Rogge, who was taking care of the wounded and wiping the blood on their faces covered in blood, saw Sheriff Gail who opened his eyes faintly, and suddenly showed a look of surprise on his face and helped him sit up, and at the same time beckoned to Wu Ming and Alex: Gail is awake! Come here!

Sheriff Gail is a man in his twenties and thirties, with black curly hair and round-framed glasses who looks polite, and he can't tell from his temperament that he is the sheriff of this town, but after being attacked, he has been hit by a lightning-shaped wound on his head, coupled with the blood stains on his white shirt, Gail's temperament has finally changed slightly, and he is no longer the previous polite bookish temperament.

Gail woke up from a coma in a daze, and looked a little confused when he saw several people around him: Mayor Mayor, who are these people? What happened to me, is this fainting?

These are a few new outsiders in the town, and they are also willing to participate in the vigil Rogge briefly introduced Wu Ming and a few people to Gail, and then asked with concern: What just happened? Why did the night watchmen faint? What happened to you? Remember what happened before you fainted? Did the Piper attack you? Have you ever seen who the Piper is?

Gale was stunned by the question of the town's overgrown stomach, and fell into great confusion for a while, and hesitated for a long time before he said with some uncertainty: I remember that we had been patrolling the vigil in the south of the town according to Rogge's request, and then after the flute sounded, several of our companions who were on vigil together fainted without warning, and Hesse and I and a few others who did not faint realized that the piper had started to commit crimes again, so they wanted to follow his flute to find where the piper was hiding, and then later

While speaking, Gail searched for memories in a painstaking manner, but he didn't think about the follow-up for a long time, until the corner of his eye glanced at the stone statue not far away, only half of his body was left, and then Gail seemed to remember something terrible, his eyes widened in horror, and he struggled violently in the direction of the stone statue despite Rogge's obstruction!

It's it! The stones moved and attacked us! Come on! The rocks are moving to attack us!

Seeing Gail's violent reaction, Alex and Wu Ming exchanged glances with each other without leaving a trace, and then the old hunter quietly pressed the struggling sheriff, and said comfortingly: Relax, that stone has been dealt with by us, and now you are safe

But the old hunter's words did not seem to calm down the frightened Gail, who was even more frightened after suddenly seeing the hideous face with the scar, but because he could not break free from the former's suppression, and after holding back his blushing face and unable to struggle to resist a bit, Sheriff Gale had to relax, and looked at the stone statue with palpitations and stopped talking.

A little bit of a despicable foreigner's trick was used. Wu Ming saw the doubts in his heart, and explained indifferently, in order to make him feel at ease, he deliberately walked to the stone statue and kicked the stone statue with his foot that only half of his body was left, you see, this thing is no longer moving, calm down, and then tell us what happened just now.

It's really not going to move anymore, after Gale repeatedly confirmed that the stone statue really won't move, then he breathed a sigh of relief, and was silent for a long time before he spoke again: Speaking of which, you may not believe it

As he spoke, the sheriff stretched out his hand and pointed to the half of the stone statue not far away, and his hands trembled when he remembered the experience just now: it was this stone that attacked us, the stone monster swooped down from the sky, and let out an ugly scream like a horse, and several people were frightened and fainted after seeing its appearance, its claws can leave claw marks on the wall like cutting tofu blocks, and the force of its tail flick is so strong that it can sweep a wall, if it weren't for the luck of me and Hesse, I am afraid we would have died long ago.

At this time, Wu Ming and the others noticed that there were deep claw marks on the outer walls of the surrounding houses and on the concrete floor, and there was a wall that only left the remains of the root of the wall, which seemed to be the result left by the gargoyle when it attacked them.

The only one who attacked you? Rogge looked a little incredulous, didn't you attack the piper?

Gail shook his head: I wasn't chased by this stone statue until I fell unconscious, I thought it was when it flew and hit my head

I was dead, but I didn't expect to wake up alive

After that, Wu Ming asked him some other questions in detail, such as whether he knew when the sound of the flute disappeared, such as whether he noticed a suspicious figure when he was attacked, but maybe he had just experienced the relationship between life and death, and the answers he got were very vague, basically there was no useful information, and the people who woke up afterwards did not provide much useful information, and many of them didn't even know how they fainted.

When Wu Ming and Alex asked those unlucky people who woke up one by one, Gail, who had not fully recovered, glanced at Wu Ming and Alex with a complicated expression, and quickly looked away before they realized it, and after a little hesitation, he whispered to Rogge beside him as if admonishing: Rogge, I don't think this is quite right, we originally thought that the Piper was a murderer who wandered to the town from outside, so we actively organized a vigil, but we were all wrong, these are really the witch's pets.

After listening to his words, Rogge's face also turned unpleasant, but he still showed a very shaken expression: I know

No! You don't know! Look at that thing, are you still going to insist that this is something made by a serial killer from a big city? Only the witch's curse can explain the existence of this creature, and the old diehards are right, and we really need to think about witch trials now

But have you ever thought about the consequences of the witch trial? Do you want this misfortune to continue?

So what can you do?

I don't know

Although the two of them tried to keep their voices as low as possible, it was still difficult to hide the involuntary increase in the volume during the quarrel, as if it was affected by their small quarrel, and the expressions on the faces of the two townspeople who were close to each other were a little uncertain, and from time to time they glanced at the stone statue with the destroyed upper body, not knowing what to think in their hearts.

And the small quarrel between the mayor and the sheriff naturally fell into the ears of Wu Ming and the old hunter, the two looked at each other and had a general understanding of the situation in their hearts, and then Wu Ming pretended to ask the last townsman who woke up, and after whispering a few times to the townspeople, Rogge stepped forward and said: The awakened night watchman has just finished checking several families living in the south of the town, and no one has been hurt except for the night watchman, and we will send these wounded people to settle down and then go to the north of the town immediately, right?

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