Audrey is a beauty with black hair and blue eyes, and she will be 18 years old in two months. Her father, a woodcutter and hunter, had never married, and one day he returned from logging with a baby in his arms, claiming to be his daughter, Audrey.

The father and daughter depend on each other, and life is not very good. To add insult to injury, when Audrey was eight years old, her father was confronted by a crocodile Dundee and turned into a good meal. Since then, poor Audrey has been orphaned. Fortunately, the kind-hearted Ms. Bethel adopted her.

Lady Bethel is also a poor person, and her husband is also a crocodile Dundee, which turns into a good meal. Within two years, her daughter fell ill and died. Seeing that Audrey, who was about the same age as his daughter, was orphaned, he adopted her.

Because of the unfortunate experience of her childhood, Audrey is a little gloomy, although she is recognized as a beauty and has no shortage of suitors, she is still very withdrawn, and is considered difficult to socialize and out of place. This has been even more evident since she had strange abilities a few years ago.

Now, the villagers, who believe that Audrey had brought misfortune to the village through witchcraft, have been locked up by her adoptive mother, Lady Bethel, pending trial by Viscount Hope's envoy. Audrey's own whereabouts are unknown, and the villagers suspect that she used witchcraft to hide herself.

When Mike and Kenard arrived at Hope Village, their scheduled teammates hadn't arrived yet, so they did their own research.

When the village chief learned that they were the adventurers who had been hired by the Viscount to settle the matter, especially when he saw the pig run, which was about the size of an ox and armed to the teeth, he was very enthusiastic about them, and actively took them to meet the villagers, except for Ms. Bethel. If you want to see her, you have to wait for the envoy to arrive.

The villagers' accusations against Audrey were indignant but firm.

"I saw it with my own eyes, it was Audrey, who had become a giant wolf, killed my lamb, and drank its blood!" said Shepherd Heidel, with an angry expression and a sad tone.

"Okay, don't get excited, can you take me to the scene to see. Mike casually perfunctory.

According to Haidel's description, a week ago, Audrey sent him several clay pots, which he had ordered before. The next day, Mrs. Haidell noticed that all the clay pots were cracked and returned them to Audrey. Then, things started to go wrong. In the evening, strange noises were heard in the sheepfold, and Haider got up to check and found nothing. But the next morning, there was one less sheep.

On the third day, Audrey brought a new clay pot, which Mrs. Heidel accepted. In the evening, Haider hired a friend to guard the sheepfold with him. In the middle of the night, there was a commotion in the sheepfold, and Haider and his friends went to check and saw a figure, it was Audrey. Heider confronted her what she was doing, but suddenly she turned into a giant wolf and pounced on her with a bloody mouth. Haider and his friends fought hard, but Audrey was turned into a giant wolf and escaped. Haider and his friends had just finished inspecting the flock and noticed that a lamb was missing, when they heard a scream coming from inside the house. When I entered, Mrs. Heidel shivered, and the clay pot that Audrey had brought was kicked down, and spiders and centipedes crawled out of it. The three of them spent the night in fear, and when it was dawn to find that the body of the missing lamb had been hung under the eaves of the second floor, and it took a great deal of effort to get it down. The lamb was bitten into two deep holes in its neck, and the blood was sucked dry.

If that's not entirely convincing, Baker Jr., the son of a bakery owner who once claimed to be Audrey's boyfriend, has a stronger charge.

"Audrey is a witch who sucks men's essence and makes people weak in order to maintain her beauty. Little Baker's face was still a little pale, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness. "I was actually confused by her before, if I hadn't been alert early, I didn't know what would have happened!"

According to Little Baker's description, in the past month, people often wake up and find that their limbs have become weak and can barely move. All of the people who developed this strange disease were young men and had been in contact with Audrey the day before. There were even a few times at night when Audrey was seen near someone's house, only to find out the person sick the next day.

Little Baker "didn't believe his girlfriend had anything to do with it", so he and a few friends launched an investigation, but found nothing.

That night four days ago, little Baker was at his house, thinking about how to prove Audrey's innocence. He heard a knock on the door, and when he looked over, it was Audrey.

"My dear, for my sake, you have been busy from early morning to dark lately, and you can't rest at night, and you have lost weight. Audrey caressed Little Baker's cheek affectionately.

"For the sake of your innocence, this little bitterness is nothing!"

The two chatted in the room for a while, and Audrey snuggled in Little Baker's arms, which was so charming and moving.

Little Baker thought that his true feelings had finally touched Audrey, but he was wrong. When the battle reached a critical point, and Audrey straddled Little Baker for the final sprint, Little Baker was shocked to find that his strength was rapidly draining!

