Chapter 176: Searching for Clues
"So they won't be able to resist?" Luo Ling directly used the method of the Tower of Origin to release a sleep technique, and as this ripple swept over, the people below immediately stopped moving, and fell asleep obediently one by one.
There was no one to steer, and the ship quickly slowed down. Xiao Chen and the others landed on the boat, waiting for the Houyi to move closer to them, and when they got close enough, Huang Zheng used magic to build a bridge between the two ships, and Ma Anmin brought a group of sailors and marines from the Houyi to take over the ship.
They moved most of the sleeping people into several cabins and began to inspect the ship.
Xiao Chen walked into the inner cabin of this ship and found that this ship was very similar to the ship of that world, with narrow stairs and chamfered doorways, I don't know if the idea of human beings making tools is always somewhat similar, or if this ship really has some connection with that world.
He saw a lamp on the wall of the hallway, and probed a little with his mental power, and found that it was not a lighting spar, but an electric light bulb. The light bulb emitted a slightly dim light, giving Xiao Chen a very familiar feeling.
"There is actually an electric light!" Luo Ling, who followed behind him, was also surprised.
"There's plenty of magic in the air, but the ship doesn't look like there's any trace of magic, and it's like seeing a cactus in the rainforest. Xiao Chen made a very strange analogy.
"Could it be a relationship between human races? This kind of anti-demon trait in people makes it impossible for them to use their magic power properly?" However, as soon as she finished saying this, she vetoed her own thoughts: "No, no, whether or not you can cast magic is only related to the mental power that is released." ”
"But it's really strange, it's like having to walk when there's a car driving. Luo Ling said.
"If anyone knows, the car is bound to break down?" Xiao Chen walked along the widest route, and sure enough, he found the captain's room of the ship. There are solid wood desks, leather sofas, iron bookshelves, and lamps, and some documents scattered on the table. However, Xiao Chen's eyes were attracted by a mirror frame on the wall.
It was a black-and-white photograph of Captain Balivian sitting in the center of the photograph with a woman about his age and three children around her.
Luo Ling put down a document and said: "The language here is really still the lingua franca of the mainland, but maybe because of the age, many words have some different variations.
The ship, called the El Shield, is a cruise ship that regularly travels between the two major cities in the north and south of the Western Continent. It was a regular voyage, judging by the logbook, and after two more days, they could reach their destination: the city of Ayr. ”
Umeda stuffed a book back into the bookshelf and said, "It seems that this Ballivian captain only likes to read some popular books, and there are no books about the history of the continent here. ”
"No, the book looks interesting. Xiao Chen picked up a book called "The Burning Queen" from the bookshelf, with his current mental power, he didn't need to read the book page by page, this kind of popular article that didn't seek much understanding, he only needed to soak the whole book with his spiritual power, and then print the content of the pages into his mind in the order from front to back, and by the way, he could also copy a copy in the meditation world and put it in the library.
"What does this book say?" Umeda asked.
"Hundreds of years ago, there was a girl in a small town who found that she could contact the power of the devil since she was a child, but it was not allowed to contact the power of the devil on the whole continent, and such a person would be judged a witch or a male witch, and then burned at the stake. But her father died early, her mother was sick all the year round, and she had to take care of her two younger brothers, and life was very difficult.
With the help of the devil's power, she will be able to steal food and clothes from the rich people in the town, so that the whole family will no longer go hungry and cold. So she ignored the danger of being burned to death and secretly accepted the devil's gift.
Then she began to steal these things from the homes of rich people, and her family soon got better. But when she committed the crime, she accidentally let a boy in the village discover the secret.
The boy used this secret to blackmail her and wanted to get her body. In order not to be discovered by others, she agreed to the boy. But when they were overwhelmed, she found that the boy was in love with him.
Then, she discovers that this is a natural ability given to her by the devil, and as long as she can make people feel good enough about her, that person will die and fall in love with her irrationally, and completely obey her. So she used this ability to conquer the useful men around her one by one.
Her power is getting stronger and stronger, people are becoming more and more beautiful, and more and more men are conquered. Eventually, the whole town was under her control, and she became a queen with many courtiers.
Later, the incident was stabbed out by a woman who had escaped from the town. It attracted the encirclement and suppression of the kingdom's army. She was defeated and captured, but succeeded in seducing the general who captured her when she was interrogated. When the general was fascinated by her, she asked the general to invite high-ranking officers to the banquet, where she conquered everyone with a dance. In the end, the general led his troops to rebel and the army sent to capture her again had a big fight, and she danced in front of the battle, making the opposing soldiers fight without any intention and helping the general win. If he hadn't been captured at the last minute by a female assassin from the wizarding inquisition, he might have become a true queen with the help of the general.
Eventually, he was tied to the stake in the capital and burned, but a dancing woman appeared in the smoke and dust of the sky when she was burned to death. Those who watched the burning at the stake were fascinated by her, rushed to the execution ground, and were burned to death with her in the arms of the fire.
The captain seemed to like the story and wrote notes on many of the wonderful and beautiful passages. ”
Xiao Chen finished telling the synopsis of the story and saw Umeda looking at him with a red face.
Luo Ling said: "You are really, Tian Tian is still a child, so you are telling this kind of story here." ”
Xiao Chen said: "Oh, I forgot about this, thinking that Tian Tian is an adult like us."
But don't you see? This story tells the story that there is a custom on this continent that people who use magic will be thought to be working with the devil, and they will be caught and even burned to death. Not only this book, but I've just scanned several other books that have similar plots. I guess it's not fiction, but a custom that actually existed in history. ”