Chapter Twenty-Three: Hell Changes
It was a list of missing persons, and there were more than a dozen young girls in Holy Thorn City who had disappeared for no apparent reason, and one of them was a girl who looked exactly like the witch in black. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Half of the missing girls were lucky enough to be rescued from the thief cave by Miss Joluya, the Knight of the Dawn. The Moon Elf agent finds one of them and asks her about the Witch in Black.
"You mean Sister Layla, she used to be a gardener, although her parents died very early, but she is very strong, and can cultivate plants to be vibrant, relying on gardening skills to live hard, and Sister Layla is a particularly gentle and sunny person, obviously she has a hard time, when she saw us crying by our parents when she was a child, she would still take out one of her few copper plates, buy cakes to persuade us not to be sad, although a girl like this is an orphan, but today is still here, there will be many boys who fall in love with herγ β
The girl said and held her pigtails sadly: "But the goddess of fate did not favor Sister Layla, and when Miss Qiao Luya rescued us, Sister Layla's group of girls had already been taken away. So far, there is no trace of her, and we can only pray that she will be strong and survive no matter where she is. β
The spy asks the girl if she has any impressions of her captors, such as dark-skinned and pointy ears. The girl stared at her round eyes and solemnly whispered, "Our kidnappers are said to be General Armand's men. β
"Is it human?" the agent frowned, feeling that the clues were completely out of place, "If you think about it carefully, have you heard or seen anything unusual during the whole process from being kidnapped to being rescued?"
"There is only one strange thing, if the villains want to buy and sell people, what they use to trade is not the gold coins that are common in our human kingdom, but a substance that reflects all the light, like the vast universe. β
"You mean...... Mithril?" The agent's heart moved.
"That's right, it's Mithril, and the person who fought against Miss Qiao Luya in the rescue operation also used Mithril as a weapon. β
The girl clenched her fists and said seriously: "If you are also a detective who plans to rescue the missing girl, uncle, you must go to Miss Qiao Luya to exchange information." You've been missing for three years, so please don't give up saving them!"
The spies report the situation to Prince Kayl, who saves them from having to go to Miss Jolua to exchange information.
Prince Kayl held his chin, revealing his sharp tiger teeth, and said with a smile: "Because it is a vain question to ask, Miss Dawn Knight knows no more than we do. Two and a half years ago, she came to visit the main city, saying that she wanted to drink 300 glasses with me, and it seemed that the drinking was fake, and the investigation into the disappearance of the girl was true. β
Princess Flora and the Ranger Knight couldn't help but twitch the corners of their mouths when they thought of the blonde sister with an eccentric personality. That Miss Qiao Luya feasted and drank in the royal court, not only to investigate the case, but also to inadvertently bring great encouragement to herself, and to this day, the memory of her killing a pig's leg and drinking half a barrel of wine in one go still lingers in the princess's mind.
These memories always make the princess feel inexplicably warm.
"But it seems that the Knight of Dawn did not find any evidence, otherwise he would not have just grabbed a few roast pigs and obediently returned home. So there was no need to ask her, because the Lone King didn't like to deal with the Order of Light. β
Kayl drank the wine: "The kidnapped girl, who was originally just a little girl in the slums, is now a black-clothed witch who guides miracles, and helps the regent to help him flourish, it seems that my uncle Wang has an inseparable connection with the human girl abduction and trafficking case." Uncle Wang's taste for hobbies, I really don't dare to compliment. β
Then Kayl waved his hand and said to the secret agent: "Start to investigate the large Mithril transaction that has been carried out in the past three years, Mithril This kind of thing has been mainly used to repair Mithril Moon in recent years, and it is not easy to get it in our country, if there is a sudden large-scale Mithril exchange, it must be related to this matter." β
Regarding the Mithril transaction, the spies soon found shocking and ironclad evidence.
About a year and a half ago, there were two bank accounts that traded a huge amount of Mithril.
And the party who transferred Mithril out was the regent.
Kair snapped his fingers: "Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang, in order to bring down the Lone King, you actually bought human maidens and turned them into witches. Do you know that you have already touched a realm that must not be touched? Lone was just looking for your little stain at first, but I didn't expect that the secret on your body was really amazingly terrifying. β
Kaim ordered: "Get this matter to the end." From today onwards, keep an eye on the black witch until you find the whereabouts of the missing girls. β
The Moon Elf spy took the order and left, and then lurked in the shadows, keeping an eye on the black witch's every move. The black-clothed witch usually lives in the regent's mansion like an ordinary staff, and has been flawless for more than ten days, until the middle of the night of the first new moon, in the night when she can't see her fingers, the secret agents see the black-clothed witch alone, leaving the mansion quietly through the back door. The agents were worried that she would use her magic to fly away in an instant, but she didn't, just walked quietly down the secluded alleyways until she left the main city and came to the hills outside the city, slowly climbing up the stone steps.
