Chapter 1,626 Coins and the Second Landing on the Island
There was nothing noteworthy about Shade's journey through the city and countryside. Whether it was the cityscape or the rural scenery in the Green Lake area, there were no outstanding features compared to the cities he had visited in the past.
When preparing to cross the border at the checkpoint, the coachmen also took out the special pass that Captain Rades gave to Shade, so they did not need to queue up to wait for registration. After the coachman showed the pass to the officer Shade had never met,
Therefore, when the carriage stopped temporarily, Shade also saw from the window that there were more people queuing at the border waiting to cross the border than he had seen last time.
The long queue barely formed amidst the shouts of the soldiers. After the queue circled the camp, the end almost reached the outside of the camp. Shade had very good hearing and knew from the noisy voices of the people that
Today, in the villages and towns on the side of Michaela Blast Furnace City, there is a big market that only happens once a month, so it is so lively here.
Captain Rades was not seen, so Shade did not get off the car. The coachman quickly handled the border crossing procedures, and the two carriages passed the queue of people and entered directly into the neighboring country.
Another boring journey followed. At around ten o'clock in the morning, the yawning Shade jumped off the carriage and looked at the "Glass Blast Furnace" in the distance. He said to the pharmacist who also stepped off the carriage not far away:
"Next time we should take a boat. Although we have to take a detour, at least the journey will be more interesting. Riding in a carriage is too boring. If I had known better, I would have brought my cat with me."
The sorceress ignored Shade's boring words and waved to him:
"Come with me, this way."
With that said, he will lead Shade away from the glass avenue where the carriage stopped and enter the alley. This road is also the street where Shade last saw the police driving away the disabled boy. It is the city center of Michaela Blast Furnace City. And this road
Once, he did not see the disabled boy begging sitting on the street again.
He followed the pharmacist lady into the nameless narrow alley. After walking for more than ten steps in the alley, he heard quite a lot of footsteps coming from the street behind him, as well as someone speaking loudly through a loudspeaker.
sound.
He turned around in surprise, and soon saw a parade of people walking through the street, and people who spoke loudly were calling on citizens to protest against this negotiation action, because the Pantanal area originally belonged to Carson.
The United Kingdom of Kessen, the negotiations desecrated the glory of Kassenrik.
"Their destination is the City Hall. This week's meeting is held in Michaela Blast Furnace City. They probably want to take advantage of the lunch break to give a speech in the square in front of the City Hall."
The pharmacist lady said to Shade, and then motioned for him to follow:
"Don't pay attention to this boring activity. The final result of the negotiation will not be determined by how many steps they take."
In the big cities of this era, there are always complicated maze-like alleys. If you want to find a specific store in such a connected building complex, you may have to get lost for a long time if no one is there to guide you.
The two's destination was a second-hand bookstore hidden in an alley. The pharmacist opened the door and walked in. Shade followed her and strictly promised not to come within 1 meter of her.
There were no other customers in the bookstore. The pharmacist lady led Shade through the bookstore, and then pushed open the back door with the sign "Do not enter without permission." They passed through the backyard and entered the rear warehouse of the bookstore, and in the warehouse
It is the trading place of this black market.
"I made an appointment to pick up the box yesterday."
She said to the fat woman standing behind the counter, and took out a badge as a voucher. The woman nodded, took an old black suitcase to the table and pushed it to the pharmacist lady, who opened it with her own hands.
, and the box contained old clothes, old books, rusty buttons, and other messy items.
"What's this?"
Shade asked curiously.
"The guys who land on the central island sometimes take away the sundries even if they can't find anything valuable, and then sell them cheaply to the local black market. So the last time we landed on the island, although most of the furniture was still there, the inside
They are all empty. Not only in the black market of ring magicians, but also in the local grocery stores or thrift stores of ordinary people, it is possible to find the Edwards family's things. This family is in the eyes of local occult researchers and busybodies.
, quite legendary, there are even people who specialize in collecting old belongings of the Edwards family.”
The pharmacist lady explained while rummaging through the contents of the box. According to her, these miscellaneous items were all used by her ancestors a hundred years ago.
She quickly found a palm-sized notebook with a red cover from the box. After flipping through it quickly, she nodded and threw two 1-krona worth of alloy coins on the table. She stuffed the notebook into her pocket and placed it in the box.
After closing it, he motioned to Shade to help carry it.
"Why should I help you carry your suitcase?"
Shade raised his own question.
