Chapter 21: Lies and Betrayal (II)

Vanessa heard the men and women arguing, the women screaming, and the men screaming, and the men cursing, and then the men and the men, and then the screams of the men, and the screams of the men, and then the loud curses, and finally the voices grew quieter, and the princess made sure that the danger was over, and walked over to them from her hiding place.

There were two men and a woman lying on the ground, the woman was bleeding from her forehead and was in a coma, and the man was each with an arrow, and had been tied up with rattan by Reina. What is puzzling is that there is a big pit next to the three people, and the soil color is obviously freshly dug.

"What are you doing to this lady?" Vanessa asked angrily. The scene evoked unbearable memories and led her to preconceive that the two men were committing violence against the woman.

"Ma'am? Ha! One of the tall lanky men scoffed. He had messy gray hair, and there was a long scar on his face that ran through the bridge of his nose, and it was good not to laugh, but the pink scar when he laughed was like a centipede crawling on his face, "She's a prostitute, and she starts to bill when she lies down." ”

The other laughed, "She's lying down now, are you ready to pay?" "He was dressed in a patched leather coat, bald, with a wide chin, a big belly, and a very lewd appearance, but the two men had common characteristics, cloudy and greedy small eyes.

Vanessa slapped Scarface, "Shut up, you guys must be trying to disadvantage her by taking advantage of the twilight to get her here." She looked at the pit, deep and wide enough to bury the two scoundrels alive, and then she pulled the dagger from Reina's waist, "This friend of mine has no tongue in his mouth, and if he doesn't think you're dirty, he can borrow it for a few days." She gestured to their faces.

The two men suddenly relented.

Vanessa crouched down to examine the girl, who was wearing a plain cotton gown, with frayed cuffs and collar, and it was hard to tell that she was a prostitute except for her beautiful face. At this moment, the girl woke up faintly, looked up and saw the scene in front of her, and shrank back in fright. "Don't be afraid, tell me what happened, and we'll help you." Vanessa lifted her up and wiped the blood from her forehead with a handkerchief.

"Thank you," said the girl, looking at the two strangers with trepidation, and with great determination, she began to speak, "my name is Tina, and I live in the same village as the two of them, and I live outside Crescent City. There are three older brothers and a younger sister in the family, as well as a father. Two months ago, the new queen conscripted into the army and took my brothers away, the family was left without labor, the Loire flooded and washed away most of our food, my sister was so hungry that I cried, I didn't want my elderly father to go out to work, so I followed the two to the Crescent City. Tina's face was full of sadness, "At first I worked as a waitress in the tavern, but these two men brought the news that my father was sick and needed a lot of money to get a doctor, so I really had no choice but to embark on this path, hoping to earn as much money as I could to treat my father." "I have been working in a brothel for more than a month, and I am afraid to let my family know about my disgraceful profession, and every time I ask them to bring money back, but the other day I met my sister on the street, and she told me that my father was dead, and he was not sick at all, that he was starving to death!" These two animals never gave them money! My sister hates me, she thinks I've left them behind, she's skinny, she's sold herself to the circus so she doesn't starve, do you know what her job is? The girl cried out to the two men, "She is stuffed into a vase for people to see, poor child, she will never have enough to eat, and she will never grow up!" ”

Vanessa listened quietly, and wrote another blood debt in her heart for Solanda's tyranny. However, upon a chance glance, she noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with Reina's expression, and he looked at Tina with a wary look.

"I'm coming back frantically looking for these two people, and I want justice for myself and my family." Tina wiped her tears from the back of her hand, "But the people in the village are disdainful of me, for fear of getting into my bad luck, and the two of them tricked me into coming here in order to calm the incident, and want to kill me without knowing it." ”

"Is that the case?" Vanessa turned to Scarface and Baldness, suppressing the anger in her heart. Although the cause of the tragedy is Solanda, it is these two guys who are in charge, and she wants to give them a fair trial so that justice can be done.

"She's talking complete nonsense!" Scarface shouted, "We've only played with her a few times in Crescent City, how can we be made up of such a by this **!" ”

"That's right! I've never heard of her family! The bald man chimed in.

"We met her at the edge of the woods, she asked us if we wanted some thrilling, and she brought us here," Scarface said. The bald man continued, "but she repented for the time being, saying that the two of us were taking advantage of her by giving only one silver coin, and the more we talked, the more stiff we became, and then she tore her throat and cried out, and I beat her in a hurry." ”

It sounds like the experience of the two men is also reasonable, provided that Tina is really a prostitute, which Tina herself does not deny. It would be strange that both sides insist on their own words, indicating that one of them is lying.

Vanessa circled around them, her eyes falling on the big pit in the ground, which was evidence denied by both sides, so why did it appear here, and who dug it? The princess leaned over and touched the pit wall with her hand, only to feel that the tentacles were smooth, there were no mottled marks of shovel digging, and the soil in the woods was soft, and this kind of smooth pit wall could only be formed with the help of magic. If what Tina said was true, it would be understandable that the two men were going to bury her alive, with the help of magic, but they had seen Tina, and it was necessary to dig such a big pit if she was buried alone? And if what the two men said is true, they were lured to the edge of the pit by Tina, and then Tina took the initiative to provoke an argument to attract herself and Reina to rescue her, and she would definitely advocate the execution of the two culprits in anger, then this pit is a ready-made execution tool, which saves time and effort.

After Vanessa figured it out, she patted the dirt on her body, stood up, and slowly retreated to Reina's side, she roared at the two men: "There is nothing to say, the fact is that you have harmed Tina's family, and you will be punished!" ”

As the princess retreated, she stretched out her hand, pointing at Tina, "It's now!" ”

Reina drew his bow and arrows at lightning speed, and the feathered arrows whizzed at Tina, with such force that they pierced her throat!

The two men tied to the tree thought that they would be the ones who died, and screamed in fright, only to find that it was the girl next to them who was hit by the arrow.

Vanessa possessed to check on the girl's body, and with an arrow in her throat, killing her instantly, she glanced at Reina in annoyance, "You should keep her alive." "There are no special items on the girl to indicate her true identity, and the clue is broken.

"It's too close for me to choose." Reina explained briefly and began to solve the two men in the tree.

"Don't let them go," commanded the princess, "and they're not good things either." Let them feed the mosquitoes here, and someone will pass by after dawn tomorrow. Let's go. ”

Despite the pleas of those behind them, Vanessa and Reina left them and walked into the darkening night

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