The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Any clues?" Sylvia asked, when he saw Leo closed the diary in his hand.

"One thing." Leo nodded and said, "The first point is that the disappearance case not only happened at night, but also during the day. The second point is that most of the missing people are responsible for taking care of the grapes and building broken grape branches. Picking up the grapes that are not growing well, so they need to travel throughout the plantation. The third point is that when the disappearance occurs, it is when the work is the busiest, and everyone else is working hard."

"Do you think this may not have been done by monsters?" Sylvia asked, thinking about it.

On the way to here, the two had made some guesses about what caused these disappearances. The answer they guessed most was monsters.

This is different from Velen World. Although Velen World also has all kinds of monsters, there are churches on the bright side that will kill those unruly monsters. In the dark, the bounty hunters in the dark world will also kill monsters in exchange for bounty, so The monsters in the Velen world either fled into areas with special protection like the Black Forest and dared not come out again, becoming legends, or they hid in the shadows of the city and dared not show their heads.

However, the world is different now. According to the intelligence they collected, it seems that the world only specializes in killing monsters. It seems that there is only a demon hunter. Although the military of various countries sometimes siege monsters, it is always because of the wrong method. No small casualties.

Therefore, the military of various countries also opened their eyes to the existence of these monsters, closed one eye, and were reluctant to do it by themselves. They really encountered trouble, and they would publish tasks on the bulletin boards of local villages and towns like ordinary people. Almost there will be a demon hunter to pick up the task, and no one will be able to ignore it for a few years with bad luck.

Because of this, the dangerous monsters of this world are flooding everywhere, and the chance of encountering monsters on the road is even more than that of ordinary beasts.

Therefore, when the disappearance occurred, the vast majority of people, including Leo and Sylvia who had just learned about it, subconsciously thought it was a monster.

However, from the information in this diary now, the unknown existence of the disappearance case is not worried about being discovered during the day, and it knows how to find prey, specially select those who are outliers, and knows the timing and knows that everyone The busiest, when he has no time to take care of it, he can find that the unknown existence of the disappearance case should be a kind of intelligent creature that understands thinking, not a monster whose behavior is dominated by primitive beasts in the sense that they understand it.

"We don't know much about the intelligence here," Leo shook his head and said, "There are a lot of intelligent creatures here, and there are a lot of wisdom among the monsters. We can't judge the monsters here according to our common sense."

"Isn't the demon hunter a monster in this world?" Sylvia said with a smile. "We may be able to get some desired information from him."

"It's a good idea, but you forgot that the purple gold on our body is not enough. As far as I know, the devil hunter can't do anything in vain," Leo temporarily put aside the financial problems and asked Sylvia: "What about you? What did you find?"

"The workers here are in a hurry, leaving almost at the same time, and the luggage is packed completely, there are no useful items left behind, it should be someone organized." Sylvia said her findings, and Guessing: "All workers are left at once, leaving the vineyard completely vacant and causing the illusion that the situation here is already irreversible. It makes other workers afraid to come here. It seems that this Count Brittany's enemy It’s really a painstaking effort!"

Leo is not interested in fighting for power between nobles, but Sylvia's words actually brought to his mind an idea, saying: "Do you think there are artificial factors in these missing cases?"

Sylvia followed Leo’s thoughts and said, “You mean that these missing knights are the enemies of the Earl of Britta. They first made the missing case and then made rumors, so as to break the cloth. Count Rita’s wine estate?"

"No, it's too obvious to do that. Other people may not be able to find out, but the demon hunter can definitely find that these missing cases are not caused by monsters." Leo thought for a moment, and said: "But if part of the disappearance is caused by monsters Because, the other part of the disappearance was done by other people, so as long as it is properly arranged, even the demon hunter may be difficult to distinguish."

"It's possible." Sylvia nodded in agreement with Leo's inference.

Neither Leo nor Sylvia made an accurate conclusion on this matter. They are also well aware that the inference made now looks like the same thing, but if there is no more information, this inference can only stay at Guess phase.

Feeling that there were no more clues in these houses, Leo and Sylvia turned and left, riding a horse and walking around the plantation.

Although the area of ​​Britta Manor is not very large, the area of ​​the entire grape plantation is very large. One-third of all the slopes that can be planted at the foot of Gao Gong Mountain are plantations of Earl of Britta. It takes about an hour to run a lap, like Leo and Sylvia walking slowly around the edge. It took more than three hours to return to the worker’s hut. It's noon.

Walking down this circle, they met some monsters, such as giant centipedes, such as a plant resembling a man-eating flower, and some large bugs, etc., but they did not converge on the sixth-level psionicists in Leo. In the case of fluctuating life energy, these monsters are under the suppression of life forms, and the instinctive choice to escape and retreat, there is no exact battle.

However, even this is enough for Leo and Sylvia to understand a little bit about the basic situation of monsters in this world.

These monsters still belong to the category of animals in nature, and they do not have any extraordinary power, so their behavior also follows the instincts of animals, and the domain awareness is also very strong.

These monsters all have their own fixed comprehension. Under normal circumstances, they will not leave from their own realm, they will only attack the living creatures that break into their realm, and they will not pay attention to the living creatures outside the realm.

If it is a stranger similar to Leo and Sylvia, the first time they come to this manor, they will inevitably break into the realm of these monsters, be attacked or even killed by the monsters, but they are planted in this area for many years. Workers working in the garden should be very familiar with the danger zone around the plantation. They cannot break into these danger zones, so the disappearance here should not have much to do with these monsters that are around the plantation. .

