Geralt raised his hand to stop the boring joke, "We're looking for Hentrek, I heard he lives around here, do you have any news of him?"

Hotel owners are generally the most well-informed people in the area, and they deal with different people who come and go every day, so naturally they have their own sources of information, so it is most appropriate to ask someone in an unfamiliar place.

The demon hunter did the boss a great favor and did not stir up a dispute in the inn, of course the boss was willing to say something he knew, maybe he could also connect with the demon hunter in the future, and whoever had a tricky matter that needed to be dealt with could also contact them in turn.

"He didn't live here, he went to Heatherton, a small village just a few miles away. The boss said.

"We're not locals, so we're not familiar with the names of places. Geralt shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he didn't know anything about the name.

"Heatherton was on the other side of the hill. When I got up this morning, and opened the window to look over there, I noticed a strange light shining on the other side of the hill, not like fire, for it was not red but blue, with a little bit of white in the blue. Probably the magicians of the Empire are fighting over there, who knows? In these chaotic years, no one can say whether their heads will be kept until tomorrow..."The innkeeper explained carefully.

Geralt's eyebrows shrugged quietly, this small detail was discovered by Luo Xian, it seems that the person Geralt is looking for is crucial to him.

"Can you tell me anything else about Hallrick? I haven't seen him before. ”

"He's a weird guy. No one knew where he came from or why, but suddenly he appeared in the village one day, because of the war, there were a lot of displaced people, and there were outsiders everywhere, so we didn't care. But this guy is very good at picking up girls, and within a few days, he moved in with a foreign widow and moved to Heatherton. The widow's husband was stabbed to death over a small piece of bread, and he himself was almost starved to death. Being with her saved her life. ”

"But I don't think the baron's men like strangers, and they're still inquiring. ”

"Yes, what they don't like is outsiders who carry weapons, but if it's honest farmers and craftsmen, they still welcome it. But Hallrick always seemed to know when the Baron's men appeared, and he disappeared before they came, never meeting them. He's always unremarkable, so that's all I know. ”

"Thank you for helping

Do you want to point in the direction of Hatherton?" Geralt pulled out a map and handed it to the boss.

The boss clicked on a certain location on the map, and deliberately stretched out his finger to point in a certain direction outside the window.

After replenishing the food, water, and wine, Geralt walked out of the inn, and saw Luo Xian leading a dirty mud-yellow horse waiting on the path outside the inn, with a piece of paper in his hand, looking at something through the dim light on the inn's flagpole.

"Where did you get the horses?"

"The baron's men, who bought one from them, can't let me run with you every time. The price was cheap, and it seemed that they had stolen it from someone else, and when I came out, I saw that they were collecting money from the villagers. When they saw me coming out, they were about to leave in a panic, so I stopped them and bought a horse to carry them around. Is that Hendrick the one you're looking for?"

"No, he just knows the whereabouts of the person I'm looking for. ”

"Someone very important?"

"It's important, my adopted daughter, Ciri, is 21 years old, she's missing, she's been seen in this area, I'm going to find her. ”

"Why is she in such a hurry? Is she also a demon hunter?

"No, she's a normal person, but because of some things, she lived with me in the Demon Hunter Castle for some years, where she showed excellent swordsmanship talent and superb magical affinity, so she didn't go to the Demon Hunter Trial. I hadn't seen her for a long time, until recently I dreamed in a dream that she was in danger, and my friend also found me and asked me to find her as soon as possible and provided the news. And my friend went to check the other rumor. ”

"21 years old, wow~ It just matches me, is she beautiful?"

"She's a true imperial princess, and if you don't want to get into trouble, you'd better dismiss it. Geralt glanced at Roxian.

"Forget it, I'm just talking, and if I talk like this, I guess I can only deal with bones. Luo Xian didn't care, and spread his hands to say that it didn't matter.

"Hendrick is Ciri's father, a spy sent by Emperor Nilfgaard, who specializes in looking for clues about Ciri, so I found him and probably got news about Ciri, that's it. ”

"Well, I didn't say it. You see, this is a bounty order issued by the local bloody baron, and the baron's subordinates are here to post this thing, and his wife and daughter seem to have suddenly disappeared, and he has issued a large reward, do you think this matter has anything to do with your adopted daughter?" Luo Xian handed the paper in his hand to Geralt.

