Every member of the Snow Wolf Squad was on high alert, but Cecilia was an exception. She had only put on an extra layer of clothing.
"Cecilia!" Seeing Cecilia appear, Shigure Kira immediately stood up. "How is Siegfried!"
As soon as she said this, everyone's gaze focused on Cecilia, waiting for her answer.
Cecilia showed a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, Siegfried is out of danger, he just hasn't woken up yet..."
The room was suddenly filled with sighs of relief, and even the tense atmosphere had eased a lot.
Although she said that, only Shigure Kira could see the faint sadness in Cecilia's eyes. She subconsciously thought of Siegfried's condition at that time, his entire body charred black, half of it turned to charcoal, and firmly frozen by the biting ice.
That half of his body...
Cecilia sighed and sat down in the empty seat that had been reserved for her.
On the second floor, Salome leaned against the back of the door. The moment she heard Cecilia announce that Siegfried was fine, Salome sighed softly, exhaling a puff of white air.
The temperature inside the room reminded her of the snowfields of Siberia, and this was even with her leaning against the door, away from the source of the cold in the room.
In another corner of the room, a golden-haired girl was curled up, trying to make herself as small as possible, hiding quietly without making a sound.
The bone-chilling cold was coming from her. According to Salome's preliminary estimate, the temperature of Bianka's body was probably around minus seventy degrees Celsius.
With such a body temperature, was she really still human?
This was a question Salome had to consider.
But after seeing Bianka's slightly trembling arms, Salome closed her eyes.
At least it wasn't a monster here. She was still just a fragile little girl.
"Siegfried is fine, you don't need to worry," Salome said softly in Bianka's direction, but the only response she got was Bianka curling up even tighter.
Salome had a headache. She had been standing in this room for seven or eight hours. She had at least moved around many times to relieve her fatigue, but Bianka had been curled up in the corner the whole time, only moving slightly just now.
Speaking of which, this was the first time she had seen Bianka. Cecilia had said that she was a cute little girl of about ten years old. Now, it seemed that she was indeed cute, but as for being ten years old...
Could it be that, like those old folks in Future City, she could change her body at any time?
Speaking of which, she should be considered the first person to arrive at the scene. At that time, half of Bianka's body was in a monstrous state. The first time she saw it, she only felt a sense of palpitation.
This feeling was a bit like the Honkai Emperor they had once encountered in the Red Sea region. It was a sense of oppression from facing an unknown and powerful creature, but the sense of crisis from Bianka was several times stronger.
At that time, her attention was all on Bianka. Now that she thought about it carefully, the moment the giant ice ball with a diameter of several thousand meters was formed was even more incredible.
Even the [All Things Revival] device created by Future City to influence some extreme weather was not capable of creating such a large ice block.
And although the Bianka she had seen was pale as a sheet, now it seemed more likely that it was due to the panic caused by Siegfried's serious injuries, which meant that Bianka might even have had some strength left...
If Bianka really wanted to fight, Salome felt that she would probably be killed in a few moves... it was possible that she would turn into an ice sculpture before she could even activate the Star of Eden.
And even if she did activate the Star of Eden, so what? If it could freeze a nuclear bomb and a fully unleashed Judgment at the same time, it wouldn't be a problem to freeze another Star of Eden, right?
...No, she wouldn't.
Salome thought so.
"According to my observation, Siegfried only has burns from the Judgment and the nuclear bomb. The frostbite marks are very new, all caused by the ice attached to his body.
"And it was that ice that saved Siegfried's life. Other than that, there was only the recoil damage that Siegfried caused himself by continuously firing the Judgment."
The higher-ups looked at each other for a few moments, and only then did the old man with a long beard slowly speak. "Can I understand it as... Mr. Siegfried hurt himself, and that child only unleashed her power to save him?"
Cecilia nodded.
"Give us a reason why Siegfried would hurt himself," an old man with a monocle next to the old man said, the one whose glasses Siegfried had snatched to pose with.
"Tch," Nicholas at the door tutted impatiently. Shigure Kira, on the other hand, took out a phone and answered the bald old man's question with a recording.
It was Salome's phone, and the recording was of Salome and Siegfried's last conversation.
"Herrscher..." A term began to circulate among the higher-ups, and many people's expressions became much more solemn.
"But this still doesn't explain why that girl was at the scene!" a woman fatter than the fat man shouted. Years of obesity had made her abnormally irritable. "Do you guys bring a child with you when you do this kind of investigation?!"
The three of them fell silent. This was the biggest reason for their dispute...
The person Siegfried was dealing with could be a Herrscher, and Bianka could also have unleashed that strange power for Siegfried.
But why was Bianka there? A coincidence?
A coincidence explained nothing. On the contrary, after discarding this coincidence, it was more reasonable to explain everything as: "Bianka was the target that Siegfried was willing to risk his life to eliminate."
This was even an answer that could be considered conclusive.
But out of their trust in the Snow Wolf Squad, and out of their trust in Siegfried, even though these higher-ups were already infinitely inclined to this answer, they still chose to remain skeptical, looking forward to the next truth.
But this did not mean that they would completely let go.
"Cecilia, I know you trust her, but what about the monster on her? Do you trust it too?" In the end, it was the long-bearded old man who stood up and set an example for the others.
"Siegfried risked his life to get us this opportunity... we don't have a second Siegfried."
"We will hide it for you for seven days. After all, it's a huge mess." After seven days, if you can't give us a convincing reason, then we will have to drive that child out of here.
"Yes, thank you," Cecilia said to them with a calm expression.