Chapter 25 25. Dangerous woods

"Why do you think so, Master?"

Mrs. Downer first looked back at Lan En in surprise, and then she seemed to have figured out something, and she laughed cheerfully and teasingly again.

"I understand, I understand. Does your expression show guilt?" Donna asked with a smile. "Are you guilty of the demon hunter who killed my husband and is in the same school as you?"

The young man opened his mouth, but Mrs. Donner laughed heartily again before he could speak.

"Oh, for the sake of the plague, please don't make such an expression."

"You should pay with your life for killing people, but the man in my family is an out-and-out drunkard. He is as ferocious as a water ghost at ordinary times, and he doesn't work much. To be honest, it might be better to have him in the family without him."

"You want to hear sad stories? I don't have any here, and it has nothing to do with the drunkard in my family."

Mrs. Donna waved her wrinkled hands nonchalantly in the air.

"Oh, yes, that's it?" Lan En's upbringing made him feel that he should not talk about the deceased. Now that his family members said this, he still felt a little embarrassed.

Coupled with the good sound-absorbing ability of leaves and wood, once a person enters the woods for about thirty meters, even his death screams will not be heard outside the woods.

With a "crash" sound, the two jumped out of the boat together and walked towards the woods on the river bank.

It was a calm and gentle expression.

Bernie shrugged, brushed the crumbs off his hands, put his long leather gloves back on and strapped them on.

He's a very good person.

What does that expression mean? Lan asked in his mind, but Mentos couldn't answer.

Ivan's craftsmanship has revealed the level of craftsmanship in the land of Velen.

He slowly pulled out the Bear School's silver sword with a "chun" sound, without taking the usual posture of holding the sword's hilt to the side of his face.

Lan En and Bernie looked at each other, and Bernie was so scared that his lips trembled.

In less than two minutes, the young man had two long swords on his back again.

"I said Lan En, will the water ghost still build a nest in the woods?"

"The number of fish here is also pretty good." Bernie said while steering the boat to slow down.

"I always feel that you are very motivated today?"

Bernie shrugged nonchalantly.

Imagine, only thirty meters away, a few seconds on flat ground.

But these words were like thunder in Lan En's ears!

He suddenly felt that Mrs. Donner, the peasant woman who was already showing signs of aging, was very beautiful.

An ordinary witcher would probably declare his career to be over if he encountered the current situation.

Although Lan En "took the initiative" to start teaching before the instructor finished teaching, he was still taught.

But when the two of them really got close to the group of water ghosts, the woods still shocked them.

This is not a state of active attack, but a posture for quick reaction.

"Go ashore and walk northwest for a while, and you'll find Midcops. There's also a famous local blacksmith there. Maybe you'd be interested?"

The two of them chatted all the time, mainly to relieve tension in this dense forest.

"You are the boss, I have no objection."

Every time you move, you put your center of gravity on your toes, and your steps are light and steady.

The woods are a bit restrictive as a combat environment, but at the same time, Bernie will definitely show novel tracking knowledge in the woods. This makes Lan En feel a little love-hate.

It is very different from the muddy tidal flats yesterday. The terrain along the coast here is dense woods.

"There is a vicious alcoholic husband, but there is no trace of violence in the family. On the day her husband was killed, her feet were still stained with cow dung and soil from the farmland, but she said that her husband was lazy and did not work, which is very suspicious."

Maybe it was Lane's enthusiasm that infected Bernie. His boat trip was very fast today.

Lan En, who was sitting in the bow of the boat, had already finished his lunch in two or three bites and was now checking the buckles on his armor and boots one by one.

The communication in his mind began. There was only one person in this world to whom Lan En could confide his feelings so far.

"Forget it." Lan En's expression was flat.

She didn't want Lan En to be burdened with guilt that didn't belong to him.

"Tsk." But in this case, the young man just smacked his tongue slightly.

He is a hunter, but he has no understanding of monster habits, so he has this question.

Instead, hold the sword hilt with both hands hanging down naturally, with the sword tip facing back and the entire sword body kept to the right side.

"Haha! Having said that, I really didn't expect that the life of a demon hunter is so different from that of ordinary farmers like us? Judging from your appearance, you must have been from a decent and wealthy family before you became a demon hunter, right?"

