Whispering Verse

"A question for each person? No problem, but priest, as long as it is a problem, even if you accidentally say: Why is the weather so bad this year, it is still a problem?"

"Yes, these souls are controlled by other things. They have low intelligence and only instinct, so you should be careful when asking questions."

Shade and the doctor both covered their mouths. After getting ready, the priest poured some ash from his unlit pipe and sprinkled it on the body of the remains. Then, he raised his right arm and made the move that Shade still remembers vividly (Chapter 440)——

Slap the corpse on the face:

"Come back!"

The corpse began to tremble like a convulsion. After Shade and the doctor pulled the priest out of the grave, the corpse also sat up, with sand rolling down from its body.

An imperceptible green flame ignited in the eye sockets of the skeleton, but the corpse was stunned, as if its wisdom was not as high as that of little Mia.

The priest coughed and asked first:

"Your soul is not free. Do you know what controls you?"

The corpse sat up at a ninety-degree angle and answered in a very dull voice:

"A book, it is praised by souls, it can plan our destiny."

"It seems that the detective is right, but I have never heard of such a relic."

The priest said to Shade and the doctor, paying special attention to the fact that he used a declarative sentence, and then motioned to the two of them to ask questions.

The doctor was eager to try, so Shade asked the doctor to come first. Doctor Schneider, as expected, asked the topic that both of them were interested in:

"I heard that you gave birth to eight sons, so do you have any strange methods?"

"There is no way. There have always been many boys in our family."

The corpse answered again, and the doctor tried to interpret it in a way that ordinary people could understand:

"In other words, this is heredity, but if this heredity becomes more and more widely distributed in the population, as generations accumulate, it will definitely lead to a gender imbalance in the population. Therefore, this special family heredity should not exist, otherwise Over the years, the gender ratio in this region has been skewed."

He also took care not to end with a question to avoid taking up the last opportunity to ask questions.

So in the end it was Shade's turn. Shade didn't actually have many questions, but since he could ask questions, he still wanted to know about Edwards:

"What do you think of your lord, Pride Edwards, the third generation of the Edwards family?"

The corpse did not answer immediately, as if recalling:

"The lord was strictly taught by the previous generation of lords when he was young. He was a very good gentleman. He treated the townspeople very well and treated his family very well. But three or four years before the accident in the town, he was often seen at night. , operating secretly on the island. But this may be just a rumor. The islanders have different legends about Lord Edwards’ family.”

After saying that, he immediately lay back in the coffin, not giving Shade any chance to satisfy his curiosity.

"Priest, is it true that you can no longer channel spirits?"

Shade couldn't help but ask, and the priest nodded:

"For safety reasons, this soul cannot be channeled anymore."

The doctor, who was also interested in the matter, suggested:

"Aren't his three brothers also buried here? Maybe the three zombie brothers who come after eleven o'clock will attack his three brothers first, so we might as well dig them out too, ahem, I mean, protect them too. Three brothers, you have nine opportunities to ask questions."

"This is a good suggestion. Since it's still early, we can make more preparations."

Seeing that the priest agreed, the doctor kicked up the shovel with his foot, picked it up with Shade, and walked to another grave.

The bodies of the other three brothers were all in a similar state of decomposition, and their death dates were spread out within five years. Except for the shop owner who accidentally fell and died when he was old, the remaining three all died of unknown diseases. But this should have nothing to do with the soothsayer. For villagers living in the countryside, even a cold can lead to death.

Shade asked six of the remaining nine questions to ask the family about their impressions of the Edwards family. In the remaining three questions, the doctor curiously asked them whether they missed their homeland after being away from home, while the priest inquired about the corpses' different feelings about the control of their souls.

Shade didn't pay much attention to the questions from doctors and priests. After asking seven questions, he roughly understood how ordinary citizens of Green Lake Town viewed the Edwards family a hundred years ago.

"Mysterious", "powerful background" and "rich" are the deepest impressions on the entire family. As for the rumors circulating among the townspeople, they refer to people's suspicion that "Edwards" is a surname passed down by the illegitimate son of a certain nobleman in Tobesk City. Otherwise, it cannot be explained that this family never seems to be short of money, and You can always get preferential treatment from various policies.

