Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 217 The Light Called "Expectation"
At this point, Roger has figured out the truth of most things, but there is still one question left.

That is, why did this box start with Mark and cause a series of murders on Damir Island? What was so special about him?
In Roger's opinion, the most likely possibility was that the box originally wanted to kill and absorb all the people on the "Wild Blade" in the ocean area, and finally cause it to run aground and sink to the bottom of the sea, just like it had been trying to do before.

But who knew that before he was killed, Borno relied on his strong will to survive to sail the ship to the vicinity of Damir Island, which was under the jurisdiction of the Church of the Lord of Storms. This caused great panic in the box.

Because it cannot control its ability to create heavy rain and thunderstorms, causing the weather in an area to gradually deteriorate, it easily attracts the concern of the Church of Storms, and it tries to attract "sailors" or other people with sailing experience to drive the ship away.

Mark was the first person to be attracted. He was probably a Low-Sequence Beyonder from the "Sailor" pathway. He was contaminated by the box at some point in time, and this contamination broke out on the night he arrived on Damir Island, leading to the death of the first woman.

Mark, who had killed the witness, was summoned by the box to the seaside. However, because his own extraordinary ability was not enough to resist the severe weather caused by the high-sequence extraordinary items, he eventually drowned in the sea and was unable to board the ship.

After his death, the box was still unwilling to give up and continued to spread the pollution in unknown ways through the interpersonal relationships of people Mark had contacted on Damir Island, looking for objects that could be manipulated.

Finally, it followed the girl who left Mark's residence and found another man who was suspected to have sailing experience, and lured him to the beach, but in the end, because the man's ability was not even as good as Mark's, he was still "eliminated" by the box.

At this time, the island's sheriff realized that something was seriously wrong and sent distress telegrams to Bayam and Bansi respectively. This incident seemed to cause further panic in the "box".

It attempted to contaminate all those who knew about the incident, forced them to commit suicide, and cleared the records related to its own actions, retaining only the testimony against Reeves in the sheriff's notebook.

If Reeves committed suicide again after that, he would easily be considered guilty of crime, and the matter would be left unresolved. The box would then only need to find a way to lure a passing ship or a mid-sequence Beyonder to take it away before the Church of Storms arrived.

But who knew that Roger, the evil star, arrived at Damir Island, successfully saved Reeves, killed most of the extraordinary souls stored in the box, and took them away.

This series of speculations made Roger feel a chill down his spine, because if these speculations were true, it would explain something.

This box not only has the characteristics of being alive, but also has decent intelligence!

You should know that most sealed objects, even those with living characteristics, can only cause pollution or harm according to a fixed pattern or law. Boxes like this one, which possess powerful extraordinary abilities, certain strategic abilities, and pollution abilities similar to those of the evil god, are indeed very rare.

Not to mention that according to Borno Stone IV's logbook, the box was able to communicate with him and deceive the captain of the "Wild Blade" into salvaging it.

In Roger's opinion, this spirituality and wisdom beyond the comprehension of ordinary people may be because it has gradually absorbed the souls of many people.

If Roger originally had some plans to keep the box for himself, now that he realized this, he completely dispelled his hesitation.

He didn't want to carry a sealed object that would plot against him all the time. It would be fine in normal times, but it would be troublesome if it came out and harmed him in times of crisis.

In comparison, the "parasitic gloves" and the "little duck" are so obedient that they can be described as cute.

On the other hand, Roger still didn't know what the requirements were for containing this thing, but referring to its past behavior, it was very likely that it needed the flesh and soul of a "Five Paths of Omniscience and Omnipotence" Extraordinary as nourishment, and the amount required was likely not small.

In actual combat, this thing is too conspicuous due to its size and has basically no practical value.

It is too expensive to keep, has poor practical value, and is full of bad intentions. These factors determine that it is not suitable for personal holding, but is more suitable for large organizations such as the Storm Church.

In Roger's opinion, the correct use of this box should be to subvert and destroy certain evil organizations, especially those troublesome pirate organizations. Just throw the box into the sea near them, and then collect their bodies after half a month.

From a realistic point of view, the current situation does not allow him to take the box away.

Because the incident on Damir Island has attracted the attention of Governor Bayam and the Church of Storms, if Roger is not careful, it will bring trouble to Thor and Reeves. In comparison, it is a wise choice to directly throw the box on the ship and let it bear the responsibility it should bear.

Considering that most of the extraordinary souls that it carefully absorbed and selected were destroyed by Roger, even if he released this box, it should not cause as much damage as before.

It's just a pity for those innocent people who were killed by this box.

Suddenly, there was a violent cough. Roger looked towards the sofa and saw that Reeves had woken up.

This made Thor breathe a sigh of relief, and he comforted his old friend while calming him down.

"Uncle Thor, Uncle Reeves, the problem has been basically solved."

Seeing this, Roger spoke up.

Afterwards, with the help of him and Thor, Reeves was brought back to the deck.

