Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

Joad said in this way, in his opinion, it is normal for his group of warships to park in the port of this small city to cause other people's uneasiness, so this explanation means that after hearing Joad's explanation, the mayor Immediately continue to speak.

"No no no...Your Excellency, I have no worries about your arrival! I just want to confirm how long you will stay here, my lord, so that I can arrange some things about the municipal affairs."

"That's it... We came here this time only for a temporary stop. We planned to leave after getting off some supplies, but now there is something wrong, and it may be delayed for a day or two, but the time is not too long. It will be long."

Joad responded in this way, and after hearing Joad's words, the mayor continued to speak.

"Some situation? Hmm... what happened to you, my lord? I saw that there were some loud noises at the port this afternoon. When I came here, I saw that many places here were destroyed. Seriously, did something happen?"

"This is not your concern, Your Excellency the Mayor, you just need to know that we will only stay here for a day or two at most before leaving."

In a slightly harsh tone, Joad said to the mayor, and the mayor took two steps back in fear and spoke.

"Oh... If that's the case, then I won't ask any more questions, Lord Knight, I'll take my leave now."

After the last words, the mayor saluted Joad, then turned and left the captain's cabin. After watching the mayor leave, Joad began to review the documents on the desk in front of him in a blink of an eye. , Suddenly there was a knock on his cabin door, Joad responded and came in, after the cabin door opened, an adjutant entered the cabin, after he walked into the cabin, he reported to Joad Said.

"My lord, we have taken people to search the coast around Navaha, but we haven't found anything unusual. Sorry, we couldn't find the escaped cultist."

"Can't find it? It's a pity, but this is also expected. Once the Extraordinary of the Way of the Waves enters the sea, it will be very difficult to catch again. I asked you to try to find it because of his suffering. Because of the serious injury, he may not be able to swim too far, so now it seems that he is still underestimated.

"Although no one was found, you don't have to blame yourself. After all, investigation is not our specialty, and we just do it incidentally."

After listening to the words of the adjutant, Joad said this, and the adjutant nodded in response.

"Thank you, sir, for your understanding... The main reason is that this incident happened too suddenly. No one would have thought that those two guys were cult members who worshiped the deep snake, so they were not well prepared. Now that one is dead and the other is running, if we can detect it earlier, both of them can be caught!"

The adjutant said with a trace of regret in his tone, while Joad put down the pen in his hand to review the documents, and sighed.

"Yeah... Who would have thought that these two guys were fine before, and now they suddenly showed signs of spirituality? The situation this afternoon was not only that we were unprepared, but those two guys also Unprepared... It was too timely and coincidental to be exposed after all the passengers had left... If I say you can't find the guy, it might not only be because he escaped, but it might also be that he was killed by something else People got killed..."

Hearing the strange meaning in Jord's tone, the adjutant paused slightly, and then continued.

"You mean...these two cultists were deliberately designed to be exposed? And the guy who escaped...may have been killed?"

"Otherwise? Why can't the two of them hide so well all of a sudden? It can't be because the 'shadow' on their bodies before hiding is not counted well. The design traces exposed this time are too obvious. Obviously, they were taken What other secretive people are being watched? This person is hostile to the Sea Abyss Sect, and is very likely to be among the passengers of the Shining White Pearl. Maybe he has something to do with the so-called thief K, no matter what Said... this time we were used as guns."

Joad said this, with obvious displeasure in his tone. After seeing the exposure of Costa and Massimo, he realized that there might be a very deep secret on the Shining White Pearl The problem, and it may be the struggle between the two hidden forces on the ship. The incident of the thieves on the Shining White Pearl and the inexplicable sinking of the Shining White Pearl may have a very deep connection with the secret. At this moment, Joad is blaming Why didn't I find the problem in time.

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"You mean... among those passengers on the Shining White Pearl, there may also be members of dangerous pagan associations? My lord, do you want us to conduct a search?"

After listening to Joad's words, the adjutant spoke with some anxiety, and Joad responded directly.

"It's too late... Now everyone on the Shining White Pearl has entered Vanaha, and some of them left Vanaha overnight. We don't have the manpower to take them all Everyone was found one by one, so let’s forget it... After all, searching and investigating is not our job.”

While talking, Joad stood up from his seat, and then came to the window of the captain's cabin, through the glass, Joad looked at the peaceful Wanaha Harbor at night.

