8mi Chapter 1616 The Water Ghost
Chapter 1616 The Water Ghost
Chapter 1616 The Water Ghost
Today is a beautiful day with a clear blue sky over the village of Pukhov.On a small pier near the lake, a group of bare-chested workers were busy carrying goods in the warm spring breeze, while a potbellied southern businessman spoke to an old man dressed as a housekeeper in poor Delarion. Seeing something, the complaints of the sailors cleaning the deck and the chatter of the fishermen drying their nets together made this scene quite vivid.
Of course, the scale of this wharf cannot be compared with the wharf area of Lengshui Port City on the west coast, but it is also large enough as a wharf beside an inland river and lake.Xia De even saw a few travelers playing Rhodes cards around a wooden box by the pier. He held back his curiosity and didn't go there. people:
"Sir, do you need an interpreter?"
He asked the businessman in proficient Kasenlik, and the latter wiped his sweat with a handkerchief:
"That's great, I'll pay you 10 copper pfennies."
1 krona is equal to 7 ore, and 1 kroner is also equal to 95 pfennigs. Although these three currencies are the main currencies of Carson Rico, due to the chaotic currency relationship before the establishment of the United Kingdom, there are still other currencies besides the three mainstream currencies. with other currencies.Among them, the currency value of "Copper Finney" is one-thirtieth of a Finney, which is a copper-like coin without banknotes.
According to the exchange rate conversion, 1 copper pfennig is about 1.4 pence, and 10 copper pfennigs are about 1 shilling.According to the price of translation, it is neither high nor low.Of course, if Shad wasn't well-groomed, he might only get a copper.
What the southern businessman tried to communicate with the steward was the ale shipped from Carson Rik. Due to the high tariff imposed by De La Rion during the customs clearance, the price per barrel this time will be increased by a quarter.And the butler of the local viscount in Green Lake City tried to make the merchant understand that they have been in business for so long, and they have never raised the price for such a reason.
The housekeeper didn't doubt the honesty of the businessman, they were all acquaintances, he just couldn't accept the sudden price increase.But while the businessman apologized through Xia De, he also expressed helplessly that this was beyond his control:
"This is the second boat I have run since the beginning of spring this year. At the end of the month when the wind blows, the tariffs on alcohol are still normal."
"That's because, at that time, it had not been decided to negotiate in the Green Lake area, nor had it been decided what to use as its own hand."
This is what Xia De added in addition to the translation. Both the businessman and the old housekeeper took it very seriously. They used uncivilized sentences and scolded the politician in two languages respectively. Then, under Xia De's mediation, this was barely achieved. A price increase business.
The old housekeeper went to arrange the carriage, so he left in a hurry.While the fat businessman was happily paying the bill, Xia De also curiously asked the question he wanted to ask:
"Sir, I saw people from the church in the village just now. Are there so many priests in this small village?"
In fact, he didn't see it at all.
"Originally there was only one elderly priest in the village. I heard from people in the village that a group of priests came from the city to preach in the countryside the evening before yesterday. They seem to belong to the Church of Peace. They lived temporarily in the east of the village. I have been going to the central island of Green Lake by boat every day for the past two days. When my boat came this morning, I happened to see them take a boat to the central island of Green Lake. Isn’t that island empty?”
The businessman didn't think too much, and told Xia De these things.
"Sure enough, the church has landed on the island. I don't know what to find."
Xia De thought in his heart, after accepting his reward, he still asked with some doubts:
"Since you are going on the trade route between Carson Rico and De La Rion, why didn't you prepare a translator for yourself? The language barrier will delay a lot of things."
"I know that too. I had an interpreter when I boarded the boat. During the random inspection at the Carson Rico Pier on the other side of the lake, the guy found contraband, and then I didn't have an interpreter."
With a bitter face, he told Xia De exactly what contraband it was:
"A collection of poems complaining about the extravagance and lust of the Anjou royal family, the Lords oppressing the people, the nobles lying on the people to suck blood, and the civil servants are fat fools. I really don't know why he would make trouble for himself like this. I think he usually There is no abnormal performance. I heard that someone deliberately distributed this kind of book in Mikaela Blast Furnace City. It is really getting more and more chaotic. Don’t talk about it, I’m going to arrange unloading. Thank you for your help, I wish you a happy life."
He waved goodbye to Xia De, leaving the outlander standing alone by the pier looking at the lake scenery in spring.
Xia De didn't stay on the pier for too long. After confirming the church's dynamics, he left the pier along the lakeshore.After walking to a secluded place where no one was around, he first put away his shoes and coat, and then walked into the lake.
