Plague Doctor

Mr. Joyce put the fried eggs on the bowl, cut a few pieces of bread and fried them before serving them.

The dining table is an old wooden table placed next to the kitchen. The table is covered with mottled oil stains and there are mold spots in some places. Medical dogs usually have higher requirements for hygiene than others, but Gu Jun was so hungry that he ate the fried eggs as soon as he sat down. Natural eggs from free-range chickens were quite delicious.

"What's going on?" He asked the old man about the incident in Innsmouth two years ago.

"The outside world knows very little about it. It was the winter from the end of last year to the beginning of last year. Many people said it was because someone was smuggling alcohol there. But I know not. Jack has asked about many ways to make money, including this one. Innsmouth has no People sell moonshine.”

Mr. Joyce was very disdainful of this statement, "A lot of people were arrested that time, but no one knew where they were taken. There was no news of the trial, and there was almost no news. There were some group protests, but It was quickly suppressed by the federal government. Something was definitely going on there."

Gu Jun frowned silently, could it be an action by fbm against Innsmouth...

In his home world, Innsmouth does not exist there, and fbm has never taken any action in this regard.

But it seems different here. It sounds like the government has arrested many evil believers and alien creatures in one fell swoop.

"I just want justice." Mr. Joyce gnawed on the bread and his voice was muffled, as if he was choking. "I went to the police to ask, but no one paid any attention to me. I went to the media to ask, but no one paid any attention. Me. My old friends, either think I'm crazy or they just don't want to cause trouble."

"Old sir, maybe." Gu Jun said, "Maybe I can investigate it for you."

"Oh?" Mr. Joyce's eyes lit up.

Gu Jun thought he had to use a more convincing explanation that suited his status, so he said: "I just came to this country and need to find some work and make some money. I can help you go to Innsmouth." While investigating, I am an Oriental, maybe I can sneak in."

"Mr. Gu, you can definitely sneak in!" In fact, Mr. Joyce has thought about this idea, so he said excitedly: "You can pretend to be a follower of Dagon!"

"Yes, but I need to know more about the situation first." Gu Jun nodded, "I want to know, are there any rumors about witches in Innsmouth?"

In this place, talking about witches is perverted. If you had talked about witches in private two hundred years earlier, you would have been accused of witchcraft in a minute, and you would have been tried.

"Witches..." Mr. Joyce glared and said with some humor: "Let's put it this way, everything here is about witches. There are a few eggs missing from Old John's house. Were they stolen by witches? At Old Carter's house The dog always barks at night. Is that because he saw a witch? Something like that.”

The old man swallowed the bread and choked a little as he spoke, "Look, maybe the witch is eavesdropping on our conversation now and made me choke."

Gu Jun felt a chill in his heart, looking at the old man's reflection in the light, while the sky outside had turned dark...

He knew that it was not impossible, the "shadow" that Xiao Kedou had mentioned.

"Witches, witches, I've been hearing this since I was a child." Mr. Joyce disagreed. "Innsmouth, of course, there are also legends of witches in that place. But I asked, and it has nothing to do with the Dagon Cult. Arkham, there's a 'Witch's House' there."

Gu Jun was surprised, "Arkham". When he heard this place name just now, he thought it was just an ordinary place, but now it sounds like it is not simple?

"Arkham?" he asked.

"Arkham is a rare city in our area, so to speak." Mr. Joyce said, "It is also full of all kinds of weird legends. One of them is related to witches. I have to tell you about that time first. That witch case in Salem.”

Gu Jun had actually heard of it before, but now he still listened to the old man's story. After all, the circumstances of the case here may be different.

But it still sounded to him like it was the same thing, this thing, the Salem Witch Trials.

It was more than two hundred years ago in 1929. In the town of Salem, Massachusetts, first a pastor's daughter suddenly suffered from a strange disease, and then several girls who usually played with her also developed symptoms one after another. Some other girls also became ill.

"They would scream, sometimes their bodies would twitch, their minds would go crazy, and they would make strange noises like they were chanting a curse."

Mr. Joyce said of these unverifiable histories, "No one knew why at the time, and doctors couldn't explain it."

Gu Jun was silent. In the medical world, Salem was also a historical mystery.

Tourette syndrome? At least not the ordinary kind, because the disease is not contagious and does not cause delirium. There is a hypothesis that "ergotism" is caused by ergot poisoning caused by eating rye that is colonized by the fungus "ergot", but it cannot be explained why girls are affected in the first place.

As a result of this plague, almost everyone in the town of Salem was accused of being either a witch or a witch.

The old man said that this resulted in hundreds of people being imprisoned and tortured, and dozens of people being hanged, stoned, and burned to death.

"One of the witches at that time, Kezia Mason." Mr. Joyce added, "Later, I don't know why, this witch escaped from Salem Prison and disappeared so suddenly! The jailer at the time Going crazy, saying that I saw Kezia Mason opening up space with curves and angles..."

Speaking of this, the old man found it absurd even if he had half-doubts about evil forces.

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At first glance, it seemed that those Dagon cult pagans did not have any extraordinary abilities, and the sacrifices they performed were just ordinary sinful acts.

This is even more true for these witch legends, which are nothing more than embellished and far-fetched by later generations.

If Mr. Joyce believed that demons really existed, he wouldn't have a good look on the oriental young man in front of him.

But Gu Jun felt more and more chilled after hearing this. They still couldn't figure out what power Xiao Kedou said that the witch phantom had when it came out of the corner...

Now, he knows very well that this kind of thing that travels through space is not just a legend. He just doesn't know whether "Kezia Mason" has anything to do with it.

"Anyway, the old house where Kezia Mason lived is in Arkham." Mr. Joyce said. "It is said that there are many strange things there, and no one wants to go near it because it is unlucky."

Gu Jun suddenly had another thought, that he had arrived in this time and space...

Could it be that Arkham is a more important place than Innsmouth? Will there be any important clues in that "Witch's House"?

Could Kezia Mason be the witch, or the being with a thousand faces?

While Gu Jun was deep in thought, several dogs outside the house suddenly started barking fiercely, and a noise came from a distance.

"Old Joes, you old bastard, you were seen taking that infidel home!"

"You damn old thing, hand over that Oriental, do you want to kill us, like you killed Jack?"

"Get away, you beast!"

Following a loud curse, the dogs screamed suddenly. The dogs were obviously beaten and ran away immediately, and the barking became even more fierce.

"Damn, damn..." Mr. Joyce put down the bread in his hand and stood up, his beard trembling with anger, "Those savages are coming, damn it!"

Love the Plague Doctor.