Mage? Spell Engineer!

The leader of the guard is a pretty handsome young man. His clothes are somewhat similar to those of soldiers from the old empire. He has an iron bucket helmet and a bald mop head. Every time he passes a box of supplies, he checks it - picks it with a dagger. Open up a little, let it go if it's tea, grab a handful if it's sugar, put it in your mouth or put it in your pocket.

The poet once again showed the count's order, and he shook the paper until it crackled. The guard captain hesitated for a moment: "Okay, but everything you bring out must be inspected by me."

When he entered the room, Rorschach lowered his voice and said to the poet: "You played a trick. That captain is very greedy and not easy to talk to."

The poet has a magical reaction when shaking the paper, and seems to be using the earl's charter as a hypnotic prop.

"You have to have some skills, otherwise how can you survive in both worlds?"

When he walked inside, Rorschach immediately felt the violation. The ship was quite large, and it was already the limit of the Tams River. They entered through the hole in the stern of the ship, and the overturned cargo filled the interior space. The guards acted as temporary porters and cleaned up as they moved. Not only the cargo, but the steam engine, which was a precious metal, was also dismantled to pieces.

The violation is that if this cargo ship is really loaded with sugar and tea, then the dilapidated house below will certainly not be able to be lifted up. The belly and bow either contained other cargo or were empty.

It is also very rare for the entire ship to fall into the Shadow City in such a posture. Rorschach asked the guard: "When did this ship appear?"

Seeing that Rorschach was neatly dressed and allowed to enter the cabin, the guard replied respectfully: "This morning. No, no, it should be last night? It was the residents on the street who first discovered that the living water body was now making a lot of noise. , no one dared to come close, we only came in after confirming that there was no movement in the morning."

It was difficult to tell the difference between day and night in the shadows, so they could only tell the time by listening to the bells. In short, the guards did not enter the ship for long, and they only focused on moving the cargo instead of cleaning and exploring the entire ship.

"Have you looked at the cabins in the middle and front sections?"

"No, sir, look, these cargo boxes are all collapsed. We have to move out to find a way."

Rorschach said nothing and waved his hand. All the goods blocking the road floated and moved to both sides consciously. The guards were stunned, looking at the team with curiosity and awe.

When the boxes of sugar and tea were moved away, the twisted partition door was exposed. When he opened it, there was no road, but a wall made of red bricks.

"Wall? Is there a wall built inside the ship?" Zinglev's hands suddenly felt itchy. He took out his sledgehammer and was eager to try it. Obviously, he wanted to hit it eighty times.

In order to prevent people from running out after smashing the wall and shouting "What are you doing?", Rorschach cast another spell to move most of the goods out, and directly gave the order to the count's guards: "Everyone, get out."

The guards also noticed that something was wrong. After all, their work was done, so they all smeared their feet with oil and left, shouting "Thank you, sir".

Singletary said seriously: "There is a big problem inside." He held the hammer again, but this time it was in a fighting posture. The poet took a step back to protect the two of them in front of him, and played the exciting battle soundtrack. .

"Stop playing, it interferes with judgment." Rorschach turned off the BGM. He used "repulsion" to compress the air, but this time it was compressed into a pointed cone shape, penetrated into the cracks in the brick wall and exploded, successfully blasting away the tight brick wall.

"vomit"

A smell of rotten protein gushed out. Rorschach quickly put filter bubbles on himself and the two of them to isolate the unspeakable stench. There was no light source in the middle cabin. It seemed that not only the cabin door, but also the portholes were tightly sealed, as if the stench was spitting out. A black hole of gas.

When all the bricks were dismantled, turbid, red and yellow liquid flowed out.

"Are we not going in?" Although Freddy could no longer smell the smell, the physically uncomfortable smell still lingered in his entire upper respiratory tract.

"It's a corpse." Singletaryev, who was experienced in reverse fighting adventures, quickly made a judgment and asked Rorschach with his eyes if he wanted to go in.

"We must see what's going on." Rorschach released the ball of light and probed all the way into the cabin. The pale light illuminated the entire enclosed space. Several bloated corpses were stacked on top of each other. They should have escaped from the shock. in place. The wooden floor was dirty and stained with lines.

Rorschach noticed the pattern, and decided to investigate further. He made the filter bubble cover his whole body as much as possible, and cast the same spell on the other two people: "Go in and take a look."

"Let's do this. You guys watch here, and I'll report to the earl."

"Whatever." Luo Xia stepped in without looking back, and the dwarf followed without saying a word. Freddy looked at it again and again, first ran to the gap and explained the situation to the guard who was looking around, then turned around and followed him in.

One and two, there were twelve in total. Rorschach moved carefully and found one thing in common. The deceased all had pointed ears.

"All elves?" This was quite a discovery. Rorschach saw that a large area of ​​the floor in front of the porthole was soaked by the liquid seeping from the body, leaving a large pool of marks. Some of them had broken oars in their hands and around them, which meant that they were originally "rowing" by the portholes.

It just so happens that this ship is a paddle steamer, and the window in the middle cabin is sealed. This means that even if these elves were alive before they fell into this world, they could not have been rowing sailors. Even the twelve muscled devils could not be sailors. It cannot carry a small or medium-sized cargo ship.

The dwarves deeply sympathized with the dead elves. Now their faces were only left with enlarged, horrifying rotten flesh, and their expressions could not be seen, but they certainly did not look happy. Even though it was late autumn and early winter, their faces The clothes on his body were still thin, and the exposed gray skin was still scarred.

Although the temperature is not high now, the accumulated heat in the closed environment caused the remains to expand.

"Is this a moving grave?" Freddy still couldn't understand why the ship was transformed like this, but Rorschach had a clue: "This ship's fall into the Shadow City was not an accident, but was done deliberately."

He read a system similar to elven totems in the traces on the floor, which was exactly the same as the patterns in the museum. Although Rorschach doesn't understand this shadowland as Freddie does, he understands symbolism and the occult.

"Shuttle. Shadow reversal." He interpreted the patterns drawn on the floor bit by bit. The interference from blood stains could only be seen to a limited extent, but he already had an understanding of the function of the entire cabin.

"Freddy, the well you are talking about can only connect two places by drowning a child, right?"

Freddy shrugged: "The accident was a long time ago, and the garbage dump did appear much later."

"You also said a way is to lie in a coffin and live with the bones for a while. In other words, there is a key word for entering the Shadow Land."

"die."

"Yes, I don't know the specific method yet, but 'death' is an obvious factor. Judging from this cabin, it has been transformed into a 'Pluto Ship', and its destination is the Shadow City."

When they continued to move forward and broke through the second wall, they reached the front section of the ship. In addition to the anchor, anchor chain and other necessary parts, there were also several boxes stacked including clocks, clothes, and the last locked box. When he pried it open, it was filled with various metal utensils, with jewelry scattered in the gaps.

"Golden!" The dwarf knew these things very well. He picked up the second piece, and the warm silver on it shocked him even more: "Mithril!"