Whispering Poems

Chapter 1627 Coins and the second landing on the island
The trips through the city and the country were nothing worth noting to Shad, and neither the city nor the countryside of the Green Lake area stood out from the cities he had visited in the past.

And when they were about to cross the border at the checkpoint, the drivers really took out the special pass that Captain Ladds gave to Shad, so they didn't need to wait in line for registration.When the coachman showed the pass to the officer whom Xia De had never seen before, so when the carriage temporarily stopped, Xia De also saw from the window that there were more people waiting in line at the border than he had seen last time.

The long line was barely lined up amidst the shouting of the soldiers. After the line circled around the camp, the end of the line was almost outside the camp.Xia De's hearing is very good. From the noisy voices of people, today, in the villages and towns on the side of Mikaela Blast City, there is a big market only once a month, which is why this place is so lively.

Captain Ladds was not seen, so Shad did not get out of the car.The coachman quickly handled the formalities of crossing the border, and the two carriages passed the people in line and entered the neighboring country directly.

Then there was another boring journey. At ten o'clock in the morning, the yawning Shade jumped off the carriage and looked at the "glass blast furnace" in the distance. He said to the pharmacist who also got off the carriage not far away:

"Let's take a boat next time. Although it will take a detour, at least the journey will be more interesting. It's too boring to take a carriage by yourself. I would have brought my cat if I knew it."

The sorceress didn't pay attention to Xia De's boring words, and waved to him:

"Come with me, this way."

As he said that, he was about to lead Xia De to leave the glass avenue where the carriage stopped and enter the alley. This road was also the street where Xia De saw the police chase away the disabled boy last time, and it was the center of Mikaela Blast Furnace City.But this time, he really didn't see the disabled boy begging sitting on the side of the street.

He followed Miss Pharmacist into the nameless narrow alley, and after walking a dozen steps in the alley, he heard quite dense footsteps coming from the street behind him, as well as someone speaking loudly through a loudspeaker. sound.

He turned around in surprise, and soon saw crowds of demonstrators passing by on the street, and people talking loudly were calling on the citizens to protest this negotiation, because the Pantanal area originally belonged to Kasenli United Kingdom, negotiating desecration of Carson Rik's glory.

"Their destination is the city hall. This week's meeting will be held in Mikaela Blast Furnace City. They probably want to take advantage of the lunch break to give a speech at the square in front of the city hall."

Miss Pharmacist said to Xia De, and then motioned him to follow:
"Don't pay attention to this kind of boring activity. The final result of the negotiation will not be decided just because they walk a few steps."

In the big cities of this era, there are always complex alleys like a maze.And to find a specific store in such a contiguous building complex, if there is no one to guide the way, I am afraid that it will take a long time to get lost.

The destination of the two is an old bookstore hidden in an alley.The pharmacist pushed the door open and walked in. Xia De followed behind her and strictly guaranteed not to approach her within 1m.

There were no other customers in the bookstore. The pharmacist led Xia De through the bookstore, and then pushed open the back door with the sign "Do not enter without permission".Pass through the backyard and enter the rear warehouse of this bookstore, and the warehouse is the trading place of this black market.

"Yesterday I made an appointment to pick up that box."

She said to the fat woman behind the counter, and took out a badge as proof.The woman nodded, took an old black suitcase on the table and pushed it to the pharmacist lady, who opened it with her own hands, and the box contained old clothes, old books, rusty buttons, etc., in a mess of sundries.

"what is this?"

Shade asked curiously.

"Sometimes the guys who landed on the central island, even if they couldn't find anything of value, would take away the sundries and sell them to the local black market at a low price. So last time we landed on the island, although most of the furniture was still there, the furniture inside They are all empty. Not only the black market of ring warlocks, but even the grocery stores or thrift stores of local ordinary people may find things from the Edwards family. , quite legendary, and some people even specialize in collecting old things from the Edwards family."

The pharmacist explained and rummaged through the contents of the box. According to her, these sundries were all used by her ancestors a hundred years ago.

She quickly found a palm-sized notebook with a red cover in the box.After flipping through it quickly, he nodded, and threw two alloy coins worth 1 krona onto the table.She stuffed the notebook into her pocket, and after closing the box, she motioned for Xia De to help carry it.

"Why should I help you carry the suitcase?"

Shad raised his own doubts.

