In the depths of the demonic forest.
Green light descended, and a woman in green appeared, standing by a tree, then turning her head to look not far away at five women surrounded by green light, saying, "...."
Woman Number One said, "How did things go?"
The woman in green replied, "She found out I had help."
"What?" Woman Number One exclaimed, glancing at her sisters standing on either side. "You failed at this?"
"I didn't expect it either, that they would find me."
Woman Number Two: "This is impossible, weren't they supposed to know you were captured?"
"Don't ask," the woman in green didn't want to admit her failure. "Let's think of another way."
"It can only be this way," Woman Number One nodded.
The woman in green looked at them, her eyes sinking, and asked, "Why are you helping me?"
This was a question she had wanted to ask all along, but there hadn't been time before.
Slowly, it had dragged on until today.
"You saved us."
However, the woman in green didn't remember saving anyone, and they had never mentioned it before, so her response was one of surprise!
"When did I save you?" she asked.
Woman Number One smiled, "We were your cellmates, don't you remember?"
From the day she was captured, the woman in green had been thinking of ways to escape.
Cellmates? She hadn't paid them any attention.
Now, with Woman Number One saying this, she only felt one thing: she was being used.
"So after all this, you used me to escape from there."
Woman Number One: "That's not a nice way to put it."
"As expected of a courtesan, using people and harming them in life, and now coming here to use me again," the woman in green took a step back. "Enough is enough."
"Enough," Woman Number Two repeated, laughing. "Sister, don't forget, we've been helping you all these years. Without us, you would have been caught long ago."
"You..."
Indeed, from the day the woman in green escaped from the underworld, she had met them, and they had been helping her all this time.
If it weren't for them, she wouldn't have the audacity she had today.
Thinking of this, she was speechless.
"Since you know we helped you, then listen to us. Otherwise," Woman Number Three walked up to the woman in green, "we will absorb all your demonic energy."
"You..."
"Alright, I hope you quickly deal with these underworld envoys who captured you, otherwise, we will make our move."
"You want to kill underworld envoys again?"
"Otherwise, if they don't die, we perish," Woman Number One said, glancing at her sisters. "We want to become stronger so we can retaliate against the demon who killed us."
These things they had never said.
At this moment, the woman in green was also shocked to hear this. "How exactly did you die?"
Woman Number One: "This time, I hope you will take action." After speaking, she turned and left first.
Woman Number Two: "In short, ask what you should ask, and don't ask what you shouldn't. Asking too much," she narrowed her eyes, "will do you no good."
"You..."
As soon as the woman in green uttered one word, they left.
At this point, only the woman in green remained here.
A breeze blew past, but her hair remained still. Then, she took a step back, turned her head to look at the large tree beside her, her eyes sinking.
From the day she escaped the underworld, the woman in green had met those five ghostly women.
At first, she thought they would obey her.
Unexpectedly, she was wrong; everything was their arrangement.
If anything, she was unlucky. From the day she escaped, she had been pursued by various underworld envoys, while they remained unharmed. Before this, she had naively believed they were her good sisters and hadn't thought much about some things.
But life is unpredictable. She never expected that everything they did was to use her. Clenching her fists, she looked down, recalling the underworld envoys they had designed and killed.
Suddenly, she had an ominous premonition of being wronged.
But, thinking about what the woman had just said, she felt inexplicably uneasy.
Early morning.
Mu An Xiao, with dark circles under her eyes, stood up, calmly glanced at Feng Qi Shi, and then limped towards the door.
At the same time, Feng Qi Shi woke up.
"Mu, you idiot, where are you going?" he said, sitting up and rubbing his eyes.
Mu An Xiao did not stop walking. "I'm going to take a look."
Feng Qi Shi yawned. "Look at what?"
"...." Mu An Xiao was too lazy to answer Feng Qi Shi's question, so she quickly walked to the door, placing one hand on the doorframe, tilting her head to look at the misty sky, and said, "Shen, the crazy one, I'm hungry."
Feng Qi Shi: "..." He turned to look at Mu An Xiao's back and said, "What do you want to eat?"
"I want beef noodles, but," Mu An Xiao continued yawning, "it's okay if it's not beef noodles, as long as it's noodles with soup, I'm so hungry." She patted her stomach.
Feng Qi Shi's expression turned dark. "You're dreaming!" he said, standing up.
Mu An Xiao stared at the sky outside, yawning repeatedly. "I want to sleep," she said, turning to look at Feng Qi Shi.
Instantly, Feng Qi Shi was startled by Mu An Xiao's exaggerated dark circles. "This is too much," he said, walking up to Mu An Xiao and looking down at her eyes.
Mu An Xiao's eyes were hazy as she quietly met Feng Qi Shi's gaze and said, "I'm hungry and sleepy."
"Then why don't you sleep?"
Mu An Xiao: "...." She just smiled.
"Are you really keeping watch for me?"
"Otherwise?"
"You..." Feng Qi Shi couldn't help but smile. "You're tired, you woke me up, and I could help you keep watch, I'm not that tired."
"...."
"Am I wrong?"
"Not that tired, sleeping like a pig."
Feng Qi Shi: "...." He averted his gaze.
Mu An Xiao yawned. "I'm going to sleep," she said, walking past Feng Qi Shi to the extinguished campfire and sitting down.
Feng Qi Shi looked at Mu An Xiao's back from the side and said, "Lie down and sleep. I'll go see if there's anything edible outside."
"What can be eaten here?" Mu An Xiao said, obediently lying down.
Feng Qi Shi: "...." He glanced at Mu An Xiao and walked out.
Half an hour later.
Feng Qi Shi squatted beside Mu An Xiao, holding a bowl of steaming noodles in both hands, and said, "Mu, you idiot, wake up and see."
Hearing this, Mu An Xiao slowly opened her eyes and, upon seeing the bowl of noodles Feng Qi Shi was holding, exclaimed in surprise, "There are noodles."
Feng Qi Shi moved back slightly and said, "Get up, eat!"
Immediately, Mu An Xiao sat up quickly, peered at the steaming noodles, and said, "These aren't poisoned, are they?"