"Honorable Lord, please forgive me for my rudeness, I didn't know that the two of them were their people. The dagger was indeed a token of the joint, and when the village chief saw it, his attitude immediately became respectful, and he bent down to salute.

"We are demon hunters and do not belong to anyone. Like you, we are also travelers who have come to their needs, but the price we have to pay is to solve your problems for them. Okay, back to business, we need to get this out of the way. Geralt disdainfully said that as a demon hunter, he advocated a free life, and was never a tool of others, although in reality, he was often used by politicians.

"Ah, I see. The village chief said as if suddenly realized, and the caution just now was put down again, and the curled up body stretched out, and even moved the shoulders on both sides.

"We're here to help you out, tell us what you know, and make a long story short and get to the point, what trouble you have and need their help. Geralt emphasized.

The village chief tapped the ground under his feet with his foot, "The two adults should know about the war that has swept through the entire Weilun region. ”

Geralt and the others nodded.

"It is this protracted war that awakens an ancient, bloodthirsty evil force. The village of Nizhny Valen is shrouded in its shadows, and nightmares haunt us all the time, and the land is no longer at peace. ”

"Can you be specific?"

"Someone sleeps at home late at night, gets a mysterious call from a nightmare, sleepwalks out of the house, and never returns, and even the corpse cannot be recovered. ”

"How do you know they're dead, maybe they're just missing?" asked Luo Xian.

"We lit the torch and called out to them like that, but they didn't respond, their eyes closed, as if they were asleep, and they walked out of the house in their dreams. Because they were afraid of the power of evil, they did not dare to get too close, so they could only follow them from a distance to see where they went. Until they came to their final destination, the Murmur Hills. There, they took matters into their own sleep and hanged themselves under a giant tree in the hills. Although their relatives were still watching from afar, no one dared to bury their remains. Everyone is afraid, that evil is almost everywhere, you must go there, you must go to drive away that dark force. The village chief's voice grew deeper.

"When did these things start, did anyone get into a nightmare in the first place?" As an experienced demon hunter, it is important to understand the beginning and end of the commission, and the more detailed the client's narration, the more confident it will be to solve the problem.

"No, no, no, in fact, all the signs appeared before the war began, but at that time we did not realize that it was the erosion of evil forces. Until this brutal war really woke it up. The village chief said as he took a few more puffs from his pipe.

"It was noon three years ago, and I remember the weather was good. I ran into the forest to check if I had caught any prey in the trap I had laid earlier. Several of them were empty, until I found a live rabbit in a very remote trap, and was glad that this trip was not in vain, and the mutation came. It was only noon, but the clear sky suddenly darkened, and it was so dark everywhere that I couldn't even see with my hands. ”

"At first, I thought that a sudden storm was coming, so I quickly took out the flint and steel on my body, lit the torch I carried with me, and prepared to find a nearby place to shelter from the rain. Who knows, at this time, I suddenly heard a scream that pierced my heart. That kind of scream can't be heard with your ears at all, you can only feel it with your soul, yes, it's your soul. That terrifying sound that goes deep into the bone marrow and goes deep into the soul is transmitted to your head like this, and my head is almost going to explode. ”

The screams came and went so fast, for a moment or for a moment, and I couldn't tell the exact duration, and the sound suddenly disappeared from my head, almost making me think it might be a dream I had. But, as it turns out, it's not that simple. The rabbit that I had carried in my hand rotted and turned to dust before my eyes, and then, not only the rabbit, but also the trees, the dirt, and even the leaves around me began to turn yellow and fall off, and the branches curled up as if they were withering. You know, it was early summer, and it was the time when everything was growing rapidly. ”

The knuckles of the village chief's pipe seemed to turn a little pale from the memory, and it was clear that his hand was very strong at the moment.

"The withered branches began to wriggle on the ground like snakes, and finally came together to form a behemoth, a monstrous tree. The ground also gradually rose and turned into a hill. I didn't dare to stay any longer, so I fled the area. It's strange to say, the vision only exists in that area, no matter how bright it is outside, as soon as you enter it, it's like entering the night, full of ** plants, not even a trace of live animal breath can be found, and the mystery envelops the entire hill. ”

"At first, we didn't think it was anything, we just had to avoid that direction in the future. However, things are not so simple, and many things in the village are starting to go wrong. Some people's teeth suddenly became as black as coal overnight, and the women of the village also became a little short-tempered, arguing all day long, even if they were fine, and the newborn baby was even more photographable, either missing an arm or a leg. From then on, pregnant women had no choice but to move out of the area, go to other villages to give birth, and wait until the baby was born before returning. ”

"Later, when the war came, it was even more serious. As I said at the beginning, in the middle of the night, people seemed to hear a whisper in their deep sleep, and gradually some people began to sleepwalk, walking towards the hill, and finally hanging themselves there. We were all scared, so we called that mysterious place the Murmur Hills. ”

"You didn't think about doing anything for anything other than asking the three ladies for help?" Geralt asked.

