74. Lost corpses

"yes, a tricky one." Althea rubbed her temples and sat on a wooden crate next to the door, covered in dust and blades of grass, as if she had rolled on the ground.

"Listen, maybe I can help."

"You?" Hearing Lin Wen say this, Althea looked at Lin Wen with some surprise, and suddenly her face was happy, and she slammed her fist into the palm of her hand, "Yes, hunter, you are a hunter, maybe you can really do it!" ”

In fact, Althea's troubles are related to the deceased. In the continent of Akara, it is also practiced to be buried in the earth, but cremation is not popular, but a kind of burial similar to that in the west of the earth, where people are buried in coffins and graves. It's easy to say in other places, but the twilight forest is flooded with undead, so the burial procedures here are also extraordinarily solemn, embalming, burial, sealing the coffin, burial, no matter which one is done meticulously, that is, to prevent the dead relatives from becoming undead.

All of the dead in Nighttown are now buried in the Quiet Garden on the northwest side of the town, one of the few places in the Twilight Forest that is not corrupted by the magic of chaos. And just in case, the night watchman sent people to patrol every day to check if there were any corpses that had turned into the undead.

The Garden of Tranquility has been stable for a few years, and now something has finally happened. Recently, every few days, the morning night watchmen would find a grave in the cemetery that had been dug up and the coffin had been opened, but only the body was missing.

The theft of the corpses of their loved ones is tantamount to a bolt from the blue for the civilians of Night Town, who have worked hard all their lives, and will not be at peace even after death, for these civilians, this is the most unacceptable future.

There are many possibilities for a body to go missing, it may be dug up and taken away by dark creatures or undead, or it may become an undead and run away, but either way, it is an unacceptable outcome. So the mayor of the town ordered everyone to open their coffins a few days ago, check the corpses for signs of resurrection, and then nail the corpses to the coffins, and then lock the coffins to strengthen the tomb.

But it didn't work, although it stopped for a few days, but last night two more bodies were lost, and the cry that Lin Wen heard in the morning was from the relatives of the missing bodies.

"We've been searching in the forest for a day without finding a missing body, so it would be great if you could help us." Althea looked at Lin Wen with a pleading gaze.

"Wait, you're just trying to recover the bodies now, why don't you go and see how these bodies disappeared?" Lin Wen said he had discovered a blind spot.

"Ugh." Althea sighed, "We also tried to keep it from morning to night, but it didn't work, the bodies were all missing at night. ”

"Then why aren't you late......" Lin Wen stopped before he could finish speaking, "Oh, by the way, there are wolves at night." ”

"That's the problem." Althea shrugged, "I also tried to go to the cemetery at night, but I couldn't see anything in the forest as soon as it got dark, and I didn't dare to light a torch, so I had to climb in a tree all night. ”

Also, the twilight forest is completely dark at night, and in this environment, unless it is the infrared vision of a special race, you can't see anything, and even Lin Wen's shimmer vision is the same.

Unless there's something that gives people night vision.

After thinking about it, Lin Wen's eyes suddenly lit up: "Altea, is there anyone in Night Town who is proficient in herbal medicine?" ”

"Herbology? Some. Although it was very strange why Lin Wen asked this question at this time, Althea still told the truth, "There is a strange man in Nighttown, named Abel Crombie, he is proficient in herbology and alchemy, and he provides all the potions of the Night's Watch. ”

"Why do you call him a weirdo?" Lin Wen was very curious about this title.

"He got married two years ago, but his wife Alyssa is not in a good life, she has been sick, Abel Cronder has not been able to cure Alyssa, two months ago Alyssa couldn't hold on. Later, during the funeral of Elisa, Abel Crombie went berserk and snatched the coffin containing Elisa's body. At first, we thought he was overly sad, after all, he was middle-aged and married to a wife, but what we didn't expect was that he Alyssa actually came back to life the next day! Althea had an exaggerated expression on her face, "The real dead come back to life, I've seen Alyssa's body, it's all hard, I really don't know how he did it." ”

"Alyssa showed her face once after she was resurrected, and then stayed at home all the time. Abrrolon refused to be visited by anyone, saying that the resurrection potion had made Elisa weaker, unable to see the light or the wind. Althea thought for a moment and continued, "But I've always heard the townsfolk say that Abelcrobi cries all the time at night, and when he cries in the middle of the night, do you think this is a weirdo?" ”

If you love to cry and are weirdos, then there are really a lot of weirdos in the world.

Lin Wen nodded, "Althea, I will configure a potion that can make people gain dark vision, I need some herbs, can you help me get some?" ”

"You can also do alchemy?" Althea looked at Lin Wen in surprise, she had the impression that alchemy was only learned by a middle-aged uncle or a white-bearded old man like Abel Crombie.

"Of course, but I don't know how to collect medicine, can you help me get a golden thorn grass and a dead leaf grass?" Lin Wen said the medicinal herbs needed.

"Golden thorn grass, withered leaf grass......" Althea repeated, "Okay, I'll get it for you now." ”

After a while, Althea returned with two pillars of herbs. Lin Wen began to dispense medicine, this time it was a potion called Cat's Eye Elixir, the main function is to detect stealth, and obtaining night vision is only its side effect, of course, it is enough.

"This is the potion that makes people see at night?" Looking at the amber potion in the test tube, Althea subconsciously reached for it.

"Yes, you have a bottle and I have a bottle, and we will go to the cemetery together in a while." This time, a total of two bottles of potion were made, and Lin Wen handed a test tube to Althea.

"Going in a moment? Are you kidding? Listening to Lin Wen's words, Althea objected. Now there are human wolves everywhere outside, you are a hunter, and you can't avoid those monsters without stealth! ”

"You mean I can go if I can be invisible?"

"Of course not, it's an hour's walk from Night Town to the Garden of Tranquility, and we're going to keep watch in the cemetery all night, will this potion last all night?" Althea asked as she flicked her finger over the test tube.

"No, it only lasts 20 minutes." Lin Wen replied honestly.

"Okay, so how are we going to get there when we can't see the road?"

Lin Wen had no choice but to put the potion in his hand back into his backpack: "Then you mean to go tomorrow?" ”

Althea nodded: "Yes, have a good rest today, and then get ready, tomorrow we will go to the cemetery in the afternoon, and stay there for the night, I want to see how these corpses are lost!" ”