The vest magic changes the earth

In New York, it is already night outside, and the lights are on.

In Simmons' office, warm yellow light still shines through the windows.

Randolph slowly packed his medical bag, and Allen sat on the opposite sofa, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees.

The fat cat was lying on the cushion next to it, flicking its tail.

Allen took a deep breath and couldn't wait to ask first, "Does Trey exist?"

Randolph smiled and put the last pack of Band-Aids in the bag, zipped it up, "I'm not sure. But there should be, and it's normal for you to feel that the number is wrong. I saw you in West Ridge I said when I was there that your inspiration is very high."

He restrained his sloppy look, and his tone was a little comforting, and his emerald green eyes were still smiling.

"I tend to think that you are the one who sees the truth. As for why, we have to start with a historical story, and my coming to New York has something to do with it."

Randolph told the story,

At the end of the 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution was in full swing, the colonial and trade fleets of the British Empire, which never sets, spread across every ocean in the world.

In the Strait of Gibraltar in the Atlantic Ocean, a British three-masted ship encountered an unmanned sailing ship, the "Saint".The sailing ship looks very old, it seems to be a product of the great age of discovery centuries ago.At that time, people rode the wind and waves in such sailboats and brought buckets of gold from the New World.

The curious crew boarded the strange ship, but they found that there was no one on board, and the only living thing they could find there was a whining black cat.

Oddly enough, the ship was fully loaded and its hull was intact.It was loaded with common goods such as tobacco, cloth and tea in Atlantic trade, and even countless brandy wines.There was plenty of food on board, and plenty of fresh water in casks tied to the bow.There have never been pirates in this sea area.They even discovered that charts and instruments were spread on the table in the captain's cabin.

Something even more surprising happened, the British crew walked into the rest cabin.They saw that the soup in the pot was still steaming, white smoke was rising, and the nose was filled with the aroma of food.

The people on the boat seemed to have just gone out for a while and would be back here soon.However, there is a vast sea outside, where will they go?

Suddenly, with a scream from a timid crew member who was unwilling to enter the cabin, people rushed after hearing the news.

The coward found a blood-stained ax on the deck and nearly passed out with fright.All of a sudden, the British crew was terrified. They hurried back to the mother ship and reported what they saw and heard to the captain.

A few days later, the British arrived at their home port, with the eerie sailing ship behind them. The "Saint" ghost ship was placed in the port.

However, what people still don't understand is what terrible thing happened on the "Saint" sailing ship...

As a result, the sailboat was parked in the port, and no one dared to move it, and the other boats tried to stay as far away from it as possible.Until it was discovered that the captain of the ghost ship was greedy for the things on it, one day, the police received a report, and his wife said that he suddenly died suddenly at home.

Just when people felt panic and anxiety, they wanted to burn this ghost ship.

On a foggy morning, the ship suddenly disappeared from the port...

It was just like when it was discovered before, unmanned, but sailed by itself, and left.

Since then, it has never appeared again.

"Wait." Allen interrupted him, "Excellent story, but what does this have to do with our current problem."

Randolph gave him a sinister smile, "Don't worry, I haven't gotten to the point yet."

Fat Mao stretched his waist and sighed, "It's really that matter."

The story of the ghost ship would have ended in urban rumor with its mysterious disappearance and the death of the person involved.Even the captain's wife had moved out of the city.

The local old people will frighten children like a ghost story.

"However, in the occult world, things never end just like that," concluded Randolph.

After a few years, because of an accident.The mysterious world still noticed this matter.At that time, there was an investigator from Russia named Lev Shkliangin.

He was sent to investigate the matter, and Shi Keliangjing found that the rumors of the local ghost ship had become beyond recognition, so he came to London and went to the library of the British Museum to check.

The British Museum, now the British Museum.It is the oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum in the world.There, many precious or unique materials are preserved, and in the British Museum, you may be able to find newspapers and books reporting on this event at that time.

Shi Keliangjing found a court record at that time.From the first mate of the ship that found the ghost ship at the time.

He told what he saw and heard after boarding the ship, and one of the messages caught Shi Keliangjing's attention.

The route on the chart in the captain's room was wrong. Logically speaking, this kind of ship was a slave ship at that time.They are carrying out the "Black Triangle Trade" at sea, which is a fleet from the Americas to Europe. However, on that sea chart, there is no route to the Americas at all.

Shi Keliangjing had a guess in his mind that this might not be a merchant ship at all, but a pirate ship!

Those goods are probably obtained by looting.

