Whispering Poems

Chapter 1662 Crazy water ghost and clues

"Pudin Lane? What's the name?"

Shad walked along the narrow alley to the intersection, identified the street sign and continued walking westward.After a while, I found No. 8 on Pudding Lane.There is a simple yard outside the low hut. At this time, the older girl is holding the boy's hand and playing, while the woman with a numb expression is in front of the water basin, beating the clothes with a pounding pestle.

There are still piles of clothes around her like a hill, and the yard is full of washed clothes.Obviously, this was a washerwoman who washed other people's clothes, and the family's source of income probably depended entirely on her.

The afternoon spring breeze from the Duin River blows towards the yard in the fog, making the clothes on the clothesline sway slightly.But this scene did not have the feeling of spring full of vitality. Instead, it seemed that a group of people were hanged here, letting the wind blow their bodies.

"Hello."

Although the courtyard door was open, Shade knocked on the wood instead of going straight in:

"Does Mr. Jack Sybil live here?"

This is the name of the grave robber:
"I have something to ask him."

The girl who looked no more than ten years old took her brother's hand and hid behind the clothes rack, while the laundry woman looked up at Xia De, then nodded dullly:

"He's here, but he can't talk to you."

"He passed away?"

Xia De asked with some regret.

"No, but he's crazy, totally crazy."

The woman said, but Xia De still walked into the yard:
"It's okay, it's not like a madman can't speak."

With that said, he took out a handful of coins from his pocket, and the change added up to about two pounds:
"I'm going to interrupt you for about half an hour."

He handed the money to the laundry woman, who wiped her wet hands on her apron, and subconsciously wanted to catch it, but withdrew her hand, picked up the apron instead, and asked Xia De to take the small change. Put it on the apron.

"Sir, he's in the east room, on the bed. Please be careful, he can hurt people sometimes."

The woman said, Xia De nodded, and walked across the yard into the house.

Although this family can't be called a barren house, the degree of poverty is also visible to the naked eye.The only furniture like tables, chairs and cupboards in the house were old and there were no decorations on the walls.Even Shade couldn't find a gas lamp, and the oil lamp on the table was the only lighting tool.

The person Xia De was looking for was lying on the innermost bed. It was a thin man, covering the quilt with his eyes open and trembling while looking at the ceiling.His right hand was exposed from under the quilt, and was tied with a rope to the rusty iron railing at the head of the bed.

He trembled more when he heard Shad's footsteps, but at least he didn't try to get up and attack Shad.

Coming to the bed, looking at the man's appearance, Xia De also understood why "Bad-eyed Barry" said that he would not live long.The appearance of this man at this time is exactly the same as that of Detective Sparrow Hamilton that the outlander met on the first day he came to this world.This is the last struggle before death, and it also represents the irretrievable end of life.

"Can you still communicate with me?"

Xia De asked softly, the man with white lips was trembling, staring at the ceiling with wide-eyed eyes, and spoke incomprehensible words from his throat.

Even if Xia De is proficient in the language, he still cannot fully understand the meaning, which means that this is the nonsense babbling of a lunatic.The few Delarion and Carson Riker languages ​​that can be understood have meanings such as "return", "monster", "ghost", "underwater deep diver", and "ill-gotten wealth".

Xia De then put a finger on the other's thin right wrist. The blue blood vessels on the wrist protruded, making the arm terrible like some kind of sick tree root system.

After waiting for a while, "she" said softly:

[The mental state is extremely poor, there are impurities in the soul, and an unknown curse caused this result.In short, he was crazy.Be careful, his vitality is already weak to the extreme, excessive mental stimulation will cause him to die prematurely. 】

"I see."

So Xia De took out some holy water and fed it to the man on the bed.After helping him to sit up, he took out his moonstone ring.Kissing the face of the ring lightly, sending the hazy yellow moonlight to the eyes of the other party:

"confusion!"

This is a thaumaturgy that I got from Miss Oranord when I was in the Gaddis library.It can confuse summons and make people crazy, but it can also temporarily wake up the madman.

In the light of the yellow moon guiding the direction in the night sky, the trembling man's nervous and timid eyes turned into a little confusion, and then the confusion subsided, and the wisdom of human nature was lit up in his eyes again.

Shadela took a chair with a missing leg and sat down, giving the man some time to recover, and then said:
"I came here for the things you stole from Green Lake Middle Island, and you know what I'm talking about. Now, please tell me what happened on the island, why your companions went crazy and died miserably, and lead you to Where did the person with the mysterious power from the island go?"

