Chapter 1342

"Hiring thieves? Since Osenfort is so persistent, are those photos very important to him?"

Xia De asked, the old captain hummed, which instead caused another topic:

"I understand his past, just as he understands me. When he was a sailor on the ship, he was the same as now, rude, violent, but such people are what I need."

The old man narrowed his eyes and looked at the surrounding fields, pointing to Xia De with his finger:

"The fields here are all mine, from here, all the way to that position. Besides these we see now, I have my own properties in Randall Valley and many cities in the southwest of the Kingdom."

"Very amazing."

Xia De praised dryly, and then Captain Alan asked the question he thought of at this moment:

"Do you think that just doing inland river transport business can earn so much?"

The captain asked, and then gave the answer himself:

"Of course not, young man, we are doing smuggling. Transporting Delarian goods to Karsenk, transporting Karsenk goods to Delarian. Even, even without a shipping license and a New World shipping license, we always run to the New World a few times every year to transport some sensitive materials. Otherwise, do you think so much property was salvaged by me from the river?"

"Do you do river piracy and piracy?"

Xia De then asked, the old captain who walked one step faster than him turned his head and looked at him with a smile:

"Of course I do. Once it involves illegal business on the water, no one can keep their hands from being stained with blood, otherwise they will have to bleed on their own necks. The survival rules on the water and on the land are different. Can you guess how much more I can earn by running to the New World illegally?"

Smoke drifted from his nostrils:

"Osenfort was a good sailor, cruel, irritable, but didn't like drinking, and was exceptionally cunning. Before he left my ship, he was already the sailor I trusted most. I even once thought about, after I retired, discussing with the shipowners to let him take the position of captain."

Xia De frowned slightly:

"Why did he leave the ship? Because he wanted to get married and wanted a stable life?"

"Young man, don't be anxious, my story hasn't finished yet. Aren't you curious? Doing this kind of business, how did I live until now and still earn so much? Just because, my luck is better than everyone else?"

The captain walked sideways in the field, looking at the young man in a black coat walking on the snow. Xia De just frowned, and then gave the answer:

"Who did you pray to for power?"

"Sure enough, you really know all the things about Stone Osenfort."

Captain Woody, who was holding a cane, smiled, turned to look ahead, and continued to walk forward:

"To tell the truth, I don't know who I prayed to for power. At the age of twenty-one, I went to sea with the ship as an ordinary sailor, and then we encountered a storm, and everyone on the ship died except me, and I drifted to a deserted island."

This is like the beginning of some adventure survival story.

"On that weird island with thick fog that didn't disperse all year round, I found a cave, and found strange manuscripts in that cave. The manuscripts recorded a magical ritual, the ritual can summon an unknown powerful existence and enter into a contract with it. Later I learned that it was a demon summoning ritual. And, it doesn't point to a specific demon, but whichever one is closest is summoned."

He laughed at himself:

"If I could travel through time back to the age of twenty-one, I would rather die there on the spot. But it's a pity, I wanted to live at that time, so I spent two years on that island trying the obscure content on the parchment, experimenting and failing again and again. Before I was trapped to death on that deserted island, I really succeeded once."

His pace was steady and powerful:

"A certain existence I cannot complain about responded to me, so I had a body that aged more slowly than normal people, had the luck to gallop on the sea and rivers and lakes, and even had the power that I would definitely not drown in the water."

"Then what is the price?"

Xia De asked, and then saw a rabbit standing on the snow not far away. After seeing Xia De, it ran away in panic, leaving only a string of inconspicuous footprints on the snow.

"It's a pity I didn't bring a hunting gun... The price is my soul, and the souls of all my descendants."

The old captain who also saw the rabbit said this, his tone remained unchanged:

"I know everything has a price, and I have already received a gift far beyond my destiny. I accept all this, just don't want to harm more people. So, at the age of twenty-five, which is the second year of escaping that terrible island, I bought medicine from a sea witch doctor and destroyed my fertility, and the fertility of my son who was only six years old that year..."

Speaking of this, he sighed softly:

"Then, the story came to Stone Osenfort. Young man, can you guess what I want to say?"

"His demon summoning ritual was obtained from your hands?"

