That night, when Taylor returned to the weather station on Gough Island exhausted, there were already people waiting for her.

After a long time at sea, Taylor was already physically and mentally exhausted, and before the dense fog on Tristan Island had lifted, a storm was already blowing on Gove Island, and under the rain and strong winds, this small weather station was crumbling on a lonely island. But the weather station was the work of the Pilgrims, and Taylor had no worries about the damage the storm would cause to the facility, and Galahad would not allow his important outpost to be so vulnerable.

Taylor pushed open the door of the weather station, took off her soaked raincoat and threw it on the floor of the weather station, and someone immediately handed her a hot cup of coffee. Taylor took the cup of coffee, the warm heat passed from the walls of the cup to her hands, allowing her to regain a little bit of body temperature, her bangs pressed against her forehead after being wet by the rain.

Taylor took a sip of his coffee, which tasted good, and the group of pilgrims never skipped back on logistics and supplies, even on such a remote island there were well-preserved dried coffee beans. Taylor frowned suddenly, the pilgrims would not be so kind at such a time, the pilgrims would not take the initiative to give any help to other unrelated people, not even a hot cup of coffee, and no one would know when she would return to the island, specially brewed coffee and waited for her.

Taylor lifted her gaze from the glass, and a couple of men and women in casual clothes were looking at her with concern, the officers of the Pilgrims stationed at the weather station, ostensibly biologists and environmentalists who had been received by Taylor when he first arrived on the island.

This is the monitoring room of the weather station, where researchers compile various data into reports, save and record them every day, and it is also a recreation room with a huge pool table, otherwise this long isolation can easily make a determined person suffer from depression.

At this moment, there was a man standing at the billiard table that Taylor had not seen the last time he was here, and he was fiddling with the billiard ball on the table with his hand, and a pair of fierce and crazy eyes appeared under his messy hair. Taylor's hands froze in mid-air, she had seen such a look in the eyes of a North American gray wolf on the American continent a long time ago.

This gaze does not belong to humans, but to a kind of apex predator.

"Miss Taylor, don't be in a hurry, don't look at me with that kind of look, I'm not your enemy. He turned and looked at the Indian girl who was drenched in soup, a thin rain had no protection from this storm, Taylor was now dripping with water, her short sleeves and shorts were soaking wet against her wheat-colored skin, and her wonderful body loomed.

"Who are you?" Taylor didn't think that anyone else would be able to go to the island at this time, and the efficiency of the Ministry of Magic's reinforcements was obvious to all, Taylor made the best prediction, the arrival time of the Ministry of Magic's reinforcements should also be a day or two later, this is still considering the situation in which the Ministry of Magic thinks that the situation is emergency and the plane is used, if the Ministry of Magic comes by ship like them, it is estimated that it will take several days.

"Reinforcements, you can think so. He turned around and picked up his cup from the pool table, the coffee in it smelling faintly fragrant.

"Pilgrims...... How would His Excellency Galahad prioritize sending reinforcements at such a time?" this kind of thing was not expected by Taylor, the pilgrims would never take the initiative to help wizards without pay or benefits, they were mercenaries and not humanitarian organizations. If it was at the speed of a pilgrim, Galahad could even send a military transport plane to deliver his operatives if he wanted to.

"Well, so to speak, when I arrived they said you had gone to sea, and I had to wait for you here. Yu Mingkai took a sip of coffee, this man had been looking at Taylor with interest, making Taylor a little hairy, Taylor is a wise man, but also a girl, now she is soaked, her whole body is looming, plus such a man looks at her with such wolf-like eyes, which makes her a little nervous.

Yu Mingkai saw Taylor's nervousness, the corners of his mouth rose in an imperceptible arc, his eyes turned to the coffee cup, and said in a leisurely tone: "Although I like you to look so embarrassed now, but I have no interest in this kind of woman who is like a soup chicken, you better go change your clothes first, take a shower or something, and then we can talk slowly." ”

After speaking, he just made a slight gesture, and the NV operator of the two stationed operators immediately made a gesture of invitation to Taylor. Taylor looked at the man who was talking to himself, but at the moment her hair was still dripping with water, and she really needed to take a hot shower and change into dry clothes.

Without saying much, Taylor was led by the NV operator in the direction of the researchers' bathroom.

He looked at the back of the departing Taylor and smiled, and then he said to the remaining male operator in a commanding tone: "Use a mop to drag the water on the ground, it looks like it's messed up, what if someone slips on the water." I'm going to rest for a while, come and call me when you're done, I'll go sleep for 20 minutes, girls should take a long time to blow their hair. Ignoring the expressions of the remaining male operators, he stood up and staggered towards the room where the researchers were resting.

