Chapter 97

After Athos came in, someone came knocking on the door not long after, and it was indeed the manservant on the boat.

"What's the matter?" Mistry pretended to be serious and asked, but in fact, he had already started to create conflict and find a suitable reason for his injury.

"I'm sorry to tell you that one of the guests has gone crazy. He is very aggressive and very good at disguising. If you see him, please tell us and let us arrest him."

The servant said, and took out a piece of paper on which the face of Athos was vividly drawn.

Mistry pretended to observe it seriously for a while, and replied with full marks of acting skills: "I see, I will tell you if I find out."

The footman bowed slightly, said goodbye to Mistry, and went to knock on the next door.

Looking at the next door being opened, Mistry turned his head and looked at Athos: "What are you going to do next?"

"Me?" Athos didn't understand why Mistry was interested in his plan, but he still answered in a general way, "Their resurrection ceremony must take place on a moonless night, but I must stop it. , if it continues, the situation will only get more and more out of control.”

"You're right." Mistry agreed immediately.

Athos glanced suspiciously at Mistry, but did not expect that this god would agree with his words when there were only two people: "So I plan to find Priest Fast and solve him first."

"You're right," Mistry stood up, "then let's go."

"???" Athos seemed to see a sow climbing a tree, "We? What do we mean?"

Mistry smiled amiably and answered Athos' question: "Of course it's me and you."

"You?" Athos was even more surprised. "This you and this me, are you and me in front of you?"

"Of course, you are Lucia's brother, how could I leave you alone." Mistry said very considerately, "Let me help you together."

Hearing Mistry's kind words, Athos paused and looked at Mistry with a very surprised look: "You..." Are you sick?

"Think about how sad Lucia would be if you were hurt." Athos showed a falsely sad expression, "Thinking of Lucia being sad makes my heart pierce like a knife, so I'm here to help you."

Athos: "...you have a heart."

Mistry smiled modestly and changed the subject: "Then, where are we going next?"

"Go to the captain's room first." Athos suggested, "Since you are looking for someone, let's look at the key places first."

With that said, Athos drank the invisibility potion again, Mistry used the invisibility technique, and the two began to search the ship.

There are some driving records in the captain's room. Athos looked it over and found that the destination of the driving was an island not far south of the Wangxi Islands, but in his memory, it was never on any official map. saw that island.

Athos wrote down this map silently, and searched for a long time in the captain's room, only to find the same ritual knife under the captain's pillow, but the gem on the handle was a dull red...

After checking the first mate's room again, Athos' expression was very heavy.

"Did you find anything?" Mistry was very curious.

"Yes... I'm afraid the staff on this ship are also former guests." Athos sighed, "They become captains, servants, sailors of this ship... I'm afraid they also have their own purposes."

"I see."

After searching all the way, Athos came to the bottom of the cabin, and saw a lot of puppets without carved faces at the bottom of the cabin.

These puppets are of different sizes, male and female, all neatly placed in boxes.

"Puppet?" Athos felt that he seemed to have seen it somewhere just now, and he remembered it when he recalled it. It seemed that he had also seen a puppet in the captain's room just now.

But the puppet was wearing a boy's clothes and was sitting on a chair, so Athos didn't remember it for a moment.

"Why are there so many puppets?" Athos has a bad idea, but this idea can only be confirmed after finding the captain himself.

Once again, he returned to the captain's room. When he opened the door this time, he didn't know whether to call it good luck or bad luck. As soon as Athos opened the door, he found that the captain had returned to the room.

Seeing that the door opened automatically, the captain originally wanted to sound the alarm to call someone, but was punched directly in the stomach by Athos, losing the ability to move.

Athos didn't dare to tie up the captain carelessly, and he didn't release his stealth. He deliberately changed his voice and asked, "Are you also a former guest?"

The captain did not answer.

"Don't answer?" Athos's eyes wandered and fell on the puppet sitting in the chair, "If you don't answer, I will kill your son."

The captain's expression moved, and although he was a little shaken, he still did not respond further.

"Your son, is that the puppet?" Athos whispered.

From where the puppet was, the dress and the size, Athos had ruled out other options and arrived at the fact that the puppet was the captain's son: "I'll take it apart and throw it in the fireplace and let him burn completely ashes."

Mistry has been silent, waiting patiently for the progress of the matter, but when he heard Athos's words, he couldn't help but look at the hero with admiration.

... This kind of threat that has no bottom line, is it really a hero?

Sure enough, hearing Athos' threat, the captain's expression finally changed: "Don't do this, he is innocent!"

