Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 654 - 18 Angry Lina_1

Chapter 654: Chapter 18 Angry Lina_1

"Firstly, at Neil’s house, guess what I found when I was checking the scent?" Pannis sneered: "I found that indeed two people had last left his house, one being him, but surprisingly, the other one wasn’t Betty, but a stranger. Isn’t it supposed that given the current situation, Betty should have fled to Neil’s house and then the two of them should have left together by sled? Why was the other person a stranger instead? Of course, this doubt could be explained by their agreement to meet elsewhere, although this explanation may not seem very reasonable."

"Then, when we first came to your house, it was too obvious, the scent that should have been at Neil’s house surprisingly appeared at your place. The last time Betty appeared was at your place, which makes it interesting. You and Neil are love rivals, how dull must poor Betty be to choose the meeting place at the house of the love rival? This simply does not make any sense. From this, it can be seen that you certainly have a problem. Also, on you, I actually smelled the scent of fresh blood. Although you are a hunter, and having a bloody smell is normal, the continuous snowstorms didn’t give you chances to go hunting. So, having blood on you at this time was abnormal. Of course, you are smart and you might have taken the bloody smell into consideration, so you were very active the night before yesterday’s banquet, helped slaughter many livestock and even killed a chicken at your own house. But, do you think I can’t tell the difference between chicken blood and human blood?"

"But, I have to say, your disguise was very good, if I hadn’t found something unusual about the scent, I might have been deceived by your performance."

"However, you left another loophole. When we found Neil’s sled, I checked Neil’s luggage and found personal belongings of both Neil and Betty. But, perhaps you wanted to confuse others too much, and as a result, a problem arose, you deliberately mixed up the items of the two people. But didn’t you think about it? At that time, it is only reasonable to clearly separate the items of the two people, they were leaving home separately, mixing up was too contradictory."

As he was saying this, there was a noise from the ladder at the entrance of the cave, and Lina climbed up from the underground secret room. For the first time, Pannis saw that Lina’s expression could actually become so angry, her eyes flickered with a severe killing intention, her whole body turned into a savage beast choosing its prey, as if she was restraining herself from rushing to Chester and killing him.

"I want to kill him." Lina’s voice was low and angry: "For the first time, I have such a strong impulse to kill a person, blessings of Denia, are you even a human, Chester, is your body filled with the blood of beasts?"

"Eh?" But Pannis suddenly lifted his head again, as if looking in the distance through the wall, at the same time Lina’s expression also shifted slightly, Pannis was stunned for a while, nodded and said: "Finally, something started there, everything is going smoothly. Um, what did you just say? You want to kill him? It seems that you found Betty below, is her condition terrible?"

"Couldn’t be worse." Lina gritted her teeth and said: "She is indeed still alive, and there is no danger, but... sigh, treating her wounds will take a long time, so I came up first, will deal with it thoroughly once everything calms down."

"Betty, she..." Old Dak finally heard the news he wanted to hear the most, excitedly released a roar like a beast and rushed towards the secret passage. But unprepared, he was pushed back by Lina with a casual shove. He fell on the ground a few steps back and looked at Lina with an inquiring look, asking: "Priestess, why won’t you let me see Betty?"

"Oh, it’s annoying, if I don’t let you go now, then you just shouldn’t go, who cares why." Lina said impatiently: "Just behave and stay upstairs, wait for me to deal with it then you can go downstairs, I have no intention of being considerate towards you, but if you go down now you will definitely make a ruckus that annoys people. Besides, you are so old, I don’t want to have to resuscitate you as well if I go downstairs."

From Lina’s words, Old Dak guessed a lot of information. This malicious information made the old man feel as if everything went black in front of him and he felt cold from the marrow of his bones. The old man who just easily knocked Chester down to the ground now felt that his body was slack and he was trembled as he sat on the ground. He didn’t even have the strength to stand up, he looked at the entrance to the secret passage with pain and despair. Lina folded her arms across her chest and ignored the suffering Old Dak. Instead, she walked towards Chester who had just released from under Old Dak’s foot step by step. She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth and said: "Mr. Chester, I think it is necessary for us to discuss the issue of Betty in detail. How could you treat a girl who truly loves you and has grown up with you, like this?"

"Calm down, Lina." Pannis put his hand on Lina’s shoulder. Feeling how Lina was trembling all over due to anger, Pannis comforted her by pinching her shoulder: "Wait until everything is dealt with, then let’s discuss everything."

