"Any clues?" asked Sylvia, who was on the side, as she saw Leo close the diary in her hand.

"A little. Leo nodded and said, "The first point is that the disappearances do not only happen at night, but also during the day, and the second point is that most of the missing people are responsible for taking care of the grapes, building the branches that have gone bad, and picking the grapes that are not growing well, so they need to walk through the entire plantation." The third point is that when the disappearance case occurs, it is when the work is busiest and everyone else is concentrating on work. ”

"You think this might not have been done by a monster?" Sylvia asked, thinking for a moment.

On the way here, the two of them had made some guesses about what caused these disappearances, and the answers they guessed the most were monsters.

This is different from the world of Velon, although there are all kinds of monsters in the world of Velon, but on the surface, there are churches that will hunt down those unruly monsters, and in the dark, the bounty hunters in the dark world will also hunt monsters in exchange for bounties, so the monsters in the Velen world either fled into areas with special protection like the Black Forest, and did not dare to come out again, becoming legends, or hiding in the shadows of the city and not daring to come forward.

However, this world is different now, according to the information they have gathered, it seems that there is only one organization in this world that specializes in hunting monsters, and as for the armies of various countries, although they sometimes besiege monsters, they always cause a lot of casualties because of the wrong method.

Therefore, the armies of various countries also turn a blind eye to the existence of these monsters, close one eye, and are unwilling to do it themselves, and if they really encounter trouble, they will also post tasks on the bulletin boards of local villages and towns like ordinary people, and if you are lucky, there will soon be a demon hunter to take over the task, and if you are unlucky, no one will pay attention to it for a few years.

Because of this, dangerous monsters in this world are flooded everywhere, and the chance of encountering monsters on the road even exceeds the chance of encountering ordinary beasts.

Therefore, when the disappearance occurred, the vast majority of people, including Leo and Sylvia, who had just learned about it, subconsciously thought that it was a monster.

However, judging from the information obtained from the current diary, the unknown existence that created the disappearance case is not worried about being discovered during the day, and knows how to look for prey, specifically selects those who are out of the group, and knows how to grasp the opportunity, and knows how to start when everyone is busiest and has no time to care, all kinds of things can be found The unknown existence that created the disappearance case should be an intelligent creature that knows how to think, not a monster dominated by primitive animal nature in the sense they understand.

"We don't know much about the intelligence here," Leo shook his head and said, "There are a lot of intelligent creatures here, and there are many intelligent monsters among them, so we can't judge the monsters here according to our common sense." ”

"Isn't the witcher the monster of this world?" Sylvia said with a smile, "We might be able to get some of the information we want from him." ”

"That's a good idea, but you forgot that we don't have enough purple gold, and as far as I know, witchers don't do things for nothing," Leo put aside the financial problem for a while, and asked Sylvia, "What about you? What did you find?"

"The workers here left in a hurry, leaving almost at the same time, and the luggage was well packed, leaving nothing useful behind, presumably organized. Sylvia recounted her findings, and guessed: "It seems that the enemy of the Count of Britta has worked hard to organize all the workers to leave all the workers at once, leaving the vineyard completely empty, and creating the illusion that the situation here is irreparable, so that the other workers will not dare to come here!"

Leo wasn't interested in the struggle for power among the nobles, but Sylvia's words made him think about it, "Do you think there is a human element in these disappearances?"

Sylvia followed Leo's train of thought and said, "You mean to say that these missing knights are the work of the enemies of the Count of Brita, who first created the disappearances and then created rumors to bring down the wine estate of the Count of Brita?"

"No, that would be too obvious for others to find out, but the witchers will surely be able to find out that these disappearances are not the work of monsters. Leo thought for a moment and said, "But if part of the disappearance is caused by monsters, and the other part of the disappearance is done by someone else, then as long as it is properly arranged, even the witcher may be difficult to distinguish." ”

"Possibly. Sylvia nodded in agreement with Leo's reasoning.

Neither Leo nor Sylvia have come to a firm conclusion on the matter, and they are well aware that the inference they have made now looks like that, but without more information, it will remain a guess.

Sensing that there were no more clues to be given in the houses, Leo and Sylvia turned away and rode slowly around the perimeter of the plantation.

Although the area of the Britta estate is not very large, the whole area of the vineyard is very large, and a third of all the slopes that can be planted at the foot of the Gaugon are the plantations of the Count of Brita, and it takes about an hour to run a lap on a fast horse, and it took more than three hours for Leo and Sylvia to walk around the edge slowly, and it was almost noon when they returned to the cottage where the workers lived.

Walking down this circle, they encountered some monsters, such as giant centipedes, such as a plant similar to a man-eating flower, and some very large bugs, etc., but in the case that Leo did not restrain the life energy fluctuations of the sixth-level psionic on his body, these monsters were all suppressed by life forms, and instinctively chose to escape and retreat, and there was no proper battle.

However, even this is enough for Leo and Sylvia to know a little bit about the basic facts of the monsters in this world.

These monsters are essentially animals and do not possess any supernatural powers, so their behavior also follows animal instincts, and their domain awareness is also very strong.

These monsters all have their own fixed comprehension, and under normal circumstances, they will not leave their own realm, but will only attack the living creatures that break into their own realm, and they will not pay attention to the living creatures outside the realm.

If it is a stranger similar to Leo and Sylvia, when you first come to this manor, you will inevitably break into the field where these monsters are located, and be attacked or even killed by monsters, but as a worker who works in this plantation all year round, you should be very familiar with the dangerous areas around the plantation, and it is impossible for them to venture into these dangerous areas, so the disappearance here should not have much to do with these monsters around the plantation.

