The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3207 The Shadow of Faraines (4)

Chapter 3207: The Shadow of Faraines (IV)

"I am! I am! You lunatic!! You…"

Old Sirtek's roar came to an abrupt halt. He looked as if he had seen a ghost. With the dim light of the night vision goggles in Schiller's hand, he looked at the priest's robe with golden patterns on it.

"You...you are from the Inquisition?" Fear was revealed in his voice, and he stammered, "So you are here to silence me? Why do you know so much..."

Schiller was impatient to listen to his nonsense, swung the crowbar in his hand and said: "Tell me everything you know, or I will throw you back to the cave where your wife is."

"No, no, no!" Old Siltek yelled, "You can't throw me back, that monster will kill me!"

"But...but since you've already chased us here, is there anything you don't know?" Old Sirtek said as he took a breath of cold air. The pain on his ankle made him sweat all over. Just from his reaction, Schiller could tell that he was indeed a rich man who lived a life of luxury and had not received any anti-torture training. What he said should be more credible.

"I know a lot of things, otherwise I wouldn't have found you here, but there are more things I'm interested in. If you satisfy me, maybe I can give you a chance."

Old Siltek smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it. I have long thought that this day would come. After I learned about that incident, I never thought I could survive in your hands."

"Stop talking nonsense and tell me what you know."

"I'm somewhat impressed by your clothes. Are you a member of the Pope's guard? This makes me a little confused. I don't think the Pope would send his guards to deal with a small person like me, unless he actually knows... Well, put down the crowbar, can't I tell you?"

"You should know that hotel, right?"

"If you try again, I'll break your other leg too."

"Okay, it seems you know it. After all, it's not a secret. It was such a big deal at the time that few people didn't know about it. But what you may not know is that the abnormal situation in the hotel shocked the whole world. All major religions believed that it was a so-called divine punishment."

"Among the first group of cardinals sent to investigate the abnormal situation in the hotel was a famous figure, Gad Berelton, one of the three saints of the church."

"No one else found anything useful in the hotel. After returning, they only gave a rough description of the scene of the tragedy, but Gad found something crucial in the hotel."

"what?"

"I'm not sure what it is, but that thing is the culprit for the frequent abnormal events that occurred later. Gad has a way to control it. If he strikes at the right time, it can cause great panic, until the whole world is threatened by strange events."

"Why did he do this?"

"Why else? For power, of course. Without these bizarre incidents that only the church can handle, how could the church become the behemoth it is today?"

"This is ridiculous," Schiller commented. "It is impossible for one person to accomplish this."

"Of course it's not just the work of one person. There are many people who want to get rich from this." Old Siltek did not hide anything. He said, "It was at that time that I saw the opportunity and established an insurance company related to strange events. That's when I made my fortune. So to be precise, I am also a part of this conspiracy."

"You are very frank."

"That's nothing. Judging from your expression, you probably weren't completely unprepared for this kind of thing. Then you know that this is actually an open scam, sacrificing some ordinary people to gain more power and money for us."

"If that's the case, why did you end up like this?"

Schiller obviously hit the nail on the head. Old Siltek sighed and said, "Because no one knows, they opened Pandora's box."

Schiller took out the diary of the sailor Pike from his arms. When old Siltek saw the book, he was a little excited and even reached out to grab it, but Schiller did not give him the chance. He shook the book in his hand and said, "How much do you know about this thing?"

Schiller noticed the change in old Sirtek's expression. He knew that he must have obtained the key prop, otherwise he would not be able to get more information from him.

But after seeing the book, old Siltek couldn't calm down. He lay on the ground and gasped for a while before saying, "This is one of the reasons why I came here."

"what?"

"This wasn't originally mine. Do you know Jeff's family?"

Schiller nodded and said, "I am fortunate to have known their bodies."

"It seems that they are still not immune. Perhaps you have heard the story of Jeff when he was young. He was a sailor, but because of a strange shipwreck, he was considered an unlucky man. Since then, almost no one has hired him again."

"But I saw his letter, and you said you were going to hire him."

"Originally, I did, but unfortunately he died, so never mind."

"You're just lying to him."

"No, not completely. I did come for the book in his hand, but I also did want to hire him because I wanted to recreate the shipwreck and see if what was recorded in the book was true."

"So what's in this book?"

"Let's talk about the shipwreck first. For Jeff, it was a lifelong shadow. He described it as a 'terrible storm', but he told me that what really destroyed the fleet was not the storm on the ocean, but a terrible existence that descended on the sea."

Schiller frowned. He had a premonition, so he asked, "What was that fleet transporting?"

"Cultural relics," said Old Siltek. "The ship is loaded with looted cultural relics, many ancient volumes and books. The fleet's final destination is Britain."

"Someone has moved those books, right?"

