The Whispering Verses Chapter 1387: The origin of the devil
Chapter 1387 The Origin of Demon
"Hired thief? Since Oxenfurt is so persistent, are those photos important to him?"
Xia De asked, and the old captain snorted, which caused another topic:
"I know his past as well as he knows me. When he was a sailor on the ship, he was just as rude and violent as he is now, but this kind of person is what I need."
The old man squinted at the surrounding fields and showed Shade with his finger:
"The fields here are all mine, from here to that location. In addition to what we see now, I have my own properties in the Randall Valley and many cities in the southwest of the kingdom."
"Very impressive."
Shad praised dryly, and then Captain Allen asked the question he was thinking of at the moment:
"Do you think you can make so much money just by doing inland shipping business?"
The captain asked, and then gave his own answer:
"Of course not, young man, we are in the business of smuggling. Transporting goods from Delrayon to Carsonlik, transporting goods from Carsonlik to Delrayon. Even, even without a shipping license and New World shipping license, but we always travel to the New World several times a year to transport some sensitive materials. Otherwise, do you think I salvaged so much property from the river?"
"Are you going to be river pirates and pirates?"
Xia De then asked, and the old captain, who was walking one step faster than him, turned to look at him with a smile:
"Of course. Once it comes to illegal business on the water, no one can keep their hands from getting blood, otherwise they will bleed from their necks. The rules of survival on the water and on land are different. Can you Can you guess how much more I can earn by taking an illegal trip to the New World?”
Smoke wafted from his nostrils:
"Oxenfurt is a good sailor, cruel and irritable, but he doesn't like drinking and is extremely cunning. Before he left me, he was already my most trusted boatswain. I even thought for a time, After I retire, I will negotiate with the shipowners to give him the captain's position."
Xia De frowned slightly:
"Why did he leave the ship? Because he wanted to get married and want a stable life?"
"Young man, don't worry, my story is not over yet. Aren't you curious? How do I survive to this day and still earn so much in this kind of business? Just because luck is better than all Are everyone good?"
The captain walked sideways in the field and looked at the young man wearing a black coat walking on the snow. Shade just frowned and gave the answer:
"What did you pray for strength to?"
"Sure enough, you really know everything about Stone Oxenfurt."
Captain Woody, who was holding his cane, smiled, then turned to look ahead and continued walking forward:
"To be honest, I don't know what I prayed for for strength. When I was twenty-one years old, I went to sea as an ordinary sailor on a ship. Then we encountered a storm and everyone on the ship died except me. , and I drifted to an isolated island."
This is like the beginning of some kind of adventurous survival story.
"I found a cave on that strange island with a heavy fog that persists all year round, and found a strange manuscript in the cave. The manuscript records a magical ritual that can summon people. I found out later that it was a ritual of summoning an unknown powerful being, and it didn’t refer to a specific demon, but to whichever one was summoned most recently."
He smiled self-deprecatingly:
"If I could travel back in time and go back to when I was twenty-one years old, I would rather die there on the spot. But unfortunately, I wanted to live at that time, so I spent two years trying on that island Obscure contents on the parchment, repeated experiments and failures. Before I died on that desert island, I really succeeded once."
His steps are steady and powerful:
“Some existence that I cannot tell responded to me, so I have a body that ages more slowly than normal people, I have the luck to ride the sea and the rivers and lakes, and I even have the strength to never drown in the water. ”
"So what's the price?"
Xia De asked, and then saw a rabbit standing on the snow not far away. After the latter saw Shade, he ran away in panic, leaving only a string of inconspicuous rabbits on the snow. footprint.
"It's a pity that I didn't bring a shotgun at the cost of my soul and the souls of all my descendants."
The old captain who also saw the rabbit said this, his tone remained unchanged:
"I know that everything has a price, and I have received a gift that far exceeds my destiny. I accept all this, but I just don't want to harm more people. So, at the age of twenty-five, I escaped from that place. The second year after we arrived on this terrible island, I bought a medicine from the sea witch doctor that destroyed my fertility and that of my son, who was only six years old at the time."
After saying this, he sighed softly:
"Then the story comes to Stone Oxenfurt. Young man, can you guess what I want to say?"
