The tracking range of this ritual is about 500 meters in radius. If Li Wen doesn't find anything beyond this distance, then she will pretend she didn't see it.
But fate seemed determined to get her involved.
Li Wen didn't go too far before he made a new discovery.
It has entered the forest range, with towering spruce trees everywhere.
And just behind a weird crooked-necked tree, a brand-new corpse was lying there with its back turned to the sky.
Judging from the body shape of the deceased, she was a woman. There was a wound on her back that was deep enough to show the bone. For a wound of this magnitude on an ordinary person, the loss of blood alone would be fatal.
However, when Li Wen got closer and checked his pulse, she realized that this person actually still had breath?
Li Wen thought about it, an ordinary person walked from the village entrance to here with such a degree of wounds, and more than ten hours have passed and he is still breathing...
Almost instantly, Li Wen retreated away from this person, and at the same time raised Bone Knife, ready to enchant at any time.
However, one second passed... ten seconds passed... and even a full minute passed, and there was still no movement from the people on the ground.
Is she being too cautious?
Just when Li Wen was thinking this, a harsh and hoarse voice came from above his head.
"If you wait any longer, she will really die."
Li Wen raised his head alertly and saw a withered and thin figure standing on a tree branch in the night, his eyes as dim as two dim candlelights in the darkness. She was sure that just moments before, no one had been there.
"Did you help her?" Li Wen's voice was particularly confused. What made her even more confused was that she knew the person standing on the tree. She was Fey Market's Ghost Fairy Marsha mother-in-law.
This Ghost Fairy doesn't stay with its Fey Market. Why is it here?
Granny Marsha laughed hoarsely like a crow, "Help? Of course, isn't it obvious? The kind-hearted Granny Marsha bumped into the dying girl, so he used the magic of the goblin to keep her alive, just like the fairy tale written by the Maiwei people, hehehehe..."
Li Wen frowned, she didn't believe that the other party really had good intentions. Like most goblins, Ghost Fairy is moody, always acting according to his preferences, and is keen on tragedies and disasters. The so-called good intentions are as worthless to Ghost Fairy as the dirt under his fingernails.
In order to prevent the person who may be the only survivor from dying, Li Wen released Prayer Incantation for her even though he was full of doubts in his heart. This was a bit reluctant to extend her life, but Prayer Incantation could dispel a certain degree of bleeding, so it was enough. At least there was no need to worry about her life.
Bright light shone on this person, and the wounds on her body began to heal quickly, but the person never woke up.
"Do you know what happened in the village ahead and who did it?"
Ghost Fairy licked his sharp claws, his aggressive eyes showing joy and greed. "A wonderful massacre, but what does it have to do with me? Gagaaaaaa..."
"Then do you know where they are going?"
"Instead of asking me, why not just ask her."
Ghost Fairy rubbed her nails and sprinkled a layer of gray powder. The powder fell on the girl, who suddenly woke up.
At first, the girl just sat up with a confused look on her face, and then she yelled in horror as if she had regained consciousness, "Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
"Calm down, no one here will kill you."
Li Wen directly lifted Emerald Star Cloak's hood, indicating that he had no ill intentions.
"Really, really?"
This girl is about seventeen or eighteen years old, with brown hair, inconspicuous freckles on her face, and is dressed in a very ordinary way, like a village girl.
There was no blood on her face, possibly due to excessive blood loss or fright. All in all, after the brief panic period when he woke up, he gradually calmed down after being convinced that Li Wen, a very good-looking girl, would not hurt him.
"Do you know what happened in the village in front?" Li Wen asked directly when he saw this.
Hearing this answer, the village girl was stunned for a moment, and then said in fear, "I don't know! They kill people when they see them, and blood is everywhere. I can only run... Why? Why is this happening?"
The girl started crying as she spoke.
"Please, save my father and mother! And my brother, he is only six years old..."
"They are all dead." A harsh and unpleasant voice came from above. Granny Marsha seemed to have witnessed the whole process and said with great conviction, "You are the only one who is still alive, the lucky one, or the unlucky one?"
The girl looked up at Ghost Fairy, who was as ugly as a ghost. She was frightened.
"It's all because of it that you didn't die." Li Wen had a headache. She just wanted to know what happened here from this woman's mouth.
"Thank you, thank you..." the girl said in a daze, "My father and mother, are they really dead? And the village chief's grandfather, Uncle Reagan and Aunt Penny are also..."
Li Wen was startled. She seemed to hear a familiar name, so she quickly asked, "What is the full name of Uncle Reagan you are talking about? Is the name of your village Goldstone Village?"
Hearing this, the girl nodded blankly.
Li Wen's heart tightened. She thought of the Mr. and Mrs. Regan she met when she first entered the game. They were simple and kind, and were willing to help Li Wen, who didn't know each other and was penniless. Mrs. Reagan even warmly invited her to be a guest when they parted, and said she would prepare delicious oatmeal cake for her.
But now all this no longer exists, not all good intentions will eventually be rewarded, and often the cruel reality will blindly tear all hopes to pieces.
Li Wen took a deep breath, pulled the girl up, looked calm, but said in a tone that could not be refused, "Tell me everything you have experienced, word for word."
*
The girl's name is Maki, and she is the eldest daughter of a hunter in the village.
On this day, Maki was helping the family with housework, and then heard noisy noises and crying outside.
Confused, she walked out of the house and saw her grandpa, the village chief who had treated her like her own son, lying in a pool of blood. Her father, an experienced hunter who often boasted to outsiders that he had hunted Grizzly Bear, was now dying with a long sword stuck in the ground. He could only plead with her eyes to escape...
"They are a group of Cold Blood demons! They enjoy killing people. They don't want money, they just kill every living person they see..."
According to Maki, those people were wearing hard plate armor and chain mail, and were equipped with swords, crossbows, and spears. Their equipment was better than the guards in nearby towns. Maki had never seen the lord's army. Maybe this group of people looked like an army, but they were more brutal and terrifying than bandits and goblins.
"It's Mercenaries." Li Wen said coldly.