The man in black curved his lips upward. "I am, the flower thief."
"You?"
Mu Anxiao had never met a real flower thief, but in her imagination, flower thieves were usually rough-looking, even aged. Or perhaps... like her, beggars so destitute they sought entertainment.
She had never pictured someone as fair-faced as the man before her. She remained skeptical.
The man in black: "You don't believe me?" He tilted his chin.
Mu Anxiao: "I do..." She uttered the word and looked at the girl who was still staring at her. "Fine, I'll tell you. Just tell me, do you think he looks like a flower thief?" She pointed at the man in black.
Hearing this, the girl quickly scanned the man in black according to Mu Anxiao's gesture, then looked back at Mu Anxiao and said, "You do."
"Me..." Mu Anxiao started to speak but stopped. She knew her question was rather cliché, but even so, she hadn't expected such a reply from the girl.
"Tell me, where is he?"
"Tell those people I'm a good person, and then I..."
"Don't try to impersonate me," the man in black interrupted, looking at the crowd. "I am the flower thief, she is not." He pointed at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao remembered the flower thief caught there at the time. He ran at the sight of anyone. It was said the people who caught him chased him for three days and three nights.
Now, this man in black confessed without being asked, which left Mu Anxiao utterly baffled.
"Stop showing off here, go away," she said.
The man in black smiled at Mu Anxiao. "You filthy beggar, I, the flower thief, am a handsome man. You say you are," he scanned the dirty Mu Anxiao from head to toe, "Am I not tarnishing me?"
"How am I tarnishing you? I am..." Mu Anxiao didn't know what to say.
"Go away." The man in black pushed Mu Anxiao's shoulder, then smoothly put his arm around the girl's shoulders. "Little beauty, I know you."
The girl flinched, shrinking her shoulders in fear.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao's lips twitched. "You really are a flower thief."
"Yes." The man in black nodded and looked at the monsters. "However, I have another identity."
Mu Anxiao followed the man in black's gaze and glanced sideways at the women captivated by his looks. "Can you get to the point, instead of looking at the girls? It's this kind of situation." She then turned back to the man in black.
The man in black retracted his gaze and looked down, meeting Mu Anxiao's eyes, and smiled. "My other identity is... a cultivator."
"Huh?" Mu Anxiao stared in disbelief at this man who called himself a flower thief and now insulted cultivators. "Stop bragging."
"I am."
"Stop bragging." Mu Anxiao pointed at the man in black's face. "I advise you not to smear the reputation of cultivators."
"Flower thief is a side job, cultivator is the main profession."
"..." Mu Anxiao snorted softly, thinking that young people nowadays were really good at bragging.
Seeing Mu Anxiao's disdainful expression, the man in black frowned. "You don't believe me."
"..." Mu Anxiao turned her face slightly and pointed at the hand the man in black had around the girl's shoulders. "Let go, and I'll believe you." She stepped forward.
The man in black, not noticing Mu Anxiao's movement, released his hand. "Alright, you said it." He withdrew his hand and deliberately moved a step to the side.
Mu Anxiao seized the opportunity to step forward, turn to face the man in black, and a sudden idea struck her. "I believe you are a cultivator, but first, can you deal with them?" She pointed at the monsters.
Xi'er frowned upon seeing this.
The warriors, seeing the way the women looked at the man in black, dared not speak.
The man in black ignored them, glanced at the monsters, and said, "To be honest, this is my line of work." He looked at Mu Anxiao.
"What?"
"Monsters have been appearing around here recently. I'm the one who catches them."
Making a living by catching monsters?
This was the first time Mu Anxiao had ever heard of such a thing, and the first time she had seen it.
In decades, she had captured many demon souls and encountered many monsters. However, the chance of encountering a "monster" had been exceedingly rare. In her memory, she had only encountered one in the mortal world, and then these monsters.
Therefore, she was deeply surprised by this type of cultivator like the man in black. "You catch monsters?"
"Yes. The cultivation techniques I practice are specifically for dealing with monsters. Normally, I have to survive in this world as a mortal. But I don't want to be a beggar, it's too dirty. Also, I don't have a particularly respectable background, so..."
"So you took up this profession, allowing you to live a clean life and see beautiful women?" Mu Anxiao interrupted.
The man in black's expression stiffened. "I'm not as vulgar as you think."
"Then why are you like this?"
"I work for the government. Currently, the identity I represent is that of a flower thief."
"Eh? You're going to catch flower thieves?"
"No." The man in black shook his head.
"Then what are you doing?"
"I want the government officials to have something to do. That way, when I'm being pursued, I'll be under pressure. And with pressure," the man in black's lips curved, "I can find the monsters' whereabouts more quickly, because nowadays, monsters are truly rare." After speaking, he fixed his gaze on the monsters.
"You still like looking at beautiful women," Mu Anxiao exposed him.
The man in black smiled. Just as he was about to look at the girl, Mu Anxiao immediately raised her dirty hand and said, "If you move again, I'll use my dirty hands to touch your face." She was sure this man had mysophobia.
"..." The man's expression stiffened. He flinched from Mu Anxiao's dirty palm and took half a step back. "You're truly quite disgusting." He then turned to look at the others. "With people around, it's hard to operate."
Mu Anxiao: "You've admitted it. Let these people fight you, and I'll deal with the monsters."
"Can you manage?" The man in black turned to look at Mu Anxiao, his expression full of doubt about her abilities.
Mu Anxiao: "Your side job is being a flower thief, and my side job is being a beggar."
"You're also a cultivator?"
Mu Anxiao snorted lightly. "I am..." She uttered the word, thinking that she would use her soul sword later. If she said she was an immortal, it would be too embarrassing, so she pondered for a moment before saying, "Who I am, doesn't matter."
"You're just a filthy beggar, stop pretending."
"I..."
"Let me tell you, if you dare to snatch monsters from me, we're not done." The man in black interrupted, pointed at Mu Anxiao, and with a wave of his hand, conjured a vine and walked towards the monsters.
Xi'er was stunned when the man in black approached. "Damn it," she said, turning to look at the愣愣的 warriors and mortals. "You all stand here and don't move, he's a demon." Saying this, she walked forward.
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