Chapter 187: Time Bomb
However, self-soothing is not very useful, and it is generally difficult to convince yourself effectively.
Most importantly, Mr. Connor always had a vague sense of unease in his heart, feeling that he might have made a fatal mistake, but he didn't even know what he had done.
And when exactly it was committed, and what terrible consequences it would cause.
It feels like rushing out of the house, going to take a car or a plane, but I always vaguely feel that I have missed something important and not taken, but no matter how much I think about it and how I check, I just don't find what I missed.
There was only one feeling, but it was this feeling that made him extremely irritable.
That's not true......
It shouldn't be like this......
I must have missed something......
Mr. Connor tried hard to get rid of the distractions, trying to immerse himself in the work he was supposed to do, and to combat the strange distractions of his thoughts.
He thinks that he must be overly careful, just like in his daily life on Earth, when he always worries that he doesn't lock the door when he goes out.
Many people have it, but when they go out, they always forget whether they have locked the door, turned off the water, electricity, and gas...... And so on and so forth? So even if you have already walked down the stairs, you still have to go back to check it again, and Mr. Connor has been in this habit before.
Even if you have good self-awareness, know that this is not necessary, and even feel very distressed about it, you can't get rid of such obsessive-compulsive thoughts and compulsions that appear repeatedly in your life, and you seem a little neurotic.
Because if he chooses to ignore it and don't return to check and confirm it in the entanglement, then he may be in a worried situation for the rest of the day, affecting his work or play.
Instead, he chose to go back and check, at most it was a slight delay, but after confirming that the door was locked, the water and electricity were turned off, and there was no problem at all, at least he could feel at ease for the rest of the day.
As a result, Mr. Connor, who has a lot of experience, tries to convince himself that this "amnesia" behavior or feels like it is only because he is insecure, or that it is simply a "compulsive" distrust of himself due to excessive stress.
After all, this was a completely strange world, and he was thrown alone into this backward, ignorant, and threatening plane.
Isolated and helpless, without relatives, and without even a friend who can talk to, it is more cruel than being on a desert island.
In addition, I know how terrible the society of the feudal lord system is, the land and the means of production are owned by the lord, and even the lives of the people at the bottom are largely occupied by the lord, so in order not to be killed as livestock for no reason in the future, in order to have the capital to protect themselves in the future......
He had to deal with the dead every day, trying his best to use their corpses and residual soul power, and every day he was thinking about how to create more and more advanced undead.
Knowing that the true meaning of the necromancer should be a more noble and great pursuit, but at present, he can only adhere to pragmatism in everything, and inevitably go further and further on the dark ** road.
Therefore, it is normal to gradually accumulate a lot of negative emotions and psychological pressure.
Moreover, although the nature is the same, if he forgets to close the door, close the window, and turn off the water and electricity, he can still turn back and take a look at it, and make sure that he can feel at ease. But now, he has no way to apply this set of problem-solving methods to this world.
Therefore, men can only warn themselves over and over again, to take it easy psychologically, and not to take this matter seriously.
There will be no problems, there will be no mess, your plan is perfect and you execute it well, just go on like this. Traveling to a dangerous medieval magical world is already the worst thing, and how bad can it be?
That's right, there's nothing to be afraid of anymore......
Slowly, Mr. Connor regained his self-confidence, and became like a soldier again, with sharp eyes and firm ideas.
He began to count the bodies in the Hall of the Dead, and went about his work for the day, no longer acting a little irritable, and seemed to have regained his morale and became concentrated, but ...... He would still occasionally wander for a moment, and then a spirit would wake up.
Because the doubts in the heart of this man not only did not disappear, but became more profound.
Faintly, it was probably his subconscious intuition that locked on to the area where the problem was most likely to occur-
That is the demonic side of his own personality revealed after he initially stirred up the demon blood in **, and he did not find a countermeasure against the other party at the first time. Even the method of drinking the clarity potion to eliminate fatigue and prolong one's wakefulness as much as possible only began three days ago.
For more than a week before that, he woke up every morning and didn't know what he had done the night before.
Although, as time passed, he would slowly recall those memories and know everything the demon personality had done during those nights.
But the problem was that he couldn't get the memory of one night in mind, and it seemed to be just a blank slate...... Maybe that night, the demonic personality was also resting and didn't go out to do anything special, so he didn't leave any special memories?
Mr. Connor had been optimistic, but now he didn't think anything had happened that night.
It is quite possible that the opposite is true, something particularly crucial and important must have happened that night, and a time bomb was planted on him, and I don't know when it will be completely detonated.
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On the other side –
Geralt, the white wolf, has been in Willen for some time.
