After bidding farewell to the witch, Shade went to Spider Alley to meet Mr. Bernhardt, and then took a carriage together to the “Crowley Steam Bath” at No. 18 Greif Street in the north of the city.
Since it was determined that the secret laboratory that appeared in the memory of Herman Wood obtained by Shade was most likely connected to the steam bathhouse, the two decided to start from the secret passage of the steam bathhouse and walk through it completely. The path from the bathhouse to the Tatton River outlet.
Therefore, they did not take off their clothes and enter the bathhouse as guests. Instead, they used illusion magic to cover themselves and entered the wet bathhouse with their clothes on.
Although this place is still open early in the morning, there are not many customers. The room that had been used was empty at the moment. Mr. Bernhard fumbled on the wall and gently pressed a certain stone tile on the uneven gray brick wall used for decoration. Next to the cabinet, a hole for climbing down was immediately revealed.
Xia De stood there and glanced down:
“I don’t understand. Do they really think it’s dirty if they go into such a sewer after taking a shower?”
No matter how safe the selected channel is, a sewer that has not been exposed to sunlight all year round is definitely not clean.
“Those people don’t come here just to take a bath. Compared with the profits of shady business, what is this? I have done some research these days, and I can only say that the wealth of the nobles in Yuewan City is indeed There is a reason.”
Mr. Bernhardt clicked his tongue, but did not talk more about this topic.
Although there was an iron ladder nailed to the wall at the entrance of the cave, he and Shade jumped down from the entrance one after the other. The ground below was not far from the entrance of the cave. After landing, I looked around and found that the place was unexpectedly spacious. It was similar to the pipes where the autopsy room was located in Spider Alley in the lower city, and it could allow carriages to pass.
There is a faint smell of stench and mold in the air. The soil on the ground is moist but fortunately there is no water. Of course there would be no gas lights in the sewers, so Mr. Bernhardt summoned two light **** to illuminate the left and right.
“Judging from the map, we are going to the left now, which is the direction leading to the exit of the secret passage. Going to the right will lead us deep into the urban sewer system, and the terrain there is much more complicated.”
“I walked on the right side when I came down last time, but when I turned the corner, I could see the iron gate, and the lock on it was rusty. Georgia Black and his gang probably didn’t pass that way.”
Although he said this, he still took Shade to the right side to check. The dark sewers lead to deeper parts of the city, and the rust on the lock of the iron gate doesn’t seem to be fake.
In order to prevent someone from mastering the power of time like himself – although the possibility was unlikely, Shade still split the door lock, and went to the passage behind the door with Mr. Bernhardt to check to determine what traces there really were. None, so they walked to the left side of the passage together.
The light ball led the way in front. Shade looked down at the map and marked the places he passed. Mr. Bernhardt introduced the situation of the sewer:
“The construction history of Yuewan City’s sewers cannot be investigated by an outsider like me in a few days. Today, the city’s sewer system is still supporting the city’s needs, but most of them were built in modern times. We Part of the ancient walking sewer system is still in use, and part of it was abandoned due to problems such as land subsidence and groundwater. There are many different legends about the sewer system. ”
Xia De raised his head and asked curiously:
“What legend can there be in the sewers?”
“It is said that before Yuewan City was established, a huge ancient empire relic was buried under the land here. When the ancient sewer system of Yuewan City was established, it was accidentally connected to that ancient relic, and even connected that Some of the passages in the ancient ruins have been transformed into part of the sewers. To this day, if you go into the depths of the sewers, you can still hear the wailing sounds, which are the curses made by the ancient ghosts because their ruins were excavated. ”
“If there really was such a powerful resentful spirit, it would have razed Yuewan City on the ground to the ground long ago. I think it might be the wailing sound of the test subjects when the [Dragon Feast Cult] was conducting experiments. Beware of being overheard by a homeless person entering the sewer. Is there any other legend? This at least sounds interesting.”
Turn left at the corner in front. The green paint symbols on the wall are signs to guide the direction of the secret passage to prevent getting lost.
“There are many interesting legends. The Yuewan area has been controlled by the seven major families for so many years, and there will always be resistance. Historical records show that around 1577 in the Universal Calendar, there was a large-scale **** war in the Yuewan area. Then At that time, the United Kingdom of Kasenrik had been formed. According to history books, the two parties in the war were the Yuewan City official and the pirates from the outer sea. But the actual situation was that some nobles in Yuewan City launched a rebellion and tried to overthrow the control of the seven major families. ”
He raised his eyebrows at Shade:
“With the seven major families occupying so many seats in the city council, there will always be people who are dissatisfied or want more. But the rebellion was eventually suppressed, so there were rumors that the rebels would make a very rich fortune. The treasures are placed underground in this city, waiting for new rebels to appear and use that wealth to overthrow the seven major families.”