His home was reflected in the man's eyes, he opened his mouth to look at Xia De:

"Can I have a few words with my wife in a moment?"

"No."

Xia De shook his head decisively, he didn't want to cause trouble for himself:

"If the information you give me is useful, then I can give your wife a sum of money so that she can live a good life with your children. If you disagree, I actually have a psychic soul, and then ask questions Ability, you know what I mean."

The man pursed his lips and nodded, he knew that the stranger sitting in front of him had no intention of negotiating terms with him:

"Although I have become like this, I don't know everything. It's probably luck to be the last one to die. What do you want to know first?"

Xia De wanted to know a lot, and he knew exactly what he wanted to know the most:
"Did you know that among the funeral objects you brought out from the graveyard of a member of the Edwards family, there were some finger bones?"

"Yes, to a wealthy merchant in Carson Rik United Kingdom-Randall's Vale."

The man nodded:
"I remember very well that the businessman looked crazier than us, muttering that he had encountered a demon and that he must never look in the mirror. Those two finger bones were sold for a fortune, and everyone alive at the time He was rewarded handsomely."

Xia De frowned slightly:

"Only two?"

This number is correct, Xia De got two finger bones from Haila's house.

"Yes, there are only two. However, there is another piece of similar bone product. The merchant didn't want it, so we gave it to Ferrero."

Harder Ferrero was also one of the tomb robbers, but the other party died half a year ago. The only information about this person in the intelligence of "Bad Eye Barry" is the time of death and the place of burial.Xia De wrote down this clue and continued to ask:
"Since you sold so much money for even two finger bones, how did you become so poor?"

Shad points to the house:

"It's only been three years since you landed on the island. Isn't it too fast for you to waste it? Are you playing Rhodes Card? Or have you encountered a scam or a trap?"

The man leaning on the head of the bed replied with a wry smile:
"I'm a disgraceful grave robber, yes, I know that, but I never gamble. As for scams, I've been a liar and a thief myself. I actually sent all the money back to the island."

"Oh?"

Xia De looked at him carefully, and the man continued:

"You also know that since our group came back from the island, everyone has been crazy. But it's not crazy. We were on the island and encountered some terrible situations."

He frowned suddenly, then moaned and covered his head:

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I forced myself to forget those things. The person who brought us to the island also erased our relevant memories, so that we can leave that island safely. I can no longer tell you that what happened on the island The details. I just remember the fog, the screams, the dead fish heads, the tentacles... oh."

He trembled all over again, and Xia De fed him some holy water again to stabilize his condition.

"Our symptoms were mild after we left the island. But as everyone spent the harvest, the headaches, nightmares, and the feeling of being watched all the time became more and more intense. I think, this is the island of the devil Curse everyone. I spent the least, so I went crazy the slowest. In order to survive, I was willing to return all the money, so I died the latest."

He smiled a few times with a pale face, and told Shad the specific location where he buried those things. It was an open space in the woods connecting the pier and Green Lake Town. He himself did not dare to go deep into the island:

"Looking at my current physical condition, I probably won't live until spring is over."

He was too optimistic, Xia De even felt that he might not live to the end of this month:
"So, you actually don't know anything about that experience? Well, the next question, how much do you know about the guy who led you to the island with mysterious power?"

The man shook his head with difficulty:

"Remember what I said? In order for us to leave that island alive, he erased most of everyone's memories. Among them, his memory is also included. I only remember that he summoned us in this city and After the tomb robbery, we left the island with us, and left with the collected notebooks, rubbing inscriptions and a small number of funerary objects. Those finger bones were hidden by us secretly. It was a man in his 40s. , wearing glasses looks like a writer or a college professor."

According to Megan, the opponent is just a low-level warlock, and Xia De doesn't know what abilities he has.

"Other than that, don't you remember anything?"

The man shook his head, unable to say anything.And Xia De, who was frowning, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then took out the pen he picked up from the bottom of the lake:

"This pen, and this name, do you recognize it—Druit Giles."

The man finally showed a surprised expression this time:

"Yes, yes, that's the name of the guy who hired us to go to the island and has a strange ability. I remember that he did have a very expensive pen, but I haven't touched it, so I'm not sure if it's this one. I remember, very vague memory!"

He covered his head, his face became even paler, but part of the memory was indeed recovering:
"It was a stormy night when we escaped from the island by boat. There were monsters under Green Lake! Yes, my God, how did I forget that! There were monsters under Green Lake, and they attacked us, Originally, three boats escaped, but when they returned to the shore, there were only two boats left!"

