Path of light

Chapter 41 41. Arm on the shelf

This kind of thing almost does not need any explanation. Only the soul with great resentment will continue to stay in the place where it died.

This ship was a large ship full of human sailors, and this elf girl died in the captain's room. You can't close your eyes and say that a touching love story happened in this room.

Jasper quickly put the magic book into his satchel, and the ritual of purifying ghosts was concluded.

The second officer sitting on the soft leather sofa didn't expect it to end so quickly. He thought it would last half the night...

He reluctantly stood up from the soft sofa, lowered his head and took out a pile of gold coins from the pocket hanging under his belt, which was exactly ten.

He weighed the gold coin in his hand, and the gold coin made a crisp and textured impact sound.

"Do you want some gold?" he asked Jasper.

Jasper shook his head quickly, forced out a stiff smile, and said:

"Just follow the previously agreed deal. Gold coins can only be melted into gold ingots and sold as materials. This thing is not circulated in the Elf Kingdom..."

The second officer's mouth twitched slightly, the flesh on his face was a little ferocious, and he looked like he didn't know what he was talking about, and said:

"With ten gold coins, we can buy a complete polished magic crystal, instead of a magic core with no idea whether there is a magic crystal inside."

After saying that, he reached into his pocket again and took out a black stone the size of a duck egg, which he handed to Jasper.

Jasper took the stone in his hand, first put it under his nose and smelled it, then took out a small hammer and struck it hard, then listened to the sound and squinted his eyes with a satisfied look. .

The second officer looked at Jasper with a gentle smile on his face.

But that smile looked particularly ferocious on his face.

"Actually, we can add another commission. Do you want to do it? The reward is still the magic core of a saber-toothed sea beast."

Jasper put the magic core into his satchel and turned to look at Roy. He tasted the sweetness of Roy's help and felt that he could actually take on this job.

But at this moment, Roy was sweating from behind.

Because he suddenly thought that the Naga killer on the beach was chasing people everywhere, and it was probably related to this ship.

Especially when he saw the sinister face of the second officer, he became more and more sure of his guess.

"High Priest Reed is still waiting for news from us in the temple..."

Roy glanced at the second mate and whispered to Jasper.

Jasper pulled Roy's sleeve and responded in a lower voice: "I can ask him to increase his reward."

After Roy saw Jasper getting the black stone, he was a little giddy with joy. He quickly put his hands on his shoulders, pulled him to the corner by the captain's room wall, and whispered:

"Jasper, let's not take risks. I'm worried that our power of Holy Light is not enough!"

Jasper didn't notice Roy's eyes and said confidently:

"My holy light can be used to purify four more times. It is enough to deal with a ghost. Roy, it is not always possible to meet such a generous employer, but I can guarantee that every time I purify a ghost, it will be almost like this... 伱If you want to go home, I will ask them to send you away first."

"Jasper, didn't you say you wanted to pray with Abbot tonight?"

Roy said while nudging Jasper in the ribs with his elbow.

The impact was not too light, and Jasper suddenly put his stomach back. Although he didn't react yet, he knew that something must be wrong with Roy, so he said:

"Oh! When you said that, I seemed to remember..."

There is a basin in this corner, which is just embedded in the iron shelf protruding from the wall.

The bronze mirror is inlaid on the wall opposite the basin, just attached to the side of the wooden wall, and the position is a bit hidden.

Only by standing in front of the basin can you discover the existence of this exquisitely designed bronze mirror.

Roy had just walked around the captain's cabin eight times. Because he wanted to pay attention to every corner of the captain's cabin, he knew that there was a bronze mirror opposite the basin.

At this moment, Roy and Jasper happened to see the ordinary sailor standing at the door through the bronze mirror opposite, and the door behind him had a bolt.

The tall second mate standing on the other side of the captain's cabin was smiling, but he stood upright with his hands behind his back, holding a black dagger tightly in his hand...

At this moment, Jasper finally woke up.

It's just that the other party didn't seem to want to let the two of them leave at all...

"Since we can't cooperate, I'll send you two away." The second officer had a friendly smile on his face and stepped closer.

The sailor guarding the door had no intention of opening the door. He blocked the door bolt with his body.

If it weren't for the bronze mirror, these would have been blocked by the bodies of the second mate and the sailor...

"It's not that we don't want to cooperate... If you want us to purify the resentful spirits again, you have to pay more!" Jasper was hesitant at first, but then he just shouted out.

