Chapter 193 Monster Attacking Couple

The girl in the water took a deep breath: "Okay. I understand."

Clayton was indifferent to her resentment, and she had to reveal the hidden parts of herself.

The necklace was made by the jeweler's son himself in order to give it to Adelaide to express his feelings. However, on the last day, he caught his best friend having a tryst with his sweetheart. When he strangled her to death, the necklace was thrown away. On the ground on one side.

Adelaide didn't like to recall this part of the past, and she looked troubled when she told this part.

"I beg your pardon; I have omitted these things precisely to avoid your objections,"

Clayton didn't understand what she meant, but Julius and Donna reacted immediately.

"Your method of breaking the curse turned out to be based on the principle of contact and the use of portrait boundaries." Julius blurted out.

Donna yelled out another word: "The Law of Retribution."

But what they were talking about was actually the same thing. After their guidance, Clayton now understood why Adelaide wanted to hide this matter.

The portrait boundary means that things with similar shapes belong to the same category. Using portraits and carved dolls to curse others is a classic application of this rule. The piece of bad luck jewelry was also called Adelaide's portrait because it was engraved on it. Consider it a part of her.

There are more classic examples to explain the law of retribution that Donna said - an injured person speeds up the healing of the injury by breaking the weapon that hurt him, or a cursed person defeats the wizard who cursed himself to lift the curse.

Adelaide removes Clayton's bad luck by injuring herself and smearing her blood on the doomed jewelry.

The fact that this move is effective proves that the ownership of this piece of bad luck jewelry belongs to her.

The two wizards pointed at Adelaide at the same time, ready to release the curse at any time.

Adelaide drifted back a little distance, but then stopped. She smiled bitterly and said: "Look, this is exactly what I was worried about. But I have to defend myself. After I got my new life, I also wanted to go there. It, but I can’t.”

If Clayton had a gun in his hand now, he would point it at her.

"Everyone knows that the Water Fairy has extremely strong perception within the area where she lives. I don't believe what you say."

"But it is absolutely true. It is a strange object that was born with my death and is closely related to me. This also increases the difficulty for me to find it. Because I also have the same feeling about the river. I want to be by the river. Finding it is as difficult as finding the designated drop of blood in your own body."

"Then when it was picked up, you could always feel the person who took it away, right?"

"Yes, but I didn't dare to stop that person." Adelaide said: "He and his accomplices totaled seven people, all carrying guns and digging in the swamp area, and they were almost never alone. At that time My strength is still too weak to lure him to the water alone."

Clayton frowned:

"Do you know what they're doing?"

"They seem to be digging for ancient swamp corpses or other valuable property, but I don't know why they are sure that there are these things in the swamps of Gevo."

The medicinal value of human corpses has clear regulations in medical schools. If the mummies of Mesri are the most valuable, then the ancient swamp corpses in the mainland can also be ranked third, and they can also be used for ritual magic. The group of tomb robbers on Easter Island The thief came here to expand his business, and Clayton could understand that.

He motioned to his two "entourages" to relax their vigilance.

"I understand, you can continue telling what happened after the monster appeared."

"At that time, the monster attacked us from behind and grabbed us tightly with its claws. We struggled desperately to slow down the process of being dragged away. Danny took the opportunity to shoot at it, but missed. The monster seemed surprised and put us down when it was targeted."

As she told it, Clayton made a note of the key points in his mind - only Danny faced the monster head-on, and the monster recognized firearms and was a highly intelligent creature.

But this information is for reference only. Even if Adelaide has no intention of lying, her nervous attitude may make her memory unclear.

".We ran a little distance, and the monster caught up with us again. Its footsteps were very loud and fast. Even without looking, I knew it was running much faster than us. When I almost couldn't run anymore, I knew it was running much faster than us. , Sevan pushed me forward from behind, but we all knew there was no way to escape, and Danny also knew it, so he turned around and shot Sevan again, letting the monster grab him and pull him. I keep running forward."

"When we were sure that the monster wouldn't catch up again, he stopped and asked me what to do next. I told him that I was going back to save Sevan, and then he killed me. I woke up and thought I wanted revenge, but I had to warn others first, so I confused the doctor and asked him to take my gift to Gevaux, which was a conch with a sound, and I stored some beasts in it that were unlikely to appear in the town. The sound will let everyone know that a monster is approaching."

