The Executor of the Heavens: Beginning with the Watch Dogs

"What? So that witch is actually Kairamez?!"

Lindenvale was an unsurprisingly poor village, poorer still after the Nilfgaardians brought war taxes and epidemics.

When Xie Yuan came here, he also saw a monster removal notice - of course, this is not a very clear monster removal notice, it just said that a child has been taken away and needs to be investigated.

This type of task should be left to professionals like Geralt.

Sure enough, after Geralt came to Lindenville to meet with Xie Yuan, he happily accepted the task.

Of course, he plans to implement it later, and first communicate with Xie Yuan what happened and what he has experienced.

So I ate a big melon like this.

"Yes, and Avallac and Ciri were separated once, I don't know if they have arrived in this world before."

Xie Yuan told Geralt about the journey with Keira to visit the elven ruins where Avalak temporarily lived, and then analyzed: "Since even Avalak wants Ciri to be careful of the old witch in the swamp with a hunchback , then with Shirley's fine-tuned nature, I guess she might have fallen right into the old witch's lair."

"Well~~ You said that, it is indeed possible." Geralt, who knew the fate of his adopted daughter, had to admit it, but as an old father, he still had to argue, "But Ciri If you really got into trouble with the old witch, it must be because of the old witch's malicious intentions—do you think that Mrs. Anna's kidnapping is also the reason for the old witch?"

"Absolutely," Xie Yuan defined without thinking, "It seems that the righteous gods rarely appear in this land, but in a place like Waylon, the old witch is so active—but It seems that he wants to win over people's hearts and control Wei Lun through manifesting his holiness."

"I don't know what happened to the previous ruler of Waylon. But now the apparent ruler of Waylon is the Bloody Baron—this is an insidious and cunning old killer. To control such a stingy guy can only rely on absolute control." strength, but it is obvious that the old witch does not have overwhelming strength."

Geralt tilted his head for a while and nodded in agreement: "Indeed, if the strength of this old witch can directly deter the bloody baron, why should he stay in a barren place like Velen instead of Novi in ​​the north?" Leah, what about Vizima in the south?
Because of this, they chose to use a roundabout way to influence the bloody baron's family, especially Mrs. Anna's better—just at this time they had just had quarrels and conflicts. "

"Then when shall we go to the Humpback Swamp to seek evidence?" Xie Yuan looked at Geralt and asked, "Go early, so that I can go to Ms. Keira's invitation to find her again. I don't know why she is looking for me."

"Let's go now!" Geralt was unambiguous, "Since Ciri is actually having a conflict with the old witch, then we have to learn about the real-time situation from them and at the same time verify the whereabouts of Ms. Anna."

"And..." Geralt patted Xie Yuan on the shoulder, showing a smile that men can understand, "You can't miss the invitation of the sorceress, this is a specialty of our world, you must try it."

"Haha." Xie Yuan laughed directly.

It was a long journey from Lindenville to Humpback Swamp, and it took two people to ride a horse for nearly a day.

On the way, Geralt saw Xie Yuan's very proficient horse riding skills, and thought about whether he should compete in horse racing - he just won the horse race, card game and boxing competition spontaneously organized by Waylon, and he was very satisfied I just want to give it a try when I see a master.

Given that Xie Yuan didn't have any good cards in hand, the boxing match might take a day for the two of them to relax... Although Geralt didn't know Xie Yuan's full strength, he knew very well that a fighter could rival the high-ranking mage Caranthir , and those who have a slight upper hand are definitely not easy to deal with.

Therefore, the competition can only be conducted in equestrian skills, which will not affect the combat effectiveness-although he immediately regretted it as soon as he said it.

Because the victory is not military - Xie Yuan's horse is not like the radish carefully selected by Geralt, but an ordinary military horse picked after killing a group of bandits on the road, and even the saddle is the same. The last kind.

However, Xie Yuan, who saw Geralt's distressed expression, also agreed to the competition.

It's just that Xie Yuan kept the result in the whole process and only missed him by a horse's head, which can be regarded as taking care of this guy's face while showing his equestrian proficiency.

……

Humpback Mire is a large swamp in the center of Velen, where there are a lot of swamp gas, swamp witches, water ghosts and a series of monsters that like wet environments gather.

There is indeed a dim sum path here - in fact, colorful dim sum-like decorations line both sides of the road, which leads to a courtyard with three wooden buildings.

One of them looks like a church... but probably not dedicated to a good god.

Then, Xie Yuan and Geralt, who stopped in front of the courtyard, heard a uniform nursery rhyme from far and near:
"The dog came into the kitchen and stole a large piece of meat." A little girl began.

"The cook bound the dog's legs and gave him a good beating. Another boy came running out of the mist, and the next sentence was

"Then drain the blood and peel off the skin." The third child.

"Finally made into sausages, I praised the taste." The fourth child.

"The cook is an idiot, he shouldn't have killed the dog." A child's voice suddenly came from the woodpile.

Finally everyone sang together: "Now let's make a fire and cook it!"

Then all the children in the mist ran out merrily and played together on the woodpile.

But combined with the scene where they were innocently reciting the nursery rhyme of murder with one hand just now... Xie Yuan could only feel a cold sweat creeping out of his back.

Geralt seemed very calm, he came out and spoke first: "It's an interesting nursery rhyme."

The children were not afraid of strangers, but they also looked very indifferent. One of the little blonde girls directly stretched out her hand to the outside: "I don't know you, get out of here!"

Geralt was quite familiar, and asked directly, "I'm looking for a girl with white hair and a scar on her face. Have you seen her?"

"There are no girls here." One of the boys stood up and said directly.

"What about me?!" The little blond girl was upset.

"You don't have a tit," the boy retorted very seriously, "you don't!"

"It's true." One of the little boys wearing a felt hat explained bluntly, "When the army came, I heard an old man say: Quickly hide the girls in the woods! Otherwise, those girls' tits will be in the woods How can those poor lads bear to be shaken in front of the soldiers! That's what he said."

"Cough cough." Xie Yuan couldn't help coughing, and suppressed the thought of laughing in his heart: the physical and mental damage caused by war to young children is sad, losing everything at such a young age, and seeing so many bad things... Even if you see With so many war orphans, Xie Yuan really felt sorry for this child who naturally talked about the evils in the world.

Geralt was almost taken aback too, but he repeated the question anyway and asked if there were any witnesses.

After all, both he and Xie Yuan heard that Xili had been here and had conflicts with the witch.

But the children's answers were discouraging: They had no witches, no young girls, just snakes, frogs, poisonous bugs... and at most a Johnny.

Um?Who is Johnny?

But it's a pity, just now when Geralt wanted to inquire about Johnny's situation in detail, "What are you arguing about?!"

A shout suddenly came from behind, a white-haired old woman in a long green dress, with a red beaded necklace on her neck, and a condom on her hands, rushed over aggressively, "What are you chattering about? Hmm!"

Looking at this white-haired old woman, many children shook their heads without saying a word, but when Xie Yuan saw the figure of this old woman, a flash of inspiration flashed in his heart!
"It turned out to be her?!"