"Take us to those witches—and wizards."
Hao Ren ignored the terrified and begging expression of the squirrel, and said in an unquestionable tone.
"I... no... no no, my lord, you can ask me to do anything, but please don't ask me to do this kind of thing." Killed me! She will surely find out that I betrayed them..."
"Mrs. Mary? Looks like that's the witch who 'hired' you." Hao Ren raised his eyebrows. "Listen, if you take us to find her, you will die after seeing her. If you don't take us Go, then you will die now - life is precious and you should count every second."
It's not that he suddenly developed a hobby of intimidating others, but he knew that it was useless to deal with this cunning minion who wandered between the human world and supernatural forces. The only language they could understand was money. and violence, and when things are more dangerous, the most effective language is the latter.
Appropriate intimidation was indeed quite effective, and the gray mouse's face turned pale instantly. He realized that the smiling and kind man in front of him was actually not as harmless as he appeared on the surface. He was also a predator of the dark world, and he was quite ruthless. That category: begging and delaying won't work on this guy.
"My lord, please do me a favor," said the squirrel with a completely slumped face, "I'm just a mouse in the gutter, and the witches just let me keep an eye out for witch hunters and other residents of the dark world passing by. Gave me owl potions and some ointments...but they don't let me know the slightest secret! I don't even know where they held the witchcraft meeting, and the only contacts I have are puppets made by some witchcraft tricks. I will see report to the puppet, and then get a new ointment, except for the first meeting, they have not even appeared in front of me... I really can't help you. "
Hao Ren frowned, and said to himself that this is indeed the dark age after the end of the Mythical Age. Even the witches and wizards who used to be servants of different types have become so cautious. You know, during the Mythical War period, people like them Vassal characters aren't even on the Witcher's kill list. However, this kind of caution is understandable, and the squirrel in front of you is enough to explain everything: the loyalty of this "rat" is simply negligible, you don't even know whether the last employer of these guys was a witcher or a vampire, and even they At this moment, it is possible to be loyal to two masters at the same time!
However, the cautiousness of the witches was expected. Hao Ren winked at Lily subtly, and the latter immediately increased the strength of his hand again. The squirrel even heard his own neck making a crisp sound: he almost felt The other party will break his neck in the next second.
"Then take us to contact the 'Mrs. Mary' you mentioned," Hao Ren looked into the squirrel's eyes, "Take us to the contact point, and I will take care of the rest."
"I... I know," Squirrel has never been a brave person, so his psychological defense can only last so far, "I will take you there...I will take you there...cough cough, please let go..."
Hao Ren whispered to Lily, "Let him go."
"Tch, I thought this guy could be tough for a while longer." Lily threw the skinny man on the ground casually, "No matter what, he's making a living in this 'business'. I didn't expect him to be so promising. Back then, Pierre Erco is much more principled than this.”
"Nonsense, Pierre is a detective from the spirit world, and this is a mouse from the spirit world. Can it be the same?" Hao Ren gave the husky spirit who had no idea, "The two of you should be closer to each other at work..."
Lily thought for a while, and deeply agreed.
Negotiations with the squirrel said whether it was long or short, the night became darker and darker with the passage of time, the original bright moonlight gradually disappeared behind the clouds, and there was a burst of clatter in the distant streets and alleys. The sound of rings colliding, Lily's ears trembled slightly.
"Someone is approaching," she looked at Hao Ren. "It's probably a few hundred meters away."
"It's a night watchman." Squirrel didn't wonder why the girl could hear people's movements clearly from such a long distance, but showed a nervous expression, "We must leave here first, otherwise the church people will definitely be drawn into it." Come... ”
Hao Ren nodded, indicating that the local snake would lead the way, while he and Lily followed closely behind.
A group of three walked through the intricate, dark and cramped streets of medieval towns.
I don't know when the wind blew up in the silent night, and the clouds in the sky moved quickly. A round of bright moon appeared and disappeared in the clouds, casting unpredictable shadows like ghosts on the earth. In this era of lack of entertainment, the residents of the town have already fallen asleep, there are not enough street lights, and there are no lights leaking from the houses, plus the moonlight is often blocked by clouds, the narrowest and remote alleys are like giant black mouths It is daunting, but the squirrel specially chooses such an alley to move forward. He is really like a mouse in the gutter, and he is like a fish in water in these "gutters" full of sewage and odor.
