Chapter 30: The Final Settlement (Part I)
"We're just passing travelers, but they're all about living on the land of Willen for generations. Now in Willen, wars are raging, lords are fleeing, and the baron is recovering the population and gradually recovering the previous situation, at the cost of providing logistical supplies to the Nilfgaard army. Every person or class is desperately looking for a backer for themselves, and if they want to survive in this troubled world, they need someone behind them to protect them, and of course they must pay a price, and the price is different for everyone. And, Luo, I can see that you seem to come from an anomalous civilized world, and you are not used to the wars here. ”
On the way, Geralt gave Luo Xian a rare explanation.
Luo Xian nodded, he seemed to understand something, "Yes, I come from a strong civilized country, the whole country is under a highly centralized party rule, no war has happened for decades, whether it is foreign or internal, the whole country is busy with development and construction, and the people are concerned about education, housing, medical care, shopping, and play. ”
"Behind the peace, there are many unknown people who are carrying the burden for you, and the essence of the country is still to plunder resources, but it depends on their own means, fierce or peaceful. ”
At this moment, Luo Xian somewhat understood Master's idea and connected different worlds, so that Chinese civilization could communicate and blend with each other in different worlds, avoiding the situation that it was incompatible because of the unique political party and system.
In different worlds, the progress and environment of the development of their respective Chinese civilizations are different, which will produce a very large market and stimulate all worlds to follow the development.
Returning to the small village deep in the swamp again, after the previous events, the two of them seemed to have their own thoughts in their hearts, so along the way, they were silent and the speed was very fast.
The yellow horse generated by the fusion of wild horses with the heart of the tree, don't look at the huge physique, but running on the swamp, like walking on the ground, there is no hesitation at all, there is a puddle of mud in front of the calculation, Geralt's "radish" also needs to be bypassed, but the yellow horse is directly stepping on the ground, arousing Geralt's secret envy.
On the outskirts of the village, there is a half-man-high smooth rock. The middle of the rock is a little hollow, and it is covered with bloody handprints of various shades of color.
Geralt rolled over and dropped the turnip, and stepped forward to place his left ear in the recess of the rock, and suddenly a strange wind blew around the village.
Countless whispers sounded in the wind, as if they were muttered by countless people, and the tall church in the distance seemed to light up in an instant, as if all the candles inside were lit at the same time, radiating light outward.
As the murmuring became louder and louder, the light emitted from the church became more and more intense, and just when everything on the scene was crazy, it all disappeared in an instant, as if everything before was just an illusion between the two of them.
All that was left around the Bloody Hand Rock was the familiar sound of wind.
At the moment when Luo Xian was surprised, the footsteps of Suo Suo came from the grass below, and three figures lined up but of different heights suddenly fell into the eyes of the two.
The witch on the left is tall, almost three meters over, and her face is unrecognizable, as her face is covered by a thick bloody cloth. The most striking thing is her large hands like chicken feet and a leather pocket on her abdomen, and one of her exposed arms indicates that it is a child's limb. A long necklace of human ears of different sizes hangs around her neck, and it seems that collecting human ears is her hobby.
The one in the middle, the fattest of the women, also had a discernible face, which was covered by a woven basket with numerous small holes in a ring. The position of the hands is not so much the hands as the hooves of animals, because there are only three fingers, in Luo Xian's eyes, he thinks that they may be pig's trotters, because her bloated figure like a fat pig is the most eye-catching.
The witch on the right, who is the shortest, also has the height of an ordinary person, but she is also the thinnest, and her body is like a dead branch, which reminds Luo Xian of the stick insects he saw when he was a child. The witch didn't cover her face with anything, but her right eye was a nest of a dozen writhing maggots, which looked like a honeycomb from a distance, and it was particularly terrifying.
These three are completely different from the portraits of beautiful women on the woolen tapestry hanging in the church in the village, but I don't know if this is their real appearance, or if the beauty is their true face.
Originally, Luo Xian thought that the ghouls and water ghosts were already disgusting monsters, but compared to the three witches in front of him, they were far inferior.
Geralt seemed to be unusually calm, it was clear that he was already familiar with the same scene, and it seemed that there were definitely a lot of hardcore guys among wizards.
"Put away your vigilance, lads, you have done your promise well, and now it's our turn—" the witch in the middle spoke, but her voice sounded like a worn-out trumpet in a bucket, sounding like it came from a bucket-like waist, "but the white-haired boy himself looked more handsome, and the other one wore a mask, and I don't know what it looked like." ”
"Hehe, you guys just... It's not the same as what we see on the tapestry..."The white wolf opened his mouth, full of sarcasm.
At this moment, the children in the village who liked to play everywhere disappeared, but the old woman in the yellow and green clothes came over and approached the crowd as if she had lost her soul.
"Well, don't you bring it soon!" said the tall witch on the left, like a little chick, threw the old woman in front of the blood-stained stone, and cried out in discontent, her voice like that of an old eagle, which upset people.
At this moment, both of them noticed that the clothes on the old woman's arms were rolled up, revealing fair skin, but there were no special marks when viewed from the back of the hand or the palm of the hand.
Could it be that his guess was wrong? Luo Xian was a little puzzled, the old woman was not the missing Anna?
The old woman trembled and picked up the bloody left ear and looked at it in her hand, as if she had lost her soul.
At this moment, the witch on the left stretched out her hand like a chicken claw, and pressed the thumb of her left hand in the center of her right palm, and the old woman let out a terrible scream.
The two people at the scene clearly saw that an arcane rune with three earthworms twisted together appeared in the palm of the old woman's hand. The rune clung to the palm of her hand like a burn, and a violent scream was coming from the old woman's mouth, and her whole body cowered in pain.
Geralt glanced sideways at Luo Xian and didn't say anything, but the two of them were finally sure in their hearts that the missing baroness was the old woman in front of them.
"I told you to bring your things, I didn't tell you to stand there and look stupidly. The witch made a disgruntled voice.
The old woman hurriedly ran back with her ears and handed them to the witch on her left.
The witch took the ear and knocked the old woman to the ground with one hand without paying attention, but with the other hand she held the ear and looked at it with fascination, as if admiring the most beautiful things in the world.
"Hahahaha~" The old owl-like laughter sounded again, and the witch pressed her ear to her chest, and suddenly, the ear automatically wore on the necklace of the human ear.
The fallen old woman did not complain at all, but silently got up from the ground and stood aside obediently.
"Don't disobey us again, you idiot who doesn't listen to the femdom. ”
"She's done a good job, raising those little children to be white and fat, as fat as a piglet, as sweet as caramel, and this time we'll spare her a little life. The fat woman in the middle said.
When the old woman heard this, she immediately became even more depressed, and bowed her head to the side.
"But for now, the most important thing for us to do is talk to these two friends first. The witch on the far right spoke, and although her right eye was a maggot, and she looked like a dead leaf, her voice was unexpectedly good, like that of a maiden.