"Bullshit!" The old man interrupted her angrily, "I'm still alive because it has completed the ecological cycle!" "That village! The villagers there! Most of them are the offspring of the stranded travelers controlled by it! The only purpose of these children from birth to adulthood is to eat more and grow more meat. Compared with these fat and tender livestock raised in captivity, what am I? I am not even enough to fill its teeth!" Britney's eyes widened in horror. This theory of ecological cycle had scared her to death. But Hitzfeld noticed the details in this rhetoric. Obviously, every creature on the island is food in the eyes of "Braceworm". But there are also some rules to follow when it comes to how to eat food. When faced with outside explorers and stranded travelers, Braceworm would probably choose to turn them into puppets. Then maybe... probably... it could gain wisdom in the process of devouring their brains. This explains why it knows how to build such an ecosystem, because waiting for storms to deliver food is too dependent on the weather, and the food output is far less stable than in captivity. As for these people who were raised in captivity, they had hardly received any education since childhood, some of them were even more naive than Ashley, and were completely brainwashed by the rules of Worm Village. For these people, these foods that are only responsible for "growing flesh", Braceworm has another way of eating them.
If nothing unexpected happens, this way of eating is closely related to the Hot Wind Festival. Ashley said that there is a tradition in the village. Every year during the Hot Wind Festival, people who have reached a certain age or who think they are useless to the village will put on feather clothes and go to the Blade's Edge Cliff and jump off from it. Ashley's understanding of this is... that the village actually still has hope of escaping the island, but her thinking is fundamentally different from that of other villagers, and the villagers may not necessarily think in this way. Maybe they have been brainwashed into thinking it is a form of devotion, a noble ritual. This is normal - some indigenous tribes even retain the custom of sharing the corpse (eating it raw) after a relative dies. Don't be so easy to brainwash ignorant souls. And the key to everything. Hitzfeld believes that it's the step of "jumping off the cliff". That beast keeps humans in captivity, obscures their wisdom, and weaves lies by controlling individual puppets to create festivals like the Hot Wind Festival. Its ultimate goal is to make some people jump off the Blade's Edge Cliff regularly. These people are its regular buffet. Perhaps when they fell and broke through the barrier of white fog, what they saw was not the sea surface, but a giant mud monster formed by rotten flesh. "There is no hope...child..." Maybe he felt pity for the woman, or maybe the "redemption mentality" he mentioned was fermenting again. Ashral shook his head slowly and tried to comfort the other person dryly. "If you really want to do something, it's to help me keep this going." As he spoke, he picked up two wooden boards from the corner. Hitzfeld recognized them. “Why can humans become the king of the world? Because we invented language and writing.” "With language and writing, the wisdom of the previous generation can be passed on to the next generation, greatly reducing the energy that future generations need to put into learning knowledge." "This accumulated over generations, and eventually, we came to rule the world."
Ashral handed two wooden boards to Britney. Britney took it and saw that it was engraved with densely packed names, including her own name, Mogali, Felix, and Lind's. "There are too many people, and there is no room for a last will." The old man smiled. "Only the name... at least it will allow those who come after to notice something is wrong at first glance, and then they can search around to find the precious legacy left by their predecessors." Britney stared at the list in a daze. Then she looked up sharply. "Ashraf." "how." "Your name isn't on it." “I am not qualified to leave my name behind.” The old man shook his head. "I... volunteered to stay here to atone my sins." Brittany's eyes widened again. "I have committed an irreparable sin. I...I was one of the people who originally formulated the plan for the 'Recuperation Ground'." "Are you from the Eclipse Church?" Britney stared at him and asked word by word. The old man didn't say anything, which was tantamount to his agreement. crackle... crackle... There was silence in the cave for a long time. Britney didn't say anything and Ashlar didn't remind her. He also knew how difficult it was for a person to accept all this information. Even if the person Britney fell in love with was actually a cultist, but... it could be said that he, Ashlar, had an unshirkable guilt and responsibility for all this happening. What's the use of waking up now? Already, it's too late. "Then... let's make a bet." Britney finally spoke. "My child, if it's a boy, will be named Ashlar, if it's a girl, she will be named Ashley..."
