Chapter 2685 White Wolf

A man opened the door and walked into the tavern.

This is a man with a beard, his face is expressionless, and there are still a few scars on his face. Although his beard and hair are all white, he doesn't look old at all. Not only that, but unlike other people, the man carried two swords behind his back, which looked quite strange.

And the man just didn't care about the gazes of the drinkers around him, and walked to the counter with great strides. Seeing the man coming, the tavern owner swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then spoke.

"Welcome, what would you like to drink?"

Facing the question from the tavern owner, the white-haired man just stared at him lightly, and said in a low voice.

"I saw the commission you posted on the bulletin board."

"Oh, you must be a witcher!"

Hearing the white-haired man's answer, the tavern owner's eyes lit up.

"That's right, but the entrustment was not written clearly. I want to ask what happened?"

"It is so, my lord witcher."

Looking at the white-haired man in front of him, the tavern owner suddenly cried out.

"You may find it unbelievable, but now everyone is terrified... Just like what was written on the commission, a mountain range suddenly appeared..."

"...appeared suddenly?"

"Yes, it suddenly appeared!"

The tavernkeeper nodded vigorously.

"At first it was just a high mountain, but later it turned into a mountain range for some reason! And in the past few days, everyone is panicking now, and they don't know what's going on. That's why we pooled money to make an announcement. I want to find someone to investigate..."

"Suddenly a mountain range appeared?"

The white-haired man frowned.

"Are you sure you didn't read it wrong?"

"Very sure! My lord, our ancestors have lived here for generations, it is impossible that we don't even know the surrounding terrain!"

"First it was a high mountain, then it became a mountain range..."

The white-haired man thought for a moment, then looked at the tavern owner again.

"That's unusual, did anything weird happen in between? Anything, any clues?"

"Clue... By the way! My lord, there is something very strange!!"

Hearing the white-haired man's question, the tavern owner suddenly clapped his hands as if he had thought of something.

"After the first mountain appeared, we came here with three women and a few children. They said they came here to find someone, but we have never heard of this person. Then one of the ladies asked about this person. Did any strange things happen nearby, so I told them about the mountain, and then the three women gave their children to me to take care of, and then went up the mountain! The next day it became a Huge mountains!"

"And they didn't come back?"

According to the experience of the white-haired man, this is a fixed routine, but the tavern owner shook his head.

"No, the three of them came back two days later, and also picked up the children who were boarding in the tavern, saying that they had been found, and then took the children away."

"It seems that this matter has something to do with these three women..."

The white-haired man thought for a moment, then looked at the tavern owner again.

"Do you know who they are? What they look like?"

"Hmm... one is a girl with long bright red hair and wearing a strange robe. She looks about seventeen or eighteen years old. That outfit is quite strange. Then there is a sorceress with curly red hair, and there is another girl with A woman with short white hair, her hair color is similar to yours, sir, and she also has a long sword on her back..."

"Carrying a sword?"

Hearing this, the white-haired man's eyes suddenly flashed.

You know, most people carry their swords around their waists. In this world, there is only one kind of people who carry their swords behind their backs.

That's the witcher!

In addition, the other party is a white-haired woman...

"Is she white-haired, with a scar around her eyes, and tall?"

"Ah...well, almost..."

Facing the white-haired man's question, the tavern owner also nodded.

"But she has no scars on her face, she looks fair..."

"Do you know her name?"

"Uh... seems to be called... Ciri..."

"you sure?"

Hearing this, the white-haired man was uncharacteristically serious and excited, and the tavern owner was also taken aback.

"Yes, I remember the names of the three of them, they are Liz, Triss and Ciri..."

"Triss... Ciri..."

At this moment, the white-haired man looked even more serious.

"Are you sure it's called that? Do you know where they went?"

"I heard that they seem to have taken those children to the strange mountain again..."

"I see."

Hearing this, the white-haired man nodded. In fact, this white-haired man was none other than Ciri's adoptive father, the famous demon hunter "White Wolf" Geralt. Right now, he is on his way to Novigrad to find Ciri. It was only because of his professional habits as a witcher that he glanced at the bulletin board when he was resting in this village, and then he found this strange commission. Out of curiosity, he Come to inquire about the situation.

But what Geralt didn't expect was that he could unexpectedly get news about his adopted daughter in this place!

"I'm entrusting this next."

Geralt suppressed his excitement, looked at the boss and said.

"Then, I will go to the strange mountain to investigate now."

"Okay, please, my lord."

"no problem."

Geralt nodded confidently. After all, this matter was related to his adopted daughter. No matter what, he had to investigate this strange matter to get to the bottom of it! !

But before that...

Geralt looked up, looked at the tavernkeeper, and put his hands in his arms.

"Want to play a game of gwent?"

"Of course, my lord, it's perfectly all right."

While Geralt was obsessed with the Gwent card, Fang Zheng was leisurely leaning on the sofa, enjoying the warm sunshine while yawning. Beside him, Miao Jie was also sitting there leaning against Fang Zheng, while admiring the scenery outside.

"I didn't expect Mr. Fangzheng, you would agree so simply."

"Because it's what we have to do. Isn't it good if someone helps us solve it?"

Fangzheng was referring to Triss' previous request to herself. According to the female sorceress, although the Church of Eternal Flame has indeed stopped persecuting spellcasters, many warlocks are still very worried that they will resurface. They want to leave Nuo Vigari, don't know where to go. That's why Triss, as their leader, wanted to negotiate with the "culprit" who made the Eternal Flame "reform".

