Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 229

2021-07-31

Chapter 229 The Curse of the Mermaid
Mr. Delar's story is not new, even in the "experienced" From the perspective of outsiders of "and knowledgeable", it can be said that it is a bit cliché.

This story is about the ocean, strange statues, greedy hearts, and curses, and it's probably perfect for Miss Luisa to write.

The cause of the incident dates back to a year ago, in the spring of 1852 on the GE.

Mr. Delar, a cargo dispatcher in the dock area, inspects the seized contraband according to the usual practice, and takes the valuable items back to his home for safekeeping with great responsibility. This is also an unwritten source of income for this position, and it’s fine if it isn’t discovered anyway.

In a mess of junk boxes, Mr. Dellal found a collection of small stone statues. About the thickness of an adult man's arm, the forearm is as long. The image of the statue is a mermaid looking up.

"Mermaid" refers to a creature with a female upper body and a fish torso lower body, which often appears in the fairy tales of this world. This is not the same thing as the ugly "murlocs" that Shade has ever seen with only human feet.

"So, you took those statues away?"

Listening to the other party's story, Shade asked hesitantly, and from this he thought of many scenes from horror novels. Horror novels are just emerging in this era, with court novels of color, Knight novels, and, more recently, detective novels emerging in several decades.

"Yes, take away. I've worked here for twenty years and never thought that the stories I used to hear from old sailors would happen to me."

Mr. Delar huddled in the corner and said sullenly, he didn't care that the blood on the ground got on his body.

As a dispatcher, although he has the right to deal with those unremarkable illegal items, if the goods want to be sold, it is definitely impossible for him alone.

Mr. Delar has some solid partners who play various roles throughout the transaction process. For example, Mr. Le Maire, the crew member, Shade thought he was just an ordinary crew member, but he actually had the position of first mate. In the sale of Mr. Delar's goods, Le Maire was responsible for bringing some sensitive items to the new continent for sale.

After discovering the mermaid statues a year ago, Mr. Delar fell in love with them at first sight, so he distributed them to his companions as works of art at a party.

In the one year since then, everyone who has obtained a mermaid statue will dream of a dilapidated palace in the deep sea, a deep sea relief that completely surpasses human aesthetics, and floating in the Inside the palace. rotting mermaid corpse.

The dream ends with "the vision keeps approaching the terrifyingly huge corpse, and then the corpse as big as Buddha Mountain opens its eyes". In the repeated dreams, many people are directly driven crazy. And after realizing that something was wrong, even throwing away those mermaid statues could not get rid of the troubles of the dream.

It was just a dream at first. Since three months ago, people who were troubled by the dream began to die one after another in very strange ways.

Mr. Le Maire is one of them. Although the ship he was on said that he unfortunately fell into the ocean during the storm, it was actually the words given by the captain to reduce panic. Mel died of his own madness. In three days, he suddenly changed from a mentally normal first mate to a lunatic who murmured crazy words, and finally chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.

And to this day, only Jason Dell is left alive.

His face twitched as he told his story, and when he looked up towards Shade, there were bloodshot eyes in his eyes.

"Wait, why don't you go to the Orthodox Church?"

Shade promptly raised his confusion.

"Looking for a church, it's bound to be involved in what we've done, you think we just stole stuff and sold it, no, we've done more than you think. Don't look at Delarion The Constitution, I also know that this must be a capital crime. If I go to the church, I will definitely die. Even if I don’t die, I will definitely not be able to keep my property; '

asked the middle age person stared wide-eyed with a revolver to his head, an abnormal flush on his face.

Shade thinks for a moment and thinks that what this crazy guy in front of him is saying is not unreasonable. But the fear of the unknown primordial didn't overcome the greed for the gold pound, and Shade didn't know if the greed was really so terrifying, or if the mermaids were affecting them.

In short, after the companions die one by one, the living people are trying their best to find a way, and then die strangely.

Mr. Delal, who lived to the end, obtained a book that was said to be useful through private channels, and then held a ceremony according to the contents of the book to expel the curse for himself. It's just that the arranged ceremony did not attract the "all-knowing and omnipotent great being" mentioned in the book, but attracted foreigners living in Tobesque.

"In other words, although this matter is related to the estate itself, it has nothing to do with my client, Madame Le Maire, who can accept the estate."

Shade concluded in his heart A moment, then pointing to the floor:

"Next question, where did the blood come from? Don't say it's a hospital, I don't believe that answer."

"Sir, you Say how much it would cost to help me.”

“Where did you get all this blood? And what are those meatballs?”

“The homeless in this city can be ”

bang~
The gunpowder smoke from the muzzle floated upwards, and the corpse fell backward sharply, soaked in the blood plasma on the ground.

The lunatic dispatcher at Coldwater Harbor has nothing to do with Tobesque's detective, especially if he's sure he won't affect his client. After confirming that the other party is a bad person, kill them directly and then leave, so as to avoid extraneous incidents.

It's just that Shade looked at the corpse and suddenly realized that, strictly speaking, this was the second person he had killed in this world. The first Mrs. La Soya was killed from a distance, and this one died in front of her eyes, so she still felt uncomfortable for a few seconds.

Greed and lust caused this tragedy, and Shade hopes this will remind himself that excessive greed is never a good thing.

sighed, and took out a wooden pipe from his pocket, sprinkled the bone meal inside to the corpse in front of him, and used Mystic Art [Soul Echo].

The cold wind blew in the closed room, and the fire of the six candles on the ground dimmed a little, and the warm yellow flame turned into dim-blue.

A gray light emerged from the corpse, the light lasted for a few seconds and then converged, and Jason Dell's illusory shadow appeared over the corpse. The expression is numb, the eyes are dull, this is the illusory shadow of the soul.

Although it is derived from [Echo] spirit rune, this Mystic Art is actually a standard necromantic ability.

(end of this chapter)