After chatting with Bernie, Yao Liang confirmed one thing. This priest is not only an arsonist obsessed with fire, but also a lunatic.

It is useless to try to summarize the previous selection of victims. In Bernie's account, the first person to be accused of being a witch is the barmaid. Her private life is somewhat chaotic, which is evidence that she was seduced by the devil; the second She is a peasant woman, and she is well-known in Fusha Town as a devout believer, but this is her disguise, the purpose is to let people relax their vigilance against her.

No matter what kind of character a woman is, what kind of identity she is, and how she behaves externally, as long as she is accused of being a witch, there will be countless explanations to prove her evil and depravity, and all attempts to prove her innocence are sophistry , Abandoning explanations is conclusive evidence, and no longer attempting to lie and deny.That is to say, no matter what the framed women do or say, they cannot change their final fate of being burned to death.

If you want to add a crime, there is nothing to worry about.Bernie expressed this sentence vividly. It seems that if you want to prevent the tragedy from happening again, you can probably only keep an eye on this priest. Now that the house is burned down, there is another excuse to live in the church.

The fire burned until the night before it was extinguished. Yao Liang stood by and waited at dusk. Bernie was also with him, probably because he wanted to watch the flames end. Standing here, when the last touch of orange disappeared, he did not miss the regret that flashed in the priest's eyes.

Yao Liang wanted to go in to see if there were any remaining items, but unfortunately there were no good lighting facilities in the Middle Ages, so he had to wait until tomorrow's day to see clearly.

He straightened up, giving up the plan to use the oil lamp provided by Bernie to search the carpet, and there was no way to go up the stairs. Although it was not completely burned to ashes, the precarious appearance made people worry that it would break if they stepped on it.He looked at Yuan Bo's house again, shook his head, and was about to leave. At this moment, Yao Liang heard the sound of stepping on a log. He raised his head vigilantly, and saw a person almost hidden in the dark at the top of the stairs. A small figure, and a pair of glowing golden eyes.

"A cat?" Yao Liang raised the oil lamp in surprise and approached the stairs, but the other party was very alert, so he made the first move. The black cat turned around and slowly approached Yao Liang. In the universal time room, there was no further movement, Yao Liang thought for a while and did not catch up.

The appearance of this cat is a bit strange. How can there be a cat suddenly in a fire that has just been extinguished?The original body has nothing to do with cats, and there is no sign of cats in the entire Fusha Town.And that cat, obviously all in the dark, could not see it logically, but its eyes were shining, and those golden pupils were too eye-catching in the dark, which shouldn't be the case.

"El, did you meet anything?" Seeing him walk out of the gate, Bernie asked with concern.

Yao Liang's tone was dejected: "I can't see clearly, I can only look at it during the day, most of the things are destroyed."

He didn't tell the priest about the black cat, which was often considered a witch's pet in the Middle Ages. If he said that a black cat appeared in his house, it would undoubtedly provide a clear evidence for Bernie's persecution of others. .

During the daytime of the next day, Yao Liang was thinking about the black cat, declined other people's proposals to help, and approached Yuan Bo's house by himself. It might be more appropriate to say the ruins now.As expected, he did not find any trace of the black cat in the house. There were no important items in the room on the first floor, and all that was left were some tatters. The location of the break went up to the second floor.

When he saw the ground on the second floor, he felt that his decision was very correct. There were still some plum blossom-shaped footprints on the ground. Yao Liang wiped away these traces as he walked. Following the footprints, he could see that the cat was not there. Running around in this house, it seems that he jumped in from the window of the room where he appeared, then went straight to the stairs, and then turned back.

There are no other footprints. It looks as if he came in just to take a look at him at the top of the stairs. When he left before, he didn't look like he was frightened and ran around. The purpose was clear and he didn't stay in this house. These two lines of footprints gave this A black cat adds a lot of mystery.

Yao Liang bent down and picked up the beak mask that was stepped on by the cat. It was slightly deformed after being baked at high temperature, but it was not completely melted. He walked to the window and wiped half of the footprints on the window frame. No one lived behind the house. Farther away is a forest, and the black cat probably appeared from the forest, and that forest was claimed by Bernie to be inhabited by witches.

Hunters will not go deep into the forest, this forest has very dangerous predators, and after Bernie mentioned that it is the witch's lair, there are more rumors about the depths of the forest, such as the witch has a dark castle there , They will drive beasts to attack the crowd, causing more people to dare not go into the forest.

Yao Liang checked the whole house, but there was nothing usable, money and currency were all gone, and some metal utensils were deformed but still usable, the original body had a pot for boiling medicinal materials, and Some grinding equipment, the most complete is a scalpel in an iron box, although the original body only used it for bloodletting treatment, which sounds a lot like murder.

