"I didn't expect you to be so peaceful to these bandits," Geralt looked at Xie Yuan teasingly as he rode his horse again on the road to a village in the north, "And your voice is so quiet but can be accurately conveyed to me.
What's that in my ears? I didn't feel any energy fluctuations."
"I can answer your second question first. This is a method called sound transmission - compressing the air flow to an ultrasonic frequency and transmitting it to the ear on the other side in a directional manner."
Xie Yuan looked at the group of horses gathering behind him to eat grass, and then said to Geralt: "As for why I try to be on good terms with them and not offend them. It's because although he has not been officially recognized by Nilfgaard, he is powerful.
The Baron still has the right to speak in nearly one-third of Lun's field, and we will definitely need his help if we want to find traces of Ciri."
Of course, Xie Yuan also knew very well that the gang just now would definitely cause trouble to the village, but he knew better that now they needed the power of the baron, so he could only turn a blind eye to these evil deeds.
"The Baron seems to control more than half of the land in Viren!" Although Geralt also hated the Baron's bandit soldiers, he was also thinking, "But it is not easy to ask such a self-proclaimed king to help us with this favor - Ni
Forgaard can't order him, and it's hard to say whether he will take advantage of this secret once he knows it."
"It all depends on people," Xie Yuan was very confident about this. "The rise of this kind of Turkish warlord must have great disadvantages. Many things must be done by outsiders."
"I'm not a killer." Geralt emphasized.
"Neither am I, but if the person who needs to die in this mission is not a good person... it will just be an easy thing for me."
Xie Yuan is not very particular about this.
The place the two of them are going to now is a village called Heatherton - this place is on the other side of the hill.
As an imperial spy, Hantrick rarely had the habit of communicating with too many people. He lived with a widow in that village.
But now the two of them must get there as soon as possible, because according to the shop owner, when he got up this morning, he found a strange light shining over the other side of the hill. He suspected that the imperial army was plundering the village.
But Xie Yuan and Geralt suspected that the person who made this big noise was probably the Wild Hunt!
Sure enough, when they arrived near Hetherton, both of them could feel the breath they exhaled turning into mist... As soon as they entered Hetherton, they could see the weather in late May and early summer, but the entire village was surrounded by condensation.
Hoarfrost.
There was a cold feeling in my nose, and I could smell the strong smell of blood... Many people died here, and they definitely died miserably.
"There are survivors!" Xie Yuan heard a lot of barking dogs and a man's exclamation for help from a distance. He immediately dismounted, then took off the two sticks from his back, connected them with each other, and
It became an eyebrow-raising stick.
Geralt also immediately dismounted, drew out the steel sword from his back, followed Xie Yuan, and then saw a ragged man holding a torch to drive away a group of wild dogs that came smelling blood.
The wild dogs quickly noticed Xie Yuan and Geralt who were coming over. Since there were no flames that beasts hated around these two people, they gave up on the somewhat "difficult" torch-bearer and turned to them.
Xie Yuan launched an attack.
It has to be said that these wild dogs that are familiar with humans do have some skills. This vague three-talent formation is quite tacit. If ordinary people have no skills, they will definitely not be able to withstand the contact with steel and will be injured.
Fortunately, Xie Yuan was not that ordinary. He waved the iron stick vigorously and made three stick flowers, which landed on the heads of the three wild dogs exactly.
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
The three wild dogs, with a huge dent in their heads, didn't even have time to howl. They rushed forward and collapsed weakly to the ground, making no sound.
This should be regarded as the dog-beating stick method of splitting the word and hitting the dog's head with a stick.
"Qiang!" Geralt immediately put away his sword, and then cast a mind-controlling seal called Yaksi in front of the survivor who had unconsciously said "leave me, leave me alone", so he finally
A little bit of normalcy has returned.
But he only had bad news for the two pursuers.
That was yesterday. The entire Hetherton village was killed one by one by Wild Hunt knights wearing fine armor, but this man was the only one who survived.
And Hantrick was tortured by them for a whole night before he lost his voice.
The two found Hantrick's home and saw the spy's body lying on the floor of their home covered in blood and with almost no trace of good meat.
In this regard, Xie Yuan hates guys like the Wild Hunt Knight even more - this is simply genocide. Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust.
But Xie Yuan took a look at the layout of the house and the ground under his feet, and pointed at the body to Geralt: "Look for his shoes or pants and see if you can find anything. I'll clean up the ground.
"
Without waiting for Geralt to say anything, he walked directly to the floor not far from the body. There were a lot of dirt and grass on this land, which seemed to be specially used to make carpets for the home and clean the soles of shoes.
Geralt could only sigh and ran over to search for the body, but after a while of groping, he couldn't help but pause - because he did find a key.
Then he turned around and saw that Xie Yuan had cleared an underground secret door.
Geralt immediately handed the key to Xie Yuan, and Xie Yuan directly inserted it into the keyhole of the underground secret door. With a click, the secret door opened and was lifted up.
Underground is a dark room with quite a lot of space.
"How did you find out so quickly?" Geralt was a little surprised.
"Although I am not specialized in intelligence work, I have been in this industry for decades. I can tell the habits of many agents at a glance."
Xie Yuan took out a box of matches from his pocket, lit one, and threw it down... The flame burned evenly until the stem was burned out.
After confirming the air circulation below, he jumped down into the cellar.
Geralt also jumped down, looked at the surrounding environment, and then twisted on a fixed candlestick on the wall, "Creak!" An earth wall driven by quicksand suddenly began to shrink inward.
, revealing another part that was hidden.
"Hmm, interesting..." Geralt commented.
"The Knights of the Wild Hunt are elves who have lived for hundreds of years. Can't even Madesun know the ingenuity below?" Xie Yuan looked at the missing person notice on the wall and at the secret room that was carefully hidden.
, and sneered at the elves from another world who had been interrogating him for a whole day.
"Maybe they just need to hear what Hantrick knows... Igni... maybe they are too arrogant."
Geralt responded to Xie Yuan while lighting the oil lamp in the darkroom with the flame sigil.
After Geralt entered the room, he quickly discovered Hantrick's account book... which was actually a note disguised as a businessman's - the notes hidden in the account were the intelligence details left by Hantrick.
Geralt began to read out the notes one by one: "Missing Bounty: The target has appeared in Skellige, and there are eyewitness accounts in Novilia. The target's appearance has not changed. He has gray hair and scars on his face. He will avoid being exposed.
Contact with others..."
"This is Ciri. It seems that the first-hand information we got came from Hantrick." Xie Yuan analyzed after listening, "Please continue."
"Drunk pig, the guy who calls himself Baron invites the target to go to his castle, or should I say illegally occupied fortress (the reason is unknown), and talk to the people of Baron Crow's Nest."
"Hmm... Sure enough, we were right not to cause trouble just now. It seems that one piece of the puzzle about Xili's whereabouts is in the crow's nest, but it's a pity... I guess you may not succeed so quickly." Xie Yuan regretfully removed the picture on the wall.
The reward map was removed.
"Why?"
"Because you are a witcher. If Ciri receives a good reception here, she will definitely talk about anything - she will definitely talk about you."
Xie Yuan handed the reward map to Geralt: "The only thing she may not talk about is her life experience, otherwise she will never be able to leave, but now the Baron is also in trouble, and he can't think of any way to solve the problem... Now
Did the opportunity come to you automatically?"
Geralt took the drawing. It was written about the reward for finding the baroness and the baron's daughter. Judging from the time, it was a while ago, which made him a little troubled.
"Damn it!" Geralt folded the bounty helplessly and put it in his backpack, then continued to read the notes.
"Well, this is also very important." Geralt found another page: "There was a conflict with a witch: the target arrived in the swamp and met a witch. Conflicts ensued for unknown reasons. Find the witch and follow Mi
Peasant talk in the village of DeCorps.”
"Swamp, witch..." Xie Yuan fell into deep thought, "The former is south of the crow's nest, which is almost the weak point in the area ruled by the baron... The local people generally have a very traditional primitive belief - Midkalp
Sicun happens to be north of this place, isn't this a contradiction?"
"You have to go and see for yourself to know." Geralt had some doubts after hearing Xie Yuan's words, but he still insisted on reading the last chapter in the notes: "Be careful: someone is watching me, I don't know who it is, and I don't know who it is.
I don’t know the purpose...the dog ran away. The water in the bucket froze. There was a strange light in the sky, and the farmers said it was a bad omen."
"They seemed to have discovered that Hantrick was looking for Ciri, so they tortured him..." Geralt closed the book and gave a final summary to Xie Yuan, "We are late, and now the only clues left are the Baron and some
Witch."
"What I'm interested in is who will be Hantrick's monitor?" Xie Yuan was particularly interested in this. "Is it a human? Or a local elf cousin?"
"Your guess is too dangerous..." Geralt shook his head to dismiss Xie Yuan's idea, "If you are not careful, it will simply cause the human forces in the north and south to jointly target the elves... and who is spying has nothing to do with us.
, we just need to find traces of Ciri."
"Then... do you want me to take charge of the witches? Or should I just leave for Novilia directly?"