After leaving Triss's family mansion, Wayne did not stop in Maribo, and soon arrived at the mine where the murder took place, led by Allen.

It is about five or six kilometers away from Maribo City, but because the mine has a long history and huge mineral deposits, the Duke of Maribo also built a road to the mine, and the two rented a carriage and did not take much time to reach the mine.

It is a large mine located in the interior of the forest, covering a fairly large area, and several huge mines have been excavated, and many houses have been built near the mines to provide housing for workers.

After entering the mine, Wayne found that the number of workers inside was very small, and all of them were just carrying ore, no one entered the mine, and there were not many people working in a huge mine.

According to Allen, half a month has passed since the first murder, and because the number of dead is so large, even if the Duke of Maribo asks the miners to continue working, and even raises their wages, not many people are willing to risk their lives and return to work in the mines.

Thinking about the income from this mine, this may be the reason why the Duke of Maribo is so anxious to solve this matter.

The road was unimpeded, perhaps the people in the mine had already received the news that Wayne was the expert in handling this matter, and Alan took him around to observe, but no one stood up to stop it.

"Take me to the murder site first, I don't see any trace of the monster, and I can't tell what it is."

Alan winced a little when he heard this, he looked at Wayne and said:

"Lord Wayne, the original murder occurred in the depths of the mine, and it has been half a month, and the corpses there have been cleaned up, and the environment inside is very dim, it may be difficult to find out anything."

Wayne glanced at Allen and knew that this young man was probably afraid of danger, afraid of evil spirits or ghosts and other ghosts, after all, where there are too many dead people in this world, there are really murderous ghosts.

This is an extenuating thing, Wayne thought for a moment and said:

"In this case, you can take me to the mine where the crime occurred and show me the way, you don't have to go down with me."

Seeing Wayne so insistent, Alan could only agree and guide him into the mine.

The environment of the mine is indeed very gray, and the road is complicated, and there are all kinds of gravel obstructions everywhere, but as a witcher, Wayne still found the first scene of the case through his keen sense of smell and the smell of the rancid smell of blood and meat.

He poured himself a cat's eye potion, and after some exhaustive investigation, returned to the surface with a strange expression.

It turned out that Wayne found not only traces of monster fighting at the scene of the crime, but also traces of humans killing each other.

And judging from his knowledge and experience, the murderer who did it in the mine should not be a deer head spirit who controls the vines, but a large-sized monster like a troll that uses a huge wooden stick.

In addition to the fact that monsters like deer heads rarely enter narrow caves like mine caves, it is also because he found the special three-toe footprints of trolls on the ground of the mines.

However, the combination of human cannibalism and troll attacks on humans does look like the work of a deer-headed spirit.

Because the deer head spirit is different from other monsters, in addition to its own physical strength and various spell abilities, it also has a special ability that is enough to make ordinary people feel afraid.

In the forest, the deerhead uses totems, spells, and dark magic rituals to create a territory of its own.

Then control and mark a human, and as long as the human is within its territory, then the deerhead can be resurrected infinitely with the power of dark magic.

If you want to defeat the Deer Head, you must kill the human or drive it out of the Deer's territory, otherwise, you will not be able to kill the Deer Head.

Moreover, weak monsters such as evil ghosts, wild wolves, and crows are also easily charmed by the deer head spirit and become its battle puppets to assist it in combat.

Therefore, if you want to kill a deer head, you often have to deal with not just a monster, but a group of monsters that are united and under common command.

Perhaps the trolls who appeared in the mine were seduced by this deer-headed spirit and became its accomplices.

Although their individual strength is not strong, even for a monster expert witcher, a deer-headed spirit entrenched in the forest is definitely a strong enemy.

But there are still two questions, the first is, where has the troll gone now, has it returned to the deer's side, or is it still hiding in the depths of these mines?

And the second question is, where are the human traitors who helped the trolls kill the miners? Was he abandoned by the deer head and died here, or did he return to the forest?

After returning to the ground, Alan was walking back and forth a little anxiously, and when he saw Wayne come out, he was slightly relieved, leaned over and asked:

"Lord Wayne, how are you checking down below, do you have any clues?"

Wayne waved his hand, and instead of telling Alan about the clues and speculations he had found, he asked:

"Alan, do you know if there were any survivors when the mine murder happened?"

Hearing this, Alan shook his head and said:

"No, when the guards at the mine entered the mine, no survivors were found."

"There were only corpses in one place, and they were all chopped into pieces, and the commander of the city guard found a professional coroner, and only managed to make up their bodies, but even so, there were still many parts missing."

Hearing that the body had been chopped into many pieces, and that many parts were missing, Wayne's eyes moved, and he asked:

"Is there anyone whose head hasn't been found, or is there anyone who is sure to be missing?"

When Alan heard this, he scratched his head and said:

"I'm sorry, Lord Wayne, I've only heard rumors about the corpse, and I don't know exactly what the situation is."

"However, Mr. Plante, the coroner sent by the city, is still in the mine and has not yet left, do you need me to take you to meet him?"

Coroner? Wayne touched his chin and nodded, that's fine, it's better to ask a professional person about professional things.

"Take me there, I have something to ask him."

The coroner, Plante, was an old man in his fifties, and he had no interest in Wayne's arrival and didn't want to talk to him, but after Eren introduced him to the expert hired by the sorceress Triss, the coroner reluctantly began to answer Wayne's questions.

"Missing people?"

"Listening to you say that, it is somewhat consistent with my guess."

In the autopsy room, there were still several corpses on the wooden bed in the hall, and the smell of decay permeated the room, and Alan, who had rarely experienced such a scene, was hanging his head and pale, not daring to look at the corpses that were already somewhat decomposed.

