Why is it so scary?

It is normal for people in the secret realm to send messages to each other, and it seems normal to send messages to people outside the secret realm, but in fact only people in the secret realm can see it, and people outside the secret realm cannot receive it at all.

He distracted himself by answering questions for Qin Baoyao and the others.

When several people heard this, they looked at each other in surprise. How could such a situation exist?

Can......

Qin Baoyao looked at her voice stone and saw that her brother's messages were still coming in. She felt something was wrong.

"I'm still receiving news about my brother." Qin Baoyao held it up for others to see.

"Really!" Jiang Qing was amazed. "Can I still send messages to others?"

"I'll try." Qin Baoyao said, and sent messages to her parents and Yu Ying respectively. Later, she only received a reply from her parents, but not from Yu Ying.

"Is there anything special about your voice stone?" Yan Yuan asked. When they were in the small secret realm before, they also met someone who could send messages to those close to him. However, until they left the small secret realm, that person did not explain why he could contact them. He now looked forward to Qin Baoyao helping him solve the mystery.

Qin Baoyao looked at the sound transmission stone in her hand and thought about how her brother had said he had done something special to it when he gave it to her. It was different from ordinary sound transmission stones. "My brother only said that he had done something special to the sound transmission stone, but I don't know what it was specifically."

"Okay, don't worry about it. What should I say now?" Jiang Lan and Jiang Qing were not very interested in anything special. Everyone had their own life-saving trump cards, and they two sisters had them too. There was no need to be curious about others'.

Qin Baoyao looked at them and said, "How about I ask my brother to come over and help?"

"Are you crazy? Senior Brother Qin, a Spiritual Transformation Stage cultivator, is here to help us? Are you still going to complete the mission? What kind of experience is this? If you're going to do this, you might as well just cling to Senior Brother Qin. What mission? What a waste of time!" Yan Yuan reacted strongly when he heard her words. "If you let Senior Brother Qin come, I'll quit the team and not do this mission with you. Otherwise, it won't help my cultivation at all. We sword cultivators are just poor, not cowardly!"

Qin Baoyao was startled by him and jumped behind Shi Yue. She poked her head out to look at Yan Yuan, who was overly responsive. In fact, her hand gently tapped Shi Yue's back. Shi Yue understood and pretended to lecture her: "Junior Sister, we agreed that this was a training for the Foundation Establishment Stage. The mission has just begun, and you're already thinking of asking Senior Brother Qin for help. Is that appropriate? Senior Brother Yan is right. How can this be considered a training? Apologize to Senior Brother Yan quickly."

"Okay, okay, it's my fault. Senior Brother Yan, calm down. I was just making a suggestion. I didn't say that I must ask my brother to help." Qin Baoyao looked like she was listening to Shi Yue's words. She looked at Yan Yuan with her big eyes and apologized.

"It's good that you know you were wrong. When you go out to gain experience, don't always think about relying on others. Otherwise, even if you give more mission rewards in the future, there may not be anyone willing to team up with you. After all, if you rely on others, the mission will not be considered completed and there will be no mission rewards." Yan Yuan also realized that his reaction seemed a bit too big. After hearing Qin Baoyao's apology, he immediately accepted her apology and stared at her seriously to make sure she didn't notice anything.

"Alright, alright, Yan Yuan, as your senior brother, you have to be more tolerant. After all, this is also Junior Sister Baoyao's first mission after she established her foundation, so you can't be too demanding." Jiang Lan came out to smooth things over.

Jiang Qing agreed: "That's right, let's first investigate the matter thoroughly and complete the task assigned to us." After that, he looked at Qin Baoyao and said: "Junior Sister Baoyao, you too, don't back down when you encounter difficulties. Senior Brother Qin can't control you forever, right?"

Qin Baoyao nodded obediently to indicate "I understand", thinking to herself, my brother would love to take care of me for the rest of my life!

Under their gaze, she raised the voice stone and showed it to them, proving that she did not call Qin Jun over, but was just chatting with her brother about daily life. She had already told her brother that she had something to deal with and would contact him later. Then, in full view of everyone, she put away the voice stone.

Several people began to discuss the next plan for the investigation mission. After discussing for a while, Qin Baoyao found that they didn't come up with anything. Yan Yuan and the Jiang sisters thought that they should take it slowly, but she and Shi Yue insisted that the faster the better. In the end, no one was convinced by the other, and Qin Baoyao shouted, "I am the captain, listen to me." Only then did they calm down.

Although Yan Yuan and the Jiang sisters seemed to obey the captain's orders, they were actually dissatisfied in every way, even saying, "If I had known you were such a useless and domineering person, I should not have agreed to team up with you for that little mission reward." Qin Baoyao did not feel sad when she heard this, but felt that the matter was more serious than she thought.

"What should we do?" She began to secretly communicate with Shi Yue, "There's something wrong with them."

Shi Yue had never expected that the seemingly simple task would develop out of control: "Let's wait and see."

Then he added, "I can't let you stay with the Jiang sisters. I'm worried."

