Returning from the abyss

Chapter 258

Lu Ning picked up the wine glass, just as she had requested, there was no strong smell of alcohol in the glass, a slightly sweet smell slowly evaporating from the strangely colored liquid, but it made people uneasy Not feeling particularly comfortable.

After Serra drank the glass of wine, she went to receive other guests, which made it difficult for Lu Ning to guess whether this was a hint.

She took a sip.

It was hot and bitter, and it didn't look like it looked or smelled at all. She even felt that her tongue was a little numb. It wasn't alcohol, but some other ingredients were at work.

"Hehehe little girl dares to try this." A man with gray hair and beard sat on a seat not far from Lu Ning, "Selah really likes to show off her skills."

"It's my duty to choose the type that meets the requirements of the guests." Sera put a large glass of beer in front of the man, "Can't this glass of wine represent our town?"

The man laughed, then took a sip of beer, and said to Lu Ning: "The taste of this glass of wine will make people feel painful, followed by numbness, just like how the town legend used to target witches, but the alcohol content is very low, so it is not a bad idea Can make people drunk. In pain but not self-hypnosis, this is the origin of the return of the witch."

"You understand it very well." Sera raised her eyebrows and said, "But this history has really existed, and there is no need to avoid it."

"Yes, yes, but who knows if the witch will really come back? What will people do then? Apologize? Or continue the atrocities of the past?"

"No one makes stupid mistakes a second time, and now everyone knows that those things shouldn't be done." Serra retorted, "But I also don't agree with the concept of witches as a potential threat in the town now. .”

"Stupid boy." The man smiled and shook his head. "If the witch returns, she will definitely take revenge on this town. She won't care whether the people here understand their mistakes, or whether they are the same group of people."

"Why are you so sure that the witch will come back?" Lu Ning asked.

"Because...she will always come back, just like in the legend." The man took another big sip, "And at that time, the people in the town will have nothing to do but use the same violence against her."

"Sounds like you've been through it."

"If he had experienced it, he wouldn't drink here." Sera smiled, "It's just a shadow left by the previous generation."

"That's right, you and I are just guessing here for no reason, there is no essential difference, ha!" The man raised his glass and shook it at Lu Ning, "Cheers!"

Lu Ning raised her glass and nodded to him.

A glass of wine was only half drunk, and Lu Ning didn't want to continue, so she asked Sierra for a glass of mead.And Sierra also knew how the glass of wine tasted, so she immediately changed her to a glass of golden wine with a face of understanding, which also healed Lu Ning's damaged tongue.

It was getting dark outside, and there were more and more people, and the smell of dishes filled the room. Sharma was continuously bringing out plates of food from the back kitchen, and the tavern gradually became noisy.

"The Taylors have all moved out."

These words entered Lu Ning's ears.

It was people at a nearby table, and they were talking about the Taylors.

"Suspicious all day long, you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, right? It doesn't matter if you move away, isn't the company that accepted her job still doing well?"

"But that house is really evil."

"Then don't get close to it? How can the people in the town run over there? It's always said that it's evil, but none of the women who cleaned the house died suddenly."

"What happened to the boy from the Kowan family? The hunters searched the forest for a day, but they didn't find anything that could beat people into that with stones."

"Did you fall from somewhere? A child doesn't know the way to the forest, so it's normal for something to happen. Wasn't it rescued by a doctor who came to the town for a tour? Since he was saved, it means nothing serious."

People's mentality is obviously very optimistic. As for the cats, cats and dogs that were rumored to have died before, most of them don't care too much, because there are no obvious "abnormalities" in their lives.

At this moment, the door of the tavern was pushed open again. Carl walked into the tavern with his waist down. He was quite satisfied with the atmosphere here. He walked to the bar and sat down, just in time to see Lu Ning, and raised his hand to say hello , and then looked at Sierra.

"I suppose this is where the drinks are ordered?"

Sierra nodded: "What would you like to order? We will try our best to satisfy your taste."

"Then..." Carl didn't even look at the wine list, "How about a warm and unrestrained drink that fits a cowboy?"

"Mix or brew?"

"Brewing, I still like the pure natural taste...By the way, let me have a plate of fried meat sticks that look delicious."

"Of course no problem, please wait a moment." Sera walked to the door of the back kitchen and said something, then turned around and took a large glass full of slightly cloudy wine from a row of wine barrels by the wall, Come back and put it in front of Carl.

"Thank you, my name is Carl, what do I call it?" Carl took the wine and directly gulped down half of the glass, sighing contentedly.

"Sierra."

"Good name, I have a very good friend named this, but it's been a long time."

"Really? How is she doing then?"

"It must be better than me." Carl grinned, "As you can see, I am a tourist here, Sierra, can you tell me about the recommended attractions here? And what are the taboos of the customs here, I don't like to offend locals."

"White Lake Town has no special taboos in recent years. It's just because of the inconvenient transportation that it doesn't have much connection with the outside world. If you have to say something, don't mention what happened in the past in front of the Herman family. Just don’t mention the mine to the Turner family.”

"What? What happened to these two families?"

"Hahahaha!" Some drinkers laughed loudly after hearing the conversation between the two.

"Brother, if I buy you a drink, why don't you tell me what's funny and make me happy?" Carl turned his head and extended an invitation to the laughing person.

"It's just funny to say." The drinker said, "Everyone in the town knows that this is the biggest scandal of those two families. As a result, the position was embarrassing after the matter was denied, so they could only be locked up as wealthy idlers. As for the Turners, they were unlucky. They insisted on developing the surrounding areas of Baihu Town and invested a lot of business in mines. As a result, there was nothing left.”

"This kind of thing is very common, why don't you let it be mentioned?"

