Whispering Poems

Chapter 1780 Graveyard Legend
Green Lake City Public Cemetery is located on the shore of the lake outside the city, built along the water, adjacent to the village of Lower Grioll, known as the "Gravekeeper's Village".There is no fog on the lakeside outside the city, so the scenery is indeed quite good when you come here on a spring morning.According to the chat with the coachman on the carriage just now, there is a special pier behind the cemetery to hold the "water burial ceremony". After hearing that Xia De is a foreigner, the coachman even recommended Xia De to visit.

But in this way, Xia De almost understood where there were so many water ghosts in Green Lake, and where the corpse materials came from.

The carriage stopped at the entrance of the cemetery. The black iron gate and the fence extending to both sides separated the boundary of the cemetery.Pass through the fence gate and enter the cemetery. It is very quiet here, only sporadic citizens are paying homage to the dead or dealing with the weeds beside the grave.

Shade followed the path in the cemetery and soon found the grave of Mr. Nicholas Green, the father of the Green brothers and sisters.The gentleman was not buried with his wife because of the breakdown of the marriage.He was buried under a big banyan tree, and the tombstone was clean and the tomb was not overwhelmed by weeds because the Greens would often visit.

【Nicholas Kelvin Green】

[1761-1843, died at home]

【May you rest in peace, father】

"Passed away at the age of 82? It's really a long life."

Xia De sighed softly, bent down and stroked the tombstone.Then he came to the tombstone, looked at the soil covering the tomb with his naked eyes, and after he was convinced that he couldn't find the clues with his eyes, he stomped his feet lightly, and the chain came out of his trousers and pierced into the ground.

[Chains of Great Sin] is not offensive, even if two of them can appear at the same time, it is still not offensive.But through the manipulation of the [Live Rope Trick], it is not a problem at all to break through the wet soil after the rain, not to mention that Xia De can also attack by attaching moonlight to it.

So the end of the chain quickly touched the coffin. The coffin, which had been buried for more than ten years, had of course decayed, so the chain easily got in.Then, as Xia De expected, there was no trace of any bones in the coffin.

"interesting."

The chains couldn't serve as Shad's eyes, he could only detect the situation underground with vague senses.After a more careful search, a hole large enough for an adult to crawl through was found on the side wall of the head of the corpse in the tomb.

Although Xia De's [Great Sin Chain] can continue to be extended, the longer the chain is, the weaker his control over the chain will be, so Xia De did not continue to investigate, but temporarily retracted the chain:
"I thought it was the ancestor of Edwards on the island, and sent someone to recover the bones. Now it seems that it is not that simple."

He patted the tombstone, turned and walked towards the steeple chapel standing in the cemetery.At this time, a stranger's funeral was being held there, and Xia De couldn't disturb it, so he waited outside the church for half an hour, and only entered the empty church after people walked out with coffins.

This is a church dedicated to the [God of Nature and Evil Thoughts]. Although the decoration of the church is simple, the holy emblem of the righteous god [Lord of All Things] with two overlapping leaves hangs in the main hall.

The priest had already gone out with the funeral procession, and only the young priest and the older gravekeeper were left chatting as they cleaned up the church after the funeral.

Seeing Xia De approaching, the gravekeeper looked at his attire and reminded:
"Sir, the funeral is over and you are late."

"I didn't come to the funeral."

Xia De pointed to the door of the church:
"Can I go outside and talk? I have some things, but I won't waste your time."

The half-white-haired old cemetery keeper nodded hesitantly. After following Xia De to the outside of the church, he heard Xia De say:

"I'm a writer from out of town. When passing by the village over there occasionally, I heard that there are local legends about ghouls and the like, so I want to ask you about it. Of course, I will pay you."

In fact, no matter where the cemetery is, there will be rumors of ghouls, and those are mostly the shadows left by unwary grave robbers.

"Outsiders? Oh, yes, there are quite a lot of outsiders during the recent negotiations between the two countries."

The gravekeeper nodded understandingly, and looked Xia De up and down again:
"You are not the first writer who asks me for information. People always think that the grave guard is a very strange profession, and there are always many stories. It seems that my profession should encounter all kinds of horror stories and bizarre events. But this is not the case. Yes, ghouls, ghosts, screams in the dirt in the middle of the night, I have a lot of stories like that, but I usually don’t pay.”

"Then what do you want?"

Those who say this will make more stringent demands.

The old cemetery keeper asked cheerfully:

"You look very young. A man of your age should have played Rhodes, right?"

