Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 440

2021-11-03

Chapter 439 Mystery in the Cemetery
Augustus Priest found it through the records of the tomb keeper The location of the tomb. When the two were searching in the cemetery, the occasionally disturbed snake and the mouse hidden in the ground became the only things that would surprise them.

Because the cemetery was not large, the two quickly found their target.

It was a small unremarkable tomb near the cemetery fence on the west side of the stone building that doubled as a "chapel" and "catacomb entrance". On the tombstone embedded slightly above the ground, it was written that the person buried here was named Muhir Lee Nem, a poor fellow who died half a month ago.

Apart from this information, there is nothing on the tombstone, no date of birth, no cause of death, and no biographical comment from the man who paid for his burial. But considering that this is only a small cemetery in the countryside, this situation is understandable.

After all, being able to have a regular cemetery that will not be disturbed after death is an unimaginable treatment for many poor people.

"This is it, Shade, come on, dig it up with me."

Augustus priest spit twice into his palm, then rubbed his hands to get to work .

"priest, do you have a grudge against this gentleman?"

Shade asked hesitantly.

"Of course not, I have done good deeds all my life, even if some acquaintances with unfriendly relations will not touch their graves."

priest replied , and greeted Shade don't waste time, The ceremony must be set up before two in the morning.

"Then you are."

"Oh, you are wondering about this."

The priest said with a smile while shoveling, Shade will The cat is placed on the fence and is also ready to work. I wanted to warn the cat not to touch the mice that must have infectious diseases, but seeing Mia squatting on the wooden stakes on the fence, squinting her eyes and looking up at the moonlight, she probably wouldn't bother. chasing mice.

After all, the city cat, Mia, doesn't look like the kind of cat that is good at catching mice.

"A few days ago, I met a believer who made a special trip from the countryside to the church to repent. The other party was a peasant woman from a nearby village. In the prayer room, through a small window, he confessed that he did not have a funeral for her husband."

"Isn't this a nice cemetery?"

Shade took off his coat and dug side by side with Augustus priest, shovel heaping dirt under the fence.

"She and the deceased gentleman are outsiders, and there is no acquaintance in the village to help with the funeral. Therefore, the peasant woman entrusted a person who happened to be boarding in the village and claimed to be scholar to help with the funeral. Originally everything went well, but after the funeral, the peasant woman always dreamed of her husband, and the dead man claimed in the dream that his soul was tortured."

The priest labored to raise the grave and tell the story. At the same time, the words were also intermittent:

"The scholar who received the money to help with the funeral has already entered the city, and the peasant woman suspected that Scholar Blasphemy had the body, so she went to the church to ask the gods to forgive her for her contempt for the funeral. That woman, never thought of digging up the body to see the situation."

In this way, this matter is indeed strange.

"Then why don't you let the church handle this?"

"It's not a town thing, and there's no clear evidence it's related to the ring warlock. Even if the church accepts it, it will take several weeks to send someone to look at this matter, after all, there are many really important things in the city." The priest explained, and Shade understood what he said. . Like the three entrusted tasks that Iluna gave him last week, they were backlogs of things that were not valued at Blackstone Security.

The results also prove that although those things sound strange, there is no need to rush to deal with them.

"So how did you decide there was something wrong with this? If you had to check it out for yourself every time you encountered something like this, I don't think there would be enough to deal with."

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The priest nodded, panted and looked up at Shade:
"From this angle, how did your skin become so good, what happened to you recently. Oh, I probably didn't mention it to you, I have a peculiar ability. When a person confesses, he can vaguely distinguish whether he is lying. This vague feeling allows me to easily distinguish what the believers are trying to express. This is not an easy thing, When I listen to people's confessions, I have seen countless dark stories."

Shade is very fortunate that he reported Darkness to the priest in Coldwater Harbor on the grounds of "falling in love with many girls". When praying, the far-off priest did not have the ability of Augustus priest.

"But, is this the special ability of Father Augustus' 'other me'?"

Boom~
The shovel in Shade's hand hit something, because the inside Hollow, so the dull sound is completely different from the sound of digging earth hitting stone.

"Wait."

The priest immediately one-knee kneels to remove the floating soil, and sure enough he saw the wooden coffin lid that had not rotted:
"I found it!"

The priest is very happy, the old man came out so late, and even invited Shade in the name of the angel potion, just to confirm the contents of the coffin, not to repay.

From this point of view, although Augustus priest always thinks that people are dark, he is probably one of the most noble people Shade knows.

