Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 213: Port Disaster
Hearing Mr. Remire's words, Roger immediately thought of what Bandit had said before, about the astrological signs of Damir Port.

For abnormal astrological phenomena like this, it does not necessarily lead to extraordinary abnormalities, but the mystical environment and energy flow in these places are more likely to induce such events.

Now it seems that Roger and Bandit are having bad luck.

Holding an umbrella, he looked around at the ships in the harbor and found that apart from the "Obsidian", there were only two ships docked here.

But the difference is that the two ships obviously did not arrive today, but had been there for at least two days, but may have been unable to leave due to the bad weather around Damir Port.

In contrast, the heavy rain in Damir Port was almost completely out of control at this time, and the three ships were shaken violently in the small shelter.

"It's okay, Little John, you don't have to be afraid."

M. Lemuel exclaimed:
"With the weather so bad, it's normal that the number of ships docking here would decrease. Plus, Damir Island doesn't have a large permanent population, so let's find a tavern to eat and drink first."

"Yes, Mr. Lemuel."

Roger could clearly see that Mr. Remire was hesitant to speak, and he knew that he was trying to comfort him.

Having been out to sea many times before, he knew that Lemire Port, as the most important safe haven besides Bansi Island from the south coast of Backlund to the Ross Archipelago, should be crowded during bad weather.

But he didn't say much at this moment, but continued to act like a novice traveler, intending to follow Mr. Remire to see what happens.

The two of them climbed onto the wet pier and entered the seaside commercial district situated on the sand. They then entered a tavern called "Osprey" that was full of typical Bayam style.

"Sailor's Bar..."

Before entering, Roger glanced at the traditional sign hanging at the door, which was made up of a ship's rudder and anchor.

Bars with this symbol usually only receive crew members and sailors, and Roger speculates that this kind of place is likely where Extraordinary people secretly meet and exchange information.

Roger put away his umbrella and pushed the door open to enter the Osprey Tavern with Mr. Remire. Roger found that the situation inside was similar to that outside. There were only a few strong men who looked like sailors sitting there drinking beer and they hardly spoke to each other.

"Reeves!"

Mr. Remire took off his gun bag with ease, slapped it on the bar, and then called out a name.

After a while, a middle-aged man with a lame leg and a big belly came out from the kitchen.

"Remire, why are you here?"

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man named Reeves frowned and said this as the first sentence.

"Why can't I come? You open the door for business, don't you? When did you become so bad-tempered?"

Hearing Reeves' words, Remiel immediately retorted with dissatisfaction.

"I did not mean that."

Reeves shook his head, then looked at Roger with a strange look on his face, who was standing next to Remiel with a cat, and asked:
"Whose little brat is this?"

"Wiseman's nephew said he wanted to see if there was any trade he could do in Bayam."

Remiel first answered, then asked:

"Don't be so secretive when you speak. I see there are very few people outside. What happened?"

“I advise you not to ask so many questions, just finish your drink and leave as soon as possible.

"Don't dwell on those dirty tricks all the time. Damir has been in a lot of trouble these past few days."

Reeves sighed, poured a glass of draft beer for Remiel and Roger from the beer barrel behind him, and placed it on the table.

Roger put the Bandit down and sniffed the beer.

"This wine is really good."

he praised.

"You are a real connoisseur."

Reeves nodded to Roger, and then said:

"Much better than that bastard Wiseman."

"Of course, Uncle Reeves, my uncle often mentions you and says that you are a good winemaker."

Roger suddenly caught a sign of improving fortunes and immediately seized upon Reeves' words.

"Really? He really said that?"

Reeves was slightly stunned, then cursed:
"That old guy, Wiseman, has always been like this. He always belittles me to my face and never says a good word. But every time I say we should split up, he's unwilling to do so."

When Roger heard this, he realized that he had grasped the key.

He asked tentatively, "Uncle Reeves, have you ever been in partnership with my uncle?"

"It's more than just a partnership."

Reeves laughed out loud:
"You should have met Thor, the current captain of the Obsidian, right?"

Seeing Roger nodded, he was deeply impressed by the "navigator" who was over 50 years old but still in good spirits.

"More than twenty years ago—you were probably not even born then—Thor, I, and Wiseman were brothers. We even bought a salvage ship together. Thanks to Thor's connections, we worked for the Church of Storms for a long time.

"There were many salvage ships like this at the time. It wasn't until a major accident occurred that the Church of Storms dismissed most of the civilian ships they had hired and took on the work themselves.

"This made us lose our main source of income. In addition, Thor's mother was ill and he could not stay at sea for a long time, so we finally decided to disband.

"Luckily, we were both making some money by then, so Wiseman and I each bought a bar. Thor took care of his mother until her death and then raised his son. He continued to sail on ships on and off until about five or six years ago when he bought the Obsidian and became its captain."

Roger finally understood after hearing this.

"I didn't expect this to happen... This is the first time I've heard of it."

What he didn't ask was, since Captain Thor has such a good relationship with you, why doesn't he come off the ship to take a look?

Considering that the question seemed a bit awkward, Roger didn't ask it in the end.

"Like I said before, Wiseman is always hiding things and won't finish speaking at once."

Reeves shrugged, poured Roger another beer, and then asked:
"Little guy, what's your name?"

"My name is John, Uncle Reeves."

Roger answered "truthfully".

"John, do you know your uncle's secret?"

"Which ones do you mean?"

"Those that can 'open the door'."

Reeves raised his eyebrows and asked tentatively in a low voice.

"Is that what you mean?"

Roger calmly put on "Benjamin's gloves" under the bar. After looking around and making sure no one was paying attention to him, he took a glass from Reeves's cocktail table across the bar and shook it in front of him.

This shocked Remiel so much that his eyes almost popped out. He rubbed his eyes hard for a long time, looking incredulous.

Seeing this, Reeves also opened his mouth slightly, and after more than ten seconds, he laughed:
“It’s really amazing, no matter how many times I watch it.

“To be honest, I was very hesitant at first, considering whether to become an ‘apprentice’ or a ‘sailor’… To be honest, I liked ‘apprentice’ very much at first.

"But that bastard Wiseman refused to give me the potion formula no matter how many times I asked him. In the end, I had no choice but to choose 'Sailor'."

At first, Reeves didn't know whether Roger knew about the extraordinary world, but the latter took the initiative to show him his extraordinary abilities, so he felt at ease to talk about the related topics.

"Old Wiseman is indeed very reliable. He has never revealed the existence of the Abraham family and its corresponding secrets to the outside world..."

Roger said in his heart, and looked up to Wiseman again.

Wiseman became an "apprentice" with the help of the Abraham family when he was a teenager.

But compared to those traitors of the Abraham family, Wiseman can really be regarded as a breath of fresh air.

However, after being betrayed by Louis Wayne, Butis, and others, the Abraham family suffered from post-war stress trauma and were almost unwilling to help their students advance to Sequence 8 or above, fearing that they would deal another heavy blow to the family after entering the middle sequence.

In addition, Wiseman himself knew the horror of the extraordinary world, so he had voluntarily stayed at the "Master of Magic" at Sequence 8 for so many years without making any progress.

"So you're all monsters, and I'm the only normal person, right?"

Remiel wiped the beads of sweat from his head and couldn't help but complain.

Your incredible strength, capable of knocking a dual-path Sequence 5 Beyonder off balance, is already considered abnormal, alright...

Roger complained in his heart but smiled slightly on the surface. The atmosphere at this moment was much better than when he just came in.

In addition, now that Reeves has opened his mouth and he has a relationship with Wiseman as a foundation, he tried to find out:

"Uncle Reeves, Damir Island seems to be in a state of depression. What happened?"

Hearing Roger's question, Remiel also pricked up his ears with curiosity.

"This one……"

Reeves hesitated for a long time before speaking:

"After finishing this glass of wine, let's go inside and talk."

"Ok."

Roger breathed a sigh of relief. The fact that the other party said this meant that he had changed his mind.

"Mr. Remire, would you like to come in and listen?"

He did not forget to kindly ask Remiel who looked curious.

But Remiel hesitated for a moment before saying:

"...I forget it. You guys can go ahead. I'll drink here."

Reeves sneered at Remiel's self-awareness, and then said:
"Call Thor to me."

……

Ten minutes later, Roger, Reeves and Captain Thor, whose hair and beard were half white but still strong and energetic, sat together in the office behind the Osprey Bar.

Somehow, Thor was very embarrassed when he saw Reeves.

After hearing what Reeves said earlier, Roger felt that there seemed to be something fishy going on between the two of them, and the scene at this moment further confirmed his thoughts.

"Reeves, I..."

Thor was silent for a while, then spoke awkwardly.

However, he was interrupted by Reeves just halfway through his words:
"Let's not talk about the past. To be honest, I never thought you would stay away from me for so many years because of a woman." "You two are married now, and your children are grown up. I've almost forgotten about that incident. I can't eat you, right?"

After hearing this, Roger realized what was going on.

"So the brothers' split was caused by a love triangle?"

The Bandit in his arms also pricked up his ears to listen to the gossip, but unfortunately Reeves didn't seem to want to continue.

The middle-aged man turned and said:

"However, I advise you not to stay on Damir Island for too long. It's best to leave early tomorrow morning.

"A month ago, a ship stopped here with about fifty people on board. Although the captain was very low-key, he looked like a pirate to me.

"He came to my place for a drink and even spent 100 pounds asking me about Obernis's whereabouts... I was tempted, so I told him about some rumors about Obernis appearing in the waters southwest of Bansi some time ago. He weighed anchor and left the next day."

Obnis?

Roger was slightly stunned. He had heard of the name of this creature.

If I remember correctly, this should be a magical creature required in the ritual of advancing from Sequence 6 "Wind Blessed" in the "Sailor" path to Sequence 5 "Ocean Singer".

The content of the ceremony is that the promoted person needs to take the potion into the stomach of an Obnis.

Because after taking the "Ocean Singer" potion, the extraordinary person will hear the sounds of all creatures in the entire sea, but Obnis's belly has a good sound insulation effect, and only relatively vague sounds are transmitted to his ears, preventing him from losing control during the promotion.

On the other hand, the promoted ones will involuntarily make sounds due to the invisible sound waves exploding in their bodies. The sounds will tear the spirit body a little and spread outward with the sound waves, but the mucus in Obnis's stomach can rebound the sound waves back into the body and maintain the stability of the extraordinary spirit and body.

In this process, the promoted extraordinary people are like materials in a furnace. Under the constraints of Obnis, they will not collapse, and will eventually be polished into shape bit by bit by the power of the "Ocean Singer" potion.

If he guessed correctly, the pirate captain was most likely a Wind-Favored One who needed to be promoted to Sequence 6. However, due to his own identity, he could not easily find out Obnis's location like the members of the "Storm Lord" Church.

"Reeves, you shouldn't have gotten involved in this."

"Navigator" Thor frowned and spoke.

When he was still working for the Church of Storms, he had seen people looking for Obnis several times, and he guessed at the time that this was probably related to the promotion of Beyonders.

It would be fine if it was an official Beyonder disguised as a pirate, but if it was a real pirate, it would cause trouble for the government and the Storm Church.

In fact, this possibility is very high. Considering that the other party is most likely a Sequence 6 Beyonder, it is not ruled out that he is a hidden big pirate, or a guy who works for a pirate general.

After all, Reeves doesn't have any official background now. If someone reports that it was Reeves who provided Obnis's location, it is not ruled out that his tavern will be directly investigated.

Not to mention, if those pirates got into other trouble on their way to find Obnis, such as robbery and murder, Weiss would have to bear a greater blame.

"I know, I'm regretting it now."

Reeves rubbed his forehead and seemed to have a headache.

Thor asked again:

"So, what happened?"

He knew that Reeves was always very courageous, so the thing that scared him must not be as simple as the official Beyonder investigation.

On the other hand, that doesn't explain the strange phenomena happening in Damir Port right now.

"Just three weeks after the ship had been gone, it..."

Reeves opened his mouth, as if recalling something extremely terrifying, and after a while he continued:

"It's back."

"came back?"

Thor didn't quite understand what Reeves meant.

"Yes, I returned to Damir Island during a storm, but I didn't dock at the port. I just floated quietly on the water near the west coast.

"My guys felt something was wrong and looked through binoculars from a distance, but they didn't see anyone on the deck. It was like a ghost ship.

"After that ship appeared, the weather near Damir Island became worse and worse, and eventually fewer and fewer ships were able to enter Damir Harbor.

"I suspected there was something fishy going on, so I told the island's sheriff, but he didn't take it seriously."

Reeves became more and more nervous as he spoke, and at the end he blurted out:
"Then starting last weekend, people started dying on the island..."

dead?

This sentence seemed to lower the temperature in the office by two degrees, and the three people and the cat all felt a certain chill.

Roger also sighed softly.

"I used to think Klein was a bit of a jerk, but I didn't expect I'd be much the same."

While criticizing himself in his heart, he tried to comfort Reeves and then asked him about what happened.

"It started last Saturday when a ship from the Gargas Islands stopped here at Damir.

"A sailor named Mark had a few drinks with me that night, and I found him two ladies to keep him company.

"The three of them went to the hotel together, and at 12 o'clock at night, one of the women left, and the remaining one stayed at Mark's place for the night.

"But by noon the next day, when Mark's ship was about to depart, he hadn't returned. As a result, their captain found me, and I found the lady who had left the day before to inquire about the situation and learned what had happened the night before.

"I rushed to Mark's hotel room and knocked on the door for a long time but no one opened it. Finally, we broke down the door and found that the lady who was staying there had hanged herself in the room, and Mark was nowhere to be found.

"At the time we thought Mark had killed someone, so we quickly notified the island's sheriff to search for Mark, but we couldn't find him until that afternoon when we discovered his body floating in the sea."

Roger nodded when he heard this:
"Did it drift over from the direction of that unmanned ship?"

"How do you know?" Reeves blurted out in shock.

"Nothing, just a guess."

Roger smiled and motioned for Reeves to continue.

"…We examined Mark's body and found that he died from a simple drowning. However, we found two strangulation marks on the woman's neck that appeared to be from different time periods. The sheriff suspects that Mark killed her after an argument over a price he had agreed with her, and then committed suicide by jumping into the sea."

"But that doesn't explain why he was drifting from the direction of that ship."

Thor also discovered the problem at this time, because Damir Port is on the east side of Damir Island. If Mark wants to jump into the sea, there is no need to go west. He can just find a place nearby to end his life.

As for whether he died somewhere else and was washed ashore by the waves, it is unlikely because the winter ocean current near Damir Island is from west to east, which is completely opposite to the direction in which Mark's body was assumed to have moved.

"Correct."

Reeves nodded and continued:
“It’s strange, but the weather is getting worse and worse, so no one has time to worry about it.

"Then yesterday, the woman who had left Mark's room early was also found dead with her boyfriend in their house on the island.

"The woman was still strangled to death. Evidence at the scene showed it was done by a man, who then shot himself in the temple."

Roger didn't dwell on why a woman working in a special industry would have a boyfriend. This was very common in the island area, and the man was most likely her business agent.

He simply asked:
"Is it related to that ship again?"

"Yes, there was a lot of water on the man's feet. The sheriff later identified the man through the few remaining footprints on the outside and determined that he had also been to the West Coast before the incident."

Reeves nodded:
"But this is not the scariest thing."

"what is that?"

Thor frowned.

"The most horrifying thing was that the man shot himself three times in the temple... with a large-caliber revolver."

When Reeves said this, his whole body was shaking, and even Thor took a deep breath.

interesting……

After a brief silence, Roger raised the corners of his mouth, thought to himself, and then spoke again:
"Didn't you send out a distress telegram?"

"Yes. The sheriff felt that things were getting out of control yesterday morning, so he sent distress telegrams to Bansi and Bayam. I don't know the specific replies.

"But I reckon it'll take days to break through this damn storm, no matter where we start."

Roger nodded and took a deep breath:

"Uncle Reeves, can you take me to see the ship?"

"John, what are you doing over there?"

Thor suddenly spoke, his tone much higher than before:
“Young man, don’t get yourself into trouble. Wiseman, hand you over to me, and I will send you safely to Bayam.

"You are not allowed to interfere in this matter. We will leave Damir Port tomorrow morning."

In response to Thor's words, Roger bit his lip and ultimately did not refute. He just turned his head and looked at the torrential rain outside which was as terrifying as a waterfall.

In fact, considering the increasingly bad weather around Damir Port, if Thor was not an experienced "navigator", the "Obsidian" would most likely not be able to reach Damir Port even today.

It was also because of this that if the problem with the strange pirate ship was not resolved, they would most likely still not be able to leave Damir Port the next day.

In Roger's opinion, the pirates on that ship must have been involved in some supernatural incident while searching for Obnis, or found something contaminated by an evil god.

If this is not the case, it would be basically impossible to explain why the man in the second murder case shot himself three times in the head.

You have to know that it is a large-caliber revolver. Even if the first shot misses and does not hit the vital point, it will make the person unconscious instantly and lose the ability to pull the trigger a second time.

Not to mention, it was deducted three times in a row!

On the other hand, if the facts are really as Roger guessed, then there is a high probability that there is something valuable on the ship.

Although there is a high probability of pollution, considering that Roger himself is also seriously polluted, it is also true that too many lice will not itch, and too many debts will not worry.

"Let's do as Captain Thor said and wait until tomorrow morning..."

Just as he was thinking this, the conversation was interrupted by a hurried knock on the door outside Reeves' office.

"what happened?"

Reeves frowned and asked loudly.

"Boss, something happened again."

A deep male voice came from outside.

"What's the matter?" Rivers suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Mr. Sheriff, he, he committed suicide!"

(End of this chapter)