As it approached noon, many townspeople returned to the town after a morning's hard work, but today many people did not go home as usual, but walked straight in the direction of the town church, and many women and elderly people who stayed at home also left their homes with their children to go to the town church.

Early this morning, Mayor Rogge sent someone to inform the townspeople of the town to conduct a town in the church at noon, hoping to have a detailed discussion with the townspeople about some of the discoveries of the Pied Piper incident last night and the tradition of witch trials.

Rumors of witches' pets had been spreading privately among the townspeople after a night and early in the morning, and the experiences of the night watchmen who woke up and the fragments and busts of the stone statues that had not yet been cleaned up added to the rumors.

Many people are speculating whether the mayor of the town has finally taken this matter seriously after last night's incident and is ready to carry out the town's long-standing witch hunting tradition. There are also some townspeople who have always supported witch hunting who disdain this, believing that the mayor should have acted according to their wishes, and if it wasn't for their previous witch trial action being blocked, I am afraid that the witches in the town would have been punished as they should have been.

Of course, regardless of what the other townspeople think about this matter, the hardest hit at this moment are the night watchmen who faced the gargoyle monster last night, and the gargoyle monster rampage not only smashed several walls in the town, but also smashed the solid three views they had built up for twenty or thirty years. The most direct way to press their heads revealed the existence of the witch to them, and even a few people began to wonder if the legend that was heard as a black fairy tale and a story when they were children was a real thing in the town.

There is no doubt that the appearance of those gargoyle monsters last night directly changed the town's perception and direction of the witch trial.

People walked into the church, and from time to time you could see some townspeople who had just returned from the fields with farm tools, and soon the church was crowded, and the rows of benches were full of people, everyone whispered and whispered to the acquaintances around them, and for a moment the sacred and quiet church became very noisy.

Wu Ming and Alex had already made an appointment to meet at the church at noon, so they naturally came to the church, but they were not in the crowd, because the townspeople did not treat them very well as their identity as foreigners, they could only stand behind the last row of seats in the church now, Otto had fallen asleep by sitting against the wall because he was too tired, Siegfei looked around with the Crimson Queen, and Wu Ming and Alex exchanged their respective gains this morning.

These are basically what we did this morning Alex glanced at the crowded church, which was bustling like a vegetable market, and he had to raise his voice a little so that his companions could hear him: Brother, how are you over there? Has the thing to be confirmed confirmed?

Wu Ming's expression looked a little heavy, he recalled the experience a few hours ago and couldn't help sighing: Although something indescribable happened, and I met another stranger, she said that there was a problem in the witch trial, and Clement's actions were very dangerous, and she wanted to join forces with us to fight him, all in all, I finally confirmed what I originally wanted to confirm This town I have been to before.

Another outlander?! Witch Trial: Problematic? Been here before?! Alex's eyes widened like brass bells, obviously he understood every word the other party said, but he couldn't understand it at all when it was connected into sentences, what was going on?

Seeing that there was still some time before *** started, Wu Ming shook his head and sighed: Let's start from the beginning

Rewind time to not long ago, shortly after Wu Ming and Ziegfei met Anastasia.

Joining forces? Is Clement dangerous? Witch Trial: Problematic? Wu Ming heard Anna say this, his brows gradually tightened, but he didn't rashly agree to the latter's request to join forces, what was going on? You make it clear.

As if she had known that he was going to say this, Anna turned and walked forward without explanation, and waved her hand for the two to follow: Come here, this is not the place to talk, if the other townspeople see that I am still here, I am afraid that they will come up and fight with me

As she spoke, she turned around

left, and Qi Gefei, who was wearing a mechanical mask, cast a questioning look at Wu Ming: What should I do? Could it be a trap? Do you want to cut her down now?

Wu Ming shook his head and gestured with his eyes: Stabilize first and see the situation. Then the two of them strode to keep up with Anna's pace, and the group avoided the main road in the town where pedestrians were more dense, and chose the remote paths, the crevices and paths between the buildings, and after a while, they left the town, entered the wild mountains and forests that had not yet been conquered by human civilization, and stepped on a thick layer of fallen leaves in the woods, and from time to time there would be a crisp crackling sound from stepping on dead branches, and the three of them went around in the mountains and forests for a long time, just when Wu Ming began to wonder if the other party had other plans, She stopped suddenly.

