"I remember that your sailing trip this year should be from Florence to Faslanca."
"Yes, it was true before. Yesterday, I encountered a situation in the White Desert of Scandinavia. It was High Priest Viatu who saved me. She asked me to come to Gresham immediately to report my work and report it to the church."
Jack D. Sparrow took off the black three-cornered hat on his head, walked to the row of wooden chairs in the right corner and sat down, with the horrific scenes still vaguely in his eyes.
"I encountered pollution. It was suspected to be pollution from the extraordinary power that controls the spiritual world, desire, and proliferation. Thanks to His Highness the High Priest for purifying me."
"I have to say, Jack, you are very lucky. In this world, it can be said that more than 90% of people, when encountering pollution, are only waiting for out-of-control degradation. By the way, you said that in Scandinavia Where exactly is the pollution encountered in the White Desert?”
Just, who was wearing a priest's robe, closed the Poseidon Book of Knowledge that he had opened and recited before, and he took out a transparent glass vial from the table in the church.
The transparent vial contains a thick, sloshing sea-blue ointment that glistens in the dim light with a tranquil brilliance.
"Before debriefing, let's follow the procedure first. Although High Priest Viatu has already purified it for you, just in case, Jack, I think you should understand what it means."
Jack looked at Bishop Just. He stood up and took off the outermost layer of his blue Poseidon robe, revealing a linen cotton shirt and an underarm gun bag. A shiny revolver was nested in the gun bag. .
"Remove them."
"You are really becoming more and more cautious. I remember you were not like this five years ago."
Jack took off the gun bag under his arm and placed it together with the navigation needle on the wooden table next to him.
Then he walked to the center of the church, stood in the ritual circle pointed by the Poseidon Trident, put his legs together, spread his arms, and made a hugging gesture.
"It's not that I have become cautious, but we have suffered too many losses in this before. Have you forgotten the incident of Archbishop Pampas Fregra?"
"On Byron Island in the Strait of Gibraltar, Archbishop Pampas was tainted by desire and value-added. No one noticed his abnormality at first. This also has something to do with the lax supervision at the time."
"They were all dazzled by the victory. What was the result? Three days later, the pollution broke out, and more than 70% of the people on the entire island were homogenized into monsters that only multiplied everywhere."
"What a terrible depravity. There are probably more than one million people on the entire island, and 700,000 of them lost their lives in this way. In the end, it was His Majesty Chief Behrens who solved this pollution and depravity incident."
After speaking, Bishop Just walked up to Jack, unscrewed the transparent glass bottle, put his index and middle fingers into the bottle, dug out a piece of ointment, and smeared it on Jack's forehead.
The sea-blue ointment quickly decomposes and spreads when it touches the skin, and along the fine lines on the forehead, a strange light shines, which is more dazzling than the pure light itself.
"In church classics, it is recorded that none of the unknown islands in the Florence area are safe. I think it is necessary to add another sentence after this sentence. If you encounter an unknown island, you must restrain your greed without absolute strength. and curiosity.”
"I made the same mistake as Archbishop Pampas at the time. I was too greedy, which led to the sacrifice of two instructors and dozens of sailors. I will explain this clearly to the church when I report my duties."
Jack's black eyes moved slightly, and the shadows of the two brothers John Ming and Wendy flashed in his mind.
In the Sea of Chaos, the Baltic Sea, and even the Mediterranean, whether they are middle- or lower-class pirates or adventurers, they all know that Captain Jack Sparrow on the Black Pearl is a cold and ruthless character.
The church and the pirates are right and wrong, but few people know that for such a captain, two people are very important in his mind.
That is John Ming Bok and Wendy Bok, two brothers from Zhanbaiting.
The words "Captain" they used to pull me out of my trance and wake me up were unmistakable, the voices of First Mate John Ming and Boatswain Wendy.
I made a promise but broke it. I failed to protect them, but ended up being protected by them. I am really a ridiculous and incompetent captain.
When his thoughts were distracted, Bishop Just stopped the smearing action in his hand, looked at the Poseidon Trident statue in front of him and said:
"When I was young, I was not a qualified Poseidon instructor. At that time, I committed too many serious crimes. I was no different from the brutal pirates on the Baltic Sea."
"Before I really fell into the hell of accumulated bones, I was lucky enough to meet a lifelong best friend. That time we were suddenly attacked by a demigod-level extraordinary creature in the Sea of Chaos. It was a ghost with a diameter larger than the length of a steam train. The shark stirred up a storm and set off a huge tsunami. At the critical moment, my best friend gave me time to escape with his life."
"From that day on, I understood the value of life and the friendship of brothers, so I left behind my identity as a Poseidon expatriate teacher and swore an oath in front of our Lord's Holy Emblem to be a church member who promotes life and character. Bishop, repent for the past."
"So, I came, I came here, and I came to be an assistant teacher of Poseidon Church on different islands."
"Juster, I know your past, and I admire your choice, but this is not the reason for you to use your extraordinary power to read my inner picture."
Jack frowned, and his rough face was covered with strangely shiny blue ointment.
"It's already healed. Under the gaze of my Lord, your soul is very pure, with no traces of corruption or pollution."
Bishop Just chuckled, took a step back, picked up the lid, tightened the small bottle containing the remaining half bottle of ointment, and placed it again on the Holy Seat.
"Where are the witnesses and recorders?"
Jack turned his head and glanced at the empty church, feeling slightly confused.
"I have something very important that I need to send a telegram to report to the church. This is why I came to Gresham temporarily to report on my work."
Bishop Just was silent for a few seconds and said:
"There are no witnesses or recorders. They died in the line of duty three days ago while dealing with extraordinary events. New personnel have not arrived yet. Today I am a witness and recorder. I will send the telegram."
.........
Faslanca, Seer district.
A Gothic black church with a spire stands on the upper reaches of the Rhine River, covering an extremely large area.
In front of it is the rushing river and the steam merchant ships passing by. There is no sound at all near the church on the originally bustling riverside.
This is the branch church of St. Honavitch's Church in Faslanka, St. Jagoth's Cathedral.
Its name comes from the Church Night Watch Captain at the end of the last era, Jagod, a Sequence 5 demigod of the Dream Stealing Path.
Besik, a silver-haired man with lazy eyes, slender cheeks and a bookish air, walked up from the underground spiral staircase. His face was full of exhaustion, and there seemed to be blood beads rolling on the surface of his skin. This was just after his promotion.
Promoting from the initial Sequence 1 to Sequence 2 is simply too painful, and the chance of losing control has increased exponentially. I really don’t know how the captain and the others persisted when they were promoted.
When Besik thought about the scene when he was promoted just now, he couldn't help but shudder. He walked to the lounge door and opened it. Suddenly he saw captain Joseph Paxton wearing a black trench coat with a stand-up collar and a half-top hat. , standing there with Elena in a green ruffled lace dress.
"Captain, Elena, why are you here? I'm just promoted to Sequence 2, so there's nothing to worry about..."
Before Besik finished speaking, Joseph said directly:
"There's something wrong with the morgue at Lexington Hospital, and Besik needs you to make a trip."