Plante stroked his beard, then took out a list from a worn-out box, and thought for a moment before he said to Wayne:

"Actually, I also found out about this problem, according to the list, thirteen people should have died in the mine, but I only spelled out twelve of the corpse fragments they brought back."

"It's a pity that the fragments of the body they brought back were so damaged and disfigured that I wasn't sure if I made a mistake, and I certainly wasn't sure who the missing person was."

Speaking of this, the old man showed a mocking smile on his face, and then said:

"I originally reported this matter to the deputy captain in charge of this matter, Knight Rams, and suggested that he investigate the possible missing people one by one, but the knight thought this matter was too troublesome and ignored me at all."

"Later, they sent soldiers to search the forest, and as a result, a squad was wiped out, and they brought me back ten corpses, and the matter was over."

As he spoke, the old man also looked at Wayne's young and handsome face with scrutinizing eyes, although he didn't think that a young man like Wayne would be able to find out anything, but he still handed the list to Wayne, and said:

"Later, I also investigated, using characteristics such as age, skin color, and scars, to exclude these thirteen people into three, if there were really missing people, they should be among these three people."

After handing over the list, the old man waved his hand and motioned for Wayne and the others to leave his place of work, and did not forget to admonish:

"Anyway, be careful, I've been handling corpses for so many years, and I can see that there must be a powerful monster behind this matter."

"Don't look at it and lose your life."

With the information in hand, Wayne left Plante's autopsy room, but he didn't expect that this old man was not only quite dedicated, but also quite kind.

After memorizing the three names on the list, he handed them to Alan beside him and asked:

"Alan, do you have an impression of these three people?"

Alan looked at the three names on the list, scratched his head and thought about it before he said:

"I seem to be a little impressed."

"This Craig and Estok are both from the city, and they are both under the age of thirty, but the two of them must be very poor, and have been living in the workers' quarters provided by the mines, and rarely go home."

"The last Link, he lives in our village, in his early twenties, but he is a bit mysterious, he only wandered to our village three years ago, lives alone, has no relatives, and then went to work in the mines."

Listening to the simple information of these three people, Wayne instinctively locked his target on the young man named Link, after all, being alone and mysterious is very mysterious, and when he encounters this kind of thing, people must be the first to suspect him.

However, for the sake of safety, he still asked Alan to take him to the foreman in the mine and asked for the information of the three people in detail.

After some comparison, it was really this Link who was the most suspicious, because the other two had families and children in the city, and although they were poor, they should not cooperate with monsters and kill their co-workers.

There is neither motivation nor the ability to do so.

Only a person like Link, who has a mysterious origin and has no concerns, has this kind of suspicion.

Soon, he was led by Allen to his village and found the house where Link lived.

It was a fairly ordinary wooden house in the corner of the village, and when the door was opened, the layout inside was quite simple, and it was all the things that ordinary people needed to live.

However, after a search by the great detective Mr. Wayne, some anomalies were discovered.

The house is too tidy, pots and pans, clothes and bedding are neatly put away, and if the average person goes out to work every day, unless he has a cleanliness habit or obsessive-compulsive disorder, he will not tidy up his residence so neatly.

This Link seemed to anticipate that he would never return, and tidied up the house quite neatly.

Secondly, and most importantly, Wayne found a hidden letter under Link's mattress.

A letter of surrender waiting to be found by someone destined, which simply and clearly declares that the murderer is Link himself, and also tells the reason why he did it.

It turned out that Link was not originally called by this name, and it didn't matter what the original name was, his father used to be a miner in this mine, and he and his wife and son were happy with the family of three.

But six years ago, there was a mining accident, and his father was buried directly in the pit and turned into a corpse.

However, the strange thing is that his father was the only one who died in the mining accident, and the subsequent compensation was not handed over to the mother and son.

By the time his mother tried to go to the mine to claim the compensation, she had disappeared as well.

Luckily, Link was fifteen years old at the time, and sensing danger, he fled his home and was adopted by another elderly couple.

After three years of this, when Link was older, he said goodbye to the old man and came to live in Allen's village, and went to work in the mines incognito.

It took two years to find out the truth of the year.

It turned out that the mining accident that year was actually planned by several of his father's workers, in addition to wanting to be greedy for the compensation, but also because those workers had a grudge against his father, so they killed the killer.

And his mother was also killed on the way to the mine, and he was physically insulted by several people, in the environment of the Middle Ages, a few poor people died in the wild, no one cared at all, and no one would find out the truth.

There is no way to redress grievances, and in order to take revenge, Link planned the massacre half a month ago, and together with the monster, he killed the murderer who had killed his father and mother.

The content of this letter, after explaining the ins and outs of the matter, is mostly an accusation of the shamelessness and cruelty of those absenteeism, as well as the hatred and resentment in his heart when he became an orphan.

However, it is worth mentioning that almost half of the miners who died together were innocent.

Link, on the other hand, said nothing about their deaths.

After reading the letter, Wayne sighed, no matter how tragic the past was, right or wrong, the murderer was found anyway.

Although Link's letter didn't mention anything about the deer head, it is likely that he is the human who was marked by the deer head.

Although it is not clear why that monster would help Link take revenge, and why it would let him leave the realm controlled by the deer head.

But if Link thought that he could escape justice, change places, and continue his life incognito, it could only be said that as an ordinary person, he still knew too little about magic.

As long as he was alive, his whereabouts would not be a secret to the sorceress, and once his location was confirmed, it would almost be possible to find the range where the deer-headed spirit was.

Wayne collected some of Link's personal belongings in the room, especially the hair he had left in the futon and fell out, and took Alan with him and returned to Maribo City.

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