"I've already told the above about the situation here, and now a special person has arrived from Troyes, we just need to wait here for a day or two, and transfer all the existing clues in our hands after the person arrives Just hand it over to them. This kind of thing needs to be handed over to a special person to handle it. Our task is just to escort.

"However... before the people from Truys come, we also need to do a good job in advance to preserve the evidence and clues. Taking this opportunity, everyone can take a good rest."

Joad said that, as a soldier of the church, he obviously didn't intend to get involved in this matter, but he planned to take this opportunity to stay on the shore for two more days and give himself and his sailors a little vacation. After all, it is an extraordinary event related to two Cretaceous heretics. He can take the reason of being cautious and take the whole fleet to fish for two days. After all, life at sea is very boring and hard. The atmosphere in the longship is very depressing and depressing, so whether it is for sailors or officers, it is better to spend more time on the shore, and it is natural to fish if there is a legitimate reason.

And the adjutant who saw Joad's meaning couldn't help scratching his chin, showing a comprehensible smile, then turned his head to look out the window, and said with a smile.

"Yeah, it's better to prepare in advance and keep the evidence, and it will be easier to wait for other people to come to work. It seems that we will arrive in Iviga a day or two later, but fortunately, this time the pilgrimage The schedule is pretty relaxed."

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Time flies, very quickly, the night gradually passed, Vanaha ushered in the morning of the day, amidst the calls of the seabirds circling in the sky, Vanaha gradually woke up from the silence.

Dorothy was woken up early in the morning by seabirds calling in front of her window sill. She rubbed her sleepy eyes, and when she was about to squint a few more times, she was disturbed by the seabirds again. Dorothy couldn't sleep, and with indifferent eyes, Dorothy took out her magic box and made a dead eagle doll, threw it out of the window, and stirred up the outside for a while, in revenge. After a visit to these sleep-disturbing fellows, Dorothy, who was sleepless, began to get up.

After waking up, Dorothy washed up without haste, put on her little black leather boots and a plain gray dress, went downstairs and walked out of the hotel, and ate a few potato cakes for breakfast. , Dorothy started wandering around Navaja.

Dorothy's purpose today is to find out if there is a stronghold of the White Stone Masons Guild in this city, and go there to buy some things. With this purpose, Dorothy manipulated several corpse puppets scattered I started to walk around the streets of Navaha, and I was going to go to the bank workshop and other places to see if there were any key traces, but my own body was mainly shopping on the street with my parents’ dead puppets. I really came here with a tourist attitude. Enjoy the exotic atmosphere of this small town.

Dorothy, who was shopping, tasted the snacks and toured the scenery at the same time. During the period, she saw many passengers on the Shining White Pearl who were also traveling and shopping. She really regarded this temporary place as the purpose of the trip. In the middle, Dorothy also saw Neveu. She was traveling around with several of her classmates and mentors. According to Neveu, they decided to visit the city for a while before trying to find a way to go on to Evigor .

Now that you’ve come here, let’s have fun before leaving, this is the thinking of many passengers on the Shining White Pearl at this time.

Also with the idea of ​​playing, Dorothy wandered all the way. After walking and resting for more than two hours, Dorothy found that she was slowly leaving the city and came to the northern part of Navaha. suburban area.

On the hill here, Dorothy looked at the entire Navaha, and found that the scale of the city was much smaller than she had imagined before, and the scale of the entire Navaha was far from that of Igwent. Big, it is a small city to the letter. After seeing the scale of Navaha, Dorothy directly doubted whether there is a stronghold of the White Stonemasons Guild in such a small city.

No, not to mention the White Stone Masons Guild, it is hard to say whether there is an official Extraordinary organization here.

"Igwynte is the capital of a county after all, so there is a security bureau. This place looks much smaller than Igwynte, and it seems that there are no extraordinary institutions..."

Looking at the whole picture of Navaja from the hill, Dorothy thought in her heart that at this time she already thought that there was probably no White Stonemasons Guild in this city.

After looking around, Dorothy was about to go down the mountain and return to the urban area. On the way down the mountain, she passed a courtyard at the foot of the hill, which had extremely tall walls.

When passing by the high courtyard wall, Dorothy couldn't help casting her gaze at the gate of the courtyard curiously, only to see an empty arched iron frame standing above the closed iron gate, which immediately attracted her attention. caught Dorothy's attention.