Qin Baoyao looked at him and said, "Okay, I understand."

Then he got angry and said, "Since none of you guys agree with me, then don't spend my money on accommodation. You can solve your own accommodation problems. Shi Yue and I will have our own room."

After saying this, he looked like he was seeing someone off.

Yan Yuan and his companions never imagined that when they were out on a mission, Qin Baoyao would be so willful as to argue with them about such a thing even though they knew something was wrong with the mission.

Doesn't she understand that the more scattered things are, the more likely something will go wrong?

After Yan Yuan and the Jiang sisters looked at each other, they suddenly realized that Qin Baoyao might not really understand. After all, according to her legend in the sect, who among those who had done missions with her before had not been accommodating to her?

But it’s only been a short while since we started, do we have to give up?

Why be so humble? They were the ones who took the initiative to invite us to form a team. If we hadn't withdrawn after the mission started due to force majeure, it would have been considered a mission failure, which would have affected the subsequent mission rewards. Who would still stay here?

Forget it, since she doesn’t pay for the accommodation, we will pay for it ourselves.

So the three of them shook their heads and prepared to ask for another room. Just as they reached the door, they were stopped: "This information, one copy per person, don't try to be lazy." Qin Baoyao threw the information she got from the City Lord's Mansion to them and said unhappily.

The moment they stepped out of the door, they put away the Golden Feather Mirror, and Shi Yue was responsible for putting the food into the storage ring.

After some tacit cooperation, when those people turned around, Shi Yue also made a gesture as if he was about to leave.

After the three of them went downstairs, Qin Baoyao took out the Golden Wing Mirror again and input more spiritual energy to ensure that the Golden Wing Mirror's copying effect was sufficient to cover two rooms. Then she and Shi Yue each put an invisibility talisman on each other, then grabbed Shi Yue's hand and climbed downstairs through the back window.

When I went downstairs, I realized that everyone else on the street looked strange too.

The moment they went downstairs, the air around them fluctuated slightly, and then people on the street instantly looked towards where they were, which scared her and made her stunned for a moment.

She grabbed Shi Yue's hand and moved closer, feeling panicky: "Oh my God, didn't I put on the invisibility charm? Why are these people still staring at us like that? It looks so creepy!"

When people are nervous, they will make a lot of small movements, so she held Shi Yue's hand, loosening and tightening it, and with her other hand she took out a talisman and stuck it on herself and Shi Yue's hand that she was holding.

Unfortunately, because she couldn't see, her other hand was groping on Shi Yue's arm.

Shi Yue grabbed her hand that was touching his arm with one hand, and held her hand with the other hand, interlocking their fingers and shaking them slightly, telling her not to be afraid, he was there.

Qin Baoyao subconsciously moved closer to him. The two of them held their breath, and waited motionlessly.

After a long while, those people turned their eyes away from them. At this time, she did not dare to act rashly. She just pulled Shi Yue and took a tentative step back. Finding that it did not attract attention, the two of them moved back carefully step by step until they entered a deserted alley next to them.

Even though they were away from the crowd, Qin Baoyao still felt creepy. Originally, the two of them were just holding hands, but in the end, one of her hands was tightly clasped with Shi Yue's fingers, and the other hand was tightly holding Shi Yue's left hand.

Shi Yue felt her fear, and he was trembling a little, and his palms were cold.

He patted the little hand that was hugging his arm soothingly and whispered, "Don't be afraid."

It took a long time for Qin Baoyao to slowly come back to her senses from the terrifying fear.

Since she couldn't see anyone, she had to rely on her sense to get closer and said very carefully: "Shi Yue, have you noticed? Those people don't seem right."

She felt a pat on the back of her hand and heard Shi Yue's confident answer: "Something is wrong. I guess I miscalculated the mission level."

"What should I do then?" The tasks I had done before were all simple and rough, and the worst that could happen was that I would get injured.

This time was different. This was the first time she really wanted to complete the task seriously based on her own abilities, but she encountered this incident.

"Have you informed your senior brother?" Shi Yue asked as he led the person and continued to move.

Qin Baoyao nodded subconsciously, then realized that he couldn't see her either, and continued to answer softly: "Well, I just said that my brother should be on his way here."

"Okay, then let's go to the southwest corner and northwest corner first." Shi Yue led people and turned left and right, heading towards the place where he felt something was wrong when he first entered the city.

"Didn't they say that there is demonic energy in that place? Should we go there?" Qin Baoyao followed his steps completely, and didn't even realize that it was very strange for them, as cultivators, not to even climb over a wall.

After turning an intersection, Shi Yue looked at the pedestrians on the road, then looked at the entrance of another alley. He took out a spirit stone, filled it with spiritual energy, and threw it in the opposite direction of the other alley. The pedestrians on the road looked in the direction of the spirit stone for a moment, and then a few of them walked slowly towards that place.

Qin Baoyao was puzzled and just followed the actions. After they carefully avoided the crowd and walked to the entrance of another alley, she found that those people had returned to their normal state.

How strange!