The night was spent in meditation, the study in the spirit world did not return to its original state, and although the demon did not appear, the erosion continued.

Can church baptism really solve this problem?

Donald was a little skeptical, and if they couldn't, 50 gold pounds was not a small amount...... When the time comes, will you try a ritual that costs hundreds of gold pounds?

The next morning, Sherlock still maintained his habit of getting up at 7:30, which, according to him, is called a routine and is good for the body.

I told the butler in advance about going to the town, and old Jober was already waiting outside in a donkey cart.

There was no time to sit down and savor breakfast, so Donald drank the milk from the quilt in one gulp, and followed Sherlock out with a piece of bread in his hand.

"Mr. Hopper, take us directly to the church in the town, by the way, which church does the church in the town belong to?"

When the tarp was lifted, the rain turned into a drizzle overnight, and there was no shelter on the donkey cart, so I had to rely on an umbrella.

"It is the revival church to which it belongs. ”

"Well, it's good to revive the church. ”

If the Church of Justice has a close relationship with the official government, then most of the farmers and pastors at the bottom believe in the goddess of Mother Earth, Cetiah, the god of the revival church.

"Where's the good?"

Donald was a little puzzled, and he only knew that because of the doctrine, there were few churches in the cities, and most of them were built in the countryside.

"The Restoration Church has always been peaceful and friendly, even non-believers will maintain a friendly attitude, and I will have a much higher success rate in asking them for things...... I forgot to tell you that all you have to do later is to go to the herb store, grocery store or something like that in town and ask Miss Audrey if she has bought some ingredients from them. ”

"Sherlock, can you tell me something? If you ask in such a fog, you might miss the key message. ”

Adjusted their seats to get closer to Sherlock, the edges of their umbrellas together.

"Well, it's just a conversation between me and you, and no third person can know about it...... The monster we met last night, called in some books: blood beast, this kind of monster does not exist in our world in the strict sense, but it has a very close relationship with a special race, which will not be detailed with you, the key is that they often appear as blood hunters, in short, the creatures that are bitten to death by them, the blood will be sucked, and the blood beasts feed on the blood, but if they want, they can also collect the blood, store it in their own body and then go through some such and such changes, forming a kind of nameThe existence of 'blood crystals', this thing has a great effect, and it is recorded in the book that there was once a nobleman who summoned several blood beasts through evil spells, and relied on them to worship 'blood crystals' to maintain a long youth...... Even change the look!"

Legends often come from exaggerated adaptations of some real-life events, and the story of Sherlock about the Scarlet Count is widely spread in this world, and people pay attention to two things, the first is the existence of the creature of the blood beast, and the second is the effect of youth stopping.

"You mean Miss Audrey...... Summoning a Blood Beast?"

"It's just speculation, that's why I asked you to go to these shops to find clues, and there are still many questions that have not been solved, such as how can she have a way to summon a blood beast? It is a forbidden ritual, if it is discovered by the church, there is no room for argument at the stake, and besides, why does the blood beast attack cattle and sheep? If people want to use 'blood crystals', they naturally have to be formed by the blood of the same race to work. ”

"What happens when different races?"

Donald didn't bother to ask Sherlock why he knew so many strange things, and if there was such information in the book, he would definitely find a few books to study in the future.

"Inject the blood of cattle and sheep into your body, what do you say will happen?"

"Dead?"

"No, it's worse than that......"

The "blood crystals" coagulated by the blood brewed by the blood beast will become something acceptable to the human body, that is, the human body will accept the blood of cattle and sheep.

This behavior is equivalent to pouring soy sauce into lemonade, and the mixed drink can drink people to the hospital!

Near Ranffindor Farm is a small town called Wheat Valley, which is not small, although it is much worse than the city of Preston, but it is more than enough, and it is already a slightly urban-like town for some of the small villages nearby.

"Two gentlemen, here we are. ”

The donkey cart drove directly into the small town of Wheat Valley and stopped on the side of the street.

"Mr. Jobhorn will take me to the church, and you will be right here, and at eight o'clock most of the shops will be opened. ”

Donald got up and jumped out of the donkey cart, carefully avoiding the pool at his feet, his clothes and shoes were not his own.

The donkey cart stopped in front of a carving shop, this was not the shop to be asked, and the number of grocery stores and medicinal herb stores that Donald really wanted to go to was not as many as he imagined, especially the latter, the medicinal herb store did not mean that the medicine was sold, it was full of unpolished raw materials, and the corresponding market was so large that this kind of store was destined not to open more.

