011. Wreckage
The scene in front of him Luo Beigui was not unfamiliar, because he had only seen something similar yesterday... It's the room where Old Jack was kidnapped by the Wolf King. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's just that compared to it, the current room is not so badly damaged, although the same tables, chairs and benches are shattered to the ground, and there are claw marks everywhere, but at least the floor is not sprinkled with blood.
"The wolf, the wolf king is here again!! It robbed Erin!! The village elder burst into tears, and sat on the ground with weak feet, "My hard-working granddaughter..."
But Luo Beigui felt that something was wrong. First, the wolf king should be restrained by Scarface and can't spare his hand; Second, even if the Wolf King defeated Scarface, there was no reason for him to sneak into the village and take Erin away. Now it doesn't need to step on it anymore, if it really defeats Scarface and rushes over, then it would be good to gather the wolves directly to attack the village, why bother so hard.
Thinking like this, he carefully checked the room, trying to find the traces left by the unknown creature who had abducted Erin when it left, and find Erin as soon as possible to get her back. And after wandering around for a while, Siegel, who ran to the back of the village to stop the wolves, also rushed back.
He looked even more embarrassed than Luo Beigui, and his entire coat looked like it had been fished out of a red dye vat, and it had already been completely infiltrated by blood and coagulated into dark red blood clots.
He limped into the room with a stick.
"Are you alright?" Luo Beigui asked, looking at his coat.
Siegel smiled reluctantly: "Don't worry, it's just a small injury." ”
"I'd better take care of your wounds... You see you've got blood all over you. Luo Beigui said again.
"No need, I've taken care of it." Siegel said as he looked into the room and asked, "What's going on?" ”
"Erin may have been taken by something... That's right! Help me take a look! Let's see if we can find any clues!! "Luobei returns to the emergency road.
"What ?!!" Siegel was much more emotional than Luo Beigui, "She was captured?!" Did anyone see what was taking her? ”
"No! So isn't that for you to help you watch? Fast! Don't grind!! ”
Siegel wandered around the room as well, and after a few minutes, he finally stood up, his expression sad and angry, but his tone was very affirmative: "It's a werewolf!" There are werewolves in this village!! ”
Although werewolves have long been written as dark creatures, Luo Beigui doesn't understand the characteristics of werewolves in this world, and naturally he doesn't know how Siegel sees that he is a werewolf.
At this moment, Scarface also walked in from outside the door, and naturally continued: "That silver-eyed wolf king is a demon wolf that has been invaded by dark forces, if you are bitten by it, you may be assimilated by dark forces and become a werewolf." As he spoke, he walked to the wall, stroked the claw marks, and said, "Werewolves' claws are smaller than ordinary wild wolves, but their strength is several times that of wild wolves, so they can crash into the wall." What's more, there are also human footprints on the ground here before the werewolf transformed. ”
Scarface was in the best state of the three witchers, unharmed, not even his clothes were damaged, only a few blood stains on his coat as proof that he had fought.
"Human Footprints ?!!" Siegel hurriedly leaned over to Scarface, crouched down to take a look, and sure enough, he saw several blurry footprints on the ground.
Most of these footprints are not so clear, and only a general shape can be seen, only one or two are still clear, and have some value.
Luo Beigui glanced at Siegel strangely: "You didn't see it so obviously..."
Siegel groaned: "My night blindness is really getting worse and worse..."
Luo Beigui was not in the mood to talk nonsense, and after carefully looking at the footprints, he asked the village chief: "Since the werewolf is likely to be a villager who was bitten by the wolf king, it is better to call all the people in the village and check the footprints, maybe you can find the murderer." ”
The village chief is now in a trance, sad, anxious, and angry, and his brain can't think normally at all, and when he heard Luo Beigui's proposal, he immediately got up and stumbled towards the house, muttering as he ran: "Good, good!" I listen to you! I'm going to call everybody!! You must save my little Irene!! ”
Siegel suddenly stretched out his hand to stop the village chief: "No need to go... So many people had just died in the village, and it was not appropriate to investigate it in a big way. And the village was so chaotic just now, even if the murderer was really still in the village, he would have a chance to change his shoes, so that we couldn't check the footprints. So the top priority is to find Erin's whereabouts as soon as possible, as for the murderer, we will have time to investigate in the future! ”
Scarface nodded, picked up a handful of dirt from the ground, held it in his hand against his forehead, squatted on the ground on one knee with his eyes closed, and drew a mysterious magic circle with his other hand, reciting silently in his mouth.
After a few seconds, he opened his eyes, and the blue arcane afterglow flashed in his eyes, "Let's go, come with me, I know where Erin is..."
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The forest at night was particularly dangerous, so even if the village chief tried his best, the three witchers did not take him with them, and hurried towards the jungle with light clothing.
Soon, in a dead log not too far from the village, the three of them found Erin... Or rather, wreckage.
The ground was stained red with blood, and Irene's corpse was scattered on the ground haphazardly...
"It's too late, it's been dead for a while..."Scarface didn't speak, not even showing surprise when he saw the corpse. He was the first to walk over to the corpses, dabbling his fingers in some blood.
Luo Bei looked at the corpses fixedly, met Erin's helpless widening eyes, sighed lightly after a while, and walked up with the same calm, gathering the scattered corpse pieces together, trying to piece together a complete corpse.
But he failed.
Erin's body was clearly missing, and even if it was left, there were many places where the bones were exposed due to the lack of flesh.
Scarface closed Erin's remaining eye and explained, "It's a dark magic ritual. Sacrifice a pure soul and deprive her of her flesh and blood to some ancient god or evil god in exchange for powerful magical powers. The more painful the pure soul is, the more pleasing those evil powerful beings feel, so throughout the ritual the sacrifice, no matter how badly injured and tortured, will not die until the ritual is over. ”
"So we're targeting a werewolf with dark magic?" After cleaning up the body, Luo Beigui clapped his hands and stood up.
And Siegel, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke at this time: "Let's go back... I'm going to find the murderer and give him back ten times the pain Irene's suffered tenfold and a hundredfold..."
This honest man, who has always shown himself as an honest and amiable person, finally revealed his cold side at this moment, his tone was not intense, but he was as low as a midnight ghost, which made people have no doubt about his determination.
Scarface didn't reply, he waved his hand and threw out a ball of fire, burning Erin's body to ashes and collecting it into a wooden box, then turned around and walked back: "Let's find the murderer first..."