The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"No, no, no, don't kill me." Herrick kept shaking his head. "I said, I said."

He took a deep breath and coughed several times. "The people of the Knights want me to monitor every convoy that I pass by here, to record their members, number and country from which they come. Every time I tell them a detailed report of a team, they give me a sum of money. I'm just giving People work, okay? I don’t want to hurt anyone or get killed. I’m not a spy, and recording some data won’t let a person die."

"But you can change jobs."

"Yeah, yeah, I used to ship Tridam’s shrimp and fish to Novigrad and hand it over to a local purchaser. As a result, two months ago, Redania’s customs stopped halfway. Got my ship, said mine was smuggling, and then detained the ship and the cargo, saying that I must show my patriotism to Redania before returning the ship to me. Without a ship, I would be finished, I After agreeing, they gave me a carriage and told me to go to the village east of Ben Green and record the convoy passing here to Lomugne. Record a few days a day and they will give me a sum of money."

"They are really generous."

"They are all liars." Herrick pointed to the bag. "It's heavy, but it's not money. It's a layer of gold on the iron block. It's all counterfeit coins. I don't care how much iron nuggets called money they give me. I just want them to return the boat to me. ."

"I don't care what you do to someone." Zelin shook his finger, then stretched out his hand. "Give me the report about the Temoria team that you recorded. I only want that one."

"The report is not in my hand." Herrick rubbed his lips, nosebleeds in his hand. "The report is handed over to the people of the Knights."

"They came to take it today?" Zelin thought of seeing Herrick parked the van next to the tavern this morning, where there were three knights. "You handed it over to them today?"

Herrick nodded.

"When will they leave?"

"This afternoon."

There was no need for Zelin to ask too much for Herrick to tell everything he knew. He still remembers that the Temoria convoy set up camp next to the village. The convoy was impressive. There were five heavily armed knights and thirty well-equipped soldiers. Their flags could be seen more than 100 meters away. See. However, it has been almost 20 days. He can't remember exactly what happened. He said that he clearly recorded everything that happened every hour in the report, including the entry and exit of the people in the team and even their presence. What a small explanation. According to him, these knights came ten days ago. According to them, they would pile up the reports and then send them to the big men together. According to the date, we will prepare to set off at noon today so that we can enter the walls of Lida Fort before sunset.

"That's good, no one will get hurt. I think you should know." Zelin stretched out his finger. "After I leave..."

"I didn't see anything, didn't know anything, heard nothing." Herrick raised his hands and said with a madness. "I really don't know anything. I just got a stomachache this afternoon, so I lay down at home for a while."

"If only you were so smart just now."

Zelin followed the ladder back to the top, opened the door and walked out. The report letter was on the knight. He wanted to find out the report about Tamoria and figure out what happened in the Tamoria camp that day.

Return to the tavern. Zelin found that the horses in the stables had disappeared, and the horse boy was carrying a wooden bucket, cleaning up the feces on the ground.

Zelin walked over, Ma Tong heard the footsteps behind him, he stood up and turned his head, then leaned slightly.

"My lord?"

"Where did the horse go here?"

"Masters rode away." He said, his expression could not conceal a trace of joy. "I just left."

"Which direction?"

"Go to Lida Fort." Horse Boy stretched out his hand. He still remembers Zelin. "My lord, where is your horse?"

"Leave it alone. Are they walking down the avenue?"

"Yeah, these days, you can only walk through the main road. Other places are full of monsters. But people like you who can use swords are definitely not afraid of them."

"It's okay, go ahead with you."

Zelin glanced at the road extending into the forest, and walked towards the poplar tree with the mount attached.

The knights left, Zelin must catch up immediately. If the report enters Redania's camp, things will become more troublesome. The Redanians deployed spies in Lomugne, and he believed that the spies were definitely more than Herrick. Zelin still didn't want to start offending the snake, Redania still didn't know that their spy had been exposed. After going back, he should tell Roche about the incident and let Natalis be careful.

What must the Redanians want to do, otherwise they would place spies more than ten miles away from the convention hall? By analogy, there must be many Ridanian spies in Fort Lida and Lomugne.

Following the road to catch up, Zelin urged the horses to run as much as possible.

He met the first corpse one mile from the intersection. The demon hunter first saw the ghoul lying on the ground feasting, and after pulling out the sword, he saw the corpse under the ghoul-the blood stain covered the original luster of the armor, the head was completely unrecognizable, and the fatal wound on the neck was still there. Blood was flowing outward, and the rose shirt on his chest was torn into rags.

Zelin kicked the mount fiercely in the ribs with his boots, and the horse neighed and rushed towards the ghoul. The monster raised his head, there was still flesh and blood left in the corners of his mouth. The silver sword flashed with cold light, and the impact force brought the monster's head and the upper part of the body flew out, spinning a few times in mid-air, and snapped on the stone. The blood spurted onto the tree trunk. After running a few steps forward, the demon hunter quickly tightened the reins, the mount hummed, and walked a few steps forward before stopping.

"Huh... Ghoul."