At this moment, because Roger had taken the metal box away, the heavy cumulonimbus clouds that had been hovering over Damir Island had dissipated, revealing a sky full of stars.

A fresh sea breeze blew by, making the three of them feel better. After Reeves was sent to the ship, Roger returned to the deck again.

He activated the Box of the Old Ones and returned the chest inside to a safe place on the deck.

The box that had regained its freedom suddenly made a gurgling sound, as if it was getting agitated again.

Roger smiled slightly, then patted its lid heavily.

"Behave yourself. I'll be on the island for the next two days. If you do anything weird again, I'll come and take care of you in a minute.

"Believe me, I only used less than half of my strength before. Next time, I will let you taste what true terror is."

Sure enough, after hearing what Roger said, the box immediately stopped gurgling and became quiet.

Roger glanced at the dark clouds that were gathering again in the sky at an extremely slow speed, turned around, left the box, and returned to Reeves's boat.

When Bandit saw Roger return safely, he immediately meowed loudly and then rubbed against him.

"You are quite a human cat."

Thor glanced at Bandit with some surprise and continued:
"I once had a very human-like cat, but not as smart as yours."

Of course, my cat can speak human language...

Roger smiled without saying anything, just stroked Bandit's fur hard, and then touched his forehead against it.

"Go back and take Uncle Reeves to see a doctor."

……

It was not until the evening of the next day that Roger, who was once again patrolling the west coast with Bandit in his arms, finally saw several ships "coming late" in the distance of the ocean.

They approached the "Mad Blade" from multiple angles, showing a tendency to surround it.

This finally made Roger breathe a sigh of relief. He knew that this was the ship sent by the Storm Church to clean up the mess, so he stood up and stretched.

He has come here three times today to check if there is anything abnormal with the "Wild Blade".

As if intimidated by Roger's pressure, the sealed object really behaved itself and did not continue to cause trouble.

“People from the Storm Church are here, we can leave now.

"The trouble will be theirs next."

Roger smiled slightly and headed back towards the island with Bandit.

He then stayed on the island for another day, during which time he visited Reeves, who was in the hospital with a broken bone.

The bar owner's leg injury was very serious. Fortunately, Thor met an old reclusive "pharmacist" on the island and asked him to prepare a potion for Reeves that could speed up bone recovery, which made him feel much better.

On the other hand, probably because the Storm Church arrived and took away the box on the "Wild Blade", the dark clouds that had been lingering over Damir Port for nearly ten days finally dissipated completely, and the island finally saw a rare sunny day that had not been seen for a long time.

As the weather improved, more people came to the island again, and everything seemed to have returned to normal.

On the fourth day, Roger, ready to go, took Bandit back to the first-class cabin of the "Obsidian". At this time, more than half of the passengers on the ship, who were not too many originally, had become faces he was not familiar with.

After the ship weighed anchor and set sail, Roger asked for a cup of black tea and a piece of bread and butter for his breakfast.

Just as Roger was about to finish his breakfast, he suddenly heard the illusory, layered voices that clearly came from Mr. Fool. He felt a stir in his heart, and after looking around to make sure no one was around, he closed his eyes and listened.

In the gray fog, Roger vaguely saw a captain's room and the vague scenery outside the porthole.

Alger, the blue-haired "Hanged Man," was praying devoutly to Mr. Fool:
"Dear Mr. Fool, please tell Mr. Wheel of Fortune that the information he conveyed is crucial and the corresponding crisis has been resolved.

"On the west coast of Damir Island, there is indeed an extremely dangerous extraordinary object that has long been ignored by the Church of Storms. All signs at the scene indicate that Mr. Wheel of Fortune must have fought against it and successfully weakened it.

“This saved us a lot of trouble, and once again proved the strength of this gentleman.

"In fact, there has always been a legend about a 'man-eating ship' circulating in the Sonia Sea. I used to think it was just a folk rumor, but today I finally saw the source of the legend.

"Yes, when your news arrived, my ship happened to be not far from the scene of the incident, so I was also called upon to participate in the handling of this matter.

"That seal is being transported to the Storm Church headquarters in Bayam. Based on my experience, it will most likely be classified as a '1' level seal.

"Finally, if you, Mr. Wheel of Fortune, still intend to continue sailing on the sea and require my assistance, please feel free to ask."

The scene ended here, and Roger couldn't help but smile.

"Alger still loves to flatter me...

"But then again, he felt the same way as I did, and the first thing he thought of was the story of the 'man-eating ship.'"

In any case, the matter of the Wild Blade finally came to a successful conclusion. The only thing that made Roger feel regretful was that he did not obtain the soul of Borno Stone IV and the corresponding extraordinary characteristics.

Although the box displayed the herding ability of a "shepherd," it did not seem to have the ability to spit out the Beyonder characteristics and Beyonder souls it had swallowed.

At least Roger did not succeed in his attempt - although the box had a lid, the lid seemed to be "welded" from the inside by some mystical means.

