Chapter 3324

Mrs. Reinhardt recalled those old things:

"Mrs. Otto was a very good person. Almost everyone here has been helped by her."

Xia De had already told Miss Larson the content he heard, so Miss Larson also had a certain guess about this:

"Since Mrs. Otto's husband disappeared in the mountain, did she try to find him later?"

"Of course she looked for him. My father also mentioned this matter, but I wasn't born yet when the incident happened. Many people in the town also went up the mountain to look for him together, but unfortunately, they didn't find him. In fact, people go missing on the Holy Mountain every year, and most people cannot find their bodies."

The woman born at the foot of the snow mountain prayed for them in a low voice:

"So, is the knocking sound I heard actually the man who went missing coming back?"

Xia De nodded, thinking of another thing on Friday:

"It is very likely. You probably don't know that on Friday afternoon, a large batch of... ice sculptures were unsealed in the snow mountain. Most of them died. I suspect that some people's obsession did not dissipate for a long time, and only after the frozen body was completely destroyed could they finally find their way home from the mountain."

Mrs. Reinhardt even felt a bit sad:

"If this is the case, I really feel 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 City of Time to look for her."

It was already past ten o'clock in the morning. Seeing Xia De and Miss Larson get up to say goodbye and want to continue the investigation, Claire's mother even wanted to keep the two for lunch, but was declined by Xia De:

"Maybe we will go into the city in a while, thank you for your kindness."

And when sending the two out of the door, the Mrs. who was concerned about her daughter's emotional life thought about whether she should remind her not to let the man she liked act with a younger student.

"Mr. Watson, if the other party is a soul that was once frozen in the castle, then maybe I have a way to find it."

After returning to the "storage room" next door, Miss Larson said. She doesn't have the secret method to track souls, but she is good at capturing the remnants of those cold ice powers:

"A soul that has been in a special environment for a long time will definitely be affected by the environment and then possess some corresponding environmental elements. The chill in that castle left by the Witch Emperor is enough to directly erode or even change a soul, so that guy who knocks on the door probably still retains that special chill.

Fortunately, there is still a period of time before noon, otherwise it would be very difficult for me to track that kind of trace again."

She performed spellcasting behind that door, and in Xia De's view, she was actually resonating with the chill in her body with the surrounding environment by inducing the chill in her body, and then capturing the power of similar attributes.

Expressed externally, it is that Miss Larson's emerald eyes suddenly turned ice blue, and the temperature around her body also dropped slightly.

Xia De reminded with some worry:

"Miss Jia Lin Na said that she only temporarily balanced the two forces in your body, and did not really solve the problem. If you use this power excessively, there may be problems later."

"It doesn't matter, Mr. Watson. Teacher taught me how to control the degree of spellcasting over the years."

She said softly, paused for a few seconds, and there was a bit more joy in her tone:

"Found the trace!"

According to the white-haired girl, her eyes can capture the "chill" left by the thing that knocks on the door in time and space, which is pieces of ice-blue traces, which is very similar to Xia De's 【Echo of Blood】.

Of course, it is not in the town during the day. Therefore, led by Miss Larson, the two walked all the way north along the small road in the town, and finally stopped in front of the cliff at the edge of the town.

"It climbed this cliff and went into the mountain."

Xia De looked left and right, hid in the shadow of a nearby house with the white-haired girl, and after hiding the two with illusion magic, he flew up the cliff with her.

For being held by Xia De and flying, Miss Larson didn't have much discomfort, and she was excited because of such an "adventure".

"Did Claire not take you on similar adventures before? Since you have been exploring mines all over the world, you shouldn't have encountered danger, right?"

"Teacher always tells me to protect myself. Although many things are done with me, I usually don't need to do it myself."

Since the suspected "ghost" knocks on the door in the town every night, Xia De guessed that it would not hide in a place too far from the town.

The result was about the same as Xia De thought. After entering the mountain, the two walked in the cedar forest at the foot of the mountain for less than half an hour and found a small forest path covered by snow in the rugged mountain area. After walking not far along the path, they saw a cemetery that was not large in area.

"Hmm? When I first came to this small town, the priest told me that the local Fatu people usually use water burial."

At that time, he also watched a funeral on the sidelines with Old Priest Cain who took him to visit the small town.

"Kyle-Todd Town actually lives with quite a few outsiders. I think this should be a cemetery prepared for those outsiders."