"Everyone knows in their hearts, don't say it out loud, after all, the nobles in the past wanted face! Hahaha!" Even though he said that, the drinker still laughed out of shame.

Lu Ning noticed that most of the people in the tavern didn't take this seriously, probably because they knew that there were no people from the two families present, but only two strong men in black sweatshirts in the corner were still there. Drinking and eating food in silence, almost indifferent to the sounds outside.

"Selah, can I ask what happened to those two people in the corner?" Lu Ning asked in a low voice.

Serra took a look and lowered her voice slightly: "Those are the two brothers of the Li family. They don't have any property in their family, but they should have taken some kind of job recently. It seems that the job doesn't make them happy."

"Why do you say that?"

"They used to prefer cheap and enjoyable drinks like beer, but recently they are more inclined to more expensive but quick drunk drinks like distilled spirits. This change is very telling."

"Is this just a different taste?"

"It's not the taste that changes, but the habit. And the change of habit must be accompanied by the change of living conditions. It's normal to want to try other tastes occasionally, but these days they all choose the same kind, That wouldn't be by chance."

Lu Ning nodded slightly.

"Is that why you tell me that?"

"This is all my guess." Sera smiled, "If the guest really told me about the living conditions, I wouldn't go around talking about it."

This is a very smart girl.

Lu Ning glanced at Sierra, who was busy again, and drank the remaining half glass of "The Return of the Witch". After confirming that there was no mark on the bottom of the wine glass, she put the glass back.

As time went by, many people began to get drunk. Carl was already drinking his third glass of wine. Even though Lu Ning didn't really drink much, he was still a little tipsy due to the atmosphere.

I don't know how long it took, the door was suddenly knocked open, a young man rushed into the tavern, saw a room full of people as if he had seen a savior, and shouted: "Dead, dead! !There's a dead body in the alley outside!"

There was an uproar.

Lu Ning raised her eyes, knowing in her heart that this moment would come sooner or later, but she didn't know who was doing it.

Some daring ones immediately took farming tools and hunting tools to help the young man up. Sharma brought out a small glass of strong wine, and the people hurriedly let the young man drink it. His face, which was blue with fright, immediately turned red. up.

"Take us over there!" Several older hunters spoke.

"Okay...okay!" The young man turned his head and walked out the door as soon as he was courageous, and most of the drinkers also ran out to check the situation, including Lu Ning and Karl of course.

The accident happened not far away, in an alley less than 20 meters away from the tavern, and most of the shops on this street were closed at this time, no wonder the young man ran into the tavern directly.

This dark alley is a dead-end alley, and at the end there are some building materials waste, which is covered with a plastic sheet, and the corpse that the young man said was thrown on this plastic sheet.

The reason why I say "still" is because the scene looks like the corpse was smashed on the plastic sheet by some huge force, and the waste that was originally piled up in a reasonable manner is now scattered.

And the corpse looked miserable.

This is a man about 40 years old. He looks grim, and he seems to have suffered a lot of pain before he died. His clothes from the neck down are covered with blood spots, his skin is wrinkled, his body is sunken, and the blood all over his body seems to be They were all emptied, and Lu Ning didn't even find any obvious corpse spots when she stepped forward to check as a doctor.

"He died not long ago. The rigor was not obvious. The cause of death... blood loss, internal organ puncture, and violent struggle before death. Does anyone know who this is?" Lu Ning quickly completed a simple autopsy.

The town was not big, so the drinkers identified him, and soon recognized that this person seemed to be a farmer living in the south of the town. Although he had a violent personality, he was straightforward and had many friends.

Several people with a better relationship worked together to lift the body down, and it was inevitable that the drinkers began to break the murderer's leg while worrying.

"I remember that this kind of injury seems to be caused by a torture device used to execute witches before?"

"Yes, look at the wounds on his body, such dense and neat punctures, they must not have been stabbed out with a needle!"

"This guy has a very bad temper. Last time I saw him quarreled with some members of the Herman family about the acquisition of land."

"Herman? Don't they have the most instruments of torture?"

"They must have done the right thing! You still think of yourself as an aristocrat! Who can bear to kill someone if they don't agree with each other?"

"Find them! Ask them clearly!"

A group of people made a fuss and somehow deduced the truth, and then immediately carried the body to the house of the Herman family, leaving only a few people behind.

"Aren't you going to take a look?" Carl glanced at Lu Ning.

Lu Ning walked towards the tavern: "I'm not interested. If that family really did it, at least it should be done cleanly, instead of throwing the body in a place where there is a high probability of being found."

"Maybe it's reverse thinking? They can use this argument to argue."

"Then let's change the reason. The Herman family is not in power, and the mayor is the one who has the final say in this town. For them, it is far better to negotiate with a living person than a dead one. It’s the kind of family that disobeys itself and wants to get rid of it, it’s hard for me to imagine that they can survive in the town to this day.”

Carl smiled: "Then I'll go and have a look, maybe I find something special, see you later."

Lu Ning waved goodbye, and went back to the tavern by herself.

More than half of the people left, and the place suddenly became much deserted.Sierra was standing at the bar, and was a little surprised to see Lu Ning come back.

"I thought the guests would go and have a look together."

"I've seen a lot of life and death, and I'm not in the mood to watch it as a spectacle." Lu Ning sat down in her original position, and was blown by the cold wind outside, her head became clearer again.

But she felt very irritable.

"So, since you're willing to come back, what else do you want to drink?" Serra asked.

"In my impression, every bartender will mix a drink named Bloody." Lu Ning raised her hand and rubbed her temples, "Then please give me a glass of something similar, preferably with the name of Bloody." The same bright red color."

"As you wish."

(End of this chapter)