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"This is impossible!" Lulu screamed, attracting the attention of people around her.

Catherine frowned. Could it be Candice... No, that was impossible. Since she said she was leaving, why would she come back?

Catherine then followed the flow of people, pushing forward without paying attention to the rubbish she had to deal with with strangers.

It was a back alley of a low-rise building. Usually no one came here and it was full of piles of waste and garbage. A child from an unknown family ran here while running around and found a dead body.

The guards had not arrived yet, and Catherine did not care about Daniel clearing the way. She supported herself with her elbows and squeezed forward, finally standing in the front row.

It was a corpse that had been abandoned here for who knows how long. He lay like a broken puppet in a pile of scrap wood. If there had not been some wooden boards above his head that prevented his upper body from being covered with snow, he would probably not have been discovered until the end of the long winter.

There was a huge hole in his chest and his internal organs had disappeared.

"Oh my God, it's old Barry. I just had a drink with him the night before last!" someone in the crowd exclaimed.

Catherine was shocked, but also relieved - it wasn't Candice. A few days ago, Candice was still dealing with them in the woods. Maybe it had never been her.

Apart from initially taking revenge on the townspeople who had captured her mother, she had done nothing else.

"It's the same way of death as I saw before." Others also squeezed in. Bobby only took a few glances at the rough wound and made a conclusion.

The guards finally arrived, dispersed the crowd, and with dark faces quickly cleared the frozen corpse out of the snow. This time, the person was sitting, and his body was frozen at a 90-degree angle, making it very difficult to move. In the end, he was moved onto the cart in a weird lying position.

When passing by Catherine, people stepped back to avoid her. She took a last careful look. The hands of the corpse were frozen behind her back. The blood had made the hands dirty, and they were covered with garbage, wood chips and feathers on the ground.

Catherine's heart skipped a beat.

The bodies were taken away, and the place immediately lost its value for watching the fun. Many people continued to go about their business, while others followed the guards to the church. They wanted to ask the priest for an explanation as to when the Knights of Light would arrive!

Catherine thought about it and walked towards the place where the body was found. The fire post produced various woods and furniture, and most people made a living from it. The alley was full of broken furniture, such as chairs with missing legs, wooden barrels with leaking bottoms, and remnants of various building materials, such as broken tiles, bricks, etc.

She looked up again, then turned around quickly and left.

……

Lilith hated crowds the most, so she simply waited outside the alley. Many other people did the same. Jaina had been observing her new gains with great interest, and was reluctant to let Lilith help her pack them up.

"Is this thing really so rare?" Jaina's guardian Gardner asked curiously. He pointed at Lilith and said, "Isn't Lilith known as a master of planting? Wouldn't it be nice to let her cultivate some?"

"Some plants are difficult to grow artificially, such as the tomb flowers and cobra lilies we found this time." Jaina told the truth, "Tomb flowers can only grow on the bones of people who have been dead for more than ten years. If the bones are buried too deep, they will not grow. And cobra lilies are even rarer. The parts on them..."

Jaina suddenly paused, and Lilith heard the conversation around her stop and looked over.

"It, the upper part of it will turn into snakes in spring, summer and autumn, sucking blood and flesh and feeding the roots...so that it can successfully survive the winter..." Looking at the thriving cobra lily, Jaina suddenly felt something was a little weird.

"Ian—" Catherine walked over quickly and called out to the black-haired boy who had remained silent the entire time, "What did you say you heard that night in the church?"

"The wind..." Ian was confused for a moment, but still answered seriously, "and the fluttering of some birds."

"You'd better tell the truth, Ian." Daniel was very dissatisfied with his simple answer. Although the body had nothing to do with him, who said it must be the same murderer?

However, Catherine nodded and did not continue to question. Instead, she turned to look at Lilith and said, "I heard it too."

"...Huh?!" Lilith was a little confused by Catherine's words.

"It was... before the pajama party." Catherine was a little embarrassed to mention this, and her voice was a little vague. "When you called me, I also heard the sound of wings, right above my eaves."

"What you mean is..." Lilith's nonchalant expression gradually became serious.

"We always thought it was a witch or..." She turned her head to look at Ian, "but the roof of that church is so high. Candice knows nothing about other magic except some mind control spells she has mastered by instinct. How did she hang the body up there when she is so young?"

"It's a bird..." Lilith understood, "It's a very big bird..."

At the same time, she felt a little scared. This bird had come after Catherine, but fortunately Catherine was called away by her, which interrupted its hunting. However, it caused disaster to other people later.

"Oh!" Bobby suddenly realized and overturned his conclusion that the murderer must be a woman. "So the wound was not caused by a small knife. It was probably pecked by a bird's beak! Oh my God!"

"What kind of bird would be like this? Could it be one of those crows that Candice raised?" Lulu was puzzled, thinking of the big crows that always followed them in the woods.

"Klaban is good at reconnaissance, and his other habits are similar to those of ordinary crows." Lilith shook her head to reject this guess, and those birds should have left with Candice, otherwise how could she have the confidence to go on the road alone?

"I do know of a magical creature..." Lilith frowned. She had been distracted in Madam Terra's class and was flipping through the pages. As a human external controller, she had a particularly deep impression of some human-like creatures.

"Harpy... I think that's what it's called." Lilith hesitated. "It has the body, wings, and claws of a vulture, and likes to feed on human organs."

"Ha...ha what?" This name was very difficult to pronounce. Lulu heard it once but still couldn't remember it.

"Harpy, no one usually calls it that. It has a common name. Because it has the head of a human female, bards usually call it—"

"Harpy." Catherine continued Lilith's words.

She had heard her mother mention this kind of thing before. They were cruel by nature, and humans had an unclear understanding of magical creatures. They often mistook these things for witches and blamed the evil deeds they did on witches.

"So are we going to look for it now?" Sean was desperate. Why did he have to work again? He wanted to go home so much...

"It's hard enough to find a witch who can't fly, how do you find one who can fly?"

"Let's look for clues we have now." Catherine was extremely calm. She looked at the tiny down feathers on Bobby's head that had not been cleaned off. "We'll go to where there are the most feathers."

"You are not doubting..." Lulu paused, and then suddenly asked in surprise -

"Eh? Why hasn't Lucas come back yet?"