The white-haired girl said in a low voice, as if afraid of disturbing the tranquility here.

This cemetery located in the forest at the foot of the mountain has no guards, and the outer periphery of the cemetery is just simple wooden fences to prevent the intrusion of wild animals. There are not even any buildings in the cemetery. Each grave is made of rough long gray stones as tombstones, and there are only names, birth and death dates, and hometowns on the tombstones.

The weather today is really good. The daylight shines on the snow-covered cemetery, and even Xia De subconsciously slowed down his footsteps, worrying about disturbing the peaceful sleep of these dead souls who died in a foreign land.

The destination of the two is here, but they really found the source of the chill, and Xia De and Miss Larson discovered that they were both wrong. In the southeast corner of the cemetery, in a shallow pit that seemed to have just been dug and was covered by the shadows of the surrounding pine trees, lay a "corpse".

Xia De and Miss Larson's footsteps were very light, but when they approached, the corpse crawled out of the pit first.

It was a terrible monster covered with frost, with shriveled flesh under the frost, hands and feet on the ground, a swollen head, and turned-out yellow teeth. The chilling cold seeped out from its body, and of course, there was no lack of the breath belonging to death in this cold.

"Ghoul?"

Xia De recognized this most classic undead creature at a glance, but then frowned slightly:

"It looks like a mutated ghoul caused by the environment, and it seems to be very smart."

The intelligence was shown in that after it saw two humans, it turned around and jumped out of the cemetery fence and escaped into the cedar forest, unlike ordinary undead creatures that attacked living people directly.

Xia De and Miss Larson hurriedly went to chase, and Xia De didn't forget to throw out a "Moonlight Ring" forward, wanting to trap the other party directly.

The "Moonlight Ring" itself has a certain tracking ability, but just as it was about to hit the escaping ghoul, the ghoul's body turned into a white mist mixed with snowflakes and accelerated towards the higher part of the snow mountain.

"Anything can happen here."

He thought in his heart and looked at the girl on the side. The latter knew what Xia De meant:

"It doesn't matter, please be sure to take me."

"That's good."

Xia De held Miss Larson's waist with one hand and her leg from the knee with the other, and held Miss Larson, who was very light, up. After opening the miracle "Forest Path", he continued to chase.

That frost mist flew very fast, but with Miss Larson leading the way, Xia De was not worried about losing it. When the people chasing left the cedar forest and entered the snow slope area, the frost mist in front suddenly turned back into the ghoul covered with frost.

It turned around and opened its mouth, spraying an ice cone at Xia De who was chasing rapidly.

This attack was a bit too funny. Miss Larson just waved her hand and shattered the ice cone with fire. Then the ghoul gathered all its strength and sprayed frost mist with the breath of death, but it was immediately dispelled by the warm yellow light ball summoned by Miss Larson.

It's just that after the frost mist dissipated, the ghoul disappeared, and the snow on the snow slope was very thick. It was obviously hiding under the snow layer.

The white-haired girl held by Xia De searched for the other party's trace carefully with her ice-blue eyes, but before she reminded him, the ghoul suddenly rushed out from under Xia De's feet, and then—

"Time Stop!"

The ghoul fell straight onto the snow surface. Xia De took a step back and put Miss Larson down. After the white-haired girl tidied up her skirt, she saw Xia De poking the ghoul that was motionless:

"Very interesting, this is not a normal ghoul. Most of its soul is still in the body, so it shows a certain intelligence. I think it can probably only restore some sanity at night and run to the town to knock on the door, but the restored sanity should not be enough."

A corner of the life ring appeared behind Xia De. While the 【Real Death】 spirit rune bloomed with spiritual light, he released the miracle "Guide Death". So the fragments of the strange soul's memory successfully appeared in Xia De's mind.

Xia De saw a happy man and a happy woman meeting on the street at night with smiles, saw them boarding a ship, saw them moving into a new home on the island, saw the man getting lost in the snow mountain, saw him staring at the direction of home in the solid ice, and finally saw a hidden canyon and a piece of pale white.

"Although the one knocking on the door is a ghoul, not a soul, at least we guessed the origin correctly—it was indeed an ice sculpture that once stood in the castle, but it exceeded fifty years, so it actually died long before it thawed on Friday."

Xia De stood up and said regretfully. Although the soul and body were still there, resurrection was definitely impossible. The most appropriate way to deal with it now is to burn the body and then send the soul to the "finish line". What should go should not stay.

(End of chapter)