The old man glared suddenly. Ashlar and Ashley actually both mean "wings" in Latadian. The pronunciation is only differentiated when used as male and female names. "you--" "That thing ate my husband, and I want to...retaliate against it..." Brittany grinned. "If this child can survive in the end, then it will be considered as your continuation, as a reward for you telling me this..." "If you can't..." "Then I must have failed." Chapter 42 I swear ...This guy! On the conscious level, Hitzfeld was slightly stunned at first. Then she immediately felt a chill running through her soul. Britney...said she wanted revenge. It sounds ridiculous at first. Humans standing on such a giant monster are just like lice and fleas! How can they take revenge when the power gap is so huge? wishful thinking! But it's not. Ashlar said that Bleiswom was a miracle of nature and that it was not an evil creature. Hitzfeld only agreed with the first half of this. This thing is still a bit weird. Although its formation... and growth... according to her reasoning, were indeed sculpted by nature, there are also supernatural elements here. So of course it is an evil creature. It is not a fantasy for the Eclipse Church to judge that it may become an evil god. It does have such potential. And Britney, as she should, plans to fight evil with evil. The story in the fantasy continues to advance. After obtaining all the information she could and a map showing the burial locations of all the victims' belongings, Britney said goodbye to Ashlar and returned to the village. She never saw Ashlar again. Maybe he died of old age, maybe he chose a night to jump off the cliff, maybe he was eaten by a monster. She didn't even care. The village of Worm did not react to her return. People continued to do what they were supposed to do and still brought her water every day as usual. Britney watched all this coldly. She did not eat any more of the Mist Falcon's meat, but tried to eat more wild fruits and fern roots.
As the days passed, her belly grew bigger and bigger. During this time, she behaved generally normally, except for being a little picky about food. Then, Ashley was born. The woman finally took her first steps. She started exercising. At first, try eating some fog falcon meat and try to exercise your body muscles. After a while, I changed my schedule to sleeping during the day and getting up at night. After a while, he started a hunger strike again, and after eating every day, he would hold his throat to vomit out everything. Even a body of iron could not withstand such exertion. The high fat and high energy supplemented by the fog falcon meat could not sustain her such play. Her body quickly became thinner and gradually became somewhat similar to Ashrar. And this is not the end. When he saw this woman destroying some of her own organs late at night with a courage that was even hard to watch, Hitzfeld finally began to feel that... watching these things was also torture. But it's understandable. This is not just a woman's revenge for her husband, but also a mother's revenge for her child. The organs are destroyed in order to prevent the birth of offspring. While Britney tried her best to take care of Ashley, she also experimented wildly with her own body. She completely abandoned her psychological and spiritual defenses, frantically exploring every possibility in nature, and finally got what she wanted one night - Saw the thick gray fog. She became extraordinary. In this way, one has the preliminary qualifications for revenge. In most cases - about 99% of the time - extraordinary people are no different from ordinary people. Even for those who can manifest spirits, such as Xia Yibing's level of extraordinary people, their abilities can mostly only deal with evil creatures, that is, they can only produce specific effects in another world. Not to mention that Britney has no talent to begin with. The spirit that awakened after such a torment of her body is extremely weak. Her status as a transcendent only makes Britney a bigger flea. But Hitzfeld knew this was different. Because extraordinary people have one more possibility than ordinary people - the results of their corruption are different. Ordinary people who are contaminated and corrupted by nightmares can only hatch nightmares, but extraordinary people can hatch corrupted people. The latter is almost immortal, and as long as the source of its corruption, that inducement, exists, the corrupter can fight almost forever. Ashley seemed to have said that her mother was looking forward to the Hot Wind Festival... So that's why? A soul that has been shattered and is about to fall into the abyss, for twelve years, still strives to maintain a human form in front of his daughter.
The purpose is simply to retain one's own consciousness when merging with the monster. This is the only way to influence it and make it ignore the existence of Ashley Kay. Give her a real paradise where she can live without worries. "..."The depressed mood seemed to be transmitted to the Lord of Illusion. As his consciousness gradually emerged from the nightmare, Hitzfeld saw the colorful light again. But this time she could see clearly.