"Sisters, it's been a long wait. It's time for dinner. β
The next eerie scene makes the agent feel like he has fallen into a nightmare.
I saw the black-clothed witch gently shaking the little silver bell, her right hand snapped her fingers lightly, the purple-black flame ignited on her fingertips, and hundreds of candles were lit on the ground at the same time, the purple-black fire swayed, the candles were staggered, the wax oil slipped down the rocks like tears, and the light of the flames illuminated the bushes, so that the creatures hidden in the bushes cast a long shadow on the giant tree not far away.
Those figures are vaguely the posture of a human girl.
Dressed in white tulle, the girls danced innocently in a circle around the black-clothed witch, making a crisp sound like strings of silver bells. If this scene happened in a field of flowers on a sunny day, it would also make the tough guy of the secret agent show a gentle smile, but it is late at night, and this is the hideous and terrifying deep mountain and old forest of dead wood, and the purple and black candlelight is extinguished, it will inevitably look too weird!
However, then the black-clothed witch took out a small red cloth bag from her bosom, untied the tether, and buried a seed surrounded by black mist into the soil, and recited a spell, and the seed emitted a dazzling purple light, and a vine with sharp thorns grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the vine wrapped around the surrounding trees, and the trees immediately withered and withered.
Eventually, the vine produced apple-sized fruit that was too far away to see the shape, and the fruit fell to the ground within a few minutes of ripeness.
"Sisters, you're welcome, just eat a full meal. This seed is the seed of the vine that grows beside the gallows, and a few prisoners have just been hanged today, so the fruit is full of the smell of sin that you like. β
The secret agent's heart almost stopped, he could only subconsciously cover his mouth tightly, he didn't dare to look at it anymore but he didn't dare to close his eyes and didn't dare to look away, those lovely girls dancing in white dresses suddenly jumped up like beasts, snatching, biting and devouring the fruits that rolled down like apples, that was not a human attitude, and even more wild and bloody than all beasts, and this demonic feast was darker than the darkest night, more evil than the worst nightmare.
The black-clothed witch looked back in the direction of the agent, and the dark purple light in her eyes flashed, almost taking away the agent's soul.
The agent thought he was going to hell in the next second, but he didn't. He had forgotten how long he had lost his mind, and by the time he woke up, the shrine maiden and the strange maiden had all vanished, except for the reverberation of demonic guttural sounds in the mountain wind through the dense forest.
The agent soon fell ill, and before he fell ill, he struggled back to the palace to report to Prince Kaim what he had seen.
"I know that I am in an industry that only deals with the darkest things in the world, and I am confident that I have seen the harshest torture and the most inhumane abuse. But last night's scene still shocked my soul, young master, I believe that those things no longer belong to the category of 'people'. β
"Lone understands, brother. You've brought solid evidence, and if you catch those human girls, you'll have a good chance of finding out the truth. Prince Kayl patted the spy on the shoulder, "Rest well, and leave the rest to Lone." β
Kayl put on his battle robe, sheathed Tsukimi, and ordered the main city garrison to capture all the human maidens hidden in the hills on the outskirts of the city.
"Flora, Ranger General, come with you. β
The princess was puzzled, and the Ranger General calmly asked, "Is it okay for you Moon Elves to be seen by outsiders?"
Kayl smiled: "This country has been tainted with rancid smell because of Uncle Wang. It's not a bad thing to be able to open a window to let in the air. β
Kaim personally supervised the formation, and the garrison was resolute and carried out a carpet search on the mountain.
Kayl ordered everyone to bring the best equipment and guide combat operations with the highest level of alert, which is sufficient to deal with all the atrocities and crises of humanity
But the prince didn't expect that what he had to deal with today was not people.
The soldiers saw the figure of a girl in a white dress floating by in the forest mist, and they were wandering unsteadily, when they heard the girl's evil chuckle from the dense forest. Far and near went back and forth, which made the scalp of the brave Moon Elf soldier tingle and tremble.
When they saw the Mountain of Candles mentioned by the agent, they sat on the ground in fear, and then vomited violently at the same time.
"What kind of apple is that, what grows on vines is not an apple!"
The commander's eyes trembled: "That's a bloody heart!"