Shade followed the narrow alley to the intersection, read the street signs and continued walking towards the west. After a while, he found No. 8 Pudding Lane. There was a simple yard outside the low shack. At this time, the older girl in the yard
The boy was holding the boy's hand and playing, while the woman with a numb expression was in front of the basin, struggling to beat the clothes with a clothes pestle.
There are mountains of clothes piled around her, and the yard is full of washed clothes. Obviously, this is a washerwoman who washes clothes for others, and the family's income probably depends entirely on her.
The afternoon spring breeze from the Duin River blew towards the yard in the fog, causing the clothes on the clothesline to sway slightly. But this scene did not have the feeling of spring vitality at all, but instead seemed like a group of people had hung themselves here.
, letting the wind blow their corpses.
"Hello."
Although the door to the yard was open, Shade knocked on the wood instead of walking in directly:
"Does Mr. Jack Sybil live here?"
This is the name of the tomb robber:
"I have something to ask him for."
The girl, who looked no more than ten years old, took her brother's hand and hid behind the clothes rack. The woman doing the laundry looked up at Shade, and then nodded dully:
"He's here, but he can't talk to you."
"He... passed away?"
Shade asked with some regret.
"No, but he's crazy, completely crazy."
The woman said, but Shade still walked into the yard:
"It doesn't matter, it's not like the madman can't speak."
As he said that, he took out a handful of coins from his pocket. The change added up to about two pounds:
"I'm going to bother 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 and held up the apron instead, letting Shade put the change.
Put it on the apron.
"Sir, he is in the east room, on the bed. Please be careful, he can hurt people sometimes."
The woman said, Shade nodded, walked through the yard and walked into the house.
Although this home cannot be called a bare-bones house, the level of poverty is visible to the naked eye. The only furniture in the house, such as tables, chairs, and cupboards, are very old, and there are no decorations on the walls. Even Xia De couldn't
Find the gas lamp and the oil lamp on the table is the only lighting tool.
The person Shade was looking for was lying on the bed in the innermost room. He was a thin man, covered with a quilt, staring at the ceiling with his eyes open and trembling. His right hand was exposed from the quilt and was tied to the bed with a rope.
Head on the rusty iron railing.
Hearing Shade's footsteps, he shivered even more, but at least he didn't try to get up and attack Shade.
When he came to the bedside and looked at the man's appearance, Shade also understood why "Bad Eyes Barry" said that he would not live long. The appearance of this man at this time was similar to that of the stranger who saw him on the first day he came to this world.
Detective Pilot Hamilton looks exactly the same. This is the last struggle before death, and it also represents the irreversible end of life.
"Can you still communicate with me?"
Shade asked softly. The man with white lips was trembling, staring at the ceiling with wide eyes, and said something difficult to understand from his throat.
Even if Shad is proficient in the language, he cannot fully understand its meaning, which means that it is the ravings of a meaningless madman. The few Delarian and Kasonric languages that can be understood have a "return"
Meanings such as "monster", "ghost", "underwater diver" and "illegal gain".
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Shade then put a finger on the opponent's thin right wrist. The blue blood vessels on the wrist protruded, making the arm look as scary as some kind of diseased tree roots.
After waiting for a while, "she" said softly:
[The mental state is extremely poor, there are impurities in the soul, and the unknown curse has caused such a result. To put it simply, he is indeed crazy. Note that his vitality has been extremely weak, and excessive mental stimulation will cause him to die early.
.]
"I see."
So Shade first took out some holy water and fed it to the man on the bed. After helping him up and sitting up, he took out his moonstone ring. He gently kissed the ring surface and sent the hazy yellow moonlight to the other person's eyes:
"confusion!"
This is a thaumaturgy obtained from Miss Olanold when he was in the library of Gaddis. It can confuse summoned objects and make people go crazy, but it can also make madmen temporarily awake.
In the light of the yellow moon guiding the direction in the night sky, the nervous and timid eyes of the trembling man turned into a little confused. Then the confusion subsided, and the wisdom of humanity was illuminated in his eyes again.
Shadra pulled a chair with one leg missing and sat down, giving the man some time to recover before speaking:
"I came here for the things you stole on the central island of Green Lake. You know what I'm talking about. Now, please tell me what happened on the island, why your companions went crazy and died tragically, and how to lead you to the island.
