Fabricott calmed himself down a little, and although his poor sanity and common sense had been destroyed when he stood in front of the window and saw the half-man, half-fish and frog monsters, his spirit was not in a state of confusion.

It is precisely because of this that he can truthfully describe to Zhang Heng what he saw and heard that day.

According to the young traveler, he had wanted to change trains here and take the 8 p.m. bus to Arkham, because the route was usually deserted and the fares were very cheap, which was still very attractive to a poor traveler like him, and of course another reason was that he himself was very curious about the place.

Because in Newburyport, I have heard many legends related to this place, such as the disgusting ugliness of the townspeople, the gloomy and depressing sneaky atmosphere, and the occasional disappearance, all of which are quite attractive to young people.

Especially when Fabriccott saw the golden crown in the museum, he was deeply fascinated by the strangeness it exuded, the evil that was unimaginable to human beings.

"Is the golden crown you said made of this material?" Zhang Heng took out the necklace he had picked up from his bag.

"Yes, that's right." Fabricott called out almost immediately at the sight of the necklace, and then he shuddered and tried to look away, but the necklace seemed to contain some magic, obviously full of evil intentions, but it was also fascinating.

Fortunately, Zhang Heng didn't take out the necklace for too long, just shook it in front of the young foreigner's face and put it away again.

Fabricott breathed a sigh of relief, "Anyway, I arrived here at ten o'clock in the morning by bus, although I have done a lot of research before coming, and I have a certain amount of mental preparation, but I must admit that the strange and dead atmosphere here is still beyond my imagination, I mean, can you believe it, before 1846 this place was also full of people, it was thriving, people said that a great plague took the lives of more than half of the people in the town, Combined with the strange appearance of the townspeople, if it is the influence of an unknown disease, it seems that it can be said to be ......"

"Anyway, I've already got on the bus and I'm going to take the evening bus to leave, so I've decided to spend some time wandering around town and satisfy my curiosity to see if I can hear more stories about this place...... But as you can see, the people here are not very friendly to outsiders, no one wants to talk to me, and I don't really want to communicate with them, whether it is their strange appearance or the smell of their bodies, I feel uncomfortable, but luckily I found a clerk in the grocery store, he is not a local, he was just transferred here by the headquarters.

"He told me some of the do's and don't go out in the middle of the night, like stay away from the church, the Freemasons who used to be here have now been replaced by another mysterious order, their priests seem to be pondering some strange rituals, and the people in the town are very fond of water, they will try to swim from time to time, you won't want to know their posture in the water, by the way, there are four families in this town that are most famous, the Marsh family who run the refinery, the Witt family, the Gilman family, and the Elliott family, But few people saw them go out.

"Finally, the grocery store guy heard that I wanted to find out more anecdotes, so he recommended me a guy called Zadok? Allen's old man, he is a poor old drunkard who lives alone, he is over ninety years old, usually he is very strict-mouthed, and he is a little nervous, but as soon as he gets drunk, he will start to talk nonsense, and it is said that many legends here are passed down from his mouth. ”

"Did you find him?" Zhang Heng asked.

"Yes, even though it took me a lot of effort, and I'm going to try to get rid of the others, because the grocery guy told me and Zadok? Alan had better not be seen by the townspeople, and I led him to a ruin with a bottle of wine, where we had a precious one-on-one opportunity," said Fabricott, with a look of horror and chagrin on his face, "but I now wish I had never heard those horrible stories from his mouth." ”

"What's the story?"

"It all started on a small island in the South Pacific, when bad things came together, a boatload of fishermen was killed by a privateer during the war in 1812, three of the Gilman boats were missing, only the Marsh boats were still at sea, but it was not very good, there were no fish, and the captain of one of the boats was named Obaid, and he heard about the island, and the natives on it wore gold ornaments, and there were endless fish."

So Captain Obaid led people to the island, at first just to exchange some gold-like ornaments with the natives of the island, but then Obaid managed to learn from the chief's mouth about the source of the gold, and the chief told him that the people of the island would hold rituals from time to time, and trade with the young people of the tribe, and the gold and fish were the reward of those things.

"And then those things go one step further, convincing the people of the island to reproduce with them, and the children they give birth to are human at first, but as they grow older, they become more and more like those things, and eventually live underwater forever."

"Do you mean those half-human, half-fish frog things?" Zhang Heng frowned.

"Yes, that's what does business with that tribe, but not all children become like that, and the time of change is different, some are born like this, and some people can maintain their human appearance until they are seventy or eighty years old, or they will never be able to complete the final change."

"Huh." Zhang Heng was noncommittal when he heard this.

"Anyway, Captain Obaid figured out what was happening on the island, and brought back a gift from the chief, a bauble made of lead or something, and the corresponding ritual, according to the chief, to find a place where there was a fish and throw the lead down, and to cooperate with the ritual to find those things that lived underwater.

"Captain Obaid didn't use it at first, just put it aside and continued to trade with the tribes on the island in exchange for gold-like things in their hands, while he opened a refinery in the town, secretly processed those things, and made a lot of money, but in the thirty-eighth year, when Obaid took people back to the island, he found that the tribe was gone, and they were wiped out by people on other islands, and the island was full of some mysterious amulets, which was extremely bad news for Captain Obaid." I have 48 hours a day for the latest chapters on the URL: