After a day, everyone gathered in front of the small grave again.

"Will it work? Will the child become a spirit?"

"I don't know either."

In response to Liz's question, Ciri shook her head and then knelt in front of the grave.

"But we'll find out soon enough."

As she spoke, Ciri looked at the grave in front of her and whispered.

"I call upon you by the power of blood, and I plead with you by your name. Hear my call and arise, Tia!"

Following Ciri's call, a faint light soon emerged, and then a small, glowing figure flew out of the grave and came in front of everyone.

"Great, it worked...?"

Looking at the elves in front of them, Liz and Miaojie first showed expressions of joy. However, when they saw the bright whole in front of them clearly, the originally happy expressions on their faces suddenly became much stiffer.

"Is this...successful?"

"Didn't it fail?"

It was no wonder that the two girls had such expressions, because the one that appeared in front of them looked exactly like the corpse they saw yesterday. Except that the body that was originally wrapped in flesh and purple-red muscles had been transformed into a translucent glowing object, whether it was the pointed tongue in the mouth, the sharp teeth, or the eyes that looked like ET aliens, they were all exactly the same as before!

Is this an elf? This is an evil spirit!!

"I originally thought that it would be cuter after being purified..."

Liz was stunned and didn't know what to say. She thought that the original baby would definitely not be so ugly, and since it was purified into an elf, it would most likely become a small, very cute baby.

As a result...looking at the housekeeping elf in front of her, Liz felt that her three views needed to be reshaped.

"Take me to find someone who is related to you by blood."

However, Ciri was not as confused as the two girls. She shouted again, and when the elf heard her shout, it turned around and flew away.

"Hurry, let's catch up!!"

After calming down, Fang Zheng and the others followed Ciri and chased the elf forward. They left the Crow's Nest and chased it all the way to a trail next to the nearby forest, where the elf stopped. At this time, everyone also saw the scene in front of them clearly.

The body of a horse with its head torn off lay in the middle of the road, apparently attacked by some horrible monster.

"What happened? Did some monster attack them and eat them?"

"Don't worry, you'll know what's going on after you take a look."

Fang Zheng waved his hand, then looked around and snapped his fingers.

Soon, the surrounding scene began to change, and quickly became another scene. Seeing the changes in front of her, Ciri was shocked.

"What's going on? Where are we?"

"This is Mr. Fang Zheng's ability. He can reverse time, and things that happened in the past will reappear in front of us."

At this time Miao Jie also explained with a smile, and Xili was also moved after hearing her explanation.

"I never thought Mr. Fang Zheng would have this ability..."

But she didn't sigh for too long, because at this moment, accompanied by the sound of horse hooves, three dark shadows soon appeared from the distance of the trail and galloped towards the three people. They were three horses, one of which was a man dressed like a civilian, the middle one was the baron's daughter, and the one on the right was her mother. Three people were seen riding three horses, galloping quickly along the trail.

"Sure enough, there is an insider. I was wondering how it was possible for two women to run so far."

"I know that man."

Looking at the man in front of her, Ciri also had a serious expression.

"He seems to be a blacksmith working here in Crow's Nest... I didn't expect him to be so bold as to run away with the Baroness and the child."

"I just hope this isn't another elopement, or Mr. Baron will be cuckolded more than once."

Fang Zheng made a casual comment. Hearing his words, Xili glared at him helplessly, but opened her mouth but didn't say anything. After all, this lady also had a history of adultery, and no one could tell whether she had found a new lover behind the Baron's back... If that was the case, the Baron would probably be really angry to death.

At the same time, three people also galloped over, and then suddenly the baron's wife screamed and curled up. The other two were also shocked when they saw this scene, and hurriedly stopped their horses and came to her side. At this moment, everyone saw that a mark shining with a strange light appeared in the palm of the baron's wife's hand.

"Is that... a mark?"

Staring at the mark in the center of the woman's palm, Ciri was startled. However, at this moment, suddenly, a roar came from not far behind her, and then a huge monster with horns suddenly jumped out of the forest and pounced on everyone.

The monster came suddenly, which frightened Xili. She quickly drew her sword and slashed at it. But unexpectedly, her sword went straight through the monster's body without causing any damage to it! Just when Xili was about to retreat in fear, Fang Zheng grabbed her.

"Don't move, that's an illusion. What we see is something that happened in the past. You can't save it even if you want to."

"Yes, that's right..."

Hearing this, Ciri finally breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, the illusion was so real that she had forgotten about it just now and thought she had really met the other person.

At this moment, the monster rushed forward, grabbed the horse that the Baroness was riding, and tore off the horse's head with one hand. Then, it grabbed the Baroness with the other hand, and turned back to the forest. On the other side, the other two were also scared to death. When the girl came to her senses, she was about to rush into the forest to find her mother, but was held tightly by the man next to her. The two talked for a while, and the girl seemed to be persuaded by the man and continued to move forward with him.