He looked again, and the mate said that they found boxes inlaid with pearls and precious stones one after another on the table in the captain's cabin.Gorgeous shape and great value.The box was opened, and a more gorgeous and exquisite ring was placed inside. It was an antique, inlaid with huge rubies and filigree gold patterns.

Allen exclaimed: "That's Capet's...!"

It's obviously not something a bunch of pirates have, it must be from the nobility.

Shi Keliangjing also has a high level of inspiration, and his feeling faintly tells him that the key lies in this strange ring.

He was rummaging down to find the detailed information about this ring, but there is no more, which is very unreasonable, such a luxurious ring, its owner must be a lot of money, even if it may have been hundreds of years, there will not be any People pay attention.

Someone asked the first mate about the whereabouts of the ring.However, the first officer revealed a dazed and dull expression.

"I don't know," he said.

As long as the whereabouts of the ring was mentioned, the first officer would only answer this sentence.Part of his memory and consciousness had been wiped, as had the rest of the crew.

That gorgeous ring, just like that, disappeared from people's sight.

According to the crew list at that time, Shi Keliangjing visited the family of the first officer. After that incident, the first officer stopped going to sea and came to the inland.

When he found it, he was very disappointed. The first mate's family only had an old woman who was almost stupid, who was his wife, and only a distant niece who was waiting to inherit her inheritance was taking care of her.And that girl didn't know what to ask.

By asking old neighbors, Shi Keliangjing learned that the chief mate died strangely very early.And his only son died in an accident.

The University of Michigan continued to investigate this matter, and through some occult methods, they determined that the problem was the ring.

However, no one knows its whereabouts.Most likely it's still on that ship, re-entering the vast Pacific Ocean with the Ghost Ship.

The complete disappearance of the people on board should be caused by the ring.No one can find anything about the people on that missing pirate ship, as if they never existed.Shi Keliangjing took the belongings of the people on board who were taken off the ship by the discoverer and struggled to find their family members. People looked at a loss.Replied, "Never had this one."

(Hearing this, Allen gasped, he felt familiar.)

Shi Keliangjing speculated that the nearby humans might be a kind of food to him.It devours them silently, people just disappear, and the memory of their existence will be erased by its power.However, it cannot erase the inanimate matter.

The captain probably just didn't know how to get the ring, and in the process of taking it out to appreciate it, he and the crew were silently eaten.During the years when it controlled unmanned ships to drift at sea, many fleets may have been attracted by this weird ship and then disappeared.

"Then why is this British ship okay?" Allen asked.

Randolph explained patiently: "At that time, Shi Keliangjing guessed that it was full. In fact, it was true. This ring has some kind of activity. It can realize that it will be taken away. In order not to be discovered by us, To keep its own hunting ground, it is unwilling to support itself. It erased the memory of the first officer, and left the port on a certain day to continue hunting."

Randolph went on to tell the story.

Shi Keliangjing immediately led the team out to sea, trying to find the whereabouts of the ghost ship.Borrowing a guide that could point the right direction to the item they were looking for, they searched at sea for more than half a year.

Finally, they saw the ghost ship.According to Shi Keliangjing's description, the people with strong inspirations on their ship felt an attraction that seemed to come from the soul.The stronger the inspiration, the greater the attraction.

(Alan then gasps.

Randolph glanced at him, "It seems that you have feelings too." He said in a positive tone. )

As soon as he boarded the ship and saw the ring, one of his companions disappeared.But they were at a loss, turned around in the cabin, glanced at the ring, forgot their purpose, and returned to their mother ship.

Shi Keliangjing didn't realize it until he saw the belongings of the disappearing companion.

This time, they thought of a way.

Half boarded and the other half stayed on board.The two ships are connected by hanging ladders and ropes.

There was a person behind Shi Keliangjing who went to find them after they boarded the ship. When Shi Keliangjing entered the cabin and fell into a daze, he held up a sign outside.

"Get out that ring!"

Shi Keliangjing was puzzled, "Why...why did I take out the ring?"

"Take out... take..."

"What am I going to do?"

His high inspiration still made him feel a little wrong, his palm suddenly felt a pain, Shi Keliangjing held a nail in his palm before entering.

Shi Keliangjing saw the sign again, yes!Take out the ring!

He quickly grabbed the box and put it in the sealed pocket on his body to prevent himself from throwing it out.ran outside.

Shi Keliangjing himself has no memory of what happened afterwards.According to his companions, he was largely unconscious at the time.The people who tried to help him all had the same symptoms, and the ring had been pulled out.

