Returning from the abyss

Chapter 264 Evolution
A young man with dark circles opened the door for Lu Ning.

"You are... oh, I remember." The young man braced himself and said to Lu Ning, "What's the matter?"

"I think you should have heard about what happened this morning." Lu Ning said, "I heard that the Turner family is actually doing things in the town, so I came to ask you about the situation."

The young man froze for a moment: "What happened in the morning?"

"You mean the incident where the doctor's car was attacked by a crow?"

A black-haired middle-aged man who looked calmer and more stable came out of the room, raised his hand to let the young man back away, and then leaned slightly towards Lu Ning with one hand on his chest: "I am Riok Turner, the family Chief Steward, I will receive you next, Doctor Lu."

Another cunning and cunning character.

Lu Ning had no choice but to follow Li York to the reception room.The two sat down separately, and soon someone brought refreshments, and Ryoke sat upright, first of all, he made a very formal apology: "I apologize for what happened this morning, originally such a gathering of townspeople should be dismissed by us quickly. However, due to the busy schedule of many people, it has been delayed for a while, sorry for the inconvenience caused to you."

"Can I ask a question?" Lu Ning said.

Ryok made a "please" gesture.

"Whether it's you or the mayor, everyone is very concerned about the impression this town gives to outsiders, but they don't solve the actual problem - the witch. Why is that?"

"Before I answer, could you please answer a few questions for me?"

"Within my power."

"It's very simple. What's your first impression of White Lake Town?"

"It's a beautiful and peaceful town."

"How do you feel about traffic?"

"Although there is a section of mountain road, the road leading to the town is not difficult."

"Even if such a place can't attract others to move here, what do you think of it as a tourist place?"

"There should be a lot of people who would like to come here for vacation, if there is no witch incident here." Lu Ning frowned, "So don't tell me..."

"In fact, there are only a handful of people who have come to the town these years." Ryok shook his head, "During that period of disgraceful history, our attitude towards outsiders was quite bad, but that is an old thing. According to common sense In other words, since our town has developed to be in line with the civilization of the outside world, there should be at least some of the people who come to the town not to mention every day, but at least some passers-by, right?"

"So you think there is a problem? Do you want to leave a good impression on the visitors?"

"It's a means. On the other hand, in all the legends, the witch is an outsider." Ryok explained earnestly, "Contrary to common people's views, we don't think that the witch came to the town from outside. It is because of the cruel treatment in the town that led to the appearance of the witch. So on the one hand, we hope that someone will come to the town to promote exchanges, and on the other hand, we will be careful not to make tourists feel uncomfortable."

"But it still hasn't solved the fundamental problem, right? In fact, the witch is in your town."

"Witches are immortal." Ryok smiled helplessly, "We don't know how to drive her out of White Lake Town, maybe the Witch has merged with White Lake Town. There is no way to escape this, the solution you said The fundamental question ... that answer doesn't exist."

"Really? Then what happened to the cemetery on the west side of the town?" Lu Ning suddenly cut into another topic.

"The cemetery? Uh..." Ryok was caught off guard by the topic, and was speechless for a moment, but his expression already revealed that he knew about it.

Lu Ning laughed.

"You are really a shrewd person. Well...the cemetery...there used to be the most fanatical area for witch executions, but as they sent more and more 'witches' to the execution ground, more and more strange things happened there. More and more. While abandoning the past, some key members of the town jointly decided to wall it off, and the weirdness didn't spread to the town after that."

"Isolation? It's not completely..."

"You are a doctor, so you want to solve the problem, I understand." Li York did not wait for Lu Ning to finish, "But you also have to understand that these things in the town have not been solved at all, and no one It can be solved, we just try to isolate those things from the daily life of the townspeople, so that life can return to stability."

"You should still have a choice."

"Juzhen moved? Doctor Lu, do you know the Taylor family?"

Lu Ning nodded.

"Their family all died about four kilometers outside the town. The bodies were piled together and burned. We can only distinguish their identities from some broken steps and jewelry left at the scene. Although it looks like She was robbed and killed by someone, but we all know that the witch didn't want to give up her prey."

"The end of the move?"

"Yes, there is no problem if you just go out for errands, but as long as you think about moving, no one can leave the five kilometers around the town alive."

"I see..." Lu Ning curled her lips, "So you want to find a traveler, and hope that a foreigner will settle here."

Ryok's face changed slightly.

"You want to know whether an outsider can leave after settling down, and you also want to know whether the offspring of this outsider and the locals can leave. You want to get rid of the witch, this is the most fundamental reason, those things are A superficial cover-up. For this reason, you did not hesitate to use several generations to plan this escape plan. In order for the plan to go smoothly, the appearance of peace in the town is necessary, so after our accident, what you care most about is our mood... "

"you……"

"We are not the purpose. What you are looking at is the publicity effect after we leave. This is really a long-term plan. If it's just a random tourist, I'm afraid it won't be noticed at all, right? Sooner or later, some people will accept it. Your proposal to settle here, after that is the second stage... Am I right?"

Ryoko was completely depressed.

"but……"

Lu Ning grinned, got up and approached Ryok's ear.

"The witch is immortal, you know that in your heart. This plan... is meaningless at all, you can't escape, it comes from the entanglement that cannot be erased from history, hope outsiders can take you out of the curse? This is simply wrong. , from the Turner family."

When the last sentence was uttered, Ryok's eyes suddenly widened.

Fear surged into his heart in an instant, and he turned his head tremblingly, but he didn't find anything unusual about Lu Ning.

