles," Raymond said. "The clothes he wore were very characteristic of the times."
It is usually difficult to see the characteristics of an era in ordinary people. Based on Raymond's limited knowledge of history, he knew that ordinary people in any period were always poor and destitute.
People living in the slums of Blackwood City don't look much better dressed than the poor people hundreds of years ago. If they don't have even an old piece of clothing that proves the style of the time, it's hard to tell their background at a glance.
"He's from Elsa." Hitzfeld said, "I guess his name is Dismatic."
Everyone looked at her, and then glanced at the two people made of blue light over there, watching them walking towards them step by step, and the man in the feather hat kept complaining.
"I didn't expect Shuangshen Peak to become such a horrible state now. Fortunately, I have you, my dear troublemaker. If you hadn't tried to steal my wallet, I wouldn't even be able to find a local who is willing to lead the way."
"My name is Hailian." The girl curled her lips, looking very unhappy, "I have a name, and it's not Diaomin."
“Really?” The man curled his lips. “But you didn’t have this attitude when I interrogated you before…Okay! No one cares what your name is now, and our agreement doesn’t care about that. Just lead the way for me.”
They argued to cross the pool of water, and Hitzfeld's eyes were fixed on the two of them. She looked around again and tried to lift her leg and take a step toward that side.
The boots carried her weight and pressed down little by little on the roots of a water lily that was as thick as an arm. The twisted branch sank a little, but that was all. No matter how much force she exerted afterwards, it did not move.
It seems that reality is just reality.
The influence of the sea of time seemed to be condensed, leaving only the two blue light projections.
She gradually grew bolder, glanced at the others, and followed Walnut to quickly run to the thatched house to get the book and cloth bag, then followed the direction in which the two blue light men went.
"Shall we go with her?" Ali looked at Raymond.
Raymond said nothing with a dark face. Just when Ashley was considering whether to quit the Knight Academy and work with Hitzfeld, he finally spoke: "The source may be at the top of the mountain..."
"It looks like these two are also going to the summit, so let's follow them."
"Slow down..." Thirty meters behind, Darent exclaimed in a whisper, "Why are you running so fast? The big guy is no pushover. Didn't you see how quickly he drew his gun just now?"
"..." Ethan slowed down his pace belatedly. He put his hands in front of him and exhaled a breath of hot air, but all he could think about was the strange scene in the woods just now.
It's so weird, it's almost unheard of.
Few people knew about the Spirit Sea Spirit Tide, and no one, including him, had expected it to have such a function? ... It could actually reflect the projection of the past into the present?
What is this? A mirage that transcends time and space?
But what is the principle behind this? Is it a natural phenomenon like ordinary spiritual seas? Is it formed naturally? Is there something controlling and driving it behind the scenes?
He couldn't help but have wild thoughts. If something went wrong, this thing could turn into a huge disaster.
Just think about it, if such a phenomenon could spread to the city and the royal capital along with the night fog, even if the projections inside did not have any physical interference capabilities, the underlying order of these cities would face a huge threat.
People will be scared crazy, and the number of nightmares will increase dramatically. Smaller mechanical Yang stone carvings may not be able to suppress the sudden surge of nightmare waves. These things only need one night to cause serious damage to the city.
"It's too late to report now." He said softly, his brows tightly locked. "I have an idea, Maps. You go back and I will continue to follow them and observe the situation."
"Maps?" Just as he finished speaking, he saw Darent jump out from a distance with a swift step, "Did you hear that?"
"I heard it, but I don't like this idea." The wooden man squatted on a thick tree root and looked back. "The two of us... right? We are both old men with psychological trauma who have just recovered not long ago... I don't think it's suitable for us to act alone."
Ethan pursed his lips and unconsciously put his hands on his hips.
"Don't look at me like that. You're actually younger than me... I don't care about anything, so why should you care about anything?"
Smiling and joking is someone's usual style, but it was the first time that Ethan saw him speak jokingly in a serious tone.
"Let's go." The wooden man waved at him, "If you don't follow them, you'll lose them."
Up ahead, the Water Pond Squad listened to the weird complaints of a man in a feather hat along the way.
He is quite a chatterbox, but it also shows that he is quite capable, because the terrain of this road is complicated and not easy to walk on, even Raymond has to focus all his attention on the soles of his feet, for fear of stepping into the gaps between tree roots or on slippery moss. However, Feather Hat can be as agile as an elk in the forest, jumping from one stone to another and moving forward steadily without looking at the road.
His captive, the girl with blue light obviously did not have such ability. At first, she could still argue with the scolding, but soon she was out of breath and only focused on her feet.
"Has the environment in the north always been so strange?" Feather Hat asked again.
He didn't actually expect anyone to answer, so Hitzfeld said he was "complaining."
"I lived in the south for a while, and I heard there was a canyon here... It seemed to have been torn apart when the plates moved. Is that how the Twin Gods Peaks came about? It was supposed to have only one peak originally?"
“I don’t know…” The blue-light girl stopped and leaned against a tree, breathing heavily. “It’s been like this since I was born…”