Even if there are monsters, they will only be monsters that suddenly appear on the plantation and have not yet been discovered by the locals.

After returning to the workers' house, Geralt and the others had been waiting on the lawn outside the workers' house for a while, and judging from the marks on their bodies, they must have experienced some fighting.

When he saw Leo and the others riding over from a distance, Angooran couldn't wait to shout loudly, "Hey, Uncle Knight, Aunt Knight, we have completed our mission, found the monsters that caused the disappearance, and killed them!

"Aunt Knight?" Hearing Angoulam's name for herself, Sylvia couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, and words with a cold tone came out of the helmet, "I don't like this little girl!"

Leo smiled and didn't say anything, although he had not long gained ordinary emotions and feelings, it did not mean that he was a fool of human feelings, and the topic of female age was taboo in any world.

"What's going on? Have you found the murderer of the missing case?"

"Yes, there is a hole in the cavern of the manor, which serves as an underground cellar, and that hole leads to a lair of Zizimo. Geralt was scrubbing the stains from his armor with clean water from the pool, answering Leo's question and explaining what Tsizhimo was.

At this time, Leo learned that the big bugs he and Sylvia encountered on the road were called Zizimo, whose life form was somewhat similar to that of ants, and it was also the most common monster in the forest of Towcente, and it was rumored that he was often attacked by Tshimo in Towcente.

Seeing that Geralt was a little too busy with the things he was doing, Reggier motioned Geralt to do his own thing, and he added the rest of the matter.

It turned out that after they arrived at the manor, they carefully searched for clues, and later it was Angoulan who found a piece of Zizima's detached armor in the underground cellar, and then they found the entrance to Qizimo in a very secret place in the depths of the cellar, which was sealed by Qiqimo with clay, because of the remote location and the darkness around, so it was difficult to be found.

After entering the lair, they found some traces of humans walking here, and a little deeper, they found Qiqimo's lair, and then they started a battle with Qiqimo, and after killing Qiqimo in this lair, they checked the nest ** and found some human bones and broken clothes after being eaten, judging from the style of clothing, it should be plantation workers.

Therefore, they believe that at first, the servants of the farm inadvertently broke into Qiqimo's lair, and were attacked and eaten by Qiqimo, and then Qiqimo, who ate people, also took humans as prey, and constantly attacked the workers in the plantation, which eventually caused the current consequence.

After listening to Regier's account, Leo was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Have you cleaned up the bones, and are there more than a dozen of them?"

Hearing Leo's inquiry, everyone present looked at each other and fell silent, without answering.

As Leo said, when they saw a pile of scattered bones, they thought they were victims, and thought that the mission was done, like Cassirer was a warrior of the Nefgard Empire and had a sense of honor and disdained to rummage through corpses, Angoulan, Mirva, and Dandrion all instinctively resisted dirty corpses, and Regier did not need or like to touch corpses, especially those that were highly decomposed. As for Geralt, the only one who didn't mind cleaning up the corpse, his mind was all about Ciri's affairs, and he was also mindful of completing this mission as soon as possible, so after seeing the corpse, he subconsciously thought that the matter was over.

Now, after listening to Leo's words, they felt that something was wrong, because although the pile of corpses they found seemed to be a lot, but if they carefully estimated, they would find that the pile of corpses was only three or four people at most, and definitely not as many as a dozen people, that is, the disappearance of about ten people was not caused by these monsters.

"Lord Leo, have you found anything?" Dandrion felt that the morale of the people who had just been boosted by solving the case seemed to be affected by Leo's words, and quickly changed the topic to Leo and asked.

Leo didn't skimp on his discovery, so he found the diary of the missing worker, learned some characteristics of the missing person, discovered some characteristics of the monster here, and made some speculations about the missing person by him and Sylvia, etc.

After listening to Leo's analysis, everyone's faces also became a little ugly, and the nobles of Touscent would definitely do the kind of thing that Leo said, and in order to hit their opponents, they would not hesitate to use other people's lives as offensive weapons.

"Damn! those nobles are damned!" Angoulam, who had always behaved lively and cheerful, couldn't help but curse loudly with a look of resentment.

Mirva, who was next to her, seemed to know about Angoulan, reached out and touched her head, held her in his arms, and comforted her a few times.

"What do you think of now?" Geralt was also tired of this kind of thing that might involve the infighting of the nobles, but since he had already taken on the task, he couldn't help but complete it, so he wanted to ask his companion for advice.

"Don't worry about it!" Dandrien was the first to speak, "We've helped him solve the worm nest in the cellar, found the bones of the missing, and completed his mission, so let's repay him!"

Cassirer shook his head and said, "What if someone goes missing, we'll be liars, witcher liars, and we'll be in Touscent by then." ”

Dandrion opened his mouth to say something, but ultimately didn't.

Others also felt that they should not be involved in aristocratic infighting, nor should they end their tasks like this, which was a bit contradictory.

"Lord Leo, what do you think should be done?" Geralt couldn't make a decision, so he had to ask Leo, an outsider.

"I have the same opinion as you, don't get involved in the battle of the Dao nobles, but I can't just end the mission. Leo thought for a moment and said, "We can actually stay here for a few days to see if there are other reasons for the disappearance of the worker, if there is any other reason for the disappearance of the worker, if there is a feeling about it, if not, tell the Count Britta about this speculation, if he doesn't believe it, you only need to charge the Count Britta to clean the cellar hive, and we will find another way to get the knight's guarantee, if he believes, the rest of the matter is his own, we don't need to participate." ”