Chapter 730 What Fabricot Saw

Fabricot calmed down his emotions a little. Although when he stood in front of the window and saw those half-human, half-fish-frog monsters, his poor sense and common sense were completely destroyed, but fortunately he His spirit did not fall into chaos.

It is precisely because of this that he can truthfully describe to Zhang Heng what he saw and heard that day.

According to the young foreign traveler, he originally wanted to transfer here and take the eight o'clock bus to Arkham, because this line is usually empty and the fare is very cheap, for a poor traveler like him It's still very attractive. Of course, another reason is that he himself is very curious about this place.

Because people in Newburyport have heard many legends related to this place, such as the disgusting and ugly appearance of the people in the town, the gloomy and depressive sneaky atmosphere, and the disappearances that occur from time to time. It is quite attractive to young people.

Especially when Fabricot saw the golden crown in the museum, he was deeply fascinated by the strangeness it exuded, the evil beyond human imagination.

"Is the golden crown you're talking about made of this material?" Zhang Heng took out the necklace he picked up from his bag.

"Yes, that's right." Fabricot almost shouted out as soon as he saw the necklace. Then he shuddered and wanted to look away, but the necklace seemed to contain some magic power. It's obviously full of evil intentions, but it's also fascinating.

Fortunately, Zhang Heng didn't take out the necklace for too long. He just waved it in front of the young foreign traveler's face and put it away again.

Fabricot breathed a sigh of relief, "Anyway, I took the ten o'clock bus and came here the next morning. Although I had done a lot of research before coming here and was mentally prepared, I must admit that The eerie and dead atmosphere here is beyond my imagination. I mean, can you believe it? Before 1846, this place was full of people and prosperous. People said that a great plague took over the town. More than half of the people's lives, combined with the weird looks of the people in the town, it seems to be reasonable if it is the influence of unknown diseases..."

Fabricott paused here, "Anyway, I've already gotten here on the bus, and I have to take the evening bus if I want to leave, so I decided to use the time in between to wander around the town. Let’s go shopping, satisfy my curiosity, and see if I can hear more stories about this place... But as you can see, the people here are not very friendly to outsiders, and no one wants to talk to me. In fact, I didn’t really want to communicate with them. Their weird looks and smell made me uncomfortable. But luckily I found a clerk in the grocery store. He was not a local, but I was transferred here to work from the headquarters.

"He told me some things to pay attention to here, such as not going out in the middle of the night, such as staying away from the church. The Freemasonry that was originally here has now been replaced by another mysterious order. Their priests seem to be thinking about some weird rituals. , and the people in the town like water very much. They will compete in swimming competitions from time to time. You don’t want to know their posture in the water. By the way, there are four most famous families in this town. The Marsh family runs the refinery. The Witt family, the Gilman family, and the Elliott family, but they were rarely seen out.

"Finally, the guy at the grocery store heard that I wanted to know more anecdotes, so he recommended an old man named Zadok Allen to me. He was a poor old drunkard who lived alone. He was already over ninety years old. Normally he has a very strict tone and is a bit nervous, but when he is drunk, he will start talking nonsense. It is said that many legends here come from his mouth."

"Have you found him?" Zhang Heng asked.

"Yes, even though it took me a lot of effort, and I had to try to get away from other people, because the boy at the grocery store told me that it was best not to be seen by people in the town when I met Zadok Allen. We used a bottle of wine to lure him to a ruins, where we got a precious one-on-one communication opportunity," Fabricot said with a look of horror and annoyance on his face, "But I now wish I had never heard those horror stories from his mouth.”

"what story?"

"Everything started on a small island in the South Pacific. At that time, bad things came together. A ship of good fishermen was killed by a privateer during the War of 1812. The Gilman family Three boats were lost. Only the Marsh family boat was still at sea, but it was not too good and could not catch any fish. The captain of one of the boats was named Obeid. He heard about the island and the indigenous people on it. Wearing jewelry like gold, and there are endless fish to catch.”

"So Captain Obeid led his people to find the small island. At first, he just tried to exchange some gold-like ornaments with the natives on the island, but later Obeid found a way to learn about the gold from the chief. The source, the chief told him, was that the people on the island would hold rituals from time to time and trade with the young people in the tribe, and these gold and fish were the rewards given to them by those things.

"And then those things went one step further and persuaded the people on the island to breed with them. The children they gave birth to looked like humans at first, but as they grow older, they will become more and more like those things, and eventually they will be forever Living underwater.”

"Are you referring to those half-human, half-fish-frog things?" Zhang Heng frowned.

"Yes, those who do business with that tribe are these things, but not all children will become like that, and the time of change is also different. Some people are born like this, and some can still maintain it until they are seventy or eighty years old. It retains the appearance of a human being, or it may never complete the final transformation.”

"Ha." Zhang Heng was noncommittal upon hearing this.

"In short, Captain Obaid figured out what happened on the island, and also brought back the gift given to him by the chief, a lead block or something made of something else, as well as the corresponding rituals, according to According to the chief, if you find a place with fish and throw the lead down, you can find those things living underwater in conjunction with the ritual.

"Captain Obeid didn't use it at first, he just put it aside and continued to trade with the tribes on the island in exchange for gold-like things in their hands, while he opened a refinery in the town and secretly processed those However, in 1938, when Obaid took people to the island again, they found that the tribe was gone. They were wiped out by people on other islands. There were some mysterious amulets everywhere on the island. , this is extremely bad news for Captain Obaid.”