“Well, are you sure this is not news deliberately released by the seven major families?”
Shadow asked, and Mr. Bernhardt also laughed:
“There are other stories, such as the rumors that are very popular in the city recently. No, I am not talking about the one about the dragon and the city. That story has been circulating in Moon Bay since ancient times and is not a recent product. This is also what I said not long ago I heard from Ptolemy: The cursed foreign prince turned into a monster and lived in the sewers of Yuewan City, longing for a kiss to restore himself to his original appearance, and the girl who could give this kiss would receive several rewards. Endless wealth.”
Xia De looked at him in shock:
“First of all, the scammer who created this scam has not starved to death, which is enough to show that the anti-fraud awareness of the citizens of Yuewan City is too weak. Is the City of Fortune already rich enough to support such scammers? Secondly, foreign countries Princes? Although there are many princes in Delarion, no one is missing. Does it mean the princes of the small principality? Finally, is this story really not adapted from a fairy tale? To be honest, what normal girl would do this? Rumor has it that they go deep into the sewers. Not to mention finding people in such a dirty environment, just getting them to find the entrance to the sewers and jump down is already a huge problem.”
Mr. Bernhardt also laughed:
“That’s why they are interesting urban legends. Stories like ghosts in sewers, sewers are actually alive and can eat people, etc. I won’t tell you, those are boring.”
“As long as there are no water ghosts here, I have seen a lot of these things in Green Lake. I have heard of people raising water ghosts in the sewers of Tobesk and selling them to the local black market for huge profits. It is now 1854, that He has been arrested for thirty years, but I don’t know if he has been released.”
The two of them followed the arrows drawn with paint on the side wall of the sewer and reached the other end of the secret passage smoothly. The exit here doesn’t have any mechanism, it’s just a door that can only be opened from the inside and automatically locks after closing.
Because it was daytime, there should be many people in the row of houses on the river beach, so the two used the illusion again before walking out. Mr. Bernhardt pointed out the bloodstains that had become increasingly blurred to Shade. After confirming that there were no clues outside, they returned to the sewer.
When they passed through the sewer just now, Shade had already marked the path they took on the map given by the countess. However, this map is still different from the actual environment. There are three or four forks missing on the map. At the same time, because the sewer has an upper and lower layered structure, the actual environment is more complicated than imagined.
Even though Shade has “strong spatial perception” to obtain the general terrain, in order not to miss any clues, they can only search “carpet-style”. Fortunately, Miss Belindel had done some divination beforehand and had marked several forks on the map where clues might be found.
It would certainly be more efficient for Mr. Shade and Mr. Bernhardt to search separately, but neither of them had any intention of doing such irrational behavior even though they knew there was danger here.
So starting at 9:30 in the morning, the two of them began to walk together through the sewers that branched out from secret passages to various parts of the city.
This kind of time-consuming and laborious work cannot be completed in one morning. They temporarily left the sewer area at noon. Shade went home to visit the elf girl at home, and learned that she had gone to Father John to purchase the [Oak Lucky Potion] to lift the curse of the [Ghost Bone Tree], but Shade himself aroused the disgust of little Mia because of his smell. After he and Mr. Bernhardt met up in the afternoon, the two of them bit the bullet and got into the ground again:
“If I can really catch the guy doing experiments underground, I must make him look good!”
Fortunately, the great witch of fate is indeed very good at divination, and Shade and Mr. Bernhardt are not very lucky either. Although there were no clues in the morning, something unusual happened in the first sewer branch that Shade and the others entered after they met in the afternoon.
“The traces of the soul and the resentment are really not small.”
The ball of light led the way in front, and two dark shadows swayed on the wall on the side of the corner. Then they turned the corner of the pipe together and felt the ambient temperature drop suddenly.
The resentment carried by powerful resentful spirits will always affect the surroundings by lowering the temperature, spreading terror, and absorbing light. The two people, realizing that they had finally discovered something, were excited and ready to fight. Mr. Bernhardt had a special thaumaturgy for detecting ghosts. After pinching a handful of powder from his pocket and throwing it into the air, he took a sharp breath, then choked on the smell of the sewer and retched:
“Come with me, I remember the smell of the wraith. I feel like I’m going to spit out the sandwich I had for lunch, **** it.”
The last sentence is a curse word in local slang.
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