"Phew, I understand." Feeling the warmth coming through Pannis’s hand even through her clothes, her tense muscles slowly relaxed, she patted Pannis’s hand to indicate that she was fine. Yet her voice had a hint of sobbing: "If you saw the situation below, you would understand. I never thought that, being all children of Denia, why could someone do such a thing."

"I can understand." Pannis comforted Lina by patting her shoulder, "Some people are like beasts who, for their own desires, can commit atrocious acts. They can no longer be considered human."

"No, you don’t understand. I don’t ever want to see such a scene again." Lina fiercely swinged her fist, "I’d kill him right now in the most brutal way if I could. Yes, I know it’s not the right time, don’t worry, I won’t act impulsively. We’ll wait till Big Sister and others arrive."

Pannis nodded, squatted down beside Chester, and asked while patting his face, "I can figure out the timeline. You sent Neil away on the night we arrived here, you then killed him. The next day, you tricked Betty to your home. Or perhaps you had deceived her earlier, leading her to wait for you at your home that day. Then, you intentionally got Old Dak drunk that night so that he wouldn’t realise his daughter was missing. Meanwhile, you seized the opportunity to tear a leg off the unsuspecting Betty, locked her in the secret room, and took her leg and luggage to the place where you killed Neil. You mixed Betty’s belongings with Neil’s and left her leg aside. You knew that the blizzard hadn’t stopped, and animals wouldn’t come out for food, so you weren’t worried about the intentionally left body parts being discovered. As for your purpose, no, the purpose of the people you serve, it’s clear. They did similar things in the past, nothing more than a sinister sacrifice to an evil god. Although it wasn’t as outrageous as before, I want to know why did they choose Betty? And why did they choose you? Nevermind, don’t rush to answer, they’ve returned. Let’s see the people behind you."

We could faintly hear from the basement the sound of the entrance door opening and closing. Soon, several people came in, including Mackervillain and five others. They one by one found the entrance to the basement and jumped in. Astonishingly, two severed heads dangled around Mackervillain’s waist; the neck of the severed heads did not drip fresh blood, the blood at the wound had already coagulated and darkened, as if they were severed a long time ago.

"Two ghouls." Catherine said with a grave face, pointing at the heads hanging from Mackervillain’s waist: "They simply discarded themselves before we could get any information from them. It’s just like those we encountered in the City of Innocence, it was all in vain."

"It’s not entirely in vain, we still have Mr. Chester here." Pannis stood up and casually kicked the curled-up Chester: "I didn’t dare to ask anything yet, I worried about repeating the situation we encountered in the Holy City. I thought we’d offer some protection first."

"Alright, I’ll handle it." Vivian walked towards Chester. She saw that Lina’s face was not looking good and curiously asked, "Lina, what’s wrong? Why do you look like this, has Betty already... "

"I’m fine, you will know in a bit." Lina shook her head: "Let’s do the protective handling together, just to be safe."

With a "cracking" sound, Lina kicked Chester’s leg after she got close. A high-ranking professional like her kicked with such strength that a lower-ranking professional like Chester couldn’t bear. His lower leg immediately twisted at a strange angle and he let out a howl of pain. Lina snorted coldly, "Alright, we can start now."

The two girls busied themselves around Chester. Soon, a small Array formed around him, and several vague light shields condensed around him. These two types of protections can withstand most curses from the outside. After doing all this, Lina almost kicked him again, but she was promptly stopped by Catherine. She fumed, "I think it’s enough, you can question him now, Pannis."

"I think, there’s no need for me to ask anymore." Pannis said kindly to the howling Chester, "It seems that you too fear pain. You should confess your entire operation to avoid us all going through trouble, don’t you agree? And look, we have a high-ranking priest here. Regardless of the punishment we inflict on you, we can quickly pull you back from the brink of death. This means that you will have to repeatedly bear various methods of interrogation. Instead of confessing when forced later, why not confess everything now? What do you say?"

"I’ll speak. I’ll tell you everything I know," Chester held onto his broken leg in agony, tears flowing out, "I am in so much pain, cure me, please."

"Smart choice. You are indeed a clever one." Pannis nodded at Lina, and Lina reluctantly let out a Healing Divine Spell, temporarily easing Chester’s pain. (To be continued. If you like this work, please cast a recommendation vote or a monthly ticket at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)