Little Baker struggled to resist, but Audrey, who was full of nature, bit his neck to draw blood, and after being knocked down, she suddenly turned into a giant wolf and fled through the window into the night. Little Baker couldn't catch up, and made such a big noise, but his father, who was supposed to be at home, did not appear, which made him very worried. He went to his father's room and found his father, Baker Sr., lying on the bed, so weak that he could not even get up.

Early the next morning, Baker endured the grief of having played with his self-esteem and body and mind, and found the village chief to reveal the truth. The village chief immediately led people to prepare to arrest Audrey, but she was nowhere to be found. As a result, the villagers had no choice but to lock up Ms. Bethel, who refused to tell her daughter's whereabouts, and await the trial of the viscount's envoy.

"I saw with my own eyes that three days earlier in the morning, Audrey had come out of old Fisher's house. At that time, I didn't know that there was already conclusive evidence that she was a witch, so I didn't care. Wood, the village woodcutter, also testified that he had worked as a woodcutter after Audrey's father's death.

Fisher Sr. is the husband of one of the two witches who were killed more than twenty years ago. They had tried to drive him away, but they felt sorry for him, so they let him live in a fishing workshop in the southwest of the now deserted village, near the swamp. Since then, he has been mentally disturbed and often speaks to the air. Other than that, there doesn't seem to be anything too out of the ordinary. The villagers had limited contact with him, limited to once every two or three days, and the grocer would buy some fish from old Fisher that he had caught in the swamp to sell, as well as some groceries and food.

"We found the cursed doll from Audrey's house, right under her pillow. The village chief also gave the two of them the evidence he had found.

It was a doll made of willow branches, and some human and animal hair. There were a few dark spots that seemed to be coagulated blood. It has an arcane sigil applied to it, and it is something that cannot tell whether it is a text or a picture.

Some villagers said they had seen Audrey use the cursed doll and cast her curse spells, which was debilitating. Although it is impossible to confirm that statement, the first time Audrey was seen holding the doll was indeed after the frailty and strange illness appeared in the village. I can confirm this, including myself. That's why Audrey was accused of being a witch, and it was only after I found the doll that I reported the situation to the Viscount. ”

"We also found some paintings by Audrey, you can look through them as you like, but please don't take them with you. ”

Audrey's paintings are all painted with charcoal, and the painting technique is very good, but most of them have obvious surrealist and decadent death style tendencies, which makes people feel very depressed. The portrait of Ms. Bethel is one of the few realistic paintings, showing a woman with gray hair and a kind face. There are three portraits of Audrey herself: a self-portrait of a girl gloomy and beautiful, and two in the evening in a swamp and bushes, which are eeriely and terrifying, and the girl is alone and helpless.

Others were seen or heard by the villagers a long time ago.

"That witch's touch can even freeze the water in the bowl!

"I once saw Audrey say something in her mouth, and then a sheep fell asleep. ”

"Sister Audrey can make the stones glow. ”

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"Kena'er, what do you think about this?" the teammates still hadn't arrived, so the two of them discussed it first. Mike Morse asked the assistant to have an opinion.

"Audrey has some magical abilities, that's obvious. Sucking the blood of a human and turning into a giant wolf, it sounds like a werewolf or some kind of monster. Kenar Watson reasoned.

"Yes, while intermediate mages and druids can do it in terms of ability, they have no reason to do that. Moreover, weakness is a temporary damage to the strength caused by some supernatural or spell-like ability, and it is more difficult for them to do it. Mike Morse agreed. "The crux of the matter is whether Audrey and the monster are the same one. But the most important thing is to check on Little Baker and the others to see if they have also been infected as werewolves. ”

"You're right. However, Audrey is an unfortunate person, and it is not a joy to be distinguished in such a place because of her ability to use magic. What's more, her background is still so pitiful. Kenael sighed. Countless people in Centia had dreamed of possessing the kind of warlock talent that was strong enough to awaken spontaneously, but it became a disaster in this closed place.

"yes. Mike sighed, felt lucky, and hoped to be able to achieve a double harvest under his hands.

Werewolves should be familiar to everyone, with three forms: human, wolf, and werewolf. The most dangerous is the proto-werewolf, which can spread the mutantosis and infect normal people into werewolves. Infecting werewolves is not contagious and the danger is low.

When a werewolf is in human form, it is very different from a normal person, and it is impossible to distinguish it without very professional experience. Especially the kind that has only recently been infected, and once a wolf or werewolf has not changed, there is no difference at all.

Therefore, although the two Holmes examined it carefully, they could not be sure, so they could only ask the village chief to secretly check who had been bitten or scratched. Wait until the night of the full moon and tie them all up to see if they will become wolves.

The village chief muttered to himself, 'We're a witch here, why are you going to be a werewolf when you come?' But what the two said had noses and eyes, and the situation was serious, he did not dare to slack off.