Early the next morning.

Hervin added some wood to the fireplace to keep the room warm.

Click, click.

The little girl came down the stairs barefoot with sleepy eyes.

After Herwin brought the girl home yesterday, it didn't take long for her to fall into a deep sleep, and Herwin carried her into the guest room on the second floor.

The moment she saw Hervin, the little girl's eyes widened in surprise, and after confirming that she was not dreaming, she showed a shallow smile.

It was the first time the witcher had seen her smile.

Herwin turned around and took out two white plates, his own plate containing 4 chicken sausages and 2 fried eggs, while the girl's plate was halved with a bit of broccoli for decoration.

The girl twitched her nose, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she asked timidly:

"What is this?"

Hewen put the plate on the table as he prepared a fork and a knife:

"For breakfast, yours is two chicken sausages and a fried egg, of course, even if it's breakfast, you have to eat some vegetables, otherwise it's not good for the stomach. ”

Herwin was going to ask her what she had been eating.

The girl climbed into the chair lightly, her two white feet swaying 20 centimeters above the ground.

Herwin also sat down across from her, took a knife and fork and cut a small piece of sausage and stuffed it into his mouth, and suddenly said:

"By the way, do you know how to use a knife and fork?"

The girl did not answer immediately, but looked at Hewen's hands, and then cut the sausage in a posture that was not very skillful.

Hervin smiled and said:

"It seems that I am worried too much. ”

The girl continued to stuff the egg into her small mouth.

Hewen asked with a casual attitude:

"You can call me Herwen. By the way, I don't know your name yet. ”

The girl suddenly stopped holding her hands on the knife and fork and kept silent.

Hewen changed the subject:

"Wait for the pair of slippers in the shoe cabinet, although they are a little big, but they can be worn for the time being, and besides, I'm going to go to the town to buy you something, are you going to wait for me here, or I'll take you with me." ”

"I'm not going. The girl shook her head, "The bad guys will see me." ”

Herwin nodded.

"Hervin. The girl paused for a few seconds, "My name is Number 8." ”

"That's not the name. "Do you have any other names, before they called you Number 8?" ”

"I didn't ......," the girl looked pained, "I don't know, I don't remember." ”

Hervin proposed:

"Call you how to be Hladgunnr, which means pure as a swan. ”

Hola nodded heavily:

"Well, I listen to Hervin. ”

Hewen said with a normal face:

"Hara, can you tell me more about the characteristics of those bad guys, is there anything I can recognize them at a glance?"

After asking a few questions in quick succession and learning a little about the situation, Herwin was ready to go shopping, but just before he opened the door, Hola suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes.

Herwin squatted down, patted Hara's head and said:

"Are you afraid, you're afraid I can not go out first, but ......"

Hora shook her head and interrupted Hewen:

"Herwen, you have to be careful of the bad guys, they are very bad and bad. ”

Hewen nodded and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, Hora, you remember my words, you must not leave this house until I come back, you know. ”

"Mmmmmmmmmm ”

After confirming that Hola was in good spirits, Herwin turned and went out.

As soon as he stepped out of the room, Hervin looked at the house and said:

"Look at her. ”

One of the ash trees closest to the house seemed to have been struck by some creature and shook without wind.

Before Herwin could get to the place where he was selling, he saw Jimmy approaching him.

The boy had two large black bags under his eyes, looked very tired, and could see bloodshot eyes.

After seeing Herwen, Jimmy was overjoyed and hurriedly walked in front of him:

"Uncle Herwen, I've been looking for you for a long time. ”

"What's wrong Jimmy, you're not the kind of person who stays up late. ”

Jimmy smiled wryly and said:

"I didn't sleep all night yesterday, Uncle Herwen, you say, do people see hallucinations for no reason?"

Hervin replied earnestly:

"If there is no family history, it is generally unlikely, what happened?"

Jimmy described to Hewen what he saw yesterday:

"I saw the monster yesterday, a tall and thin man, but his skin was a strange white color, with sharp claws, and he had no eyes, nose, or ears, and only a bloody mouth on his face.

"I saw the monster and turned around and ran towards the house, I could feel it behind me all the time, but I don't know why it didn't catch me, and when I got inside, it was completely gone. ”

Hewen recalled carefully, at least he didn't have a monster that looked like this in his memory, and he liked to play with his prey, you must know that there were not many types of monsters he didn't know.

A monster that creates illusions, an ancient race from an old era, or some new monster that has just been born?

Hewen was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly remembered that almost all monsters should be extinct, just like the witchers.

This is no longer the time when monsters were everywhere to hunt.

Hervin said to Jimmy:

"Don't leave town for a few days, I'll accompany you to the place where you met the monster in two days, maybe we can find something. ”

"Herwin!" came the sound of a rough mine in the distance.

The mayor of the town came with the sheriff of the town.

Hervin said apologetically to the mayor:

"Mr. Mayor, I'm sorry for the fact that I rejected you before, but I really can't leave when my distant niece came to me two weeks ago. ”

"You still have nieces? No, I'm not telling you that, we found something in the Black Eye Forest, something terrible. ”

"Is it on the south edge?" asked Jimmy, grimacing.

"No, it's not, it's in the north. Mayor Mare glanced at Jimmy, "Boy, it's time for you to go home, this isn't the place for you." ”

Hervin nodded at Jimmy:

"You'll come to me in two days. ”

Jimmy replied:

"Okay, by the way, and the one I said, which I saw on the southern edge of the Kurome Forest. ”

With that, Jimmy turned and left.

The mayor nodded and said to Herwen:

"You've got to come with us. ”

The trio appeared in the Black Eye Forest.

Herwin finally understood why the mayor was so solemn.

The near-intact carcass of an adult black bear was lying on the ground, looking like it had been rotting for days, but this was the strange place, because such a large piece of meat was difficult to wait for normal decay to be eaten in such a place.

"I've never seen anything like an evil sect in my life?" the sheriff muttered in a low voice.

And the black bear is missing only one part of its body.

The beast's skull had been torn open, and the place where it should have been its brain was empty.