The Divine Hunter

  Chapter 40 The True Murder

  On the second floor of the school, Roy and Vivien quickly flipped through the materials.

  And Kadell stood behind them with his arms around his chest, and looked at him coldly. She wants to figure out what tricks these two guys who need to look at the registration form inexplicably can play.

  "1256, 1257, 1258, 1259, 1260..." The two found five blank registration forms from thirteen stacks of information. It is exactly one for each of the past five years.

   "So, there are five people missing, one missing a year." Roy whispered to Vivien. "The unique pattern shows that it is by no means a coincidence."

  "What did you two find out? Should you explain it to me?"

   "Teacher Cardell, you have been responsible for keeping the admission information, have you seen these blank registration forms?"

The middle-aged woman took one and checked it twice, and her eyebrows were almost twisted into a string, "These papers are specially made, one for each student, and the price is not cheap. I am not that wasteful. But it cannot be completely ruled out that I was not careful. Stuffed in."

"They weren't blank..." Roy explained, "They record information about a certain student, but unfortunately these words have been erased, and even the student described is also missing. To be precise, it was The murderer was taken away."

"Why do you start talking like Vivien? What can there be to dare to abduct my students in the big city of Edsberg, where thousands of people live? Sparrow? I don’t have the guts to help." Cardell retorted, "Unless you can show other evidence, Roy, you falsify in front of me, just wait for you to drop out."

  "Do you want evidence? Then you have to wait a little longer." He was the only one who witnessed the change process of the marks on the clothes and could not be trusted.

   But he has a general idea in his mind now.

   "Teacher Vivien... what is the specific date of the last diary that "he" appeared in?"

"I have turned my diary dozens of times in the past two years, and I can still recite it," Vivien said. "On October 4, 1258, that night, Bob was drunk and slapped me on the face. I was so angry and scared. When I ran to school, "he" followed."

  "At that time, you and I also reached an agreement that'he' should have disappeared between October 4th and November 1st of the New Year."

  Today is October 7, 1260, which means that the time when the symbol on Roy's sleeve gradually fades, that is, the time when the student who painted the symbol disappeared, is also in this interval.

  Both events are in this range, so it cannot be said to be a coincidence.

  Roy's thoughts are like electricity.

   Around October, this monotonous date doesn’t make much sense. But less than a month later, it will be the New Year.

  The operation mode of the witcher world is the same as that of life, always cyclically. There are eight magic points in this cycle. One-to-one correspondence with important festivals in this world, including New Year (Halloween), Winter Solstice, Spring Festival (Candle Day), Spring Equinox, May Festival, Summer Solstice, Harvest Festival, Autumnal Equinox.

  The closer to these eight days and nights, the stronger the magical aura, and the more likely to happen some magical phenomena and mysterious events. The murderer chose to commit the crime at this time, so it is likely to be a creature extremely sensitive to magic.

  Roy wrote down the first sentence: Since 1256, the murderer has committed crimes every year, and the crime time is close to the New Year. It is most likely that they are creatures that are sensitive to magic: monsters or humans with magical gifts.

The second sentence: The murderer will gradually erase most of the traces left by the missing person in the world, including the memories of the missing person by the people around him. The text written by the missing person, painted pictures, and the text directly describing the missing person will all be erased. Erase...

   "Vivien, I remember you mentioned in your diary that you and your family all ignored'him' unknowingly."

"I think so, I want to ensure fairness, so most of the energy is evenly distributed to every student in the school, and it is inevitable that he will be ignored and left out." Vivien's pretty face was full of sadness, "and Bob is an old alcoholic. I was busy looking for wine and drinking all day and didn't have the time to deal with him. My mother was unconscious and couldn't communicate normally most of the time."

   "Then,'he' is a person ignored by everyone..."

  Five missing persons...Even if all the people around them have been erased, their traces and words have been erased, but none of their family members have noticed the strangeness like Vivien, and come to investigate the clues?

  Roy wrote down the third sentence: The target of the murderer's choice may be a child ignored by everyone...including orphans.

   may be due to some mysterious screening principle, or it may be the revealing of the murderer's cunning nature.

  Compared with people who have received much attention, if those who are missing are those who are always ignored by people around them, then the impact and change on the real world will undoubtedly be much smaller. It will be more concealed and harder to be detected.

  ……

  Roy showed these three conclusions to Vivien and Cardell. The former was a little surprised. She had noticed these points a long time ago. She was clear in her mind, but did not summarize them so concretely and thoroughly.

  And Cardell’s original casual expression has finally changed, but he is still skeptical, "Roy, these three conclusions seem scary, but I’m still the old saying that I can’t stand without evidence."

   "Maybe the facts are the exact opposite of your inference. There are no five missing persons at all."

