Whispering Poems.

Chapter 1679 The Second Island
"Third-party identity? This time there is really no more. Miss Pharmacist, although my identity is a bit mysterious to you, I don't have so much time to play ordinary people's spy games. It's just to make some money and maintain relationships. That's all."

The sorceress smiled and said nothing, but became more and more curious about Xia De.

What appeared on the third batch of wordless letters were some strange patterns.Xia De and Megan don't know each other, but judging from the fact that the locks are all ordinary locks and the letters are stored in similar specifications, Barry the Bad Eye attaches the same importance to the three batches of letters. The cover-up of the identity of the "gang leader".

So Xia De also put away the third batch of letters, and went back to see if Miss Galina was interested.He couldn't give it to Director An Luosi directly, so it's best to let the Duchess go through it.

In addition to these three drawers, other drawers of the desk contained sundries such as pistols, bullets, and unknown potions.After further inspection of the study room, they finally found the hidden safe behind the bookshelf.

Opening the safe, the first thing Xia De noticed were more than a dozen black metal pendants of "Return to One", which were the ones he saw when he was pressing for information in the tavern and stables in the fishing village by the lake.

This is the first time Megan has seen this kind of thing, but after checking it, she is sure that it is an ordinary item:
"This is somewhat similar to the Edwards family coat of arms. They are all spirals gathering inward."

She said so, so Xia De asked for three pendants for research, and left the rest to her.

Apart from the pendants that were carefully kept, the most important thing in the safe to them was of course the bad-looking Barry's account books.This is not the account book of his illegal business, but the account book of his regular delivery of supplies to the central island of Green Lake.

Although he is the leader of the gang, he kept his books very organized, recording dates, ship information and even the weather.Megan flipped through it for a while, and then she got a general idea of ​​what the so-called supplies are:
"It's not the imagined daily necessities. It's strange. It's a lot of metal ore, earthwork, and wood. Although there are animals such as pigs, cattle, and sheep, what are you going to do if you just want to die? Build a brand new city?"

There are more than a dozen accounting books, which completely record all the things that were transported to the lake by Rotten Eye Barley from 1849 to 1854.As for the previous account books, although I haven't seen them, they must have similar contents.

"So what does he get out of it?"

Xia De asked puzzledly:
"In other words, what can the cultists get? Although these things are cheap, they need to be transported secretly in such a large quantity. The cost must be a lot of money. What exactly is the Cult of the Drowned?"

"There is no income in the books."

The sorceress shook her head, then motioned for Shad to check the rest of the safe.

This safe is not big, so most of the storage is documents, papers and valuable gold and silver jewelry.In addition to the ledgers, they also found letters from Bad-Eyes Barry's correspondence with the Order, but only in the last few days, stating that the next shipment was about to arrive.

This kind of letter should be destroyed when it expires, and there is no stamp date on the envelope, so it can only show that the matter here is indeed the behavior of the religious order, not the bad-eyed Barry alone.

"Here are a few more books, let me take a look, "Mysteries of the Abyss: Creeping Darkness", "Life and Death: The Dividing Line of the Ocean", "Corpse Quotations: Echoes of the Dead". Gain valuable knowledge of spirit runes."

Xia De said, Megan glanced at the books, then waved his hand to let Xia De put them away, the wise witch obviously already had similar knowledge.

Xia De is not very interested in the spiritual runes involved in these books, but he should be happy to collect these books in the academy library.And when he took the book out from the bottom of the safe, he noticed an old black and white photo under the book.

He took out the photo curiously, and then saw that it was a corpse soaked in water.

"Ok?"

While Xia De's eyes scanned the photo, the corpse's eyes also opened suddenly.Afterwards, a gurgle of water emerged from the photo, and the pale hand stretched out from the photo, grabbing Xia De's wrist.

"You know the pain of sinking in water, knowing that you are falling, but helpless?"

A series of bubbling sounds entered the ears, and the corpse's hand grabbing Xia De's arm did not try to pull him into the photo, but more and more water gushed out of the photo.

The invisible darkness blocked all the light in the room. Xia De knew that the whole room was dry except for the water under his feet, but he felt that he had been soaked in the whole room by the sound of water gurgling. water.

Except for the dim light of the photo itself, all the light around it disappeared.He couldn't see the walls of the room, or even feel that he was standing on a solid floor.

He seemed to be falling in the water, falling deeper into the abyss.He could feel the invisible threat waiting for him further below, and he could also feel that the feeling of drowning made him almost unable to breathe:

"Breathing underwater."

This spell was originally related to the "God of the Drowned in the Deep Sea". It was learned by Xia De when he first used the mystic [Match Girl] to prevent the god from taking the girl away. Therefore, in this case, it almost took effect immediately.After Xia De adjusted his state, although he couldn't figure out whether he was hallucinating or if he was really transferred to another place, he still struggled to swim upwards.

He didn't dare to throw away the photo in his hand easily, so he could only hold it and keep going upstream.And just a few tens of seconds later, he heard the voice of the sorceress in his ear:

"don't want."

