Section 18: Fooling the Witch
Just after Bruce disappeared, the village of Glinton was in chaos, and the villagers, led by Elder Warren, searched everywhere for Bruce's whereabouts, but they searched the entire Glynton and found no trace of Bruce.
The most anxious is little Lori Anne, she led the villagers to look everywhere, and the villagers did not dare to disobey her by virtue of her noble status, but this time the villagers were not completely obedient to orders, Bruce got rid of Todd, who oppressed the villagers, and mingled with the villagers, and in the hearts of the villagers, Bruce has been regarded as their own person.
"I've searched all the places now, but I still can't find the lord." The blacksmith said anxiously as he held the torch.
"Woooooooooooo Little Lori Anne cried anxiously, Bruce is the lord of Glinton, and the loss of his lord Anne will definitely be punished.
Looking at the crying Anne, the blacksmith and the others all looked at each other, the fate of the lord's disappearance was like a small ship thrown back into the storm, only the face of the elder Warren looked different from the others, and the huntress Eve was keenly aware of it.
"Let's disperse first, and we'll look farther away tomorrow morning." Huntress Eve said loudly to the others.
Seeing that it was getting late, and there were no clues from the lord, the villagers had to bustle back to their homes, and in the end only the blacksmith, the huntress Eve, and the elder Warren were left.
"It's really unlucky, I finally met a good lord." The blacksmith wept and mourned, a lord who would invite him and his son to dinner, and take out the ale to share with the people, was a rare and good man.
"Warren, you must know where the lord is, right?" The huntress Eve had a grim face, losing the lord was a serious matter, and the slightest mistake would attract the other nobles of the empire to attack her.
"I, I think I should know who the lord is." Warren wiped the sweat from his face with his hands, and he thought it was very tricky, so he told him about Bruce and his trip to the forest to find the swineherd, and then they heard Bruce's cry for help, and by the time they arrived, he had already lost sight of him.
"Forest? But we've searched the forests, even the borders with the kin-lovers. Huntress Eve said in surprise.
"Yes, but there's another place you haven't looked for." Warren said to them.
Huntress Eve and the blacksmith were taken aback, they searched almost all the corners of Glinton, and they supposedly missed nothing, but at Warren's reminder, they finally remembered the place, and said it in unison.
"Swamp."
"That's right, it's a swamp, and then I thought about it carefully, and the last sound the lord made should be in the direction of the swamp." Warren sighed, and he nodded to the others.
"Damn, why that place?" Huntress Eve is also like a deflated ball, and she has nothing to do with the swamp.
"Wow, poor lord." The blacksmith also gave up on the idea of saving Bruce, and the swamp was a place they all refused to enter.
Silence, silence, the three of them stood in the night wind and did not know what to do, the loss of the lord would face the questioning of the nobles, but the things in the swamp were not what they wanted to face.
"Elder, you should talk to the two sisters and let them release Bruce." The huntress said to Warren.
"Do you think I can convince them?" Warren looked into Eve's eyes, and his vicissitudes of life were full of self-reproach.
In the swamp, Bruce doesn't know the troubles of Warren and the others, his character is originally tough and easy-going, with an attitude of being at ease when he comes, he tries his best to keep the swamp witch sisters happy.
"What is this?" Monica saw Bruce weave a grass horse out of a few sticks of dead grass, and the grass horse appeared in the palm of Bruce's hand.
"A horse, for you." Bruce handed the grass horse to Monica, and Monica let out a giggling laugh as she watched the grass horse, but the hoarse voice didn't make Bruce feel creepy this time.
Mavis watched from the sidelines, she glanced at the grass horse in Monica's hand, and inadvertently showed a look of envy, Bruce was keenly aware of it, so he got up and plucked a leaf.
"What is he going to do?" The Swamp Witch sisters saw Bruce put a roll of leaves in their mouths, and they all looked at Bruce curiously, and at that moment a melodious whistle sounded, and Bruce played a beautiful music with a leaf.
"Wow, that's amazing, he's not a lord, he's supposed to be a wizard." Monica clapped her hands and laughed, and even the tsundere Mavis was surprised.
"It's not magic, it's just a simple tool." Bruce smiled, his legs straight, one hand pressed to his chest, the other turned his back, as if he were saluting in the middle of court.
"Sister, is he saluting us?" Looking at Bruce's salute, Monica excitedly took Mavis's hand and said to her.
"I've seen it all, and I'm not blind." Mavis rolled her eyes, but she had a crush on Bruce.
"No other man has ever saluted us." Monica giggled, and the other party was a real lord.
"Don't be fooled, my sister, who knows what he's up to?" Mavis didn't let her guard down, she always thought Bruce had bad intentions.
At that moment, a strange sound came into the swamp, and Mavis frowned when she heard it, and she glanced at Bruce with strange eyes.
"Monica is staring at him, I'll come as soon as I go." After dropping a word for Monica, Mavis walked over to a raft and rowed away.
Bruce watched in the direction Mavis had left, and he decided to tell Monica a big lie to convince her to release him and return to her territory.
"Uh, Monica, didn't you ever leave the swamp?" Bruce approached Monica and said to her, when approaching Monica, Bruce found that Monica's appearance was really terrifying, half of her face seemed to have been burned by fire, looking at this terrifying face Bruce couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
"Whew." As if sensing Bruce's gaze, Monica hurriedly covered her face with a hood.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to watch it." Bruce hurriedly apologized to Monica.
"No, it's okay, you didn't mean it, and it's me who should apologize, my horrible look." Monica whispered, dodging Bruce's gaze.
"Actually, you don't look that ugly." Bruce hurriedly comforted Monica and said, in fact, Monica's silhouette is not ugly, but the terrible burn is obvious, Bruce did service activities for the disabled in college, and has seen more terrible injuries than this.
"Really?" Bruce's words encouraged Monica, and her gaze shone brightly like never before.
"Yes, I once heard from bards a legend that it was a technique that could repair the appearance of a person who had been burned by fire." Bruce saw the sparkle in Monica's eyes and realized that his opportunity had come, so he continued to flicker.
"What, it's impossible, our mother is the most powerful witch, but she's never heard of this technique." Monica's eyes widened, she had eyes as blue as the sea, and her eyes were childlike and innocent, almost making Bruce want to give up on cheating on her.
"The gods of this world, please forgive me, but I'm not wrong, plastic surgery technology does exist!" Bruce repented in his heart, but he faced the threat of war from his brother James, and he had to return to the territory as soon as possible, so he could only deceive this simple witch.
Bruce's plastic surgery finally touched Monica, and whenever she looked at her horrible face in the water, she couldn't help but feel disgust, especially when compared to her sister's beautiful face.
Bruce's statement is actually full of loopholes, but for Monica, this is exactly what her heart desires, so she decided to cooperate with Bruce to escape from the swamp without hesitation.