So after asking a few people who had gone out to inspect the fields in the morning, Donald decided to start with the herb shop.

There were three herb shops in the entire wheat valley town, and when the second one arrived, there was a response.

"Miss Audrey, she came to my shop about a week ago and bought some herbs, a lot of them, and they asked for several copies of each, and the people in the town only need a few ounces at a time, so I was very impressed with her, and you asked me what I was doing here? Could it be that Miss Audrey wants to buy them again?"

The store manager picked up some medicinal herbs that had just been delivered and looked at Donald expectantly.

"I want to know what the medicinal herbs that Miss Audrey bought before are useful, you are the store manager, you should be familiar with this kind of thing, right?"

Audrey Bartlet's medicinal materials purchased here are not just one, as long as there is a match, as the store manager, he always knows a little about pharmacology.

"Well, my memory ........"

The hand that was choosing the herb stopped, and the two fingers twisted together.

"Well, it's a reward. ”

1p on the counter.

"It's private about this......"

It's not enough.

"So what?"

Plus a penny.

"Oh, I seem to be thinking about it, and I feel a little close, how can you say it's good?"

It's insatiable.

"Do you love it? ”

I grabbed the coins and walked out, I'm not the one who handled the case, why didn't I get a penny, and I still had to stick money inside?

"Wait, I remember!"

2 pence is also money.

"Conditioning women's physiology....... That's all?"

After listening to the store manager's analysis, the final result was that Miss Audrey came on those days every month and needed to buy some medicinal herbs to make up for it.

"Yes, this shop was handed down by my grandfather, I grew up here, I know the effect of most of the medicinal materials in the store, Miss Audrey buys all the herbs that invigorate and replenish the blood, generally speaking, only people who have lost too much blood will need it, and she has no injuries on her body, so it can only be to regulate the body. “

"What did you just say? The effect of those herbs .....?"

Catch the sensitive words in the store manager's words and reconfirm them.

"Invigorating blood and tonifying blood are common medicinal materials, so as not to admit mistakes, I also clearly told her at the time that the amount should not be too large, otherwise the effect is too good is also a problem. ”

"Thank you for your help, this information is important. ”

Write down what the store manager said in his notebook, according to Sherlock, the blood beast condenses into "blood crystals" for ordinary people to swallow, maybe this kind of blood-invigorating herbs are needed to assist and speed up the spread of the effect.

The third herb shop, there was no harvest, and Miss Audrey went to only one shop.

Then there is the grocery store, which is still asking about the past.

"Miss Audrey didn't see it, but the rest of the Ranffindor Farm did...... Mr. Aldrich, I remember him, for there was something special he wanted, which was not available in the shop at the time, and which I had collected at Mr. Sein's house in the town, for a full six shillings. ”

"6 shillings?

Donald estimated in his heart that the monthly salary of a farm worker, excluding food and lodging, should be about 15 shillings, and the shopkeeper collected it for 6 shillings and sold it, which should not be the original price, Aldrich wanted to buy it and estimated that it would cost nearly half of the monthly salary, this is a grocery store, not a jewelry gold store.

"Horns of wild male goats, more than five years old, this is not an ordinary thing, it is rare in the whole town, Mr. Sain is a famous hunter in the town, the goats that have been hunted in the mountains before, the horns, gray-black, tsk...... It's just not the same as the domestic one. ”

"Did he say what he was going to do?"

"Decoration, that's what he said, and although I don't know what's so nice about this goat horn, he's willing to pay for it, and of course I'm willing to sell it. ”

I'm afraid it's just an excuse, these farm workers all live together, the house is uniform, to say that the middle class people in order to spice up their lives, give the house a wild nature to buy a hanging, Donald letter, a farm worker, spend half a month's salary, buy a wild male goat horn, and then spend money to carve it?

Of course, Donald can't rule out that Aldrich has this hobby, art, regardless of whether it is high or low, just make a note of it first, and go back to Lanffindor Farm to check it out.

"Mr. Grant, I don't think you need to ask me, you see, isn't that Mr. Aldrich? ”

"Huh?"

Turning around, Donald saw only the corners of his clothes flashing outside the store, and hurriedly rushed out, but what he saw was a figure running wildly in the rain, running more than ten meters, and directly turning over on the horse.

Aldrich!

"Oops, he's in town too. ”

When I saw myself staying in this grocery store, I turned around and left, if there was no ghost in my heart, what were I afraid of?

And he came on horseback, and it is very likely that he learned from the Ranffindor farm that he and Sherlock had come to Wheat Valley Town and then caught up.

There is definitely something hidden in these 5 years of wild goat horns.