Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 325

2021-09-12

Chapter 324 The Dark Sea Territory
In that terrifying darkness, the confused Shade faintly listened Arrived accompanied by the singing of the waves.

And when he wakes up again, everything around him seems to be shaking. The falling rain in the sky hit his back, and the biting wind made him tremble.

"Oh~"

The headache has not subsided, and the simple act of opening his eyes made him feel the pain in his temples throbbing.

Turn over and sit up, take off the mask and take a deep breath. looked towards all around, he was now on the dirty deck of an old ship, everything around him was extremely dilapidated.

Looking up, the terrifying black vortex hangs upside down in the sky above his head. The primordial fear at that moment almost made Shade cry out.

Looking around, there is no doubt that the sea is still here. The boat was floating on rough seas, all directions were the ocean in thunderstorms. The deep darkness seemed to be swallowed up from a distance, and the sound of the huge wave made people's heart tremble unstoppably. Because there are no rays of light, the sea surface presents a thick black, and under the black sea surface, there seems to be a larger and darker horror swimming, Shade just glanced at it and immediately retracted his sight.

If you are a timid person, you will probably faint when you see this scene around you. And even if foreigners have seen a lot of things in this world, they still can't completely control their panic at this moment. This is the most primordial fear of human beings for the deep sea and darkness, even more how the Whisper element in the space is always trying to erode the soul
"Are you still there?"

【I am always with you . ]

The familiar voice sounded, and Shade felt a lot more at ease. Only Miss Prince was not to be seen on the dim, shabby deck, nor of everyone else.

"But how could this happen just after going out?"

[Simply put, the power on this ship, and the man with red hair, but dyed The curse on the girl with golden hair is very similar. ]

"This ship was attracted by the [Mermaid Song] curse on Miss Princes?"

Thinking of this, Shade frowned in the rain and looked around. All around, the rocking dilapidated ship, lost in the dark terrifying Sea Territory, with only Shade alive on board.

[No, she's not that important. The curse only resonated with the pirate ship of the same origin, which made her feel it. ]

"So, the mermaid statue and this pirate ship are really different steps of the same ceremony, and how could there be such a coincidence that we happened to hit this ship."

Shade struggled to maintain his balance, recalling Miss Prince's last words, looking over the rain screen, eyes looked towards the entrance of the cabin.

I reached out and checked the things I was carrying, and made sure that nothing was lost. Then, because of the violent shaking of the deck, I stumbled and almost fell again.

"Speaking of which, since there is no light source around, how can I see the deck clearly?"

Thinking of this, he lowered his head and looked towards his wrinkled hand, which was soaked in water Just like when [Dark Box] got out of control, it was Shade itself that was glowing. The brilliance of the silver moon radiated from the surface of his body. It was not bright, but at least it kept him from being completely swallowed by the darkness.

He reached out and wiped the rain on his face, afraid to look at the terrifying Sea Territory above his head or around the boat:
"Are there anything abnormal besides the Whisper element nearby?"

[Not yet, but this ship is trying to assimilate you and keep you here forever. ]

"I didn't feel it."

The dense rain hit the skin, and he couldn't stay in the rain for long.

[Attempting to assimilate any creature with divine nature is the most foolish act, you can't feel it because it doesn't work. ]

"Understood."

He clenched his fists, because his body's hypothermia, his condition is not very good. Miss Princes said she couldn't leave the ship, and Shade didn't have the guts to throw herself into the sea in this weird Sea Territory, so she'd better find a shelter from the rain first.

The swaying ship made a creaking sound, as if the next moment would fall apart. With the smell of the ocean on his nose, Shade stumbled towards the entrance to the deck cabin. He didn't intend to make too much light in this eerie environment, so he just illuminated all around with a little shimmer from his fingertips.

The dilapidated deck was being hit by dense raindrops, and wooden boxes and some cargo were piled up in the corners. Occasionally, you can see black stains that cannot be washed away by rain, and [Echo of Blood] told Shade that most of them are blood stains.

There were no living people on board, but there were quite a few corpses, which had long since been reduced to bones, sliding on the deck because of the ship's incline. Shade was worried that the skeleton would suddenly get up, but until he felt the rusted iron door leading to the cabin, he was still the only one on the boat.

The iron gate seems to have been struck violently from the inside in the distant past. The deformed door was stuck in the door frame and could not be pushed no matter how hard it was. Shade could only summon the silver sword and slashed a few times, severing the iron gate.