Where did the man with the mysterious power from the island go?"
The man's eyes reflected his home. He opened his mouth and looked at Shade:
"Can I... have a word with my wife in a moment?"
"no."
Shade shook his head decisively. He didn't want to cause trouble for himself:
"If the information you gave 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 don't agree, I actually have a psychic soul and can ask questions.
Ability…you know what I mean.”
The man pursed his lips and nodded, knowing 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. Being the last to die is probably due to luck... What do you want to know first?"
Shade wanted to know a lot, and he knew exactly what he wanted to know most:
"Did you know that among the funerary objects you brought out from the grave of a member of the Edwards family, there were some finger bones?"
"Yes, sold to a wealthy businessman in the Randall Valley City of Kasenlik United Kingdom."
The man nodded:
"I remember very clearly that the businessman seemed even crazier than us at the time. He was mumbling that he had encountered a demon and must not look in the mirror. Those two phalanges were sold for a large sum of money. Everyone alive at that time
They all received generous rewards."
Shade frowned slightly:
"Only two?"
This number is correct. The phalanges that Shade obtained from Hela's home were just two.
"Yes, there are only two. However, there is also a 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 he died six months ago. The few information about this person in "Bad Eyes Barry"'s intelligence was only the time of death and the burial place. Shade wrote down this clue.
, continued to ask:
"Since you sold two finger bones for so much money, how did you become so poor?"
Shade pointed to this house:
"It's only been two years since you landed on the island. Did you waste it too quickly? Are you playing Rhodes? Or have you encountered a scam or trap?"
The man leaning on the bed replied with a wry smile:
"Although I am a shameful grave robber, yes, I know this, but I never gamble. As for scams, I used to be a liar and a thief. I actually sent all the money back to the island."
"oh?"
Shade looked at him carefully, and the man continued:
"You also know that since our group came back from the island, everyone has gone crazy. But it's not crazy, it's... we encountered some terrible situations on the island."
He suddenly frowned, then groaned and covered his head:
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I forced myself to forget those things. The person who took us to the island also erased our related memories so that we could leave the island safely. I can no longer tell you what happened on the island.
The details are gone. I only remember the heavy fog, screams, fish-headed corpses, tentacles...oh."
His whole body started to tremble again, and Shade fed him some more holy water to stabilize his condition.
"Originally, after we left the island, our symptoms were very mild. But as everyone spent the gains, the headaches, nightmares, and the feeling of being spied on all the time became more and more intense. I thought, this is the Devil's Island
A curse for everyone. I spent the least, so I went mad the slowest. In order to survive, I was willing to give back all the money, so I died the last.”
He laughed a few times with a pale face, and told Shade the specific location where he buried those things. It was a clearing in the woods connecting the dock to Green Lake Town. He did not dare to go deep into the island himself:
"Looking at my current physical condition, I probably won't survive until the end of spring."
He was so optimistic that Shade even felt that he might not survive until the end of this month:
"So, you actually know nothing about that experience? Well, next question, how much do you know about the guy with mysterious powers who led you to the island?"
The man shook his head hard:
"Remember what I said? In order for us to leave the island alive, he erased most of everyone's memories. This also included his memories. I only remember that he summoned us in this city and
After robbing the tomb, he left the island with us, taking with him the collected notebooks, the inscriptions on rubbings and a small number of burial objects. Those finger bones were secretly hidden by us. He was a man in his forties.
In appearance, wearing glasses, he looks like a writer or university professor."
According to Megan, the other party was just a low-level warlock, and Shade didn't know what his abilities were.
"Other than that, don't remember anything?"
The man shook his head and couldn't say anything. Shade, who frowned, lowered his head and thought for a while, then took out the pen he picked up from the bottom of the lake:
"Do you recognize this pen and this name - Durut Giles?"
The man finally showed a surprised look this time:
"Yes, yes, that's the name of the guy who hired us to land on the island and had strange abilities. I remember that he did have a very expensive pen on him, but I haven't touched it, so I'm not sure if it's this one.
.....I remembered it, it was a very fond memory!"
He covered his head and his face became paler, but part of his memory was indeed reviving:
"When we escaped from the island by boat, it was a dark night with heavy rain. There were monsters under Green Lake at that time! Yes, my God, how could I forget this! There were monsters under Green Lake, and they attacked us.
