… is missing
At that moment, Benjamin's heart skipped a beat, and he had a very bad premonition.
The other mages surrounding him also walked out of the darkness at this moment. They gathered together with doubtful expressions and looked at each other, which made the bandits who didn't know the situation tremble with fear.
"When we left the camp, wasn't Augustine still with you? Why did he disappear?" Benjamin asked after taking a deep breath to calm down his somewhat stunned mood.
Andy adjusted his breathing, spoke, and narrated the entire incident:
"Not long after you set off, we were standing in the tent and suddenly heard a strange noise coming from outside. At that time, Augustine asked us to stay in the tent while he went out to see the situation. However, after he went out, There was no movement at all. After waiting for a while, Augustine still didn’t come back. We felt it was strange, so we walked out of the tent together... "
Hearing this, Benjamin frowned and answered the other party's words: "Then, you couldn't find him?"
The two potion mages nodded with fearful expressions.
Seeing this, Benjamin could only take a deep breath and fell into deep thought.
What are you doing? They had all fled abroad and tried their best to avoid other people's eyes and ears, but the result was still the same. Strange things hit them one after another, and they couldn't escape.
Can't they be allowed to reach the border safely
A person in the mage group is missing, which is not a small matter. Although Augustine was a tavern owner in Crewe Town before, he, like other mages, knew very little about Ikol after leaving the kingdom. What's more, Benjamin knows him well. He is a very enthusiastic uncle. Although he has some special interests and hobbies, he will not leave without saying goodbye.
There is no doubt that after most of the mages left the camp, the strange noises heard by the three mages who stayed behind were definitely not accidental or accidental.
"What kind of sound is that?" he asked.
"Hmm... It's a bit like a cat's meow in spring, but very short." Andy described it with some distress, "But it's also a bit like a baby crying. It's very harsh and scary, and it disappears all of a sudden. At that time, I They all thought they had heard wrongly..."
"No." Suddenly, Hannah spoke next to him, interrupted Andy, and added, "That sound is much shriller than the cat meow. I think it is like a woman's laughter. It's just... maybe it's a bit louder. It’s just weird.”
A woman's laughter
At that moment, Benjamin thought he was listening to some folk ghost story. Three people were camping at night when they suddenly heard a strange woman's laughter. One of them went out to check, and then never came back...
Unfortunately, this is not a story, but an event that actually happened to them.
Also because of Hannah's reminder, Benjamin quickly connected the "woman's laughter" with the "lady" described by the robbers.
The only woman in the bandit camp disappeared inexplicably. At the same time, strange laughter came from the mage camp, and then a mage disappeared for no reason. If there was no connection between the two things, then Benjamin would never believe it.
The key to the incident may very well lie with that "Mrs."
"That missing 'lady', what happened to her?" Therefore, he turned around, stared at the robber lying on the ground with murderous intent, and asked coldly.
The robbers were obviously a little confused about the current situation, but they were all frightened to the point of weakening their legs, so naturally they would not hide anything: "Madam... she is our boss's wife."
"What about your boss?" Benjamin asked immediately.
"Our boss... was just killed by you."
“…”
Benjamin suddenly felt the urge to vomit blood.
Calm down...don't be anxious...it's useless to be anxious...
Taking a deep breath, he then asked: "Even if she is dead, how much do you know about her, where is she from, how old is she, what does she look like, when did she marry your boss, what is her personality... As long as she is Tell me everything you know."
Hearing this, the remaining robbers looked at each other in confusion, as if they didn't know how to speak. But under the watchful eyes of all the mages, they had no choice but to come up and describe the missing "lady" word by word.
"Madam is very beautiful, but she has a very fierce personality. I don't even dare to look at her."
"Madam's voice is a bit high-pitched and her laughter is scary. Every time I hear her laugh, I get a headache."
"The boss is actually very afraid of Madam..."
In this way, along with the robbers' vague descriptions, the mysterious female image finally gradually became clear in the minds of the mages.
Although the robbers all looked extremely respectful, according to them, in the beginning, the wife was actually just the wife that their boss snatched from a merchant ship on the Fit River, and she was forced to marry the robber boss. .
The lady who had just married the gangster boss was very gentle and seldom spoke, but gradually, her strong character was revealed. At first, she scolded everyone else in the village. No one dared to say anything because of the gangster boss's reputation. But later, even the robber boss was beaten and kicked by her, and he became a henpecker. At the same time, the lady herself began to show very powerful skills, and no one in the entire village could beat her.
In this way, Madam gradually took over the leadership of the bandits. Even their robbery plans were planned and led by Madam, and the final results were all successful. Therefore, from a practical point of view, the lady has become their boss, and the original boss has become his deputy.
-This time, they crossed the mountains and came to the western border of Ikol to rob. This "lady" also came up with the plan.
Normally, after hearing this story, Benjamin might have complained about how cowardly the bandit boss was. But at this moment, his companions were all gone, and he had no intention of paying attention to these details.
From the descriptions of the robbers, he was more certain that Augustine's disappearance was closely related to "Madam", and it was very likely that she took Augustine away.
Although I'm a little confused as to why a mage can't deal with a more skilled woman, things have already happened and there's no point in thinking about it.
More importantly, how to get Augustine back.
"After talking for so long, where is your lady from? What is her name? Don't you know this?" Benjamin asked anxiously.
The robbers looked at each other in silence for a moment.
"Doesn't anyone know? If no one speaks, there is no value in your survival." Benjamin's voice dropped a little lower, and he glanced at the robber with indifferent eyes, exuding cold murderous intent.
"No... Master Mage, although I don't know what the lady's name is, but here... I have a letter that the lady just picked up and threw away before departure." Suddenly, a robber stood up in a panic and took it from his pocket. He took out a wad of paper and handed it to Benjamin tremblingly, "We don't know how to read, so we don't know what's written in the letter. Maybe... maybe the mage can find something useful."
"Why did you pick up the letter that Madam threw away?" Before Benjamin could say anything, the other robber looked suspicious and asked in a low voice.
"No... just... the letter is very fragrant. When I smell it, it can... it can be something like that."
“…”
Everyone showed expressions that they couldn't bear to look at.
However, after hearing this, Benjamin did not dislike it. He just took the ball of paper, unfolded it, and read the letter with a serious face. However, he discovered that this could not be called a letter at all. At best, it was a draft, and it was a draft that was thrown aside as soon as he started writing it.
The content roughly seems to be what the lady wrote to someone else.
"Dear Sydney, how are you doing in Regina? Let's spend some time..." Putting aside the obliterated and altered content, the only information Benjamin could get from it was such a brief sentence.