"Don't you have the ability to store miscellaneous things? Moreover, isn't it what a gentleman should do to act together with a beautiful girl and help out?"
The sorceress said matter-of-factly, indicating that Shade could leave:
"We will enter Green Lake by boat. If you don't mind, you can have lunch on the boat later."
"Of course I don't mind, but could you wait a moment?"
He put the suitcase behind the right side of his coat, patted it, put the toy in his pocket, and then asked the fat woman behind the counter who was watching the exchange between the two:
"Ma'am, do you have any coin-like relics here?"
So ten minutes later, Shade took a small bag with two coins and happily followed the pharmacist lady out of the bookstore.
The poet-level relic [Sorrow of the Lute], in a confined space, throws a coin hard on the floor, which can cause a sad music played by the lute to randomly sound in the space. The price is that the user will
Within hours, he completely lost the ability to speak.
These are the kind of useless poet-level relics, so the price is relatively cheap. When Shade got them, he saw detailed ancient Elvish language on the side of the coins:
[I hope that my performances for the rest of my life will be as sad as Leanna’s funeral.]
The emergence of this coin obviously has a very complicated story.
"But why did you ask about the local tomb robbing gang just now?"
When walking through the alley to the bank of the Duin River, the pharmacist who led the way asked curiously.
"Someone took something they shouldn't have. Although I have found the thing, I still want to know where they got it."
Sha De gave the answer, and the pharmacist lady nodded thoughtfully. She wanted to help Sha De look for it. She was also very powerful in the local area, but thinking about what the two of them were going to do, she decided to wait until this happened.
Let’s talk about it after it’s over.
The steamboat waiting for them on the bank of the Duin River was very similar to the one that was destroyed last time, except that there were already two ladies with nine rings on the boat waiting for them.
"These are my followers. In order to prevent what happened last time, they went with us. However, they did not land on the island, but waited for us on the dock."
Because she was worried about Shade misunderstanding, the pharmacist lady also gave a special explanation. Shade didn't care. After boarding the deck, he watched the river banks on both sides moving backwards. What he was thinking about was what he would encounter on the island this time.
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Last time we entered the Great Lake from the direction of Delrayon on the north shore of Green Lake, so the landing point was the pier from the center to the north shore. But this time we set off from Michaela Blast Furnace City, so the landing place was on the south shore of the island. When the ship entered
After the foggy area, Shade realized that the location of the stop this time was different from the last time.
Sure enough, as the ship slowed down, the shadow of the island in the fog became clearer and clearer, and Shade gradually saw that this time the connection to the dock was no longer a small forest, but a path on a low hill.
"The northern part of Green Lake Island is flat, with docks, cemeteries, towns and farmland all there. The south is low hills, and the Edwards mansion, orchards, and lighthouse are all in the south."
The steamship lightly hit the trestle and stopped. The pharmacist lady came to the trestle first, carrying a cloth bag with reagent bottles, and Shade followed her. As for the two nine-ring sorceresses who had been silent, they stood
Watching them from the deck walking away in the fog:
"So what is this pier used for?"
"This is the private dock of the Edwards family. The dock is connected to the mansion on the hill and is responsible for transporting some things that are inconvenient for the townspeople to see. When the town of Green Lake was still prosperous, the lord's family often set off from here by boat.
Go on vacation to the city of Michaela Blast Furnace. Although there are no strict regulations, the townspeople rarely take the initiative to go to the hills in the southern part of the island. They tacitly agree that this is private territory that is forbidden to others except Edwards."
Their destination was not the Green Lake Cemetery in the woods in the north of the island. Although most of the townspeople and Edwards were buried there, according to the pharmacist, Edwards's grave was actually in the cemetery.
There were no bones inside, and everyone in the family was buried separately in various secret corners of the island.
As for the reason, the sorceress couldn’t explain clearly:
"It sounds like some kind of ritual, using blood as a traction, affecting the entire island, but I can't explain the specific situation. From the relics and letters my father left me, it seems that this is the first generation lord of the family, Kelai.
Because of the rules left by Edwards, my ancestors have always followed them."
What she was looking for this time was the cemetery of her brother Sloth Edwards' wife in the second generation of the root map. In order to prevent her from suddenly losing her sense of direction and being forced to wait, this time
The two of them didn't waste any time on the way, walking along the path connecting the Edwards mansion and the southern pier, then turning into a fork in the middle, and more than ten minutes later, they saw the lighthouse standing on the highest point of the island.