Looking at the three gossipy women in front of him, Fang Zheng felt sick all over.

In fact, he had seen ugly people pretending to be beautiful women before, such as the witch in the main world and the famous succubus, especially the latter, whose true form was a three-meter-tall behemoth, which was scary enough.

But...but!

At least they have professional ethics!!!

No matter what their true identity is, at least when they come out to deceive people, they still do the whole thing! They still pretend to be very beautiful, at least people who don't know the truth will still be fascinated by it.

Even internet celebrities use beauty filters when they go live! !

And you three just hung a picture?

Don't you even pretend?

What's the difference between this and those people who excitedly call with a little card saying "Pure Student Girl Massage 24 Hours", but end up getting a heavy tank?! ?

Is this how you deceive the pure and innocent hearts of others? !

Can people still trust each other?

Fang Zheng was completely stunned, but Ciri had no idea at all. She stared at the three old witches and shouted.

"You are the ones who have captured the Baroness? Why did you capture her?"

"Hey, hey, little girl, what's the use of this?"

Hearing Ciri's scolding and questioning, the three old witches suddenly laughed shrilly.

"We have reached a contract between her and us! She is ours!!"

"Contract?"

Hearing this, the Baron and his daughter were both stunned.

"That's right. This woman didn't want the baby in her belly, so she made a deal with us. We would help her get rid of the baby in her belly, and she would be ours. We have fulfilled the contract, but she actually wanted to escape from here and run away from us. This is absolutely intolerable!"

"So you guys are the ones causing trouble!?"

At this moment, the baron was so angry that he clenched his sword and roared. He had always thought that he was drunk and beat his wife, which led to her miscarriage, but he didn't expect that these three guys were the culprits? !

“Hehehe…”

Faced with the Bloody Baron's anger, the three old witches were not afraid at all, and even laughed coldly.

"It's too late now, she belongs to us, her soul belongs to us, no matter what you do...Aaaaaaaah!!!"

However, before the old witch could finish her words, a flame suddenly rose from the ground and burned the three people to charcoal in an instant.

"MMP, it's finally over."

Fang Zheng put down his hand and sighed.

"It's not good for your spirit if you continue like this..."

"Mr. Fang Zheng, did you kill them?"

"What else? Keep them for the New Year?"

Fang Zheng rolled his eyes helplessly, and Xili shook his head speechlessly.

"But they have planted a curse on the Baroness..."

"It's just a curse, leave it to me."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng walked to the old woman, held her left hand and raised it, then took out the silver-white dagger with his right hand, and then gently slashed it across her palm. The next moment, everyone saw a pattern suddenly appear in the center of the old woman's palm, and then it completely shattered and disappeared. Then the old woman trembled, and a few bright colors appeared in her eyes that had originally lost their spirit.

"Mother!"

“Anna!!”

Seeing the old woman wake up, the Baron and his daughter hurried over and helped her up, but the old woman still seemed trembling, her face pale, and she was shaking anxiously.

"What's going on? Didn't you say the curse has been lifted?"

Worried about her mother's frail appearance, Tamara looked at Fang Zheng and asked, who shrugged.

"Yes, the curse has been lifted and my life is no longer in danger, but mentally it's another matter."

"……Spirit?"

"Nonsense, isn't it? You were beaten by your husband all day long, then you had a miscarriage, then you ran away in a panic, and then you were caught by monsters and used as a slave by three extremely ugly old witches. How could you be unharmed?"

"Well……"

"Then, is there any solution?"

Hearing Fang Zheng's ridicule, the daughter looked embarrassed, and the Bloody Baron hurriedly asked.

"There's not much you can do about her mental problems. To put it simply, she needs to rest quietly and not be provoked. You can understand this, Mr. Baron. It's the same as a soldier who is seriously injured and can't be exposed to colds and must rest quietly. She is seriously injured mentally now, so you can't quarrel in front of her or provoke her, and she will get better slowly. If you still quarrel and fight like before, she will probably be directly stimulated and become crazy."

"Is it that serious?!"

Hearing this, the Bloody Baron's expression suddenly became much more solemn and he nodded vigorously.

"I, I understand. I will take good care of her! I will never let her suffer!"