When Taylor changed and walked out of the bathroom, he was already waiting for her, so much so that Taylor didn't know that in such a short period of time, he had gone to take a nap for 20 minutes.

Taylor changed into a researcher's overalls at this time, this weather station does not have clothes suitable for her, the size of the NV operator's clothes does not match her, only the weather station has prepared various sizes of overalls and can still be used, this Indian girl simply put on a work clothes, as soon as she entered the hall this time, she asked: "So, you are the true knower?"

A playful smile appeared on his face, and he said noncommittally, "How did you see that?"

"Your Excellency Galahad's style is that every time you will definitely send enough combat power to solve the incident, if you are the only reinforcement this time, then your strength must also be among the best among the pilgrims, the eight stars have such an ability, but the eight stars will inevitably be accompanied by their elites, and they will not be alone like you. Among the eight stars, the only one is the Changeler who controls the strategy, but the current Changeler has no combat ability and will not be sent out to fight so frivolously, so you have a good chance of being the legendary Knower. Taylor laughed, and then she let down her guard against Ru Mingkai.

"Do you girls like to think in the shower? I don't hate smart people, it's much better than these woods. He squinted at the other two pilgrim agents in the hall, his interest was obviously high, and he said in a pleasant tone: "You are worthy of being a substitute for the mechanistic star, and now it seems that you do have this qualification, no, in a way, you are much stronger than the current mechanistic variable star, but you are just a waste that occupies the position of the mechanized variable star, why didn't the wise man choose you?"

"Because of the location of the mechanistic star, I think Lord Galahad kept it for you in the first place. Taylor smiled, the wise men are all proud to be the machine change star, no one wants to compete with Galahad for the position of the world's first wise man, everyone wants to be the second wise man, that is, the machine change star, only this true knower, three times and twice suicide challenge Galahad. But on the other hand, this also reflects the importance that Galahad attached to this man, otherwise he would have been disposed of by Galahad for the reason that he was too threatening. The last time the news came out of this man was that he had failed to assassinate Galahad, and then there was no movement, and everyone thought that he had finally killed himself, and now it seems that this guy is still very alive.

"I prefer the position of the wise man now, who likes to be a waste like a machine change star?" said with a smile, ignoring the presence of the pilgrim's agents around him.

"It's better to talk less about this kind of day, what do you think of this fog?" Taylor changed her words, she didn't expect this machine variable star to be this kind of character that no one in her eyes was. dog

"Of course, this fog is peculiar, and I've observed it in detail here as you approached. Luo Mingkai smiled.

"Someone wants to distort the world, Tristan Island is just his first step, this fog is constantly expanding, after entering the fog, there is something that is distorting my cognition and memory, and now entering the island from the outside world will only be changed by this island into a different appearance. Taylor said that she had tried magic or shamanic spells to block out the effect, but it was as pervasive as running water. Any kind of protection was ineffective, and Taylor was forced out of Tristan Island by the fog.

"Not necessarily, Miss Taylor, I don't know if you've heard of the fact that human speculation is limited by human cognition, in other words, human beings strive to explain what is happening in front of them with what they know. The reason why wizards are more intelligent than humans is simply because wizards mostly know about magic in addition to science. Of course, this is just off topic. What I'm saying is that your perception is too narrow, and we should look at it differently. He laughed, and his words didn't seem to be particularly respectful to Taylor.

"If the Knower has a better idea, then I will listen. Taylor frowned, since ancient times, wise men have a sense of arrogance, that is, no one obeys anyone, except for Galahad, a pervert who makes all wise men ashamed, Taylor does not think that he will lose much to other wise men.

"Of course, you are an intelligent person of analysis and speculation, and in such an event, your rigorous and logical thinking will become an obstacle for you. Have you ever seen this?" the man smiled mysteriously, the man's pale face with a smile on his chest.

"No, as far as I know, there is no magic or ritual that can have such a huge effect, and this kind of magic involves memories, cognition, and even worldlines. I don't think there is any other spell in existence that can do such a terrible effect. Taylor said.

"Yes, and in your report, you also encountered a special organization formed by the Bed Bug Bloodclan on the island, and they have not been affected by the twist, have they?"