'The iron frame on this door...seems to be specially used to hang signboards, does it mean that there should have been any signboards on this door? Why is there only a shelf left, and the signboard is gone? Yes Didn't it hang up?'

Looking at the empty iron shelf, Dorothy thought about it in her heart, and at the same time, a trace of curiosity arose in her mind.

Under Dorothy's control, a dead bird puppet that was hovering in the sky flew down and landed on the rusty iron frame, and began to observe the situation above carefully. As a result, Dorothy An interesting phenomenon was discovered.

This phenomenon is the screw holes. On the iron frame, there are many preset screw holes for fixing advertisement words or signboards. Dorothy discovered through the bird carcass that although most of the iron frame was dusty, some The rust is a bit dirty, but the inside of the screw hole is relatively clean, not only is it not dirty or dusty, even there is not much rust.

That is to say, there were screws on the iron frame not long ago, because the screws filled the screw holes, so it is not easy to get dust and stains.

And if the screw was still screwing not long ago, it means that there should be a signboard hanging on it not long ago, but it was suddenly removed for some reason. Because the time for removing it was too short, the screw of the screw was unscrewed. The hole is also very clean.

'Did some signboard be removed temporarily? Interesting... Is this a plan to change the signboard? Or some other reason?'

Dorothy thought in her heart, and then, she manipulated the bird carcass and flew into the yard, wanting to see what was going on inside?

Dolusi controlled the bird corpse to fly into a building, and saw a letter on the pillar inside the building, with a noun on it.

"Beigang Mental Hospital"

After seeing this term, Dorothy was slightly taken aback, and then thought.

'A mental hospital again? There are two mental hospitals in this small place?'

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Conquer the North Shore of the Sea, Vanaja.

In the northern suburb of Wanaha, a small seaside town, Dorothy, who was traveling and wandering, was about to go back to the urban area, and found a huge high-walled courtyard at the foot of a hill. Under Dorothy's keen observation, , she found some problems with the iron frame on the big iron gate of this courtyard.

From the comparison between the inside of the screw holes on the iron frame and the cleanliness of the iron frame itself, Dorothy judged that there should be some signboard hanging on the iron frame not long ago, but it was temporarily removed recently. The situation made Dorothy curious, so she manipulated the corpse into the building in the courtyard for a simple inspection, but the result of the inspection confirmed that Dorothy couldn't help but be quite surprised.

Through the stickers on the pillars in the building, Dorothy knew what the compound was, and it was the "North Hills Mental Asylum", which was the second mental hospital Dorothy Navaha met.

Just yesterday, after Dorothy cleaned up Massimo, on the way back to the city from the beach, she came across an Anshika mental hospital. After seeing the mental hospital, Dorothy sighed The scenery there is good, which is conducive to the recovery of mental patients, but she did not expect that only one day later, she came across a second mental hospital on the edge of the city.

Under the hill, on the quiet road, Dorothy and the paternal doll stood in front of the new mental hospital for a while, and Dorothy continued walking without staying too long , and continued to go to the urban area, but at this time her face has changed from relaxed to slightly dignified.

'Wanaha... Judging from the results I just overlooked on the hill, the size of this city should not be too big, even Igwent's can't compare, the whole city can Can't have 10 people is a problem, does a city of this size need to have two mental hospitals?'

Walking on the road, Dorothy thought to herself, in her impression, even Igwinter didn't seem to have a dedicated mental hospital, it's a bit strange that there are actually two in this city.

'And the signboard of Beigang Psychiatric Hospital just now seems to have been taken down not long ago... So what is the reason why they temporarily took down the signboard? Is it because it is broken? A new one? Or some other reason?'

With some doubts, Dorothy, who was walking on the road, manipulated the small corpse puppet still in the mental hospital to start a simple investigation. During the preliminary investigation, Dorothy found that although the Beigang Mental Hospital The doors and windows are closed, but they are still working.

Using the vision of the small corpse doll, Dorothy saw that there were many patients in hospital clothes in the wards on both sides of the long corridor. Thin and haggard, everyone was either lying on the bed staring blankly at the ceiling, or sitting in front of the window and staring out of the window foolishly. Everyone was staring at a pair of big dark circles under their eyes.

Dorothy used the small corpse doll to quickly scan several buildings in the courtyard, and found that there were about forty or fifty patients here. The eye circles are very heavy, as if they haven't slept well for a few days. All the patients are crawling, lying or sitting very listlessly. Although this mental hospital has a vast yard, there is no one Patients choose to go to the above activities, and all stay in their own wards.

