"She was like a different person, and she immediately went crazy, and the soldiers couldn't hold it back, and kept beating me, kicking me, and arresting me. She also drew our dagger from her horse and tried to stab me, but if I hadn't been quick to hide, I would have been gone. At this, the baron's expression became extremely disappointed, after all, he was once his beloved wife, but he did such a thing to himself for the sake of another man.

"Is Tamara there?"

"As soon as I stopped them, I arranged for the carriage to be watched, and when the boy was dragged out, he was even more far away from the carriage, and Tamara was only a few years old at that time, how could she see that her father was killing, although she probably had guessed it in her heart. ”

The baron's eyes were full of disappointment and pain, "That was the first time I had beaten Anna. There is no way, the soldiers can't make a move against her, only I have to come forward, I have to find a way to calm her down quickly, the longer the trouble, the bigger the movement, the shame is me. ”

"Everything has changed since that accident, and our family will never be the same again. In the past ten years, Anna has committed suicide several times, and she still wants to drag me to die with her. As soon as I came back from the war, not only would she no longer comfort me, but she would continue to whisper bitter and unpleasant things in my ear. We've lived together for twenty years, and she knows what motivates me the most and wants me to hit her in front of Tamara. I endured and endured, and eventually there were several times when I didn't hold back after drinking and moved my hand in front of Tamara. ”

"The rest of the matter, you know, all the people of the territory know that I am a man who likes to beat his wife, so that I have not been able to hold my head up among the nobles of Nilfgaard. When I asked her why she was so mean and aimed at me so much, she yelled at me, saying that I had taken away the love of her life, that I had ruined the love in her heart, and that she was no different from killing her now. ”

"I don't know how many times I asked her for forgiveness in private, how many bouquets of flowers and how many gifts I gave her, and she was unmoved. She loves flowers, and for her, I even sent an army to collect all kinds of famous flowers all over the world, and built a garden for her. The last two or three years passed, and she gradually turned from anger to indifference. It was only when I occasionally got too drunk, or if she had hysterical seizures, that we would have a resuming argument. ”

"All of this has accompanied Tamara's growth, and the child has always seen it and thought that all this misfortune was caused by me, as a father. But now you also know that the truth is not what it seems. Where in this world is there about love in a castle, there are wars, ghouls, monsters everywhere outside, what is the use of that kind of bullshit love in this world?"

"I have to say, in fact, in your bones, both of you are extremely selfish people. Not only are the two of you wrong, but you are very wrong, one runs away from home and the other kills for the so-called emotional dispute, and you don't even think about what your children will think. After doing it, I regretted it, and now that I have experienced so many things, I think of cherishing and making up for it, but unfortunately it is a little late. ”

In fact, it was not too late, Luo Xian quietly thought that Anna, who had been reduced to three witch servants, was obviously assigned to take care of the children. The cruelty of reality broke her view of the world, and she realized how civilians without the protection of powerful forces could helplessly sell their bodies and even their children in order to survive in this troubled world for more people.

In this world, it is the power of power to speak, not the love and love of you and me.

Geralt even expressed his understanding, those nobles hiding behind the walls of the big city like to do some strange things, and he is no longer surprised, "No matter how things turn out, you can say these words now, and you can be regarded as having an attitude towards this matter, that is, try your best to save this lost relationship." ”

"You know, I didn't tell you in vain. The baron's mood calmed down a lot, "Well, since you can't bring Anna back, then please, can you at least tell me why Anna ran away to the humpback swamp, and how she lives there?"

Law glanced at Geralt first, hoping that he would explain, for he knew the whole thing better than he did.

"Actually, the truth of the matter is that Anna is now by the witch's side and helps them with their work. Geralt spoke.

"What did you say? Didn't you just say that Anna was in the swamp? Why did you get involved with witches again?" before Geralt could finish his sentence, the baron immediately asked.

"Three witches, they live in a humpback swamp, and Anna is involved with them. Geralt explained carefully.