The body was not cremated, and after the lid of the coffin was lifted, the choking smell caused Shade and Auguste priest to frown. After the summer, the deeply buried corpses were seriously decomposed, and the insects nourished by the corpses were even surging in large areas under the moonlight.

Shade endured nausea and looked up at Mia. The very timid cat also saw this scene, but it didn't seem to be afraid at all. Presumably in the cat's eyes, it's just ugly stuff.

"priest, don't tell me, we're going to take this body out. Are you wearing gloves? I'm wearing three layers."

Shade frowned asked, old priest He also endured nausea and covered his nose with a muffled answer:
"Relax, if we're lucky, we don't have to touch the corpse at all. I'm going to arrange ceremony to appease the corpse and free the soul. Before I arrange the ceremony, detective, use Your moonlight will help illuminate and see if the corpse is abnormal."

As he spoke, Augustus priest also mentioned the lantern borrowed from the tomb keeper, and illuminated the disgusting lantern over the tomb. scene. The moonlight on Shade's fingertips also lit up, and silver's rays of light shone on the corpse, and a faint black mist actually rose upward. This at least means that there is something evil in this corpse.

"Look at this!"

Auguspriest pointed to the hands that were clasped together in front of the corpse's chest. The rotting hands could almost see the skeleton, and the flesh in the skin seemed to be drilled by the insect. empty. In both hands, there is a black dagger.

No matter where in the kingdom of Delarion, it will not be customary for the burial to hold a dagger.

"It's not a relic, I don't feel the trace of the element."

Shade said in a muffled voice, covering his nose.

"That's good news, look at me getting it out."

The priest wisely did not reach out, but used the spell [Move Object], carefully moving the dagger away from the dagger. The corpse was removed from the hands.

However, when the black metal dagger had just completely escaped from the corpse's hand, the two hands actually grabbed upwards, grabbed the dagger again, and then returned to its original position.

The cemetery fell silent for a while, and Shade and Augustus priest looked at each other in surprise.

"Detective, should I have no dizziness just now?"

The priest asked in surprise.

“I saw it too.”

Shade said, thinking about it before asking:

“priest, if you don’t mind Blasphemy’s body, then I The hand of the corpse was cut off."

I thought that the priest would disagree, but he didn't expect it to be nodded after thinking about it:

"Okay, we'll take it up later. Sew it up."

Shade sincerely hopes that "we" means the priest and the cat, not the priest and the detective.

The Moonlight Greatsword was not summoned, the sword was so sharp that it accidentally pierced through the corpse. Shade took out two Rhodes cards from his bosom, flicked them gently, and the sharp cards flew to the two wrists of the rotting corpse.

Hey!
The relatively cold air in the middle of the night after the card was cut, but the next second, it was pierced by a sharp dagger from the center.

"Oh, I knew it wouldn't be that easy!"

Shade and Augustus priest retreated at the same time, and the cat on the High Level of the fence neatly ran up to the big beside the tomb. Tree, with eyes wide open and looking down. In the dark, the cat's eyes seemed to glow.

And the corpse sat up from the grave, holding a dagger.

"priest, that's what you expected?"

Shade asked, getting ready to fight. But after the corpse climbed out of the tomb, it jumped towards Augustus priest.

The old priest dodged awkwardly, then kicked him. His original intention was to kick the corpse, but didn't expect his kick to penetrate the fragile abdomen of the corpse.

The rotting flesh, insect, and ichor flowed from the corpse, which silently raised its dagger and stabbed Augustus priest in the head.

The old man stretched out his hand and quickly spoke the ancient incantation word representing the power of the elements:
"Wind!"

The invisible wind is like a ribbon , wrapped around the corpse's hands, and then Shade, who ran from behind the corpse, raised his sword with both hands, made a big jump, and from top to bottom, neatly slashed the corpse into two sections.

Black's dagger fell from his hand and stabbed into the ground. The land that used to grow grass immediately began to smell black hair with the dagger as the center.

Augus priest didn't care about the dagger, and hurriedly took out a bottle of Shade's familiar brown liquid from his pocket. After falling on the corpse, the old hand pointed again:
"Fire!"

The raging flames immediately ignited on the corpse.

That bottle of liquid was the strong kerosene used once when Shade and the doctor shot people and set fire to banknotes.

"priest, is this Blasphemy's corpse?"

Shade was amazed at the master's skill.

"This is the undead, not a corpse. Detective, you can't make this basic common sense mistake." Directly pulled up the black dagger.

A dagger that corrodes the earth, immediately having a more terrifying effect on the priest's right hand. The arms, which were already a little thin due to the aging of the body, immediately shrank and became black and dry.

(end of this chapter)