Zelin took a deep breath, and after making sure that no other monsters were ambushing behind the nearby rocks, he turned over and dismounted. He tied the reins of the horse to a tree aside, and the mount paced back and forth restlessly.

When he reached the corpse, Zelin quickly recognized that this was one of the three knights in the tavern.

"I was thrown off the horseback." The demon hunter stared at the paw print on the right side of the knight's breastplate, and then moved upward. "The helmet fell off when he landed, and his neck was bitten by the monster that came up." Then, his gaze moved to the knight's leg. There are horseshoe prints on the ground. "Footprints are chaotic, and the horses are frightened, and drove their masters to flee and deviate from the main road. What a bad luck."

Was actively attacked by ghouls on the avenue? This is not good news.

Zelin stood up and looked around. Ghouls actively attack pedestrians, which means that there is no active food nearby to feed them, so that hunger forces them to attack living people. Something must have attracted a lot of ghouls. Now that the ghouls have finished eating, they are looking for other food. Siegfried said before that his knights encountered a lot of trouble when searching in the forest, because there were too many monsters in the forest. Before, Zelin didn't know how many monsters actually meant, but before the sun set, ghouls came out of the shade and took the initiative to attack pedestrians, so there were indeed a lot of them.

He still remembered the sensible ghoul he encountered in Vizima's cemetery. It said that ghouls could not stand the temperature brought by the sun, just like humans cannot survive in the desert.

Not far from the location of the attack, Zelin saw a second corpse, and two ghouls feasted around the corpse. Zelin quietly touched it from behind, lit one of them with the Ignatius Seal, and then swung his sword at a distance of three meters. The sharp air current from the sword tore the body of the second ghoul.

Demon injection break has always been very useful. Unfortunately, the ebony blade cannot be infused.

The second knight fell under a tree, his legs spread out, and he sat slumped on the ground, his neck was bitten off, and his head did not know where he had rolled. He fought with ghouls and wounded one of them. Zelin crouched in front of him and fumbled in the pocket of his shirt in the armor. Fortunately, he found the stacked reports.

Although he didn't know where the third knight had gone, Zelin didn't plan to look for him again. He unfolded the folded reports and searched them one by one. Many reports were soaked in blood, and the writing on them was illegible, but he soon found the report of the Tamoria camp stacked outside. This is the fourth report. It was stained red with blood, but you can still recognize what was written on it.

"...Encamp, seven tents, one of which is guarded by two guards day and night. It sounds like the place where Bolsi and Aneth live." Zelin squinted his eyes. "They dug a hole behind a tree to bury the trash. At noon, a knight walked to the local tavern and bought three bottles of wine and a plate of fruit. After asking the boss, they learned that there were grapes, apples and peaches inside. , I remember it in detail. In the afternoon, after I came back from the rescue, I saw a messenger riding into the camp. The messenger was almost poked off the horse with a spear by the guard at the door. He delivered the letter to the person inside and then left. Up."

Zelling paused.

"The messenger?"

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A messenger arrived at the Tamorian camp and disappeared after the Tamorian convoy set off into the forest the next day.

Zelin looked at the report carefully, hoping to find more clues and answers in it.

"The messenger left that same day and left at four o'clock in the afternoon. He walked along the avenue in the direction of Lidarburg."

Lida Fort?

"Interesting."

Zelin slowly put down the letter paper. Before the start of the Lomune summit, many people have arrived here to prepare for the next meeting. Select venues, erect flags, set up camps, negotiate meeting process arrangements, and divide spheres of influence. Before this city had no boundaries, but when people from different countries came, there were boundaries. Before the arrival of the Temoglia convoy, many of them arrived at Fort Lida and Lomugne. Since the messenger headed to Lida Fort, he must have gone there to return to life. Maybe he should investigate, if someone arrived here at that time, he might be able to find the whereabouts of the messenger and his master, and figure out what the letter was about.

The sun is slanting west, and the forest is full of shadows. There was another roar of ghouls in the bushes.

Zelin stuffed the report into the package, returned to the road, and untied the horse's reins. Judging from the location of the corpse, the first attack was on the avenue, and the second corpse was in the woodland on the right hand side. There were traces of escape on the ground. Then it can be inferred that the ghoul was from the bushes on the left hand side of the avenue. Rushed out. There are so many ghouls, it probably means that there is a ghoul lair nearby. If the ghouls are allowed to continue to emerge from the ground lair they dug, it is likely that after a while, the monsters will start attacking villages near the forest. So before returning to Lida Fort, he planned to solve this problem first.

After all, he is a demon hunter.

Riding a horse, walk down the gravelly **** beside the road. Zelin removed a strip of cloth and blindfolded the horse's eyes. He didn't want to be thrown off his back by the panicked horse.

It didn't take long before he found the first corpse.

The air-dried corpse was covered with maggots and flies, and there were signs of bites everywhere. Codwin's unicorn logo can be vaguely seen on the clothes on her chest, which may be a codwin spy. Siegfried said that since Prince Balsey and Princess Aneth disappeared, many people have been looking for them both.