The Voyage of Exchange - Rebirth from the Dead Chapter 19 The Tiny Curse
"Let's go, let's go to Se'an City and have a look. I hope I can find someone who can repair the ship." Sophia said.
"Hmm...do we have so many Lindsays to repair the ship?" Good question, Heath, and it really hurts Sophia.
"Well... we need to find someone first! There will always be a solution to Lindsay's matter. It's useless to dwell too much on it. Solve one goal first and then move on to the next problem." Sophia reluctantly raised the corner of her mouth and smiled.
"That's true, although it feels like every time we get paid, we spend it soon..." What nonsense are you telling the truth?
"Then hurry up and head to the town. Maybe you can find new information." Zate adjusted the straw hat he was carrying.
Nina flipped her hand and took out a piece of beef jerky from the space equipment, pinched it with her slender index finger and thumb and stretched it out in front of the dove's beak. As soon as she said it, the thunderbird's head burst out of the feathers like a frog's tongue.
She bit the snack, then quickly retracted it. "What a glutton." She ruffled her chirping feathers.
Jiujiu, on the other hand, remained unmoved and slowly swallowed the food. Nina took this opportunity to withdraw Sophia's arm without leaving any trace.
"Okay, let's go." Sophia walked out of the village.
"Maybe we can find some tea leaves on the road." Zate was dreaming.
Then they walked towards Se'an City, Jiujiu still rested on Nina's shoulder, but the four of them already knew this direction.
About halfway through the walk, Hitz and Zate noticed a transparent glass bottle with a white note wrapped in white waves about fifty feet away from the beach.
Note: White paper is a very high-grade paper, and the paper used by the group is basically yellowed paper. That is, the spell book and the letter paper Alexander bought are like this.
"Sofia, there is something over there, it seems to be a glass bottle with white paper in it." Zate said to Sophia.
"There is a bottle over there... There is a white note in it. It is actually white." Hitzbizart was a little slower, so he only spoke half of his words.
"Oh?" Sophia looked in the direction Zate pointed.
Nina didn't react at all. She didn't have strong enough curiosity, and she knew very well that curiosity equaled trouble. However, she still waited for Sophia to take action and stopped.
"It feels like an incredible thing. I don't know if I can get it directly on the water. It would be troublesome to swim directly there." Zate knows how to swim.
"I'll just take you to walk on the water." Then Hitz recited the spell, and blue rays of light appeared on the ground and enveloped Hitz. The soles of Hitz's feet emitted bursts of blue halo, surrounding the
around.
"Then go over and see what it is." Sophia said.
Zate took the lead to get the bottle by relying on the magic effect given by Heath, while Sophia watched from the shore.
But like Sanma, Jiujiu does not have such strong curiosity.
Zate stepped on the water to pick up the drift bottle, and indeed got the bottle whose cork seemed to have been corroded by sea water for a long time. It must be said that it was a miracle that the sea water had not invaded the inside.
"It looks like it's a few years old. Do you want to open it?" Zate said when he came back and held the drift bottle. The note was folded, so you couldn't see what was written on the note through the transparent bottle.
"You've already taken it out, why don't you open it and take a look..." Seeing that Sophia was very cautious, Hitz said.
"Yes, I feel like I said too much." Zate tried to open the drift bottle. She unfolded the pure white note and wrote a sentence in common human language. "I hope good people will find my body."
At this time, Shiz felt a strong sense of sadness, and roughly learned that those with power would be cursed by the souls of the dead if they did not do anything about it.
"What's written on it?" Sophia asked curiously.
"I hope good Samaritans will find his body." Hitz covered the note so that Sophia wouldn't see it. "Well, I know that if I don't help find his body, I will be cursed by the dead, and Zate will probably be too.
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"Yes, it says that I hope kind people can help find its body, but I didn't write my name." Zate didn't feel much about it, but she really liked to reread it.
"You have indeed been cursed, but there will be no serious consequences." Nina stared at Shiz with strange eyes. She was a paladin, so it was not surprising that she could detect the curse.
"Is that so?" Heath breathed a sigh of relief. "Although there will be no serious consequences, I'd better look for it if I can find it, not only to help others but also for myself."
"Either he is afraid that the person who killed him will find this piece of paper, or he is a person with a prominent status who does not need to be named." Zate only made a rough guess and said. "Hmm... maybe he is someone from the city, if that's OK.
Let’s look for it by the way.”
Nina whispered a prayer in the way of a paladin, and then Zate also prayed in the way of his church.