  "Evidence...If the murderer can be found, it is the best evidence." Roy exhaled, "Mr. Cardell, I beg you not to question me, but believe me for the time being."

  "The murderer came out every year close to the New Year for five consecutive years and took away a victim from the Cardell House." Roy asked, "Do you have a feeling?"

   "The murderer is hiding in the school," Vivien said with a pale face. "When the new year is approaching, you will run out to commit the murder?"

   "It's impossible..." Cadell shook his head. "Everyone in the school, including the kitchen helpers, I know everything. I dare to swear to the Prophet Rabioda that there is absolutely no murderer."

   "I didn't say that the murderer must be a human." Roy has observed all the teachers, students, and logistics staff of the school. They are all normal human beings and have no ability to delete memories. "The greater possibility is that some kind of monster inhabits the school."

   "Do you have a clue?"

   "Maybe, the two of you wait a moment." There is no monster in Roy's memory that meets the conclusion. But it doesn't mean that he is helpless.

  He turned around and walked out of the room for two minutes, then took out the notebook that Resso had left him before leaving, and re-entered the room.

  The notes contain knowledge of herbs, medicines, and monsters, but he has been busy learning common words for more than half a month, and he has had time to read the notes.

   "What's this?" Vivien and Cardell couldn't help but cast their curious gazes.

   "The experience notes left to me by a master demon hunter, which records information about various monsters, and may have the goal we are looking for."

  Then the three of them flipped through most of the entire notebook about monsters. Roy became more and more frightened as he looked at it. He had no impression of most of the monsters recorded in the notebook. The water in this world is deeper than he thought.

  After browsing more than a dozen monsters of various forms, on a certain page, the three of them saw such a description.

  "At the end of autumn, the best season for bear hunting. Seret and I stayed overnight in a small mountain village.

  That night, the wind was very strong outside the window, and my bladder was swollen and cracked. I took a pee in the yard, and the pendant on my neck suddenly began to vibrate. The amplitude was very slight, and the residual magic power was not strong, but there is no doubt that there are new prey calling me. Hunting monsters is more interesting than hunting grizzly bears. There are so many, especially this completely unknown situation. This soaking in urine is the guide of my destiny.

  I found an oak tree that was more than five hundred years old there, with some complicated symbols engraved on it...Magic power comes from this tree.

  After trying Alderfayin, Ignifayin, and the dung of evil spirits in turn...After more than 30 methods, I discovered that the salt and the oak tree had a chemical reaction.

  The root of the oak tree opened its mouth painfully, revealing a deep black tree hole.

  I woke up Serritt and went down to the tree hole for a big job.

  Snake school apprentice, yes, it refers to you who are reading this passage. The following content is not allowed to be skipped:

The monster under the tree hole, I named him the stripper/hunting ghost/devil in the tree. It is a long and thin humanoid with a fuzzy face, rough and hard skin like tree bark, with sharp fangs and claws. , Once bitten by it, the hands, feet and nerves will be gradually paralyzed.

  The picture is as follows——

   Its speed and strength are similar to ordinary people, and it can regenerate quickly, and ordinary sharp weapons cannot cause fatal damage to it.

  But he is afraid of flames, salt, and sword oil of corpse-eating creatures.

After solving it quickly, Seret and I took out a total of fifteen remains from the tree hole. The following information of the monster:

  It sleeps in the tree hole most of the time, and does not wake up under the abnormal fluctuations of magic power until the time of the New Year every year, hunting nearby creatures.

  It chooses to target young human children, and the more lonely, the better it suits its taste.

  It will wrap the body of the prey that has lost resistance with vomit, and eat it until the prey suffocates and died. Its vomit also has some incredible miraculous effect, which can gradually separate the connection between the prey and the real world, and the separation is completed when the prey dies.

  Most of the traces left by the prey in the real world will disappear, and everyone will forget the poor man.

  This is a forgotten ghost sleeping under the old tree and devouring the neglected...

  Rookie, when you read this record, you must have not passed the trial of grass. If you want to deal with this guy, remember to bring all the equipment and wear thicker clothes for the weak points. If you can kill it, take the most valuable tongue and dry it for storage.

  October 6, 1204, Nilfgaard, Vicovaro Province, Ochs was written in Mount Berry.

  ……

  The three people looked at each other for a while.

   "So, there is something living under that hornbeam in the yard?" Cadell looked incredulous, and his voice was shockingly hoarse. "I have lived for several years, how could it be possible, how could I be unconscious?"

  "Try it!" Vivien shook her palms into a fist, her pretty face full of determination and hatred, "I remember, there is a lot of salt in the kitchen?"

  Roy took a deep breath and glanced at the disappearing mark on the left sleeve.

  The person he forgot, maybe still alive, do you want to go, rookie?

  (End of this chapter)