novelonline Chapter 3370: Ice Ghost
Chapter 3370: Ice Ghost
Chapter 3370: Ice Ghost
Mrs. Rhinehart recalled those old times:
"Mrs. Otto is a very kind person. Almost everyone here has been helped by her."
Xia De had just told Miss Larson what he had heard, so Miss Larson also had some guesses about this:
"Didn't Mrs. Otto try to find her husband after he disappeared in the mountains?"
"Of course I have. My father has mentioned this incident, but I was not born when it happened. Many people in the town also went up the mountain to look for it, but unfortunately they didn't find it. In fact, people disappear in the Holy Mountain every year, and most of them never find their bodies."
The woman who was born at the foot of the snow-capped mountains prayed for them quietly:
"So, the knock on the door I heard was actually the missing man coming back?"
Xia De nodded, thinking of another thing that happened on Friday:
"That's very likely the case. You probably don't know that on Friday afternoon, a large number of ice sculptures were unsealed in the snowy mountains. Most of them died. I suspect that some of them were obsessed for a long time, and only after their frozen bodies were completely destroyed did they finally find their way home from the mountains."
Mrs. Reinhart even looked a little sad:
"If that's the case, I feel really sorry for Mrs. Otto. Oh, although I don't know how you want to solve this matter, I know Mrs. Otto's current address. If you want to find her, you can go to the Wheel of Time City to look for her."
It was already past ten in the morning. Seeing Shade and Miss Larson getting up to say goodbye and wanting to continue their investigation, Claire's mother wanted to keep them at home for lunch, but Shade declined:
"Perhaps we'll go into town in a moment, thank you for your kindness."
When sending the two men out of the room, the lady, who was concerned about her daughter's love life, wondered whether she should remind her not to let the man she liked act with younger students.
"Mr. Watson, if the other party is a soul that was once frozen in the castle, then I may have a way to find it."
After returning to the "storage room" next door, Miss Larson said that she did not know how to track the secrets of the soul, but she was good at capturing the remnants of the icy power:
"A soul that has been in a special environment for a long time will definitely be affected by the environment and have some corresponding environmental factors. The chill in the castle left by the Witch Emperor is enough to directly corrode or even change a soul, so the guy knocking on the door is likely to still have that special chill left.
Fortunately, there is still some time before noon, otherwise it would be difficult for me to track that kind of trace again."
She was casting spells behind that door, and from Shade's perspective, she was actually inducing the chill in her body to resonate with the surrounding environment, and then capturing power with similar attributes.
Outwardly, Miss Larson's emerald eyes suddenly turned into an icy blue, and the temperature around her body dropped slightly.
Xia De reminded with some concern:
"Karina said that she only temporarily balanced the two powers in your body, but did not really solve the problem. If you overuse this power, there may be problems in the future."
"It's okay, Mr. Watson. My teacher has taught me how to control the degree of casting spells over the years."
She said softly, and after a few seconds her tone became more cheerful:
"Found the trace!"
According to the white-haired girl, her eyes could capture the "coldness" left in time and space by the thing knocking on the door, which were traces of icy blue, which were very similar to Shade's [Echo of Blood].
It was of course not in the town during the day, so with Miss Larson leading the way, the two of them headed north along the path in the town and finally stopped in front of the cliffs at the edge of the town.
"It's climbing this rock face and going up into the mountain."
Xia De looked around and saw the girl with white hair hiding in the shadow of a nearby house. After using illusion to hide the two of them, he flew up the rock wall with her.
The witch apprentice did not feel too uncomfortable about being held by Shade's hand and flying. She was excited about this kind of "adventure".
"Hasn't Claire taken you on similar adventures before? Since you've been prospecting for minerals all over the world, you must have encountered some dangers, right?"
"The teacher always told me to protect myself. Although he asked me to do many things, I usually didn't have to do anything."
Since the suspected "ghost" came to the town every night, Shade speculated that it would not hide too far away from the town.
The result was similar to what Xia De had expected. After entering the mountain, the two walked in the cedar forest at the foot of the mountain for less than half an hour before they found a forest path covered with snow in the rugged mountains. Not far along the path, they saw a small cemetery.
"Hmm? When I first came to this town, the priest told me that the local Fatu people usually perform water burials."
He also watched a funeral with the old priest Kane, who was showing him around the town.
"There are actually quite a few outsiders living in Kyle Todd. I think this should be a cemetery for those outsiders."