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Lott took it and looked at the two female portraits above, "Anna Strenger, wife of the Bloody Baron, and Tamara Strenger, daughter of the Bloody Baron, it is believed that they will be bǎngjià, and whoever finds them or brings them back will be rewarded handsomely!"

The heads of the two women are vividly drawn on paper, which shows that the level of the artist is really good.

Geralt shook his head, "It's not Ciri, Ciri has white gold hair, and the shape of her face is different, let's go to Hatherton." ”

"Okay, let's go~" Luo first took the water and wine from Geralt's hand, tied them to the back of his saddle, turned over his horse, and the two horses rushed out of the crossroads village in the night.

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"I suppose it's not snow season yet, is it?" Roxian and Geralt stopped their horses and looked at the snow and ice covered in snow and ice not far away, and the grass in the wooden houses. ”

"The evening before yesterday, when the sun was about to set, the sky was as red as blood. I was at home preparing dinner and thinking, 'Why can't I hear the toads in the pond?'" ”

"At this time, the temperature suddenly became very low, and the wind mixed with snow droplets rushed in, and I had to quickly plug up a few leaks in the house with straw and rags. The strong winds extinguished all the torches used for lighting in the village, and layers of hoarfrost began to form on the dirt and plants on the ground, and they became thicker and thicker. The comrades who were working in the village saw that something seemed wrong and hurried to their homes. ”

It wasn't long before the ground began to shake, and the sound of horses' hooves approached from afar. Courageously, I leaned down and looked out through the crack in the furnace wall, where a group of Frost Knights had rushed into the village in the darkness of the night. ”

"Frost Warrior?" Luo Xian asked involuntarily.

"Yes, they and their horses were covered with heavy armor, and the ice and snow were like their skin covering the surface of the horses and knights, and they were ice blue from top to bottom, and they brought frost and cold, but also fear and death. ”

"Everywhere the horses' hooves tread on it turned to ice, and the village was covered with a thick fog, and I could only feel that they had stopped in the center of the village. ”

"At that time, I didn't know what was going on except that I was scared. It didn't take long for me to hear Hendrick's screams, then begging for mercy, and finally, only shēnyin was left. ”

Immediately afterwards, they began to break down the door, pull the people out of the house, and set fire to some places, filling the village with screams, blood and death. ”

"What do these knights look like?"

"I don't know, they are wearing pitch-black armor that covers their whole body, even their heads and faces are covered by skull-like helmets, they can't see their appearance at all, they seem to be demons coming out of hell, and their bodies are emitting suffocating cold air. ”

Because there was snow and ice everywhere, the flames did not last long before they were extinguished by the melting snow, but the fear they left behind lingered over the village for a long time, like the bitter cold. ”

"You hid in the house when they left?"

"No, I am a carpenter, and I have built a cellar at the back of the house for the purpose of storing materials, and there are secret doors leading to the inside and outside of the house. I watched them rush into the house and start arresting people, so I immediately hid in the cellar and escaped their capture. ”

"Well, thank you for the news, goodbye. ”

"If you want to find Hendrick, his house has burned down, you can go and see what is left. The man sat dejectedly in the wreckage by the well.

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"Are you still living here? You're a carpenter, it's easy to rebuild here. ”

"No, Heatherton is gone, I never want to come back here, it's a nightmare, I'm going to get out of here and never come back. The man began to bury his face in the palm of his hand and let out a painful, low cry.

Geralt walked over to Rosin, "You heard it all, what do you think?"

"Who the hell is the Frost Warrior he is talking about? Why did he come here? Hantrek was killed by them, did he come for your adopted daughter, and they were looking for her, too?"

Geralt said, "These people we call wild hunts, I don't know where they came from, as if they suddenly appeared in the world, without a trace. ”

When Luo Xian heard this, he was shocked, "Is it the same as me, and a traveler from other worlds?"

Geralt was stunned for a moment, "It seems that this is a possibility, but they appear everywhere, as if looking for something." And, if they're visitors from another world, what kind of portal is it that keeps them coming and going? They often appear and disappear suddenly, and if they're looking for Ciri, what is the reason for that?"

Luo Xian pointed to the village where most of it had been burned, "How do I know, but I'm sure Handrick knows something, or these people wouldn't have come looking for him." Now it's up to us to see if the Emperor's spy has left us something. I think the answer is inside. ”

"Then let's get started~"

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