"...." Mu Anxiao glanced at Feng Qishi, who was equally puzzled. Just as she was about to speak, Lin Yan exclaimed, "Your hands."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao swallowed her words and followed Lin Yan's gaze, looking down at her own hands, which had suddenly begun to emit a blue light. Her eyes widened. "What's going on?" As she spoke, she noticed the blue light beside the bloody footprints suddenly flying off in one direction.
Feng Qishi: "It's a path." He glanced at the blue light tracing a route and then turned his head to look at Mu Anxiao.
"It's showing the way," Mu Anxiao said. She glanced at Feng Qishi and quickly followed the blue light.
"...." The wolf demon shook his head slightly. "This is too... strange." He then turned to look at the indifferent Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi: "It is indeed strange." As he said this, he took a step ahead.
The wolf demon took a deep breath, exhaled, and muttered, "So, what is that thing?" He then looked at a black shadow not far away, narrowing his eyes.
"What do you mean by that?" Lin Yan asked, confused.
The wolf demon withdrew his gaze and looked at Lin Yan, who had been following him since they arrived. He tried to change the subject. "Why don't you abandon Feng Qishi?"
"......" Lin Yan was stunned. "You wish. Feng Qishi is my only master. I would never associate with a demon like you."
"Then you shouldn't follow me."
"I want to," Lin Yan said, deliberately putting his arm around the wolf demon's shoulder. "Let me tell you, I'm just supervising you."
"You're supervising me?" The wolf demon's mouth twitched, and he turned his head to make eye contact with Lin Yan at close range.
"Yes," Lin Yan said seriously. "You've done too much evil. I'm following you to supervise you, and also... you promised to protect me three times."
"When did I say I would protect you three times?"
The wolf demon had forgotten about the bet involving the food box. But Lin Yan had not.
Just now, Lin Yan had not mentioned it because he saw they were all busy. He also thought the wolf demon would definitely remember.
Who would have thought he overestimated the wolf demon.
"It seems," he said, looking at the wolf demon's bewildered expression, and feeling annoyed, "it seems we need to write a contract."
Wolf Demon: "When did I..."
"I just said Mu Anxiao had locked onto the food box, and you said if she hadn't, you would break away from me, but if she had, you would protect me three times," Lin Yan interrupted.
Lin Yan's explanation triggered the wolf demon's memory. For the sake of his demonic dignity, he was willing to admit defeat. "Fine, I concede."
"You brought this up yourself. Saying it like this," Lin Yan removed his arm from the wolf demon's shoulder, "isn't right. I'm not fleecing you."
"It was just a casual remark. You don't have to take it to heart," the wolf demon said, looking at the serious Lin Yan with a helpless expression.
Lin Yan: "I'm petty."
"I can't tell."
"You can't tell, but I am petty," Lin Yan asserted firmly.
The wolf demon chuckled and lowered his head, his gaze unintentionally falling upon the bloody footprints, which were no longer emitting blue light. He froze, then looked ahead again and said, "It's all your fault. They've gone far."
Lin Yan retorted indignantly, "Why are you blaming me? You started talking to me first."
"I will blame you," the wolf demon glared at Lin Yan and said to himself. "This Mu Manor is so large, even if we walk, we might not meet Mu Anxiao and the others."
"I think so too."
"Then let's wait here," the wolf demon suggested, tilting his head to look at the sky. "It's getting late."
Lin Yan glanced at the wolf demon but said nothing.
Meanwhile.
Mu Anxiao followed the blue light to a row of abandoned houses and stopped.
"This Mu Manor is really big, to have a place like this." Feng Qishi stopped beside Mu Anxiao, looking at the dilapidated doors and windows. "Have you been here before?"
Mu Anxiao remained silent for a moment. She glanced at the cobweb-covered potted plant beneath the steps and then at the ground full of fallen leaves and dirt. "Shen Fengzi, stop making small talk. I'm already inside."
As Mu Anxiao had said, Feng Qishi had intended to break the tense atmosphere between them with such a question. However, Mu Anxiao had seen through him.
Feeling awkward, he looked calmly at the half-open rotten door and asked, "What are you doing here?" After asking, he glanced at the blue light at the edge of the threshold.
"Forgot," Mu Anxiao replied casually. Suddenly, she felt a cold wind blow, and she shivered. "Don't move from here."
"Why?"
"I feel like something is wrong with the surroundings. You stay here and keep watch for me." As she spoke, Mu Anxiao walked forward.
Feng Qishi understood that if he didn't follow Mu Anxiao's instructions, she would definitely not cooperate with him in the future. Therefore, for the sake of the future, he chose to compromise. "Be careful."
"I know." Mu Anxiao didn't look back, approaching the rotten door.
Inside the dilapidated house.
The young Mu Anxiao stood in place, looking at the neat rows of wooden beds before her, feeling a strange sense of oppression. Then, a gust of wind blew, and a handkerchief fell at her feet.
Everything seemed arranged. She slowly looked down, murmured, "Sister," and then hurried toward the depths of the house.
The next moment, she stopped barefoot beside a wooden bed where a girl lay. As she looked down at the girl's face, the image of her aunt's death flashed through her mind. She began to tremble, desperately controlling her emotions as she asked, "Sister, why are you sleeping here? Aren't you cold?" As she spoke, she reached out and grabbed the girl's icy arm, tears uncontrollably rolling down her cheeks.
The next second, she realized... the girl was dead.
Outside the house, Mu Anxiao stood at the doorway, listening to the voice of the young Mu Anxiao. She lowered her eyelids, and a memory she had completely forgotten surfaced in her mind.
That memory overlapped perfectly with the current scene.
Following that, carrying that memory, she took two deep breaths. As she slowly raised her hand to cover her chest, her tears flowed uncontrollably, and a feeling of helplessness washed over her.
So, she summoned her courage and, as she stepped into the dilapidated house through the door crack, a musty odor assaulted her senses. She covered her nose and walked to the middle of the house, looking left and right at the wooden beds arranged on either side, wondering what kind of place this was.
Thinking this, she followed the young Mu Anxiao's crying voice and turned toward the depths of the house.
The next moment.
Mu Anxiao stopped, looking at the young Mu Anxiao crying beside the girl. Her eyes deepened. She then walked around the foot of the bed to the young Mu Anxiao's side and looked down at her blood-covered feet. "So that's where the injuries on my feet came from. After all this time... this is how." She appeared calm.
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