"Why were you thrown into prison?" the wolf demon asked, curiosity evident in its expression. "I was here before."
"You're curious about this?" Mu Anxiao exclaimed.
"Why?" the wolf demon asked again.
Mu Anxiao offered a bitter smile. "Just like today, I was falsely accused of a crime without reason, and then locked up. Fortunately, the times weren't long, and I didn't suffer much."
"So, it hasn't been easy for you either," the wolf demon stated.
"Who has it easy? Speaking of which, you're quite unlucky," Mu Anxiao said faintly.
The wolf demon sighed.
Mu Anxiao looked at the wolf demon's face and couldn't help but laugh. "Are we having a heart-to-heart talk?"
"What do you mean?" the wolf demon asked.
Mu Anxiao continued smiling. "Actually, our relationship is quite funny. You and I are clearly enemies, yet now I'm helping you and you're helping me. I imagine if Xu Lan Yan and the others saw this, they'd be scared to death."
The wolf demon lowered its head.
"Did I say something wrong?" Mu Anxiao asked, noticing the wolf demon's change in demeanor.
The wolf demon shook its head. "No, I just didn't expect that when I returned, I'd be so weak that I'd be bullied by humans. Before, it was always me bullying humans."
"You certainly scared that female jailer quite a bit," Mu Anxiao chuckled.
"If she saw me now, she might not be so afraid," the wolf demon said.
"Perhaps not," Mu Anxiao replied, shaking her head slightly.
The wolf demon smiled faintly and asked, "Have you thought of a way?"
"The villagers in the village where the old man imprisoned you are all stingy to death, aren't they?" Mu Anxiao asked.
"Yes," the wolf demon replied, frowning. "Why do you suddenly ask about this?"
"Stingy. Then they definitely wouldn't have reported it to the authorities," Mu Anxiao deduced.
"What do you mean by that?" the wolf demon asked, confused.
"Did they force you to say you killed those three people?" Mu Anxiao inquired further.
The wolf demon nodded slightly. "Yes, they did pressure me."
"Three people, villagers, arrested and pursued innocently," Mu Anxiao repeated, narrowing her eyes. "This incident is quite a coincidence."
"What are you muttering to yourself about?" the wolf demon asked, peering at Mu Anxiao's overly serious expression.
Mu Anxiao looked up. "What were the genders of those three people?"
"I don't know. I didn't get close enough to see them," the wolf demon shook its head.
"You don't even know their genders, it truly is an injustice," Mu Anxiao remarked with a sigh.
The wolf demon: "You've said so much, do you have a solution?"
"A solution, not yet. However, I think this matter needs to be addressed from the very beginning, otherwise, it's too..."
"You don't need to understand what happened between them. What I hope for now is that those people don't come looking for me again," the wolf demon interrupted.
Mu Anxiao was silent for a moment, then said, "Do you think I want to get involved in something so brain-racking?"
"You can simplify it!" the wolf demon suggested thoughtfully.
"Simplify it," Mu Anxiao repeated, turning her head and smiling. "Heh, you truly are all brawn and no brain. Do you think this matter can be simplified just like that? This involves human lives, it can't be simplified."
"Then what should we do?" the wolf demon grumbled.
Mu Anxiao took a deep breath. "No, I still need to think about it."
"Then you think," the wolf demon said, lowering its head.
Half an hour later, Mu Anxiao, yawning, looked at the wolf demon staring intently at her and asked, "Why are you staring at me?"
"Have you thought of anything?" the wolf demon asked.
"Three human lives. Tian Jiang also said she had three human lives on her hands. You," Mu Anxiao narrowed her eyes, "are you related to her?"
"I did sense that the proprietress had three lives on her, but... you're here now, how are you getting out?" the wolf demon asked.
"Even if I don't go out, she will come. When she comes, I'll just ask," Mu Anxiao said confidently.
"She probably won't admit it if you ask her like that," the wolf demon said. After thinking for a moment, it added, "Also, I don't think your relationship with her is that close. What makes you so confident she'll come to see you?"
"My intuition tells me she will come," Mu Anxiao stated firmly.
"Alright, then you go with your intuition. I won't stop you," the wolf demon said, thinking Mu Anxiao was getting a bit too full of herself.
"What you just said makes me feel uncomfortable," Mu Anxiao said, standing up and walking around the wolf demon to the cell door. After a moment of hesitation, she pulled the door open and walked out.
The wolf demon was startled and quickly got up to follow her.
"Where are you going?" it asked.
Mu Anxiao walked as she spoke, "To find the female jailer. You don't believe me, do you?"
"Then in this way, you're making the proprietress come," the wolf demon said.
"I didn't make a bet with you," Mu Anxiao glanced at the wolf demon. "Childish."
"You..."
As the wolf demon uttered the first syllable, the female jailer, with a panicked expression, ran up to Mu Anxiao and asked, "How did you get out?"
Mu Anxiao clasped her hands behind her back. "I'm not going out. Can't I walk around here?"
"No," the female jailer chuckled a couple of times and asked, "Do you need anything?"
"Yes, I do have something to talk to you about," Mu Anxiao said mysteriously.
Following Mu Anxiao's mysterious tone, the female jailer said in a low voice, "Please, just give your orders."
"Help me go to the inn where I'm staying and call the proprietress here."
"Which inn are you staying at?" the female jailer asked in a low voice.
Mu Anxiao beckoned with her finger.
The female jailer showed her large yellow teeth and smiled, leaning in to whisper her lodging to Mu Anxiao.
The next second, Mu Anxiao whispered the name of the inn where she was staying to the female jailer. After hearing it, the female jailer nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. I'll have someone find her immediately." With that, she straightened up.
"Good, I'm tired too. I'll wait for you," Mu Anxiao said, turning around and yawning.
The wolf demon looked at Mu Anxiao's profile, then at the female prisoners in the cells who dared not look this way. "The female jailer is a tough character here, and you're an even tougher one, Mu Anxiao. You're quite something." It clapped Mu Anxiao heartily on the shoulder.
Mu Anxiao frowned slightly and walked towards the cells.
The wolf demon turned to look at the female jailer, who still harbored a hint of fear towards Mu Anxiao, and said proudly, "But, it's still my credit." With that, it followed Mu Anxiao.
After Mu Anxiao had completely walked away, the female jailer let out a sigh of relief and turned to the female prison guard. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Boss, you're also afraid of a prisoner?" the female prison guard asked, astonished.
The female jailer looked left and right, then stepped forward and said in a low voice, "There's a demon accompanying her, and I heard that paper was burned by demonic fire. So, we can't provoke her, or we'll be the ones to suffer."
"It's you who will suffer, boss," the female prison guard replied.