The Divine Hunter

On a gloomy day, majestic dark clouds gathered in the sky, and there were faint electric snakes and dull thunder brewing in it.

The rock walls on both sides were towering, and the sea scorpion motorcade stopped suddenly through the steep canyon in the center. People began to whisper and their eyes swept the scarlet blood that made the scalp numb from time to time.

Roy's eyes became solemn. These traces were not simple bloodstains, but traces of human or animal bodies being dragged from the ground.

He could almost imagine that the poor victim's skin, muscles, and bones were slashed by rough and sharp stones under the high-speed friction with the ground, leaving fine flesh and blood all over the ground.

There is no doubt that this is the first scene of the fight - in addition to the blood, there are scattered linens on the ground torn from clothing, a few loose leather boots, a few rusted pitchforks, and some A weapon made from sharpening farm implements.

Everyone's eyes continued to move forward along this flesh-and-blood road. After passing through the overlapping boulders on both sides of the canyon, a smashed and broken, spiked barricade comparable to the size of a carriage was in sight.

"What can cause so much damage?!"

Aaron immediately ordered the team to temporarily withdraw from the canyon, and then backed away.

Roy and the witcher were determined to get involved. Aaron's persuasion was fruitless, and he had to let them go.

Walking all the way to the vicinity of the bloodstain, a strong and disgusting bloody smell rushed to the face, the witcher's nose shrugged as if he was distinguishing something, and then squatted down and touched the blood and minced meat on the ground deeply with his fingers. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Very fresh human flesh and blood should have been left over last night."

However, in the face of such a terrifying scene, everyone present was unusually calm, and there was no trace of shock on their faces.

Roy couldn't help but be slightly surprised. It was only when he climbed out of the bloody sea of ​​corpses that he was immune to such a bloody scene, and the ordinary team members of the sea scorpion actually have such a big heart? It doesn't seem like this has ever happened before.

"Master Leto, your body hasn't recovered yet. If something unexpected happens, be careful."

Aaron suddenly turned around and said a word to the two of them.

"This self-protection is still there."

The team came to the vicinity of the two boulders that were pinched, almost just enough to accommodate two carriages running side by side, which seemed to be different in size from the destroyed barricade in front.

Roy's figure moved, Rabbit and Falcon jumped onto the boulder and looked down, "This is a natural barrier. The terrain is perfect, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is the only way to Elland. Cheng, I will also choose to stop passing pedestrians in this place and collect tolls."

"what do you mean?"

"Obviously not a checkpoint set up by the regular army of Erland."

"As the old village chief of Shire said, there are secret whistleblowers on the road leading to Elland to collect money from bandits and bandits. But they are not very lucky."

"They're people?"

The team bypassed the boulder, and after walking a few steps, they saw the bloody human corpses gathered into a hill behind the three-hundred-pound barricade.

Their deaths were in a variety of strange ways, with their throats open, their stomachs ripped open, their spines broken, and corpses that were directly torn into several pieces.

They were covered in blood, and they could still see the plain, poor quality clothes on them.

Roy remembered that the revolutionary army he encountered outside Edsberg City was also of the same virtue, and he couldn't help but wonder, obviously the resources in the wild in Temeria are so rich, even a guy who doesn't do farming at all secretly hunts. Not to starve to death without enough food to do this kind of murder?

In front of such a pile of horrific corpses, everyone in the team finally lost their calm.

A wretched man as thin as a monkey stood up and stammered,

"Boss Aaron, why don't we take a different route?"

"Stupid ass!" Another strong man with a mustache retorted, "The robbers are all dead, and all the obstacles in the convoy have been removed. What road are we going to run?! Let's walk over it with integrity!"

"Yes!" Someone immediately echoed his words, "It's just right that these bastards are dead!"

"It must be Goddess Meritelli who sent down the scourge and punished these villains!" a devout believer said with an oath.

"Goddess?" Roy slapped his mouth. The mutilated corpse in front of him obviously couldn't have been the work of a goddess known for his kindness.

He exchanged glances with the witcher and began the autopsy in front of everyone. After cleaning up, there were a total of fifteen corpses, mostly young adults, but there were also two young children aged eleven or twelve, and an old man with white hair.

When Roy took out twenty crowns from their close-fitting clothes, the believer of the goddess was immediately excited!

"Look, I said it, this is Goddess Meritelli's punishment to the wicked, it is the grace of the Goddess to me, a believer, the Goddess is kind, generous, she will always hang down on us. Otherwise, it's someone else, Who would miss out on so much money?"

"It's quite a lot," another guy with scabies teased, "enough for you to drink a few times of flower wine!"

"Bastard! Don't mention those pickled things when talking about goddesses!

However, others noticed that the more Roy and Leto checked, the more ugly their faces became.

The wounds on this group of human robbers were exactly the same as those on Qi Qimo.

But they have been away from that place for a few days. Could it be that the monster is still following the convoy?

"What's wrong, Master Leto, what's wrong?"

Lesuo's eyes suddenly froze when he heard the words, and he circled around the crowd strangely. The murderous scrutiny meant that several people couldn't help shivering.

"Master, you are..."

The witcher was silent.

Aaron's questioning gaze turned to Roy, and Roy woke up from the absent state, his throat wriggled twice,

"The murderer is not a human... Human beings do not have such power, no such sharp physical weapons, and the footprints on the ground are wrong... But the murderer is also not the goddess Meritelli!"

"what is that?"

Under the nervous and expectant eyes of everyone, Roy changed his voice again, "Just now, brother, you said that the goddess 'always' will cast a shadow over you... Could it be that the Qianhai Scorpion Convoy also hit the road before? This kind of thing, the goddess will help you open the way?"

"That's right, I, Rulda, followed the sea scorpion for two years, but I've bumped into such a bizarre scene twice today."

Another said uncertainly, "It seems like... it really happened twice."

"Dor Breitner once."

"And Ad Kalay!"

You and I started to discuss in the team, until Aaron snorted heavily, and they immediately shut their mouths and kept quiet.

Aaron got close to Roy, grinned wide, showing his white teeth, and smiled heartily, "Master Letho, Roy, since the thugs are all dead, this matter is the end. That windfall, keep it. Give the two of you hard money. Now, let's go back to the team and move on."

"Whoever the murderer is? It's done a good thing for us, brothers, right?"

"right!"

Leto replied calmly, "Okay, as you wish, the matter is over..."

...

Roy kept silent and returned to the team,

Inside the carriage, he murmured in a low voice, "I saw a scar on his neck just now, a scar that has just healed... We seem to have made a low-level mistake, preconceived. It turns out that the murderer who killed Qiqimo was not there at all. Shire Village. He's been in the convoy."

"We are dancing with wolves..."

"At least for now, 'it' has no malice towards us, nor has it committed any unforgivable crimes." The witcher's face was also puzzled. According to his usual experience, that kind of thing was chaotic and disorderly. , only know to kill.

"But can beasts really have the sanity of humans?"

"Isn't the fact in front of you? Stay on the sidelines for now." Lesso said as if to comfort himself, who made them vulnerable?

After saying that, the witcher wiped Guvihir with a straight face.

Roy's eyes drifted to Aaron, who kept comforting everyone in the carriage, and a strange color flashed.