79. Old diary
The matter of the corpse snatcher is revealed, and when Interrogating Abel Crombie, Abel also explains why Alyssa is stealing the corpse.
It turned out that the potion used by Abelcrobi to resurrect Alyssa was a plague of undead from the north, which caused great disaster to the north of the continent one hundred and twenty years ago. The undead who have been resurrected by this plague have a characteristic that their brains do not decay, so they also retain their memories of life. But this is not a resurrection, it is just a corpse that has consciousness and can act on its own. And the resurrected will have a great craving for meat, especially human flesh, and this desire will drive them to abandon their bottom line as human beings little by little, starting from stealing the dead and corpses, and gradually developing into attacking the living, and finally becoming an agile, conscious, thinking, and aggressive carnivorous undead. In the north, such undead spirits are called evil spirits.
Abel Crombie also revealed where Alyssa hid her body, in the basement of an abandoned watchtower west of the Twilight Forest. The Night's Watch looked over and saw that there were a dozen or so gnawed skeletons, all of which had their arms separated from their shoulders. Seeing this scene, Lin Wen immediately understood how Alyssa got the corpse out of the cemetery: after all, they were all corpses, and it was enough to pass through the small cave by removing his hands.
Because of Abelcrombie's contributions to Nightshade over the years, the Night's Watch did not punish him otherwise. However, because of Alyssa's death and the stolen corpses, Abel Crombie completely broke with Nighttown, and the residents of Nighttown strongly opposed the burial of Alyssa's body in the Garden of Tranquility, so Abelcrobi moved out of Nightlight Town with Alyssa's body in his arms, and lived in the abandoned watchtower to the west, and buried Alyssa right behind the watchtower.
As a dead ghost, it is impossible for Alyssa to turn into another undead and get up from the grave again, so the townspeople don't care where Alyssa is buried. However, due to the moral and practical needs of Nighttown, Mayor Airo still asked the Night's Watch team to send some food and herbs to Abel every few days, and also brought a note with the symptoms of the sick patients in Nightlight Town during this time, and brought back the medicine that Abel had prepared for the patients when he returned.
It seemed that the matter was over, but two days after Abel moved out, six human wolves attacked Nightlight Town with the Holy Light Pillar, killing more than a dozen people. The hall of Night Town, the Blood Raven Hotel and other important buildings were made a mess by the battle, which made people panic for a while, and many people maliciously speculated whether it was Abel Crombie's revenge on Night Town, deliberately attracting human wolves to attack Night Town.
However, Abel Crombie vehemently denied this, swearing by a gamble and threatening suicide that he didn't do it, so Nighttown treated the human-wolf attack as an emergency.
Nothing happened for days after the man-wolf attack, as if a peaceful life had finally arrived, and the residents of Nighttown breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Lin Wen knew that these attacking human wolves were not because of Abel Crombie, but because of himself, the wolf is a grudge-bearing animal, and the human wolf is even more resentful, it is estimated that these wolves saw the human wolf corpse outside the cemetery, so they gave Yeshi Town a fierce revenge.
Indeed, the revenge succeeded, but the revenge of the man-wolf led to another. Since that man-wolf attack, Lin Wen has slept during the day and gotten up at night every day, doing nothing else, and going into the woods to hunt killer wolves, Lin Wen swore to the dead that he would kill these beasts who stood up until they were afraid.
And when Lin Wen returned to the hotel today, he suddenly found that a stranger had come to Night Town.
"Hey, hello, look at you staying in a hotel, you shouldn't be a local, right?" It was a middle-aged man in a tuxedo, with black hair and a cleanly shaved beard.
"Yes, I'm an adventurer, passing through Nighttown." Lin Wen introduced himself: "My name is Carré. ”
"You're Carré, the hunter who found the Body Snatcher? It's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Tobias, Tobias Mistermanto. Tobias shook hands with Lin Wen, "I'd like to ask you for a favor, if you're free." ”
"You say."
"I'm here to find my brother Stavon, whom I haven't seen in years, and through many inquiries, I've learned that Stavon was last seen in Nighttown. But as soon as I got here, someone said he was dead. ”
"Dead?" Lin Wen was a little stunned.
"That's right, it's the 'Night's Watchmen' who say Staven has been dead for years." Tobias scratched his head in frustration, "But they wouldn't tell me anything else, as if the mere mention of my brother's name would lead to a curse, I'm fed up!" ”
"I'm worried about what terrible things I'm going to do if my anger burns further, so I'd like to ask you to do me a favor." Tobias took a step forward, walked to Lin Wen's side and whispered, "There is a man named Dalta in the hall of Night Town, he is a clerk, he must know something, I want you to help me ask him." ”
"That's it?"
"Yes, please."
"No problem, wrap it up on me." Lin Wen patted his chest, and then walked downstairs.
"Dalta, are you free?" Lin Wen came to the hall of Night Town and found Dalta, who was sorting out the files, which had been a mess by the human-wolf attack a few days ago.
"Hello, Carré, what can I do for you?" Darta stopped what he was doing and said.
"Do you know a man named Staven?" Lin Wen asked.
"Staven? You want to know about Staven too......" said Dalta, surprised, "you're not the first, you know, we often have outsiders here to inquire about him, always outsiders. Actually, I used to have a Staven diary here, but apparently you're out of luck, a few days ago a man-wolf attack made a mess of it. I've lost half of my archives, and what you need is likely scattered in some part of the Twilight Forest. But honestly, I advise you not to look for it. ”
"Why?" Lin Wen was very puzzled by Dalta's suggestion.
"There's a curse on that diary, and it's going to be a hassle to flip through it."
"What if I insist on looking for it?"
"That's your business, in fact, I really want someone to help me complete my file for free." Darta said half-jokingly. "Alright, no kidding. Listen, my file was lost by a human wolf, so it's likely that my file is in a man-wolf den, and there are three places in the Twilight Forest that are home to a man-wolf lair: the Sunshine Grove, the Rotten Orchard, and Roland's Tomb. ”
"If you want to look for it, be careful, it's not worth giving up your life for an old diary."