238 Wolverine 09 (Heavy Rain)
As the truck moved away, Rorschach and Wolverine rearranged the fruit stand where the old woman had been kicked down, and the old woman stood aside, a little afraid to step forward.
"Okay, that's what your stall looks like, right?" Rorschach asked, pointing to the fruit stall that had been set up.
"Uh-huh." The old woman nodded hurriedly, with nervousness in her eyes, "Just ...... Thank you so much just now. ”
"It's fine." Rorschach waved his hand, "Are these soldiers always so lawless?" ”
"Alas...... It wasn't like that before. The old woman sighed.
"Did something happen?"
"It's not because of the ban on drugs, the mayor here wants to ban drugs, and then he was hanged in the port, and then this place was taken over by the army."
"I see." Rorschach nodded, Mexican drug dealers are world-renowned for their lawlessness. He asked, "We are tourists who are interested in folklore, do you know the history of this island?" ”
"......History," the old woman paused for a moment, thought for a moment and said, "I'm not a local, I just came to this island to make a living because I can't survive on the mainland, I don't know the history here, if you want to know the history here, you have to ask the locals, but few of the locals live near the port town, they usually gather in the town of Impoca at the southern tip of the island." ”
"There's a town south of the island?"
"Yes, but I haven't been, the locals don't like outsiders to bother."
"Thank you." Rorschach and Wolverine leave the fruit stand, chatting as they go.
"We're going to a town on the south side of the island?" Wolverine asked.
"Well, let's go over there and see if there's any news of the Poseidon sacrifice." Rorschach replied.
"The crew member didn't say anything about the process of getting the ornament at all, he just said that when he came to the port, he met a guy who claimed to be a sea god sacrifice, and I felt that he was not very conscious."
"Still, he brought us to the island."
"I hope he's telling the truth."
"Just check it out."
They returned to their hotel, rented a car, and headed for the town of Impoca at the southern tip of the island.
……
When I arrived in the town of Impoca, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky over the island suddenly became cloudy, and it seemed that a storm was coming.
Rorschach looked around as if it was night, and slowly slowed down into the town of Impoca, the whole town was quiet, probably because of the storm, most of the townspeople were hiding in their homes.
At this time, Rorschach faintly heard a burst of singing, he turned his head to look at Wolverine, he also heard the singing, the singer's voice was very beautiful, but they didn't understand a word of the lyrics, it didn't seem to be a language, just humming.
It was a strange feeling, and Rorschach raised an eyebrow and continued to drive the car around town, but everything seemed bleak before him.
The car stopped in front of a church because Rorschach saw the symbol on the roof of the church that looked like an eye, but also like a fish, and he knew that they had come to the site of the sea god's sacrifice.
Rorschach and Wolverine stepped out of the car, and a strong wind blew outside the car, making it necessary to fight it to stabilize their shape.
Walking up the stairs to the door of the church, he was about to knock on the door, but the door opened automatically.
Rorschach and Wolverine looked at each other, both with a wary look in their eyes.
They walked into the church, which was a chapel, no different from an ordinary church, with candles lit on the walls around it.
Rorschach looked around and saw that it was supposed to be a Catholic or Christian church, which used to be a place where God was worshipped, but now there is no shadow of God, and the typical features such as the statue of the Virgin and the cross have been replaced, and there are all kinds of strange metal objects everywhere, most of them resemble underwater creatures, and they seem to be made of gold.
At this moment, two young men, a man and a woman, ran in outside the church.
When the two saw Rorschach and Wolverine, they hurriedly shouted:
"We need help!"
"What's wrong? What happened? Rorschach asked.
"Our ship ran aground." The man hurriedly replied.
It turned out that the man was called Paul and the woman was called Barbara, the two were a couple, and a couple of friends went to sea to play, but they didn't expect to just come to the vicinity of Inca Island, and found that the storm was coming, obviously the weather forecast did not call the police, the four of them hurriedly wanted to return to the dock, but for some reason suddenly hit the rock, the friend's wife was stuck in the cabin by the plank, injured and could not get off the boat, Paul had to take his girlfriend Barbara to the shore to the shore to ask for help.
Rorschach and Wolverine glanced at each other, just about to go with the young man to save someone. At this moment, the wooden door in the middle of the church suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man in a black priest's robe walked out.
"We need the police! And doctors! Paul hurriedly greeted him and told the middle-aged pastor about the boat hitting the rocks.
When the middle-aged pastor heard this, he hurriedly asked Paul to take him to the docks.
At this time, it was pouring rain outside the church, and the five of them came to the wharf, where only one fishing boat was swinging with the wind and rain, and the owner of the fishing boat was using a cable to fix the fishing boat to the wharf.
"Where!" Barbara pointed to the yacht swaying in the waves and exclaimed, "There it is!" ”
"It's too big." The middle-aged priest looked at the big wave and shook his head.
"Can't you help?" Paul grabbed the pastor by the shoulder, pointed to the fishing boat next to him, and shouted, "Can he help us?" ”
"Calm down, calm down." The middle-aged pastor hurriedly said, "I'll ask." ”
So saying, he ran to the fishing boat and asked if he could take Paul and them to the yacht to save the people.
Rorschach and Wolverine stand by the dock.
"This rainstorm will come down as soon as it is said." Wolverine said.
"yes, don't you think it's a little weird?" Rorschach looked out into the distance and saw that the rainstorm had only covered the island.
"It's hard to say, I think the town smells a little bad."
"Smells bad......" Rorschach narrowed his eyes, staring at the middle-aged priest and the fisherman, the faces of the two fishermen were white and scary, and the key thing was that one of them was wearing sunglasses and the other was wearing a mask. When things go wrong, there must be demons.
The middle-aged pastor finally moved the two fishermen, who hurried to Paul's side and told him the good news.
"They agreed to take us?" When Barbara heard this, she was overjoyed and pulled her boyfriend Paul to board the ship.
The middle-aged pastor suddenly stopped Barbara and said with a calm face:
"I'm sorry, you can't board the ship, it's a tradition in the town that a woman will bring bad luck when she gets on the boat."
"What!?" Barbara pointed to the yacht in the waves, "I'm going to save my friend." ”
"I'm sorry." The middle-aged pastor was unmoved, "If you get on the boat, the fisherman won't drive the boat." ”
"What a shit tradition!" Barbara was a little angry.
Paul hurriedly said:
"Honey, you go back to the church and wait for me first, and I'll save them."
"Good...... Okay......" Barbara sighed helplessly.
Rorschach stepped forward and said:
"I'll go with you, too."
"Huh?" Paul paused for a moment, "Thank you!" ”
"It's okay, we're also here for tourism, and it's right to help each other."
With that, Rorschach winked at Wolverine and told him to stay at the docks to protect the girl named Barbara. Because Rorschach had a bad premonition that there was something wrong with the town called Imoca.