"Monsters and humans, what do you mean?"

Zhao Li asked rhetorically.

The baron had a strange look on his face and spoke to Zhao Li.

Just a few days ago, the Baron's wife had gone out for a walk outside the town with her daughter, and had disappeared, and the Baron had searched the town and its vicinity with no one in the city.

The Baroness and her daughter did not go for a walk alone, with two guards, but not far from the town, the Baron found the bodies of two guards.

"The wounds left on the two guards are sharp claw marks, and I found this at the scene..."

I saw the baron take out a small wooden box from his body and open it.

Suddenly, a foul smell spread directly in the courtyard.

Zhao Li looked into the box and saw that there were several broken black-gray feathers inside, each of which was half the size of a palm.

"What kind of monster is this?"

Zhao Li wrinkled his nose and asked, these feathers emitted an extremely disgusting rancid smell, which was not inferior to the stomach of a ghoul, and he didn't know what the owner of this feather should smell like.

"This is the feathers left by the human-faced demon bird..."

Baron Paine said, looking at Zhao Li's confused look, and added: "I have seen this kind of monster when I was a soldier before, it is almost as tall as a human, but..."

The human-faced demon bird is not a well-known monster among the people, this is a monster with a human woman-like face and bird wings, the appearance is very ugly, it will make a chilling cry, and at the same time, the most famous feature is that it exudes a rotting stench all over its body, and even the rats living in the feces and garbage are reluctant to approach the nest of the human-faced demon bird.

Although the strength of this monster is not too strong, and its strength and speed are only about the same as that of ghouls, they are social monsters, and they also have wings - no matter what monster, once they can fly, the trickiness level will skyrocket.

The only good news is that this monster prefers dark and damp environments, so it mostly haunts deep swamps, dark caves, and is not very easy to disturb humans.

"Then how do you know that your wife and daughter are not dead? Even if the Human-Faced Demon Bird didn't kill them for the time being, so many days have passed now. And what do you mean by 'there are other humans'?"

Zhao Li listened carefully to Baron Paine's words, and at the same time raised questions - in fact, Zhao Li is quite willing to understand these strange things in this world, it feels like he is watching "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Liao Zhai" and the like, and more importantly, these are still the food for him to become stronger.

"Because I know about these monsters - I used to meet these disgusting creatures when I was fighting in the Swamp of Theramayr, and they are stupid and evil things, and it stands to reason that they don't appear near Peel Town..."

Baron Paine explained to Zhao Li: "And I learned an important news in the town, just two days before my wife disappeared, there were several people with a foul smell in the town... The smell is the same as the smell left by these demon birds, these people are asking everywhere where there are pregnant women and babies who are about to give birth...

And it is true that some people and babies have disappeared, and I know that there are many evil people in this world, who have evil intentions, and can even drive away monsters..."

"But how can you be sure that your wife and daughter are not dead?" Zhao Li asked again emphatically.

"Because I have a loyal knight, and yesterday he found the whereabouts of my wife and daughter, and he was sure that they were alive. ”

Baron Paine frowned and said, "It's in a hut in the swampy forest, but he can't rescue my wife and daughter, and around that hut, there are several human-faced demon birds. ”

"So, I want you to help me rescue my wife and daughter—if you can really defeat the griffon, then I don't think the human-faced demon bird is nothing, and I can go with you. ”

Speaking of which, Baron Paine was already looking at Zhao Li with anticipation - a few human-faced demon birds were extremely difficult for ordinary people to defeat, and with the strength at hand of Baron Paine, there was no way at all.

"A human-faced demon bird, a man who can drive away demons, and inquire about pregnant women and babies who are about to give birth..." The key information that Baron Paine said made Zhao Li think of something.

"So, what about your reward?" Zhao Li asked in a deep voice.

Hearing Zhao Li's question, Baron Paine's face appeared with joy, and said, "What do you want to get? I can give you gold coins, thirty coins, is that okay?"

Thirty gold coins, Lord Paine has indeed made a bloody investment, at least for a country lord, this is definitely a huge amount of money.

Zhao Li nodded noncommittally - in fact, he was not short of money, the reason why he took this task was only because what the lord said made him think of something, and in addition, it was also a good thing to kill some new monsters - this meant that he could obtain a new and non-decreasing number of free attribute points.

"Thank you so much, when it gets dark, my knights will be back—let him take us early tomorrow morning!"

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In this way, Zhao Li, who beat all Baron Paine's subordinates and almost drowned Baron Paine himself, was treated with the highest standard of hospitality in the lord's castle just like a guest.

Although this so-called lord's castle is much better than the mud houses and wooden houses of the poor people in the town, in the eyes of Zhao Li, a modern person, the living conditions are also very poor, and it can only be said that it is not enough.

After Zhao Li accepted the hire, Baron Paine also lifted his spirits, turned out his armor, and sharpened his sword, planning to go with Zhao Li to save his wife and daughter the next day - unfortunately, all the guards were seriously injured by Zhao Li, and no one could go with them.

However, this is not a big problem at all, and in the face of tricky monsters, a large number of cannon fodder is far less useful than a few high-end martial artists.

And in the evening, when night began to fall, a somewhat embarrassed young knight arrived at the lord's castle.

"This is my loyal knight, Allen, this is - Allen, what's going on?"

When Baron Paine introduced the only knight under his command to Zhao Li, he found that the young and handsome Alan knight was stained with a lot of green slimy liquid and mud, and the war horse was also injured.

"On the way back, I was surrounded by several water ghosts, and I managed to kill two of them before I escaped. ”

The handsome young knight Alan with bright blond hair said simply, and at the same time quickly said: "Lord Lord, today is the same as yesterday, Madame has been staying in that wooden house and has not come out, but I have seen her from a distance through the window, it should be fine, Miss Anna seems to be fine, but I found a few more people in the wooden house today..."

"Alan, well done, thank you. Baron Paine patted his knight on the shoulder with pleasure - he knew very well how difficult it would be to get out of the crowd of water spirits when the sun was setting.

"Alan, introduce me, this is Francon, the best mercenary I've ever met, there is no one, tomorrow he will go with us to rescue my wife and daughter. ”

Finally, Baron Paine introduced Zhao Li to the loyal Alan Knight.

Knight Allen looked at Zhao Li, and unexpectedly froze, can an "excellent mercenary" go to rescue the Baroness and Miss? Didn't Lord Lord say that he had to find a witcher or a court mage?