"Ahem, let's go out and check the situation first."
After a moment, Wuming stood up first to break the silence, looking at the three people and speaking.
It was a cloudy day outside, and it looked like a downpour might come at any moment. The air seemed very depressing, and even the wind seemed heavy.
The four of them walked out of the house. Wuming looked up at the sky and frowned, saying, "Let's first find a high place to look at the terrain, and then contact the authorities to see if we can get more information. Since we are hired demon hunters, they must have discovered some clues about the ogres. These are the information we need to know."
Considering the unknown strength of the ogre, the four did not act separately.
They first went to the town's clock tower and observed the terrain of the entire town from a high place. This clock tower was not the kind with a clock, but the kind with a bronze bell hanging at the top and a rope hanging from a height.
The bell tower is built in the center of the town square and is rung when town government officials need to gather the town’s residents.
Looking at the town from the bell tower, there is a circle of tattered city walls outside the town, and there are several militiamen dozing off at the sentry post. Maybe because it is about to rain, there are very few pedestrians in the town. The whole town seems to be asleep, and the only sound in the silence is the wind.
"Okay, let's go and head to the town government building first." Wuming memorized the layout of the town and then said to the three of them.
Although the town is small, it has everything. Wuming can easily guess which government building it is by looking at the different buildings. When they arrived at the building, they were quickly received by the mayor. After some greetings and wrangling, the mayor called his right-hand man, Sheriff Mark, and the sheriff took the four people to the victim's home.
Through conversation, Wuming and others learned that the matter was actually not complicated. It was just that a family in the town had not gone out for several days. The neighbors found it strange and came to visit them, only to find that the house was full of blood and the family had disappeared out of thin air.
The neighbors were so scared that they hurriedly called the police. After Sheriff Mark and the police investigated, they believed that it was the work of the ogre, so they invited a witcher, hoping that the witcher could get rid of the ogre hiding in the town.
Mark is a burly, calm and talkative middle-aged man. He is wearing a gray police uniform, with a rapier and a bundle of ropes hanging around his waist, and he walks very fast.
Arriving at the victim's house, Mark said to Wuming and others: "This is the family. The husband's name is Peter, the wife's name is Mary, they have two sons and a daughter, but they are all missing."
He took out the key and opened the door. He did not enter the house himself, but pushed the door open and motioned Wuming and others to go in first.
Wuming held the hilt of the sword in one hand and walked slowly into the house. There were few furniture in the house, and it could be seen that the family was not rich. There were obvious bloodstains on several places on the wall. From these bloodstains, Wuming could quickly simulate the position of the victim and the attack he suffered.
"Do ogres have the ability to disguise themselves as other people?" Wuming looked around and made a judgment in his mind.
There was no sign that the door had been forced open. It must have been opened by Peter himself. The ogre came in from outside and closed the door. The next moment, he grabbed the back of Peter's head with one claw. Blood splattered on the wall on the left, and a lot of it fell on the ground.