Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

"Then how did you come up with the idea of ​​sending the woman and the child to the mountains?"

The mayor looked matter-of-fact, even a bit proud. "Isn't this simple? If these ghosts and snakes start committing evil, wouldn't it be because they want tribute? If they do, then of course we have to give it. After all, ever since we sent people up the mountain, we haven't seen those things in this town anymore."

With such a face, he deserves to be vomited to death.

"When do you usually send people there?"

"Whatever. Anyway, once we tie the person up on the mountain, we don't have to worry about him. The ghosts will come out and take him away when the time comes."

Shen Qiao narrowed his eyes. "So, you haven't seen the 'ghost' you're talking about take anyone away with your own eyes?"

The mayor didn't know why, but he felt a chill running up his spine. He put his hands into his sleeves and couldn't help but step back into the house. "Yes, yes."

"Every time I go there, there's only scraps of meat and broken ropes left. Everyone in Guluo Mountain knows about this weird place. There haven't been any ferocious beasts in the mountains for at least hundreds of years. So, what if they were eaten by 'ghosts'?"

Shen Qiao sneered at his timid appearance, and with a flick of his wrist, a piece of yellow talisman paper appeared out of thin air in his hand. "Since you are so confident, why don't you..."

Before the mayor could finish his sentence, he saw the talisman paper disappear out of thin air in the blink of an eye. It was as if there was an extra obstruction on his forehead, which made him raise his hand to take it off. However, before his hand touched it, the obstruction disappeared again.

"I'll use you as an experiment today."

As the sentence was completed, the mayor's brittle old arm was bent directly behind his back, and he raised his head and howled in pain.

Several other people in the yard had fainted from vomiting. The mud and water that were vomited out were not real and ordinary things, so they had disappeared completely by now.

Using the manipulation talisman, they made the mayor, who was grimacing in pain, take the lead. After the three of them came out of the door, the two people who were waiting outside had long disappeared.

Judging from the footprints on the ground, these two must have heard the noise and opened the door to see, and were frightened by the scene and ran away first.

The weather, which was about to be sunny just now, suddenly became cloudy again for some reason. The sky above was covered with dark clouds, and it was gray and hazy, as if there was an air of death.

“That’s them!!”

Just then he poked his head out from the alley, and a group of men, women, old and young, armed with weapons, rushed over hurriedly. They looked as if they had met their enemy for eight lifetimes.

"I didn't realize we were so popular." Shen Qiao joked.

Wang You gave her a calm look, ignored the residents who came to block the road, and walked ahead to clear the way.

Putting aside his identity as the "Lord of the Underworld", his current power of the seventh level of the Great Perfection of the Desolate Realm is no joke.

At this level, no special moves are needed. Just a gust of wind is enough to clear a path through the crowd that is surrounding here in three layers.

Shen Qiao looked at the people who were watching them with eager eyes and curled his lips into a smile. In a gentle voice with an irresistible tone, he ordered: "Every one of you present here now, go home and pack your things. In one hour, turn yourself in to the nearest government office."

The hypnotic words reached everyone's ears, and the residents who were originally excited all of a sudden stopped talking. They quickly found their things like machines, turned around and left, each returning home.

"Then... can you tell me why you didn't do it?" Shen Qiao looked at the woman who had been waiting in front, away from the crowd.

The woman had taken off her mask, had a bull-horn knife on her waist, and a bag on her shoulder. She looked so fully armed, as if she had already expected that the two men would not be caught by these residents.

"I can see you're not mortal." The woman clutched a cattail in her hand, her voice a little unsure. "Are you going to take him up the mountain? I want to go with you."

Shen Qiao looked at her for a moment, and finally said, "If you are going to look for your daughter, there is no need to waste your energy."

The obvious hint made the woman move her throat, but she must have been mentally prepared, so she just raised her hand and wiped her eyes with the sleeve of her thick cotton coat.

"I know. I should have expected it."

"She didn't die on this mountain." Shen Qiao continued, "In fact, you had a chance to save her three years ago."

The woman was stunned. "What?"

Shen Qiao frowned as he looked at her red eyes, but didn't say anything else.

Wang You simply ignored her and walked past her.

"Hey..." She wanted to stop Rang, but she was afraid of him, so she could only turn to look at Shen Qiao.

"What do you mean by that? She was clearly sold ten years ago..."

"How many people have you sold over the years?" Shen Qiao asked, "Have you ever thought about what your daughter would look like now?"

The woman was completely stunned by the question, and when she came to her senses, Shen Qiao had already passed by her.

Her mind suddenly became clear.

Three years ago... Three years ago...

She covered her face, and a heavily made-up face emerged in her memory.

The girl with her chopped off limbs placed in a vase... the disheveled girl smiling at her...

"Where did you get this? Why is it in a bottle?"

"Oh, I picked her up on the road. She was almost starving to death. The mayor saw that she looked good, so he gave her a piece of dry biscuit and brought her back."

"But she disobeyed and even bit the mayor's hand. The mayor got angry and chopped off her hands and feet, leaving only her body. He stuffed it into a vase and soaked it in potion. I heard this kind of thing is selling well recently, but it won't last long. Anyway, we'll try it for something new."

"The handover will be tonight, you go and deliver it."

The desperate memories ended here. The woman felt a heart-wrenching pain. She sat down with her hands covering her heart, and her tears fell on the snow.

She came here in search of her daughter, and stayed here after going through untold hardships. She became a part of this unscrupulous business against her conscience.

After doing things against her will for nearly ten years, she became more and more skilled at it, but she never expected that what she had been looking for would end up being sold by her own hands.

She opened her mouth in pain, but no sound came out of her throat. She scratched herself fiercely as if she was in extreme pain.

If she could have stayed away from her gambling husband earlier, if she could have made up her mind to leave with her daughter earlier.

Everything wouldn't have come to this...

The endless torture and regret drove her completely crazy.

The ox-horn knife at the waist was pulled out by trembling hands, and the blade was pressed against the neck to cut it open, and the snow was instantly stained with blood red...