Even if there are monsters, they will only appear suddenly on the plantation and have not yet been discovered by the locals.

After returning to the worker's house, Geralt and they were already on the lawn outside the worker's house, waiting for a while, judging from the traces on them, they should have experienced some fighting.

When they saw Leo coming from afar, Angran could not wait to shout: "Hey! Uncle Knight and Aunt Knight, we have completed the task, found the monsters who made the missing case, and gave them Get rid of it! You may have to visit in vain!"

"Aunt Cavalier?" Sylvia raised her eyebrows when she heard Angula's title to her, and cold words came from the helmet, saying, "I don't like this little girl!"

Leo smiled and said nothing. Although he won the ordinary people's emotions and feelings soon, it does not mean that he is a worldly fool. The topic of female age is taboo in any world.

"What's the matter? Have you already found the murderer of the missing case?" Gently hit the horse and speed up to come to Geralt and others. Leo asked immediately after dismounting.

"Yes, there is a hole in the manor's cave that is an underground wine cellar, and that hole just leads to a Qiqimo's den." Geralt was cleaning the armor stains with the water in the pool, and answered. Leo asked, while explaining what Qi Qimo was.

At this time, Leo only knew that the big bugs he and Sylvia encountered on the road were called Qiqimo, and their life styles were somewhat similar to ants. They were also the most common monsters in Taosent’s forest. Rumors of being attacked by Qi Qimo.

Seeing that Geralt was a bit busy, Regill motioned to Geralt to do his own thing, and he added the latter.

It turned out that after they arrived at the manor, they carefully searched for clues. Later, Angula found a piece of Qiqimo falling off a nail in the underground wine cellar. Then they found a gateway in a very secret place deep in the wine cellar. Qi Qimo's entrance, which was closed by Qi Qimo with clay, is difficult to be found because of its remote location and dark surroundings.

After entering the lair, they found some traces of humans walking through here, and deeper, they found Qiqimo's lair, and then they fought with Qiqimo and killed Qiqimo in this nest. , Check the nest, and found some human bones and broken clothes after being eaten. From the perspective of the style of the clothes, it should be a plantation worker.

Therefore, they thought that at the beginning, a farm servant inadvertently broke into Qiqimo's den and was attacked and eaten by Qiqimo. Afterwards, Qiqimo, who ate the human, also used humans as prey and continuously attacked the plantations. The workers eventually caused the present consequences.

After listening to Regill’s account, Leo was quiet for a while, and then asked, “Have you cleaned the bones? Are there as many as a dozen of them?”

Hearing Leo's inquiry, everyone looked at each other in silence, and did not answer.

As Leo said, after seeing a pile of broken bones, they thought they were all victims and that the mission had been completed, like Cassirer was a warrior of the Nivelgad Empire, with honor Feeling disdainful about rummaging the bodies, Angulaan, Milwah, and Dandrien all instinctively resisted the dirty corpse pairs, and Regil didn’t need or like to touch the corpses, especially those with high decay. As for the only Geralt who didn’t mind cleaning up the body, he focused on Shiri’s affairs, and for this task, he also had the mentality to complete it as soon as possible, so after seeing the body, he subconsciously thought that the matter was over. .

Now, after they listened to Leo’s words, they felt something was wrong, because although they found that the pile of corpses looked a lot, but after careful evaluation, they would find that the pile of corpses was only three or four people at most, absolutely no more than a dozen There are so many individuals, that is to say, there are still about ten people missing that these monsters did not do.

"Sir Leo, did you find anything?" Dandrien felt that the morale that everyone had just raised because of the settlement of the case seemed to be affected by Leo's words, and quickly shifted the topic to Leo and asked.

Leo did not skimp on his discovery, so he found the diary of the missing worker, learned some characteristics of the missing person, found some characteristics of the monsters here, and some speculations made by him and Sylvia on the missing person.

After listening to Leo’s analysis, everyone’s face also became a little ugly, and the nobles of Taucent would definitely do what Leo said. In order to attack the opponent, he did not hesitate to use the lives of others as attack weapons .

"Damn! The nobles are so **** damn!" Angulan, who had always been lively and cheerful, could not help cursing loudly.

Milwah, who seemed to be aware of Anguran, reached out and touched her head, hugged her in his arms, and comforted him a few times.

"What do you think is happening now?" Geralt was also bored with this kind of thing that might involve the noble's infighting, but since he had taken over the task but had to complete it, he wanted to ask his companion for advice.

"Don't worry!" Dandrien said first. "We have helped him solve the worm nest in the wine cellar~www.readwn.com~ Finding the bones of the missing person is also considered to complete his task. Return him!"

Cassir shook his head and said, "What if someone is missing afterwards? We will become scammers, hunter scammers, and then we will be unable to do anything at Tausent."

Dandelion opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he still didn't speak.

Others also feel that they should not be involved in the noble fight, nor should they just end the task, which is somewhat contradictory.

"Sir Leo, what do you think should be done?" Geralt could not make a decision, so he had to ask Leo, a stranger.

"My opinions are similar to yours. I'm not involved in the battle of the Taoist nobles, but I can't end the task like this." Leo thought for a while and said, "We can actually stay here for a few days to see if there are still If the worker is missing due to other reasons, feel the matter if there is, and tell Count Britta if he has not. If he does not believe it, you only need to charge Count Britta to clean up the cellar nest. Okay, and we will find another way to obtain a knight's guarantee. If he believes, the next thing is his own. We don't need to participate."