"Yes......" Hearing this from Tyler, Taylor also thought about the elements that had not been considered by her before, along with the newly collected information she had now gathered, she suddenly seemed to understand something, and said: "If the members of the Serpent of Eden came to the island before, then they should have been distorted like the inhabitants, and the knights of Green's subordinates were also distorted, proving that magic and even druid spells cannot resist this distortion." And if they had come with us, and there had been no fog at the time, but since I was now close to Tristan Island, it would have been distorted, so should we. None of us have used any powers other than magic, but neither we nor the members of the Serpent of Eden have been distorted, which means that we have one thing in common, and that common denominator reveals the nature of the mutation that has taken place on the island. ”

"Beautiful. Sure enough, he is a smart person, and it is not difficult to communicate with a smart person, and Miss Taylor is really thorough. He applauded happily, and although there was still a mocking look in his eyes, Taylor didn't care about this guy's attitude anymore.

"But I can't find the similarity. Taylor said honestly, now she does not have enough information in her hands to make a decisive analysis of the current situation, and the wise man is not out of nowhere.

"Of course, but I can find it. As soon as he flipped his palm, a silver ring appeared in his hand, and Taylor glanced at the ring, which was like a small ring made of silver metal, without any patterns or decorations, like an ordinary silver ring.

"What is this?" Taylor asked, the Knower hadn't been to the island, so the ring wouldn't have been an island thing, and Taylor couldn't think of anything he had to do with what was happening on the island.

"Well, this is my trophy from last time, wasn't it beaten by that monster of the Bladed Dragon when I attacked the Wise Man last year? But I didn't get nothing, I got this from him, it's a prototype of a magic item, it should be some kind of trial type. Luo Mingkai said.

"But what does this have to do with the changes that have taken place on the island?" Taylor said, knowing that it was certainly impossible for His Excellency to be involved in such a frivolous project, so she couldn't understand why he would take out this ring at such a time.

"Of course, this ring can't be activated with magic, I've been trying to decipher how this ring works for the past year, it uses the same power that I've never seen before, I can't replicate this power, and I haven't found any traces of the same power as this power, but it gives me an idea. He smiled triumphantly, his face full of confidence that was hard for ordinary people to achieve, "The reason why you are not distorted is because there is someone by your side who protected you as you crossed this boundary. Lin Moyang~ The apprentice of the Blade Dragon mentioned in your report, he does not use magic power, but the same strange power as the Blade Dragon, which can activate this ring, and this power can protect you from being affected when crossing this twisted boundary. Was he the first person to notice the anomaly when you first approached the island?"

When Taylor heard this, he recalled that Lin Moyang had indeed behaved abnormally when he was close to Tristan Island, and at that time he just passed it perfunctorily on the grounds of "bad premonition", at that time Taylor still felt that this Excellency was a little neurotic, and now that he thinks about it, at that time, Your Excellency may have protected them with his own strength?

"And the people of the Serpent of Eden are even simpler. They have a blood curse on them, they are the product of a curse that has been distorted, and this curse comes from the gods, and of course it can help them resist this level of distortion, and help them to keep their original consciousness through this boundary. He smiled, confident in his reasoning, and didn't seem to worry about anything wrong.

"You mean, the source of this distortion is...... Gods?" Taylor said in horror, according to the inference of Luo Mingkai, then the mastermind behind this mutation may not be a person or an organization, but a god?

"Yes and no, Miss Taylor, your mind is still in a misconception. Do you still think this island has been distorted?" said Yu Mingkai with a mysterious smile.

"What do you mean?" Taylor realized the gap between himself and the Knower in front of him, his mind was erratic, he didn't play his cards according to common sense at all, and his way of solving the problem seemed to be not to extrapolate from the existing evidence, but to use the existing evidence to test his ideas after coming up with the hypothesis that was closest to the truth. This guy's way of thinking is completely opposite to his own.

Taylor knows that the difference between each wise man is not in the level of intelligence, but in the fact that each wise man has his own way of thinking, and this unique way of thinking is the difference between wise people.

"Miss Taylor, aren't you a legalist, and have begun to change your mind? Observing the change in Taylor's expression, the girl was able to detect his way of thinking for the first time, and switch between them, instead of sticking to the logical thinking of reasoning based on the available evidence, which made the young wise man look up to him.

"Impossible!" Taylor put himself in the position of the Underworld, and did come up with an explanation that could explain the mutation, but it was too terrifying, and Taylor's intellect constantly tried to deny it, but everything was so true.

"If so, the resurgence of myths is innumerable times more terrible than I imagined......! A precursor to the destruction of civilization!" Taylor's new clothes that he had just changed into after taking a shower were already soaked in cold sweat, and Yu Mingkai looked at Taylor's shocked expression from the side, shaking his head and sneering.