"The witch, the curse, has been carried since the outsiders entered this town. Reconsider your future, use this simple way to escape the witch, and when she comes back, she will also laugh."

After Lu Ning finished speaking in his ear, she straightened up suddenly, with a faint smile, turned and walked out of the reception room.

"Wait! Are you..."

"An outsider."

Lu Ning turned the corner and disappeared.And Ryoko sat where he was, dripping with cold sweat.

After leaving Turner's house and walking for a while, Lu Ning took out the notebook with the crow mark from her arms, and opened the page of her task.

The second item, [Complete the intimidation of the core members of Baihu Town and convey the will of the witch. 】

After that there was already the words "Turner Family" along with a line of footnotes.

[Witch's Reward: You can also use deterrence during the day to add a certain deterrent effect to people who have spiritual flaws, and you don't need to be demonized.This is the witch's reward for those who work diligently and diligently. 】

"It's disrespectful." Lu Ning closed the notebook with satisfaction, and now she was a little sure about how her camp set the strength.

In addition, another achievement she gained was the so-called "aftermath" work after confirming that the Turner family really had this purpose.

Just giving the passengers a good experience is not enough. Since the mayor and Turner have both tried to persuade them to stay, they must have the means to make the passengers forget the unpleasant experience.

It just so happened that Lu Ning knew that there was something related to forgetting.

"Lima's research on the Witch's Heart was intentionally guided by the townspeople, and they wanted him to touch that kind of medicinal material. In other words, the task mentioned in the task to complete the potion with the Witch's Heart at its core is not It is to rely on your own research to do it, but to discover the drug that really exists in the local area..."

However, the development of the situation seems to be a little unexpected.Lima really studied some of the effects of the witch's heart, and then disappeared after leaving a little clue.

This medicine should undoubtedly be in the possession of the people in power in Baihu Town, but Lu Ning doesn't mind asking the doctor first.

There is only one regular doctor in the entire Baihu Town.

This young man is a local. After leaving here to study medicine, he resolutely returned to his hometown to work in the medical industry. This spirit is admirable and probably saved his life.

When Lu Ning approached the clinic, the young doctor stood up excitedly.

Unlike the townspeople who are a little out of touch with the news, he has heard of Lu Ning's name after going out to study medicine, and he can even be regarded as an admirer?
In short, it was a lot of incoherent words from the student days, and it took Lu Ning a little effort to get the topic back to the point.

But the young doctor didn't know what the witch's heart was, he just heard the rumors about the witch in the town.

"I've collected all the common herbs in the town, but I've never heard of something like a witch's heart." He said in a daze, then opened his medicine cabinet and showed it to Lu Ning.

Of course she can tell what these medicinal materials are. At a glance, they are indeed commonly used medicinal materials. However, when her eyes fell on the corner of the medicine cabinet, there was a package wrapped in paper, which was small and inconspicuous. .

"About a month ago, a man named Lima came to the town. I wonder if he has visited you?"

He really does remember.

"That gentleman... He did come here, asked many questions and said a lot of things I couldn't understand, and bought some medicine from me. Because he insisted on choosing it himself, I was very impressed."

"Do you remember what medicine he picked?" Lu Ning took out the paper bag and put it in her cuff, pretending to search through it.

"Money grass, snake thread flower, even gourd..."

He counted about a dozen kinds of medicinal materials, and then said that he really couldn't remember clearly.While Lu Ning was a little surprised by his memory, she also went through the uses of these medicinal materials in her mind.

There are almost no overlapping medicinal properties, and three of them are medicinal materials that will contain toxins if they are not handled properly.

"It's not a formula."

"Yeah, I think he might just use it for research..."

Lu Ning walked out of the clinic, looked up at the sky, it was only noon.

However, it can be regarded as a key item.

She really almost ignored the fact that Lima might come to the clinic to hide something, and the background of this thing is not small.What the paper bag wrapped was just a seed that had also dried up, the key point was the paper bag itself.

[The devil is a monster born under the inspiration of a witch. Its appearance is no different from that of ordinary people, but at night, it can turn into a powerful monster.I can't hide anymore, I have to hide with a witch's heart, if anyone can see this letter, please pray for me... I hope I can spend the last night.They are coming, the only way to destroy them is]

The letter was roughly torn open, and the content on it was cut off in the middle.However, just a few lines contained a lot of information, and the person who wrote this letter did not know how it would end.

Yes, that's not Lima's handwriting.

Has there been a demon incident in the town?And all the people in the town didn't notice?Lu Ning felt that this was unlikely.So far, she has never heard of anyone who has actually found out any clues related to the devil, which means that these clues are hidden in the same place as the one in her hand, or concealed by someone.However, as a demon, she is very clear about the way to eliminate the demon, and there is no unique method—probably because the attempts back then failed to cause large-scale trauma to the harmless demon, so she fell into that situation.

Witchheart... hide.

Lu Ning took out the lighter, lit the note, slowly watched it burn to ashes, then threw it on the ground and stepped into the dirt.

If Lima obtained all the contents of the letter, then he may also have found the seeds that the witch's heart can plant.Once the possibilities increase, the things that need to be verified are further complicated.

For a person like Lu Ning who strives to arrange every step, this is simply bad news.

"There are so many disadvantages..."

She murmured and walked towards the hotel.

Besides the clinic, there was another thing she ignored.

If it is said that the demons are all transformed by outsiders, then at least there must be outsiders.And as the only hotel in the town, the visitor register there must have recorded the names, check-in time, rooms and other information of all the visitors in the past few years, or even more than ten years.

(End of this chapter)