The players were not as well-informed as Tam. They suddenly lost track of the target and had no tracking skills. They made all kinds of guesses, but soon, everyone was no longer in the mood to continue arguing about this issue.
The villagers who keep waking up have focused their attention. This town does not welcome outsiders, especially non-humans and adventurers. Now someone has cast a spell on them. Needless to say, the fear in their eyes is also hidden.
A deep resentment.
Hypnosis was within an acceptable range, but if someone was actually killed, the problem would be serious, so everyone on the scene looked at each other and left.
Some people may have given up, some may have gone after the rogue players, while others like Sherlock and his team were preparing to inquire for more information in the village.
Based on the current goodwill between the two parties, it is estimated that even the most basic conversation cannot be carried out, but fortunately, there is a prophecy mage in their team, so it is most appropriate to leave this kind of information search work to them.
After the crowd dispersed, Sherlock grabbed a villager and came over. It was the gangster who was licking Sadelle just now.
It's not that the Virgin Heart is overflowing and she wants to punish the bad guys, but this kind of people have always been the most well-informed in the village. Whether it's gossip or facts, they have reference value for them who are confused.
First of all, they inquired about Autumn's life experience. When this girl's mother was still a girl, she was chosen by the villagers to be sacrificed to an old witch named Lenny Longlegs, who was Sherlock's first
It was the first time I met the protagonists in the songs sung by the children.
Just when Autumn's mother was tied to the edge of the swamp, a handsome and inhuman man appeared. What followed was a common cliché plot, where a hero saves a beauty, promises her body, and then after a few nights of romance.
, the man patted his butt and left, leaving behind the woman who happened to be pregnant.
For a man, this is just a boring journey or a small interesting memory in his long life.
But for that woman who had never left the small town, the time she spent with this man was everything in her life, so she insisted on giving birth to the child in her belly, Autumn.
Autumn's origins are unknown. Her mother died in childbirth and was adopted by Sadele. After 14 years of relatively stable life, her nightmare came. Her unusual beauty attracted all the attention.
Due to female jealousy, her slowly awakening magical abilities were also feared by everyone, and they even denounced her as a witch.
And the reality seemed to be what the villagers said. There were moans in the middle of the night, debilitating diseases, livestock dying, and one after another strange things happened around her.
After almost killing the baker's son, the incident finally worsened to the most serious point. If the villagers wanted to deal with her in the same way Zeng Jin treated another girl and her biological mother, they would sacrifice her to Cherim.
The 'ghosts' in the Great Swamp.
It's just that after knowing the situation, Autumn's adoptive mother Sadeer hid her in the abandoned mine in the south, so there was the scene that Sherlock and the others saw when they first came.
Later, when the villagers forced them out of their hiding place and rushed there, what greeted them was the brutal murder scene. The victim was the baker's son and Autumn's sweetheart.
If there was room for redemption in the past, the death of the baker's son completely eliminated this possibility.
"Tam, what do you think?" Sherlock, who knew the whole story, asked the think tank in their team.
"It's very strange. According to the previous description, Autumn should be a warlock who has just awakened her abilities. However, her spell casting ability does not affect a person's mind. She may inadvertently cause some abnormal phenomena, but the one in front of the mine
It is unlikely that the arrangement of the torture was done by a girl, it is more likely that it was done by the two ogres." Tam said while dragging his chin and thinking.
Everyone didn't have any more ideas, so they could only go to Autumn's home to see if there was any valuable information.
Unfortunately, they were not the only players who knew about Autumn's residence. When they sneaked in, they saw a mess, and all the rooms on the three floors had been turned upside down.
Almost everything of value had been robbed, leaving only a few charcoal drawings. Judging from the style, they should have been written by Autumn.
Most of the paintings show dark themes. This is not difficult to understand. A little girl has been receiving strange looks from villagers since she was a child. She is considered strong by not committing suicide.
The only one slightly different among these paintings is a portrait of Autumn herself, in which she displays a melancholic charm and has a black cat by her side.
"It can't be this cat." Feng Chime, who had been holding the black cat before, held it up and compared it carefully.
As it turns out, this is indeed the same cat.
"So, you are Autumn's familiar." Tam immediately thought of the relationship between the two.
The ability of a warlock to form a contract with a familiar is innate, but how did a girl who had never been exposed to magic encounter this cat that obviously had the blood of a shadow creature?
"Melphisette, is that your name?" Feng Ling'er put the black cat on the ground and asked gently.
There is an intelligence bonus after the magic pet signs a contract with the caster. What's more, this black cat has an unusual bloodline and should be able to understand common language.
The black cat's eyes were fixed on the girl in front of him. He didn't know what he was thinking about. He nodded after half a minute.
It would be much easier to be able to communicate. With the support of everyone, Feng Ling'er continued to ask: "Then do you know where your master Autumn went?"
This time, Malfisette shook his head first, and then kept shouting. It seemed that the other party obviously knew something.
"Sherlock, have you learned how to talk to animals?" Tam asked.
Animal conversation is a level 10 skill for Druid, but Sherlock did not learn it, because the effect of this skill is the same as that of natural companions and natural transformation, like this black cat, which is obviously a small magical creature or even a small alien creature.
, the skill level must be at least level three or above.
Although there is no animal conversation, if he just communicates with cats, he can do it in other ways.
Sherlock turns into a jungle cat as soon as he bends down. After the completely natural transformation, he can additionally master cat language, and some more basic communication is not difficult.