"Don't you have the ability to store sundries? Besides, isn't it what a gentleman should do to act with a beautiful girl and help out?"

The female sorceress said as a matter of course, indicating that Xia De can leave:
"We're going into Green Lake by boat. If you don't mind, you can have lunch on the boat later."

"Of course I don't mind, but can you wait a bit?"

He put the suitcase behind the right side of the coat, patted it, put the toy in his pocket, and then asked the fat woman behind the counter who was watching the two of them communicate:

"Ma'am, do you have any coin-like relics here?"

So after 10 minutes, Xia De happily followed the pharmacist lady out of the bookstore with a small cloth bag with two coins in it.

Poet-level relic [Lute's Sorrow], in a confined space, throwing a coin on the floor forcefully can make a piece of sad music played by a lute play randomly in the space, and the price is that the user will Complete loss of ability to speak within hours.

This is the kind of useless poet-level relic, so the price is still cheap.And when Xia De got them, he also saw the detailed ancient elf language on the side of the coin:
[I hope that the rest of my performance will be as sad as Liana's funeral. 】

The appearance of this coin obviously also has a very complicated story.

"However, why did you inquire about the local tomb robbers just now?"

When crossing the alley to the bank of the Duin River, the lady pharmacist who led the way asked curiously.

"Someone took something they shouldn't have, and I've found it, but I still want to know where they got it from."

Xia De gave the answer, and Miss Pharmacist nodded thoughtfully.She wanted to help Xia De find it. She was also very powerful in the local area, but thinking of what the two of them were going to do, she decided to wait until the matter was over.

The steamboat waiting for them on the bank of the Duin River was very similar to the one that was destroyed last time, except that there were already two ladies with nine rings waiting for them.

"This is my follower. In order to prevent what happened last time, they went with us. But they didn't land on the island, but waited for us on the pier."

Because she was worried that Xia De would misunderstand, the pharmacist lady also explained something.Xia De didn't care either. After boarding the deck, he watched the banks on both sides move back and forth, thinking about what he would encounter on the island this time.

The last time I entered the Great Lakes from the direction of De la Rion on the north shore of Green Lake, the landing site was the pier from the center to the north shore.But this time it departed from Mikaela Blast Furnace City, so the landing site was the south coast of the island. When the ship entered the foggy area, Xia De realized that the location of the dock this time was different from the last time.

Sure enough, as the ship slowed down, the shadow of the island in the fog became clearer and clearer, and Xia De also gradually saw that the connection to the pier was no longer a grove, but a path on a low hill.

"The northern part of Green Lake Island is flat, where the pier, cemetery, town and farmland are. The south is low hills, and the Edwards mansion, orchard, and lighthouse are all in the south."

The steamship lightly hit the trestle and stopped. Miss Pharmacist came to the trestle first with a cloth bag containing reagent bottles, and Xia De followed behind her.As for the two female sorceresses with nine rings who have not spoken, they stood on the deck and watched them walk away in the fog:
"Then what is this pier for?"

"This is the private pier of the Edwards family. The pier connects the mansion on the hill and is responsible for transporting some things that are inconvenient for the townspeople to see. When Green Lake Town was still prosperous, the lord's family often set off from here by boat. Go to Mikaela Blast City for vacation. Although there are no strict regulations, the townspeople seldom go to the hills in the south of the island on their own initiative, and they tacitly agree that this is a private territory where no one other than Edwards is allowed to set foot."

Their destination was not the Green Lake town cemetery in the grove in the northern part of the island.Although most of the townspeople and Edwards are buried there, according to Miss Apothecary, there are actually no bones in Edwards' grave in the cemetery, and everyone in the family is buried separately in various hidden corners on the island.

As for the reason, the sorceress couldn't explain clearly:
"It sounds like some kind of ritual, with blood as a pull, affecting the entire island, but I can't explain the specifics. Judging from the relics and letters my father left me, this is the family's first-generation lord Clay. My grandparents have always followed the rules left by In Edwards."

What she was looking for this time was the cemetery of the wife of her younger brother Sloss Edwards in the second generation of the root map.In order to prevent them from suddenly losing their sense of direction and being forced to wait, the two of them did not waste any time on the road this time. Entering the fork in the road, and after more than ten minutes, I saw the lighthouse standing on the highest point of the island.

(End of this chapter)