After listening to Leo's suggestion, everyone felt that this was a solution to the problem, so they all agreed to Leo's suggestion and chose to live in a manor on the hillside.

Leo and Sylvia naturally lived with them, which not only made things easier, but also allowed them to discuss things about the world.

A group of people came to the manor. Because the manor was mainly used for summer vacations and banquets with other nobles, there were many rooms in the manor, and all the rooms were built around a garden with a spacious lawn. However, because

The lawn looked very messy due to no one taking care of it for many days.

Everyone found a suitable room and tidied up. After that, Regier and Angoulein prepared food. The others went hunting around to see if they could catch any prey. Leo and Sylvia decided to go to Jello.

Check out the insect nests they visited before to see what's going on.

For this reason, Geralt chose to stay and be responsible for being a guide. As for what his true thoughts were, Leo knew very well, but he did not reveal it.

The three of them arrived in the cellar, but did not immediately go to the insect nest. Sylvia asked the two of them to listen, then found a wine barrel that seemed to have been sealed for a long time, unplugged the cork, and removed it with a wine grapevine.

A glass of wine was spooned out from it, he took a sip and frowned slightly.

"What's wrong?" Leo asked.

"The taste of the wine is a bit... not very good." Sylvia seemed unsure. She took a sip and asked, "Is this what Toussaint's wine tastes like?"

Geralt didn't understand why Sylvia was suddenly interested in the wine here, but he still took the initiative to help and said, "Let me have a taste."

Sylvia found an empty cup and gave Geralt a spoonful. After Geralt drank, he frowned and said, "This wine has gone bad. It must be because no one took care of it."

"Is that so?" Sylvia plugged the cork into the wine barrel again, turned around and found several other wine barrels, and drank a little of the wine inside, but her brows were always furrowed, obviously drunk.

She was very dissatisfied.

"If you want to drink, I still have a bottle of good wine." Seeing Sylvia's look, Geralt said kindly.

"No need! It's not because of the wine, it's because of other things." Sylvia shook her head and did not continue with common sense. She turned around and said, "Let's go! Let's go to the insect nest to have a look."

After hearing Sylvia's words, Geralt was still puzzled by her behavior, but he didn't ask any more questions. Leo, who was watching Sylvia's actions, had a look on his face.

A thoughtful look.

Then, the three of them held torches and walked deep into the cellar. They found the entrance to the hidden cave and entered it. After walking along the narrow passage for a while, they arrived at a spacious underground cave.

I saw that there were many insect corpses lying here that had not been cleaned up, as well as the surrounding insect nests and undamaged insect eggs. A pungent smell filled the entire underground space.

The pile of human corpses Geralt and the others mentioned was clearly located, right next to the female insect corpse.

Leo stopped Sylvia, and then he took the initiative to check the pile of extremely rotten corpses. In fact, he didn't move. Instead, he scanned the corpses twice with his mental network and found some unique features in the corpses.

organs to determine the number of people.

"Four people." Leo quickly came to a conclusion and said: "Judging from the degree of decomposition of the corpses and the surrounding environment, dozens of days must have passed, and they are probably the earliest batch of missing people."

"How did you know there were four people?" Geralt only saw Leo standing next to these corpses for a moment before giving a conclusion, which was a little strange.

"An ability, just like the wolf badge on your neck and the vision of your eyes." Leo did not explain carefully.

"Can we find out the cause of their death?" Sylvia asked.

Geralt was stunned for a moment and said, "Do you suspect that they didn't die from these Qiqimo?"

"Be careful and you won't make a big mistake." Sylvia did not answer directly.

"Two people died from sword wounds." Through the mental network, Leo easily found out the details of each wound on the bones of these corpses, and through comparison, easily restored their scar maps, so he quickly made

He answered and said: "The attacks were all from behind. The long sword passed through the back. The blade scratched the spine and the bones of the back, and pierced the heart of the deceased. Both times, they were killed with one blow. It can be seen that the person who killed them

He has extremely high swordsmanship and is proficient in the skeletal structure of the human body. Otherwise, it would be impossible to pass the long sword through the back and stab the heart with such accuracy."

After hearing this, Sylvia asked again: "Are there any other clues?"

"No more." Leo shook his head and said, "There are no other valuable clues." As he said that, he turned his head and saw Sylvia covering her nose, enduring the smell around her, and said:

"There are no valuable clues here anymore, let's go up."

"I'm fine." Sylvia shook her head, indicating that she could still bear it. Then she held the torch high, looked around again, and asked: "There seems to be only one way we came in, but that way is different."

It’s sealed, how can these bugs survive?”

"No, there are two roads here." Leo said as he walked to the wall on one side and kicked away the insect nest blocking the front, revealing a hole in the back.

Sylvia asked doubtfully: "Are these bugs smart enough to know how to hide cave passages?"

"Of course I don't understand, they are almost like wild beasts." Geralt shook his head, held a torch, walked to the front, and said: "I will lead the way, you follow and see where it leads."

After saying that, he got in. Leo asked Sylvia to walk in the middle. After a short distance, the passage became much wider, and the passage gradually sloped upward, and it seemed to be going upward.

After walking for about half an hour, they reached the end.

I saw that this was a natural patio. When the ground cracked across it, it exposed the ground. The surrounding walls were a bit steep, making it difficult for normal people to climb up.

"Look!" Geralt stopped at this time, pointed at the dense grass below the patio, and said.

Leo and Sylvia stepped forward and took a look. They saw a lot of blood stains and some debris in a pile of weeds. Not only that, many corpses could also be seen through some gaps in the grass.

there.

