Yu Quan didn't say anything directly, but instead took out a bottle of water and three disposable paper cups from the storage box in the car and handed them to Mouri Ran.
“Before you get out of the car, each of you drink a little bit. Within half an hour, you'll be able to see things ordinary people can't see.”
“As for whether you can see Miss Misa, it depends on whether her soul is still in her grave.”
In most cases, a person's soul will remain at the place where they died, or possibly where they had a strong obsession in their life.
However,武田美莎's situation was different, she wasn't in the warehouse where she died, nor at the武田家.
“Thank you.” Robert nodded solemnly.
He didn't entirely believe Yu Quan, but he wanted to try anything at this point.
Conan was a little excited, constantly glancing at the bottle of water in Mouri Ran's hand, it looked... pretty much like regular water.
Mouri Ran didn't seem to care, after all, she'd drunk it once before.
……
The closer they got to the lake, the more Yu Quan could sense the increasingly strong energy belonging to the spider spirit.
“Don't get separated later.” Yu Quan stopped the car and turned around to remind Mouri Ran and the other two.
“Spid... spider spirit is here?!” Mouri Ran and Conan trembled, their fear mixed with excitement.
“You can drink the water now.” Yu Quan nodded.
“Whew...” Mouri Ran let out a long breath, directly poured three cups of water for herself, Conan, and Robert, and they all drank it.
Yu Quan, however, got straight out of the car, his gaze fixed on the direction of the lake.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the lake was a lake filled with water, but—
In the eyes of Yu Quan, who had opened his Celestial Eye, it was a dense network of spiderwebs woven into a...“lake.”
In the center of the spiderwebs, stood a figure that looked like a woman in her twenties.
However, this young woman was no ordinary girl.
Although she was very beautiful judging by her face, not inferior to Yoko Okino.
But when you saw her lower body—
Besides her normal human legs, the girl also had eight steel-like spider legs.
The spider legs supported her standing above the lake, giving off an inexplicable sense of holiness...
“Misa——”
Robert, who had gotten out of the car after drinking the water, subconsciously shouted towards the lake, but was stopped by Mouri Ran and Conan.
After all, the creature on the lake was clearly not a normal person.
“Th...this... is the spider spirit? So... so beautiful.” Conan trembled, not just from nervousness, but also a bit of excitement.
Conan didn't expect that the spider spirit, the legendary creature that had harmed people, was not only not disgusting, but actually quite pretty.
“Y...yeah, I didn't think the spider spirit was real.” Mouri Ran swallowed nervously.
“This isn't Miss Misa.” Yu Quan looked at Robert with a sideways glance.
When he first arrived at Spider Ridge, Yu Quan had secretly guessed that the spider spirit might be the local faith of Spider Ridge, combined with the product of the deaths of 武田美莎 and 武田娟代.
However, after seeing this spider spirit, Yu Quan completely overturned his previous guesses.
The existence of this spider spirit was indeed related to faith, but it wasn't the souls of 武田美莎 or 武田娟代.
It was a true physical entity...
However, judging from the spider spirit's appearance, which combined the beautiful features of 武田美莎 and 武田娟代, plus the aura surrounding the spider spirit.
This spider spirit had probably swallowed the souls of 武田美莎 and 武田娟代.
Besides her appearance being a bit similar, in essence, she had nothing to do with those two.
It was a pity, Yu Quan had originally thought that he could gain two more souls on this trip.
“You're right, it's not Misa.” Robert gave up the struggle, his gaze dejected as he looked towards the spider spirit.
Yu Quan no longer paid attention to Mouri Ran and the others, but secretly communicated with the system.
“System, is there a way to subdue the spider spirit?” If he had to fight, Yu Quan could easily defeat the spider spirit.
But—
After seeing that the spider spirit had a physical form, Yu Quan had the idea of keeping her by his side.
After all, the spider spirit was just weaker than Yu Quan, but she still had some strength.
Maybe she could help Yu Quan with some things that were inconvenient for him to do in the future.
Plus, the spider spirit's spider silk was also useful, if he kept her, wouldn't that mean he could have spider silk freely?
“Spider spirits love incense.” The system's voice echoed in Yu Quan's mind.
“Hmm?” Yu Quan was stunned for a moment, then quickly understood.
He immediately took out a bunch of incense from his system space, the kind used in ordinary temples.
Speaking of this thing, it was a special kind of incense that Yu Quan had made according to the instructions in "The Complete Guide to Taoism".
It was said to have a strong attraction to special creatures.
However, Yu Quan had never had a chance to use it before, so he just kept it in his system space, he didn't expect to have the chance to use it today.
Seeing that the spider spirit's energy fluctuated visibly after he took out the incense, Yu Quan did not hesitate to transmit his thoughts to her telepathically.
“Submit, and this incense will be yours; refuse, and you will die!”
After speaking, Yu Quan specially took out a few attack talismans, mainly thunder and fire talismans.
Ps: This chapter includes a picture of the spider spirit, you can click to see it if you are interested.