Quenched long order

Chapter 37 The Blessed Curse
Blessed Curse?

On the way back, Sauer had been thinking about this question. Just now, he heard what the psychic stone scholar said. Obviously, blessing and curse seem to be two completely opposite descriptions, similar to cold and heat. The blessed curse, judging from the semantics, is like cold hot or hot cold, which is very strange anyway.

With doubts in his heart, he returned to the narrow passage.

"Why are you alone?" One of the guards left behind quickly asked after seeing Saul, "Are they behind? Or something happened?"

Garland also looked at Saul, waiting for Saul's answer or... instructions.

"They..." Sauer took a breath, "...they probably won't be able to come back, they seem to be polluted, let's go back quickly, by the way, the psychic stone scholar asked me to bring a message to the commander, he said that there is a blessed curse in the mine, I don't know what it is, do you know?"

He looked at the guard, waiting for his answer.

The guard shook his head again and again, but he didn't intend to leave. He came to Saul and said in a threatening tone: "Come down with me again, I want to see what's going on with them."

Saul gasped for breath and didn't answer the guard right away.

"I'll go." Garland said.

Saul immediately reached out to stop him, "Don't go, you must not go."

"Did you kill them? Because you are... the quencher?" The guard looked at Saul suspiciously, and grabbed the hilt of the saber with his right hand.

Seeing the guard's actions, Sauer showed a wry smile on his face. He wanted to explain his ability, and also wanted to talk about what happened in front of the gold mine in detail. However, he knew that no matter what he said, it was useless. The guard in front of him couldn't believe what he said. If he continued to change the subject or directly refused, the result would be self-evident.

Suddenly, Garland made a move and pushed the guard to the ground. The guard reacted quickly and struggled hard. Seeing this, Saul immediately stepped forward to help, grabbed the saber, and threw it down. Then, with both hands, he pressed the guard's head to the ground, and said in a low voice, "If you want to go down, go down by yourself."

After finishing speaking, he let go of his hand and stepped back a little. After that, he gave Garland a wink, and Garland also let go of his hand, and distanced himself from the guard.

The guard's eyes moved back and forth between the two of them, as if he wanted to remember their faces. Then, without hesitation, he took the spirit lamp and climbed down the hemp rope.

The two looked at each other.

"Saul." Garland said.

"I'm fine." Saul waved his hand, "Don't think about the gold mine anymore, no, it's not just the gold mine, if you can, don't go into the mine."

"Are we going back like this?" Garland looked at the hemp rope with a puzzled expression.

Saul knew what Garland meant. According to the original plan, when killing the psychic scholar, a guard was required to testify, so that the suspicion of the two could be cleared. However, everything has deviated from the previous plan.

"Go back." Saul's eyes became firm, "If what the psychic stone scholar said is correct, we should not be killed by the guards."

Either way, he has very important information.

The two returned along the narrow passage, all the way back to the entrance of the mine, and when they saw the sunset again, Sauer’s mood was completely different. The first time was the joy of being reborn, the second time was the joy of escaping from death, and the third time, his heart was extremely heavy.

The short and chubby Bill first smiled when he saw the two, but when he found that there were only two of them, and the psychic stone scholar and the two guards were not there, his face turned livid. Bill, who had never been near the entrance of the mine, walked towards them step by step.

"I hope you two don't tell me that the psychic scholar and the two guards got lost in the mine." Bill raised his high hat with his right hand, trying to maintain a gentlemanly demeanor.

Saul took a deep breath.

……

At night, the full moon hangs high.

Sauer and Garland stood in front of a mahogany desk, and the person sitting behind the desk was the commander stationed on the island. The commander was about 50 years old, with gray sideburns and sharp-edged faces. A pair of eagle-like eyes kept looking at the two of them, as if trying to see through their hearts.

Just now, Sauer has told what happened in the mine just now. In order to make his words more credible, he did not hide the identity of the quencher. Only in this way can he explain why he was not polluted in the mine.

After hearing this, the commander stationed on the island neither believed it completely nor ordered the two to be hanged immediately. Instead, he asked the guards to notify the inspectors stationed on the island to come.

After a while, with a click, the rear door was pushed open.

Sauer turned his head and saw a bald man in a black tuxedo pushing the door in. His whole person gave off a vigor and resolute feeling. He speculated that this person was the inspector stationed on the island.

"Harvard, what's the matter." The bald man closed the door smoothly, and his eyes didn't stay on Saul and Garland from the beginning to the end.

"Duncan, something happened to the scholar." The commander stationed on the island stood up.

The bald man showed surprise, and quickly asked, "What's going on?"

The commander stationed on the island looked at Saul and said, "Tell me what you told me just now." After speaking, he seemed to think of something, and added, "Remember, don't miss anything. Anything you miss may become a rope to hang you."

Sauer nodded. The current situation is much better than he expected. At least, he was not punished first and then arraigned.

He recounted what happened in the mine again, until he said that he was a quencher, his words were interrupted by an inspector named Duncan.

"Are you the quencher?" Duncan's attention was on Saul for the first time, his gaze was like a torch, as if he wanted to remember the appearance of the young man in front of him.

Saul nodded, but didn't say much.

He still remembered the warning of the opinoxite scholar.

"Continue talking." Duncan put his hands behind his back and walked towards the window bit by bit.

Sauer explained in detail what happened next.

"Blessed curse?" Hearing the word, Duncan turned around quickly with a serious expression.

"That's right." Saul nodded heavily.

"Do you know what that means?" Duncan continued.

Saul shook his head, "I don't know, I've never heard of it."

Duncan turned and looked out of the window, and said in low but clear words: "For alchemists, calamities can be roughly divided into two categories. One is curse, and the other is blessing. Curse means that the possibility of things will be forcibly curbed.

Having said that, he turned his head, "The scholar said 'the curse of being blessed', if I understand correctly, what he meant was..." He paused, his eyes swept over the three of them, "...There is a curse in the mine, and this curse is affected by the blessing, and it is changing in the direction of increasing possibilities. In short, the curse will continue to change in a short period of time..."

(End of this chapter)