The word "steal" might sound unpleasant, but it accurately described what Zeng liked to do.
He had always thought Lin Yan was unaware of this habit of his. Hearing Lin Yan speak, he was startled, "I didn't steal your things."
"If you dared to steal, would your hands still be here?" Lin Yan asked.
Zeng shook his head.
At the same time, Chen patted Lin Yan's clothes and turned around, "I'll go with you later."
Immediately, Lin Yan's heart sank. He turned and asked, "If you leave, who will take care of me?"
"Even if I were here, I wouldn't take care of you."
"I knew you would say that, but with you here, I feel safe."
Chen couldn't be bothered to deal with Lin Yan. He glared at him and walked around them towards the dilapidated temple.
Next, Lin Yan's gaze met Zeng's. Lin Yan said, "She doesn't look very old."
"Mm," Zeng nodded, supporting Lin Yan as they walked. "Why haven't Brother Feng and the others returned yet?"
"Who knows? Anyway, Mu Anxiao will have to take care of me when he gets back."
Zeng figured Lin Yan wouldn't dare say that in front of Mu Anxiao, so he said nothing more.
At this moment, Feng Qishi and Piao, disliking Mu Anxiao, intentionally kept their distance from her.
Mu Anxiao also couldn't be bothered to speak with them, as her mind was preoccupied with Wan Sha's matter again.
Originally, she thought that after she had dealt with that matter, Wan Sha would obediently follow her. Who knew that Wan Sha would not listen to her at all and wanted some quiet time? She now wondered when this affair would ever end.
"So annoying," she muttered. She stopped in the middle of the road, looked at the empty sides, and slowly turned to look at Feng Qishi, who was a few steps away, asking, "Where is he?"
"Did you forget again?" Feng Qishi called out.
Mu Anxiao disliked conversing with Feng Qishi this way. She strode up to them and asked, "Tell me, what did I forget?"
"That male demon soul possessing the woman," Feng Qishi reminded her roughly.
"Male..." Mu Anxiao repeated the word, then suddenly realized, slapping her forehead. "This is so tricky. Ah Xia, Wan Sha, and those fifty demon souls... so annoying, so annoying." As she spoke, she rubbed her hair.
Feng Qishi glanced at Piao, who had deliberately turned her back to avoid listening to their conversation, and asked, "By the way, I remember... didn't you originally capture those demon souls to reincarnate? How did it become hell?"
"Go to the Hall of Torment, then served the sentence and reincarnate. Isn't that the same principle?"
Feng Qishi said, "Oh, so you skipped the middle part and went straight to the end."
Mu Anxiao nodded slightly. "That's the idea. However, ever since I met you again, I don't seem to have done that anymore. As a result, I forgot about it. If not for..." she sighed, "that male demon soul reminding me, I really wouldn't have remembered."
"You could say this is a form of deception," Feng Qishi said seriously.
Mu Anxiao narrowed her eyes. "Can you not be so direct? This was just my method of completing the mission."
In the past, Mu Anxiao had to send demon souls who committed minor offenses to reincarnate to complete her missions. She believed the word "reincarnation" would not scare them, nor would they struggle pointlessly, making it an easy task for herself.
Over time, she discovered that some demon souls simply did not wish to reincarnate, just like the wolf demon she had captured at the beginning. He was the type who didn't want to reincarnate.
However, she could not be soft-hearted when encountering such demon souls. Gradually, she offended them.
Thinking back now, skipping the middle part was not necessarily a good thing. It would have been better if she had told the truth back then!