The second mate stopped, narrowed his cold eyes, put the dagger in his hand into his sleeve, and raised the corners of his cracked mouth slightly:

"The remuneration is negotiable, as long as you can help me clear away the resentful spirits in the cabin below."

Jasper said bravely: "Purify a resentful spirit with two magic cores."

"Can!"

The second officer agreed without thinking.

Jasper and Roy secretly exchanged glances, and Jasper continued to say bravely:

"Then take us there to see the situation..."

The second mate waved to the sailor at the door, and the two heard the sound of the door opening...

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Roy and Jasper followed the second mate out of the captain's cabin. They were sandwiched in the middle. The one walking at the back was the sailor who put his right hand on the handle of the knife.

Walk out of the captain's cabin, go down the steps, turn right and enter the cabin on the bottom floor of the captain's cabin, which is above the deck.

Only then did Jasper notice that the sailors sitting on the deck were looking over with smiles in their eyes, but there was clearly a hint of joking in those smiles.

The second mate walked along the narrow corridor to the back. There was still a smell of fried sea fish here. The wooden shelves next to it were filled with dry and hard whole-wheat bread, as well as stacks of baked wheat cakes. Each stack They are all as tall as one person.

It turns out that this is the location of the ship's kitchen, which is one of the few high-quality rooms on the deck.

The second mate stopped at the door of the kitchen, casually said a few words to a fat chef in the kitchen, and then got a bunch of copper keys from the fat chef.

He took Roy and Jasper a few meters further. They were at the end of the corridor, at the stern of the ship. Through the arched windows, one could still see the outside of the ship, but it was not next to the pier. It was pitch black.

The second officer used a copper key to open the cabin door at the back. There were boxes of vegetables and fruits on the shelves in the room. The vegetables included pumpkins, onions, carrots and tomatoes, and the fruits included some oranges, pineapples and watermelons. These vegetables It's almost hard to find in Castletown, but the fruit is in season here.

Roy didn't see any of the breadfruit that elves often eat...

Roy heard from the magician Benjamin that a large ship like this must have a plant cultivation room on it.

This is probably not a cultivation room, but a warehouse for storing vegetables. The warehouse is very cool and not stuffy.

"There is also a resentful spirit in this warehouse. It always comes out in the dead of night to scare our chef. I need you to purify it..."

the second mate said to Jasper.

He didn't even bother to hide it. He used a commanding tone, and his eyes also showed that he was sure to eat you.

Roy and Jasper looked at each other again and walked into the storage warehouse one after another.

The second mate and another crew member were guarding the door of the warehouse. The hatch was also open, but they did not squeeze in.

This warehouse is not too big, and it is full of vegetables. There is only one door, and it is even dark inside...

Roy used the 'Glimmer Illumination Technique' again. When the faint light floated above the two people's heads, there was a glimmer of light in the warehouse.

There are many shelves storing vegetables and fruits, and there are rows of tilted wooden boxes on the shelves.

Roy suddenly realized a problem. They loaded so many seasonal vegetables and fruits onto the ship. This was not a cold storage. These fruits and vegetables could not be stored for too long. Unless they were about to go to sea, there was no need to store them in a warehouse...

The two of them walked to the deepest part of the warehouse, and the indifferent look on Jasper's face was gone.

He was a little flustered, but said to Roy in the lowest possible voice:

"Roy, we can't leave, it's all my fault! I was supposed to be the one taking the risk here, but I didn't expect you to be involved."

Roy stood next to a shelf, put his arm around Jasper's shoulders and said:

"Jasper, don't be so pessimistic. As long as we calm down, there should be a chance!"

"This is the port of the Elf City. As a foreign ship, all their actions will be restrained."

Moreover, Roy knew that the tide tonight would not come until around three o'clock in the morning. If it did not rely on the rising tide, this large ship would not be able to leave the port at all.

"Jasper, can you swim?" Roy asked Jasper.

Jasper nodded quickly.

"When we find a chance to find the oar room later, we will say that the resentful spirit has escaped there. As soon as we get there, the room over there has a row of windows. Usually when a large ship needs to be paddled, the oar will pass through the window. When the time comes, we will rush to the window and jump into the sea."

"As long as we can run to the pier safely, we will be safe. I guess they won't dare to chase us out at all!" Roy continued.

When Roy said these words, he felt like something was reflecting light on the left shelf.

He subconsciously adjusted the low-light lighting technique, and a few scales shone brightly under the low light. At first, he thought it was a sea fish, but then he immediately realized something was wrong, it seemed to be an arm!