Witcher's Atelier

In the quiet alchemy room at night, she looked up at the wall clock. There was about an hour before curfew, and it was almost time to leave.

Shani touched the shoulder blade on the other side of her body with her palm, then gently held her elbow with her other hand and stretched it in the opposite direction to relieve her body that was a little stiff from reading for a long time.

The movement, which was not too big or too small, was naturally noticed by another person in the alchemy room. He put down the notes he was studying in the middle of and stood up. He clasped his hands with the palms up, straightened his arms and stretched them upward as much as possible.

Picking up the unfinished "Forensic Science" from the table, the doctor walked to the bookshelf and inserted it back into place.

Victor: "Actually, you can take it back and read it. I feel comfortable lending it to you."

The young lady shook her head and smiled, "It doesn't matter. The reading environment here is better, quiet, and the chairs are comfortable. Moreover, these two books are very precious. It would be terrible if they were accidentally damaged when they were taken back.

Or do you mean you don’t welcome me over? "Xia Ni's expression when asking was a bit joking, but also a bit serious.

"How is that possible! As I said before, my door will be open for you at any time."

While they were talking, the two of them returned to the first floor from the basement. The young man put on his leather armor and steel sword, and tied the silver sword on his back. Then he put the note he had written in advance on the dining table, under the pot of pork sauce.

"I'll take Dr. Shani home. You can go to bed first after you have eaten. You don't have to wait for me at night. I have permission to move freely during the curfew and I need to investigate some things.

──Wick”

After putting down the message and walking to the door, Shani and Victor almost synchronized, slinging the herbal bag back on their bodies, and then looked at each other and smiled at each other's habit of never leaving their herbal bag.

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While walking on the road, I thought back to the dinner I had at Victor’s house tonight. The dish was very simple, just home-style Temerian Bolognese. Three large pots were used to hold pork meat sauce, noodles, and onion soup. , but the deliciousness must have taken a lot of thought.

Shani is not good at cooking, but she knows how to eat, not to mention the softness and hardness of the noodles to her liking, or the onion soup sprinkled with Gruyère cheese and croutons.

Even the seemingly simple pork meat sauce has a delicious texture that needs to be stir-fried until the surface is slightly charred, and then simmered with tomatoes, garlic, and chicken stock.

Shani said: "Thank you, I only mentioned it once and you remembered my taste."

Blinking his eyes, the boy figured out that she was referring to the softness of the noodles, and Shani liked them harder.

For Victor, who had had "a moderate amount of interaction experience" in his previous life, remembering the preferences that beautiful girls inadvertently revealed was a completely instinctive reaction without any thought.

"It's okay. I also like to eat harder noodles. Angouleme doesn't care about this, as long as it tastes good."

The topic turned to Angouleme, and Shani asked: "Is it really okay that she hasn't come back so late?"

"It's okay. She will definitely be home before curfew. We have an agreement on this."

"But if we let her go alone to investigate the city gate guards, there will still be some danger, right?"

"I'm not worried, it's others who should be worried. With Kathleen by her side and her wild intuition, she is almost naturally immune to all emergencies. And she only came back in the afternoon, and she ate all the roast chicken she left for lunch."

Hearing what Victor said with such certainty, Shani felt relieved. She liked this wild and lively sister very much.

"Actually, you don't need to make a special trip to send me back. The security in the temple area is not that bad, and I am not a delicate woman." She said.

Victor didn't answer this sentence. Indeed, as a doctor and with the long dagger on his waist, there was no problem for her to go home alone under normal circumstances. But since the boy knew that there was a werewolf in his neighbor, he didn't want his little sister to risk being alone. .

Soon she came to Shani's rental house again. This time she arrived slightly earlier than last time, which gave her old lady landlord the opportunity to hold up a candle and carefully observe Victor's appearance and height. .

The boy didn't care about the landlord's scrutiny, said a simple goodbye to Shani and left quickly.

Next, he still had serious things to do. As the note left to Angouleme said, he had obtained a "Late Night Activities Permit" - issued to him by Siegfried, the Knight of Roses.

It is convenient for Victor to go to Vizima Cemetery now to investigate and deal with the problem of "ghouls".

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"Night is coming, beware of ghouls. They eat here and there. They will eat you when they meet you. Be careful not to become monster food."

──"Children's Song"

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"Really!? I see...Thank you for answering my questions and giving me advice. Then I will take this bunch of keys away first and return them tomorrow."

In the guard hut outside Vizima Cemetery, as a stranger who suddenly appeared at night, Victor first threw a pot of strong liquor to pry open the "gravedigger"'s defenses, and then added a few orens to let him Tell everything you know.

He looks about thirty, but already has white hair. His body is strong and his limbs strong. He is dressed in gray cloth. Due to the excessive business that needs to be handled recently, there is a lingering corpse smell on his body.

This is because the city is in a state of isolation and the Swamp Cemetery is not easy to use. Therefore, except for the corpses infected with the plague, they will be incinerated and buried in San Rebioda Hospital. All other normal dead need to be buried in Vizima Cemetery.

After discovering several newly buried corpses that had been dug out and damaged, he immediately notified the city guards in response to the threat of ghouls, and locked the large iron gate leading to the cemetery at night, and only entered and exited during the day to avoid danger.

"It doesn't matter, I'll give you that bunch of keys! I still have a spare one. But be careful when you go in. I actually saw it from a distance, and it was a real ghoul!" Recalling the terrifying scene at that time, the gravedigger's arms twitched slightly. Trembling.

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Ghouls──As the name suggests, they are monsters that eat corpses. It appears in cemeteries, around ancient tombs, and anywhere where the dead are buried. The putrid corpses are a delicacy to them.

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After opening the iron door and entering and then locking it, the cemetery at night was certainly not a warm place. Amidst the crows of a few night crows on the branches, Victor walked lightly and followed the direction prompted by the gravedigger.

As expected, it didn't take long for the witcher apprentice to find them, or rather them.

They have arms and legs like humans, but walk on all fours like a dog or badger. They have strange faces, but any effort to find their emotions, reason, or even a spark of consciousness has proven futile.

They are driven only by instinct: "an insatiable appetite for human flesh."

Putting his steps softer, Victor slowly approached them.

The three of them are squatting on the ground, feasting around the dining table. When driven by hunger, the ghouls' alertness will rise to the highest level and they will prey on creatures without hesitation.

But it was their meal time now, so they buried their heads in eating and didn't pay attention to Victor's approach.

"Only fire, silver and bright sunlight can harm them. Because it is afraid of the sun, it only hunts at night." The apprentice recalled the various records he had read in the book and compared the discordant scene in front of him.

Although ghouls share many morphological similarities with humans. But it and its terrifying close relatives "giant ghoul" and cousin "bloodthorn corpse demon" are actually "resected creatures" from other worlds - in other words, the existence of these creatures violates the laws of nature.

Stopping his approach, the apprentice witcher was not in a hurry to launch an attack. He was thinking about a plan. He didn't want to start a fight only to find that he had hit a hornet's nest, and seven or eight ghouls suddenly sprang out to have a party.

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