It turns out that this is the real purpose of the witcher.
They didn't come here to hunt down the "Red Moon Countess" whom no one dared to provoke, nor did they come here to prevent Vivian from recovering. Their real purpose was to prevent the crazy disaster brought about by Vivian's recovery——Hao Ren didn't know how much the demon hunters in Corpus paid attention to Vivienne, but now it seems that it is obviously a step further than what he knew and guessed before, and even if Vivienne disappears for a certain period of time A set of early warning mechanisms triggered by Corpus: Hasselblad and the hunting group led by him are obviously part of this early warning mechanism.
There is just one thing that Hao Ren can't figure out: Demon hunters have always been indifferent to other races. Apart from being obsessed with their endless hunting, they actually don't care about the life and death of humans at all, let alone go through fire and water specifically to protect humans. However, their limited "offensive and defensive alliance" with human beings is entirely based on the premise of carrying out hunting. Once they lose the only goal of "hunting", they will not pay attention to any suffering suffered by human society.
So why did Hasselblad lead a group of warriors here to protect the human city
In previous investigations, Hao Ren has roughly determined that there is no other kind of long-term activities in this area except Vivienne's sleeping place. There are only a human city and a few villages and towns here. For demon hunters In other words, the biggest consequence of Vivian's violent awakening is that the human beings in this place suffer, and Vivian herself is not the target of the demon hunters, so why did Hasselblad bring people here
Certainly not for the group of witches brought by Mrs. Mary, a mere group of witches can't attract such attention, and one or two experienced hunters can clean them up, and Hasselblad himself said just now, he is They came here specifically for Vivienne.
Hao Ren thought for a while, organized his words and said casually as much as possible: "To stop the madness of the Countess of the Red Moon - even if it's just a temporary delay - will cost a lot. To be honest, I think it's not worth the candle. , there is nothing of value here except humans."
"Of course not for those humans," a demon hunter said. "You have been hunting for too long. I'm afraid you don't know what the countess did after she woke up three thousand years ago—she suddenly appeared in a place in Northern Europe. In the wilderness, after beating and smashing, she couldn't vent enough, so she rushed straight to Corpus. If it wasn't for a battle group that just returned from the Nordic battlefield and encountered her, Corpus would probably meet her. The most serious domestic attack in history. Since then, we have summed up the experience that after Vivienne Ansesta went crazy, someone must attract her attention and let her consume excess energy and physical strength, otherwise she Definitely going to Corpus."
Vivienne's evil body still has this tendency? Will they rush to Corpus
Hao Ren's expression didn't change much, but his heart was overwhelmed. He had dealt with the evil thought body so many times, but he had never heard of such an attribute!
Even Hasselblad, who participated in the operation six hundred years ago, did not tell anyone about it in the days to come.
Of course, Hao Ren can't blame Hasselblad for concealing information. Hasselblad is an "outsider" after all, and his understanding of the evil thought body and the dream plane is extremely limited. The existence of such things as body", and the last time he dealt with Vivienne's evil body was this time - there are still six centuries before he and Hao Ren's acquaintance. How important is the clue hidden in the action to Hao Ren.
All kinds of restrictions made it impossible for him to associate this crucial clue with what Hao Ren and his party were busy with.
But everything doesn't matter, because Hao Ren has already come, he has personally entered into the history that would have been buried forever, and now he has the opportunity to rediscover the details that were unconsciously ignored by the parties involved.
At this moment, he realized that his trip back to history had another meaning: not only did he want to find Vivian, but he also wanted to find Vivian's lost memories and everything related to Vivian. secret.
After suppressing the initial surprise, Hao Ren began to think about another question: Why did Vivienne's evil thoughts rush towards Corpus
Is it because Vivienne still subconsciously remembers that she was once the fourteenth saint of the witcher? Or maybe she subconsciously wanted to find her old friend, the number one saint who was killed by a beam of moonlight from her and was accidentally reincarnated as a dog
These two possibilities were quickly thrown aside by Hao Ren, because it was only the evil body that rushed towards Corpus. After confirming some details with Hasu and several other demon hunters, he confirmed this even more: those who rushed The "Vivienne" to Corpus all appeared after the real Vivienne woke up without exception, and would take the initiative to "leave" after a melee—the witcher thought it was the countess who had suddenly recovered Sober, but Hao Ren guessed that it was taken away by Raven 12345 in history.
