【Second Creation Novel】008 Information on the Harpy

Mark, who left the Marquis Manor, was thinking on the carriage, "Learning magic is temporarily impossible now, and becoming a witcher should feel the same. It won't take a year and a half to think about it. The only thing to deal with is to get the task done first. Come on! Otherwise, even if I am tied to death here, I may not have the ability to continue to adapt to this society. I just don't have a mobile phone, computer, Internet and toilet paper.... I really don't think I can stay any longer.... " Mark stabilized his mood and decided to go to the old town early tomorrow morning to inquire about information.

The next day, Mark told Knight Henry that he was going to the Old Town.

"What! It's absolutely impossible, Your Highness!" Henry seemed to have heard some words of surprise, and hurriedly wanted to stop Mark.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just going to see the lives of those inhuman races! Even if they were poor, they wouldn't be able to do anything to me in broad daylight, right?" Mark wondered.

"This is of course possible. Take the Squirrel Party, a criminal organization composed of elves. Many of them are entrenched in different places, and they are often robbed in the name of crusade against humans. Although the old town of Vizima is nominally It still belongs to Vizima, but basically the law will not intervene there. That is a three-in-one zone where the royal city, the chamber of commerce, or the temple will not interfere! Your status is honorable. If something happens there, what will happen to the old man? Explain to His Majesty, and please think twice!" Henry said urgently.

"You're not getting old, Henry, you're in your forties... Okay! I'll think about it..." Mark can't do anything about it, he is now a near-powerless person. Teenager, his guard knight is far stronger than himself, what else can he do if he is not allowed? What's more, it may be really dangerous, but now there are nine days left, and I can't continue to waste time....

"Or.... I'd better go and ask my cheap cousin? I always have to prepare a two-handed plan, in case Geralt doesn't show up at all, I'll have to do the banshee myself. Uh... How to say it seems weird..." Mark, who was strictly rejected by Henry, decided to go to Robert to find out the situation of the old town. After all, Henry is from Kaedwen, and he doesn't have any memory of Mark's predecessor. Now there is only Robert, a small local snake, who is closest to him and probably knows the most. Don't ask him who to ask?

After Mark found out about Robert's residence with Henry, of course Henry didn't stop him. After all, he was just walking around the business district, but he still asked his servants to accompany Mark and set off to Edward's mansion.

The reason why this place is called a mansion, not a manor or a mansion, is mainly because the Edward family is rich, but not aristocratic, so they cannot have their own manor and guards. At most, they should build a bigger house in the city. A point, but this bodyguard can't wear armor and can't hold a crossbow weapon.

Along the way, Mark was followed by two attendants, one of whom drove out the door.

On the way from Mark's residential area to Edward's mansion, he happened to pass through a market square. For outsiders, the most fresh and interesting is the local market, and Mark is no exception. This is also the reason why he wants to go to Robert today. After all, in addition to clearing the boredom, Huanghuang Market may also unexpectedly harvest some items that are helpful for the mission.

In Vizima City, there are two types of markets. One is the square market, which has no shops and sells some people's livelihood, such as food or supplies; the other is the concept of a shopping street, with shops selling The things in the store are usually more professional or expensive, and of course they are mainly sold to the nobles, and the market that Mark passed through is a two-in-one market. As a whole, it is a C-shaped square with a row of shops on each side. , there are many vendors in the middle square. Mark pads his small purse, deducting the Oren who will be used to invite Geralt or other witchers. He still has 200 Oren to use, and he should buy some small things enough.

After Mark agreed with the servant, he walked slowly to the market square with two servants. He found that most of the vendors in the square were selling herbs, food or ingredients, and the only thing that allowed Mark to use the money bag was the market square. It was a street vendor that sold rough clothes. The reason for buying rough clothes was mainly for the convenience of follow-up actions. After all, wearing a gorgeous tights, it would not bother you to be recognized wherever you went, and it was very difficult to act.

Mark bought two or three sets of clothes from the boss that looked similar. To be honest, the clothes of this kind of street vendor don't cost much money, because most of them are bought by nobles for their servants to wear, and 2 silver pence is enough. After buying three sets, the stall owner looked curious that Mark was wearing a luxurious coat to buy common clothes, and naturally thought that he was buying more for the servants at home.

