48 Hours a Day

Fabericott calmed his emotions slightly, although his poor sense of reason and common sense had all been destroyed when he stood in front of the window and saw the monsters of the half-man half-fish frog, but it was good that his spirit was not in disarray.

It is therefore possible to give Zhang Heng an honest account of what he saw and heard this day.

According to the young expatriate, he wanted to transfer here and take the 8: 00 p.m. bus to Arkham, because the route was usually empty and the fare was very cheap, which was still attractive to poor tourists like him, and of course another reason was his own curiosity about the place.

Because in Newbury Potter, many stories have been told about this place, such as the disgusting ugly looks of the townspeople, the gloomy atmosphere of repression, and the occasional disappearances, all of which are quite appealing to young people.

Especially when Fabericott saw the golden crown in the museum, he was deeply fascinated by the strange, non-human-inspired evil it emitted.

“Is that what you're talking about?” Zhang Heng pulled out the necklace he had found from his bag.

“Yes, that's right.” Fabericott called out almost immediately after seeing the necklace, and then he had a chill, trying to look away, but the necklace was like some kind of magic, clearly full of evil, yet fascinating.

Fortunately, Zhang Heng did not take out the necklace for too long, but just swayed it in front of the young expatriate face and put it away again.

Fabericott was relieved, “In short, I arrived here the next morning by bus at 10: 00. Although I had done a lot of research and had some psychological preparation before I came here, I must admit that the strange and silent atmosphere here is still beyond my imagination. I mean, can you believe that before 1846, there were also people living here, and a group of people were thrilled, people said that it was a plague that claimed more than half the lives of people in town, combined with the strange looks of people in town. If the effects of an unknown malignancy seemed to make sense...”

Faberlicott said, "Anyway, I've been on a bus to get here, and I want to leave and take the night train, so I decided to spend the middle of the day wandering around town, satisfying my own curiosity, to see if I could hear more stories about it... but as you can see, the people here are not very friendly to the foreigners, nobody wants to talk to me, in fact, I don't really want to talk to them either, whether it's their weird looks or the smell of their bodies that makes me uncomfortable, but luckily I found a clerk in the grocery store, he's not a local, he's just transferred here to work.

“He told me something about not going out in the middle of the night, like being away from the church, where the Masons had now been replaced by another mysterious church, and their priests seemed to be thinking about some weird ritual, and the people in town loved water, and they would try swimming from time to time, and you wouldn't want to know how they were doing in the water, and by the way, the town's four most famous families, the Marsh, the Witt, the Gilman, and the Elliot, were rarely seen going out.

“Finally, when I heard the grocery store's little brother wanted to hear more anecdotes, he recommended to me an old man named Zadok Allen, a poor old drunk living alone, who was in his nineties and usually had a tough, somewhat nervous tone, but as soon as he got drunk, he started talking nonsense, and it was said that many of the legends were coming from his mouth. ”

“Did you find him?” Zhang Heng asked.

“Yes, despite all the kung fu I've lost, and I'm going to try to get rid of others, because my grocery store brother told me to meet Zadok Allen. It's best not to be seen by people in town. I used a bottle of wine to lure him to a rubble, where we got a valuable one-on-one chance to communicate," Fabericott said of his face, “but now I wish I'd never heard those horrible stories from him. ”

“What story? ”

“Everything started on a small island in the South Pacific, where bad things were caught up, where a good fisherman was killed in the war of 1812 by a private looter, three Gilman boats disappeared, and only the Marsh boats were still at sea, but it wasn't too good to catch fish, and one of the boat's captains, Obeid, heard about the island, where the indigenous people were wearing the same ornaments as gold, and where there were endless fish. ”

“So Captain Obaid led people to the island, and at first he just managed to exchange some of the same gold for the indigenous people on the island, but then Obaid managed to find out from the sheikh who told him that the people on the island would hold occasional ceremonies to trade with the young people of the tribe, and that the gold and the fish were the things that gave them back.

“And then those things were one step closer, persuading the islanders to reproduce them, and the children they gave birth to were initially human beings, but as they grew older, they became more and more like those things, eventually living underwater forever. ”

“Are you referring to those half-man half-fish frogs?” Zhang Heng frowned.

“Yes, that's what's going on with that tribe, but not all kids are going to be like that, and it's going to change at different times, and some people are born like that, and others are going to be able to sustain the appearance of humankind until they're seventy or eighty, or they'll never be able to make the final change. ”

“Oh.” Zhang Heng heard.

“In short, Captain Obaid figured out what was happening on the island, and he brought back a gift from the chief, a little piece of lead or something, and the ceremony, according to the chief, to find a place where fish were thrown down, and the ceremony could find those things that lived underwater.

“Captain Obaid did not initially use it, he simply put it aside and continued trading with the tribes on the island in exchange for the same gold in their hands, while he opened a refinery in town, secretly processed those things and made a lot of money, but in 38 years, when Obaid brought people back to the island, he found that the tribe was missing, they were wiped out by people on other islands, and there were mysterious amulets all over the island, which was terrible news for Captain Obaid. ”