It's not that he didn't think about running away at risk. In fact, when he got into the first dark alley, he couldn't help having this almost crazy idea, but the last reason made him wake up in time. The figure of the girl in the long skirt rolled across the entire street like a gust of wind. The speed far exceeded human imagination. Even after taking the owl potion, he couldn't keep up with the other person's figure with his eyesight, let alone relying on Familiar with the terrain that little advantage to get rid of control.
Now he just wants to know what these two "dark world residents" who suddenly appeared want to do, and whether they are enemies or friends of the witch (although it seems that the former is more likely now), if he can Knowing this, he at least knows how to please the other party.
It's a pity that these two mysterious people who appeared out of nowhere are quite different from any "employer" he has ever come into contact with. They seem to have clear goals, and they are not interested in any interests and power entanglements here. Those two men didn't care about anything other than the information about those witches.
This is not good news for "minions" who rely on selling information and acting as eyeliners for a living.
But he still wants to try to change the status quo.
"Honorable sir, and this honorable lady," Squirrel finally mustered up the courage to break the silence as he gradually approached the contact point, "I think I need to know who I am serving now, right?"
Hao Ren was observing the movement around him. Their speed had now slowed down. This place was obviously closer to the dirtier and backward areas of the city—he originally thought it was a town when he saw the dilapidated and messy conditions on the streets, but now After running so far, he understood from the scale that this is actually not a small city, but medieval cities generally lacked planning and cleaning, so it looked particularly backward—the surrounding streets and alleys were more dilapidated than before, and the houses were also less. From time to time, beggars can be seen curled up and hiding in the shadows on both sides of the almost crumbling, sewage-flowing streets: the curfew system is meaningless to these poor people who are already homeless, and the slums where they hide are also night-watch soldiers A place that the master would never visit.
This dilapidated street is an even more barbaric and backward part of the barbaric and backward Middle Ages. It is their existence that gives other places a little bit of "civilized" atmosphere.
The voice of the squirrel made Hao Ren stop for a while, and he glanced back: "You think we are demon hunters?"
The word "witcher" seemed to have the power of a curse, and cold sweat broke out on the gray mouse's face: Obviously, if he really took two witchers to find the witch's contact point, then he would absolutely Can't live until tomorrow morning.
Hao Ren smiled. His hand touched the holy silver dagger at his waist, but he didn't show it. Instead, he lightly touched Lily beside him.
Lily understood immediately: "Landlord, are you hungry? I'm a little hungry too..."
Well, if you can communicate with this husky spirit and you can understand it smoothly, then there will be ghosts! Sure enough, when this girl was coordinating with scaring people before, she played at a super level, right
Hao Ren gritted his teeth bitterly: "What about your ears and teeth!"
Lily just woke up, she bared her teeth at the squirrel, a pair of "wolf" ears came out from behind her hair, and at the same time, a pair of sharp canine teeth shone coldly, gradually protruding from her mouth. out.
"Wolf..." The squirrel gasped, and suddenly felt that he had really brushed shoulders with death just now. Werewolves are the most notoriously moody among all kinds of "masters", "Okay, okay... I see , please put away your fangs, I will lead the way..."
After Lily put away her fangs, Squirrel breathed a sigh of relief: at least he wasn't a witcher, if he was a werewolf... he shouldn't have such a big grudge against witches, right
He doesn't know much about the "innate hostility" relationship between various dark races, but as far as he knows, half-human half-monsters like witches and wizards have the lowest hatred with other dark races, especially those with werewolves. Harmony, take the "two werewolves" to meet the wizards, as long as you make up the words a little more tactfully, Madam Mary may spare herself.
What he doesn't know is that the reason why wizards and werewolves have a close relationship is all because werewolves were the group that "raised" the most wizards in ancient mythology, and they even liked to raise wizards more than blood clans: werewolves have a long inheritance of shadow spells , and their spells are relatively simple, more suitable for ordinary talented humans to learn, and as for the vampires...
The difficult magic of the blood race is almost incomprehensible to humans, and rather than teaching stupid human magic, the blood race prefers to directly transform humans into blood servants, which is simple and efficient, and has unparalleled loyalty.
The secrets of these mythical ages are not accessible to people like squirrels.