Someone Died Again

"That's just an effect shown in movies. If you really want to talk about it, it depends on the face," Zheng Yichen said, expressing his thoughts. "If it were really like in the movies, and a beautiful and capable witch took a liking to you, as an ordinary person, you'd basically have no reason to refuse..."

Or rather, someone with a normal mind wouldn't refuse, and wouldn't have the ability to refuse. But this is a movie. If you don't refuse, and a beautiful witch comes knocking, and you just say "yes, yes, yes," then what's the point of the movie?

Well, it's not that it can't continue. After the witch says, "I'm here to join you," a new enemy could appear, one specifically hunting witches. The male lead and the witch would then fight together against this witch hunter.

Or, in the end, they could turn the tables. The witch hunter might be persuaded, and they'd turn a blind eye, letting the matter pass.

"That sounds very superficial," Katrina said, her mouth slightly open. She found Zheng Yichen's answer quite unbelievable, or perhaps beyond the understanding of this era. Most people in this era kept their distance from beings like witches.

Appearance? In the eyes of most people, anything associated with witches was ominous and evil. Appearance didn't have that much of an effect. A high appearance might even be considered a weapon the witch used to seduce the ignorant.

"That's just how it sounds. People, most of the time, will proactively choose options that benefit them. Even that Headless Knight, perhaps he had a special story in his life. But now he's killed innocent people, so there's nothing more to say."

As a standard modern person, his views on witches, demons, yokai, and the like weren't too extreme. More often than not, his values followed his eyes. Especially when the other party was well-intentioned towards him, it wasn't something unacceptable.

"The banquet over there is almost over. You should go back, otherwise your father might come looking for me with a gun."

Katrina glanced towards the house where the banquet was being held. People were already starting to come out one by one. She quickly stood up, tidied her dress, which had become wrinkled from sitting for a long time, and hurried back. "I'm going back. See you tomorrow."

The girl ran back. Zheng Yichen couldn't find a suitable place to stay. The Town Chief was out, but the Town Chief's Wife was still a problem.

Anyway, it wasn't too cold now, so he could make do with a place for the night. It wouldn't be a problem to rough it for one night, and nighttime was also a good time for action.

He went into the woods alone. The woods at night were shrouded in mist. This wasn't the kind of mist that caused anomalies.

Watching Zheng Yichen enter the woods alone, a man from the small town hesitated, looking at Zheng Yichen disappear into the mist. He didn't dare to follow.

After he left, Zheng Yichen's figure appeared. "What's going on... Could someone really want to rob and kill me?"

He had already been targeted by a thief last night. However, the thief's methods were crude, and he hadn't actually made a move. The commotion he caused was enough to wake him up. Now, just by walking at night, he was being targeted again?

The possibility of him being targeted wasn't low. The items in his backpack, once their uses were known, were treasures no matter where they were placed in this era. Not to mention some of the emergency medicine inside, which would be considered miracle drugs in this era.

Zheng Yichen wandered in the woods for two hours. Finding nothing, he treated it as evening training.

Finding nothing, he returned to the small town and found a haystack to make do for the night. He had a simple tent in his backpack, but that thing was compressed. Once unpacked, it was difficult to pack back up, so he avoided using it if possible.

He was currently dealing with transmigration, not a nighttime adventure.

The next day, before the townspeople started their work, he woke up and went to the riverside to wash his face. Faint bloodstains were floating down from upstream. Huh??

Zheng Yichen looked at the bloodstains, his eyes showing a solemn expression. He shook the water off his hands and walked upstream along the river. He saw a headless corpse stuck between some rocks. The clothes the person was wearing made Zheng Yichen take notice.

These were clearly the clothes worn by the person who had been tracking him last night.

And that person died here?

Looking at the corpse, Zheng Yichen had the urge to destroy the evidence. Mainly because he felt that leaving this thing around would be troublesome, and at this moment, it might cause some problems... right?

"I found the corpse. What do you want to ask?" Zheng Yichen said to the crowd that had gathered in the town. Those present were all people of a certain status in the town, their clothing clearly different from that of ordinary townsfolk.

"That's Brom, it's definitely Brom! He was wearing these clothes at the banquet last night!" a middle-aged man said with great certainty, looking at the headless corpse.

"I don't know him," Zheng Yichen replied. Confirming the identity of the deceased meant nothing to him. He wasn't a detective who had to investigate this and that. His goal was simple: find the Headless Knight, take him down, and then take the cool-looking sword from him.

It was just that the guy seemed to have bypassed him during his spree. What was the point of a Headless Knight attacking ordinary people? He should have attacked him! His hands were itching for a fight, he could handle it!

At this very moment, the elders gathered here looked at Zheng Yichen with growing suspicion, as if he were the murderer.

"...Just say what you want to say. Don't look at me like that!" Zheng Yichen was annoyed. His goal was pure and simple: he wanted the Headless Knight's cool sword, and then... to eat it!

Now he was inexplicably linked to other matters. What was going on!

"Ahem, Brom was one of Katrina Van Tassel's suitors," the Town Chief coughed lightly and quickly said.

Katrina was one of the beautiful young maidens in town, and she naturally had many suitors. However, nothing had ever happened between these suitors before. But now, one of them had died just as Zheng Yichen arrived in town, and Katrina had been very close to him these past two days.

This inevitably led them to make connections.

"Just because of that? What does his death have to do with me?" Zheng Yichen glanced at the burnt marks on the corpse's neck.

"Someone also saw you take out something related to witchcraft, which contained the souls of innocent people."

"That explanation is too cliché." Zheng Yichen had previously thought such a situation wouldn't occur, but now that someone had said it, he felt it was melodramatic and extremely annoying. If he explained, the old guys gathered here wouldn't understand what a mobile phone was.

If he didn't explain, looking at their suspicious expressions, they would only become more suspicious later. No matter how much he explained, it would be useless once they had already suspected him. Unless he used violence to force them to believe... In that case, he wouldn't explain.