I thought that the people already trusted me, but I didn’t expect that some people would still be so arrogant. Witte pretended to look at the man in the straw hat calmly, and just as he was about to say something, Wile preempted him: "You are right.
But without you, I’m afraid the villagers’ lives would be more peaceful.”
The straw hat man looked at him angrily and said through gritted teeth: "Your Highness, I am one of your subjects. How can your subordinates say this to me?"
"Because you are not a citizen of Daybreak Town at all, who knows what you are doing here?" Wile continued, "I have never seen you at all."
Werther stopped him in time and said calmly: "What's the use of arguing? It's better to go and see what's going on."
They were led in the direction of the farm by the villagers. Werther looked at the man in the straw hat with his peripheral vision on the road and found that his temperament was exactly the same as that of other former subordinates of Duke Dark.
It couldn't really be someone sent by Duke Dark again, but why didn't the parchment remind me this time?
Just when he thought of this, he heard the voice of the parchment: "Follow your heart and trust the people you trust."
What does this mean? Werther is confused. What does this haunting have to do with my heart?
They walked to a sheep pen on the farm. Werther walked in holding his breath and found four sets of sheep bones on the ground. The mutton had been peeled off very cleanly.
"Your Highness, have you seen it?" the man in the straw hat sneered, "all the sheep in this family have been eaten by wild beasts, and their bones are intact."
"It's strange. What kind of beast can eat sheep like this?" Werther was surprised. "This is impossible to do unless it is man-made."
"Even if it's man-made, it's difficult to do." The man in the straw hat said coldly, "Besides, who would be so boring and spend so much effort to take out four sets of sheep bones intact."
"Then what reason do you have to say this is the work of ghosts?" Werther said coldly.
The man in the straw hat showed a confident smile: "That's because I have a witness, who is the owner of this house."
After he finished speaking, a young couple came out from behind him and looked at Werther timidly.
Werther sighed and asked: "Is it really as he said, is this place haunted?"
The young husband was a little shy but his eyes were frank: "Your Highness, yes. My wife and I heard a loud noise outside at about four o'clock in the night, so we went out to take a look out of curiosity. Who would have thought that we saw a good person?
A big black shadow rushed over. We were so scared that we quickly closed the door."
"Then what?" Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Werther stared at him and asked.
"Then we hid in the house and didn't dare to come out. It wasn't until dawn that we discovered that the sheep had become like this." The young husband began to cry as he spoke, and the wife next to him also wiped her tears.
Werther frowned and asked, "Did anyone else see it?"
The people behind the straw hat man all said in unison: "I saw it!"
"So many people have seen it!" Werther thought to himself, it seems to be true.
At this time, another villager said: "Your Highness, I have heard the sound of this ghost coming many times. The sound was very small before, but I have good hearing and can hear it clearly. This time the sound was especially loud late at night."
"What does that ghost look like?" Werther continued to ask.
"I didn't see it, only the couple saw it."
The young husband continued: "It looks very much like a vampire. I'm not sure, after all, there are no vampires in Daybreak Town now."
After hearing this, Werther was shocked and thought, maybe someone wanted to frame Lina.
The straw hat man said again
: "Who said there are no vampires in Daybreak Town? There is a vampire maid living in the lord's castle. I heard that she has a very good relationship with the lord."
"Yes, I remembered it, and it seemed like this was the case." The young husband said, "I heard that the maid was very powerful and kept the castle in order."
"The person who takes care of the castle is the housekeeper. I remember that the vampire maid is named Lina. She is very good at making clothes and gave a lot of clothes to the poor." The young wife said.
"Not only can she make clothes, she can also fight." Another villager said, "Lina is a good helper for the lord."
"Yes, Lina can't be the ghost tonight."
"Yes, there must be some vampire bad guys breaking into Daybreak Town."
The villagers were all talking for Lina. When the Straw Hat Man saw that the plan failed, his face was extremely ugly. It was obvious that the Straw Hat Man wanted to target Lina from the beginning.
Werther was very relieved to hear that they believed in Lina, but he was also a little confused. Judging from the time, there was a high probability that the "ghost" the villagers saw was Lina. Could it be that Lina really ate the sheep...
…
Thinking of this, he quickly shook his head, as if to get rid of the thoughts in his mind. How could he think of Lina like this? She would not do anything to hurt the villagers' sheep.
Could it be the Black Shadow Knight? Witte thought again. But he soon gave up this idea, because the Black Shadow Knight was the one who helped him, and there was no reason to do anything.
The man in the straw hat rolled his eyes and continued: "Lord, you must find out this ghost. It would be bad if he hurts anyone."
"I will find out." Witte said calmly. He now suspected that the straw hat man was sent by Duke Dark to frame Lina and the Black Shadow Knight, because only they fit the appearance of this "ghost". If
If you can get rid of Lina or the Black Shadow Knight, you will lose an important helper, which is very beneficial to Duke Dark.
