Fabricott calmed down his emotions a little bit, although his poor reason and common sense were all destroyed when he stood in front of the window and saw those half-man, half-fish-frog monsters, but fortunately he His spirit did not fall into confusion.
It is precisely because of this that he can truthfully describe to Zhang Heng what he saw and heard that day.
According to the young foreign traveler, he originally wanted to change trains here and take the 8:00 p.m. bus to Arkham, because there are usually no people on this route, and the fare is very cheap. For a poor traveler like him It is still very attractive, of course, another reason is that he himself is very curious about this place.
Because in Newburyport, people have heard many legends related to this place, such as the disgusting ugly appearance of the townspeople, the gloomy and depressing sneaky atmosphere, and the disappearances that occur from time to time, all of which Still attractive to young people.
Especially when Fabricott saw the golden crown in the museum, he was deeply fascinated by the strange, unimaginable evil it exuded.
"Is the golden crown you mentioned made of this material?" Zhang Heng took out the necklace he picked up from his bag.
"Yes, that's right." Fabricott yelled out almost immediately when he saw the necklace, and then he shuddered, trying to look away, but the necklace seemed to contain some magical power, It's obviously full of evil intentions, but it's also fascinating.
Fortunately, Zhang Heng didn't take out the necklace for too long, but put it away after shaking it in front of the young foreign traveler's face.
Fabricott heaved a sigh of relief, "Anyway, I took the ten o'clock bus to come here the next morning. Although I have done a lot of research before coming here, and I have made some psychological preparations, I have to admit that The eerie and dead atmosphere here is still beyond my imagination, I mean, can you believe it, before 1846, it was full of people, and it was thriving. People say that a great plague took the town More than half of the lives of the people, combined with the weird looks of the people in the town, if it is the impact of an unknown disease, it seems reasonable... "
Fabricott paused at this point, "Anyway, I have already taken the bus here, and I have to take the evening bus if I want to leave, so I decided to use the time in between to go shopping in the town Go shopping, satisfy your curiosity by the way, and see if you can hear more stories related to this place... But as you can see, the people here are not very friendly to foreigners, no one wants to talk to me, actually I don’t really want to communicate with them, either because of their weird looks or the fishy smell on their bodies makes me uncomfortable, but luckily I found a clerk in the grocery store, he is not a local, he was just attracted by Headquarters transferred here to work.
"He told me some precautions here, such as not going out in the middle of the night, such as staying away from the church, the Freemasonry here has now been replaced by another mysterious order, and their priests seem to be thinking about some weird rituals , and the people in the town like water very much, they will compete in swimming from time to time, you don't want to know their posture in the water, by the way, there are four most famous families in this town, the Marsh family that runs the refinery, The Waite family, the Gilman family, and the Elliott family, but few people saw them go out.
"Finally, the little brother in the grocery store heard that I wanted to find out more anecdotes, so he recommended to me an old man named Zadok Alan. He is a poor old alcoholic who lives alone. He is over ninety years old. Usually he has a strict tongue and is a little nervous, but as soon as he gets drunk, he will start talking nonsense, and it is said that many of the legends here come from his mouth."
"Have you found him?" Zhang Heng asked.
"Yes, although I have wasted a lot of effort, and I have to try my best to get rid of other people, because the little brother in the grocery store told me that it is best not to be seen by the people in the town when I meet Zadok Allen, I A bottle of wine led him to the ruins, where we got a valuable one-on-one communication opportunity," Fabricott said here with a look of horror and chagrin on his face, "but I now wish I never heard those horror stories from his mouth."
"what story?"
"It all started on a small island in the South Pacific when bad things came together, a boat of good fishermen was killed by a privateer in the War of 1812, and the Gilman family Three boats were missing, and only the Marsh family's boat was still at sea, but it was not easy, and no fish could be caught. The captain of one of the boats was named Obed. Wearing jewelry like gold, and there's plenty of fish to catch."
"So Captain Obaid took people to find the small island. At first, he just tried to exchange some gold-like ornaments with the natives on the island, but later Obaid managed to learn the origin of the gold from the chief's mouth. According to the source, the chief told him that the people on the island would hold ceremonies from time to time to trade with the young people in the tribe, and these gold and fish were the rewards given to them by those things.
"And after that, those things went one step further, persuading the people on the island to reproduce with them, and the children they gave birth to looked like humans at first, but as they grew older, they would become more and more like those things, and eventually they would be forever live underwater."
"Are you referring to those half-human, half-fish-frog things?" Zhang Heng frowned.
"Yes, these are the things that do business with that tribe, but not all children will become that way, and the time of change is different. Some people are born like this, and some people can maintain it until they are seventy or eighty years old. human appearance, or never complete the final transformation."
"Heh." Zhang Heng was noncommittal when he heard the words.
"In short, Captain Obaid found out what happened on the island, and brought back a gift from the chief, a bauble made of lead or something else, and the corresponding ceremony, according to According to the chief, find a place where there are fish and throw the lead weight down, and cooperate with the ritual to find those things that live underwater.
"Captain Obaid didn't use it at first, he just put it aside and continued to trade with the tribes on the island for something like gold in their hands, while he opened a refinery in the town to secretly process those Things, made a lot of money, but in 2038, when Obaid brought people back to the island, he found that the tribe was gone, they were wiped out by people on other islands, and there were some mysterious amulets everywhere on the island , this is extremely bad news for Captain Obaid." My day is at 4 o'clock. The latest chapters come to the website: