Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

"At the time, everyone was a little scared, but not as bad as they are now. But who would have thought that after Old Wang died, this city would completely change."

"When these things first appeared, they only moved around at night. But later, for some reason, they came out during the day to catch and eat people."

"We went looking for help from the sect, but we discovered they had left and never returned. The house they were stationed in was completely empty, without a single living soul! That's when we realized something was amiss. People in the city also started moving out. At first, we were able to move a few people, but now it's no longer possible. The slightest noise would attract those creatures. Every household is afraid to leave the house, and even dares not speak loudly."

Shen Qiao understood some key points. "You mean... these things appeared after Wen Zong's men left?"

The man nodded. "Yes. Not long after they left."

Thinking of what the cultivator surnamed Zhang had written in his letter, Shen Qiao asked, "Have there been any unfamiliar faces appearing in the city in recent years? I mean, those who have connections with those sects."

"A new face... Oh! Yes," the man said excitedly. "Some people have been here before. They looked quite elegantly dressed. Before Emperor Wenzong left, they passed by here, apparently heading to the mountains. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it."

"But it's strange. This time I only saw them going up the mountain, but I didn't see them passing by here to leave."

Maybe he knew what was going to happen in the city and took a detour, or maybe he stayed in the mountains for some reason.

Shen Qiao had a guess in his mind, so he continued to ask, "How many of these things are there in the city?"

"This... I don't know either, but there must be more than one! Before, the people in the city spontaneously organized a cleaning team to look for it, and killed two or three, but they could not kill them all. This thing is also very cunning and can follow the scent of the people who killed it. Lao Chen, who lives next door to us, is from the cleaning team, so... Alas." Having said this, the man sighed again.

"So, I just killed that thing too. How dare you invite us to your house?"

The man chuckled innocently. "Don't you think you're ordinary people? I saw you just now when you came out of the yard! Plus, I can't just ignore Old Chen's kids, so I thought of calling you all over to explain the situation."

After saying that, he seemed to get nervous again, "Will you two... take care of it?"

"Of course." Shen Qiao gave a direct affirmative answer. "It just so happens that we still need to go to the mountain to take a look."

"That's great!" The man was completely relieved. He looked at the two of them firmly and said, "If you need any cooperation, just tell me! I will give you my full cooperation!"

Shen Qiao looked towards the inner room and felt a sense of unease.

"We'll find a way to clear out these things in the city, but there might be more noise tonight. You two should stay home and protect the children."

The man's eyes reddened, "Oh, okay."

I have almost figured out the situation, and it's almost evening now, so it's a good time to go out.

Shen Qiao was about to turn around and leave when she opened the door. The little boy ran out from the inner room again, holding the light ball Shen Qiao had given him. "Sister."

Shen Qiao paused for a moment and smiled at him, "Be good and listen to me."

The boy had just stopped crying and nodded vigorously after hearing this, "Yeah!"

After leaving this family, Wang You glanced at her and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Don't they like the smell of blood?" Shen Qiao took out a small bottle of red liquid from the storage bag and shook it.

"It just so happens that the replacement plasma I played with Senior Sister Shang earlier can be used."

This thing is not real human blood, but it tastes very similar to human blood. It was originally made as bait, but I didn't expect it to come in handy here.

Wang You looked at her for a moment, chuckled and shook his head.

Shen Qiao chose the location at the city gate, where the space was spacious and even if he took action, it would not affect the residents of the city.

Deploy the formation and prepare.

By three quarters past ten, dark shadows had begun to appear in the streets and alleys of the city. However, they did not stay in the city for too long tonight as they were attracted out by a very rich smell of blood.

Outside the city, Shen Qiao had already been waiting with a sword in his hand. When the first thing rushed out, Shen Qiao jumped down from the city gate and pierced the thing's head with a sword.

After this thing died, just like the one it had killed before, a white mist-like smoke began to emerge from its head. This thing was like some kind of stimulant, and then it attracted five or six similar monsters in a row.

Fortunately, although these things look huge and scary, they can be killed by chopping off their heads.

But the number of people coming still surprised Shen Qiao.

From the hour of Xu to the hour of Zi, nearly six hours had passed. The monsters she had killed were piled up into a small mountain. According to Wang You's count, there were at least more than twenty of them.

More than twenty...If this number appeared at the same time, it would be impossible for everyone in the city to not know about it.

Unless it was placed in the city a long time ago.

Shen Qiao thought of those people who were evacuated in advance by Emperor Wenzong, and that Taoist friend Zhang.

It seems necessary to go and take a look at this deserted garrison.

The two waited outside the city gate for a whole night, and nothing came out after the second half of the night. In order to clean it up thoroughly, Wang You accompanied Shen Qiao back to the city and went to the government office that Emperor Wenzong had originally set up in the city.

The people here seemed to have left in a hurry, and there looked like many things inside that had not been packed up yet.

There was nothing to see in the front hall, so the two went straight to the backyard.

As the door to the backyard opened, a cold wind blew in her face. She couldn't help but raise her hand and wave it away. After seeing what was happening in front of her, she couldn't help but swear.

The yard was covered with blood splatter and many pieces of meat. Judging from the blood-stained scraps of cloth, this group of people were Wen Zong's monks.

"No wonder you left in such a hurry. Did something happen?"

She walked in and looked around. There seemed to be a formation set up in the yard to prevent the smell from spreading out. The corpses had already suffocated and smelled bad.

Wang You cast his gaze on the corpses, "They succeeded."

"what?"

Shen Qiao frowned, then went to check and found that the cultivators who died here were at least above the Tengyun Realm.

"The bodies that died here were merely torn apart, not eaten. It doesn't look like they simply intended to kill them. Or perhaps these people were deliberately cultivating their bloodlust."

Wang You frowned, "This is the first experimental site where they cultivated that ghost monster."