There should be a paragraph behind, but it was drowned in the sound of water.

"what?"

Xia De was taken aback, stopped his upstream movement, looked hesitantly at the dark waters above his head and the dark waters under his feet, and then asked in his heart:

"Is the voice just now real?"

【Yes, I can feel the witch power used to connect to you. 】

"So what do you think?"

【Just like you. 】

"OK then."

Shad then gave up going upstream and went downstream instead.The dim light of the photo in his hand is getting dimmer, and the surrounding water temperature is getting lower and lower.When the light disappeared completely, on the deep seabed, while the bubbles he spit out drifted past his eyes, he finally saw what was waiting for him at the bottom.

A skeleton, tangled in water and rags, leaped from the bottom of the dark abyss.Surrounded by death and resentment, carrying fear and hatred, it stretched out its hand towards Shade, who sank like "suicide".

At that moment, Xia De who "fell" in the deep sea, in this terrifying scene, actually felt that he had some understanding of the thoughts of the drowned who died alone at the bottom of the sea.The same loneliness and helplessness, that indifferent heart is born because of it.

It's a pity that he didn't have more time to think, and Xia De really found the right direction.The moment the skeleton touched him, he felt that he had broken through a thin layer of paper, and then he realized that he was breathing heavily, standing in the dry study with a photo, and Megan looked at him worriedly:
"Are you okay? It seems that this photo is a trap for thieves. I just saw you standing there in a daze, but you appeared in the photo, so I knew you must have been deceived."

She grabbed Xia De's wrist, and used her spiritual power to touch Xia De's spirit with great concern, but found that Xia De's spiritual power was as huge as the moonlight of the full moon in the night sky.At this time, Xia De's whole body was dry, even his hands were dry, and there was no liquid gushing out in the photo.

Looking at the photo again, it actually burned in Xia De's hands.Xia De threw it away, took a few steps back with Megan, watched the photo burn in the air, and the last strand of ashes formed the holy emblem of the evil god [God of the Drowned in the Deep Sea] in the air, and then rushed towards Xia De .

"careful!"

"nothing."

A slight sense of coldness poured into Xia De's soul with a curse, but it was quickly melted away by the aura of divinity.

"She" reminded Shad softly in her ear:

[Outlander, you are cursed. 】

[The curse is lifted. 】

If it is a curse from a real god, even a drop of divinity in Xia De cannot be exempted from it all.But obviously, although the curse attached to this photo is related to God, its power is much weaker.If it was an ordinary ring warlock, he might be hit, but it can be ignored for Xia De.What really affected him was the moment of loneliness when he fell into the deep sea. He wondered how he could feel it and understood the thoughts of the drowned in the deep sea.

"I'm fine, but the damage to this photo will alert Barry the Bad Eye?"

After confirming that he was really not affected, Xia De asked, Megan shook his head slightly while caring:
"I don't know, but don't worry about him. My people have watched him. If he returns, at least before night, I will receive an early warning. Besides, he is just a low-level warlock. Even if he comes back, he can How about it?"

Meghan obviously cared more about Xia De than the bad-eyed Barry, for fear that Xia De would reappear in the same situation in the morning, but fortunately he was all normal.

The Unifier pendant, ledger, occult books, that's all the valuable items Shad and Megan found in the safe.Although it sounds rare, after all, it is impossible for Bad Eye Barry to put all the important clues in the same place.

Just when the two of them finished searching the study room, the interrogation of the mistresses by the maids had come to an end.Those women are just ordinary people, and they are ordinary people with not very strong will, so they can easily ask for valuable information.

Megan and Audrey's head maid, the girl called Jill, gathered the information before telling her master.

"Miss, this is indeed one of the most important strongholds of Barry the Blind Eye. He spends at least a week here in a month. Some of those women have seen Barry the Blind Eye when he took off his blindfold. He seldom took off the blindfold, and wore it most of the time even when he was asleep. According to the mistresses, Barry's right eye was not rotted, and there was a black white and white in the socket of his eye The strange eyeballs of the pupils."

"There is a high probability that it is the magic eye. The Cult of the Drowned has sent him to carry out the mission here. Of course, it is impossible not to give him the means to save his life and improve his strength."

Megan made a judgment easily.

The last piece of information provided by the women was that there seemed to be a secret passage under the house.Because they sometimes see Barry the Bad Eye coming straight out of the basement, and he still smells like a stinking sewer.

This time Megan didn't go down with Xia De, but asked her maids to go to the basement to have a look.

Sure enough, they soon discovered the secret passage connecting the city's ancient sewer system from behind the basement wall, and not far from the secret passage, they found modern excavated and built warehouses, meeting rooms, and even found more than a dozen animals that had been bred. water ghost.

As the most frequent place for Rogue-eyed Barry to spend the night, a small prayer room was also set up in the sewer.According to the descriptions of the maids, there are dead fish and human bones hanging everywhere in the prayer room as offerings. It can be seen that this place is really carefully managed by him.

