Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

The snow in the sky fluttered down again.

As he walked out of the town, Shen Qiao unconsciously pulled up his collar to cover his mouth and nose.

The weather today is not much better than yesterday. The chilly wind makes the leaves around us sway.

She didn't feel too cold, but perhaps because she hadn't fully recovered, she felt uncomfortable all over and wasn't as agile as before.

"Ayawn——"

Shen Qiao couldn't help but sneeze.

She rubbed her nose and said in a muffled voice. She couldn't help but sigh and looked at the mayor who was leading the way. "How long will it take?"

The mayor, who was forced to walk and lead the way, had no idea how many times he had fallen. But no matter how painful it was, the talisman would allow him to get up quickly, and now he has a bruised face and nose.

"It's in the woods ahead..." The voice sounded reluctant, as if he had just knocked out a tooth and was now speaking with a lisp and unclear pronunciation.

After leaving the town, the mayor did not lead them along the main road, but instead circled halfway south along the town's border and found another hidden path. Although it was a bit remote, the road was relatively flat, but it was slippery because of the snow.

After entering the mountain, she tried to sense something and did detect a few wandering souls with some resentment, but she did not find any higher-level ghosts.

"You said before that there are no ferocious beasts in Guluo Mountain? Is that true?" Shen Qiao couldn't help but doubt.

"Yes, I've lived here for many years and I've never heard of anyone being attacked by a beast."

The man with two missing teeth spoke with a slurred voice, and even his accent seemed to have become sharper.

But... change of accent?

"How old are you?"

"I am ninety-seven years old this year."

Sure enough there is a problem.

Shen Qiao took a deep breath and looked at Wang You.

The two looked at each other, and the latter raised his hand and made a pulling motion backwards.

The mayor, who was walking peacefully, suddenly stopped and his face changed. His facial features instantly became wrinkled, as if he was experiencing something very painful but could not express it.

This lasted for about three or four seconds, and then a misty human-shaped gas separated from the mayor and walked in front, still imitating the mayor's walking posture as if there was no change.

It is a low-level spirit - a "scholar spirit".

Shen Qiao circulated the spiritual power in his hands, but it did not prevent him from asking questions to distract the monster's attention.

"Are you a boy or a girl?"

This thing didn't realize that it had been exposed, and was still answering Shen Qiao's questions in a serious manner, "Well, of course it's a man."

"what's your name?"

This smart scholar suddenly started to hesitate.

This thing has imitated so many things that it easily forgets who it originally was, so just asking it what its name is can temporarily freeze it.

While it was unable to react, Shen Qiao threw out a large net condensed from spiritual power, covering the entire human-shaped white mist under the net.

"Hey! What are you doing? Let me go!" This time the voice became a woman's voice again.

"Imitative spirits" are the lowest type of spirits, but they feed on the flesh and blood of living things, so they have evolved such a skill in the process of evolution: they will remember every living person or living thing they come into contact with, and then form their own storage library to accumulate them, and imitate them at any time according to the situation.

Because they have the ability to change their shape, and the gestures and intonations they have learned in their daily lives, if the environment is right, they will hardly be exposed.

Therefore, the "ghost outside the window" that the people in the town had seen before was caused by them.

The first time these things probably just went to the town to look for living people to eat, but the reason why these things are low-level is that although they look like gaseous things, they actually have "substances", so any wooden door can withstand them.

Plus, they don't come out during the day, so I went to the nearby town for a few nights but couldn't find any suitable living people.

Originally, they would leave on their own when they couldn't find anything to eat, but the mayor was too smart and rushed to give them living people to eat.

The scholar in front of us is about to evolve because he has eaten too much flesh and blood of living people!

"receive."

Shen Qiao temporarily subdued the monster, but did not stop.

These things all gather in groups, and there are at least five or six in a group. This one should have been unable to hold back and ran here first, and the others should still be wandering around the place where the mayor released them.

"Even if you die a thousand times, it won't be enough to atone for your sins." Shen Qiao said coldly.

The mayor, who had regained his self-awareness but still couldn't break free from the control, was so frightened after seeing what had just happened that his legs went limp. If it weren't for the talisman forcing him to keep walking, he would have been kneeling on the ground, unable to get up.

"I'm wrong... I'm guilty... I'm guilty..." He was about to cry, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and begged for mercy, "Please! Please let me go! I won't go! I won't go!!"

"Breaking promises?" Shen Qiao sneered, "This is really not a good habit."

No matter how much the mayor cried and begged for mercy, he had to continue leading the way.

As we walked deeper, the light around us dimmed because of the dead branches.

Because he already knew what he was looking for, Shen Qiao obviously paid special attention to these things when he sensed again.

One...two...seven...

Thirty-six in total.

This number...can't it be a coincidence?

A hint of suspicion arose in her mind. Unfortunately, these spirits had long forgotten their original appearances, and even if they were really the thirty or so Zhaluo people from back then, she couldn't tell them apart.

“Here…here…”

The guide suddenly stopped in front of an open space.

The ground was covered with heavy snow and nothing could be seen underneath, but Shen Qiao could keenly smell a very subtle stench of decay.

Wang You, who was standing next to him, had collected the wandering souls along the way and was now busy enough to take care of this side.

"Fifty-eight." He gave an exact number directly.

"This is the number of people eaten by spirits. How many spirits did you sense?"

"Thirty-six."

Shen Qiao reported the situation on his side, but Wang You shook his head and said, "One is missing."

"Back then, the Zha Luo people were driven into the mountains, including their leader Wuqi, there should have been a total of thirty-seven people."

Are they really those people? So the Zhaluo people who entered the mountains that year are really dead?

"I sense there can't be any problem." She said with certainty, looking at the mayor.

"The problem can only be with him."

The four people were wearing the fire sacrifice masks of the Zhaluo tribe.

Hundreds of years have passed since the extinction of the Zha Luo tribe. Although the mayor looks old, he is not likely to know all the details. In addition, he has lost a scholar...

"Who are you?"