"Did his demon summoning ritual come from you?"
Xia De said, the old captain nodded:
"That happened about six years ago. I don't want to talk about the specific details, but he really gained enough trust from me at that time. After being drunk, I told him my story and what I had done. The source of luck. I wasn't showing off, after all, selling my soul to the devil is not worth showing off. My intention was to warn him not to try things he didn't understand, but I didn't expect him to steal the materials."
He sniffed his nose which was red from the cold:
"It took me at least a year before I discovered that the parchments had been stolen. After all, I was reluctant to approach them again, so I carefully hid them in the brick cracks in the basement of the house I rented in Coldwater Port. After discovering that they had been stolen, I spent another year confirming that Oxenfurt had taken them. Oxenfurt also took advantage of these two years to decipher the obscure contents on the parchment and collect them all. Sacrifice. Then, now."
The demon that the old captain came into contact with could not be solved by Shade and Doctor Schneider. The other party just wanted the soul, and he didn't even know where he was, and the old captain himself didn't even think about resisting, which meant that Shade couldn't help him.
But Shade is still curious about other stories:
"You seized his old photos and letters because you hated him for stealing your things?"
"Yes, and he betrayed my trust. For those of us who live on ships, betrayal is the hardest thing to forgive."
The old captain nodded, then turned with Shade, walking through the snow-covered farmland towards the windmill on the far bank of the river:
"I don't know what he called, but the demon is obviously older, more powerful, and weirder. Oxenfurt himself is not willing to come to see me. Even if he is stronger than me, I know best His people, and he doesn’t know how much I got from the devil, so the letters and photos that he didn’t have time to take away when he left the ship will always stay with me.”
"So what about the story of Oxenfurt and Miss Hai? Watson, who is now Mrs. Hai? Oxenfurt?"
Xia De inquired curiously again, and the old captain smiled:
"A very classic story about a poor boy and a rich girl. The first encounter was when the rich girl's father took her to the dock to discuss business. Fortunately, I don't have a daughter, otherwise I would have to educate her from an early age to stay away from those who are just A glib boy. Of course, I will never agree to go near the dock just to let her see the world."
The mill is getting closer and closer, and the windmill is turning slowly in the late winter wind. Although it was winter and not the autumn harvest season, the mill was still working. Shade saw a donkey cart pulling grain parked at the entrance of the mill. The long-eared donkey was eating the dead grass growing at the base of the wall.
"She loves him very much, and he also loves her very much. You can think that during the period of their passionate love, they were both enough to give their hearts to each other completely. What happened after Oxenfurt got off the ship, I don’t know much, but I heard about their marriage within a few years, and later I heard that the whole death of Hai?’s family was related to the devil, right?”
The two stopped at the entrance of the mill. The farmer who was loading the truck saw Captain Woody and immediately greeted him respectfully. It seems that the captain leased the mill to the villagers in the village across the river at a very low price, allowing them to use it at any time, and the villagers were very grateful for it.
They did not enter the mill, but after Shade observed the donkey with great interest, they bypassed the mill and continued walking towards the Yiyu River.
Xia De continued to ask his questions:
"Have you ever seen Hayes Oxenfurt after they got married?"
"No, I haven't even seen it since leaving my ship at Oxenfurt."
"So in your impression, Mrs. Hai, is she the kind of person who is indifferent to emotions?"
The old captain thought for a while:
"No, although she is a relatively quiet rich girl, her mood is definitely not indifferent."
Shad nodded clearly, and stood by the river with the old captain, watching seven or eight children wearing coarse cloth and patched clothes playing on the ice:
"I probably understand. I don't want to summon the devil, I'm just curious to know, is the devil summoning ritual you used free of charge?"
If it is free, after solving Oxenfurt, Shade must dig out the information, and then find a safe place with Dr. Schneider to kill demons.
"Of course not, you have to give what you get."
The old captain shook his head and finally talked about Shade’s purpose here:
"I am willing to tell you so much because you are different from the people who have come here before. I have seen many people on the ship, and I can tell people very accurately."
"So, you think I am an upright person?"
Xia De asked with a smile, looking at the children on the river singing nursery rhymes and playing games like "Eagle Catches Chicken".