Outside the tent, Triss put his hands on his hips, looked at the witcher who came out of it, and said, "You figured it out, little witcher, did you sleep well last night?"
Without waiting for Lynn to reply, she waved her hand again and said:
"Forget it, I don't want to hear it. Eat your breakfast quickly and then go on your way, otherwise it will get dark again in a few hours."
"Looking at your sleepy look, you must have forgotten where we are, right?"
Lynn feels that he may have slept for too long, and indeed his mind is not very clear at this time.
"We?"
Triss looks a little cute when he's angry.
"What's wrong with you? Did you sleep for too long and you still haven't woken up? I gave you a commission, remember? It's just you and me. The two of us are going to investigate the disappearance of the Kerack businessman in the northern forest of Brokilon."
"Now, guess where we are?"
The witcher subconsciously blurted out. "Brokilon's northern forest."
The sorceress finally smiled.
"The answer is correct, but unfortunately there is no reward. It seems that your mind is still clear after all. Okay, I won't tease you anymore, hurry up."
Lynn nodded.
He took the food from Triss's hand.
But his instinctive gaze glanced around.
However, they saw only two lonely tents in this open space.
This gave him an indescribable weird feeling in his heart.
Triss pushed her hair behind her ears and asked strangely.
"What's wrong with you? Is the food not to your liking?"
"No, it's..." Lynn suddenly felt a headache, and he put down the plate with food, "Triss, let me ask you a question."
Triss frowned. "You said."
Lynn pointed at himself and then at Triss.
"We are the only ones investigating the disappearance case this time?"
Triss's slightly frowned brows relaxed.
"I thought you were going to ask why, King Belohun of Kerack once sent troops here, but it turned out to be a failure and no one could go back to report the news."
"Realize that this disappearance case cannot be solved by human power alone. Only a warlock can solve it."
"And even a warlock needs a long sword to protect his back."
"I hired you at Novigrad, and then I opened a portal. We came to City of Kerack together, found a barge at the dock, and took us to the birthplace of the Adalatte River."
"We arrived in this forest yesterday, got off the boat, and encountered dead wolves and giant bears controlled by black tree roots. After defeating them, we never encountered danger again until we came to camp in this clearing in the evening."
Lynn nodded slightly, it sounded like that was what happened.
But then he discovered another problem.
"I'm keeping watch alone? But why am I in the tent?"
"When it was almost dawn, I was the one who took your place. You said you should go back and take a nap, but you ended up falling asleep until now. Do you have any other questions you want me to answer for you, Master Demon Hunter?"
Triss's answer sounds flawless and flawless.
It seemed as if everything was just as she said.
But the strange feeling in the witcher's mind not only did not dissipate, but intensified.
"No, that's not the case, there must be more than just the two of us."
Triss frowned.
She came to the witcher because she wanted an extra sword to protect her back, but she didn't want to see him go crazy.
She was about to say something more when she saw the other party taking out something like a disk.
"Wait, how come you have this thing?"
Triss was stunned for a moment, and then he recognized it. It was Eye of Nehaleni that could be used to break the illusion.
Lynn didn't answer, he just lifted Eye of Nehaleni into the air and injected magic power into it.
A circle of magic aura is centered on Eye of Nehaleni and spreads around.
Triss looked around.
Nothing happened.
"Look, I'm just saying... what's that expression on your face?"
Before Triss finished speaking, he saw Lynn showing a surprised expression.
"Look behind you."
The sorceress turned around and saw a messy camp behind her.
In addition to their two intact tents, there were eleven other tents that were crooked and in disarray.
There are also a large number of messy footprints scattered around the camp.
Even a layman who doesn't understand trace tracking can now see that there are definitely more than just the two of them here.
Triss stretched out a finger and gently touched it near his temple.
The tips of his fingers lit up with a faint magical light.
She cursed.
"Damn it, I have no memory of the scene before me. There is something affecting me in this forest."
The same goes for Lynn.
Even after using Eye of Nehaleni, he still couldn't remember who the owners of the eleven extra tents were.
However, these traces are enough to show that they are not the only two people investigating the disappearance case.
"Judging from the footprints, at least when we set up camp last night, we should have had eleven other companions. Moreover, it cannot be ruled out that there were more people earlier."
Lynn squatted in front of those marks and identified them carefully. Suddenly, his pupils suddenly shrank and he noticed a particularly conspicuous mark on the ground. "This mark... is some kind of huge snake crawling across the ground?"
He closed his eyes, the smell lingering on the tip of his nose.
"Rotten, and the smell of trees... This is not a snake, it is a tree, a living, moving tree."
The witcher opened his eyes again and looked deep into the forest.
"Those people... they were dragged in that direction by something."
"Did you find anything?"
Triss stood far away and did not come over.
She was afraid of damaging the marks on the ground.
Lynn nodded. "Our companions, or at least those who acted with us, were taken away by things in the forest."
"What are you going to do?" Triss's eyes widened.
"Go find them." Lynn took out several bottles of high-level magic potions and drank them respectively. "That thing chose to use this method to take other people away from us, which shows that the strength of that thing is not strong enough to crush all of us."
"The sooner we act, the greater the chance that others will survive."
Triss nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go with you."
"Of course you have to come with me. You are my employer. You are safest only if you stay with me."
The witcher grinned at the sorceress, and then led the way. "Go in this direction."
Lynn did not go in the same direction as Triss, but followed the obvious dragging trace that extended deep into the forest.
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