"But you made the innocent him sinful," Athos replied.

"Yes, you are right." The captain's expression struggled, his expression changed several times, and bitterly gave up the useless resistance, "You are the Athos that Lord Fast said? Sure enough, we will still be defeated by you in the end. Sanctions...what do you want to know?"

"You are the victor of the past, resurrecting your own son?" Fast asked.

"Yes." The captain closed his eyes, "I used to be an excellent captain. I left my hometown and gained money and praise... But when I returned to my hometown for the last time, I found that I His wife and son were killed by burglars."

"I want revenge, but the police told me that the robber was from a slum, and he has already been sentenced to death, and he will be executed immediately." The captain's voice was low, "I know the identity of the robber and found his home... But His family has also died, it turns out that he stole my house in order to steal money to see a doctor for his own children."

Athos did not speak.

"I don't know what to do. I hate the robber who killed my family, but before I get my revenge, fate has made the final punishment for me, but what about me? I have nowhere to go." The captain's expression seemed to be It's laughing, and it seems to be crying, "I don't have a home anymore."

"You can have a new family," Athos replied in a low voice. "One can only look forward, sir."

"It didn't happen to you, of course you can say all the big things," the captain choked. "But for me, my life ended when my wife and children died."

"But I know that my relatives can be resurrected here..." the captain said, "I participated in the previous ceremony and resurrected my wife and children..."

Athos found the problem: "Can two people be resurrected at once?"

"Yes, as long as you can grab someone else's ritual knife and kill two people with two knives," the captain replied, "but one person's life is only enough to resurrect one person for a year, for my wife and children, I can only participate in this activity again and again...until this time, Lord Fast finds me and tells me that as long as I become the captain of this ship, I can resurrect my wife and children forever."

"Do the two of them know that their lives are built on the death of others?" Athos asked.

"How dare I say it, how can I say it... ah, my Alyssa, my Kaggle...how can I let them know that their beloved husband, their omnipotent father, It's a murderer..." The captain's tears finally flowed out, he closed his eyes and turned his head away, "Kill me."

"No, I won't kill you." Athos stood up and replied, "Only the law can punish you."

"Really..." The captain murmured, he had completely given up his resistance, "That's fine, this kind of life should have ended a long time ago, it's just my Eliza, she's still waiting for me to go back..."

Athos didn't answer again, left the captain's room with a heavy expression, and gently closed the door behind him.

No one said anything, Athos walked aimlessly for a while, and let out a long sigh: "We must stop what they are doing."

"Oh?" Mistry was not as emotional as Athos. He was a little curious about how humans feel when faced with such a thing, "Why?"

"Life and death are inevitable experiences of human beings. I can understand his grief, but he should not base the lives of his wife and children on the sacrifice of others."

Mistry disagreed: "Among living things, there are very few races with so-called moral values ​​like you humans."

Athos never thought about the question: "Very few?"

"Tigers hunt antelope, jackals chase hares, all of them are against the old, weak and sick, they will not have any mercy for other races, but you humans are different." Mistry sighed, "The most Compassionate, most cruel, most peaceful, most dictatorial... a very, very wonderful race."

"...If you don't say, I would never have thought of such a thing." Athos replied dryly.

"Isn't this very common?" Mistry had a rare interest in talking to Athos, "There are so-called vegetarians among you humans because when you eat meat, you can't bear to think about the tragic death of animals. Yes. Isn't it amazing? Punish yourself for other races."

"I really can't figure it out," Athos said, "but it's their choice."

"Lucia said the same thing." Mistry's voice was very humanized with gentleness, "Lucia is really a very cute girl, she is kind and lively, and the best thing is that she never talks to her. I'm pointing fingers."

"..." Athos felt that Mistry's brain was probably flooded, because in his opinion, Lucia was pointing fingers at Mistry every day, and never stopped.

"She never forced me to like humans, nor did she force me to restrain myself according to the laws and morals of human beings." Mistry sighed softly, "Ah, Lucia, why hasn't she come back, I haven't seen you for a day, I have already I'm starting to miss her."

Athos, who was still single, really couldn't take it any longer. He said sourly, "I think I can also tell you not to learn from humans. For example, now you don't have to pretend that you miss others as much as humans do."

"Why is this a pretense?" Mistry shook his head, suddenly thinking that Athos couldn't see him, so he added, "This is a natural expression of affection between boyfriends and girlfriends."

"But you don't understand that you haven't been really liked even though you've been in love many times, right?"

Athos did not expect that he would receive such a mental attack from another god.

Mistry's false pity: "Too poor, Athos."