After thinking about this, Witte said: "But I want to check first whether these four sheep bones belong to the original four sheep. In case someone deliberately caused trouble. I believe there may be vampires flying by at night, but I
I don’t think a vampire living in Daybreak would do such a thing.”
After hearing this, the man in the straw hat trembled, and hurriedly stood in front of Werther, saying, "Your Highness, I don't know if there is any poison on this sheep that has been eaten by ghosts, so it's better not to check it."
"It doesn't matter, I won't touch it with my hands." He bypassed the man in the straw hat, walked to the young husband, and asked, "Look at the size and shape of these four sheep bones. Do they belong to your sheep?"
The young husband stepped forward, took a closer look, and whispered: "It seems that the four sets of sheep bones are a bit small, and my sheep seems to be bigger than them."
"Sheep bones are smaller than sheep to begin with, because the skin and flesh are removed." The man in the straw hat smiled, "Actually, it's still your sheep, right?"
The young husband thought for a moment and said, "I remember one of the sheep once broke its leg. Let's see if one of the sheep's leg bones has been broken."
"This is a good idea." Werther said happily, "Let Ivan come over and check now."
Soon Ivan arrived in a carriage. He didn't touch it with his hands, but just looked at it with his eyes. Sure enough, he found that one of the sheep's leg bones had been broken.
"Indeed, Your Highness," Ivan said.
"What about the way it broke? Does it match?" Werther asked again, looking at the young husband, "How did your sheep break its leg?"
"Falled from the roof to the ground." said the young wife.
Ivan looked at the sheep bones again and said: "Your Highness, the wounds are consistent, as if they fell from a high place.
Look."
"How could this happen?" Werther whispered, "If this sheep is really the original one, how could someone remove all the skin and meat from the sheep in such a short period of time."
The man in the straw hat was looking at Werther proudly, with a hint of ridicule in the corner of his mouth. It seemed that everything was as expected, and his nervous expression just now was just fake.
Damn it, his nervousness just now was just fake, he actually played tricks on me! Werther was a little unhappy, but he didn't have time to worry about the expression of the man in the straw hat just now, he just whispered to Ivan: "Are there any doubts?
"
Ivan leaned into Witte's ear and whispered: "I found that although this sheep bone also broke its leg from a height, the wound looked like a new injury in the past few days. And what I heard from the couple just now, theirs
It doesn’t look like the sheep just broke its leg recently.”
Witte's eyes lit up after hearing this: "So, if we can prove that these two sheep did not break their legs at the same time, we can prove that these two sheep are not the same."
"Yes, Your Highness." Ivan said.
The straw hat man heard them whispering and quietly walked to the side to hear what they were talking about.
Werther ignored him and asked the young couple directly: "When did your sheep break its leg?"
"A few months ago," they replied.
"That's right!" Werther laughed, "The legs of this set of sheep bones were broken within a few days, and your sheep was broken a few months ago, so this set of sheep bones does not belong to you.
That sheep, that is to say, your original sheep has been swapped. Maybe all four sheep have been swapped."
The young couple looked suddenly enlightened, but soon wondered: "What does that mean?"
Witte explained: "It means that someone deliberately placed the sheep bones here, pretending that your sheep had their skin and flesh removed overnight, so as to frame the dark figure that appeared at night and make people mistakenly think that it was the dark figure using a certain method.
A weird way to remove the skin and flesh from the sheep."
"Strange, then why would someone want to frame that dark shadow?" a villager asked in confusion.
"He must have his own ulterior motives." Witte looked at the man in the straw hat with sharp eyes, "Maybe he took the opportunity to frame my maid Lina, or maybe he framed other vampires."
The man in the straw hat was a little angry and said loudly to Werther: "You have no basis for what you say. How can you prove that the injuries on the sheep bones only appeared in the past few days?"
At this time Ivan said: "Any doctor with some experience can see it. If you don't believe me, we can find other doctors to take a look."
Witte added: "Are you from Daybreak Town? I seem to have never seen you before."
The man in the straw hat pressed his hat down, pretending to be confident, and said: "There are so many people in Daybreak Town, how can His Highness remember every one of his subjects."
Witte said: "I want to know if you are a citizen of Dawn Town, just check it and you will find out."
Other villagers also became suspicious of the straw hat man.
"We have indeed never seen this person, Your Highness."
"Your Highness, this person is very suspicious."
The straw hat man's face became ugly, but he still argued: "No matter what happens to this sheep, the ghost that appears at night is very suspicious. Your Highness, won't you deal with that ghost?"
At this time, the villagers started talking again.
"Yes, Your Highness, that ghost seems to be more terrifying. You'd better check it out."
"Your Highness, we are more afraid of the dark figure that appears at night than this man."
The villagers rushed forward and surrounded Werther, and the straw hat man took the opportunity to escape.