Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

This rhetorical question plunged the two of them into the calm before the storm again.

The atmosphere was about to get out of control.

"There is no difference." Wang You suddenly continued with her words and let go of her face.

Shen Qiao had already prepared the lines to persuade people, but now that Wang You changed his words, she didn't know how to respond.

"It's my business, it has nothing to do with you."

Shen Qiao's mood fluctuated slightly.

She clutched her cloak unconsciously and lowered her eyelashes.

The heavy snow was still falling, but the air around seemed to have warmed up a lot and was not as cold anymore.

She admitted that she underestimated how much she had overdrawn during these times and did not expect it to become like this.

It's a bit miserable.

"This place is not far from Guluo Mountain." After walking for a while, Wang You spoke again.

"Are you still going?"

Guluo Mountain was the original target for the next mission, which was to investigate a missing persons case.

In fact, they were already very close to the desert town they were going to.

This mission sounds easier than the previous ones...

"Go." She agreed without hesitation.

"Since we're here, how can we miss this excitement?"

Wang You was speechless. Shen Qiao didn't hear him speak, so he assumed that he agreed.

Guluo Mountain is located in a special place. Most of the small tribes outside the Chu State are located in the north of the mountain. They were all driven together by the royal family of the Chu State in the past. Now the tribesmen are mixed together. Although they belong to the Chu State, the actual management is decided by their own people.

Apart from these tribal issues, Guluo Mountain is most famous for a rumor.

Legend has it that over five hundred years ago, Wu Qi, the leader of the Guluo tribe, and his remaining thirty-odd men were cornered by the Chu army and faced utter destruction. Suddenly, a thick fog descended from the clear sky in Guluo Mountain, trapping over a thousand Chu cavalrymen in a circle for an hour. By the time the fog cleared, Wu Qi and his men had vanished.

In order to eradicate the crime completely, Chu Guo searched the entire Guluo Mountain dozens of times. It took him more than half a year to turn the entire Guluo Mountain upside down, but he still didn't find a single person.

Unable to find it and feeling worried, Chu Guo came up with a solution: burn the mountain.

The fire burned for nearly a month, and the entire mountain was burned into a scorched mountain, but the group of people still did not appear.

Seeing that they really couldn't find the people and there was no other tactic, they announced to the public that the thirty or so people had died in the mountains. The Chu State later withdrew its troops and the matter was dropped.

But there is also a saying that Wu Qi used some magic to hide from the army of Chu State, and is now recuperating in the mountains, waiting to come out again one day to start a bloody storm.

Although this last statement sounds a bit magical, it is not made up out of thin air.

"Someone passed by the foot of the mountain at night and saw soldiers wearing the clothes of the Qiluo tribe leading a group of people up the mountain. Later, people from the nearby government office ambushed and tried to follow them, but they disappeared out of thin air before they were halfway through following them." Wang You added the content of the task to her.

"According to the soldiers who were tracking us, most of those taken into the mountains were young women and children, who fit the profile of missing persons."

Shen Qiao concluded, "So what the quest poster is saying is... these ghosts from the Qiluo tribe have kidnapped living people?"

Wang You: "Yeah. Because of this feature, this matter is on the Baiyi list."

Shen Qiao lowered his head and thought about his own things. After a moment, he spoke again, "Where are we now?"

"The nearest town to Guluo Mountain. It's also where the last missing woman disappeared."

She remembered this one. The mission stated that the woman had originally come out for an autumn outing with her family. She only stayed in a hotel in the town for one night, and disappeared from the room the next day for no apparent reason.

call--

Another gust of cold wind blew over, making Shen Qiao's nose itchy and he couldn't help but sneeze.

She rubbed her nose and said, "Let's go to the hotel too."

This physique is really not even comparable to that of an ordinary person.

Wang You lowered his eyes to look at her, raised his hand and touched her forehead.

As expected, it caught fire.

"Ah."

The snow fell heavier and heavier, and in just half an afternoon a thick layer had accumulated on the ground.

It gets dark early at this time of year. The clerk at the store door stood there with his neck hunched, waiting for a while. He seemed to think that no one would come, and was about to turn around and go back into the store to keep warm. However, with one leg buried in the door, he was attracted out by the sound of horses' hooves, neither hurried nor slow.

He followed the faint light and saw a man wearing a black veiled hat riding a black horse walking towards him from near to far.

The sight of a dark figure emerging from the darkness frightened the boy, who was only about ten years old, so much so that he stood still. When he came to his senses again, the figure was already in front of him.

The man suddenly got off his horse, threw the reins to him, and held a person wrapped tightly in a cloak in his arms.

The man took the tossed thing with a bit of embarrassment, and before he could understand what was going on, he heard a clear female voice from under the veil.

"Stay in the hotel, one room."

When the shop assistant heard the movement of living people, he regained his composure and said, "Okay, okay, I'll make arrangements for you two right away. Please wait a moment!"

As he spoke, he hurriedly called out to the inn to ask someone to serve him, and then he took the horse to the stable outside the inn and tied it up.

"A total of one mid-grade spirit stone, is there anything else you two need?"

The guy who came out from behind looked at the newcomer with a big smile on his face, and at the same time pretended to glance at the unconscious person in his arms.

"No need for anything."

Wang You threw down a spirit stone, took the key to the room, and turned around to walk upstairs with the person in his arms.

As she turned around, a gust of wind blew in from outside the door, slightly lifting the veil of the hat.

The guy just took a look and couldn't help but move his throat and breathe hard, and immediately winked at his companion who had been hesitating at the door and had not entered.

The man outside the door immediately received the signal, took out a box of matches from his pocket, stepped on the stone pier at the door and lit up a string of red lanterns hanging outside the store as decoration.

Wang You, who had already gone upstairs, took the confused person into the house and closed the door. The candle in the house automatically lit up, and the warm light illuminated the originally dark room, adding a lot of warmth.

After putting the person on the bed, he stood guard by his side.

He had given the person medicine in advance, and the fever now was actually a self-healing process, and it would be fine once the fever was over.

But before that, he couldn't let her do whatever she wanted.

He leaned against the bed and waited for a while, and only when the candle was half burned out did he wave his sleeve to put out the light.

The bait is ready, just waiting for someone to take the bait.