Originally three boats escaped, but when they returned to the shore, only two boats were left!"
In this way, the corpses, ores and pens that Shade found in the water ghost's lair were all belonging to this group of tomb robbers. The pen may have been lost by the low-level warlock.
However, the information provided by the man sitting on the bed could only indicate that the water ghost in Green Lake might be related to the island, but it still could not provide more precise clues about the owner of the pen, Durut Giles.
Shade asked questions in some different ways, but the information the man could provide was very limited. In the final silence, Shade suddenly asked:
"Describe your nightmare. Don't use fancy words to exaggerate the atmosphere. Just tell me what happened."
"Sir, look at me, do I look like someone who can use very sophisticated vocabulary?"
The tomb robber smiled bitterly, and then described those terrible dreams:
"All the dreams happened on that island, as if we had never left there. The sky was full of fog, the monsters rushed out of the fog, and the laughter of babies. Sir, you can imagine what it is like in the dark night.
In the fog, all the horrific scenes that humans can imagine appeared in our dreams. I have communicated with my companions and we all have similar dreams. This must be caused by our tomb robbing."
Shade didn't ask them why they didn't go to the church for help. He thought of another thing:
"Do you know whose tomb you robbed?"
"There were tombstones in that strange cemetery, but it was a dark night and foggy. I only knew it was the baby of the Edwards family who died young, but I didn't know who it was."
Shade frowned slightly:
"So...when you opened the coffin, did you see the ghost of the baby?"
Shade and Megan came into contact with three corpses when they landed on the island for the second time, and the last one did not show its soul. This is probably because they were not the first contacts, 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 only remember that it was very dangerous and there were monsters... But at least there should be no undead when I get home. I only have nightmares and headaches."
Shade nodded, and the time for Thaumaturgy to stay awake was almost up. Seeing Shade getting 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 won't give it to you. Someone will donate it after a while."
The man let out a long sigh and retreated into the quilt. After a while, the look in his eyes faded, and he began to tremble unconsciously again. Shade frowned and looked at him, and suddenly said:
"The corpse water ghost with a fish head and human body."
The man's trembling became more serious.
"So, here are three clues: the dead tomb robber Harder Ferrero who took away the bone fragments, the owner of the pen, Durut Gilles, and the water ghost are related to the central island."
Shade was thinking in his mind and walked out of the house. Seeing the washerwoman looking at him, he shook his head;
"Sorry, but it looks really 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 hands. When he saw that the two children were not here, he reminded:
"When he dies, let's give him a decent funeral. He dug other people's graves during his lifetime, and he hopes they won't be dug up by others after his death."
Hearing what Shade said, the woman looked very panicked. But Shade didn't say anything more and walked out of the yard. As for promising to give the woman a sum of money, he couldn't give it now, but planned to see Megan next time.
Let her help through the name of Paradise Island Pharmaceutical. Or, after Yin Luna comes to the local area, it would be good to use the name of the church.
Returning to Pudding Lane, Shade put his hands in his pockets and looked towards the mist-shrouded river bank, wondering whether he should go to Riverbank Street and then take a carriage. He turned around and walked slowly towards the entrance of the alley, and turned left at the entrance.
The figure disappeared. In the slightly empty alley, five or six minutes later, from the direction where Shade came from, Bad-eyed Barry wearing an eyepatch came over with two of his rude-looking men.
Barry stood at the door, and two of his men entered the yard. One of them talked fiercely to the woman, and the other entered the house to check the man's condition. They quickly finished asking questions and told the one-eyed man the situation.
He shook his head regretfully, and then the three of them left together.
On the rooftop opposite, the silver cat saw all this in the fog:
"Sure enough, it happened. When the tomb robbers escaped two years ago, they were attacked by a water ghost in the lake. It seems that it may really be related to Bad-Eyed Barry. Is he a collaborator of a hidden existence on the central island of Green Lake? Or maybe
, are you also coveting the things that the tomb robbers took away from the island?"
【Compared to this, there is actually another question.】
"She" suddenly said in the cat's ear.
"What?"
[Didn’t you say that you can’t easily turn into a cat? 】
"Well...now the girls are not with me, and Mia is not here either, what should I be afraid of?"
Amidst "her" soft laughter, Shade Cat jumped off the eaves lightly, transformed into a human form on the ground, and then walked towards the river bank.