There are more than a dozen staff members in the entire mental hospital. Under Dorothy's observation, they are caring for each patient with all their heart, helping them eat and scrub their bodies. Some patients occasionally yell hysterically Get up, and they will immediately go over and control it.

Dorothy rushed back to the city and observed the situation of the mental hospital with a corpse puppet. After observing various places for more than an hour, she did not find anything abnormal in this mental hospital. She eavesdropped In the conversations with the caregivers here, it seems that they are just ordinary people living in Wanaha. What they say to each other is some short stories about work and life, and has nothing to do with secrets. There is nothing extraordinary in the whole mental hospital trace.

If there is anything abnormal about this mentality, it is that the symptoms of the patients here are too similar. In Dorothy's view, the symptoms of mental patients should be all kinds of strange, and they should have all kinds of symptoms. The patients are quite strange, all of them look like neurasthenia and dementia, and all of them have dark circles under their eyes, as if they haven't slept well.

It would be fine if one or two patients had this symptom, but it would be a bit strange if all the patients in the entire mental hospital were like this now.

"People in this city don't uniformly suffer from the same mental illness..."

After almost checking the entire Beigang Mental Hospital, Dorothy thought in her heart that if the symptoms of the patients here were more colorful, Dorothy might think that there is no problem here, but the key is here Dorothy's patients felt as if they were suffering from the same mental illness.

And mental illness is not an infectious disease, how can it be possible that the same situation will appear in batches?

For a moment, Dorothy was suspicious. With this doubt, she continued to observe the mental hospital for two hours, but she still failed to obtain any more useful information. But Dorothy learned from the conversations with the staff how the signboard at the door was taken down. According to them, it was because the municipal government was going to carry out some beautification projects and asked the signboard to be replaced. It was removed. The time was yesterday afternoon, and the new brand has not yet arrived.

After failing to obtain more information, Dorothy withdrew the small corpse puppets scattered in Beigang Mental Hospital, recovered them and continued to the city. At this moment, the sky had gradually darkened. , a new night is coming.

After returning to the urban area, Dorothy quickly found a restaurant that looked good. After ordering some special dishes, she began to eat dinner slowly.

"The psychiatric hospital in the daytime seems to be fine, but the symptoms of the patients there are almost the same. Is there any mental illness like this in this city?"

Sitting at the edge of the dining table, Dorothy was nibbling on Castile ham while thinking about what happened during the day, because she had been in the hidden world for a long time, and she was extremely sensitive to such suspicious points.

With doubts in her heart, Dorothy decided to ask. While eating, she spread out to find the corpse puppets of the White Stonemasons Guild during the day and controlled them back. Although these corpse puppets could not find the White Stoneworkers Guild, they can help Dorothy inquired about those asylums.

Thus, under Dorothy's control, several corpse puppets began to chat with the surrounding Navaha residents with various excuses, and during the period, intentionally or unintentionally, asked them about the mental hospital.

After some inquiries, Dorothy got some valuable information from a stall owner.

"Ah? Guest, you ask me about the mental hospitals outside the city?"

"Yeah... When I was walking outside the city yesterday, I saw that there are actually two mental hospitals in this city. I think this is a bit strange. I am from Fararo, and my hometown is about the same size as this city. , but there is not a single mental hospital, so I wonder why there are so many here? Could it be that mental patients from other cities are sent here for treatment? "

At a certain alley, under the manipulation of Dorothy, the traveler puppet spoke to the stall owner who sold him the candy while licking a piece of round candy he had just bought, and the stall owner listened He also murmured to answer.

"Well...it's rare that you visited so many places on the first day you disembarked, but actually you are a bit wrong, our city has three mental hospitals instead of two, and these mental hospitals are not It’s not for receiving patients outside, the patients inside are mainly our Navaha’s own.”

"There are three mental hospitals, and all the patients in them are from Navaha? Why... is it easy for mental patients to come out of this city?" Listening to the stall owner's words, Dorothy manipulated The corpse of the traveler below unexpectedly spoke, and the stall owner nodded silently.

"Yeah... In our city, from time to time, there will be someone from a certain family who suddenly becomes very dumb and strange. A person who was originally normal suddenly becomes stupid and dumbfounded." Yes, from time to time I start to yell wildly, especially at night, I toss very hard, I have no leisure at all, and I can't sleep well...