Both of them were carrying a sandwich consisting of bread, salted fish and pickles for lunch.

"Actually, there are a lot of things wrong with what she said, right?"

Fighting a battle without intelligence is a taboo for witchers.

In high spirits, Lan En returned to the blacksmith shop without stopping. Just in time, Ivan was sharpening the newly plated silver on the stone wheel.

"Who says it isn't?"

"This will at least allow me to raise my children."

And it was for this kind of person that he returned to Oriden.

The thick trees can almost expose their roots to the river bank.

Lan En made a "tsk" sound with no meaning.

Even if she spoke ill of her husband to Lan En in private, she didn't want the young man to live with guilt.

The two were still moving forward. According to Bernie, "because they were in the woods, the scales and footprints of the water ghost were more abrupt and easy to identify."

"I still need a lot of water ghosts to practice, Bernie. We can go west today, and if we are lucky, we may even encounter a water ghost nest."

Therefore, the Willen people are accustomed to calling the woods "green swamps".

It was impossible to see the situation of the water ghost group from this distance, but it was completely unrealistic for the two of them to move their positions.

But after losing clues several times and finding them again, they did see the water ghost.

But when they saw it, the water ghost was less than ten meters away from the two of them!

It’s almost attached to the side!

Fortunately, Bernie was an old hunter and his movements in the woods were light and quiet, so he was not snatched away by the water ghost.

Reality is not a game. Monsters are not distributed according to levels. Demon hunters will face death if they make the slightest mistake.

"The village can't afford to support people. To be honest, I'm glad that I can still be disliked by others and still have work to do. I'm also very grateful to the villagers and elders, because"

Bernie, who was at the stern of the boat, was biting into a salted fish sandwich and steering the helm, looking at Lan En in slight surprise.

But the purpose is very simple——

Not long after walking along the shore of Fike Lake, they reached their first tracking point.

The woods of Willen are full of dangers. Wild dogs, wolves, and brown bears are just ordinary animals, but more dangerous monsters also like to lurk in them.

After she finished speaking, the cheerful smile on her face softened for the first time, and was replaced by an expression that Lan En couldn't understand.

Her tone was soft. In fact, Mrs. Donna didn't have the strength to speak in a strong voice right now.

Lan En felt that he would remember this beauty for the rest of his life.

Lan En doesn't have a useful "apprentice" to protect him from thunder.

You are being eaten by monsters, and the passers-by outside can't even hear you.

"Nothing can be done, Mentos!" Lan En narrowed his eyes and looked at the water ghost beside him who was chewing something unknown.

But on the road just now, his main focus was on warning of dangers and observing Bernie's skills.

After last night's drinking, he didn't care much about the little catch he lost every day.

A well-known local blacksmith is probably at the same level as Ivan, and is still far from the master level.

Bernie should have let them face the group of water ghosts directly, and then slowly approached after confirming the situation.

Bernie consciously walked in front and was responsible for tracking the traces.

This kind of beauty has nothing to do with the abnormally strong hormones of adolescent demon hunters. It is a kind of lofty beauty that faces the cruelty of life, accepts the challenge gladly, and is determined to fight to the end.

Stepping out of the room, Lan En walked on the boardwalk with his eyes lowered.

Originally, with his current proficiency of 13% in [Trace Detection], if he had been able to check and fill in the gaps for Bernie, he would not have reached this stage.

"I'm being looked down upon, and I'm doing a lot of work that a woman's body can't do." Donna said softly, "But that's how life is in the village."

It was noon, Lan En took Bernie and set sail.

"Water ghosts are amphibious creatures, and their only requirement for nesting is 'by the water'. Whether it's a tidal flat, a forest, or even a farmland, it doesn't matter to them."

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The cracks in the cotton armor cover were indeed not big, just scattered. Just as Lan En expected, with Mrs. Downer's craftsmanship, it was completed in less than twenty minutes.

"Yes sir." Maybe it was an illusion, Lan En felt that Mentos's voice was softer than usual at this time.

"Then these beasts are really tenacious."

"At your service, sir."

"Turn on the sigil auxiliary function."

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