Francis the knight went out of the city early in the morning, followed by only two men, and they set out early, the canopy was still black, the twinkling stars were like diamond dust on this black velvet, and the magnificent Milky Way hung high in the air, cutting the whole sky in half. If the Great Demon King from the East of the Other World saw this scene, he would probably think of the story of the Queen Mother's golden hairpin, but none of the three people had heard that story, and in their legends, the Milky Way was the home of the birds, because the birds relied on the Milky Way to find their way when they migrated.

They came to a depression not far from Barony Abram's domain, where there was a pond, and after Baron Abram was tied, a soldier's wife applied for a preferential loan to raise a flock of ducks. This preferential loan is a preferential treatment given to the families of the military who are on the expedition, because the loan is neither interest-bearing nor requires the breeding of ducklings. However, as long as she raised the ducks properly, it was clear that the hundreds of ducks would improve the living standards of not only the military family, but also the nearby villagers, and if she decided to sell them all to Turnest, the party who made the loan would also benefit from the tax revenue.

The military federation built a duck shed for her, and every morning she came here to put the ducks in the pond and drove back to the shed in the evening. The ducks are growing very well, however......

One day, while she was tending to the ducks, the ducks suddenly croaked and fled to the shore, refusing to go into the water.

At that time, she looked and looked, and found nothing unusual, but when she returned to the shed in the evening. Only then did she notice that the duck was missing.

Something like this happened three or four times in a row. The young woman was so frightened that she thought there must be a devil in the pond. Devouring ducks now, and devouring her in the future.

When the news was reported, several fishermen from the nearby village were summoned, and they took their nets and searched the whole pond without catching any devils, but they were disturbed by the fact that the fish in the pond were very small and small, which was very unusual, "There must be something in this pond." Eat fish and ducks, and you can't eat people one day......" they reasoned, handing in their report.

This report frightened many people, and the people in the nearby villages did not dare to pass through this neighborhood, and many strange legends came out in one night, which fully proved how powerful the human imagination is.

"There must be a Siren woman living underneath the water, and my grandfather said that this monster can change back and forth between the main body and the smoke at any time, so she can run away from the mesh. My grandfather said...... "A fisherman who participates in casting nets bragged to people in a tavern like this."

"In the pond near the domain of Baron Ablang dwells a bewitch, a beautiful woman with a beautiful upper body and a changing smoke lower body, and she seduces a young and beautiful lad every day. Eat them to the bone, my grandfather's grandfather said...... "A tavern drinker brought this fresh and scary story back to his village."

"Apparently, Baron Abram once sacrificed his soul. Make an alliance with the witch of hell if he is brought to justice. The witch will open the gates of hell under the pond, and let the monsters come out and eat all the creatures of Turnest......" said the most knowledgeable old man in the village.

Baron Abron agreed. The gates of hell were to be made out of dead babies, and he was brought to justice by the venerable bishop before he could finish this, so that the door was so narrow that the monsters scrambled to squeeze out, and got stuck there, and from there they stretched out their long hands, and ate whatever they caught, and really, they ate all the nets that the fishermen had thrown down, and if they had not collected them quickly, they would have eaten them at once," said the eldest of the children, and he puffed out his cheeks as he spoke of eating the nets. At the scene, he performed a sketch of the monsters chewing fishing nets as noodles for the children, and at the end, he did not forget to add, "This qiē is what I saw with my own eyes!" ”

The children looked at their leader in awe, and when they went home, they were afraid of the darkness and had nightmares, and they all said, "Baron Abram will open the gates of hell with our souls."

The children's parents formed a long queue to the city to pay homage to St. Aubrey, and handed a petition to the bishop demanding severe punishment for the guilty Baron Abram.

When the people saw such a solemn petition, and heard that it was the devil who was harming the children, they all made way for them, and let their petitions be sent to them as soon as possible, and the insiders, who knew that the news had nothing urgent to attend to, gathered outside the bishop's office, and waited with indignation for the bishop to announce how to punish the wicked baron, who could by no means be pious and innocent, and whose wickedness was so numerous that many could testify, even at the repeated appeals of the most venerable young bishops, He also continued to do a lot of abuse of the people and robbing the merchants, saying that he was in collusion with hell, which no one would suspect, the only question was how to punish him.

The bishop was astonished when he heard of such a thing, but when he read the petition, he shook his head. Instead of announcing the punishment of Baron Abram, who was close at hand, he sent two groups of men.

One went to the village that claimed to be haunted and interrogated the children separately.

The other went to the pond to see what was causing everyone's uneasiness.

"It takes a good hunter with a keen sense and a lot of experience, as well as the ability to shoot arrows in every shot." The bishop said to Francis that the request was almost tailor-made for him, "I'll go with you." ”

"Isn't it a devil from hell?"

"The devil is very picky, and he won't eat raw ducks," the bishop laughed, "and he can't do anything about children." ”

"It doesn't sound like the devil is so hateful." That's a new statement.

The bishop seemed to recall some unpleasant memory, "No, it's hateful...... Special, special and hateful ......"

"So, let me go and find out, you still have so much to do......"

So he took the two men to the fabled haunted pond, which had been abandoned since the haunting, and they saw that the duckshed was close to the pond, on higher ground, and that it was an existing building, and that there was a small lattice window, which was very suitable for the hunter's shelter, so they chose this place as the ambush site.

One accompanied him, and the other led the horse so as not to disturb the object of their ambush.

Under the newborn sun, the pond seemed very calm, and occasionally the wind blew the reeds beside the pond and blew the green duckweed covering the pond, and if it were not for the villagers' identification, they would surely have thought it was a dull little pond that was ordinary and boring, and they would not have looked at it again.

The five ducks they had taken from the village had long forgotten their previous horrors, and swam freely on the surface of the water, occasionally sinking into the water to fetch tasty food, leaving only one fat butt exposed.

Each duck has a straw rope tied to its feet to ensure that they are not too far away from the place where the hunters are ambushing. (To be continued......)