"According to the old people in the city, this is a kind of disease unique to our place, called insomnia, which has happened occasionally since a long time ago, so it is not surprising to everyone, whoever has this kind of disease If you are sick, you can only admit that you are unlucky."

"Insomnia? In other words, you have had this disease a long time ago?"

"Yes, but there were not many people suffering from this disease in the past, and there may not be one person throughout the year. But I don't know whether it is because the number of people has increased or other reasons. In the past seven or eight years, urban The number of people suffering from insomnia gradually increased. Because the number of patients increased, the city built a mental hospital to accommodate the patients. One, two, and three. Because the number of patients increased, this In the past seven or eight years, we have built three psychiatric hospitals, and many families went in together, which looked quite scary, and some young people felt scared and ran to Troyes.”

The stall owner said to the passenger puppet in a sighing tone, after hearing what the stall owner said, the traveler puppet nodded, and then took a few coins to the other party.

"Thank you for your answer, sir, and one more slice, please."

Out of the idea of ​​taking care of the business of information sources, Dorothy asked the traveler's corpse to ask for an extra candy tablet. After accepting the money handed over, the stall owner smiled and took out a new piece of sugar. After taking a look, I found that it was a crescent-shaped sugar tablet.

"I wish you sweet dreams, guest."

"Sweet dreams? Heh, what a strange way of blessing."

"Ha, it's just a custom here. We always say this when eating this kind of moon candy. When I was young, I wanted to ask my parents for this kind of moon candy. I always said that I want a dream, a dream."

The stall owner continued to explain to the traveler corpse puppet. After listening to the traveler corpse puppet's words, the traveler corpse puppet couldn't help but examine the crescent moon candy in its hand, and then murmured.

"Is it a sweet dream?"

After inquiring about the psychiatric hospital from the citizens, Dorothy began to take back all the corpse dolls. Dorothy, who was having dinner, couldn't help but wrinkled as she thought about what she encountered after coming to Navaha. frown.

'Insomnia? Listen to this uncle... This kind of mental disease seems to have existed in this city since a long time ago. It is a disease that local residents are very familiar with, but in In the past seven or eight years, the incidence of this disease has suddenly increased. In order to cope with the surge in the number of patients, so many mental hospitals have been built one after another...

"Tsk... I always feel... there is something unusual hidden behind this..."

After finishing the Castile sausage in her hand, Dorothy thought seriously in her heart.

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In the evening, somewhere in Navaja.

In an ordinary living room, a 40-year-old, chubby woman in a black robe is sitting on a single sofa, looking forward solemnly, on the carpet in front of him, At this time, there was a man in his thirties standing in a neat suit. Facing this man, the woman said.

"What's the situation now? Gomez, have you found out what the mission of the church fleet is? Are they really just here to lay people down?"

"Ms. Garcia, after our investigation, this church fleet is an escort fleet. The reason for coming to Vanaha should indeed be impromptu. They encountered other ships that sank at sea and rescued a group of People sent people here nearby, and they should have simply come to send people off, not involved in other extraordinary affairs. For us, for this city, they should not be aware of it."

The man named Gomez responded respectfully to the woman named Garcia, and Garcia paused for a while after hearing this, and then continued to speak.

"On a temporary basis...just to send someone off...not involved in any extraordinary affairs? Hmph, if that's the case, then what happened to the noise at the port on the afternoon they came? The noise on the barren beach What's going on again? If you just send people off the ship...this kind of thing won't happen."

With a cold snort, Garcia said this, a deep distrust appeared in her expression at this time.

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Conquer the North Shore of the Sea, Navaja.

In Navaja in the evening, in a dim hut, a woman named Garcia sat upright on her seat, commenting on a series of abnormal behaviors after the church fleet arrived in Navaja with a serious expression. His eyes were full of vigilance and worry for this group of uninvited guests.

The sudden visit of the church fleet made her feel uneasy. Although on the surface, it seemed that this fleet was only here for mundane matters such as sending refugees, but there were indications that things might not be that simple.

"Um...Ma'am, what you said is that yesterday afternoon, the church fleet did have some unusual movements at the port. It is true that their Navaha may not only be involved in ordinary affairs. But from my point of view , even if the purpose of their trip includes secret affairs, they should not be targeting us.