The rabbit spirit, Number One, was speaking when the Rabbit Queen suddenly turned and cast a spell on its hand. Number One uncontrollably raised its hand and slapped itself twice.
"Anyone who speaks again will suffer the same fate," the Rabbit Queen declared, glaring at the other rabbits before turning and entering a room. The door automatically closed.
Thus, they were all locked into the woodshed, and Mu Anxiao's search for the cellar was interrupted.
"Hello there," she said, standing up to greet them.
They ignored Mu Anxiao one by one and sat down on the ground.
Mu Anxiao watched the rabbit spirits as they sat down, and gave an awkward smile. "The first thing I did when I came in was to sit down and rest. You all like this too?"
"..." No rabbit responded.
Mu Anxiao pouted and looked towards the door. She thought for a moment, then ran forward and pulled the door, exclaiming, "Uh oh, it's locked."
"We are all guilty rabbits, of course we must be locked up," the maid rabbit said, tilting her head up to look at Mu Anxiao's back.
Mu Anxiao sighed, turned to look at the rabbits who had spoken, and asked, "What did you do wrong?"
The rabbit spirit, Number Two, seeing the maid rabbit speak, took a moment to compose itself and said, "The Dog-Head Monster was barbecuing at the backyard entrance and wouldn't let us in, so we had to take a detour through the front gate. We went to the King, but who knew," he glared at the maid rabbit, "this guy blocked us. We had no choice but to cry out, and then we were let in."
"I told you she was busy, but you didn't listen," the maid rabbit said, looking wronged.
Mu Anxiao glanced at the maid rabbit and said, "Even so, there's no need to lock you up."
"Who knows," the rabbit spirit, Number One, shook its head.
The maid rabbit thought for a moment and whispered, "The Great Monster was also here."
Upon hearing this, they all froze.
Mu Anxiao looked at their fearful expressions leisurely and smiled, saying, "Is it that terrifying?"
"This kind of situation has happened before, and that rabbit was executed the next day," the rabbit spirit, Number Three, said.
"Is that so?" Mu Anxiao said nonchalantly.
"We're going to die," the rabbit spirit, Number Two, pouted.
Hearing about death, the maid rabbit suddenly stood up and pointed at them, saying, "It's all your fault, all your fault."
"If you had explained clearly to us, there wouldn't be any trouble," the rabbit spirit, Number Four, said, looking up.
"Exactly, if you had explained clearly, none of us would be in this situation," the rabbit spirit, Number One, chimed in.
The rabbit spirit, Number Two, glared at the maid rabbit and said, "If you had a better attitude, would we have been so loud? It's all you, it's all you."
"I warned you, but you didn't listen," the maid rabbit said plaintively.
"If you had been more accommodating, would we have gotten agitated?" the rabbit spirit, Number One, said, pointing at the maid rabbit.
Mu Anxiao stepped back a few paces, observing the rabbits standing up and complaining about the maid rabbit. She said helplessly, "Even if you argue, you can't get out!"
No rabbit paid attention to her and continued their bickering.
Mu Anxiao sighed, "They're ignoring me." With that, she lowered her head and continued searching for the cellar entrance.
A quarter of an hour later, they sat on the ground, tired from arguing.
Mu Anxiao, having found nothing, sat on the ground and took a few breaths. She looked at the rabbits and said deliberately, "Oh my, this way I'll have company on my journey. That's great."
This time, they heard Mu Anxiao's words and turned their gazes to her face.
Mu Anxiao picked up a stalk of dry grass and waved it in front of her. "You must be tired of arguing. But I used to love arguing too. However, I eventually realized that arguing is quite meaningless."
"What are you trying to say?" the maid rabbit asked, looking at Mu Anxiao with disheveled fur.
Mu Anxiao shrugged her shoulders. "I'm saying that instead of arguing, you might as well enjoy the feeling of being alive more."
The moment Mu Anxiao said this, the maid rabbit pouted. "I don't want to die, I don't want to die."
Mu Anxiao looked at the maid rabbit's hand tightly gripping the dry grass and couldn't help but smile. "None of us here, myself included, wants to die. But, who could we have offended? The Great Monster that we absolutely shouldn't have offended today."
"How did you offend the Great Monster?" the rabbit spirit, Number One, asked, retracting its tearful expression.
Mu Anxiao smiled. "What do you think?"
"I don't know," the rabbit spirit, Number One, shook its head.
"What do you all think?" Mu Anxiao swept her gaze across the other rabbit spirits present and asked.
The rabbit spirit, Number Three, thought for a moment and said, "Hongyi must have made a mistake to be chosen. So, the person who caused her to make that mistake is you."
"You're smart," Mu Anxiao said, pointing at the rabbit spirit, Number Three.
The rabbit spirit, Number Three, sheepishly touched the back of its head. "Not really."
"So modest," Mu Anxiao smiled and looked back at the rabbit spirit, Number One. "Do you understand now?"
"Our rabbit fur has the effect of concealing celestial energy. How were you discovered?" the rabbit spirit, Number Two, asked with confusion.
Mu Anxiao stretched lazily and said, "I exposed myself."
"Why did you do that?" the rabbit spirit, Number Four, asked Mu Anxiao with confusion.
Mu Anxiao smiled bitterly, lightly patted her head, and said, "It was a spur-of-the-moment thing."
"You're really quite foolish," the rabbit spirit, Number Two, said, pointing at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao smiled at the rabbit spirit, Number Two. "Even if I wasn't foolish, I would still die. The outcome is the same anyway."
"What you said makes sense," the rabbit spirit, Number Three, nodded.
"However, you harmed Hongyi," the rabbit spirit, Number One, realized.
Mu Anxiao looked at the rabbit spirit, Number One, and said, "But Hongyi also harmed me."
"You..."
"I don't want to talk to you anymore," Mu Anxiao said to avoid arguing with them.
The rabbit spirit, Number One, looked at Mu Anxiao's averted gaze, thought about her words for a moment, and then said, "I'm sorry."
Mu Anxiao was startled by this. She looked up at the rabbit spirit, Number One, who had suddenly apologized to her, and asked, "Why are you apologizing to me?"
"You are also a victim in this matter, and I spoke to you like that. I'm sorry," the rabbit spirit, Number One, said again.
Mu Anxiao hadn't expected this rabbit's self-reflection ability to be so strong, so she smiled and said, "Alright, I forgive you."
The rabbit spirit, Number One, smiled faintly. "I've never apologized to anyone before, and I didn't expect it to be difficult."
Mu Anxiao smiled, remaining silent.
The maid rabbit looked at the harmonious scene before them and said, "I don't want to die."
"Where can we go if we stay alive?" the rabbit spirit, Number Two, asked in a low voice.
The other rabbits fell silent.
"I'd rather wait here to die than wait to die over there," Mu Anxiao said in an attempt to lighten the mood.
"Why do you think that?" the rabbit spirit, Number Two, asked listlessly.
"Because here, without the constraints of etiquette, I can find a way..." Mu Anxiao said, looking at the rabbits before her, unsure whether they were good or bad, and stopped speaking. Search "An Xiao Feng Qi Shi Jie Zhong Wen Xue" on Baidu for the latest chapters available for free reading.