OBS Chapter 3226 The Shadow of Faraines (23)
Chapter 3226 The Shadow of Faraines (23)
Chapter 3226: The Shadow of Faraines (Twenty-three)
During the Age of Discovery, an unlucky sailor or even a cultist brought the book "Ketaiat, the Water God" on board and tested one of the spells in it during the voyage.
The spell brought disaster to the fleet, causing them to encounter a terrible storm and be completely destroyed in the disaster.
Later, a shipwreck salvage company set its sights on this destroyed team. After conducting an investigation, they salvaged a portion of the ship's hull. Among the salvaged items was a diary written by a crew member on the ship and this terrible book of disasters.
They regarded these things as valuable collections and sold them, and they ended up in the hands of some private collectors. Later, they were looted by the British, and the collections were loaded onto ships.
It was probably during World War II, when someone on a fleet transporting cultural relics to Britain started gambling to kill time, and the gambler Jeff couldn't resist the temptation, and lost almost all his belongings, and may even have gone into debt.
In order to deal with his creditors, he had to steal the cargo on the ship. Since other collections were not easy to carry and too difficult to steal, he set his sights on books and successfully stole "The Diary of Sailor Peake".
But the theft was not perfect and was soon discovered by the first mate. In order to investigate what was lost, the first mate ordered a sailor to check all the books.
While flipping through the books, the sailor found the Book of the Water God Ketayat and learned a spell from it.
Jeff was worried that the matter would be exposed, so he tried to frame the sailor for the theft, which successfully aroused the sailor's resentment, causing him to use a spell to bring disaster. Except for him, Jeff's fleet was wiped out.
Jeff was regarded as an ominous person and no one was willing to hire him until old Sirtek, who had concocted a series of conspiracies, followed various clues and found the survivors of that year.
Old Siltek got "Sailor Pick's Diary" from Jeff, and learned from this seemingly complete and true sailor's diary the so-called correct way to deal with such a disaster, which is not to listen, not to see, and not to feel.
But I'm afraid this approach is wrong.
Jeff obviously had something up his sleeve.
Firstly, Pique’s team was wiped out, and this diary might have been salvaged rather than passed down from his own hands, which means that the way he summed up to survive the disaster is most likely wrong.
There is a lot of evidence, the most obvious of which is that the ending of the diary may be forged. Someone imitated Peake's handwriting and wrote a happy ending to mislead others.
Secondly, old Sirtek only knew that Jeff had the sailor's diary, but he had no idea that the heavyweight player "Water God Ktayat" was also in his hands and was hidden by him.
Combining the above two points, it is not difficult to see that old Sirtek must have been cheated by Jeff.
Old Sirtek got the sailor's diary and summarized the so-called method of safely getting through the disaster. This became his confidence. He felt that as long as he mastered this method, he could summon disasters unscrupulously to cause trouble to others.
This also indulged his ambition, making him feel that he could use the disasters he summoned as bargaining chips to negotiate with the church. If the church wanted to know the correct way to survive the disaster, it would have to come to him for help.
The wrong method makes him feel that he can keep himself safe and make a profit, so he will naturally find ways to bring disaster upon himself in order to gain more benefits.
But in fact, this method is completely wrong. Those who are said to have survived using this method are either dead or did not use this method.
Assuming that the so-called method of not feeling is wrong, how did Jeff survive?
Schiller took out the Water God Ketayat, and he and Batman looked at each other, and finally said: "This book is alive."
"What do you mean?"
"Literally, this book may contain the soul of a cultist." Schiller paused and said, "The cover is also made of his skin. This book can be regarded as a complete person. Can you see anything?"
Schiller looked at Batman's expression, and he could tell from his face that Batman found all of this ridiculous.
But soon, he must have seen something even more ridiculous, and he was completely stunned.
Schiller did not urge him, but waited for him to come back to his senses. Batman sighed and said, "Pride tells me that this thing is very evil."
"What type of evil?"
“It can seduce people.”
Schiller figured it all out almost instantly.
He had felt something was wrong before, because what happened to Jeff's family did not seem to be done by the monsters in the Cthulhu mythology. Many of them had obvious signs of being lured. Compared to the unconscious Old Ones and Outer Gods, all this seemed more like man-made.
But throughout the whole story, it really seems that no one seduced them. But if we regard this book as a person, then everything can be explained.
I have mentioned before that there are two types of cultists. One type wishes that no one would covet his knowledge, and the other type wants to spread filthy knowledge to the whole world. The cultist living in the book "Ketayat, the Water God" may be the latter.
