Wizard: This witcher is not doing his job

Chapter 134 Deer Shoujing and the Missing Miner

After leaving Triss's family mansion, Wayne did not stay in Maribau, and soon led by Alan to the mine where the murder happened.

It is about five or six kilometers away from Maribau City, but because the mine has a long history and a huge amount of mineral deposits, the Duke of Maribau also specially built a road leading to the mine, and the two rented a carriage. How long does it take to reach the mine.

This is a large mine located in the interior of the forest. It covers a fairly large area. Not only have several huge mines been dug, but many houses have even been built near the mines for workers to live in.

After entering the mine, Wayne found that the number of workers inside was very small, and all of them were just moving ore. No one entered the mine. In such a huge mine, there were not many people working at all.

According to Allen, half a month has passed since the first homicide occurred. Due to the large number of dead, even if the Duke of Maribau asked the miners to continue working and even raise their wages, not many people were willing. Risking his life to return to work in the mine.

Considering the income of this mine, this may be the reason why the Duke of Maribau is so anxious to solve this matter.

All the way was unimpeded, maybe the people in the mine had gotten the news that Wayne was the expert in charge of handling this matter, and Alan took him around to observe, but no one stood up to stop him.

"Take me to the place where the murder happened first. I don't see any trace of the monster, so I can't tell what it is."

Allen flinched when he heard the words. He looked at Wayne and said:
"Lord Wayne, the original murder happened in the depths of the mine. Half a month has passed. The corpses there have been cleaned up, and the environment inside is very dark. It may be difficult to find anything."

Wayne glanced at Allen, and knew that this young man was probably afraid of danger, evil spirits or ghosts and other ghosts. After all, in places where there are too many dead people in this world, murderous ghosts will really appear.

This is an excusable thing, Wayne thought for a while and said:
"Well, just take me to the mine where the crime happened and show me the way. You don't have to go down with me."

Seeing Wayne's insistence, Allen could only agree and guide him into the mine.

The environment of the mine is indeed very gloomy, and the road is complicated, with all kinds of gravel obstacles everywhere. However, as a demon hunter, Wayne still found the first person in the case through his keen sense of smell, following the smell of blood and meat. a scene.

He poured himself a bottle of cat's eye potion, and after a detailed investigation, he returned to the ground with a strange expression.

It turned out that Wayne not only found traces of monsters fighting at the scene of the crime, but also found traces of human beings killing each other.

And based on his knowledge and experience, the murderer in the mine should not be the deer head spirit who controls the vines, but rather a large monster like a troll who uses a huge wooden stick.

In addition to the fact that monsters like the deer head spirit rarely enter narrow caves like mines, it is also because he found the special three-toed footprints of trolls on the ground of the mines.

However, the combination of human killing each other and trolls attacking human beings really looks like what the deer head spirit did.

Because the deer head spirit is different from other monsters, in addition to its physical strength and various spell-like abilities, it also has a special ability that is enough to scare ordinary people.

In the forest, the deer head spirit will use totems, spells, and black magic rituals to create a territory that belongs to it.

Then control and mark a human being, as long as this human being is still within its territory, then this deer head spirit can be resurrected infinitely with the help of dark magic.

If you want to defeat the deer head spirit, you must kill this human being, or drive it out of the deer head spirit's territory, otherwise, you will not be able to kill the deer head spirit.

Moreover, weak monsters such as evil ghosts, wild wolves, and crows are also easily charmed by the deer head spirit, and become its fighting puppets to assist it in fighting.

Therefore, if you want to kill a deer head spirit, you often have to deal with not just a monster, but a group of monsters united together and under common command.

Perhaps the troll that appeared in the mine was charmed by this deer head spirit and became its accomplice.

Although their individual strengths are not strong, even for monster hunters who are expert monsters, a deer head spirit entrenched in the forest is definitely a strong enemy.

But now there are still two questions. The first one is, where is the troll going now? Has it returned to the deer head spirit, or is it still hiding in the depths of these mines?

And the second question is, where are the human traitors who helped the trolls kill those miners?Was he abandoned by the Deer Shoujing and died here, or did he also return to the forest?
After returning to the ground, Allen was walking back and forth anxiously. After seeing Wayne coming out, he was slightly relieved, and leaned over and asked:

"Master Wayne, what happened to your investigation below, do you have any clues?"

Wayne waved his hand, and instead of telling Allen the clues and conjectures he had found, he asked:

"Alan, do you know if there were any survivors when the mine murder happened?"

Allen shook his head when he heard the words, and said:

"No, when the guards in the mine entered the mine, they didn't find any traces of survivors."

"There are only corpses in one place, and all of them were chopped into pieces. The commander of the city guards found a professional coroner and managed to get their corpses together. Even so, many parts are still missing."

Hearing that the corpse had been chopped into many pieces and many parts were missing, Wayne moved his eyes and asked:

"Is there anyone whose head has not been found, or is there anyone who is definitely missing."

When Allen heard the words, he scratched his head and said:

"Sorry, Mr. Wayne, I have only heard the rumors about the corpse, and I don't know the specifics."

"However, Mr. Plant, the coroner sent by the city, is still in the mine and hasn't left yet. Do you need me to take you to see him?"

Coroner?Wayne touched his chin and nodded. That's fine. It's better to ask professional people for professional matters.

"Take me there, I just have something to ask him."

The coroner Plant is an old man in his 50s. He had no interest in Wayne's arrival and didn't want to talk to him. However, after Allen introduced him as an expert invited by the sorceress Triss, the autopsy The officer reluctantly began to answer Wayne's question.

"Missing person?"

"Hearing what you said, it is somewhat consistent with my guess."