"And Danny knows the rules of the water fairy's resurrection, but he didn't think that much when he killed me. I hope he will think of me after hearing that unusual sound, whether he chooses to escape or come back to find me. , I can find a chance to kill him."

Adelaide's tone became more and more calm, but this was not because she had looked away, but because her excessive suppression had obliterated other emotions.

She didn't want to appear weak in front of outsiders.

The natural environment by the river is so quiet that Donna's sniffing sound is a bit harsh at this moment.

Noticing Clayton's eyes looking at her, she covered her face and stopped making any sound.

But this could not dispel the touch in Donna's heart. All the misfortunes she had heard of might not be more unfortunate than what Adelaide had experienced alone. Only such a tragedy could give birth to such a strange thing as the jewelry of misfortune!

Clayton did not blame his niece for being weak, because he was also touched, but he was more rational and paid more attention to the details in the story.

"How long was the time interval between Danny's first shot and the second shot?"

"Probably. I think less than a minute." Adelaide recalled.

"It took less than a minute. He used a flintlock pistol, and he didn't look like someone who had been trained in reloading. It was almost impossible to reload while running."

Clayton quickly concluded: "It's probably no coincidence that he met you, because he had at least two loaded guns on him at the time. Maybe he had already planned to make a decision with you before you met the monster."

If it was just for hunting, ordinary people would not carry two guns. The weight would affect the hunter's actions in the jungle.

Even if ordinary beasts have sharp teeth and fangs, they will run away in fear after hearing the gunshot. Two guns are only needed to deal with creatures that recognize guns.

He didn't think Danny went out to deal with monsters. Ordinary people wouldn't be so crazy. Then the jeweler's son took two guns to deal with Sevan. Maybe he wanted a fair duel, or maybe he used it to make up for the mistake of the first shot. In short, his malicious intentions have been confirmed.

Adelaide didn't change his expression when he heard Clayton's judgment.

In any case, Danny is dead, and no matter how much you care about it, it will only add an insignificant stroke to that disgusting tombstone.

"Did you meet that monster again?" Clayton asked her.

The water fairy shook her head: "No, I have been waiting here for a long time, and it has not appeared again. I can't even find the blood left by Sevan. Maybe they have left Gevo. So I want to search along the river. There are few water sources nearby. As long as the monster can't enter the city to get water, it must go to the river to drink water. If it goes on like this, I will definitely find it."

She said it well, but Clayton was not optimistic about her choice.

He asked her, "Miss Adelaide, do you know 'the beast'?"

Adelaide Lax asked blankly, "I'm sorry, I don't know which one you mean?"

Seeing her reaction, Clayton confirmed one more point - the water fairy died too early, she died before the "beast disaster" in Geves, and after the "beast" wreaked havoc, people reduced their activities outside the town for safety reasons. Even if a few people ventured to the river, they would not talk about it in their own words, so Adelaide knew nothing about the existence of the "beast".

Donna coughed twice to attract Adelaide's attention to herself.

"Miss Adelaide, when the monster grabbed you, did you feel what its claws looked like?"

Adelaide answered her question formally: "I felt that half of my shoulder was wrapped by its claws, covered with a layer of rough black bristles, but with distinct joints underneath, just like a human hand."

This answer surprised the three of them.

Although the leatherworker's palms are also human-like, there is no hair on them. It is more like ten awls with ten needles inserted on them.

Adelaide's description of the paw is closer to that of a werewolf. No wonder Adelaide chose to record a wolf howl with a conch shell.

Werewolves are a group of dark races. When one appears, there may be other werewolves nearby.

Clayton has never seen a mature individual other than himself, and he is not sure how werewolves should communicate and fight.

But he calmed down quickly.

There is a werewolf other than him in Gevo - this is just speculation, not fact.

Although the shape of the claws described by Adelaide is similar to that of a werewolf, it may not be different from that of other beasts. If it is a skinny bear, its claws may also look similar to those of a werewolf.

It is not surprising that some special individuals among beasts remember the power of artificial objects after being shot by a musket. They first thought of werewolves because the people in the town had previously promoted the identity of the "beast" as a werewolf, and there happened to be a werewolf around them.

There is still a long way to go between "suspected" and "confirmed".