Mr. Joyce put the fried eggs on the bowl, cut a few pieces of bread and fried them, and took them to the table.
The dining table is an old wooden table next to the kitchen. The table is full of 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 egg as soon as he sat down. The natural eggs from free-range chickens are quite delicious.
"What's that about?" he asked about the events of the previous two years at Innsmouth that the old man had said earlier.
"The outside world knows very little. It was the winter from the end of last year to the beginning of last year. Many people said that it was because someone smuggled alcohol there. But I know it's not. Jack has inquired about many ways to make money, including this one. Innsmouth has no People sell bootleg alcohol."
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 groups protesting, but It was quickly suppressed by the federal government. There was definitely something wrong there."
Gu Jun frowned silently, could it be an action by fbm against Innsmouth...
In his hometown world, Innsmouth does not exist there, and fbm has never taken any action in this regard.
But it seems to be different here. It sounds like the government has captured many evil believers and alien creatures in one go.
"I just want to ask for justice." Mr. Joyce gnawed on the bread, his voice muffled, as if he was a little choked up, "I asked the police, but no one paid any attention to me, and I asked the media, but no one paid any attention. Me. My old friends, either think I'm crazy or just don't want to get in trouble."
"Mr., maybe." Gu Jun said, "Maybe I can investigate for you."
"Oh?" Mr. Joyce's eyes lit up.
Gu Jun thought he had to use a more convincing statement that suited his identity, so he said, "I just came to this country and I need to find some work and earn some money. I can help you go to Innsmouth. While investigating, I am from the East, so I might be able to get in."
"Mr. Gu, you can definitely sneak in!" In fact, Mr. Joyce had thought about this idea, so his tone was excited: "You can pretend to be a Dagon follower!"
"Yes, but I need to know more about the situation first." Gu Jun nodded, "I want to know, have there been any rumors about witches in Innsmouth?"
Talking about witches in this place has turned pale. If they had talked about witches in private two hundred years earlier, they would have been charged with witchcraft in minutes and would have been tried.
"Witch..." Mr. Joyce stared, and said a little funny: "Let's put it this way, everything here has something to do with witches. Old John's house didn't have a few eggs, so they were stolen by the witch? Old Carter's Dogs are always barking at night, so you saw a witch, right? Something like that."
The old man swallowed the bread as he spoke, choking a little, "Look, maybe the witch is eavesdropping on our conversation now, making me choke."
Gu Jun felt a chill in his heart, looking at the reflection of the old man under the light, and the sky outside had already turned dark...
He knows that this possibility is not impossible, the "shadow" that Xiao Kedou mentioned.
"Witches, witches, I've heard it all since I was a child." Mr. Joyce disagreed. "Innesmouth, of course there are witch legends in that place. But I've inquired about it, and it has nothing to do with Dagonism. It's in Innsmouth. Arkham, there's a 'Witch House' over 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, I guess." Mr. Joyce said, "There are also all kinds of weird legends there. One of them is related to witches. I have to tell you about the time when That witch case in Salem."
In fact, Gu Jun had heard of it before, but now he still listens to the old man's talk, after all, the case here may be different.
But he still sounded the same, this thing, the Salem Witch Trials.
It was more than two hundred years ago in 1929. In Salem, Massachusetts, a pastor’s daughter had a strange disease, and then several girls who usually played with her also developed symptoms one after another. Some of the other girls also fell ill.
"They would scream, sometimes their bodies would twitch, their minds would go crazy, and they would make strange noises like chanting spells."
Mr. Joyce said of these unverifiable histories, "No one knew why at the time, and the doctors couldn't explain it."
Gu Jun was silent. In the medical field, the Salem case is also a historical mystery.
Tourette syndrome? At least not the ordinary kind, since the disease is not contagious and does not cause delirium. There is a hypothesis that "ergot disease" is ergot poisoning caused by eating rye parasitized by the fungus "ergot fungus", but it does not explain why girls first developed the disease.
Almost everyone in the small town of Salem at the time was accused of being a witch or a witch because of the plague.
According to the old man, this resulted in hundreds of people being imprisoned, tortured, dozens hanged, stoned to death, burned to death, etc.
"At that time, one of the witches was Kezia Mason." Mr. Joyce continued, "Then, for some reason, this witch escaped from Salem Prison and disappeared so suddenly! The jailer at the time Crazy, talking about seeing Kezia Mason open up the space with curves, chamfers, etc... ”
Speaking of these, even if the old man half believed in evil forces, he still felt absurd.
From the old man's point of view, those Dagon heretics didn't have any abilities beyond ordinary people, and the sacrifices they made were just ordinary crimes.
And these legends of witches are even more so, they are just embellished and far-fetched by later generations.
If Mr. Joyce believed in the existence of demons, he wouldn't have a good look at the oriental boy in front of him.
But Gu Jun was even more chilled when he heard it. They couldn't figure it out. According to what Xiao Kedou said, what kind of power did that phantom of the witch walk out of the corner...
Now, he is very clear that this kind of space travel is not just a legend, but he doesn't know whether "Kezia Mason" has anything to do with it.
"Anyway, the old house Kezia Mason lived in is in Arkham." Mr. Joyce said, "It's said that there are many strange things there, and everyone doesn't want to go near it because they think it's bad luck."
Gu Jun suddenly had another idea, he came to this time and space...
Could it be that Arkham was a more important place than Innsmouth? Could there be any important clues in that "witch's house"
Could Kezia Mason be the witch, or, the being with a thousand faces
Just as Gu Jun was meditating, several dogs outside the room suddenly barked violently, and a loud noise came from a distance.
"Old Joss, you old bastard, you were seen taking that heretic home!"
"You damn old thing, hand over that Oriental, do you want to kill us, like you killed Jack!"
"Go away, you bastard!"
With a loud curse, the screams of the dogs suddenly sounded. The dogs were obviously beaten, and they fled away immediately, and the barking became more brutal.
"Damn it, damn it..." Mr. Joyce put down the bread in his hand, stood up, his beard trembling with anger, "those savages are coming, damn it!"