Whispering Poems

Chapter 1889 Inquiries and Traps

"One question for each person? No problem, but priest, as long as it's a question, even if you accidentally say: Why is the weather so bad this year? It's also a question?"

"Yes, these souls are manipulated by other things, and they have low intelligence and only instinct, so you should ask questions carefully."

Both Xia De and the doctor covered their mouths. After getting ready, the priest poured out some ash from the unlit pipe and sprinkled it on the body of the remains.Then, he swung his right arm and made the action that Xia De still remembers (Chapter 440)——

Slap on the corpse's face:
"Come back!"

The corpse trembled like a convulsion. After Xia De and the doctor pulled the priest out of the grave, the corpse also sat up, and the sand continuously rolled down from its body.

An imperceptible dark green flame ignited in the skeleton's eye sockets, but the corpse was dumbfounded, as if its wisdom was not as high as Mia's.

The priest coughed and asked first:

"Your soul is not free. Do you know what controls you?"

The corpse sitting up at a ninety-degree angle replied in a very dull voice:

"A book, it is praised by souls, it can plan our destiny."

"It seems that the detective is right, but I have never heard of such a relic."

The priest said to Shad and the doctor, taking special care to use declarative sentences, and motioned for them both to ask questions.

The doctor was eager to try, so Xia De let the doctor come first.Dr. Schneider, sure enough, asked a topic that both of them were interested in just now:

"I heard that you gave birth to eight sons, so do you have any unique methods?"

"There is no way, our family has always had many boys."

The corpse answered again, and the doctor tried to interpret it in a way that ordinary people could understand:
"That is to say, it's heredity, but if this kind of inheritance spreads more and more widely in the population, as it accumulates from generation to generation, it will definitely lead to a sex imbalance in the population. Therefore, this special family inheritance should not exist, otherwise Over the years, the sex ratio in this region has been skewed."

He also pays attention not to end the interrogative sentence, so as not to occupy the last opportunity to ask questions.

So in the end it was Xia De's turn. Xia De actually didn't have too many questions, but since he could ask questions, he still wanted to know about Edwards:
"What do you think of your lord, Pride Edwards, the third generation of the Edwards family?"

The corpse did not answer immediately, as if recalling:

"When the lord was young, he was taught strictly by the previous generation of lords. He was an excellent gentleman. He treated the townspeople very well, and he treated his family very well. It was only three or four years before the accident in the town, people often saw him at night. , secretly operating on the island. But it may also be just a rumor, and the islanders have different legends about Lord Edwards' family."

After speaking, he immediately lay back in the coffin, not giving Xia De a chance to satisfy his curiosity at all.

"Priest, is it true that you can no longer psychic?"

Xia De couldn't help asking, the priest nodded:
"For safety's sake, this soul can no longer be psychic."

The doctor who was also interested in the matter then suggested:

"Aren't his three brothers buried here too? Maybe the three ghoul brothers who come after eleven o'clock will attack his three brothers first, so we might as well dig them out, ahem, I mean protect it too. Three brothers, you have nine chances to ask questions."

"This is a good suggestion. Since it's still early, we can make more preparations."

Seeing that the priest agreed, the doctor kicked up the shovel with his foot, and each of them with Xia De went to another grave.

The corpses of the other three brothers were decomposed to a similar degree, and the dates of their deaths were distributed within five years. Except for the shop owner who accidentally fell to his death when he was old, the remaining three died of unknown diseases.But this should have nothing to do with that fortune teller. For the villagers living in the countryside, even a cold can lead to death.

In the remaining nine opportunities to ask questions, Shade asked six times to ask the family's impression of the Edwards family.For the remaining three questions, the doctor curiously asked whether they missed their homeland after being away from home, and the priest inquired about the different feelings of the corpses about the control of their souls.

Xia De didn't pay much attention to the questions from the doctor and the priest, but he probably knew how the ordinary townspeople in Green Lake Town viewed the Edwards family a hundred years ago by asking seven times.

"Mysterious", "strong background" and "rich" are the deepest impressions on the whole family.As for the rumors circulating among the townspeople, it means that people suspect that "Edwards" is the surname passed down by the illegitimate son of a certain noble in Tobesk City, otherwise it cannot explain that this family seems to never be short of money, and Always be able to get preferential treatment of various policies.

In the eyes of the less knowledgeable villagers, the Edwards family is almost synonymous with omnipotence in the local area.However, the three generations of lords of the family are very approachable, and they don't say dirty words like "primary ye rights". Even the local taxation has been reduced to the lowest level imaginable.

This is also the reason why the town has been able to develop rapidly in the 100 years since the fortune teller came to Green Lake Town until the town fell.Even, these townspeople are quite grateful to the first three generations of lords of the Edwards family, and consider them real nobles.

Although this information does not have much significance for the upcoming decisive battle, it can be regarded as complementing Shade's lack of a century-old history of Green Lake Town.After asking the questions, the three of them set up traps and set up rituals under the leadership of Priest Augustus.

The goal this time is to capture the three brothers alive so that the priest can sense the position of the third of the skull through them later.Laplace Klein Howard can't leave the island now. Even if the skeleton is very rare, he will not give up what he has in his hands. Therefore, as long as Priest Augustus can get a third of the skull by surprise , you don’t have to worry about being personally chased by that fortune teller.

Even, tomorrow is the time for the divination ceremony of the Prophet Association to start, and the fortune tellers on the island have to deal with this matter, so the possibility of Cleric Augustus' actions failing becomes even lower.

The three of them worked together, and the ceremony and trap were set up quickly.After dealing with those tombs, they took pains to restore the tombs, and then found a suitable place nearby to hide themselves.

There are no clouds under the starry sky tonight, and the yellow moon, which happens to be close to the full moon state, illuminates the entire rural cemetery.The time came to [-]:[-] on Friday night, when the wind blew over the tips of the spring weeds, before the weeds had time to sway, they were stepped on by a tattered, muddy shoe.

The three "people" with hunched waists appeared from the darkness, skillfully climbed over the fence and hedge and entered the cemetery.The three brothers were very different now than when Shad had seen them on the burning farmstead a few weeks earlier.

The most important point is that they were only hung with a few rags to cover key positions, and they would touch the ground with their hands from time to time as they walked, as if they were walking on all fours.But at this time, they have already put on suitable shorts and short-sleeved tops. Although they are still hunched over when they walk, they are indeed walking with only their feet.

The three brothers appeared under the moonlight, and then, as Priest Augustus expected, they took the lead to walk to the tomb of the former owner of the small town grocery store.Their excavation speed was faster than Dr. Shad and Dr. Schneider, and within a few minutes, the old wooden coffin that had been buried was revealed again.

Two ghoul liches stood guard on the ground, one of them jumped down after lifting the coffin lid, bent down and grabbed the rotting corpse lying there with its nails longer than the palm of its hand.

Suddenly, a dark green light appeared in the eyes of the corpse, and then the lying corpse stretched out its arms and hugged the ghoul, and then pulled it to lie down together.

Although the ghoul lich transformed by the three Edwards brothers has a low IQ, they are absolutely powerful.It's just that when the corpse in the coffin touched its arm, some kind of indescribable power related to death immediately made it lose almost all its strength.

With a bang, the coffin lid closed again, locking the corpse and the ghoul inside.The two brothers outside the tomb wanted to reach out to break the rotten wooden coffin lid, but the moonlight illuminated the coffin lid, and the ancient holy emblem surrounded by elderflowers shimmered, and the two brothers jumped up in shock .

Their wisdom is still unable to understand what is floating on the coffin lid, but this does not prevent them from knowing that it is extremely dangerous.

The two instinctively backed away from the excavated grave. Before they were ready for the next move, the taller ghoul on the east side stepped into the pit on the ground again.

Countless hands burning with dark will-o'-the-wisps stretched out from the pit, dragging it forcefully into the mud, leaving only the head exposed.Just like before, when those ghost hands touched its body, the powerful power and spellcasting ability derived from the ghoul lich almost disappeared.

In this way, only the last of the three brothers remained.It hunched over and didn't dare to walk around casually. Its mouth was open and its teeth were bared, revealing its blood-red gums. It kept turning in circles, wanting to know who attacked them.

And when it looked under the moon, it finally saw the three men standing under the moon.

The one on the left holds a large shiny silver sword in his hand, the one on the right carries a shovel on his shoulder, the one in the middle holds a pipe, and his robe is blown by the night wind.

Tonight's moon is surprisingly bright, and for a moment, with cloudy eyes, they only saw the silhouettes of the three people but couldn't see the specific appearance of the three people.But it knows that they must be enemies.

　PS: The picture in this chapter is "The Three Brothers Under the Moon"

　
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