23. Human skin apples

Ragnarok, a battle of destruction of the gods recorded in Norse mythology, in which the gods who once dominated everything were killed one after another, and the entire Shijie was on the verge of collapse. Then the destruction did not come in the end, and humanity began to rebuild this shijie and make it prosperous to this day.

However, from the perspective of archaeology, evolutionary theory and anthropology, myths and stories are not real history, they are just a specific product of the development of human civilization to a certain extent, which contains people's conjecture about the unsolved mysteries of nature, and also expresses the awe and fear of human beings for the power of nature.

Is this really the case?

Are myths just stories people make up?

A year ago I might have thought so, but now I prefer to believe that there is another explanation for the origin of the myth, and that is what people saw with their own eyes!

Ragnarok may have really existed, people saw the battle of the gods, and were also shocked by the powerful liliang, when the war was over and everything disappeared, the gods also faded out of people's sight and never appeared again, so people thought that the gods were dead.

But today, I saw with my own eyes the patron saint of the underworld, Garm, the giant wolf who died with Tyr, the god of war, in Ragnarok. If Garm were still alive, then I have reason to believe that the gods still exist, but they have changed the way they existed, or returned to their original, primitive form.

Now, the gods have returned, and the first to descend on this town is Eden, the goddess of youth.

In Norse mythology, the gods are not immortal, they also grow old and die just like humans, so the gods need to eat apples picked by the goddess of youth to keep them young.

The breaking point is here!

The reason why people know about the existence of gods must be that the gods also descended on human beings several years ago and attached themselves to human bodies. Human beings will grow old and die, which is undoubtedly the biggest problem for the gods, human aging is inevitable, but the goddess of youth has found a way to stop aging, and this way is to give the gods a golden apple.

What is a golden apple?

I think the so-called golden apple should be a human skin, or a new shell that is similar to a human but completely different.

When Grace Yujian arrives in the town, an evil god will descend, and this evil god is Eden, the goddess of youth. When Eden arrives in town, she immediately looks for a suitable body to hide herself. She then began experimenting with making golden apples, the skins of humans used for disguise.

The gods have a lot of discomfort when they come to earth, and Eden is no exception, she first made several sets of human skins that were defective, so she also threw them into the lake in the town park and the side of the road in the wilderness. As she regained her grasp of making human skins, she no longer had to discard the inferior skins, so the police stopped finding slimy skins in the town.

Then the town's pet cats and dogs began to disappear in large numbers, and the blood, bones, and flesh of these pets may have been used to make human skin, but I prefer to believe that Eden made these pets disappear for another reason, and that reason is the patron saint of the underworld, Garm.

In Ragnarok, the gods are divided into two opposing sides, the faction represented by Loki is called the evil god, and the giant wolf Jam is an important combat force of the evil god faction.

In Qiao Wei's theory, Loki is not actually an evil god, he is more like a righteous god to humans, and if this continues, then Jiamu is also on the side of humans.

Eden knew that Jihua would definitely appear to hinder her, so she first took action to force all the cats and dogs in the town to be disposed of, so that Jiamu could not find a suitable animal to possess him in a short time. Her Jihua was arguably successful, at least when she killed Grace and began replacing the townspeople, but Garm didn't show up.

I don't know exactly what steps Eden needed to take to make the skins, or what she put inside them, but Grace's prophecy gave me an important hint of thirteen children.

There are thirteen main gods in Norse mythology, and the gender is nine males and four females, which coincides with the gender of the children marked in Grace's photo album. So Eden's arrival is actually a prelude to the collective descent of the Norse gods, and she is preparing the most ideal body for these gods.

However, there is a special case among the thirteen main gods, that is, the fire god Loki, he is not on the side of the gods and prefers humans, as early as a few years ago in Ragnarok, Loki showed rebellion, so this time Eden prepared in advance, she made the most ideal body for the twelve main gods, including herself, and only left the thirteenth child Muhammad did not transform, the reason is very simple, she wants to make Loki the weakest since he came to the human Shijie.

When the Norse gods descended, Eden would certainly do everything he could to get Loki to attach himself to Muhammad, who had not undergone any transformation, and the town where Muhammad lived had already become a death trap. When Muhammad is killed, Loki's body will be defeated, and while I'm not sure it will actually kill Loki, Loki should no longer be in the sight of the gods, nor will there be a second Ragnarok.

Before she died, Grace focused on two places, one was the school and the other was Sheriff Redfield's house, which were also the key locations in Eden.

Who is Eden, the goddess of youth?

The answer is already very obvious, it is Sheriff Redfield's eldest daughter!

The myth is unreliable, but the description of Eden may be true, she has no supernatural powers, and the only thing she can do is to pick the golden apple that embraces youth for the gods, which is probably why Eden has always avoided confrontation with Grace - she is too weak to even deal with human weapons.

When Eden finally kills Grace, she immediately begins her town renovation of Jihua, which eventually attracts the patron saint of the underworld, the giant wolf Jam.

Gamm enters the town in the fog, but Eden uses some unknown method to avoid Gamm's sight, only letting Gamm eat some of the useless husks that Eden has prepared for Haode in the shopping street, which is why we hear Gamm eating but don't find the actual casualties.

Jam then began to pursue me, apparently because I had the aura of a god in me, but when Jam found out that I was not a god, but an ordinary human, he stopped attacking.

I told Qiao Wei all my inferences in great detail, and Qiao Wei also translated them into English as he listened, so that the bearded deputy sergeant next to him could also understand what I was trying to say. When I finished speaking and translating all of Qiao Wei, the mustache's surprise escalated again.

Without waiting for Qiao Wei to express any opinions, the mustache took the first step to speak: "The people in the town have begun to be replaced!" Yeah! This can explain the fact that Weishenme Red was obviously killed, but he stood up again! It wasn't Red at all, it was a stand-in, an empty shell, like the kid who blew himself up in this house! ”

"I think there's something special hidden in that shell, something that bit Grace and drained her blood. They could be little devils or something, I can't tell. After saying that, I also looked at Qiao Wei to see if he had any opinions that needed to be expressed.

Qiao Wei pinched his chin and thought seriously, and after a while he nodded: "What you said makes sense, everything that happened in the town must be intrinsically related, and it seems that there is no way to come up with anything else except the explanation you gave." But I don't understand something, weishenme, that kid would come here? ”

My analysis did not include Qiao Wei's suspicions, so I asked Deputy Sheriff Mustachioed to see if he knew what the empty houses in the area were all about.

Mustache said that last year, a real estate development company bought the vacant land and planned to expand a retirement community here, because the town has good scenery and fresh air, and they are ready to provide a good place for the elderly who are tired of living in the metropolis to recuperate. However, because it was very cold in London last year, work has been suspended since the beginning of autumn, and it is estimated that it will be two months before construction will start again.

"Could it be that Eden hid all the people who were replaced here?" I guess.

The mustache was stunned for a moment, and then he opened his eyes and said, "I'll find someone to find the whole house now!" With that, he ran back to the police car and picked up the walkie-talkie.