After buying the clothes, Mark continued to walk around, so he didn't have much interest in the open-air stalls. His experience with these stalls is that they are a bit similar to the night markets in the real world, and they are mainly inseparable from the three functions of eating and drinking.

Then Mark turned around and walked to the shop next to him. This first shop has barbed wire windows, and there are two guards standing outside the door for security, giving people the feeling that it is a pawn shop or a bank at a glance.

"I didn't expect that there are banks in this world? It seems that I have completely wrapped the world in the Middle Ages. Although there are kings and knights here, the commercial trade is very capitalized!" Watching the endless stream of people The bank, Mark was a little surprised.

Going forward, Mark found that the second store looked like a bookstore from the window. Compared with the bank next door, the store looked very deserted, but this bookstore was the place Mark needed most now. , because in this age without computers and mobile phones, books and oral records are the best sources of intelligence.

Mark pushed open the door and entered the bookstore, and a middle-aged man dressed appropriately and wearing glasses greeted Mark and said, "Hello, young master, do you need anything?"

"No, I'm just here to see what books I'm interested in, I'll just shake it myself." Mark nodded and said.

Mark looked at the wall-sized bookcases one after another, filled with all kinds of books. "It's hard to imagine that there will be so many books in this era, let alone a place like a bookstore! Could it be that there is already a so-called printing technique at this time?" Mark thought of this, and quickly took down two or three books and flipped through them. , I later found out that this is not the case. Although the material of the pages here is not bad, it is still not as good as the paper in modern society, and the text on the top is very different from each book. It's not cheap, a copy of "Tamoria Ballads" costs 20 orens, or maybe it's not just about printing, but also about the popularity of culture! After Mark put the books back, he strolled along the book categories carved on the wooden cabinets, looking for books about the Old Town and the history of Vizima.

"There it is! "Vizima's Curse - Full Moon Dark Night"" After reading for a long time, Mark finally found a book that seemed to have information on the harpies, and quickly took it from the cabinet and read it.

[In the year of 1249, on a dark night with a full moon in the summer of July, three palace maids in the palace died mysteriously on the same night. The coroner judged it to be a monster attack, but no trace of the monster was found in the search for a week.]

[Until a month later, on the night of the full moon, there was another attack. This time the financial officer in the court was killed. The emperor was furious and asked the sheriff of Wangcheng to find out the truth. The sheriff asked the witcher to come to solve the problem, and the witcher found traces of monster activity in the catacombs of the palace. 】

[At first the king thought it was his wife and sister, Princess Yada, who was resurrected, but the witcher explained that such cruel hunting methods and picky eating attitudes can only be done by the vampire harpie, and there is only one possibility for the formation of the vampire harpie. It is the unborn female baby who survived after being cursed. 】

[In the beginning, the king hired warlocks and demon hunters with the attitude of killing the harpies, but the harpies were too terrifying, and many capable people became rations, so the king decided to move the capital. 】

[After moving the capital, the king continued to find someone to deal with the harpie incident, until a wise man, or a wizard invited by the king, told the king that the princess could solve the curse, but someone needed to be with him before dawn the next day on the night of the full moon. The harpie survives in the same room and prevents the harpie from returning to the coffin. To this end, the king ordered no one to hunt the harpy, and hoped to restore his own daughter and also solve the palace massacre. 】

[After that, those who wanted to try to hunt down the harpies never showed up. The harpies are still raging in the palace tombs of the old royal city. Every night when the full moon comes out to hunt, no one can explain the nature of the harpies. Appearance, because everyone who has seen it has become a skeleton. The relevant dictation comes only to the wise and the witcher. 】

[The Vampire Harpy, also known as the Vampire Harpy, has always been caused by a cursed woman, with a beast-like hunting instinct. The Harpy is as swift as the wind, with a figure like a leopard, fangs and sharp beaks, infinite strength, and a voice like a bird. Sharp, fond of cannibals and blood, and a few mature harpies possess rudimentary intelligence. 】

"Damn...why don't I remember that the ones in the album are not so scary...the original novel is like this?" Mark could feel her scalp tingling from the text description, and she was really at a loss at this time.

"Maybe this kind of thing really can only be done by experts.... I'd better wait for the witchers to come to the door like a country... The only thing I can do now is to gather more witchers and buy some tools , I remember that there are explosives in this world, and I don't know if I can get it, even if I kill the harpy, it's better than my own death...?" Mark left the bookstore and continued to move towards Robert's house. .