Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

"Why don't you speak?"

The fact that my consciousness was able to jump around indicated that there wasn't a major problem. After waking up, I shouldn't be as sickly as before.

"There's definitely something fishy about the inn. After they find someone, they'll light a red lantern at the door. Then, at 1:00 AM today, they'll send the person to the mayor's house, who will then take them to Guluo Mountain."

Shen Qiao thought for a moment, "Is there something wrong with the mayor? Why did they suddenly think of sending people into the mountains?"

"They say something strange happened in the mountains, and if we don't send people into the mountains, it will affect the whole town."

"Hmm..." Shen Qiao nodded thoughtfully.

If this is true, I'm afraid that not only the mayor and the hotel, but in the worst case scenario, everyone in the town will be accomplices.

Of course, this is just speculation.

"......?" She suddenly tried to feel a cool feeling between her eyebrows, and the originally scorching burning sensation suddenly subsided a lot.

Wang You withdrew his hand, flicked his sleeves and turned around, "That's all I have to ask. You can handle the rest when you wake up."

After saying a few words, Wang You was about to leave her sea of ​​consciousness.

Seeing this, she subconsciously jumped off the vine, but before she could stop him, the person had already left her sea of ​​consciousness.

"Hey..." She scratched the back of her head.

After a long time, he slowly put down his hand and stood there in silence.

Wang You, who had escaped from his sea of ​​consciousness, returned to reality and opened his eyes. He breathed a sigh of relief as the temperature had obviously dropped.

He smoothed the strands of hair on her forehead, and said in a soft voice that only he could hear, "Sorry...next time...I won't do that again."

Shen Qiao has an instinctive reaction that he developed after birth.

If there is something to do, you can wake up on time even in deep sleep.

When she woke up on time, her vision was still dark. She raised her hand and looked at her fingers in a daze.

Can see it.

She felt relieved a little, stretched herself and sat up straight in the chair. When she looked carefully, she found four figures lying in a crooked position in front of her.

"These four are the ones who launched the sneak attack."

The unfamiliar voice made Shen Qiao alert all of a sudden. When he turned around, he found a tall and pretty woman sitting on the other side of the table.

She stared blankly for a moment, then cautiously leaned forward halfway and asked tentatively, "Who is this sister..."

This name was met with a sneer, "Come on, try calling me that again?"

Shen Qiao cleared his throat and touched the tip of his nose guiltily, "Why did you suddenly change into a female appearance?"

"Go join in the fun."

"......ha?"

"This Guluo Mountain is quite interesting. It would be a shame not to go there."

After saying this, Wang You narrowed his eyes slightly and glanced at Shen Qiao, who was still staring at him in a daze, "Do you have any objections?"

Shen Qiao blinked and came back to his senses woodenly, "Ah? Oh! No, not at all."

She reacted very quickly. After regaining her composure, she stood up and walked to the four people lying on the ground, pulling off a mask. Only then did she realize that under the mask was a woman who looked to be in her early thirties at most.

The mask was primarily made of copper and plaster, with two fangs protruding from each cheek, and a pair of curled-up tentacles on the forehead. Blue eyes, red hair, and a purple-black face made it look truly eerie.

"Actually, the first time I saw it, I thought it looked familiar. Looking at it up close... it seems to be a statue imitating the fire rituals of the Qiluo people."

The Qiluo people believe in a deity called "Palotel." This word, translated from the Chu dialect, means "reborn death, butterfly with fangs," and is the "god of death" in Qiluo mythology.

Unlike ordinary people, the Qiluo people yearn for a beautiful death. They believe that people are born to die, but they must die in a proper and orderly manner. Death without flesh and blood is the most unacceptable to them, so they hate barbaric war.

"hiss......"

It was almost time here, and the four of them showed signs of waking up one after another.

The woman whose mask Shen Qiao had taken off was stunned for a moment when she looked into her eyes, but then she touched her face and found that the mask had been taken off, and she quickly grabbed it, "Give it to me!"

Shen Qiao stood up and said, "I can give it to you, but there are conditions."

The other three also woke up, and when they found that their accomplices had their masks taken off, they couldn't help but try on the masks on their own faces.

"You say...you say! As long as you return the mask to me!"

"First, take us to see your mayor and make the transaction on time. Second, on the way there, I want you to know the situation in your town."

The man gritted his teeth and glanced at the other three. Seeing that they no longer cared about his life or death, he made up his mind and said, "I agree to everything!"

Shen Qiao was also a man of his word, so he returned the mask to him directly. "Then let's go. As you said, the time for handover has arrived."

Seeing this, the four of them had to stand up from the ground quickly, but they looked at each other as if they were hesitant to say something.

Shen Qiao narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at them, obviously seeing their intentions, "Just go like this."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Several people hurried over and opened the door for the two of them, but the leader who had been silent before winked at one of them.

When the six of them went downstairs, the waiter from the store who was waiting for them had fallen asleep. He yawned and stood up from the table as if startled awake by the noise. "Why are you so slow this time? Could it be that you four are...huh? Why didn't you use a rope this time?"

The leader smiled awkwardly, "Oh, this time, the drug was too strong, it's not necessary."

"Is that so..." The shop assistant thought for a moment, then chuckled softly, "Then get busy. Don't miss the opportunity."

"Row."

When I walked out of the hotel, the snow outside had stopped.

The snow on the ground had reached my ankles, and the ground was slippery, so I couldn't walk fast.

Shen Qiao looked at the woman walking in front of him and said, "Tell me about what we agreed on."

The other three didn't seem to be on the woman's side, so they didn't say anything.

The woman seemed to think for a moment before speaking, "We all do this here."

"People on the other side of the mountain often need it, so... so this is not a rare thing."

Shen Qiao hadn't thought of this. "So this means you've kidnapped foreign women more than once or twice?"

"We weren't the first to do it," the woman said in defense.

"Those kidnappers like to trade with us, then use mountain roads to avoid inspections on the official roads and send the kidnappers away... Over time... we also..."

Shen Qiao was silent. She looked back at the woman who had given her a fortune-telling. "You have another daughter."

The woman moved her throat and didn't respond for a long time.

"Did she lose it like that?"