Chapter 3: Unfriendly Residents

Several night watchmen rushed out of the village with dogs, carrying pitchforks and knives and other weapons, and blocked in front of Cannet. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info They seemed to be undecided, but they muttered to each other for a moment in a dialect that they didn't understand, and began to glance at Canette with hostile glances from time to time.

It's the kind of look that Carnet is all too familiar with - the kind of look that looks at a freak.

The stranger with heterochromic pupils often symbolizes two well-known identities: the demon clan and the demon hunter. Although both are subject to varying degrees of hostility in different places, they are undoubtedly considered freaks.

It is clear that the inhabitants here also fall into the prejudiced category. When they saw that I was a heterochromic pupil, they naturally didn't have much affection for me...... Touching the blindfold in his pocket, Carnet regretted a little: wouldn't it be a big loss if I wasn't allowed to enter the village because of this?

Canette didn't like wearing an eyepatch to hide the Eye, and he didn't think it would be of much use to do so. He would rather face his status as a witcher and receive the thorny gaze of people than abandon his proud identity.

...... Although this identity is really not a lot of money.

There is another reason why he is reluctant to wear the blindfold, that is, he feels that it is too cumbersome to take off the blindfold back and forth when he is old, and it is not flexible enough to deal with dangerous situations. And when you need to sense emotions when talking to people, you even take off your blindfold, which will always make others feel suspicious.

In fact, the witcher has a spell that can be cast to mask the color of the pupil, making it appear to be red for a while. However, Canette was too young to learn.

Oh, I'll take a look at their mood...... The Demon Hunter's blood pupils immediately turned blue, and Canette silently looked around at the crowd, feeling their emotions: suspicion, fear, doubt, uneasiness......

They did treat me like a freak, but they weren't sure what to do with me. In that case, I just need to take the initiative to talk.

Very few people understand the effects of the Demon Hunter's Eye, and even fewer understand the default rule of the Demon Hunters: not to reveal any important effects of the Demon Hunter's Blood Pupil to ordinary people. For example, mind reading.

This only fuels the fear and takes a further toll on the reputation of the witchers, who are already on the cusp. No one wants their ideas to be detected by others. In fact, in the final analysis, the reason why the demon hunters are discriminated against makes Canette feel extremely angry and unfair: because we have the blood of ancient demons in our bodies, and we have the blood pupils of demon hunting created by this ancient god. Once a powerful person is a "foreign race", then he will immediately be overwhelmed by many feelings of suspicion, fear and jealousy, and wear the hat of "heretic".

...... It's ironic. Canette always secretly felt unfair: if you have the ability to speak ill of witchers and stab you in the back, you should kill monsters yourself? See if you can deal with it? I guess a mad werewolf, an acid-corrupted giant worm, or a Karupol (ironclad demon) can wipe out half of your village, right? If you really look down on witchers so much, don't put up notices.

"Hello, I'm Canette the Demon Hunter. Although the hostile villagers made him uncomfortable, Cannet, who had long been accustomed to all this, smiled and stepped forward, stretched out his left hand to try to show friendship: "I want to go to a small town across the mountain, but I get lost here." I came to this village by mistake, so I wondered if I could ......."

"No, you can go. Vigilantly pushing away Carnett's hand with a pitchfork, one of the villagers stepped back with a look of disgust on his face, as if he had been touched by something dirty: "Freak, don't touch me." ”

"Forehead......" Because the outstretched hand was rudely refused, Canette had to laugh dryly, took a step back in embarrassment, rubbed his hands, and tried to communicate in another way: "Okay, but don't mind if I ask, what are you guarding against, right? If it's some kind of monster, maybe you can leave it to me, the witcher, to deal with." I've seen a lot of ghouls before, is it because of them?"

When you are a witcher, you have to have certain requirements in terms of personality. That is, you can't just start a fire. Theoretically, the Demon Hunter is a mercenary profession that needs to have as good relationships with people as possible to accept commissions, so everything must be resolved as peacefully as possible.

...... If it really doesn't work, you can also use the magic eye to control it a little before the other party makes a move, so that the matter is over. In short, bloodshed cannot be actively provoked.

Although this kind of questioning is obviously suspicious of diverting the subject and seriously denigrating one's own intelligence, according to Carnett's experience, it can often make the other person subconsciously let down his guard against himself.

"It's none of your business. Another villager replied stiffly in a thick accent, "You're not welcome here, freak! don't want to set foot in our village." ”

"Hey, you're going a little too far. Glaring at the barking hounds, Canette felt a strange atmosphere: "Can't I borrow this barren mountain for one night?"

"No! a freak like you will only plague our village. The villagers only looked at each other this time, and they all rejected Canette with a rather blunt and far-fetched reason: "Get away, don't force us to do it." ”

"Well, then at least give me something to eat......" Canette was so hungry that she made this request in frustration, "I can pay for it." ”

Carnet's purse contained only fifty and twenty fats coins, as well as a few Carters equivalent to ten fats. Finally, there are three Carters equivalent to one hundred fars. It's a poor jingle.

"It's just a freak, and you can still starve to death?" a bearded old man snorted rather disdainfully, and viciously picked his fork and shouted, "Why don't you hurry up?!"

Several of the Night Watchmen seemed to have reached a unified voice, and they all began to wield their weapons viciously, gradually yelling "Get out!" to approach Cannet. More night watchmen from the village also arrived, all carrying torches, shouting angrily in the local dialect, pointing at Bulso's nose and cursing angrily. At the same time, an arrow flew towards the witcher, shooting straight at the ground in front of him, apparently warning him to leave quickly.

Did these people all have rabies?!! Kicking away the two hounds that seemed to be trying to approach them, Canette had no choice but to quickly retreat in a hurry, yelling in annoyance, "Damn! Are you unreasonable?!What did the witcher do to provoke you?"

...... By the way, why do they hate me so much? Fleeing from the menacing gang into the woods, Canette clutched her hungry stomach and felt both angry and inexplicable: no matter how much you hate aliens, you don't have to do this, right?

They looked at a demon hunter like a fly...... It's like I'm afraid I'll find something once I enter the village.

Then I'll have to find a way to get in...... Gritting his teeth, Canette thought about it for a moment and decided to take a look.