"I don't believe you, I'll take care of mom!"

At this moment, the daughter also hurriedly interrupted.

"You say this every time, but haven't you turned mom into this?"

"I didn't mean to do that, I was just drunk!!"

"Ahem, you two."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Fang Zheng hurriedly intervened and pointed at the old woman next to him who was curled up in a ball and trembling because she heard their quarrel.

"If you keep arguing, I think she'll have a seizure."

"ah……!"

Seeing Anna trembling like a mouse seeing a cat, the Baron and his daughter hurriedly stopped and then looked at each other awkwardly. At this time, Fang Zheng also coughed and continued.

"Well, I have an idea, young lady. Why don't you go back to the castle with your father and take care of your mother?"

"Together?"

"Yes, if you take your mother away from here, how are you going to support her? She needs someone by her side. In the castle, at least she will have enough food and clothing, and her life will be safe. You just need to take good care of your mother. As for Mr. Baron...you should also quit drinking, and let your daughter keep an eye on you. Of course, you also have to make up your mind, what do you think?"

"this……"

The two looked at each other, and then felt that this was probably the only way.

"I understand. I will go back, but I will not reconcile with that man."

"I will also...work hard to stop drinking, and I will never drink again."

As he spoke, the Baron nodded vigorously, then he walked to his wife, patted her back gently, then helped his wife up, and then took his remaining guards and daughter and slowly walked back the way they came.

As for Fang Zheng and the others, they stood where they were, watching the scene in front of them. At this time, Miao Jie quietly came over.

"Mr. Fang Zheng, did you do this on purpose?"

"Um?"

"With your power, Mr. Fang Zheng, it shouldn't be difficult to repair that woman's injured heart."

"That's true, but it's karma... You have to deal with your own mistakes. I'm not interested in cleaning up other people's messes."

Fang Zheng shook his head, acknowledging Miao Jie's guess. Indeed, if he took action, he could easily cure the old woman's mental trauma. But Fang Zheng did not intend to do so, for a simple reason, it was meaningless. The cause of this matter was that the Baroness was having an affair outside, and then the Baron himself was furious and abused his wife all day long. This was a vicious cycle for both parties. If you insist, both sides were at fault, so they should solve their own sins.

"Besides, this is also a chance for their family to start over. Whether they can seize the opportunity depends on themselves. If everything goes well, then they can still be a family again in the future. But if the two sides continue to argue, and eventually the old woman suffers a mental breakdown and dies, resulting in the separation of their wives and children, that is also the outcome they chose."

Fang Zheng narrowed his eyes, retracted his gaze, and looked at the green-haired girl beside him.

"I gave them a choice, they made it, and the consequences are theirs to bear."

Next, everyone naturally said goodbye to the Baron and planned to return to Novigrad. After all, they came out this time because Ciri wanted to meet the Bloody Baron who saved her and thank him. Now that they have helped him solve the problem, and Lady Anna needs to rest after returning home, it is not suitable for outsiders like them to disturb her, so they said goodbye and left.

The baron was a little reluctant about this, but still said that they were welcome to come at any time. Of course, the baron also said that if he saw Ciri's adoptive father appear in Velen, he would immediately let his men find him and tell Geralt that Ciri was currently in Novigrad.

After saying goodbye to the Baron, the group set off for Novigrad again.

"How should I put it... This world is really different from what I imagined."

Riding on the horse, looking at the surrounding scenery and the corpse hanging on the wooden frame swaying in the wind in the distance, Liz also had a complicated expression. It can be said that as a clergyman, this world has completely destroyed Liz's three views.

Why does the house elf look like that? Didn’t Ciri say that house elves are good elves that protect the family and the clan?

Since it's a good elf, can't it be more...prettier?

Although the zombies and mutant creatures encountered in the biochemical world were also very scary, Liz knew at the time that they were cursed and mutated monsters, so it was understandable that they became very scary.

But I really can't understand why it's still so scary after being cleansed of the curse.

"I think this world is very interesting. I can encounter many things that I have never seen before. Although the situations in each world are different, people's reactions are all equally interesting."

As she spoke, Miao Jie narrowed her eyes and smiled like a cat.