The sound of the metal falling to the ground was covered by the violent rain and thunder, as if the black entrance that could suck the soul was opened, and a violent stench gushed from the interior of the cabin.

But at least the boat wasn't leaking and the cabin was still dry. The ships probably belonged to the Fifth Age and had no steam power system, so they couldn't rely on pipes in the walls to find those important rooms.

Stepping into the cabin on the creaking floor, then briefly letting the sword in his hand disappear, Shade bent over to illuminate the sunken door panel that rested on the moldy floor with his fingers. On the side of the door that was originally facing inward, there were not only traces of being hit by a huge force, but also dozens of sharp scratches. The observation of [Echo of Blood] shows that there are traces of blood in the scratches, indicating that this is most likely a trace of scratching by hand forcibly.

"What happened here."

Startled in my heart, looked up suddenly towards the front. Silver's brilliance illuminated the floor in front of him, and on the dilapidated floor covered with disgusting moss and dust, ashes rose violently, and then the rotting human figure made of ashes rushed directly.

"It's not a hallucination, it's the undead?"

The moonlight in his hand splits forward, and after splitting the undead made of ashes, it flew further along the cabin. the place. It was also through the rays of light that Shade saw that except for the Foreign Domain area near the exit, the corridors of the entire cabin seemed to be covered with black blood.

Human skeletons and remains were scattered throughout, while doors to rooms around the cabin were blocked with worn and damaged furniture and bones. The scene in front of me seems to indicate that in the long past, there was a horrific massacre in the cabin.

The headache is getting stronger and stronger, and the ship itself is affecting the spirit of the entrant, which is also one of the characteristics of high-risk relics.

Shade wants to keep going and search inside the ship for more clues. But at this time, there was a slight noise around him, so he immediately looked to the left. With the dim light of his fingers, the photo frame could be vaguely seen behind the thick wall creep, and the sound came from the photo frame.

He frowned, and carefully peeled off the disgusting mushroom creep on the outer layer with the pen he carried with him, revealing the photo frame body containing dozens of black and white photos of different sizes.

"It turns out that photographic technology also appeared in the Fifth Age."

Most of the photos in the photo frame are badly faded, and can only be vaguely identified as life scenes on the ship. But only the single portrait in the center seems to have not been washed away by time. The man with short hair and high nose bridge with a blindfold looks towards Shade from the photo.

The calm expression that was frozen in time gradually changed with Shade's observation. The slightly faded face, the corners of the mouth were raised little by little, until it became an angle that a normal person could never do. The eyes that were originally still, suddenly turned at this moment, and the look of intelligent creatures in the dull eyes recovered, and those eyes really looked towards Shade:
"Intruder!"

In the roar of the infiltrative, the face was covered with a thick black mist, and the skeleton that turned into a human rushed out of the photo.

"Silver Moon."

The ultimate rays of light burst from the fingers for a moment, and the lit rays of light even made the ship itself vibrate. When the rays of light went out the next second, Shade's fist shattered the glass of the photo frame, ignoring the punctured palm, and grabbed the old haunted photo.

When he withdrew his hand, the old photo actually flew out of his hand. It slid up against the yellow-green mold on the wall, as if trying to find a seam in the wall to leave. But when the photo flew to the height of Shade's chest, the luminous holy silver sword tip pierced over the fragile photo, pierced the photo directly, and nailed it to the wall.

The moonlight great sword illuminates the wall, the green creep quickly exits the range illuminated by the sword like a living thing, and the position where the blade touches the photo is thick like fire like The black smoke kept coming out. The high-pitched scream came from the photo, and the distorted voice made Shade, who already had a headache, even more upset, but he ignored it.

"I surrender!"

A voice finally came from the inside of the photo. Like the "intruder" just now, it actually used a contemporary language.

Shade waited a few seconds before grabbing the photo with his left hand and drawing his great sword with his right hand. At this time, there was an extra black hole in the center of the photo, and the man wearing the blindfold in the photo squeezed to the side of the photo, so that he could fully appear in the photo, and he held his hands high in the photo.

“If you dare to run, you won’t have a chance next time.”

Shade said, squeezing the photo with his left hand. Originally, I was worried that the other party would not understand what I said, but the person in the photo understood:
"How is it possible? How is it possible that you are still awake here?"

That voice It is hoarse and weird, and the image in the photo is constantly flickering. Most of the time, it is the image of a man, but in a few moments, in the photo, it is clearly a monster with mixed features of fish face and human face.

(end of this chapter)