The team was divided into squads, three or four in a team, each battling two scavengers.

These scavengers are monsters endemic to the depths of the swamp.

They look like human corpses with skin peeled off. The entire head has only two small eyes and a mouth full of sharp teeth, and no nose and ears.

In addition to this, there are blisters filled with pus all over the body.

Scavengers are not fast, but they are extremely dangerous, as they are suicide monsters.

Unless you can hit their hearts multiple times in a short period of time, cutting them into small pieces, instantly cutting off the source of their action.

Otherwise, they will suddenly become swift and fierce before they die, and pounce into the pile, and the pus in their bodies will bulge and burst in a short time, and a large amount of venom and poisonous gas will erupt within a range of nearly ten meters, causing casualties to the opponent.

In general, if it is not necessary, very few travelers are willing to provoke them, and they all see them from a distance and avoid them, preferring to take a detour.

A girl with short brown hair in the team, with tight leather armor covering the joints of her tight suit, gritted her teeth and fought these monsters from the swamp with a half-human-high steel sword in both hands. Under the persecution of the scavenger, he retreated step by step, and danger abounded.

Obviously, this team of witch hunters was not fully prepared, and if there were no external causes, it was feared that after a while, casualties in the team would be inevitable.

"Tamara, my daughter, I'm coming!" the baron recognized from a distance that the brown-haired girl was his daughter who had been missing for many days, and with a wave of his arm, he immediately commanded his men to attack the rotten ogre.

The professionalism of the army manifested itself at this time.

Because of the successive wars between the major empires in the north, all kinds of war equipment have been vigorously developed, whether it is a local force or a regular army, as long as there is money, it can be equipped with effective targeted weapons.

Philip was no exception, after he defected to the Nilfgaard Empire, the predator of the empire from the south also provided the defector with some special equipment equipped in the army, including special tools to deal with the scavengers in the swamp.

The rope net with a steel pendant, when the rope is braided, there are several strands of steel wire in the middle, which makes it very tough. For a monster like a scavenger with low intelligence and no knowledge of using tools, it is impossible to break through it.

The same steel pendant has a small mechanism, which can automatically open into a six-claw when it touches the ground, firmly holding the ground soil, and at the same time gradually recovering several main lines of the wire mesh to make it shorter and shorter.

The scavenger trapped in the net can only be pressed shorter and shorter, trapped in place and unable to move, and can only be shot to death by the opponent with a bow and crossbow from a distance.

The entry of the baron's army quickly changed the battle in front of the church, and the witch hunters, who had been a little troubled, immediately turned the tide of the battle, raised their crossbows, and shot the monsters to death one by one, which was a collective relief.

As soon as the battle stopped, Philip, who was dressed in red, was as agile as a nimble mountain leopard, and suddenly rushed to the brown-haired girl, "Tamara, my dear! I finally see you! Do you know how much I miss you?"

"Stay away from me! I'm here for my mom. I'm not as cold as you and won't watch her die in this icy swamp. ”

"How can you say that? What do you think I'm here for? I begged two demon hunters to look for you everywhere, and only then did I get the news that Anna was in the swamp, and immediately came to rescue her with the army. ”

"Demon hunter?" Tamara smirked as she looked at the white-haired Geralt and the hooded and silver-masked Rasian, who she knew almost all of her father's men.

With a boyish personality, she didn't have time to hunt with them when she was a child, and even her own swordsmanship was taught by them, only these two people didn't know each other.

"How much did my father pay you, to make you do that?"

Geralt could see the girl's emotions, "Don't be afraid, after all, you have a bunch of new friends now. ”

"With the protection of the Eternal Fire, I will not be afraid of anyone. Tamara pouted, "You haven't answered my question yet!"

"We all know that your father is a jerk and you haven't had much time with him since you were a child, so you get angry and upset, and you can't be blamed for that. ”

"If you all know about his evil deeds, why do you need to help him, why do you need to take this trouble?"

"Because there is someone who is very important to me, and your father happens to know her whereabouts. We agreed that if we found you and your mother, he would tell me about the man. ”

"Sure enough, it sounded like a blackmail, which was his style, otherwise he wouldn't have climbed to where he is so quickly. ”

"Tamara, we know something is going on in between, but there is a reason for it, and you should listen to your father's explanation. ”

"His explanation?" the girl's voice suddenly became high-pitched, "what do you know? No! You don't know anything! My earliest childhood memories are of my father lying drunk at the bottom of the stairs, dirty, and holding on to a bottle of wine. ”

"That's pretty much the case for the next decade or so. Either he would get drunk and not see anyone for days, or he would throw a tantrum and throw things around the house when he came home. I want to be thankful that there is still war in this world, and every time he goes to war I am very happy, because I don't have to look at his face anymore!"

"And, of course, the indispensable quarrels. I remember him yelling at my mother, he hitting my mother, my mother crying, I remember all these sounds! When they argued, I would hide under my bed and cover my ears just to be quiet for a while!"

"When he's at home, every day, every year, and then multiplied by 20 times, that's my life. Eventually, Mom and I had enough of it, he went too far, so we had to run away from that house!"

"And—" Tamara continued to vent her emotions, looking at the baron not far away with hatred in her eyes, "Mommy has a miscarriage. He was drunk and deliberately pushed her, causing her to fall. It was so sudden, we were caught off guard, no one came to help, there was blood everywhere, and he was lying on the ground and sleeping! It was the worst night of my life. ”

"Tamara, it's not what you think—" Before the baron could finish his sentence, he was stopped by Geralt, and it wasn't necessarily a good thing to let him interject now.

"We regret this, we know that it must have been difficult for you at the time. Luo Xian continued.

Tamara's voice was crying, "Mom was frightened and started babbling nonsense, saying that it was better to do this, saying that she didn't want this child in the first place. She must have been hit too hard, she had a fever, and at that time, she was bleeding all the time. ”

Hearing this, Philip couldn't help it, pushed away Geralt's block, and rushed to his daughter, "Tamara, you listen to me, there is a reason for this, there is a reason! I don't like to drink for no reason, wait until we find your mother together and let her explain it to you!"

"Don't dream! you are not allowed to touch her, not even to think about it, I will not let you hurt her again!"

"I can understand why you're so angry... I've not been a good husband or a good dad for so many years, I know. The baron looked frustrated, "But I've changed my face now, and I don't believe you should ask anyone!, Geralt, Roxian, come, tell her quickly!"

"Your father really wants to get his wife, your mother, back now, no matter what happened before. For this reason, he has even begun to quit drinking now, and he is very determined, and I am not taking sides, these are all facts. Geralt explained.

Tamara didn't look at Geralt, but instead looked at the baron, sarcastically, "How much did you pay for them to say good things for you?"

At that moment, a lazy voice rang out beside him, "I warn you that anger and agitation will lead to nothing but depravity. Gentlemen, this is a baron's family business, and let us return the home field to their father and daughter, shall we?"

Luo Xian turned his head to see that the speaker was a middle-aged man in leather armor and a sleeveless leather robe, who looked like the leader of the witch hunter squad.