This secret road directly communicates with the sewer system of Green Lake City, so it is not sure where the other end of the secret road exits.

On the contrary, Megan vaguely remembered that her father, Alphonse Edwards, the third son of the fourth generation, once mentioned that the establishment of the sewer system in Green Lake City seemed to be sponsored by the first generation of lords, the starting point of the family.

While the maids were going to the basement, Xia De and Megan also entered the villa's bedroom.

There is also a safe in the bedroom, and it is better hidden than the one in the study, and the mistresses don't know it.But as long as you have the determination to tear down the house, it is not difficult to find the safe.

Stored in this safe are some potions, alchemy items and letters.Megan still reached for the letter, while Shad went to check other things.

Although there were labels on those potions, Xia De would definitely not drink the potions he got from the enemy, and the alchemy items were not very valuable, so there was no need to use other people's things for cheap.

However, the exquisite cloth bag with a girdle in the lower right corner of the safe attracted Xia De's attention. After opening the bag, he found that it was a wooden key. The element traces:

"It's not a time key."

Seeing that the adventure of the "seven-day trip" was coming to an end, Xia De thought that he would meet another key by such a coincidence.

Hearing Xia De's soft sigh, Megan, who was reading the letter, glanced at him, and then saw the key in his hand:

"This is."

The key is made of wood. On the cylindrical key post, there are short cylindrical protrusions facing in different directions.The front and back of the key handle are respectively inlaid with flawless rubies and sapphires. Looking at the light, one can see the illusory shadow of a man bowing his head and writing in the study.

Megan hastily took it out of her pocket. When she and Shad landed on the island for the second time last week, she used the remains of the lord's wife, teeth and other items to forge the key at the blacksmith.

Sure enough, although the materials of the two keys and the details of the key teeth are different, the size and shape of the two keys are almost the same.

"This is the key you need too? But how could it be in the hands of Bad Eye Barry?"

He said, and gave the key to Megan, who was a little excited after taking it:
"Then only he knows. I didn't expect that I would get the second key just like that. In addition to the keys made of your mountain copper and morning black pearls, I have three keys."

"Have a chance to ask him."

Xia De didn't care, and continued to rummage through the safe, but found nothing further.But the content of those letters is surprising. This is also the communication between Bad Eye Barry and the religious order, but the letters are more personal.

Judging from the content of the letter, the group of cultists is indeed related to an existence on the island, and they call it "that gentleman".The attitude of the Cult of the Drowned is also vigilant in the cooperation. The writer repeatedly emphasized in the letter that any words of "that gentleman" must not be trusted.At the same time, every time you meet and talk with "that gentleman", you must inform the church of the whole process.

"That gentleman? I guess, there is a high probability that it is your ancestor."

Xia De smiled and said to Megan, who also agreed:

"Who else but him?"

At the same time, the letter also revealed some other contents.For example, the letter naturally stated the location of "that gentleman" as "the central island of Green Lake", which is inconsistent with the fact that the witch found out that there was no large-scale cargo delivery on the island.

"They have other collaborators."

Megan pointed to the last letter and said to Shad:
"The contact with the island is done by the Order of the Drowned, but in fact, far more than the Order of the Drowned is involved in this matter. However, other forces cannot get in touch with 'that gentleman', so they only sponsor the Order Some actions. Judging from the appellations mentioned here, those who are sure to participate in this matter are believers of the evil god [Dragon Eater], and the illegal ring magician group [Tyranny Club] active in the border area-that is a group of war lunatics, And [Truth Society].”

"The Truth Society again?"

"Again? You know them?"

Megan asked in surprise, Xia De nodded:
"I have had a few unpleasant pasts with them. I heard that they were also present during the Pantanal battle last winter."

"I have also had contact with them. They are madmen who pursue knowledge and wisdom. However, there are indeed a few members who can be called wise men among them. Unfortunately, if wisdom cannot be controlled, it will only lead to madness. It's just a shortcut."

Of all the Ring Warlocks Shad knew who were associated with the title of "Knowledge and Wisdom," Megan seemed the most sane.

In addition to these definite information, there are some uncertainties.In the letter from a month ago, the sender repeatedly asked whether Barry with bad eyes had obtained the "qualification", because he couldn't see the reply letter from Barry, so he couldn't know how he replied, but Xia De I just feel that the "qualification" mentioned here is probably the small key.

Megan could see Xia De's doubts, she shook her head slightly:

"I only know that there are keys and doors. I don't know what it means. Next time I land on the island, I can find a way to take you to the door, but it may not be successful. In the morning, I said that I know those Where did the goods go, I think it should be where the door is. That door...doesn’t really exist on the island. There may be more than one on the central island of Green Lake.”

After speaking, he pursed his lips with some worry and asked Xia De:
"You don't think I've been hiding something important, do you?"

Her demeanor surprised the maid on the side.

"Absolutely not!"

Xia De shook his head immediately, because he was actually the one who kept concealing important things.

(End of this chapter)