At first, he was chasing his old lover Yennefa, but after finding Yennefa, he couldn't just stop and return to Kyle Mohan to enjoy his old age, but started to run again.
But this time it's to find his adopted daughter, Ciri.
It was Princess Sintra, the daughter of Emperor Nilfgaard Enshir Enrith and Princess Pavita of Sintra. The reason why she is the first in line to the throne of Nilfgaard and the throne of Sintra, but she will still become the adopted daughter of a witcher, is because of an incident twenty years ago.
After Geralt lifted Ciri's father's curse and facilitated his marriage to Paveta, he demanded a reward from him according to the "Law of Accidents", and then the two found out that the "reward" was for Ciri, who was not yet born.
Despite all the twists and turns, the princess was eventually taken away by the witcher and became the adopted daughter of the white wolf. But after that, for some reason, she left this world and went far, far away.
Geralt thought he would never see his daughter again, but he didn't expect Yennefer and Emperor Nhil of Nilfgaard to tell him that Ciri had returned to this world.
But the situation is still very dangerous, she is being hunted, and "Wild Hunt" refuses to let her go...... So you have to find her before the "wild hunt".
Of course, Geralt couldn't have turned down this task, because Ciri was the person he valued most in the world. He is willing to do anything to save her.
The problem, however, is that although Enhil is Emperor Nilfgaard, he is now at war, and the entire empire is mired in war. Again, he can decide when the war will start, but he can never decide when the war will end.
So no matter how many soldiers he had, it was impossible to help him in finding his daughter. It is impossible for him to withdraw his troops from the battlefield and send them all out to find a single person during the war, which is unrealistic.
And Ye Naifa can't do anything about it, she has been working hard for a long time, using all kinds of magic to locate her, but not to mention that the positioning spell will even attract the attention of "Wild Hunt".
As a result, they can't use magic, and can only find Ciri through traditional means, and Geralt is one of them.
It was a matter of the safety of his adopted daughter, who had been taken care of since he was a child, and he immediately set off and went to Willen, who was on the front line of the war. Because Ciri has appeared in both Willen and Novigre, he chose Willen as his first stop.
Located in the western part of Temeria, Wiren is the poorest province in all of the Temeria Kingdom.
Even in peacetime, when there were no bandits and deserters, it was an area that no one wanted to go...... Inaccessible swamps, poor villages, and impolite hillbillies are probably the only things outsiders remember about them.
And now, with the fall of Temeria, Wiren has become a front battlefield between Redania and the Southern Empire, and it has become a completely no-man's land, where a former Temerian military officer who calls himself "The Bloody Baron" has set himself up as king with the remnants of his army.
Before leaving Vigema City and setting out, Geralt asked Ambassador Azhuo about the situation, and Ambassador Azhuo gave him advice to stay away from the bloody baron.
Although he didn't know what was going on, or whether the ambassador's advice was correct or not, the white wolf had always been good at following the advice of others. Since you don't know the situation, try to listen to the judgment of experienced people, and although you can't believe it directly, you can't disbelieve it all.
So he didn't choose to contact the bloody baron first, but put it at the last option, the kind of breakthrough that he would choose if there was really no way.
When Geralt found him, Geralt only found the villages burned by the "Wild Hunt" and the villagers who were killed by men, women and children, and only one of them survived.
However, in Handrick's notes, he found that the agent had gathered a clue that a witch had a quarrel with Ciri, and that the witch lived near the village of Midcowps.
After all, it was a clue pointing out the exact location, and Geralt naturally wouldn't let it go.
After finding the witch's residence, the witch hunter discovers that it is someone he knows, Kayla Maze, a sorceress from Kariath, who is petite with long light blonde hair and hazel eyes.
She once served as a royal advisor to King Folteste of Temeria, along with Triss Meligard and Fekcat, but she was only a former advisor.
Geralt entered her house and didn't notice where she was, but after touching the house's mechanism, she opened a portal.
After passing through the portal, he came to a fairyland that looked like a dream forest, with no day and just the right night, about a magically generated underground cavern!
And in the bathtub at the top of the central building, Kayla is bathing, not shying away from the arrival of the witcher.
After a brief conversation with old friends, Geralt learns why Kayla Maze, who hates the countryside, hides in the remote city of Willen.
Because now that King Radovid V of Redania has launched a frenzied "witch hunt" in the Northern Kingdom, a large-scale persecution of magic users, Kayla, as a member of the former Guild, has naturally become one of the primary targets.
In order to escape the witch hunters, Kayla travels to the remote village of Midcowpes in Willen and disguises herself as a witch to prescribe medicine or fortune telling the local farmers.
After all, the northern kingdom has gone mad, and the south is Nilfgaard's territory, so she has only one place left to go.