Leo quickly gave the number of corpses and said: "Thirteen corpses, plus the four inside, there are seventeen corpses in total."

"There are still two bodies missing." Geralt knew how many people were missing. After hearing the number reported by Leo, he couldn't help but look puzzled and asked: "Are you sure there are only thirteen?"

"Yes, there are only thirteen corpses." Leo's mental network carefully scanned several corpses and said: "All the dead are..., not most of them died of fatal injuries to the back."

As Leo spoke, he used his spiritual power to pick out two corpses with different injuries from those corpses and pulled them out.

Geralt saw Leo just raise his hand and wave, and two of the corpses in the grass flew out and landed on the ground in front of them as if they were being held by an invisible big hand.

"Are you a warlock?" Geralt looked at Leo and asked in surprise, but soon he felt that he was asking nonsense, because metal can easily interfere with casting spells, so warlocks rarely have large pieces of metal on their bodies, only some passing through.

Specially treated metal ornaments, and for a person like Leo wearing full armor, even a strong warlock would have a hard time casting spells successfully.

"No, I am a wizard." Leo said.

"Wizard?" Geralt was stunned, because he thought the wizard in Leo's mouth was a witcher, and based on his familiarity with witchers, it was obvious that the other party was no longer in any school, and the other party

He also doesn't have any characteristics that a witcher should have.

"No, you misunderstood!" Leo seemed to know what Geralt was thinking, so he explained: "The wizard I am talking about is somewhat similar to a warlock, but their power is different. They are not witchers. However, Jiwei

Elle once taught me the witcher's seals and alchemy, which benefited me a lot. If I have the opportunity, I hope to learn more witcher knowledge from you."

"Ah? Yes, of course." Geralt nodded blankly.

At this time, Sylvia was already standing next to the two corpses, carefully checking the condition of the corpses.

Although the deceased had been dead for many days, the extremely cold bottom of the patio slowed down the decomposition of the body to a certain extent, so the various scars on the body could still be seen.

Judging from the two corpses, they escaped the fatal attack when they were attacked, and later went through a battle, with many wounds on their bodies, and finally their throats were pierced from the front.

"The two of them should be the wandering knights who took over this mission before." Sylvia quickly judged their identities from the crude armor on their bodies.

"Like other corpses, the first blow they encountered still came from the back." Geralt also walked over to check the corpse and said: "As a wandering knight with rich experience, it is impossible for them to be like ordinary people.

To casually expose your back to other people, unless they have absolute trust in that person, and even think that person is impossible and unable to hurt them." At this point, he was silent for a moment and said: "It seems that we should

Find some people to talk to."

Leo said in a deep voice: "Let's go up first and see where it is."

"Yeah! That's right. I'll go up first and untie the rope later..." Geralt agreed as he walked towards the wall next to him and untied the rope from his waist.

"No need to bother." Leo walked over, reached out and took Geralt's arm, then reached out to Sylvia and held Sylvia's hand.

Then, he directly used psychic energy to attack his feet. With him as the center, the three people immediately rushed into the air. In an instant, they rushed out of the patio and flew into the air more than ten meters. In the air, he unfolded his psychic wings.

The individual glided through the air, flew a certain distance, and landed firmly on the ground.

After landing, Geralt staggered, then looked at Leo with some complaints and said, "Sir Leo, can you remind me next time?"

"Sorry, I will remind you next time." Leo smiled, then looked around and said, "It seems we are no longer in Britta Manor." He pointed to Britta Manor in the distance.

The spire of the small tower emerged from the woods and said: "And we are already far away from Britta Manor."

"This is..." Geralt looked around and said, "This is the fissure slope at the foot of Gaogong Mountain. There are such ground fissures everywhere. It is easy to move into the ground fissures when walking here, and you usually fall into them.

Basically, it is difficult to climb out unless someone saves you, so it is not suitable for planting anything here. It is a primitive wasteland." As he said, he added: "Based on the area of ​​the fief, this place should also belong to Earl Britta.

part of the plantation.”

Leo turned his head and looked at the rift where they flew out, and asked: "According to the number of corpses, there are still two people missing. Where do you think these two people will be now?"

"Hiding." Sylvia immediately answered.

"Do you think they discovered something and hid in advance?" Geralt seemed to have the same idea, but he was not sure and asked Sylvia to confirm.

"No," Sylvia shook her head and said, "They must have been attacked, but they were not fatally injured. After being pushed into the hole, they just fell on the corpse and did not suffer much damage. Then

They crawled out of the cave. I can be sure of this because there are traces of climbing on the wall of the cave I just put down, and they were left recently. So they are still alive, but the murderer thought they were dead.

Rumors spread outside that they are dead."

"Since they are still alive, why don't they..." Geralt asked with a gloomy face, but stopped mid-sentence, as if he didn't need to answer.

However, Sylvia still said: "They should be scared, and they also know that even if they come forward to identify the murderer, I am afraid that the murderer will not suffer any harm, and their lives may be in danger."

"I'm starting to hate taking on this mission!" Geralt couldn't help but feel annoyed and said in a deep voice.

"I feel the same way," Sylvia sighed, turned to Leo and said, "Maybe in the end, we will get nothing, and we may also offend the big shots here."

"It doesn't matter. If they offend us, they will offend us. If they really annoy us, they will find that those so-called statuses are nothing. And things may not necessarily develop in the worst direction. We should have other ways." Leo
Chapter completed!