Judging from this motive, Jeff might have been bewitched by the cultists. After he came into contact with the book on the fleet where he worked, he was bewitched by the cultists and brought disaster upon himself step by step, leading to the annihilation of the fleet.
But if they wanted to spread knowledge, they couldn't let the book sink to the bottom of the sea with the fleet. With the help of the cultists, Jeff successfully survived and brought the book back home.
During this time he may have realized that something was wrong, so he buried the books in the corner of the cellar and placed a pile of empty boxes on top.
But these kinds of evil spirits are very cunning. It is very likely that he seduced one of Jeff's family members and asked this person to put the feed for the goats in the boxes above his head, and he took the opportunity to contaminate the feed.
The goat went mad after eating the feed and got lost, so the whole family went out to look for it. At this time, the evil spirit took the opportunity to seduce Jeff's little daughter.
Under the instigation, the youngest daughter spread the rumor that Jeff's family was crazy to the villagers, causing them to be driven out of the village and come to the lighthouse. Eventually, under the coercion and abuse of the clown, they killed each other until the whole family died.
But the cultist probably didn't expect that Jeff didn't take him with him when he left, but left the book in the cellar, where it was eventually discovered by Schiller.
The ending of the diary may also have been changed by the cultists who bewitched Jeff or his family, in order to make old Sirtek feel fearless and think that he has a golden ticket to immunity from death, so that he can use spells to summon disasters without restraint.
Schiller took out the Bible again.
If nothing goes wrong, the missing letters in this Bible should constitute the spell to summon the Deep One. Old Siltek used this spell to summon the Deep One and wanted to negotiate with the church using the situation in the village.
Schiller and Batman had a conversation, and their speculations were roughly the same, but they also found something that could not be explained for the time being through the process of elimination.
For example, how come old Sirtek didn’t find out that Pique’s team was wiped out?
Although there was no modern Internet during the Age of Exploration, the news of the destruction of such a large fleet would surely go down in history. Didn't he think of checking it out when he got the diary?
Also, the fleet that arrived inexplicably and the figures in the cabin might not be the work of old Sirtek.
Bruce and the Pale Knight found an empty house in a wealthy area. It had complete water and electricity facilities and a computer. The owner seemed to be on vacation, so they used this house as their temporary rest base.
This house is located in the center of the entire wealthy area. No matter where any movement occurs, it can be heard first, which also makes it convenient for them to make noise to attract the police later.
"When do we start?" asked the Pale Knight.
Bruce shook his head and said, "Don't worry, you can go prepare the materials. I need to check something."
Bruce started up the computer of the owner of the house, briefly adjusted the operation, and then began searching.
"What are you looking for?" the Pale Knight asked as he saw Bruce type the words "Royal Spanish Fleet" into the search box.
The Pale Knight immediately realized that Bruce might want to find out where the three ships parked at the dock came from.
After the Pale Knight went to prepare things, Bruce had been investigating the news about the Man O' War.
Through inquiries, he learned that the three ships should be frigates, which are similar to security guards in a fleet, specially used to escort cargo ships carrying precious goods on ocean voyages.
However, even frigates would be loaded with some cargo for ballast purposes. But because combat ships could sink, they usually did not load particularly valuable items. Most of them were coarse cloth or minerals, and occasionally some low-quality spices.
However, no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find an identical ship. But that era wasn't particularly long ago, so there shouldn't be no news at all. This made Bruce realize that someone might have deliberately blocked the news.
It's time to take some special measures.
Bruce stared at the screen closely, and after a while he finally found a clue. It was a theft case that occurred in the Spanish National History Museum in the last century, and a large number of rare files disappeared.
According to the investigation by American agents, the perpetrators seemed to be a church, but because there was no solid evidence and strange events were happening frequently at the time, no one could afford to offend them and the matter was left unresolved.
The archives record that many files have been lost, including the design drawings of ships from the Age of Discovery, as well as relatively valuable sea trial data and some information from that year.
Since these were all unique copies, there was insufficient information preserved by photographs, and the Internet was not well developed, this theft caused a period of time in the history of the Spanish Age of Exploration.
Bruce immediately realized that this was intentional by the church. They might have stolen the historical data about the existence of these three frigates in order to cover up what happened at that time.
Even if these three ships appeared at the dock now, Bruce would not think that they had been docked on an island on the sea for so many years and suddenly appeared recently.
These three ships must have sunk long ago. The ones that have returned now may be ghost ships, or they may have been fished out from the bottom of the sea by some mysterious force.
Bruce felt that the church concealed this history in order to pull the three ships back at some point. There must be something they wanted on the ships, maybe a secret or a treasure.
What could it be?