On a quiet early winter night, strolling through the streets of Calthus with maple leaves, the shops stretch out from the high and low corners along the way, and the smooth stone curved roof shines with a sparkling silver moonlight like water.

The scenery in front of me coincided with the memory little by little, and the deep night was filled with soft dark clouds, and the clouds slowly floated, and gradually, they obscured the moonlight.

The night grew darker.

To get to the residence of merchant Ignati Woods from Metasequoia Street, if you want to take a shortcut, you only need to pass a few secluded and deserted alleys from the southern part of the city.

Gross and Eve walked one after the other, and in the cold weather, the girl changed into a white thick cloth coat, and her long gray hair was pulled out and draped over the back of the hood of the coat.

"Mr. Gross, you're saying he's going to be in big trouble, Dad?"

Continuing the topic of conversation between the two of them before, it was only a short walk of less than three or two minutes before Eve understood the meaning of Gross's words-

Her delicate eyebrows and pursed lips became parallel lines, and she wrinkled her nose as if a heavy feeling had come back to her heart, and she continued to ask tentatively, "Is it the trouble of those debts?" ”

Gross nodded.

For the troubles that businessman Ignati Woods is involved in, debt is the root of it all-

And he rescued Eve from the "Eye of the Black Dragon", which, according to the tasks in the game, is a form of forced combat, and in essence, these things have nothing to do with the debts of the merchant Ignati Woods himself.

In other words, the loan agreement between the merchant and the "Dragon's Eye Brotherhood" still exists - he really can't find any reason, and in the days that follow, the "Dragon's Brotherhood" gangsters will let the girl Eve and his merchant father go.

Of course, this is what he thinks from the perspective of an aboriginal - in a game in a previous life, players would not have thought about these things at all, and after completing the mission, nothing has anything to do with them.

He's changed, he's no longer an indifferent, bystander player.

It's a subtle process, but Gross himself isn't too aware of it.

His meaning is already clear.

The businessmen, Ignati Woods and Eve, remained in Karthus, and it was not long before they were almost certainly a sure thing that they would be approached again.

As a businesswoman, although Eve is simple and innocent, she is not a fool after all, and after a little thought, all kinds of connections in it are quickly remembered by her-

The little head sank downward, and even the originally brisk pace became a little sluggish and heavy.

Seeing the girl like this, Gross stopped talking.

There was a brief silence between the two.

Unintentionally glancing up, he saw several black figures from the night vision—

The bounty hunters of Pablo's Blood Thorn are swift as the wind, jumping up and down as they weave through the buildings.

"Eve, wait a minute."

He shouted suddenly.

As he spoke, he took a few steps ahead of the girl and stopped—sniffing vigorously, in this cold and secluded alley, in addition to a faint smell of urine, there seemed to be a faint smell of blood.

The smell is fishy, which means that the blood is still fresh.

The identity of the bandit leader made him extremely sensitive to this smell, but he was not too sure whether it was human blood or the blood left behind by slaughtering animals.

It's almost time for dinner for the locals—

This alleyway is located in the real slum area of Nancheng District, and behind the walls on both sides of the alleyway, you can clearly see a patch of orange lights, and if you pay close attention, you can still hear the noise, crying, and the crackling of dishes from the low, dilapidated houses.

But Gross preferred to guess the worst.

Perhaps, not far from the neighborhood, there had just been a homicide - he quickly contacted those black figures, and subconsciously, secretly raised his vigilance.

He wasn't afraid, but Eve wasn't—the girl was just a powerless ordinary person, and if a fight did occur, it would be very dangerous for her.

After Gross called out to Eve, the latter raised his head slightly, a look of doubt in his leaden gray eyes.

"Did something happen?"

She asked.

"There's probably something going on up ahead, and we're going to take a detour."

"Oh, okay."

Obviously, since Gross rescued Eve from the "Black Dragon's Eye", the girl has regarded the young man in front of her as the backbone, although it can't be said to be obedient, but it's not far off-

Ahh

Scream!

The woman's screams, the shrill sound that vibrated her eardrums, reached the second half, and suddenly became trembling.

In a small alley that turned the corner in front of her, a slightly old and slightly chubby lady was sorting out the garbage in the house, and she was about to pour it at the intersection in a bucket.

Fell on all fours.

Fortunately, in this winter, the clothes are still quite thick, and I fell down this time, and I was finally not injured-

And when she got up from the ground, taking advantage of the nearby light and moonlight, she saw the round thing clearly.

Head.

A human head with round eyes and a frightened expression.

Along the position of the human head, you can see a long trail of blood, and as far as the eye can see, there is a headless corpse lying in the corner of the wall not far away.

She was almost frightened, she didn't care about the garbage in the bucket spilling all over the floor, and after screaming, she almost used her hands and feet to roll backwards.

The lady ran around the corner in a daze, and then she saw a gray-haired maiden and a tall bearded merchant with a round-brimmed dogskin hat.

She looked at the two of them with a nervous expression.

Gross and Eve were just about to leave the alley and chose to take a detour.

"Kill, kill, kill......"

Under the great horror, the lady's appearance became a little demented, and she kept repeating the words -

"Murdered?"

Gross couldn't help but frown.

Although Karthas during this period of the New Moon was not called a good law and order, he openly killed people in the city, and more or less challenged the majesty of the lord-

According to the code, the murderer pays for his life, and even the ruffians who usually behave badly rarely commit such drastic acts.

He thought of those black figures for a moment.

Lawlessness?

Well, there's only one possibility, those notorious bounty hunters.

He remembered that a few days ago, he seemed to have met such a bounty hunter in Silver Leaf Town, "Pablo's Blood Thorn"-

Speaking of which, he also got a whole bag of three hundred reals and a signet ring with the falcon insignia from the fellow's hand.

These bounty hunters have reappeared?

By the way, according to the plot of the game in his previous life, the princess Samantha he met should also have come to Karthas-

In a split second, Gross's mind raced, and he thought of a lot of things.

……

"Wandering artist" Tang Di stopped suddenly.

The "mustachioed vendor" beside him raised his stubby dark brown eyebrows and looked at the guy with some confusion—