In this way, the corpses, ores, and pens that Xia De found in the water ghost's lair belonged to this group of grave robbers.The pen may have been lost by the low-ring warlock.

However, the information provided by the man sitting on the bed can only show that the water ghost in Green Lake may be related to that island, and still cannot provide more definite clues about the owner of the pen, Durut Giles.

Xia De changed some ways to ask questions, but the information the man could provide was very limited.In the final silence, Xia De suddenly asked:

"Describe your nightmare, don't overdo the atmosphere with flowery words, just tell me what happened."

"Sir, do you look at me like someone who can use very clever vocabulary?"

The grave robber smiled wryly, and then described those terrible dreams:

"All the dreams happened on that island, as if we never left there. The fog, the monsters rushing out of the fog, and the baby's laughter. Sir, you can imagine in the big night In the fog, all the horrors that human beings can imagine appeared in our dreams. I have communicated with my companions, and everyone’s dreams are similar, which must be caused by our tomb robbery.”

Xia De didn't ask them why they didn't ask the church for help. He thought of another thing:

"Do you know whose tomb you stole?"

"There were tombstones in that strange cemetery, but it was a dark and foggy night. All I knew was that it was a baby from the Edwards family who died young, but not who."

Xia De frowned slightly:

"So... when you opened the coffin, did you see the undead baby?"

Shad and Megan come into contact with three corpses during their second landing on the island, and the last one has no soul after that.This is probably because they were not the first contact, so the soul did not appear.

The man on the bed shook his head blankly:
"Sorry, I don't remember. I don't remember most of the things on the island. I just remember that it was dangerous, there were monsters, but at least there should be no undead when I get home. I only have nightmares and headaches."

Shad nodded, and it was almost time for Thaumaturgy to stay awake.Seeing Xia De get up, the man begged and said:

"Sir, what you just said."

"I will leave a sum of money for your wife and children. But I will not give it. Someone will donate after a while."

The man let out a long sigh, and shrank back under the quilt. After a while, the look in his eyes faded, and he trembled unconsciously again.Xia De frowned and looked at him, and said suddenly:

"A corpse water ghost with a fish head and a human body."

The man's trembling got worse.

"So, here are three clues: the dead grave robber Had Ferrero who took the bone fragments, the owner of the pen, Durut Gilles, and the water ghost is related to the central island."

Xia De thought in his heart, and walked out of the room.Seeing the washerwoman looking at him, he shook his head;
"Sorry, but it really looks hopeless."

As he spoke, he walked towards the woman, took out a stack of five-pound banknotes from his pocket, and stuffed them into the woman's hand.Seeing that the two children were not here, he reminded:
"When he dies, hold a decent funeral for him. He went to dig other people's graves before he was alive, and hope that they won't be dug by others after he dies."

Hearing Xia De's words, the woman seemed panicked.But Xia De didn't say anything, but walked out of the yard.As for promising to give the woman a sum of money, he can't give it now, but plans to meet Megan next time and ask her to help in the name of Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals.Or, after Iluna came to the local area, it would be good to go through the name of the church.

Back in Pudding Lane, Xia De put his hands in his pockets and looked towards the direction of the misty river bank, thinking whether to go to River Bank Street before taking a carriage.He turned around and walked slowly towards the entrance of the alley, and turned left at the entrance of the alley, where he disappeared.In the somewhat empty alley, five or six minutes later, in the direction Shad had just come from, the blind-eyed Barry, who was wearing a blindfold, walked over with his two rude-looking men.

Barry stood at the door, and the two men entered the courtyard.One of them spoke viciously to the woman, while the other entered the house to check on the man.They quickly finished asking questions and told the one-eyed man about the situation. Barry shook his head regretfully, and then the three of them left together.

On the opposite roof, the silver cat saw all this in the fog:
"Sure enough, when the tomb robbers escaped three years ago, they were attacked by water ghosts in the lake. It seems that it may have something to do with Barry. Is he a collaborator of a hidden existence on the central island of Green Lake? Or , are also coveting the things that the tomb robbers took away from the island?"

[Compared to this, there is actually another question. 】

"She" suddenly said next to the cat's ear.

"what?"

【Didn't you say that it's not easy to become a cat? 】

"Well, now that the girls are not with me, and Mia is not here, what am I afraid of?"

In the soft laughter of "her", the Shade cat nimbly jumped off the eaves, re-formed into a human form on the ground, and then walked towards the river bank.

　PS: It's the last day of the month, ask for tickets~~
　
(End of this chapter)