At the same time, Mu Anxiao and Feng Qishi walked past him. He smiled, watching their retreating backs, thinking, "These two actually didn't recognize me." He then stepped forward to follow them.
Feng Qishi quickly sensed something amiss behind him and shouted towards the back of Mu Anxiao's head, "Stop."
Mu Anxiao was startled and stopped, turning directly to face Feng Qishi, saying, "Are you crazy?"
"Why did you turn around?" Feng Qishi asked helplessly.
"I..." Mu Anxiao had just uttered a syllable when the younger Zhang Yan stopped behind Feng Qishi. Mu Anxiao shifted her gaze to Zhang Yan's face.
Following Mu Anxiao's gaze, Feng Qishi slowly turned around to look at Zhang Yan behind him and asked, "Speak, why are you following us?"
"You don't recognize me like this," Zhang Yan said with a smile.
Feng Qishi frowned.
Mu Anxiao glanced at Feng Qishi and said, "This is Zhang Yan, your elder brother."
"My... elder brother." Feng Qishi pointed to himself, peered at Zhang Yan's youthful face, and gave a dry laugh. "No, what's going on with you?"
"I won't be a burden to you guys like this," Zhang Yan raised an eyebrow.
"Like this," Feng Qishi swallowed and said, "I'm really not used to it."
"You'll get used to it slowly."
Mu Anxiao looked at both of them, took out a round disk from her pocket, and lightly traced her palm over it. The pointer began to spin.
"What are you doing?" Feng Qishi asked, looking at the disk in surprise.
"To find the second evil soul using the soul's breath of the evil soul."
"When did you collect the evil soul's breath?" Feng Qishi asked curiously.
"When you didn't know," Mu Anxiao replied, looking down at the spinning pointer on the disk with a slight frown.
However, Feng Qishi was not satisfied with Mu Anxiao's perfunctory answer. He said, "Is it going to kill you to tell me?"
"Such a busybody," Mu Anxiao said casually, glancing at Zhang Yan. "Let's go." With that, she turned and walked ahead.
Zhang Yan glanced at Feng Qishi and followed Mu Anxiao.
Feng Qishi stood rooted to the spot, looking at Mu Anxiao's retreating back with displeasure and spat.
Before long, Mu Anxiao, holding the disk, led Feng Qishi and Zhang Yan to the front gate of Feng Feng School.
Unexpectedly, just as Mu Anxiao was about to approach the gatekeeper, the gatekeeper, Yan Ruoruo's homeroom teacher, saw Mu Anxiao.
"Oh, Yan Ruoruo's aunt, why are you here?"
Mu Anxiao feigned composure, putting the disk back into her pocket, and said, "I'm not here to see you, I'm here to see..." She glanced at Feng Qishi, who was carrying a schoolbag and wearing a school uniform. "...his sister." She pointed at Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi consciously stepped forward, his face tense, and said, "Hello teacher, I am Feng Feng's brother."
"Your own brother?" Yan Ruoruo's teacher walked out from the school gate and asked.
Feng Qishi stepped back, his demeanor completely different from before. At this moment, he was entirely on edge. "Yes, I am her third brother. Uh, I want to go in to ask for leave for her."
"Are you skipping class?" Yan Ruoruo's teacher scanned Feng Qishi's school uniform up and down and asked.
"No, I..." To appear more convincing, Feng Qishi's expression turned dejected. "I have a terminal illness. In my remaining years, I hope to spend more time with my sister. Of course, she doesn't know about my condition. I also hope to leave her more memories of me before I die."
"Can't you do that on the weekend?" Yan Ruoruo's teacher asked doubtfully.
Not far away, Zhang Yan, seeing Feng Qishi's feigned act, turned his face away, genuinely unable to watch.
Feng Qishi's expression stiffened slightly. He said, "It's precisely because I'm ill that our mother doesn't allow me to go out on leave. I can only stay home to rest and study. Today, I just really wanted to come out, so I came."
Mu Anxiao looked at Feng Qishi's stiff explanation and the dry expression on his face, finding it very fake.
However, Yan Ruoruo's teacher did not think so. Looking at Feng Qishi's face, he seemed moved. "Alright then, you come in with me."
"Can she come with me?" Feng Qishi pointed at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao's expression was blank.
"She's Yan Ruoruo's aunt, why would you want her to come with you?" Yan Ruoruo's teacher asked.
"Exactly, I am Yan Ruoruo's aunt, and it might not be appropriate for me to go in with you," Mu Anxiao said. The round disk in her pocket began to move violently.
Just as Mu Anxiao was about to take out the disk, she inadvertently saw a boy standing in the corner not far away. Her brow furrowed. She said, "You go in then," and walked towards the boy.
Seeing Mu Anxiao approaching him, the boy's lips curved into a sinister smile.
Feng Qishi glanced at Mu Anxiao's retreating back, his brow furrowing slightly. "What is this guy doing?"
"Let's go," Yan Ruoruo's teacher said, his gaze fixed on Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi snapped back to attention, looked at Yan Ruoruo's teacher, and said, "Okay." He then walked into the school gate with the teacher.
The moment Feng Qishi entered the school gate, Zhang Yan rushed to Mu Anxiao's side. "Do you know him?" he asked, pointing at the boy.
Mu Anxiao glanced sideways at Zhang Yan and said, "No." She then took out the disk. "I didn't expect you to have this kind of ability."
"What do you mean?" Zhang Yan asked, looking confusedly at the disk, which was now motionless.
Mu Anxiao ignored him, continuing to stare at the boy smiling sinisterly at her. "I advise you to leave this body immediately, or I will make you vanish into thin air."
"Eh?" Zhang Yan froze, scanned the boy up and down, and said, "Mu Anxiao, don't talk nonsense. You'll scare the children."
The boy crossed his arms and looked at Zhang Yan, saying, "Who are you calling a child, old man."
"What did you call me?" Zhang Yan pointed at the boy's face unhappily.
The boy's lips curled. "I called you an old man," he said, then looked at Mu Anxiao. "Not bad, you figured it out."
"Wolf demon, this body is not suitable for you."
"You're a wolf demon?" Zhang Yan was surprised. He leaned in to sniff the boy's aura and asked, "Strange, why isn't there any demonic energy at all?"
"He took the Breath-Concealing Powder, so naturally, you can't smell it," Mu Anxiao said calmly.
"How did you know he was a wolf demon?" Zhang Yan asked.
"After all, I was tracking him, so naturally, I understand better than you," Mu Anxiao said. She reached out and pressed the boy's shoulder. "Skinny arms and skinny legs, you really know how to possess a body, picking these frail, sickly children. Have you no shame?"
"I thought I could only lock onto Feng Qishi. Oh my, I really have to thank those evil souls. If they hadn't told me I could target children, I wouldn't have managed."
"Weren't you in the dim realm?" Mu Anxiao asked with a frown.
"If I didn't say that, how could you have let your guard down against me?" the wolf demon possessing the boy's body said.