Here, the illusion ends.

"What do we do now?"

Fang Zheng spread his hands, looked at the forest, and then walked along the path. It was obvious that the baron's wife had been captured by a monster and her life or death was unknown. Over there, the baron's daughter had been taken away by the blacksmith, and no one knew what had happened to her.

"If it was an ordinary monster, I think Madam would have died long ago."

Ciri also frowned.

"But the pattern that flashed in the lady's hand just now gave me a bad feeling. Moreover, the monster only targeted the Baroness and not the other two. This shows that it did not come here simply to look for food, so I suspect..."

Having said that, Ciri glared fiercely at the woods in front of her.

"This is most likely related to the three old witches in the swamp!"

"Old witch?"

"That's right, Mr. Fang Zheng, you don't know that I still have a grudge against these three old witches!!"

At this point, Ciri was also indignant and told the other party about her own experience.

It turned out that just before, when Ciri was escaping from the Wild Hunt, she was teleported to the swamp here, and then fainted due to injury and fatigue. Then she was found by three old witches living in the swamp and taken back.

But unfortunately, these three old witches are not the witches who help Cinderella in the fairy tale. They know that Ciri is being hunted by the Wild Hunt, but because they have a crush on the ancient blood in Ciri, these three old witches actually expressed their plan to cut off one of her feet and make soup!

Fortunately, Ciri woke up at that time. After hearing this, she hurriedly looked for an opportunity to escape. It took a lot of effort to leave the swamp forest, and then met the Bloody Baron...

Thinking about it now, Ciri felt a pang of annoyance. If she hadn't woken up quickly, those old witches would have chopped off her feet and made soup with them!

How can this be tolerated?!

"Then let's do this. Miaojie, you and Liz go along the trail to see if you can find the lady. Ciri, you go back to Crow's Nest first and tell the Baron about the situation. Let's see what he plans to do."

"Hey? Aren't we going to rescue people now?"

"It won't take too long. Besides, she's his wife, not mine. It depends on what he thinks."

"What about you, Mr. Fang Zheng?"

“As for me…”

Hearing Xili's question, Fang Zheng touched his chin.

"I'll just make some midnight snacks here and wait for you to come back."

After listening to what Ciri said just now, he was a little hungry too - so he made some pig's trotter stew.

Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Ciri rolled her eyes helplessly, turned around and got on her horse and left. She had been with Fang Zheng for a long time and knew that this man was always not serious. If Geralt had always been serious, then Fang Zheng gave people the feeling of laughing and joking. Although he was not frivolous, he was not serious either. It felt like he was playing a game. He also liked to tease those girls on weekdays. This was one of the reasons why Ciri always thought that Fang Zheng was not very capable - after all, in Ciri's opinion, none of those strong men were like Fang Zheng.

Miao Jie and Lisi also rode their horses along the path. Fang Zheng was not worried that anything would happen to them. These two girls were quite capable, and Miao Jie was quick-witted and responsive, so finding someone should not be a problem.

So Fang Zheng found a place, stewed a pot of pig's trotter soup, and began to enjoy it. Although it was cloudy tonight, it didn't rain, and there were no wild animals around. Sitting on the hillside and drinking pig's trotter soup was a special kind of enjoyment. Fang Zheng ate and drank while chewing the pig's trotter. After a while, Ciri came back on horseback, followed by the Bloody Baron and more than a dozen soldiers.

"Mr. Fang Zheng."

Seeing Fang Zheng, Xili quickly dismounted, walked to Fang Zheng and whispered.

"I told the Baron about what happened here, and he said he must come to find his wife in person."

"Oh, that's good too."

"Is this okay? Those old witches are very powerful. Although the legends only say that those old witches will use evil magic to harm people, if you underestimate their danger... What is this smell that is so good?"

Halfway through his words, Xili sniffed her nose and looked around curiously, while Fang Zheng chuckled.

"Pig trotter soup, would you like a bowl?"

“Pig trotter soup?”

"Yes, it's stewed with pig's feet. It's very nutritious, right?"

“…”

Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Xili glared at him speechlessly.

"Mr. Fang Zheng, you must have done this on purpose."

"That's not the case. It's just that after listening to you just now, I suddenly felt a little hungry..."

"You really did it on purpose!!!"

Just when Xili was getting furious, she heard the sound of horse hooves from the other side, and then Miaojie and Lisi also came back. However, their faces did not look very good.

"Oh no, Mr. Fang Zheng, we found the blacksmith. He said he failed to persuade the young lady, and she rushed into the forest to look for her mother!"

“…”

One or two of them are reckless, that's fine.

Fang Zheng helplessly threw away the pig's trotter in his hand and clapped his hands.

"Then let's prepare for action as well."