In the entire New and Old City of Vizima, apart from sporadic lights, there were only a few teams of guards holding torches patrolling the streets.

Without anyone noticing, a figure wearing dark tight clothing, a black scarf covering his face and carrying a silver sword walked out from the slums.

This person is of course Wayne. In order to find out the truth in the house he had taken a fancy to during the day, he disguised himself and found Geralt to borrow his silver sword.

After all, the house still belongs to the city hall, and you can't break in without reason.

And if he made a big deal about fixing the problems in the house, maybe then the city hall would suddenly change its mind and raise the price of the house.

So the purpose of Wayne's trip was just to go in and confirm whether he could solve the problem in the house.

If the trouble is within his power, he can save a great deal of money.

Because he had taken the potion in advance, the dark environment had no effect on his movements. Wayne moved forward, avoiding the sight of all patrol teams, and soon reached his destination.

This is a two-story brick and stone house similar to a private villa, with a front yard and a back yard, as well as a wall more than two meters high. The total area is about one thousand square meters, and it looks quite imposing.

However, compared with those houses with their own shops, this house is relatively remote, and its entrance and exit are not on the main street. It is almost close to the city wall of New Vizima, separated only by a passage a few meters wide.

Wayne looked around the house and made sure that no one was watching. Then he used the force of the climb to easily climb over the gate.

The front yard of the house is a garden with many flowers and plants planted. For the sake of beauty, the workers also built a wooden pavilion and a small pond in the yard.

Wayne walked around the front garden and didn't see anything strange. His Wolf School badge didn't react either, so there shouldn't be a problem.

So he went to the front door of the house, pushed it, and found that it was locked and all the windows on the first floor were closed, so he could not get in.

However, this was nothing to the witcher. He walked around the house half a circle and saw the balcony on the second floor.

It was a semicircular open-air balcony, about three meters above the ground. The previous owner of the house had placed several pots of beautiful flowers on the balcony.

This height may be quite difficult for ordinary people, and they must use a ladder to climb up.

But at this time Wayne was not wearing armor, and was lightly equipped. Moreover, he was tall, so he just raised his hands, accumulated strength slightly, and then jumped up suddenly, and his arms firmly grasped the edge of the open-air balcony.

After climbing up, Wayne discovered that this balcony was connected to the master bedroom of the house. The furniture inside was 90% new and looked quite high-end.

It is very likely that his owner chose to leave directly after encountering various accidents, without taking away all the items here.

However, Wayne didn't care about these external objects. After entering the house, he immediately became alert and began to explore the house carefully.

If the only people in the house are little mischievous spirits, or if the curse is not fatal, then it is easier to deal with.

But if it is an evil spirit, then it will be a bit troublesome.

Although demons and spirits are collectively called monsters, their strength varies. Powerful demons and spirits can even slaughter an entire army, while weak demons and spirits have difficulty even showing up.

There is no universally accepted answer to the reason why this kind of monster is created, but most scholars and sorcerers believe that when some intelligent life has extremely strong negative emotions during its lifetime and dies at a special time and place, then there is a certain chance that it will become a demon spirit.

Wayne searched the house for nearly an hour, from the second floor to the first floor, from the bedroom to the kitchen, and almost every corner of the house, but still did not find anything unusual.

Even his witcher senses and the magic badge on his chest did not react, which normally made him frown.

There are only two possibilities for this situation. Either the problem here is very big and beyond his ability, so he cannot detect it.

Or, there is no big problem here, and the previous buyers may have just encountered accidents due to various coincidences.

However, compared to the former, Wayne was even less convinced of coincidences, so he searched the house again but still found nothing.

Wayne left the house and prepared to continue searching in the backyard.

However, because the new city had just been built, these houses were not fully completed. The backyard at this time was just a fenced-in wasteland. Except for a deep well dug in the center of the backyard, other places were quite flat. It could be said that it was in full view and there was nothing unusual.

Therefore, Wayne's eyes were instinctively attracted to the deep well.

With an inquiring mindset, he cautiously approached the brick-and-stone well.

This is the kind of well designed specifically for wealthy families. The well mouth is about 1.2 meters wide, and a wooden roof is built on top to block debris. A metal rotating pull rod is fixed at the well mouth, which can control the rope to scoop up well water from below.

However, this time, as soon as Wayne approached the wellhead, he immediately noticed something unusual.

With his keen senses, he could actually feel a slight air flow from the wellhead outwards, blowing on his skin with a slight coolness.

It is not an almost closed space like an ordinary well.

With such doubts, Wayne leaned over the well and looked down.

It was pitch black down there, and he couldn't see anything. Even with the help of the cat's eye potion, he could only be sure that the space below the wellhead was quite large, and that there was indeed air flowing, even forming a breeze.

The demon hunter's keen hearing and touch told Wayne that this well was not an ordinary well that was dug into the aquifer and extracted water through infiltration.

This well was dug directly through the surface rock layer and connected to an underground river more than ten meters deep below. The underground river water was directly drawn through wooden barrels.

Therefore, there is a considerable space underneath the well, as well as air flow driven by the underground river.

Moreover, Wayne also smelled the scent of some monster from the wellhead. Although he couldn't be sure, there were indeed traces of some monster.

With this discovery, Wayne also had some guesses about the whole thing.

Perhaps it was because this underground river was connected to a mysterious place that some monster or spirit entered the house through the wellhead, causing many surprises to the original buyer.

However, the monster should not be considered dangerous for the time being, because it did not pose a life hazard to the original buyer. I don't know if it was because it lacked the ability or it did not want to do so.

After thinking for a few minutes, Wayne found that there were three solutions before him.

The first method is the simplest. It is to directly set up a magic circle to seal the wellhead and isolate the monster from the ground. Even if he wants to do something else, he can only pass through other places.

The second method is stupider and more traditional, which is to sit back and wait. He can spend a few days hiding near the wellhead, and there should be a certain chance of encountering the monster crawling out of the wellhead.

The last method is more risky, which is to jump into the well and follow the underground river directly to find the mysterious area connected to the river to solve the problem at the source.

And just in time, he also obtained the Hekna Amulet, which enabled him to breathe underwater and swim faster.

The only thing worth considering is whether, with his strength, he can defeat the unknown monster, or negotiate with it in a friendly manner and resolve the problem.

Thinking of this, Wayne looked at the sky. It was still late at night, the moon was halfway down, and there were still about four or five hours before dawn.

He thought about it and sighed. If this was in a game, Wayne might jump into the well without hesitation to challenge the monster.

But now it was the real world, he could neither save the game nor revive it. Wayne felt that he could not take any risks and had to be cautious.

So, after thinking for a few minutes, Wayne stood up, went back into the house, went to the room on the second floor near the backyard, sat by the window, and quietly observed the location of the wellhead through the window.

He hoped that he would be lucky enough to wait for the guy who would fall into the trap.

(Seeing that some book friends have some disputes about the plot, I did some popular science in the essence post in the comment area. Most readers have probably only played the game and don’t know the original novel, so there may be some misunderstandings. I hope that after reading my popular science, they will understand the plot better. Mmm!)

(End of this chapter)