After confirming that no trace of the black cat had been found in the house, Yao Liang went out with these tools in his arms, and the onlookers knew the reason. There was nothing else left in his house.Bernie generously continued to provide him with accommodation, and other people in Fusha Town also offered to help him clean up the house. After Yao Liang promised to see a doctor for free in the next year, these people became more enthusiastic and even proposed to redecorate the house. suggestion.

Because here, doctors are rare, and even the nobles in the main city far away have only two doctors, let alone doctors with good medical skills.Many civilians were afraid to see a doctor because of the high price, but now they can get free medical treatment with some physical labor, and the whole Fusha town is full of enthusiasm.

The rest of his life was almost flat, living in church and staring at Bernie.For a priest, Bernie's life is not simple, he is not a penance, just like the Holy See in the materials, but in a small place like Fusha, he is not very extravagant.

Occasionally, he went to see the rebuilding process of the houses. Some of the shabby ones he thought could be discarded, the townspeople would take them and ask him if he could take them away. The change of attitude seems to be getting closer.

Bernie seemed to have given up on finding the witch this time, or he hadn't selected a candidate for the witch. He didn't see any abnormalities on the surface, and he didn't make any preparations, but sometimes his eyes would be on the piled up timber. , I also heard him ask the hunter to chop some wood and come back.

It was as if a knife was hanging all the time, Yao Liang tried to keep an eye on Bernie more closely, but unfortunately this was a bit unreasonable, instead it attracted the other party's attention, and he was tried a few times by sidestepping, but fortunately, there was no danger and no suspicion Dodging the past also made Yao Liang more cautious.

Since Bernie did not take any action at the moment, Yao Liang decided to go to see the black cat that he cared about first. After that, he also went to Yuanzhen's house at night, but unfortunately he never saw the black cat again. , those glowing golden pupils often emerged in his memory.

So, Yao Liang bypassed the original house and walked towards the forest in the name of replenishing the medicine in a secret recipe for treating high fever.

Standing on the edge of the forest, he can see his window. The window on the wall is about the foothold of the black cat. He is thinking about how the other party climbed up the window sill. If he thinks more, why is that cat? Accurately found the room where the original body was finally located?Does it have anything to do with the original body?

There is no clue in the memory of the original body, and there is no phenomenon of amnesia.Of course, the bigger possibility is that he was thinking too much. The cat just walked into a room randomly, was attracted by the jumping flames, and then was scared away by its own movement.

It is very difficult to find a cat in the forest, and Yao Liang did not bother to find it. If the cat is really weird, then it may appear in front of him on its own initiative. If it is purely nervous, then find It doesn't make any sense.

Therefore, Yao Liang was very conscientious. While paying attention to the possible herbs in the forest, he also paid attention to the traces of wild animals. As he gradually deepened, various shrubs, vines and thorns began to appear ordinary, blocking his way, and the roots of the trees were exposed in the forest. Outside the dirt, it added a lot of difficulty to the progress. There were the rustling sounds of animals running past, and the movement of snakes crawling. However, Yao Liang kept his expression unchanged and was not worried about these dangers at all.

When he was picking up a medicinal herb, he heard the sound of leaves being crushed right in front of him. He raised his head and saw a black cat standing on the root of the tree opposite him, looking at him quietly, those golden eyes shining in the sunlight. There was no light under it, but Yao Liang knew that it was the cat he met that night.

"Are you here to look for me?" the young man asked, not getting up, for fear of scaring the cat away.Under his gaze, the black cat nodded reservedly, turned around, and made a gesture of "following up" to him. It was humanized as if there was a human soul in its body, and he was on a certain mission with him. The world plays a very similar role.

Yao Liang didn't hesitate, and followed the animal directly. The animal would look back from time to time to see if he was falling behind. When they turned around and couldn't remember the way back, they finally arrived at their destination. wooden house.

The black cat moved forward and jumped into the arms of a girl wearing a flaxen skirt. The girl picked up the cat and stroked its back, looking at Yao Liang. There was a long scar on her face, which was rubbed from the end of her eyebrows. Passing the corner of the eyes, staying at the position where the cheek is close to the lips, there are also some healed wounds on the exposed hands. She doesn't seem to care about these scars, and introduces to Yao Liang peacefully, her voice is also a bit hoarse after the vocal cords are damaged: "Hello, I am the only one who escaped from the cell after being accused by the priest as a witch. You can call me Dikacy."

"I'm El, a doctor." Yao Liang looked at the girl very cautiously. The meeting with the girl was a bit unexpected, and the attitude of the girl was also very strange. He seemed not worried about revealing his identity in front of him at all. Afterwards, she will be taken out, or to explain her identity to the priest and others.

Dikacy's face remained calm, she opened the door and walked in: "I know you have many questions, before the sun goes down, I can answer all of them for you."

Yao Liang stayed outside for a while. He listened carefully to the movement inside the house. After making sure that there was only one person and one cat, he stepped into this dilapidated room.

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