After that, the "Obsidian" sailed on the sea for a while. In the afternoon, Roger took the initiative to give up the first-class meal, pushed the door open, and went to the public area in the lower cabin to find coffee and dessert.

This is not because he is unwilling to endure the hardship, but because he wants to obtain more information that is beneficial to him.

People traveling at sea often pass on information intentionally or unintentionally, which contains a lot of useful information that can never be heard in first class.
In fact, Roger had done this before on his journey from Pritz Harbor to Mill Island, but he didn't get any useful information.

At that moment, there were significant personnel changes among the passengers on the Obsidian, so he decided to try his luck and went to the public dining room again.

Roger looked around the dining room and found that most of the diners were alone. Apart from that, there was a couple and three men sitting together talking.

So he ordered a cup of Dipsy coffee, a piece of garlic bread and a large plate of seafood soup, then sat closer to the three men and eavesdropped on their conversation.

"My goodness, the storm two days ago was terrible. You may not know this, but I was staying in a room by the sea in the hotel, and the waves were so big at night that I thought there was going to be a tsunami.

"Fortunately... the storm is over, and the weather has finally improved. Otherwise, our trip would have been ruined."

Roger turned his head slightly and glanced at the three men out of the corner of his eye. The one who was speaking was the man wearing a bowler hat.

"Who says it isn't?"

Another man with a baby face but a deep voice whispered:

"But we are lucky. This morning, a ship transiting from Bansi arrived at the port. I heard that the weather there is not good either. Several people on the ship are missing in the city."

"Hey, isn't it common to disappear on an island?"

The last one, an older man who was chewing a piece of cod, said nonchalantly:

"After all, some playboys who've never traveled far just like this kind of exotic atmosphere... I once saw a young man with a good family background and a good future fall in love with a dancer while staying on Tiana Island. He eventually married her and didn't contact his family for several years.

"Didn't you see how furious his parents were when he returned to Backlund with his two half-black, half-white children..."

Facing the astonished gaze of the man in the bowler hat, he nodded with satisfaction and added:

"Yes, that's right. She's the kind of dancer you were thinking of."

“No, I don’t think it’s that simple.”

The baby-faced man shook his head:
"There seem to be two children among the missing persons. How can you expect children who haven't even grown a full beard to go to an adult place?"

"And this isn't the first time strange things have happened in Bansi. Several locals have mysteriously disappeared before, and their bodies were later found mutilated... as if they'd been dismembered from the inside."

This surprised the man in the bowler hat, but he was interrupted again by the older man:
"Philip, did you eat something unclean on the island and develop delusions?

"If you ask me, even though Bansi is just a colony, the security is better than many places in Loen..."

After listening to this conversation, Roger had a general idea of what the baby-faced man was talking about.

At this point in time, Bansi Port is at a critical juncture.

The location of this area is very special. It was once used by the "Red Angel" Medici as his stronghold and base camp, and he developed his own beliefs there.

On the other hand, it is also connected to the top-level source of the "Disaster" dual pathways, the "City of Disaster", and the breath it leaked has long begun to subtly affect Bansi, eventually leading to the outbreak of the "Bansi Incident" and its destruction.

It was also because of this that Roger did not try to go to Bansi to cause trouble for himself.

As for whether Klein went to Bansi as in the original timeline, Roger didn't know for the time being. After all, the two of them took different routes, and it was not ruled out that Klein would stop at other places along the way.

Roger had finished the food on his plate by now. He listened for a while and found that the men had started talking about business matters. He took the remaining half cup of coffee and sipped it while walking towards the deck, intending to try his luck there.

However, before he reached the deck, he felt a huge force throwing him backwards.

The sound of broken dishes and many exclamations were heard in the restaurant.

Roger, who was about to fall, did not hesitate and immediately multiplied a lot of sticky flesh tentacles from his trouser legs, thus stabilizing his body.

The next moment, he heard the sounds of many people running and roaring above the deck.

Roger hurried to the top of the deck and ran into the nervous-looking Second Officer, Mr. Remire, again.

"What happened, Mr. Lemuel? The ship seemed to have suddenly turned."

He grabbed the middle-aged man with extraordinary strength and asked hurriedly.

"John, get back to the cabin at once."

Seeing Roger, Mr. Remire immediately dissuaded him:
"Just now, our sailors on the lookout discovered the pirates. Captain Thor is now making an emergency evasive move to see if he can shake them off."

"pirate?"

Roger was slightly startled. Squinting his eyes, he followed Mr. Remire's finger and looked toward the ocean on the right side of the Obsidian. Sure enough, he saw three dark-hulled ships flying the same flag, gradually moving away from each other, attempting to surround the Obsidian from three angles.

"John, did you hear me? Go back!"

Seeing Roger standing there in a daze, Mr. Remire urged again.

However, the next moment he saw the young man raise his head and saw a strange light in his eyes.

That is the light called "expectation"!

(End of this chapter)