Xia De said, the old captain nodded:

"That was about six years ago... I don't want to talk too much about the specific details, but he really gained enough of my trust at that time. After a drunken state, I told him my story, and the source of my luck. I am not showing off, after all, selling my soul to a demon is not worth showing off, my original intention was to warn him not to try things he didn't understand, didn't expect him to steal those materials instead."

He sniffed his nose that was frozen red:

"I spent at least a year discovering that those parchments were stolen. After all, I was very unwilling to approach them again, so I carefully hid them in the brick seams of the basement of the house I rented in Lengshuigang. After discovering the theft, I spent another year confirming that it was Osenfort who took them. And Osenfort also took advantage of these two years to interpret the obscure content on the parchment and collected all the sacrifices. Then, it is now."

The demon that the old captain came into contact with, Xia De and Doctor Shi Nai De could not solve. The other party just wanted the soul, and didn't even know where it was, and the old captain himself didn't think about resisting, which meant Xia De couldn't help him.

But Xia De was still curious about other stories:

"You detained his old photos and letters because you hated him for stealing your things?"

"Yes, and he betrayed my trust. For those of us who live on ships, betrayal is the hardest thing to forgive."

The old captain nodded, then took Xia De to turn, and in the farmland covered with snow, walked toward the windmill mill by the river in the distance:

"I don't know what he called, but that demon is obviously more ancient, more powerful, and more weird. Osenfort himself is unwilling to see me, even if he is stronger than me, but I am the person who understands him best, and he doesn't know how much I got from the demon. So, those letters and photos he didn't have time to take when he left the ship have stayed with me."

"Then what about the story of Osenfort and Miss Hela Watson, that is, the current Mrs. Hela Osenfort?"

Xia De asked again, the old captain showed a smile:

"Very classic, the story of a poor boy and a rich girl. The first meeting was the rich girl's father, who took her to the pier to talk about business. Fortunately, I don't have a daughter, otherwise I must educate her from a young age to stay away from those boys who only know how to talk glibly. Of course, I would never promise her to get close to the pier to let her see the world."

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The mill is getting closer and closer, and the windmill is slowly rotating in the wind at the end of winter. Although it is winter, not the season of autumn harvest, the mill is still working. Xia De saw a donkey cart loaded with grain parked at the door of the mill, and that long-eared donkey was eating the withered grass growing at the foot of the wall.

"She loves him very much, and he loves her just as much. You can think that during the time they were in love, they were enough to give their hearts completely to each other. I don't know much about what happened after Osenfort left the ship, just heard the news of their marriage a few years later, and later heard that the whole family of Hela died... related to that demon, right?"

The two stood at the door of the mill, and the farmers who were loading the cart saw Captain Woody and immediately greeted him respectfully. It seems that the captain rented the mill to the villagers of the village on the other side of the river at a very low price, allowing them to use it at any time, and the villagers were quite grateful for this.

They didn't enter the mill, but after Xia De observed the donkey with great interest, they bypassed the mill and continued to walk toward the Yin Fu River.

Xia De continued to ask his questions:

"Have you seen Hela Osenfort after they got married?"

"No, I haven't even seen Osenfort since he left my ship."

"Then is Mrs. Hela in your impression the kind of person with indifferent emotions?"

The old captain thought for a while:

"No, although she is a relatively quiet rich girl, her emotions are definitely not indifferent."

Xia De nodded clearly, and stood still by the river with the old captain, watching seven or eight children wearing rough cloth and patched clothes playing on the ice:

"I probably understand... I don't want to summon a demon, just curiously want to understand, is the demon summoning ritual you used without a price?"

If it is without a price, after solving Osenfort, Xia De must dig out those materials, and then find a safe place with Doctor Shi Nai De to brush demons.

"Of course not, you have to offer something to get something."

The old captain shook his head, and finally talked about Xia De's purpose of coming here:

"I am willing to tell you so much because you are different from those who came before. I have seen many people on the ship, and I am very accurate in seeing people."

"So, do you think I am an upright person?"

Xia De asked with a smile, looking at the children on the river singing nursery rhymes, playing a game similar to "Eagle Catching Chickens".