Sophia took the bottle and note with her mage's hand and looked at it carefully but did not open it, hoping to find out if there were any useful features.
But Sofia also felt the same feeling as Hitz, but Nina also took a look at this time and had no special reaction.
"Put this paper away first. Although this curse is not harmful, it is not good to infect other people." Zate said.
"Well..." Sophia also felt the strong sadness, and then suppressed the mood and continued to observe carefully. Except that the paper was relatively expensive and the cork seemed to have been severely corroded by sea water, there was no other information.
, this glass bottle looks like a glass bottle that holds drinkable items. Although it is not clear whether it is a potion or a drink, judging from the rough workmanship, it can be seen everywhere.
"I think the easiest way is to burn this note." A wisp of flame appeared on Hitz's white fingertips.
"It's hard to say, let's forget it. Maybe destroying this paper will cause even more trouble." Zate interrupted Hitz and put the paper back into the drift bottle.
"This curse is not very harmful to us. If you can help us, then I don't care. I am quite interested in the stories contained in these." Sophia took out a pen and wrote it down.
"But it's not a problem to carry it like this. I think it can be buried in the soil." Hitz said.
"It can be put into space equipment." Sophia planned to try it.
"Well, it's best to put the paper in the drift bottle to prevent the curse from leaking." After Zate said it, he tried it. The bottle can be used, but the paper cannot be put into the space equipment.
"The only way is to hold it first." Sophia planned to put it in her coat pocket.
"Give it to someone else." Nina stretched out her hand.
"Nina, are you okay?" Hitz asked.
"Is that okay? Nina." Sophia's reaction was much different. She thought this might be some kind of burden.
"Is that okay?" Zate was just repeating the reading.
"But you are a paladin, so there should be no problem." Sophia felt relieved about this.
Nina just took the paper, folded it again, and turned around. She stuffed the note into her clothes, but the clothes didn't look like they had lined pockets. Then she turned around as if nothing had happened.
He walked towards Se'an. Jiujiu didn't peek, he was a good boy.
At dusk, four people and one bird arrived at Se'an. The architectural style here is to use white paint to cover the masonry that is not white. Of course, it still looks different from the white masonry.
Due to the higher terrain, you can see from a distance that the city is divided by a river and connected by a double-hole bridge that is raised and lowered by chains. At this time, the bridge is pulled up by strong chains to allow ships to pass.
This area close to the sea is not a beach but a rock, which can effectively prevent seawater from being rolled back into the city periphery.
There is a high stone cliff on the seaside. This stone cliff is also within the scope of the city. Except for a church built of gray and white rocks with a bell tower, it is full of residential buildings.
"Hmm... It seems we are late? I don't know when the door will open." Sophia looked to see if there was anyone else outside the city.
There is a stretch bridge similar to a bridge on this side to control the entrance and exit of the city gate. There is a water channel under the bridge like a general moat, but this water channel also has the convenient function of transporting goods on the river.
There are many workers on the bridge stopping the goods and loading them on the carriage. The direction of the front of the carriage is west, which is the direction where the few people are. Before all the goods are loaded onto the carriage, I am afraid that I will not be able to enter the city through this gate...
Sofia took a look at the goods carried by these workers. They were all wooden boxes or barrels floating in the canal. What could they expect to see? There were no distinctive objects or marks.
Speaking of markings, they are usually only found on carriages. In this plane where productivity is low and magic is widespread, magic is all highly processed, so marking containers is a waste.
More than a dozen workers were wearing white undershirts that were relatively rare in the Empire or the Alliance. No one was in sight to direct them, but they worked very quickly. There were still goods floating up from the high places of the canal, and there were still many goods that needed to be moved.
It will probably get dark in a quarter of an hour or two. If you continue to observe here, you will have to sleep on the beach or rocks today...it will basically be closed at night.
Sofia quickened her pace and planned to ask the workers how long it would take them to finish transporting the goods and then enter the city.
I don’t know what Zate had in mind. He said he wanted to stay here for a while, and the others walked quickly to the city gate. But there was nothing to do if they stayed...
The workers told Sophia that after blocking the cargo bridge, they pulled it up, and they all loaded onto the carriage and returned to the village without entering the city. If you register now, you can catch the last batch of people entering the city.
The guards in the city wearing silver-white armor shouted to the three people to hurry up and not delay their handover of affairs if they wanted to enter the city.
"Thank you." Sofia thanked her with a smile, and asked Jiujiu to call Zate over, and then went to find the guards to register the group. But Zate was still a thousand feet away at this time, and it might be too late for Jiujiu to get there.