At that time, an investigator had a flash of inspiration. He took the lid of the box containing the ring, and with the help of pain, he buckled the ring in the box.

The box that originally housed it can isolate its power.

In this way, they successfully brought the ring back to the school for research.

However, the study also found that the ring would find its way back to its ship, even if it was in a box, requiring close guard.Originally, the ship had been burned, but in an oversight, it ate another ship's crew, and then ran away with the ship.

"In short." Randolph took a sip of the coffee that Allen hadn't had time to drink, and concluded, "Cape should have got it, and Cape should be alive because he was full recently. Trey... ..should have disappeared."

Allen was silent for a while, and asked: "The person who disappeared... can he come back?"

"Maybe." Randolph blinked. "Dreams are always there. If it doesn't take too long to be 'eaten', then give it a certain threat, and it might spit it out again."

"Remember, this ring has the following characteristics:

1. Any thinking life body that appears within a radius of five meters from it may be 'eaten' by it. (Animals are not included in the category of thinking, and other thinking life forms have only experimented with humans, and the rest are unknown.)

2. In its completely hungry state, it can 'eat' 13 people at once.After being full, there is no longer a need to eat, and then remain without food, and will be hungry again after a month.In a state where there is always food, its hunting frequency starts after a week, and then hunts every 24 hours.

3. It can affect the thinking of intelligent creatures, and the radius is also five meters.

4. It is active, and it must have the consciousness of escaping from danger and escaping. "

Allen finished listening and said, "I have one more question."

"uh-huh?"

"...How did you guys test out its characteristics?"

Fat Cat looked up at him sympathetically.

"It's not us to be precise." Randolph said, "This kind of containment is handed over to the Special Containment Procedures Foundation for testing. As for how to test...the Foundation will never run out of D-Class personnel."

"..."

Allen was at a loss for words for a while, and he actually had a vague guess, but he couldn't believe it all the time.

Randolph looked at him and shook his head helplessly, "Master Simmons, what do you think we are facing? It is endless distortion and madness, as well as deep despair. I have done so many years of investigation Members of the same generation have already been buried in the ground or entered a mental hospital, only me.

"For many years, there is only one feeling that runs through my career, a sense of powerlessness. No matter how smart and brave you are, you are still powerless in the face of these things, and even your moral character will bring you even greater disasters.

"We are all ants, and we can only be ants. But we can't give up because of this. The struggle of ants is also courage. Even if there is a price to pay, it is meaningless."

Randolph smiled, his green eyes were like a deep lake, "I don't feel reconciled to dying if I don't struggle."

Allen looked at him, his glib mouth was speechless for a while, and it was the first time Randolph talked about this kind of truth at length.He took off his cynical and confident mask, he was no longer so elusive, and looked a little tired and helpless.

Whether it is Allen's profession or hobby, it is his habit to observe a person.A person's behavior, the reflection of encountering things, inadvertent habits.can reflect the years that this person has experienced.Whether he accepts it or not, likes it or not.This is an add-on of the years.

In fact, Randolph originally had a handsome face, with high browbones, deep-set eyes, and a somewhat melancholy appearance.

He should have been well educated and had a wealthy family when he was a child.The inadvertently expressed speech and actions can only be brought by the family in childhood.His later days also gave him a very unique temperament, which was a kind of indifference after wandering in exile.It's just that his usual slovenliness and casualness cover up this indifference, and it's hard to detect when we first meet.

What is hidden in the mysterious shadow?

Allen had a feeling this might be the closest he would ever be to Randolph.

Randolph recovered quickly, almost instantly, from that revealing state.

He patted Alan on the shoulder hard and grinned.The strength is frightening, "Are we life-threatening friends?"

Allen was dazed by his shots, "Ah, yes, yes."

Randolph looked at him deeply and sighed, "That's good, friend. To be honest, I didn't bring much money with me..."

Allen was speechless, pointing to the sofa, "There's another place, I'll sleep on the other one."

"May our friendship last forever!"

Randolph turned around to pack his things with a smile on his face, and the fat cat muttered on the sofa, "Pretending to be a criminal."

Allen turned his head to look at it, and the fat cat was even more angry: "That's him! Why pretend to be deep! And you think his friend is a good job!"

It smacked its lips and muttered: "Anyway, all the ones I have memory are dead. The profession of investigator is like the wheat in the field, which is harvested one by one."

Allen turned his head to look at the darkness, which was an unknown territory.And the unknown brings fear.

They're all dead... he thought.