Originally, Triss hoped that her warlocks could serve in the Church of Eternal Flame. It seemed that she thought that Fangzheng was currently controlling the high-level members of the Church of Eternal Fire. In addition, it turned out that Fangzheng was completely a hands-off shopkeeper and didn't care about anything, so he followed Xili here, hoping that Fangzheng could take them in.

Naturally, Fangzheng would not refuse this, because according to Triss, warlocks were not the only ones who were persecuted. Although it appeared that the Church of Eternal Flame persecuted warlocks, in fact it was all people with special powers. Range AOE naturally affects many innocent people, such as herbalists or astrologers, and alchemists are all included in this camp.

Therefore, apart from warlocks, Triss also has many refugees from other professions, and Fangzheng is short of teachers who are responsible for teaching children, so he agreed—although the world regards these people as heretics, but The cultural level of this heresy is generally not low. As a warlock, Triss can not only read and write, but is also proficient in ancient languages. Even if she doesn't have the special power of being a warlock, her level of education is more than enough for a university professor.

And before she introduced herself, she also served as a Temeria royal advisor... Well, this shows that this sorceress not only has skills, but also has a high EQ. Otherwise, even a bookworm who can read and write will not be able to thrive in the political ocean.

So Fangzheng agreed to her request, but he also gave his own conditions. If he is that kind of weird-tempered and neurotic guy, don't bring him here. What Fangzheng wanted was a nanny who could take care of the children, not a bunch of psychopaths. This is a place for everyone to relax on vacation. Naturally, it is impossible for a group of eccentric people to mess up here.

By the way, after getting Fang Zheng's answer, Triss happily went back to attract people, and Ciri also left here with her, saying that she was going back to Novigrad to see if there was any news about Geralt. .

So the father and daughter passed by because of a trick of fate without knowing it.

"But Mr. Fangzheng, what are you looking at?"

"I'm reading a book about this world..."

Faced with Miao Jie's question, Fang Zheng raised the book in his hand.

"It's really interesting how people in this world perceive the world. Do you know that the celestial spheres meet?"

"……………what is that?"

"According to the people in this world, they imagine the world as a big ship sailing on the sea, and other stars are other big ships. Generally speaking, these ships have their own routes, but every time There will be a big storm on the sea of ​​the universe, blowing the ships that originally sailed according to their own routes away from their original positions and approaching each other. At this time, part of the crew and cargo will fall on other ships, and after the weather eases, these The boat will gradually separate and return to its original track."

As he spoke, Fangzheng flipped the pages of the book with great interest.

"According to the above records, there was only one race in this world before, and races like dwarves, elves, and humans, as well as monsters like ghouls and griffins, were all blown onto this big ship in the 'big storm' came up."

"That statement is really interesting."

Hearing this, Miao Jie's eyes brightened.

"Does Mr. Fangzheng think their views are correct?"

"Well... what I want to say makes sense..."

Fangzheng squinted his eyes and looked at the illustrations inside. Obviously, this "big storm" is not a physical storm. It is very likely that space fluctuations have created gaps and faults, which have opened up the space between the two worlds that were originally isolated from each other, thus absorbing some creatures into this world. I have to say that this is also an interesting subject for Fangzheng.

But since it doesn't involve time, Fangzheng is not that interested.

But there was another thing that made him very concerned.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng turned a page and stared at the title above.

"Bai Shuang..."

Although the civilization of this world is in the Middle Ages, their understanding of the world itself is quite high. People in this world know that their world is just one of the countless planets in the dark universe, and the space in the dark universe is a vacuum. According to the people in this world, the natural phenomenon of hoarfrost is transmitted in this space.

According to the predictions of the people in this world, the appearance of Hoarfrost will completely freeze the entire planet and wipe out all life. It is like an ocean current or a monsoon, spiraling forward in the universe, turning everything into ice wherever it goes, and no grass can grow.

This is what people in this world say, but Fang Zheng is very clear that this is not the case.

Because logically speaking, the vacuum of the universe itself is extremely cold, and each planet can breed life because it has an atmosphere that can withstand this extreme cold. Once the atmosphere is destroyed, the invasion of cold air will naturally completely freeze the entire planet.

For example, the famous disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" tells the story of the climate change caused by the greenhouse effect, and the earth entered the second ice age. It's a slight exaggeration, but that's about it. Of course, for this world, unless it develops to the stage of cosmic civilization, it is impossible for them to know the true appearance of the cosmic vacuum.

But it cannot be said that this is nonsense, because from the description of "Hoarfrost", it can be seen that its essence is actually the doomsday crisis of environmental destruction caused by the destruction of the atmosphere.

But the problem is that the destruction of the general atmosphere is a gradual process, but hoarfrost seems to come very suddenly, and then destroys everything. It's no wonder that scholars in this world consider hoarfrost to be a natural phenomenon similar to tornadoes.

But Fangzheng said that the essence of hoarfrost is likely to be some kind of mysterious existence that interfered and destroyed the atmosphere that protected the planet, which caused the planet that lost its barrier to be completely frozen.

And those who can do such a thing... um...

Could it be chaos again?

But it doesn't matter.

When Fangzheng thought of this, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, revealing a smug smile.

It just so happened that he had a ready-made object of observation to confirm whether his judgment was correct.

That's Wild Hunt.