Whispering Verse

"Come this way."

A group of four people did not go to the warehouse's office building. Instead, they entered the warehouse and used the key on the corpse to open the innermost door of the warehouse and entered the basement.

About one-third of the warehouse on the warehouse floor is filled with mechanical parts, while flour and soybeans are stored in the relatively dry underground. The underground warehouse is not small in size. After lighting up the gas lamp on the wall, you can see mountains of grain bags stacked in every corner.

"I come."

Shade said, blinking:

"Echo of blood!"

Extending from the door to the depths of the underground warehouse, a clear "blood path" appeared in front of you. This means that blood-stained things are often transported here.

Under the leadership of Sha De, the four people quickly came to the wall on the left side of the underground granary. There is a secret door on the wall, but the key cannot be found yet. After Megan confirmed that there were no trigger-type detection traps on the wall, the Ring Warlocks worked together to destroy the wall.

Wow~

Red stone bricks mixed with soil fell all over the floor, and the wind with moisture and smell blew in from the holes in the wall. At the same time, there was the sound of water flowing. When the light ball for lighting flew into the hole in the wall, what they saw was a manually dug underground cave and dozens of coffins on display.

The coffins were made of copper-colored metal and had no lids. Looking inside the coffin, dark liquid filled the inside, and there were kelp, aquatic plants and dead fish in the liquid. Of course, the most important thing is that the water in each coffin is soaked with corpses, but the corpses do not turn into terrifying giants. Instead, fish scales appear on the surface of the body, fins grow on the back, and the head begins to grow. Transformation towards fish head.

At the end of the cave is an underground culvert dug out that connects to the Duin River not far away.

"Undead?"

Shade frowned slightly, holding his nose and stepping away from the coffin. He didn’t know much about this kind of scene, but Meghan could see what he was doing at a glance:

"Cultivation of water ghosts, wait until the water ghosts complete their transformation, send them directly to the Duin River, and then let them dive all the way into Green Lake... It turns out that the water ghosts in Green Lake are not only naturally occurring."

Megan's voice echoed in the cave filled with the smell of corpses, and her voice also woke up the corpses sleeping in the water.

These corpses that had not been completely transformed began to tremble one by one. Finally, seven of them sat up from the water holding coffins. The look on their faces would give them nightmares.

But even the water ghost who has completed the transformation is no match for anyone here. One of the witch's followers, a blond-haired girl, blew gently in front of her. As the cold air spread, the liquid in the coffin froze, making it impossible for the corpses to move. Then another woman grabbed the pendant on her chest and prayed softly, and the corpses frozen in the ice became silent.

Megan asked her followers to examine the rituals on the cave walls and search the place for anything else suspicious. Shade took a pinch of bone powder and sprinkled it on one of the corpses. After performing a miraculous operation, the soul was summoned, and simple questions quickly let Shade know that most of the corpses here were homeless people in the city.

"Compared to using corpses directly, the undead created after living people die in great fear and pain are more powerful... Green Lake City is in short supply of homeless people."

Megan said, Shade nodded, thinking that when he goes back tonight, he must go and see if Little John at the back door of the hotel is still alive. But even if Bad-Eye Bali cultivated water ghosts on a large scale, he would not look for children. After all, the taller the body, the better the quality of the water ghosts he would cultivate.

Next, Shade and the two six-ring sorceresses checked the surroundings together, while the lady with brown shawl hair stood there and watched them search.

There is nothing valuable here, it is just a workshop for cultivating water ghosts. The dense black lines on the walls and floors were, according to Megan's judgment, a unique ink prepared from octopus ink, blood and potion.

These ritual traces together constitute the water ghost cultivation room, the most important part of which is the evil sacred emblem on the ground at the bottom of each coffin. It was the holy symbol of the evil god [God of the Deep Sea Drowned]. It was a pattern composed of fish, bones, chaotic black lines and a large number of lines with unknown meanings. Even just looking at it made people feel deeply uncomfortable (note).

According to the observation of the ritual, although the daily maintenance of this place is very simple, it is definitely not something that a ring warlock can set up.

In other words, although "Bad Eyed Barry" is a low-level warlock, there are other ring warlocks around him. Judging from the professional magical ritual arrays on the walls and the ground and the holy emblem of the [God of the Drowned in the Deep Sea] at the bottom of the coffin and on the top of the cave, which makes people instinctively frightened at a glance, the Order of the Drowned and this Things are inseparable.

"But what exactly do they want to do? This is not an ocean area. Even if a large number of water ghosts are cultivated in Green Lake, what can they do? Do they want to submerge half of the old continent and turn Green Lake into a coastal city?"

Shade put forward a hypothesis that he knew was impossible, and the witch shook her head:

"I don't know much about the believers of that god, but since it is Green Lake, maybe it really has something to do with my family."

Judging from the current situation, any abnormalities in this area may have something to do with the Edwards family.

They did not stay here long, destroyed the corpses, destroyed the ritual array, then re-sealed the wall, and then left the warehouse. Someone will take over the place soon, and the police will not be notified until evening to prevent Bad-Eye Barry, who is meeting with the businessmen, from getting the information in advance.

In the warehouse, it was determined that "Bad Eyed Barry" was breeding water ghosts on a large scale. The next stop was to cross the Duin River and enter the slums in the eastern part of Green Lake City to visit the real core territory of the gang leader.

Although he has many illegal industries in the local area, just like a legal company always has a headquarters, Bad Eye Barry's gang - it seems to be called the Bad Eye Gang, also has its own core territory in Green Lake City .

It was an area in the slums called "Goroj Street". On the north side of the alley were normal legal shops on the outside, but on the inside was a gang gathering place like a village in the city. If you want to enter this area, you need not only a guide, but also passwords and codes. Once you successfully enter, the black market, firearms, body trading and various illegal activities will be completely open to those lucky or unlucky ones.

It was still raining. It was approaching 10:30 in the morning, but the sky was as dark as night. Even if you were in the best mood, you would feel depressed and bored in this weather. Shade and Megan in the carriage were chatting while looking at the street scene on the way. The sorceress' profile was very beautiful. In fact, the beauty of the witches was always unmatched.

She suddenly asked Shade a question:

"What do you think of your family and relatives?"

The stranger laughed:

"I have no relatives in this world, and the only 'uncle' who left me an inheritance died last summer. So I care more about my new relationship now and in the future than in the past. Even if... .Even if some people close to me make mistakes, I still love these new relationships. After all, people have to look forward."

He knew what the lady in front of him was thinking. The person who raised water ghosts and played with corpses might not be just Bad-Eyed Barry. He might be working for one of her elders.

The carriage stopped at the intersection of Goroje Street. This street is very wide. Under normal circumstances, there should be various vendors selling goods on both sides. But in such weather, even the shops facing the street are unwilling to sell their goods. The sign is placed at the door.

There was no one on the street, and the pounding rain kept hitting every puddle, and you could look from one end of the street to the other at a glance. After the carriage stopped, Shade was still expecting that hundreds of people would rush out from nowhere and force their way into the two closed iron doors on the north side of the street, but this time they didn't need to wait for anyone.

"What are you expecting? If a gunfight with hundreds of people really breaks out, do you think the Green Lake Police Department is really all fools? This is during negotiations between the two countries."

Megan saw Shade's thoughts and couldn't help but smile:

"We have to find out the secret of Bad-Eye Barry, but we can't expose ourselves. This is not the warehouse just now, there are a lot of people inside. So, the next step is for the two of us. Guess how many people there are now. Want to deal with it?”

Even without the sound of rain covering up the sound of heartbeats, Shade would not be able to accurately distinguish each person's heartbeat from the heart sounds of so many heartbeats mixed together.

He shook his head:

"I bet not everyone is capable of fighting, so... 200?"

"Not that many. Do you really think that someone can organize 200 people armed with guns under the nose of the border army? About 40 or so, and the others are ordinary people without fighting ability."

She got off the carriage first, but did not take an umbrella. This time there was only one carriage nearby, so no followers came over to protect her from the rain. Shade poked her head out of the side door of the carriage and was surprised to see a completely transparent spherical force field that automatically repels rainwater around her, so that a spherical rain curtain formed around her.

"Have you recovered?"

Shade asked, Megan shook her head:

"Of course not, but at least it's better than the first two times we landed on the island. It's no problem to use the power below the sixth ring casually... I mean the general sixth ring, not your kind. Oh, young man Sir, don't ask so many questions, please come with me. I hate rainy weather, the humidity is really heavy."

She waved to Shade, and when Shade stepped out of the carriage and was enveloped by the gentle transparent force field, she took off the small gold and silver book-shaped pendant hanging around her neck.