“Why?” Mu Anxiao asked.
“Because you ate something from the underworld,” Shen Yan said, looking up as the light in his eyes narrowed into a faint blue beam and disappeared.
Mu Anxiao looked up at the light vanishing into the sky, utterly bewildered, her expression starting to turn grim. “If I ate something from the underworld, then that means I’m….” Before she could finish, the two floating souls, whom Ye Yin had called soul spirits, stopped in front of her.
Immediately, she started screaming.
The first soul spirit extended a claw hidden within its body and covered Mu Anxiao’s mouth, babbling, “What’s her name?”
“Aaaah!” Mu Anxiao continued to scream in terror.
The second soul spirit looked at Mu Anxiao and pointed at the three-fingered hand of the first soul spirit. “Your hand isn’t covering her mouth.”
“It can’t cover it,” the first soul spirit said, troubled.
Mu Anxiao deeply felt the icy temperature of the first soul spirit’s hand, freezing her expression, but it didn’t stop her screaming.
“Can you stop screaming, newcomer?” the second soul spirit asked Mu Anxiao helplessly.
Instantly, Mu Anxiao stopped screaming and blinked.
The first soul spirit removed its hand and looked at its palm, which was covered in Mu Anxiao’s ‘tears’. “Ugh, human tears are so disgusting.” Saying this, it rubbed its hand on Mu Anxiao’s shoulder.
Mu Anxiao swallowed and stammered, “You… you guys, I-I… didn’t… say… anything.”
“We know you didn’t say anything. Our friend asked us to find you, newcomer,” the first soul spirit continued, rubbing its hand on Mu Anxiao’s shoulder.
Mu Anxiao looked down at the first soul spirit’s hand and said, “Your hand is clean now. Can you please stop rubbing it?”
“Your tears are really disgusting,” the first soul spirit said, looking at its hand.
Mu Anxiao blinked her dry eyes. “That’s not my tears, that’s my snot.”
“What?” The first soul spirit was suddenly startled and quickly rubbed its hand on Mu Anxiao’s clothes.
This time, Mu Anxiao didn’t react. She calmly looked at the first soul spirit, whose behavior was a hundred times more exaggerated than hers, and asked, “Who is your friend?”
“It’s me, friend.”
Hearing this familiar greeting, Mu Anxiao’s nerves instantly tensed. She grabbed the first soul spirit’s incredibly thin wrist and said, “Stop rubbing. If you can, please go wash it over there.” She pointed to a well in front of them.
The first soul spirit had never had its wrist grabbed by a human. Now that Mu Anxiao suddenly pulled it, its bulging eyes widened. “You dare to touch me first?”
Mu Anxiao released its hand and said, “Yes, I accept.”
“You accept?” The first soul spirit looked at the wrist Mu Anxiao had just grabbed and repeated.
Seeing the first soul spirit’s expression, Mu Anxiao suppressed the sudden surge of fear and said with a forced smile, “My greatest strength is acceptance…”
Before she could finish, the second soul spirit’s hand suddenly pressed down on Mu Anxiao’s shoulder, causing Mu Anxiao’s face to change drastically as she screamed again.
The first soul spirit looked at Mu Anxiao’s frightened state and smiled strangely. “It seems you were faking it.”
“Aaaah!” Mu Anxiao completely ignored the first soul spirit and screamed at the top of her lungs.
As the second soul spirit was about to pass through Mu Anxiao after removing its hand, a Yin officer appeared beside it. “You’d better not take any shortcuts.”