"Oh my God. I've heard people talk about terrible witches living in the swamps, but I always thought it was a fairy tale made up by adults to scare disobedient children. The baron's tone was disappointed, as if he had missed something, "How did Anna get there? ”

"That night, after an accident between you, Anna and Tamara took the opportunity to escape, but as they passed through the forest, the horse team was attacked by the witch's deerhead, Tamara and the others escaped, and Anna was taken by the deerhead to the humpback swamp deep in the forest. That's why Tamara went to Redania City to ask for help from the Eternal Flame Cult in the hope of rescuing her mother. Luo Xian couldn't help but interject.

"What the hell is that, my little Tamara, how much she hates her father, and how does this have to do with the fanatical religious fellows of the Eternal Fire Sect? What the fuck! Tell me, my little Tamara isn't hurt, is she?" asked the baron anxiously.

"No, she was allegedly just a little frightened. ”

"Oh~ Thank God!So why was Anna taken away by that monster called the deer-headed spirit?Listening to your description, it seems that the target of that monster is Anna?!" The baron is worthy of being a professional soldier, calmed down, and noticed the crux of the problem with a little use of his brain.

"In fact, what happened that night in the castle was arranged by your wife from the beginning, and she made an agreement with the witch in the swamp. ”

"Contract? What is that? magic or something?" the baron looked puzzled, there has always been an agreement between the nobles of the army, how could Anna, an ordinary woman hiding in the castle, make an agreement with a witch?

"Anna is pregnant with your child, Tia, the current family elf, but she doesn't want to give birth to Tia, so she thinks of a way to go to the witch for help. The witch agrees to Anna's request for some reason, but in return, Anna needs to stay with them for a while. As you can see, Tia's affairs did get them to deal with it, but in an extremely cruel way, it evolved to the point where it is now. ”

When the baron heard Geralt's words, he was shocked, "What do you mean by that?"

Anna begged the witch to remove the child, thinking that Tia in her belly would disappear out of thin air. But the witches chose to slowly drain Anna's vitality, which led to the miscarriage. I think that's why Anna ran away that night, despite her weakness after the miscarriage, because she saw the cruelty and ruthlessness of the witch, and she wanted to run away from Willen, away from the witch. ”

"Why doesn't this stupid woman confess everything to me? Does she think I won't forgive her for what happened to Tia?" The baron's voice changed from sadness at first to regret to surprise and anger at the end, "So, the cause of Tia's miscarriage is the witch?"

Geralt nodded, "According to the inference of the matter, I'm afraid that's the truth, but the reason is because Anna doesn't want that child." Anna was bent on escaping from Willen, but the witch planted magic in her when she made a contract with her. Not only can they be located within a certain range, but they can also make Anna miserable and unable to resist them, so Anna's plan to escape fails, and the deer head sent by the witches easily found Anna's horse team and took her away. ”

"Make a pact with a witch, damn it, it's ridiculous! I must go and get her out! I can't leave her alone!"

"We would like to warn you that the terrain of the swamp is very dangerous and complicated, and even if we lead the way, there are water ghosts and monsters, miasma and mosquitoes everywhere, and if you are not careful, you can kill you, even if you have hundreds of soldiers at hand. ”

"I'm not going to sit at home and wait stupidly to do nothing! If it were your wives and daughters who were captured, would you be willing to wait for a miracle to happen and for the witch to have mercy on them and let them back?!" the baron roared at Geralt and Geralt, his voice threatening to topple the roof of the office, and the soldiers guarding outside the house could not help but peek in several times to see if the lord had a conflict with the two demon hunters.

Rouse stood up and put his hand on the baron's shoulder, "Calm down Philip, Geralt is right. There are not only monsters and mire, but also all kinds of strange magic, and it is useless to have a large number of people. ”

"Besides, my lord baron, we have already told you all the information we know about Anna, and we should have done what we promised before. Now, it's your turn to tell you about Ciri, right?" reminded Geralt unhurriedly, and that was the point of their visit.

In the face of Geralt's words, Baron Philip was no longer ambiguous, and replied directly, "No problem, where did we talk about before?"

"Wild griffon, you said that at the end of the race, a wild griffin suddenly appeared and started attacking you. ”

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