Chapter 144. Let's Play Gwent

"You are crazy."

Henrik rubbed his numb shoulders. Just now he dodged Roger's first kick, but he didn't escape the back punch.

"How did you investigate the information? Even what kind of man that Veronica likes is wrong!"

"She likes older men, preferably with a beard, she told me that herself, and that's what she chose afterwards."

"What?!"

Henrik's expression was like a money fan who knew he had won the lottery, but found out that he had lost the lottery ticket.

"There is such a good thing?"

He looked distraught.

Roger briefly recounted what had happened.

"That Veronica was weird, she only told me one address and the rest was just repeating."

Henrik glanced at Hathaway.

"Don't worry, what she said about eating may not be literal, it may contain other meanings."

"Get in the car, let's go to the villa area on Sapphire Street!"

On the way to the villa area, Henrik made several consecutive phone calls.

"The villa there does belong to Veronica. There is no one in the house now. I have asked someone to temporarily shut down the security system inside. Let's be careful and just go inside."

Due to the frequent execution of missions, Henrik has dealt with many government departments, pulling the tiger skin of the Hunter's Guild, and many things are very convenient to do.

It was already 10 o'clock in the evening, everyone bought something casually, ate in the car, and then entered the villa area on Sapphire Street.

There were documents to open the way, and the security personnel near the villa area did not stop them.

Sapphire Street is considered to be a relatively prosperous area in the entire city of Bordeaux. Many years ago, this was the place where nobles lived together.

With the subsequent equalization of human rights, although the aristocratic class gradually disappeared, the land passed down from generation to generation has become more and more valuable.

Up to now, it is no longer a simple lot that can be bought with money.

The villa has three floors, with a total area of ​​nearly 500 square meters. In addition, there is an underground garage and winery. There is an open-air swimming pool near the lawn outside the door.

After going out and running along the path for a few steps, there is an open lake area. The entire villa area is built along the lake, and can considered the best location.

Although the area is not huge, but the decoration is luxurious, coupled with Sapphire Street where every inch of land is expensive, the market value is far beyond imagination.

Although the villa is luxurious, the three of them didn't come here for vacation. After entering the house, they searched quickly one by one.

Roger focused and activated the hunter vision. He started from the wine cellar and did not miss a single corner.

From the ground floor to the rooftop.

He didn't withdraw from Hunter Vision until the brain fainted at the end, at which time the other two also ended their investigation.

"Did you find anything?"

The two shook their heads at the same time.

"Let me try to do a divination."

Hathaway suggested.

Henrik thought for a while and agreed.

Normally, divination in this kind of place would be greatly disturbed, and the result of divination might also be misleading, but right now, the three of them have no better way.

Hathaway washed her hands and face, and knelt on the floor of the first floor. She took out a black animal skin pad about one square meter from her backpack.

The back of the leather pad is painted with complex patterns, and the front is three horizontal lines.

Gathering her spirit, Hathaway took out a few cards the size of poker cards.

"Ask questions."

She said to Henrik.

The psychic medium is the manipulator of the entire divination process. If you ask questions and do the divination yourself, the result of the divination will be greatly disturbed due to subjective influence.

You may even get the exact opposite conclusion.

Therefore, generally speaking, fortune-tellers cannot perform fortune-telling related to themselves.

"Life and death."

Henrik posed the question.

Hathaway placed a few cards on the upper right corner of the animal skin. She closed her eyes, drew strange lines in the air with her hands, and whispered something in her mouth.

Immediately after she grabbed it with both hands, the card originally placed in the upper right corner slowly floated up, and then landed on the first horizontal line drawn on the animal skin.

Hathaway kept her eyes closed throughout the whole process, but Roger could clearly see a dagger slowly appearing on the blank card on the horizontal line.

Henrik's expression became a little dignified.

Obviously, the omen represented by the dagger is by no means a good thing.

This was followed by a second card, which landed on the second horizontal line.

Hathaway's thumb was bent and the index finger was straightened. The tiger's jaws of both hands were crossed, and the remaining three fingers were naturally bent. Then, both hands quickly rotated around the tiger's jaws as the center.

A winged monster appeared on the second card.

This time, Henrik's face became even uglier.

At this moment, the third card landed on the third horizontal line,

Henrik couldn't help moving forward, and his breathing became even involuntarily, as if he was afraid of disturbing Hathaway.

The pattern on the third card gradually emerged, an ordinary house, and a looming face could be seen on the window of the house.

At first glance, the face is somewhat familiar.

Immediately afterward, the colors on the picture became vivid, and in the upper left corner of the entire card, a yellow-orange sun emerged from behind the clouds.

Seeing this card take shape, Henrik couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, and at the same time Hathaway opened her eyes wearily.

She immediately lowered her head to check the three cards on the animal skin, and a relieved smile appeared on her face.

The only one who was a bit confused during the whole process was Roger. He looked at it carefully several times, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Hathaway's divination process was very similar to the Gwent card he played in the game.

The same three lines are distributed.

Melee, ranged and weather.

"Can Gwent cards still be used for divination in this world?"

Hathaway's divination method is obviously very backward, and requires a lot of energy. There is no ready-made card library, and the formation of each pattern requires her to communicate with the spirits in the void.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for her to show a tired expression just after a divination.

Roger couldn't help rubbing his chin and thinking, if the hut evolved to a certain level, the Gwent cards could really be used for divination.

From then on, before every battle, he could say the last sentence openly: "Let's play Gwent Card!"

Look, it can predict bad luck and relax your mind. The Gwent card will probably become the standard equipment for all witchers in the future!

"Is there no one who can explain it to me?"

Roger asked curiously.

"Sorry."

Hathaway smiled, and pulled up a strand of hair that hung down her forehead.

The divination technique of psychics is to communicate with spirits in the void. These spirits are not souls, but more wonderful existences.

Under our guidance, they will form a pattern on a specially made surface, and through interpretation, the answer to the question can be roughly guessed.

"The daggers in the first row are weapons, representing battle and danger, indicating that the mother is in danger now, and what she is facing..."

Hathaway pointed to the second row.

"It's a monster."

"The circumstances of card 3 determine the result."

"Coherently interpreted, it means that although the mother has encountered a battle and is in danger, at least it does not seem to be life-threatening so far."

"That's why we breathed a sigh of relief."

Roger nodded to show his understanding, and then he asked curiously.

"What is this method of divination called?"