“Woof woof woof!! Woof woof woof!!!”

Just as the group was walking along the road, they suddenly heard a dog barking not far away. Turning around, they saw several wild dogs gathered in front of a wooden house on the side of the road, barking non-stop.

"Oh, it's another pack of wild dogs."

Seeing this scene, Miaojie immediately showed a surprised expression, while Xili nodded.

"After all, because of the war, many villages were destroyed, so many dogs became stray dogs... It's hard to deal with them."

As Ciri said, because of the war between the Northern Alliance and Nilfgaard, many villages were destroyed, and the dogs kept by those people left and became stray dogs, attacking passers-by on the road in groups. From a certain perspective, these stray dogs are no less harmful than wolves.

At this moment, the pack of wild dogs also noticed Fang Zheng and his group approaching, and immediately turned around and pounced on them with bared teeth.

"Wait a moment!"

Looking at the pack of wild dogs running towards them, Ciri said something casually, then jumped off her horse. She flashed through the pack of wild dogs and turned them into corpses in the blink of an eye.

Then, Ciri walked up to the cabin and knocked on the door.

"The wild dog has been killed. It's all right now."

“…”

After hearing Ciri's voice, there was silence in the wooden house for a moment, and then the wooden door opened with a creaky sound. Then, a little girl poked her head out and looked at Ciri and Fang Zheng and his group anxiously.

"Where are your parents?"

It was then that Ciri realized that there were only a few children in the entire wooden house, and no adults at all. No wonder they dared to hide in the house and not go out when facing a group of wild dogs.

Hearing Ciri's question, the girl was silent for a moment and then answered.

"Some were killed by the soldiers, and some...ran away to who knows where."

“…Is that so?”

Hearing the girl's answer, Xili was silent for a moment, then took out some food from his pocket and handed it over.

"Share these among the people."

"Thank you, big sister."

After receiving the food, the girl smiled happily and turned to run to the others. Seeing this, Miao Jie walked to Fang Zheng and gently pulled his sleeve.

"Mr. Fang Zheng, these children are so pitiful."

"It's very pitiful, so what?"

"I wonder if we can take them in."

"Um……?"

Hearing this, Fang Zheng looked at Miao Jie beside him curiously.

"Take in these children?"

"yes."

Facing Fang Zheng's question, Miao Jie clasped her hands together with a smile.

"Look, we have seen along the way that many places have been abandoned because of the war. We can renovate those buildings and use them to take care of these children who have been displaced by the war. Isn't this a good thing?"

Speaking of this, Miao Jie also seemed to be in high spirits.

"There is no need to interact with other people. We can choose some more remote places. Although there may be monsters in those places, I believe this is not a problem for us. Besides, Mr. Fang Zheng, aren't you going to let other people come here in the future? As for Novigrad, there are too many people and it is not a place to stay for a long time. I think a small place that belongs to us is a good choice. Just like the Kaer Morhen that Miss Ciri mentioned, which belongs to the witcher..."

"You mean the same as the Bloody Baron's Crow's Nest?"

Fang Zheng certainly understood what Miao Jie meant. At first, the Bloody Baron was just an ordinary officer. He came here with his defeated troops and occupied the uninhabited Crow's Nest to become the local tyrant of Weiren. Now it seems that Miao Jie is planning to do these things too?

But why was she doing it?

"Ms. Liz, you think this is a good idea too, right?"

Having said that, Miao Jie also hurriedly gathered the allies, and the latter also nodded.

"I also think Miss Miaojie's idea is good, Mr. Fang Zheng."

“I see…”

In fact, Fang Zheng did not have any particular objection. This was actually something he often did in other worlds. But what made Fang Zheng a little curious was why this matter was proposed by Miao Jie?

If it was Liz, it would be understandable. After all, she was a believer of the Seven Lights Church and had a kind heart. The Seven Lights Church itself had a tradition of helping orphans. But Miao Jie... looking at her, it didn't seem like she was deliberately showing him how kind she was. Fang Zheng was sure that Miao Jie had an ulterior motive in making this suggestion.

"Okay, let's do it."

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng nodded.

Whatever she wants to do, it's interesting, isn't it?