Chapter 218 You Lost the Evil God! ?

It wasn't long before Ken and Jeremiah appeared in the cabin, breathless.

Jeremiah carried a lantern and also a crowbar.

The cabin was empty. The Black Pearl didn't carry much cargo to begin with, and this time there were not many crew members, so the ship was almost empty.

After searching in the pile of debris for a while, the two found the wooden box.

The wooden box was floating on the sea near Castel. Jeremiah was in a hurry to investigate and didn't pay much attention to it after he fished it out.

This kind of wooden box can be seen occasionally in the sea. They are usually filled with worthless things. The boxes that really contained valuables would have sunk into the sea long ago. Only empty boxes are likely to float on the sea.

The box was in tatters, and the outermost wooden planks had been swollen by sea water. At the time, they simply thought it was abandoned by a passing ship.

If it hadn't been near Castel, Jeremiah wouldn't even have sent anyone to salvage it.

But if you think about it carefully, Castel has never been on any route, and no merchant ships would come to do business, so Hughes had to send them specifically to open up the route.

So where did this wooden box come from? Jeremiah pried open the rotten wooden planks on the outside with a few moves. The inside was filled with straw. After clearing away the straw, it turned out to be a box that was several times smaller.

This box was also soaked directly in the sea, but there was no sign of seawater seeping into it. Jeremiah looked at the box carefully for a while and took a breath.

"This is a box made of very valuable wood. I have seen it in the treasure house of Gem Bay. It contains the most valuable treasures."

Jeremiah said, turning to look at Ken: "Have you seen this thing?"

Ken shook his head hesitantly. He had never seen this box before, but the pattern on it always looked somewhat familiar to him.

It was a ball of fire, somewhat like the holy emblem of the Candlelight Society, but the flame was much hotter than the candlelight.

The box was quite heavy, half a person's height. Jeremiah found the keyhole, carefully poked a wire into it, and gently twisted the lock with the tip of the knife.

After a while, Jeremiah threw the wire and the sharp knife aside, raised the crowbar with a gloomy face, and smashed it hard on the padlock.

After smashing it for a long time, the lock was intact, but Jeremiah was out of breath.

"Damn, this lock can't be opened!"

Ken walked forward, took the lantern from Jeremiah, and carefully observed the structure of the lock in the light. It seemed that it was not just a purely mechanical structure. Looking inside the keyhole, there seemed to be some engraved patterns in it.

This lock seemed to be blessed with extraordinary power and could not be opened by ordinary unlocking methods.

"How about it, is there any solution?"

"I can't help it. I'm just an engineer." Ken said as he searched his pockets. "But I have nitroglycerin."

Boom! The explosion disturbed the tranquility of the night. The crew members tried to go onto the deck, but were driven back by the captain with a sullen face.

When the smoke cleared, it was revealed that Ken had controlled the amount of nitroglycerin very well. The lock of the box was blown to an unknown place, and the delicate box was also slightly deformed. After Jeremiah calmed the crew, he impatiently picked up the crowbar and walked forward.

The two of them quickly pried open the box, and before he had time to take a closer look, Ken felt that he had touched something.

He was startled and took a few steps back, falling to the ground. The lantern was almost knocked over. In the flickering firelight, he vaguely saw a pair of empty pupils.

"ah!"

Halfway through his scream, he was picked up by Jeremiah. The pirate captain reacted quickly, pulling Ken back with one hand while drawing his scimitar with the other.

The lantern shook a few times and finally went out. The room was suddenly plunged into darkness. Ken felt his heart beating so fast that it was about to fly out of his chest.

Jeremiah's breathing became heavier. He pulled Ken slowly back to the door, opened it, and they both retreated.

Jeremiah heaved a sigh of relief at this moment. When the light flickered just now, he seemed to see a corpse?

"What is that? Did you see it?"

"It seems to be"

Ken wanted to say corpse, but when he thought of the details such as the not stiff touch and the lack of corpse odor, he became unsure.

Could it be a living person? In such a small box, it is not a problem to put a person, but can a person really survive in it?

After Jeremiah left the house, he loaded bullets into his musket. Now that it was loaded, he turned around and got a lantern, handed it to Ken, and then he took a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, and kicked the door open.

Inside the house, a person was half lying on the ground in an awkward posture, as if he had fainted.

"Who are you?"

“.”

The man on the ground did not react. Ken hesitated for a moment and moved closer with the lantern. When the light fell on the man, Jeremiah and Ken looked down and were both startled.

"hiss!"

The two men took a step back and looked at each other. Ken looked quite frightened. Jeremiah's face twitched. He walked forward and used a sharp knife to open the man's clothes on his chest.

A bloody hole.

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This is a dead body.

There was a corpse that had been in the box for who knows how long, but it hadn't decayed at all.

Jeremiah had seen many dead people. People undergo different changes after death. First they become stiff, then they become soft, and finally they begin to rot slowly.

He didn't quite understand this, but after seeing it many times, he could roughly judge how many days a person had been dead, and the person in front of him gave him the feeling that he had died just a moment ago.

Jeremiah suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and carefully observed the man's appearance.

This is a young man, wearing clean clothes, which were obviously changed after his death. The blood hole on his chest is uneven, as if it was forcibly pierced by something. There are some calluses on the boy's hands, which means he must have done some physical work.

"Do you know this man?"

“No.”

Ken shook his head. The boy looked even younger than him. Although his appearance seemed familiar, he couldn't remember who he was.

"Strange, who is this?"

Castel, the office of the seutheus in the cathedral.

Chloe stood in the middle of the room, rubbing her fingers with a guilty look on her face. She secretly glanced at Hughes, then quickly lowered her head.

"So, you're saying that you lost a very important, very dangerous seal?"

"Yes, we clearly put it in the safest and most strictly guarded [Cocoon], but it was still lost inexplicably. We searched for a long time but couldn't find it."

Hughes stared at Chloe, his eyes becoming increasingly unfriendly.

These Fire Moth cultists always bring him some surprises.

"What is it?"

"It is a body for the evil god to descend upon. It has been contaminated."

Xius blinked in confusion, then suddenly reacted.

Worker Hughes?

(End of this chapter)