Xia De raised his eyebrows:
"Of course, so."

"Want to play a game of Rhodes? If you win, I'll tell you the story you want to know. But if you lose. How about we play another game?"

He pointed to the pews at the back of the church, where they could play cards.

Xia De naturally wouldn't refuse, but when he took out his ordinary deck, he asked curiously:
"Do you often play cards with people who come to the cemetery?"

Xia De noticed that the old gravekeeper's card deck was also carefully preserved, and he knew that he cared about his own cards at a glance.

"No, invitations are only issued on rare occasions."

The two sat down on the chairs, and then checked their respective decks.The deck used by Xia De has no special cards, but the old gravekeeper's cards surprisingly have two special cards.Judging from the average salary in the gravekeeper industry, he definitely didn't buy these two cards.

The two special cards are Sun 9's [Human Organ·Kidney] and Moon 4's [Urban Legend·Non-Existent Street].Among them, in the "Human Organs" series, Xia De has seen [Human Organs Heart] in the hands of Miss Pavo of the Truth Society. As for the "Urban Legend" series, it is one of the series with the most editions so far, and Each release will add new special rules cards to include different urban legends.

The rule of [Human Organ·Kidney] is that if the player who draws this card has four cards in hand when the card stops, he will roll a 20-sided dice, and if the number is greater than 10, he can choose to add one to the number. The rules of [Urban Legend·Non-Existent Street] are relatively simple. When you draw a dice, throw a dice. If the number of dice is a multiple of three, the suit of the card will be regarded as the sun; the multiple of four will be regarded as a star; flowers.

Seeing the interested expression on Xia De's face, the old man said with a smile:

"As much as I love playing poker with strangers, I can never say to people at funerals: Oh man, don't cry, play a game of Rhodes with me? And then they really forget the sadness , willing to play cards with me, at my age, I don't want to be beaten for nothing."

He and Shad put their decks on the chair together, and Shad asked again:

"You won these two special cards? The rules of the urban legend series are really interesting, but it's a pity that you need to match special cards with rules related to suits to be useful."

The old man nodded:
"I won it all, but it's a pity you don't have a special card, otherwise I would be willing to bet with you."

The game adopts a simple rule of three games and two wins. If there is a tie with simultaneous bursts or the same points, there will be an extra game.

Although the old gravekeeper asked Xia De to win to get the story, when the two happily drew the cards together, he had already spoken:

"Ghouls are probably rumors in cemeteries everywhere, but you should know that most of them are false rumors spread by ignorant citizens after the stupid and unlucky thief made a movement at night. Of course, there are also stupid young people. People, gather together to play a game of courage, which, when I was young, was to be whipped."

The two drew out the second card together, Xia De glanced at the points, motioned for himself to continue drawing cards, and asked at the same time:
"So the rumors about ghouls in the local cemetery are also false?"

"Of course not, at least I don't think so."

The old gravekeeper shook his head, and drew out the third card like Xia De:

"Beginning on a rainy night more than ten years ago, when I was patrolling the cemetery at night, I could occasionally hear wailing, sobbing and rustling footsteps coming from underground, as if from the hell deep underground. It's not my hallucination, and even if people check and find nothing, I still don't think it's my hallucination."

Xia De knocked on the chair to signal himself to stop the card. The old gravekeeper hesitated for a moment, and actually drew a fourth card:

"Corpse has indeed been lost in the cemetery, but it has been proven that it has nothing to do with urban legends such as ghouls. I am not the only one who thinks that there is a strange thing hidden in the ground here. The nearby villagers also have similar rumors."

The two showed their cards respectively, Xia De said with a smile:

"The stars are 7, the flowers are 10, the sun is 3, and I am at 20 o'clock."

"The luck of young people is very good, but I am not bad. You see, flower 4, flower 6, sun 9 [human organ·kidney], moon 1. I also have 20 points. Fortunately, I have four cards in hand, special The rules work, and I can take another bet."

He carried the dice with him, and the dice kept spinning after clattering onto the chair.Both of them looked at the dice intently, probably because the old tomb keeper turned too much when he threw it, and it took a full minute for it to stop.

"11 o'clock! I got lucky today!"

The old man clapped his hands suddenly, Xia De also applauded with a smile:

"The rules can also be activated in this way, then you are blackjack, and I lost the first round. You must write down this round, go to the village tavern and tell the villagers, they will definitely not believe it."

"We started the second game. The weather is so good, and I can play Rhodes cards in the church. My later life is better than those young people who are running around for a living."

(End of this chapter)