The white-haired girl spoke in a low voice, as if she was afraid of disturbing the tranquility here.
This cemetery located in the woods at the foot of the mountain is not guarded, and there is only a simple wooden fence erected outside the cemetery to prevent wild animals from breaking in. There are not even any buildings in the cemetery. Each grave is marked with a rough long gray stone, and the tombstone only has the name, date of birth and death, and hometown.
The weather was really good today. The sunlight shone on the snow-covered cemetery. Even Shade subconsciously slowed down his pace, fearing to disturb the sleep of those souls who died in a foreign land.
The two had intended to go here, but when they found the source of the cold, Shade and Miss Larson realized they were wrong. In the southeast corner of the cemetery, shaded by the shadows of the surrounding pine trees, there lay a "corpse" in a shallow pit that had just been dug.
The footsteps of Shad and Miss Larson were very light, but when they approached, the body crawled out of the pit first.
It was a terrifying monster covered in frost, with shrunken flesh beneath the frost, its hands and feet on the ground, its head swollen, and its yellow teeth protruding outward. A chill seeped out from its body, and of course, the chill also contained the breath of death.
"Ghoul?"
Xia De recognized this most classic undead creature at a glance, but then frowned slightly:
"It looks like a mutated zombie that has changed due to the environment, and it seems to be very intelligent."
What was very smart about it was that after it saw the two humans, it turned around, jumped out of the cemetery fence and fled into the cedar forest, instead of directly attacking the living like other undead creatures.
Shad and Miss Larson hurried to chase after him, and Shad did not forget to throw the "Moonlight Ring" forward to directly trap the opponent.
The "Moonlight Ring" itself has a certain tracking ability, but just when it was about to hit the fleeing corpse, the corpse's body suddenly turned into a white mist mixed with snowflakes and accelerated towards the higher part of the snow-capped mountain.
"Anything can happen here."
He thought about it and looked at the girl next to him. The girl knew what Xia De meant:
"It's okay, please take me with you."
"Well."
Shade put one hand around her waist and the other around her legs from the knees, picked up the light-weight Miss Larson, and then activated the magic "Forest Trail" and continued to chase after her.
The frost was flying very fast, but with Miss Larson's guidance, Lushad was not worried about losing it. When the people chasing left the cedar forest and entered the snow slope area, the frost in front suddenly turned back into the frost-covered corpse ghost.
It turned around, opened its mouth, and sprayed an ice cone at Shade who was chasing it rapidly.
This attack was a little too funny. Miss Larson just waved her hand and shattered the ice cone with fire. Then the corpse ghost gathered all its strength and sprayed out frost with the breath of death, but it was immediately dispelled by the warm yellow light ball summoned by Miss Larson.
However, after the frost dissipated, the corpse ghost disappeared. The snow on the slope was very thick, and it was obvious that it was hiding beneath the snow.
The white-haired girl held by Xia De carefully searched for the other party's traces with her ice-blue eyes, but before she could remind him, the corpse ghost suddenly jumped out from under Xia De's feet, and then -
"Time stands still!"
The ghoul fell straight onto the snow, and Shade stepped back and put Miss Larson down. After the white-haired girl fixed her skirt, she saw Shade squatting beside the motionless ghoul and poked it:
"Very interesting, this is not a normal ghoul. Most of its soul is still in its body, so it shows a certain amount of intelligence. I think it can only regain some sanity at night and run to the town to knock on doors, but the sanity it regains is probably not enough."
A corner of the life ring appeared behind Shade, and the [True Death] spirit rune glowed as he released the magic of "Guided Death". Then, some memories of the strange soul successfully appeared in Shade's mind.
Xia De saw the happy man and the happy woman meeting each other on the street at night with smiles on their faces, saw them board the ship, saw them move into their new home on the island, saw the man lost in the snow-capped mountains, saw him staring at the direction of home through the ice, and finally saw the hidden canyon and the paleness.
"Although it was a ghoul rather than a soul that was knocking on the door, at least we guessed the origin correctly - it was indeed an ice sculpture that once stood in the castle, but it was more than fifty years old, so it was actually dead before the thaw on Friday."
Xia De stood up and said regretfully that although the soul and the body were still there, it was definitely impossible to bring the dead back to life. The most appropriate way to deal with it now was to burn the body and then send the soul to the "end". Those who should leave should not be left behind.