Whispering Poems

Chapter 1387 The Origin of Demons
"Hire burglars? Since Oxenfurt is so persistent, are those photos important to him?"

Xia De asked, and the old captain snorted, which led to another topic instead:
"I know his past as much as he knows me. When he was a sailor on the ship, he was as rough and violent as he is now, but that's what I need."

The old man squinted his eyes and looked at the surrounding fields, and showed Xia De with his fingers:
"The fields here are all mine, from here to that location. In addition to what we see now, I have my own properties in the Randall Valley and many cities in the southwestern part of the kingdom."

"Great."

Xia De admired dryly, and then Captain Allen asked the question he was thinking of at the moment:
"Do you think you can make so much money just doing inland waterway shipping business?"

asked the captain, and gave the answer himself:

"Of course not, young man, we are doing smuggling. Ship the goods from De La Rion to Kasen Rik, and the goods from Kason Rik to De La Rion. Even, even without a shipping license and the New World Shipping license, but we always have to travel to the New World several times a year to transport some sensitive materials. Otherwise, do you think I salvaged so much property from the river?"

"Do you want to be river pirates and pirates?"

Xia De asked a question, and the old captain who walked a step faster than him smiled and turned to look at him:
"Of course. Once it involves illegal business on the water, no one can keep their hands free from blood, otherwise they will bleed on their necks. The rules of survival on water and land are different. You can guess illegal business. How much more money can I earn by going to the New World?"

Smoke wafts from his nostrils:

"Oxenfurt is a good sailor, brutal and irritable, but he doesn't like to drink, and he is extremely cunning. Before he left me, he was already my most trusted bosun. Afterwards, negotiate with the shipowners and give him the position of captain."

Xia De frowned slightly:

"Why did he leave the ship? Because he wants to get married and want to live a stable life?"

"Young man, don't worry, I haven't finished my story yet. Aren't you curious? How did I survive and earn so much in this kind of business? Just because luck is better than everyone else ?”

The captain walked sideways in the field, watching the young man in a black coat walking on the snow, Xia De just frowned, and gave the answer:

"What did you pray to for strength?"

"Sure enough, you really know everything about Stone Oxenfurt."

Captain Woody, who was holding a cane, smiled, turned around and looked forward, and continued to walk forward:
"To be honest, I don't know what I prayed for strength. When I was 21 years old, I went out to sea as an ordinary sailor, and then we encountered a storm. Everyone on the boat died except me, and I Floating to an isolated island."

It was like the beginning of some kind of adventure survival story.

"I found a cave on that strange island with perennial fog, and found a strange manuscript in that cave. The manuscript describes a magical ritual that can summon unknown A powerful existence, and made a contract with it. I later learned that it was a ritual of demon summoning. Moreover, it does not point to specific demons, but which one is summoned recently."

He smiled self-deprecatingly:
"If I could go back in time and go back to the age of 21, I would rather die there on the spot. But unfortunately, I wanted to live, so I spent two years on that island, trying the obscure parchment Content, experiments and failures again and again. Before I was trapped and died on that desert island, I really succeeded once."

His steps are steady and powerful:
"A certain existence that I can't tell me responded to me, so I have a body that ages more slowly than normal people, I have the luck of galloping in the sea and rivers and lakes, and even have the power not to drown in the water."

"Then what's the price?"

Xia De asked, and then saw a rabbit standing on the snow not far away. After the latter saw Xia De, he ran away in panic, leaving only a series of inconspicuous footprints on the snow.

"It's a pity that I didn't carry a shotgun. The price is my soul, and the souls of all my descendants."

The old captain who also saw the rabbit said this, his tone remained unchanged:

"I know that everything has a price, and I have been given a gift far beyond my destiny. I accept it all, I just don't want to hurt more people. So, at the age of 25, it was the first time I escaped from that terrible island. In the second year, I bought medicine from the sea witch doctor, which destroyed me, as well as the fertility of my son who was only six years old at that time."

After saying this, he sighed softly:
"And then the story came to Stone Oxenfurt. Young man, guess what I'm trying to say?"

"His demon summoning ritual, did he get it from you?"

