In the early hours of the morning, the heavens and the earth fell into darkness, and only the cold moonlight outlined everything on the ground.

In addition to the sporadic lights, there are only a few groups of guards with torches, patrolling the streets in the whole of the new city and the old city.

Unbeknownst to everyone, a figure wearing a dark tight-fitting suit, a black scarf over his face, and a silver sword on his back stepped out of the ghetto.

This person is, of course, Wayne, and in order to find out the truth in the house he fancied during the day, he deliberately disguised himself and found Geralt to borrow his silver sword.

After all, the house still belongs to the city hall, and you can't break into it for no reason.

And if he solves the problems in the house with great fanfare, maybe when the time comes, the city hall will temporarily change his mind and raise the price of the house.

So the purpose of Wayne's trip was just to go in and confirm whether he could solve the problems in this house.

If the trouble was within his reach, he would be able to save a lot of money.

Because he had taken the potion in advance, the dark environment at this time had little effect on his movements, and Wayne walked all the way, avoiding the sight of all the patrol teams, and soon reached his destination.

It is a two-story brick and stone house similar to a private villa, with a front and back yard, and a fence more than two meters high, with an overall area of about 1,000 tsubo, which looks quite magnificent.

However, compared to the houses with their own storefronts, the location of this house is relatively remote, the entrance and exit are not on the main street, almost clinging to the walls of New Vigema, only a few meters wide by a passageway.

Wayne looked around the house, and after making sure that no one was seeing, he climbed up and climbed through the gate with ease.

The front yard of the house is a garden with a lot of flowers and plants, and for the sake of beauty, the workers have also built a wooden pavilion and a small pond in the yard.

Wayne walked around the garden in the front yard, seeing nothing strange and his wolf school badge not reacting, so there should be no problem.

So, he went to the main entrance of the house, pushed it, and found that the main door was locked, and the windows on the first floor were all closed, making it impossible to enter.

However, this was nothing for the witcher, and he walked around the house for half a circle and saw the location of the balcony on the second floor.

It was a semi-circular open-air balcony, about three meters above the ground, and the former owner of the house was still on the balcony with several pots of beautiful flowers.

This height, for ordinary people, can be quite difficult, and it is necessary to use a ladder to get up.

But at this time, Wayne was not wearing iron armor, and he was already tall, just raised his hands, slightly charged, and then jumped up violently, and his arms firmly grasped the edge of the open-air balcony.

After turning over, Wayne found that this balcony was connected to the master bedroom of the house, and the furniture inside was ninety percent new and looked quite high-end.

It is likely that his master, after encountering various accidents, chose to leave without taking all the belongings here.

However, Wayne didn't pay any attention to these foreign objects, and as soon as he entered the house, he raised his guard and began to explore the house cautiously.

If the house is just a little earth spirit that likes to play pranks, or those curses that are not fatal, it is relatively easy to solve.

But if it's an evil spirit, it's going to be a bit of a problem.

Because the demon spirits, although they are uniformly called a kind of monsters, their strength is uneven, powerful demons can even slaughter an entire army, while weak demons even have some difficulty even manifesting.

There is no unanimous answer to the reason for the formation of such monsters, but most scholars and warlocks believe that when some intelligent beings have extremely strong negative emotions during their lifetime and die at a special time and place, then there is a certain chance of becoming a demon.

Wayne searched the house for nearly an hour, from the second floor to the first floor, from the bedroom to the kitchen, and searched almost every corner of the house, still not finding anything unusual.

Even his witcher senses, and the magic badge on his chest, didn't react, which normally made him frown a little.

There are only two possibilities for this to happen, or the problem here is so big that it is beyond his ability and he can't detect it.

Either that, or there are no big problems here, and it is likely that the previous purchasers just had an accident due to various coincidences.

However, compared to the former, Wayne didn't believe in coincidence, and searched the house again, but still found nothing.

Wayne left the house, ready to go to the backyard to continue the search.

Compared with the small garden in the front yard, the location of the back yard is wider, about 500 square meters.

However, because the new city has just been built, these houses are not completely completed, and the backyard at this time is just a fenced wasteland, except for a deep well dug in the center of the backyard, the rest of the place is quite level, so to speak, there is no unobstructed view, and there is nothing unusual.

Therefore, Wayne's gaze was instinctively attracted by the deep well.

With an inquiring mind, he cautiously approached the well made of masonry.

This is the kind of shape specially designed for large households, the wellhead is nearly 1.2 meters wide, a wooden roof is built to block debris, and a metal rotating rod is fixed at the wellhead, which can control the rope to scoop up the well water from below.

This time, however, as soon as he approached the wellhead, Wayne immediately sensed the anomaly.

In his keen senses, there was actually a subtle flow of air flowing outward from the position of the wellhead, blowing on his skin, and there was a faint coolness.

It is not an almost enclosed space like a normal well.

With this doubt in mind, Wayne looked down from above the well.

It was pitch black below, and he couldn't see anything, and even with the blessing of the cat's eye potion, he could only be sure that the space below the wellhead was quite large, and there was indeed air flow, and even a breeze formed.

And the witcher's keen sense of hearing and touch tells Wayne that this well is not an ordinary well that digs into the aquifer and draws water through infiltration.

The well is directly cut into the rock formation on the surface and connected to the underground river at a depth of more than ten meters below, and the underground river water is directly drawn through wooden barrels.

Therefore, there will be a considerable amount of space under the well, as well as the flow of air from the underground river.

Moreover, Wayne also smelled some kind of monster from the location of the wellhead, although he couldn't be sure, but there were indeed traces of some kind of monster.

With this discovery, Wayne also had a certain guess about the whole thing.

Perhaps it was precisely because this underground river was connected to a mysterious place that some kind of monster or demon spirit entered the house through the well, causing many surprises to the original buyer.

However, the monster should not be dangerous for the time being, because he did not endanger the life of the original buyer, I don't know if it was not capable enough, or if it didn't want to do it.

Wayne thought about it for a few minutes and realized that there were three solutions in front of him.

The first method is the easiest, directly set up a magic circle to seal the wellhead, isolating the passage between the monster and the ground, even if he wants to do something more, he can only pass through from other places.

The second method is more stupid and more traditional, that is, to wait for the rabbit, he can spend a few days near the mouth of this well, hide, there should be a certain chance of encountering the monster that crawled out of the well.

The last option, which is more risky, is to jump into the well and follow the underground river directly to find the mysterious area where the river is connected, and solve the problem at the source of the matter.

And just as it happens, he also received the Hekhna Amulet, which allows him to breathe underwater and swim faster.

The only thing worth considering is whether he can defeat the unknown monster with his strength, or negotiate with it amicably to solve this problem.

Thinking of this, Wayne looked at the sky, it was still late at night, the moon had already set halfway, and it was about four or five hours before dawn.

He thought about it, but sighed, if this was in the game, maybe Wayne wouldn't hesitate to jump into the well and challenge the monster.

But now that it's the real world, it can neither be archived nor resurrected, and Wayne feels that he can't take risks and must be on the safe side.

So, after thinking about it for a few minutes, Wayne got up, went back into the house, went to the room on the second floor near the backyard, sat by the window, and quietly observed the location of the wellhead through the window.

He was hoping that he would be lucky enough to wait for the guy who had thrown himself into the net.

(I see that some book friends have some controversy about the plot, I did the popular science in the highlight post in the comment area, most readers should have only played the game, and they don't know much about the original novel, so there may be some misunderstandings, I hope that after reading my popular science, I will understand the plot better, Mo Mo Da! ）