"No...this key...is not for opening this door..." Allen said blankly.
"Let me do it." Levi stepped forward, handed the oil lamp to Allen, stretched out his right leg and kicked it in a seductive gesture.
The wooden door was kicked in by him, and a smell of blocked dust rushed in.
Everyone pinched their noses and broke into the basement.
"Dried herbs, prescriptions, patient records..." Hanji picked up the medicines in the cabinet and the notes on the table and looked at them: "It looks like a doctor's studio."
"It should be decorated like this on purpose." Erwin said, "Let's look for it again. There must be somewhere where we can use Allen's key."
Ian stood at the door and looked at the busy people.
Ymir and Hannis stood behind him, holding oil lamps.
Soon, they discovered something wrong on the workbench. There was a keyhole in the drawer. Allen took out the key and inserted it into the keyhole. There was a sound of metal biting inside. He turned the key and opened the lock of the drawer.
There was a mezzanine in the drawer, and Hanji took out three notebooks from the mezzanine.
"This smells like peppermint oil and charcoal, and it has been treated to prevent insects and moisture." Hanji twitched his nose: "It looks like this is what we are looking for."
The oil lamp was placed on the table, and everyone stood around the table in silence.
Erwin took a deep breath and turned to the first page of the notebook.
What came into view was a black and white photo, and Ian recognized it immediately.
The photo shows a man, a woman and a child. Both men and women are wearing decent clothes. The woman is sitting on a back chair with her child in her arms.
"Is this...a painting?" Erwin frowned. If it were a painting, it would be too realistic.
"No...it's not...this is a material I've never seen before." Hanji picked up the photo and observed it through the firelight: "It should be using some means to record the moment that the eyes can see."
"There's writing on the back!"
Hanji turned the photo over and read it out.
"This is not... a painting, this is... made by... imprinting the light reflected from the target object on special paper... called [photo]. I come from outside the wall, where humans gracefully Live.”
"What do you mean?" Levi frowned: "Shouldn't there be giants outside the wall?"
"Let's read the contents of the note first." Erwin didn't show any surprise.
He had expected it, and he even felt a sense of excitement when he heard the words "I come from outside the wall, where humans live gracefully."
Sure enough, his and his father's guesses were correct.
There is no evidence at all to prove that humans outside the wall are extinct.
The history books of the royal family are simply fabricated lies!
"Let me read."
Erwin held the first notebook and read out loud.
"Humanity has not perished. I hope that the first person to get this book is my comrade."
"My name is Grisha Yeager. I come from Marais on the other side of the sea. There is science and technology that is many years more advanced than what's inside the walls."
...
Everyone in the basement listened quietly to Erwin reading the three notebooks left by Grisha Yeager.
Grisha Yeager recorded almost everything about himself from birth to the present.
He wrote in his notes that he was an Eldian born in Marais. In Marais, all Eldians were discriminated against.
The people of the world believe that the Eldians are a nation of demons.
"My father told me that the history of the Eldians begins in 1820 years ago. Our ancestor Ymir Freeze signed a contract with the earth demon and obtained the power of the giant. Ymir After his death, his soul split into nine giants and established the Eldian Empire. The empire destroyed the ancient great country of Marais and became the ruler of this land.
After that, there was a dark age. The people of Ymir regarded other races as inferior races and began to exclude them.
The people of Ymir snatched land and property, and also forced other ethnic groups to give birth to children in order to increase the number of Ymir's people. This ethnic purification lasted for about 1,700 years.
However, the once great country of Marais won over seven of the nine giants and won the Giant War 80 years ago. The then King of Eldia fled to Parady Island and built three walls. , leading the nation, fled into the wall.
Our ancestors were abandoned by them in the land of Marais, but the magnanimous Marais not only did not kill us, but also gave us land. We must atone for the sins of the Eldians, so we can never step out of the restricted area and must always obey The order of the Marais.
I was raised like this, but...my sister, Fei Yeager, that day, I took my sister to see the airship. My eight-year-old sister was raped by the police officer in Marais because of this kind of discrimination. , the dogs killed him, and his body was dumped in the river. "
...
What Grisha Yeager explained was simply earth-shattering to Erwin and others.
How was the wall built, why were there so many giants outside the wall, and how the power of giants was passed on...
Almost all questions can be answered in these three notebooks.
When Allen heard it, he was even more shocked and sat on the ground.
According to the description in the book, the way to inherit the power of a giant is to become an unconscious, innocent giant, and then eat the intelligent giant's human form.
His father, Grisha Yeager, inherited the "Attack on Titan", which means that his Titan power came from his father.
He turned into a giant and ate his father. Those incomplete pictures suddenly emerged at this moment. He remembered that after the wall was destroyed, it was his father who gave him the injection!
His father found him when he and Mikasa Armin were on the run and passed on the power of the Titan to him.
Giant strength is not his "talent".
"Although I hope to make new discoveries...but this information...is too exciting..." Hanji swallowed: "Marai, the Nine Giants, the King of Walls who deny the battle...Wall Is the outside world so exciting?"
"Ian, you don't look very surprised?" Erwin closed the last notebook and shifted his gaze to Ian.
"Well... after all, I've heard some things." Ian spread his hands.
"Have you heard of it? What do you mean?" Hanji turned around: "Have you known these things for a long time? Where did you know it?"
"Actually, one of us is from Marais." Ian stepped aside and said, "Ymir, please explain."
"Is there such a link?" Ymir crossed his chest.
"It was decided just now." Ian smiled: "You should explain it first. I want to take everyone to the beach tonight. I may have to trouble you later."
"Do you want me to be a means of transportation..." Ymir sighed: "Okay, who made you my commander?"
Erwin and others did not understand the conversation between Ymir and Ian, but in a few hours, they would see the scenery they would never forget.