Xia De said, the old captain nodded:

"That was about six years ago. I don't want to go into details, but he really gained enough of my trust. I told him my story and the source of my luck after being drunk. I'm not showing off, after all, selling the soul to the devil is not worth showing off, my original intention was to warn him not to try things he doesn't understand, but he stole those materials instead."

He sniffed his reddened nose from the cold:
"It took me at least a year to find out that the parchments were stolen. After all, I was reluctant to approach them again, so I carefully hid them in the cracks in the basement of the house I rented in Coldwater Harbor. The stolen After that, I spent another year to confirm that Oxenfurt took them. Oxenfurt also took advantage of these two years to decipher the obscure content on the parchment and collect all the sacrifices. And then, it's now."

The demon that the old captain had come into contact with, Dr. Shad and Schneider couldn't solve it.The other party just wanted a soul, and he didn't even know where he was, and the old captain himself didn't think about resisting, which meant that Xia De couldn't help him.

But Shad was still curious about other stories:

"You seized his old photographs and letters because you hated him for stealing from you?"

"Yes, and he violated my trust. For those of us who live on board, betrayal is the hardest thing to forgive."

The old captain nodded, and then led Shad to turn around, walking towards the windmill on the far bank of the river in the snow-covered farmland:
"I don't know what he called, but the demon is obviously older, stronger, and weirder. Oxenfurt himself is unwilling to come to see me, even if he is stronger than me, but I know him best , and he doesn't know how much I got from the devil. So, those letters and photos that he didn't have time to take away when he left the ship will stay with me forever."

"So what about the story of Oxenfurt and Miss Hayla Watson, who is now Mrs. Hayla Oxenfurt?"

Xia De asked curiously again, and the old captain smiled:

"It's a classic, the story of the poor boy and the rich girl. The first encounter was the rich girl's father, who took her to the pier to discuss business. Fortunately, I don't have a daughter, otherwise I must educate her from an early age to stay away from those who are only glib. Kid. Of course, I would never agree to her approaching the pier just to let her see the world."

The mill is getting closer, and the windmill is turning slowly in the wind at the end of winter.Although it was winter, not the autumn harvest season, the mill was still working. Xia De saw a donkey cart pulling grain parked at the gate of the mill. The donkey with long ears was eating the withered grass growing at the base of the wall.

"She loves him very much, and he loves her very much. You can think that during the time they were in love, they were both enough to give their hearts to each other completely. What happened after Oxenfurt got off the ship, I know Not much, but I heard the news of their marriage within a few years, and later heard that the death of Haila's family was related to that demon, right?"

The two stopped at the gate of the mill. The farmer who was loading the car saw Captain Woody and immediately greeted him respectfully.It appears that the captain leased the mill to the villagers in the village across the river for a very low price, and made it available to them at all times, which the villagers were quite grateful for.

They did not enter the mill, but after Xia De observed the donkey with great interest, they bypassed the mill and continued to walk towards the Yifu River.

Xia De continued to ask his own question:
"Did you meet Haila Oxenfurt after they got married?"

"No, not even off my ship from Oxenfurt, I haven't seen it."

"Then Mrs. Haila in your impression is the kind of indifferent person?"

The old captain thought for a while:

"No, although she is a relatively quiet girl from a rich family, her emotions are definitely not indifferent."

Xia De nodded knowingly, and stood still by the river with the old captain, watching seven or eight children in coarse patched clothes playing on the ice:
"I probably understand. I don't want to summon demons, but I'm just curious to know. Is the demon summoning ceremony you use free of charge?"

If it is free, after solving Oxenfurt, Shade must dig out those materials, and then find a safe place to fight demons with Dr. Schneider.

"Of course not, you have to give what you get."

The old captain shook his head, and finally talked about Shad's purpose for coming here:

"I am willing to tell you so much because you are different from the people who have come here before. I have met many people on the boat, and I can see people very accurately."

"So, you think I'm an honest man?"

Xia De asked with a smile, looking at the children on the river singing nursery rhymes and playing a game similar to "Eagle Catch Chicken".

(End of this chapter)