Since they are evil spirits without the slightest sense of reason, they may only rush to Corpus for some simpler and more direct reason: there is something attracting them there.
Hao Ren immediately thought of the God-killing Sword: Throughout history, the God-killing Sword was kept in Corpus, and there was no difference between Vivian's evil thought body and the murderous weapon that was once full of negative power. Questions are deeply connected.
The divine power of the Goddess of Creation, and the opposing dark power, these two powers are so inseparably entangled, entangled in the God-killing Sword, and also entangled in Vivienne, and in the end they are so miraculously connected together.
Hao Ren also thought of the little weak chicken who was confused all day long. Although she was very weak and small, she was also a genuine evil body. However, she had no tendency to go to the North Pole. The reason was simple: when the little weak chicken was "born" The Sword of Killing God has already been purified... and the little weak chicken has no tendency to go to the North Pole, which confirms Hao Ren's entire guess from one aspect.
"Are you distracted?" Hasselblad's words suddenly came from the side, and Hao Ren finally woke up from his thoughts. The latter quickly corrected his expression, and said calmly under the puzzled eyes of the old hunter: "I just thought of Corpus— I hadn't been back for so long, so indifferent to everything but my safari, that I didn't even know that Corpus had been nearly raided once."
"Hunters who have been fighting monsters in the dark for thousands of years are also worthy of respect." The demon hunter Lockheed said, a compliment that immediately made Hao Ren feel even more embarrassed about this honest man...
"By the way, haven't you tried to destroy Vivienne while she was sleeping? This will solve the trouble once and for all." Hao Ren thought about his words and asked a question that he had cared about for a long time—it was said that when he asked this question He also felt weird.
"Are you kidding me?" Hasselblad gave Hao Ren an incredulous look, "It is more difficult to deal with the sleeping countess than it is to deal with the awake countess, and it can even be said to be a hundred times more dangerous: even if the awake countess is in a state of madness, it is only temporary Yes, as long as she regains her senses, she will be harmless to humans and animals, and even if she fires, she may not necessarily summon the red moon, but she is sleeping... not to mention that the soulless guard army she created in her sleep is enough to kill absolute monsters. For most intruders, when she is attacked in a sleeping state, she will automatically create a red moon!"
Hao Ren's heart suddenly felt like shit - Vivian, why are you so violent when you sleep? !
Seeing that the skeptical expression on Hasselblad's face tended to deepen, Hao Ren knew that he had asked enough inappropriate questions, so he quickly changed the subject perfunctorily: "I just heard about these things, but I didn't expect it to be true. Terrible, I took it for granted... let's talk about tomorrow's action."
Fortunately, Hasselblad was only a little surprised by Hao Ren's whimsical idea, but did not question the latter's identity itself, so the topic was quickly changed, and the witchers began to discuss the plan to hunt down those witches.
Soon, the discussion came to an end, and the witcher team leaders left the long table one by one to find their subordinates to explain the battle plan. Hasselblad also stood up and stretched his muscles and bones, apparently preparing to rest. Hao Ren looked at the old hunter from six hundred years ago and made a quick decision in his heart.
Sleeping in the castle is the body of evil thoughts. Hessiana, Lily and her party must be warned immediately, and the follow-up awakening plan must also be revised.
We can't continue wasting time here - and there should be only so much information the witchers can provide.
Hao Ren made a bold decision.
"Elder," he called Hasselblad who was about to leave, "Actually, I found something."
Hasselblad raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"
"Please follow me." Hao Ren looked around, and finally landed on a place in the north of the cemetery. "Those witches performed a strange ceremony in that place. I hope you can come and see for yourself."
"It's a ritual that even seasoned hunters don't know." Hasselblad smiled, but he didn't have any doubts, because it's really normal for junior hunters to ask him, an elder, for advice.
Hao Ren took Hasselblad to the edge of the cemetery, where he could avoid the sight of the night hunters.
Hasselblad didn't seem to notice this at all, he just looked curiously at the opened tombs in front of him: "Do you mean these opened tombs by the strange ceremony you're talking about?"
Hao Ren silently recited the name of Raven 12345, then quietly moved behind Hasselblad, and calmly took out something from the portable space: "I have a good thing for you to see."
Hasselblad turned around inexplicably: "Huh?"
A metal plate brick made of battleship alloy and almost twice the size of a normal plate zoomed in quickly in his sight...
"boom!!!"