"My goodness, I was researching them, but I didn't expect to encounter them in the New World..."
While Dorothy was thinking this, Kapak continued with his actions, ready to force open the coffin immediately. However, when he was trying to open the coffin with force, something unexpected happened.
Just as Capac was pulling a gap in the coffin, several inscriptions engraved on one of the coffins lit up, and then a pale female ghost emerged from the coffin lid with a knife stuck in her neck. She looked at Capac in front of her and Tom not far away with her cold eyes, then opened her mouth as if she was about to let out a shrill scream, and her entire spirit floated upwards.
Seeing this scene, Capac was frightened and stood still. Fortunately, Dorothy was quick-witted and immediately controlled Tom's body. By consuming the spiritual reserves, she took the soul-sealing talisman in her hand and slapped the head of the female ghost who came out of the coffin. The talisman hit her forehead, and before she could fly up, the female ghost was slapped back into the coffin before she could finish her scream. She was sealed again, and the talisman on Tom's hand was burned to ashes.
"Hide! Quickly!"
After pressing the female ghost back to the bed, Dorothy asked Tom to speak to Capac. Capac paused slightly after listening to her, then immediately listened to Dorothy's words and hid behind a pile of sex goods. Dorothy asked Tom to close the box containing the coffin again, and then waited silently in the place. After waiting for a long time without any movement, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Huh... come out, it seems like nothing has been discovered."
Tom said to Kapak, who came out of his hiding place, looked at the box with a nervous look, and then said to Tom.
"Mr. Detective, that ghost just now was..."
"I'm afraid it's some kind of early warning measure. The ghost must be sealed in the lid of the coffin. If the coffin is forcibly opened, it will be released and scream everywhere to attract people with spiritual perception who can hear it. These guys have put in a lot of effort to prevent their things from being stolen."
Dorothy asked Tom to respond to Capak and said that if she had not reacted quickly and acted in time, causing the female ghost to fly out and scream everywhere, other members of the society near the port would have rushed over after hearing it.
There must be other people hiding around here besides Tom, but Tom has the identity of a security captain, so he can move freely. If the others are not official port staff, it is not convenient for them to move around the port at night. This is the port of the Plit Colonial Government. If these association members do not want to attract the official extraordinary organization here, they cannot act here openly, but they must be vigilant in secret. They definitely have emergency response forces in the secret place near the warehouse.
Obviously, the "Silence" Society has put a lot of effort into preventing accidents in the warehouse waiting to be loaded. Not only has it arranged for a Beyonder to be the warehouse security captain, it has also arranged for a ghost to be attached to the coffin board as an alarm. It looks like each of the more than 40 boxes of sealed spirits has a ghost alarm. Now it seems that the other talismans on Tom's body that he can't understand are probably to notify other members of the Society.
Because this batch of goods was shipped through the conventional shipping channel, it was impossible for all the members of the association to guard the goods carefully, but it did not mean that they did not have safety measures. If Dorothy had acted slowly just now, the ghost might have just called out to find its controller, who would not be too far away from here.
"Imprison the spirits for warning? These guys actually have such means?" Listening to Tom's words, Capak frowned and looked at the pile of boxes in front of him, then spoke.
"So many boxes...are there any early warning measures inside? Mr. Detective, in this case, can we not release the spirits and Master Woodhoof at will? In this case, I might as well go back to the tribe first and ask Teacher Uta to contact the shamans from other tribes to fight those invaders together!"
"No... We don't have the time to wait for you to come back now. In a few hours, these goods will be shipped to our continent."
"Send it on a ship? This..."
Capac was speechless for a while with a worried tone. He scratched his head with a depressed look and thought of a solution. Tom also looked at the pile of boxes in front of him with a serious expression. If they opened the coffin rashly now, they would not be able to deal with the warned ghosts now. Tom only had one soul-sealing talisman on his body, which had just been used. If they opened the coffin again now, they would not have the means to deal with these warned ghosts.
Capac was only an apprentice psychic, so he could communicate with ordinary ghosts, but he had no way to deal with the ghosts controlled by the Black Soil or even Cretaceous "Silent" extraordinary people, not to mention that there was only one living puppet here, Dorothy.
Failure to deal with the ghost's warning means that the coffin cannot be opened to release the spirits. In a few hours, this batch of goods will be loaded onto the ship and set sail for Dankdo, and there will be no chance. Their vigilance measures on the ship will only be stricter.
"This is troublesome. If we release these spirits now, they will definitely attract the people of the Coffin Order. If we don't release them, they will be loaded onto the ship and sent away in a short while. Although Capac was successfully rescued, it is a bit unwilling to give this batch of spirits to the evil cult of the Coffin Order for nothing..."
Dorothy thought to herself that now the only fighting force she had in the New World was a living puppet, so she was definitely unwilling to have a head-on conflict with the Order of the Underworld Coffins. However, due to time constraints, she had no time to call for reinforcements.
'Shh... This is a bit tricky. We can't open the coffins and release the souls right away. We can't call for help. We only have a few hours... How can we prevent all these souls from falling into the hands of the coffin? We can't just blatantly move all these 40 boxes out... If we steal from the warehouse so openly, we will definitely be discovered by people outside... Um, move the boxes?'
Suddenly, as Dorothy sat by the fire, an idea occurred to her, and she began to accuse Tom and to examine the other piles of goods in the warehouse.
The warehouse at this port is very large, and there are a lot of goods inside, all of which are sorted and packed in piles. During Dorothy's observation, she found that these goods were all shipped from the Port of New Jacques to various countries on the mainland, and most of them were loaded in the early morning or early morning today.
Through the labels on the goods, Dorothy discovered that the goods were classified according to the different ships they were loaded on. Each ship had a different destination, and they were bound for different countries and ports.
After realizing this, Dorothy became alert. She directed Tom to search the warehouse carefully and check the label information on the goods one by one, while Kapak looked at this scene in confusion.
Finally, Dorothy found a pile of goods not far from the bureau. After reading the label information on it, her eyes lit up.
"Cargo: 45 boxes of tobacco, origin: New Jacques Port, destination: Tivian, loading time: 4 a.m. on December 5, loading ship: Endeavour, number..."
Looking at the labels on the goods, Dorothy looked at the pile of goods again. The rectangular wooden boxes on it were almost the same as the boxes used by the Coffin Order to hold coffins. There was not much difference in number and they were stacked about the same height.
"That's it..."
Looking at the pile of goods in front of her, Dorothy smiled by the fire. Then she controlled Tom to walk quickly to Capac, who still had a distressed look on his face, patted him on the shoulder and said.
"Hey, kid, come to life."
"live?"
Listening to Dorothy's words, Capac looked at Tom with a puzzled look on his face, and Tom pointed with his thumb at the pile of tobacco that was to be sent to Divian not far away, and then spoke.
"Now, the two of us will move the boxes immediately and switch the positions of this pile with that pile and that pile over there. Remember to be quiet and don't make any noise."
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Well... as you can see, I'm stuck again. The result of constantly being stuck is that I have to work later and later every day to slowly finish the chapters, and then my work and rest schedule is disrupted again.
So let's take a day off as a routine every month. Take a day off tomorrow and see if we can relax our schedule and work and rest.
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