In the eyes of the less knowledgeable villagers, the Edwards family is almost synonymous with omnipotence in the local area. But it happened that the three generations of lords in the family were very approachable and did not use dirty words such as "primary right". Even local taxes were reduced to the lowest level imaginable.

This is also the reason why the town has been able to develop rapidly in the hundred years since the soothsayer came to Green Lake Town until the town fell. Even these townspeople were quite grateful to the first three generations of lords of the Edwards family and considered them to be true nobles.

Although this information does not have much significance for the upcoming decisive battle, it can be regarded as completing Shade's missing information about the century-old history of Green Lake Town. After asking the questions, the three of them laid traps and set up rituals under the leadership of Priest August.

The goal this time was to capture the three brothers alive so that the priest could later use them to sense the position of the third of the skull. Laplace Klein Howard cannot leave the island now. Even if the skeleton is very rare, he will not give up what he is doing. Therefore, as long as Priest August can get one-third of the skull by surprise , you don’t have to worry about being chased by the soothsayer himself.

In fact, tomorrow is the time when the divination ceremony of the Prophet Association begins, and the fortune tellers on the island have to deal with this matter. The possibility that Priest Augustus's action will fail becomes even lower.

The three of them started working together, and the rituals and traps were quickly laid out. After dealing with the tombs, they painstakingly restored the tombs, and then found a suitable location nearby to hide themselves.

There are no clouds under the starry sky tonight, and the yellow moon, which is close to full moon, illuminates the entire rural cemetery. The time came to 11:13 on Friday night, when the wind blew through the tips of the spring weeds, before the weeds had time to sway, they were stepped on by a somewhat tattered and muddy shoe.

Three hunched "people" appeared from the darkness, skillfully climbed over the fence and hedge and entered the cemetery. The three brothers have become very different from when Shade saw them in the burning farm a few weeks ago.

The most important point is that originally they only had a few rags hanging on their bodies to cover key locations, and they would touch the ground with their hands from time to time as they walked, as if they were walking on all fours. But at this time, they had put on suitable shorts and short-sleeved tops. Although they were still stooped when walking, they were really walking on only their feet.

The three brothers appeared under the moonlight, and then, just as Priest August expected, they took the lead in walking towards the grave of the former owner of the small town grocery store. Their excavation speed was faster than that of Shade and Doctor Schneider, and within a few minutes, the dilapidated wooden coffin where they were buried was revealed again.

Two corpse lichs were guarding the ground. One of them opened the lid of the coffin and jumped down. He bent down and clawed at the rotting corpse lying there with nails longer than the palm of his hand.

Suddenly, a green light appeared in the eyes of the corpse, and then the lying corpse opened its arms to hug the corpse, and then pulled it to lie down with it.

The corpse lich transformed by the three Edwards brothers has a low IQ, but is absolutely powerful. But when the corpse in the coffin touched its arm, some indescribable power related to death immediately made it lose almost all its strength.

With a bang, the coffin lid closed again, shutting the corpse inside together with the corpse. The two brothers outside the tomb wanted to reach out and break the rotten wooden coffin lid, but the moonlight illuminated the coffin lid, and the ancient holy symbol surrounded by elder flowers shimmered, making the two brothers jump up in shock. .

Their intelligence is still unable to understand what is floating on the coffin lid, but this does not prevent them from knowing that the thing is extremely dangerous.

The two instinctively retreated away from the dug pit. Before they were ready for their next move, the taller corpse on the east side stepped into the pit in the ground again.

Countless hands burning with dark ghost fire stretched out from the pit and dragged it into the dirt, leaving only the head exposed. Just like before, when those ghostly ghost hands came into contact with its body, the powerful strength and spellcasting ability derived from the corpse lich almost completely disappeared.

In this way, only the last of the three brothers remained. It hunched over and dared not move around casually. It opened its mouth and bared its teeth, exposing its blood-red gums. It kept spinning in circles, trying to figure out who had attacked them.

And when it looked below the moon, it finally saw the three men standing under the moon.

The one on the left holds a shining silver sword in his hand, the one on the right carries a shovel on his shoulder, the one in the middle holds a pipe, and his robe is blown by the night wind.

The moon was surprisingly bright tonight, and for a moment, my cloudy eyes only saw the silhouettes of the three people but could not see their specific appearance. But it knows that they are definitely enemies.

PS: Picture of this chapter "Three Brothers" under the Moon"