"How could it not be? In the past, there were more than a dozen families in the village of Nizhny Valen. I can't tell you anything like this with my own mouth, and you have to see it with your own eyes to know the horror. We can't, the village has already given an order, and whoever doesn't listen to the order and gets close to there will have their legs broken. On several occasions before, it was proposed to go together to cut down the great tree on the hill, and bring fire to burn the cursed land. As a result, none of the people who had gone together made it back, but the weedy hill was full of bones. We had no choice but to go deep into the swamp and ask the ladies for help. ”

"Do the three ladies know what this mysterious power is? After all, they have lived in this land for quite some time. "Listening to the description of the village chief, that mysterious place is indeed a bit evil, giving ordinary people a terrifying feeling, but Luo Xian is not afraid. He can't even be considered alive, is he still afraid of death?

Not to mention that he has the Dizang Sutra in his hand, this scripture is no longer the original, it seems to have changed dramatically, Luo Xian changed its name from "Death Diary" to "Book of Good and Evil", because he felt that life and death were not judging the essence of things, and good and evil were higher than it.

"Of course they know, but they're not going to help. They say that this is their means of punishing us, because the people who live in this land are slowly becoming less in awe of them, and they do not make offerings, they do not speak, and even insult them as witches... That's when disaster fell. ”

"We were all disappointed and even thought about moving the whole village out of here, but now, two adults have appeared. You have come here at their behalf, which means that this matter has taken a turn for the better, and you are the hope of the village of Nizhny Valen. What happened here may also have nothing to do with them, and if they really did it, they could handle it themselves, or they wouldn't have let you come and solve it. "The village chief is very clever, and from the arrival of Geralt and the others, he has seen a lot of different things, perhaps because the mystery that has plagued the village of Lower Valen has been thinking about it for too long, and has considered many aspects.

It seems that the source of everything is in the Murmur Hill that the village chief said. If you want to know the truth of the matter, you have to go there and see.

"We'll go to the Murmur Hills to have a look. ”

"Demon hunters, please be careful, but don't underestimate that place. The village chief repeatedly told the two to pay attention to safety, but he didn't want his hard-won hope to be extinguished again because of their carelessness.

After getting the truth of the matter and understanding the source of the trouble that the witches needed to solve, the two did not stop in the village, but rode directly on their horses and ran towards the Murmur Hills in the direction guided by the village chief.

The Murmur Hills were more than a dozen miles away from the village of Lower Valen, and they had to pass through a swamp, and the horses were carrying heavy supplies, so the speed of travel was not fast.

It's a constant trouble, and it's everywhere you go.

Passing by a short stretch of swamp, two water spirits, all blue and muddy, jumped up from the mud and tried to attack the passing horses.

Geralt's current spiritual power cultivation is extremely proficient, and almost at the moment when the water ghost crosses the quagmire, a figure appears behind Geralt's head, and two brilliant sword lights immediately appear in the air.

The water ghost that came out almost threw itself into the knife light, instantly turned in half, and fell between the muddy water, no longer moving. It can be said that it is extremely easy.

Seeing that the monsters that needed to be treated with caution before were so easily solved, Geralt couldn't help but sigh at Luo Xian's mystery, this kind of combat secret technique that specializes in cultivating the spirit was almost created for demon hunters. Using its tenacity beyond ordinary people's mental power to perform the tempered martial arts of the demon hunter, it completely replaces the role of magic, and does not need to fight monsters in close combat, greatly reducing the danger of demon hunters in battle. This can be said to have embarked on a completely different path from that of wizards, and it can also be said to be a new direction for demon hunters in the future, which is of great significance.

When a demon hunter is able to create a spiritual martial art on his own, then it can be said that he has truly mastered this technique and has become a inheritance that can be passed down for thousands of years.

Gradually, a hill rising from the ground appeared in front of the two of them, and the iconic giant tree covered most of the hill like a canopy, even at night.

This should be the Murmur Hill.