"Really cold!"
Shivering, he plunged headfirst into the water.Relying on the spell of "breathing underwater", Shad didn't even need to show his head to breathe occasionally.Like a big fish, he kept swimming towards the depths of Green Lake.While observing the lake's biome below the surface, keep an eye out for the fish Mr. Edmund wants.
Sure enough, since there are no rotten fish in the local black market, it is still too difficult for Xia De to find them with his own eyes.Fortunately, Grandma Natalie gave him bait that could lure rotten fish. After confirming that he was far away from the shore and there were no boats nearby, Xia De took the bait out of the small sealed bottle.
The pill-like bait slowly released its taste in the water, while Xia De kept moving towards the center of the lake.He waited patiently for a while, and then there was movement from the bottom of the deep lake.Xia De closed his eyes to listen, but what he heard was not the heartbeat of the fish—rotten fish belonged to half-dead souls, so they also had heartbeats:
"What's coming? The sound of the heartbeat is very strong, but the heartbeat speed is only ten times a minute, right? What is this?"
In the water, the line of sight would be severely obstructed, so when the humanoid thing got closer, Shad could see its whole picture.
It was a monster with a fish head and a human body, with dull blue-gray scales on its body surface, sharp claws on its limbs, extremely sharp teeth in its open mouth, and between the upper and lower rows of teeth, there was a tooth in the mouth that could be pointed towards Outstretched very long gray tongue.
"Murloc?"
Xia De thought subconsciously, and then realized that this was not the murloc he had seen.After a short reaction, I immediately realized what I had encountered:
"Water ghost?"
The water ghost is a relatively common undead creature, born from the body of the drowned, and has some fish characteristics due to the influence of water.Except that they usually like to live in water, they are not much different from ordinary resurrected ghouls that are common on land.
This monster is very flexible in the water, almost indistinguishable from a fish when swimming quickly.They usually like to lurk in the water, waiting for the arrival of prey.And attacking small fishing boats that are left alone is also the way these monsters prey.
Of course, water ghosts can also walk on land, but this will greatly reduce speed and strength, so this situation is rare.
Among the "Three Evil Gods of Lengshuigang" that Xia De heard about in Lengshuigang, the believers of the "God of the Drowned" liked to manipulate this undead creature very much.The water ghost and the murloc population sheltered by the "Scarlet Spiral Lord" are blood feuds.
At this time, seeing the water ghost attracted by the bait, Xia De was not surprised at all, but smiled, and then quickly closed his mouth to prevent the water from being sucked in.
As the main habitat of the semi-undead creature "rotten fish", Green Lake will of course give birth to real undead such as water ghosts.Although the church will be cleaned regularly, it is not very rare to encounter one or two things.
And since you have encountered a water ghost, it means that there must be "rotten fish" nearby.This kind of fish likes to chase around water ghosts and nibble on the leftovers of their food.
Xia De was thinking that he was lucky, and the water ghost was getting closer and closer to him.He didn't prepare silver-plated crossbow bolts and hand crossbows for himself, so he waved his arms in the water, and four silver rings illuminating the lake flew out, and then slipped onto the water ghost's limbs very smoothly.
"Moonlight Slash!"
Afterwards, an arc of moonlight flashed across the water, and after the light disappeared, the body of the water ghost that had been split in two sank downward.From the water ghost's body, a large amount of green liquid flowed out and mixed into the water.This is a mixture of corpse oil infected by elements and the body fluids of undead such as "water ghosts". Water Ghost Brain".
"No, I will never touch this kind of thing, otherwise Mia will definitely not get close to me when I go home."
Even though he thought so, he didn't swim away, but kept diving after the corpse from a distance.After the water ghost's body hit the bottom of the lake, there was no further movement. Xia De threw the bait at the body and waited for a few minutes. The terrain cover swam over.
"Sneaky" isn't the right word to describe fish, but those fish do try to hide themselves.They didn't find the Shad higher up, but swam quickly around the ghoul's corpse, and then began to eat this time.Although rotten fish like to follow the water ghost and eat the food scraps of the water ghost, they will also feed on the water ghost itself.
This is also a very wonderful ecological chain.
Even under the surface, you won't have any accidents against a few fish.Xia De waited until they started eating before catching them, and entertained himself thinking in his heart, wondering if Mia, who now possessed a slight supernatural power, would like to eat this kind of fish.
But this time he didn't use the "Light of Confinement", but used the non-aggressive mortal sin chains to penetrate the belly of the fish one by one, stringing them all together, so that Xia De didn't have to reach out to catch them.
(End of this chapter)