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The story of Mr. Delall is not new, and even in the eyes of "well-informed" outsiders, it can be said to be a bit clichéd.
The story, which has to do with the sea, strange statues, greedy hearts, and curses, was probably a good source for Miss Louisa to write about.
The cause of the matter dates back to a year ago, that is, the spring of 1852 in the common calendar.
As a cargo dispatcher in the wharf area, Mr. Delall inspected the collected contraband as usual, and took the valuable small items back to his home for safekeeping very responsibly. This can also be regarded as an unwritten source of income for this position. Anyway, it will be fine if it is not discovered.
In a jumbled pile of glove boxes, Mr. Dellall found a collection of small stone statues. About the thickness of an adult man's arm, as long as a forearm. The image of the statue is a mermaid with its head up.
"Mermaid" refers to a creature whose upper body is a woman and the lower body is a fish torso, and it often appears in fairy tales in this world. This is not the same thing as the ugly "murloc" that Shade had seen before, only with human feet.
"So, you took those statues?"
Listening to what the other party said, Xia De asked hesitantly, and it reminded him of many scenes from horror novels. Horror novels have just emerged in this era, and colorful court novels, knight novels, and detective novels that have emerged in recent decades are the mainstream.
"Yes, I took it away... I have worked here for twenty years, and I never thought that the stories I heard from the old sailors before would happen to me."
Mr. Delall shrank in the corner and said dejectedly, not caring that the plasma on the ground touched himself.
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. Delall has some solid partners who play different roles throughout the transaction process. For example, Mr. Le Maire, a crew member, Shad thought he was just an ordinary crew member, but he actually had the position of chief mate. In the sale of Mr. Delall's stolen goods, Le Maire was responsible for bringing some sensitive items to the New World for sale.
After discovering the batch of mermaid statues a year ago, Mr. Delall fell in love with them at first sight, so he distributed them as works of art to his companions at a party.
In the year since then, everyone who has obtained the mermaid statue will dream of a dilapidated palace in the deep sea, a deep sea relief that completely surpasses human aesthetics, and a huge rotting mermaid corpse floating inside the palace.
The dream ended with "the vision kept approaching the frighteningly huge corpse, and then the corpse as big as a mountain opened its eyes". In repeated dreams, many people were directly driven crazy. And after realizing that something was wrong, even throwing away those mermaid statues couldn't get rid of the dream.
It was just a dream at first, and since three months ago, people who were troubled by the dream began to die in very strange ways one after another.
Mr. Le Maire is one of them. Although the ship he was on said that he unfortunately fell into the ocean in a storm, but in fact that was the captain's statement to reduce panic. Le Maire died of his own madness . In three days, he suddenly changed from a sane first officer to a lunatic muttering crazy words, and finally chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.
And now, only Jason Dralle is still alive.
His face twitched as he told his story, and when he looked up at Xia De, some bloodshot eyes appeared in his eyes.
Xia De raised his confusion in time.
"Looking for the church will definitely involve the deeds we have done. You think we just stole goods and sold them. No, we have done more things than you think. Don't look at the Great Constitution of Delarion, I also Knowing that this must be a capital offense. If you go to the church, you will definitely die, and even if you don’t die, you will definitely lose your property; if you don’t go to the church, you will have a chance to solve it yourself. Oh, isn’t it an easy choice?”
The middle-aged man whose head was pressed by a revolver asked with wide-eyed eyes, and an abnormal blush appeared on his face.
Xia De thought for a while, and actually thought that what the crazy guy in front of him said was not unreasonable. But the primitive fear of the unknown did not overcome the greed for gold pounds. Xia De didn't know whether greed was really so terrible, or those mermaids were affecting them.
In short, after the companions died one by one, the living people tried their best to find a way, and then died strangely.
Mr. Delal, who survived to the end, obtained a book that was said to be very useful through private channels, and then performed 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 "great existence of omniscience and omnipotence" mentioned in the book, but instead attracted foreigners living in Tobesk.
"In other words, although this matter is related to the inheritance itself, it has nothing to do with my client, Mrs. Le Maire. She can accept the inheritance."
Xia De summed it up in his mind, then pointed to the floor:
"The next question, where did the blood come from? Don't say it's a hospital, I don't believe in this kind of answer."
"Sir, how much do you want to help me..."
"Where did you get the blood? And what are those lumps of meat?"
"The bums in this city can..."
Boom~
The gunpowder smoke from the muzzle floated upwards, and the corpse suddenly fell backwards, soaked in the plasma on the ground.
Coldwater Harbor's lunatic dispatcher ~www.mtlnovel.com~ has nothing to do with Tobesk's detective, especially if he's sure he won't influence his client. After confirming that the other party is a bad person, just beat him to death and leave, so that there will be no troubles.
It's just that Xia De looked at the corpse and suddenly realized that strictly speaking, this was the second person he killed in this world. The first Mrs. La Soya was killed from a very far distance, but this one died in front of her eyes, so she still felt uncomfortable for a few seconds.
Greed and **** had caused this tragedy, and Shad hoped this incident would remind him that excessive greed is never a good thing.
Sighing, he took out a wooden pipe from his pocket, sprinkled the bone powder inside on the corpse in front of him, and used thaumaturgy.
A cold wind blew in the closed room, and the flames of the six candles on the ground dimmed a bit, and the warm yellow flames turned into a faint blue.
Gray light emerged from the corpse, and the light lasted for a few seconds before converging together, and the phantom of Jason Delall appeared above the corpse. The expression is numb, the eyes are dull, this is the phantom of the soul.
Although derived from spirit runes, this thaumaturgy is actually a standard undead ability.