You should be fine this far away, right? Anna muttered a small word, then turned around with an apologetic smile on her face: "I'm sorry, I've been in it with you for so long, but this is actually to avoid the witch's ears and eyes listening to our words

Ziegfei didn't say anything, and said in a stiff and indifferent tone: Now you can get straight to the point, right?

This is also a measure to protect against the piper. Anna smiled apologetically again, not caring at all about Siegnon's stiff and prickly tone, Wu Ming slowly spoke at this time: How much do you know about the witch incident in this town? What's wrong with the witch trial? Does Clement be dangerous in his own right, or is what he is going to do next dangerous?

Anna did not have a trace of panic and helplessness in the face of the cannon-like questions, and replied unhurriedly: I know a little more about the legend of the witch in the town than you, and it has been confirmed that there should be two or three witches in the town, and the piper who has repeatedly caused the incident is one of the witches, and the victims so far, according to my investigation, it can be basically confirmed that they were all killed by the piper

Wu Ming frowned: What about the missing children?

I haven't found the exact whereabouts of the missing people Anna shook her head, but there is no evidence that these missing people are still alive, I'm afraid

She didn't go on with her speculation, but everyone could understand that those who disappeared might have been more than lucky.

Anna didn't stay on this issue for long, and when Wu Ming was thoughtful, she turned to another question: Clement is dangerous because he is a substitute sent by the church, and after entering the town, he didn't say a word and immediately instigated the townspeople to launch a witch hunt, cleverly using the townspeople's fanatical and uncontrollable emotions to persecute the suspected witches in the town, and fortunately I arrived in time to stop him, otherwise the innocent Abigail would have been burned at the stake as a witch, If you really let such a madman take the initiative in the witch's trial, the Cabinet of Pleasures

That is tantamount to dripping a few drops of cold water into a hot oil pot, which will make the situation go in a completely uncontrollable direction Wu Ming nodded and figured out the problem, what about the witch trial itself?

At this moment, Anna's expression is not as relaxed as before: This is the point I want to say, according to my recent investigation, as well as the information and literature of the agency, the witch relies on misfortune and suffering to accumulate strength, and the witch trial in the town can only temporarily suppress the counterattack of the witch's power, but it cannot eliminate the accumulation of this power from the root, the current witch is just the carrier of the witch's power, a container for breeding and cultivating the witch's power, and if the container is broken, the power in it will be shared with other witches, If the rumors in the town are true, then the original witch should have accumulated an extremely large amount of witch power during the more than six hundred years of wandering here

In other words, the town of Melas is now like a volcano about to erupt, and no one knows when the volcano will erupt

Coo-coo

The whole forest became quiet, Wu Ming and Qi Gefei looked at each other for a long time and were speechless, only the call of the owl resounded in the forest for a long time.

I didn't expect that the witch vein had been secretly brewing here for more than six hundred years Alex also felt a chill behind him after hearing it, he naturally knew the breeding of the witch's power, as well as the secret that the witch's power would be transferred between different containers, and as an old hunter who had experienced that era, he knew far more than Anna, it seems that we have to correct the danger here

Wu Ming keenly noticed his emotional changes: What's wrong?

Alex's expression was serious, and he lowered his voice and said: "You already know that the witch's power will be transferred, right?

Wu Ming nodded and looked at the old hunter with some doubts, and the latter bared his teeth: In fact, the power that the witch continues to conceive will not be transferred to other people, but all of them share the same power, and the total amount of witch power remains the same, the more witches, the less power they can exercise, the more dispersed they are, on the contrary, the fewer witches, the more power they can exercise, the stronger and stronger, if there is only one witch left, the power he can use, I'm afraid we will have to fight another witch crusade

Alex's past flashed back to his eyes, and the sacrifices of that war are still staggering in retrospect.

Listening to his words, Wu Ming couldn't help but widen his eyes and gasp.

Townsmen, please be quiet! Calm down Mayor Rogge's expression is serious, he waved his hand again and again, and it took a lot of effort to quiet the townspeople in the church, today, I invite you to come, mainly related to the witch trial

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