In the autopsy room, several corpses were still placed on the wooden bed in the hall, and the smell of decay permeated the room. Allen, who had rarely experienced such a scene, was hanging his head, his face was pale, and he did not dare to look at the rotten corpses. corpse.

Plant stroked his beard, then took out a list from an old box, thought for a while and said to Wayne:
"Actually, I also discovered this problem. According to the list, thirteen people should have died in the mine, but I only spelled out twelve of the body fragments they brought back."

"Unfortunately, the body fragments they brought back were too damaged, and the face was also disfigured. I'm not sure if I spelled it wrong, and of course I can't be sure who the missing person is."

Having said that, the old man showed a mocking smile on his face, and then said:
"I originally reported this matter to the vice-captain Knight Ramsay who was in charge of this matter, and suggested that he investigate the possible missing persons one by one, but the knight-lord thought it was too troublesome and ignored me at all."

"Later, they sent soldiers to search the forest, but a small team was annihilated, and they brought back ten corpses to me. The matter was over."

As he said that, the old man also looked at Wayne's young and handsome face with scrutiny. Although he didn't think that a young man like Wayne could find out anything, he still handed over the list to Wayne. hand, say:
"Later, I also investigated and used age, skin color, and scars to exclude these thirteen people into three people. If there are really missing people, they should be among these three people."

After handing over the list, the old man waved his hand, motioning Wayne and the others to leave his workplace, and he did not forget to warn:
"Anyway, be careful. I have been handling corpses for so many years, and I can see that there must be a powerful monster behind this incident."

"Don't just check it out and lose your life."

With the information he got, Wayne left Plante's autopsy room. Unexpectedly, the old man was not only quite dedicated, but also kind.

After remembering the three names on the list, he handed them to Alan beside him, and asked:

"Alan, do you have any impression of these three people?"

Allen looked at the three names on the list, scratched his head and thought for a while before saying:

"It seems to be a bit impressive."

"This Craig and Estok are both urbanites, both under 30 years old, but they should be very poor. They have been living in the worker's dormitory provided by the mine and rarely go home."

"The last Link, he lives in our village. He is in his early 20s, but he is a bit mysterious. He wandered into our village three years ago. He lived alone and had no relatives. Later, he went to work in the mine."

After hearing the simple information from these three people, Wayne instinctively locked his target on the young man named Link. After all, being alone is very mysterious. When encountering such a thing, people must be the first to suspect him.

But to be on the safe side, he asked Allen to take him to the foreman in the mine, and asked about the information of these three people in detail.

After some comparisons, it turned out that Link was the most suspicious, because the other two had families and children in the city. Although they lived in poverty, they should not cooperate with monsters and kill their co-workers.

Neither the motivation nor the ability.

Only people like Link, who has a mysterious background and no worries, have such suspicions.

Soon, under the leadership of Alan, he came to his village and found the house where Link lived.

It was a fairly ordinary log cabin located in the corner of the village. After opening the door, the layout inside was also quite simple, and they were all the things that ordinary people needed in their lives.

However, after a search by the great detective Mr. Wayne, some abnormalities were found.

The house is too tidy, pots and pans, clothes and bedding are all put away neatly. If ordinary people go out to work every day, unless they have cleanliness or obsessive-compulsive disorder, they will not organize their residence so neatly.

This Link seemed to anticipate that he would never return, so he cleaned up the house quite neatly.

Secondly, and most importantly, Wayne found a hidden letter under Link's mattress.

A surrender letter waiting for someone to find it, it simply and clearly declares that the murderer is Link himself, and also tells the reason why he did so.

It turned out that Link wasn't originally called this name, and it didn't matter what his original name was. His father used to be a miner in this mine, and the family of three with his wife and son enjoyed themselves happily.

But six years ago, there was a mine accident, and his father was directly buried in the mine pit and turned into a corpse.

But the strange thing is that his father was the only person who died in the mine disaster, and the follow-up compensation was not handed over to their mother and son.

When his mother wanted to go to the mine to ask for the compensation, her mother also disappeared.

Fortunately, Link was already 15 years old at that time, he sensed the danger, escaped from his original home, and was adopted by another elderly couple.

Three years passed like this, and when Link grew up, he bid farewell to the old man, came to live in Alan's village, and went to work in the mine under his anonymity.

It took two years to find out the truth of the year.

It turned out that the mine disaster that year was actually planned by several of his father's workers. Apart from wanting to get the compensation, it was also because of the enmity between those workers and his father that they killed him.

And his mother was also killed on the way to the mine, and her body was insulted by several people. In the environment of the Middle Ages, no one cared about the death of a few poor people in the wild, and no one would go to find out the truth. .

There is no way to redress his grievances. In order to get revenge, Link planned the massacre half a month ago. Together with the monster, he killed the murderer who killed his father and mother.

The content of this letter, after clarifying the ins and outs of the matter, mostly accuses those absenteeists of their shamelessness and viciousness, as well as the hatred and resentment in his heart when he became an orphan.

But it is worth mentioning that among the group of miners who died together, almost half were innocent people.

But Link didn't say a word about their deaths.

After reading the letter, Wayne sighed, no matter how tragic the past was, right or wrong, the murderer has been found anyway.

Although Link's letter did not mention the deer's head spirit, he is most likely the human being marked by the deer's head spirit.

Although I don't know why the monster helped Link to avenge him, and why he was allowed to leave the domain controlled by the deer head spirit.

But if Link thinks he can escape the law, change places, and continue to live incognito, it can only be said that as an ordinary person, he still knows too little about magic.

As long as he is still alive, his whereabouts are no secret to the sorceress, and after confirming his location, it is almost possible to find the area where the deer head spirit is.

Wayne collected some of Link's personal belongings in the room, especially the hair he had shed in the bedding, and brought Alan back to Maripau City.

(End of this chapter)