"You are indeed a member of the Royal Guard. You must know these things, right?" Old Siltek said sarcastically, "Yes, an ignorant sailor opened Pandora's box."

"Is this the sailor, Pico?"

"No, not him, this sailor is older, but they have the same thing going on, something has come."

"What is it?"

"I don't know, and even if I did, I can't tell you. The cause of the incident was that a sailor stole something, and the first mate wanted to investigate thoroughly. In order to find out how much was lost, they checked all the cultural relics and books."

"A sailor who was in charge of checking the books flipped through them one by one to make sure there was nothing else mixed in. He found a special book that contained terrible forbidden knowledge."

"He could not read what was in it, but he happened to remember a small incantation, written in Latin, which he could probably spell out."

"And he used this spell?"

"That's right. Actually, he didn't intend to use it, but that damn thief framed him for the theft. He was beaten half to death by the first mate and he even chopped off two of his fingers. He was filled with hatred and wished that all those who bullied him would die."

"He thought it was a black magic spell, so he cursed the first mate with it. He put the note with the spell in his pocket and carved it several times under his bed."

"and then?"

"And then there was nothing else. The sailor suddenly went crazy, and then they encountered an unprecedented storm. Everyone in the fleet died, and only Jeff survived."

"Is he the thief?"

"how do you know?"

"I know he's a gambler, and there are often bets on ocean-going fleets. If he loses and can't pay back the money in such a place where there is no way out, it will be fatal. Naturally, he will take risks."

Old Siltek nodded and said, "Yes, he is the thief who framed others. The key is how he survived."

Schiller looked at him without saying anything. When Old Siltek was about to say something, Schiller shook the diary in his hand and said, "Is this the book that Jeff stole? Did he get the method of salvation from here?"

"You really can't hide anything from you." Old Siltek snorted and said, "That's right, this guy stole it by mistake. He couldn't steal those large artifacts, and there was no place to hide those in strange shapes. He could only steal some ancient books and scrolls and give them to his creditors to pay off his debts."

"After the storm came, he had no way to retreat, but he accidentally found a way to survive in the book he stole."

"What is it?"

"I don't know. When I got the book, it was already incomplete. I guess Jeff didn't want others to know this method."

Schiller raised the crowbar in his hand and said, "Don't make me say it again. Tell me what the method is?"

Old Siltek swallowed and said, "I really don't know."

"Well, it seems that you want to die with your wife." After saying that, Schiller dragged old Sirtek back the same way. He let out an earth-shattering scream, but finally succumbed halfway.

"He really tore those things up! I haven't seen them either! But from what he said, I guessed some clues..."

"for example?"

"He probably didn't do anything."

"Are you kidding me?"

"No, I mean, he might have knocked himself out before the disaster, or he might have been drunk, anyway, he was unconscious."

Schiller understood it in his heart. Pike's diary recorded that they also encountered a storm at sea, but later successfully returned home according to the guidance of the lighthouse, which meant that they survived the disaster.

All the parts about the disaster were torn out, but Peake kept complaining about the boredom of ocean voyages and said that they often drank, so it is not difficult to guess that on the night of the disaster, Peake and several good friends got drunk, and when they woke up, they found that everyone was dead, but they escaped because they were drunk.

This is also consistent with the setting of Cthulhu mythology. Neither the Old Ones nor the Outer Gods intended to kill the sailors on purpose. It was more that the sailors brought madness onto the ship after coming into contact with forbidden knowledge.

The way to deal with some monsters in the Cthulhu mythology is indeed to not listen, not see, and not feel. As long as my intelligence is low enough, I can't understand any text and can't understand any taboo knowledge, and my sanity value will naturally not decrease. Schiller is willing to call this school of thought "Ababa Ababa retardation school".

The chronological order of the whole incident may be:

The fleet of a sailor named Peake unfortunately encountered a disaster related to the Cthulhu mythology. Peake and his friends escaped the disaster by accident and recorded their experiences in this diary.

Later, the diary was transported to England as a cultural relic by Jeff's team. Coincidentally, the fleet encountered a similar disaster. Jeff lost a lot of money in gambling and wanted to steal the ancient books to pay off his debts. He happened to get this diary, and at the critical moment, he deduced how Peake could survive the disaster, and used this method to successfully survive.

After returning, Jeff became the only lucky survivor of the shipwreck. People thought he might be a monster resurrected from the dead or the source of misfortune. No one was willing to hire him again, which made him poor.

Old Sirtek, who was investigating the matter, approached Jeff as the boss of his own fleet, offering to help him solve his difficulties and re-employ him, and thus obtained the diary from him.

Jeff was not stupid. In order to have enough bargaining chips in his hand, he tore out the key content in the diary. However, he did not expect that the cunning old Sirtek had already guessed the key to surviving the disaster from his conversation with him.