"Could you please not step on me when you beg, little fatty?" Mu Anxiao said, looking down at the little boy.
Hearing this, the little boy realized he had stepped on Mu Anxiao's foot. He quickly moved his foot and smiled at Mu Anxiao, saying, "Let me touch it."
Mu Anxiao looked at the children with their eager eyes and felt the trembling of the rabbit spirit's body. She said, "No."
"Why?" asked the little girl.
Mu Anxiao said, "It's afraid of you."
"We are very gentle," the little girl said, looking at the rabbit spirit.
The rabbit spirit hesitated at the sound of the little girl's voice and then said softly, "I allow it."
Mu Anxiao frowned at this.
Immediately after, the man in green swept his gaze over the children and stepped forward, saying, "This fellow is mine, how can you touch it as you please." As he spoke, he instantly snatched the rabbit spirit from Mu Anxiao's arms.
Mu Anxiao was stunned.
The children were scared by the man in green's gaze and scattered.
Then, the man in green gently stroked the rabbit spirit's ear and said, "You say I'm heartless, but you're even more heartless than me."
"What did I do?" Mu Anxiao asked.
"You ask what you did. She's here to help me find someone, yet you let those indiscriminate children touch her. I say you have mental problems," the man in green pushed all the blame onto Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao was speechless.
Seeing Mu Anxiao's wronged expression, the rabbit spirit quickly said, "I let them touch me. She didn't agree."
The man in green, surprised that the rabbit spirit spoke for Mu Anxiao, stiffened and said, "From now on, I'll hold her, and you can follow me."
"Men and women should not touch each other," Mu Anxiao said to the man in green.
The man in green tilted his head, "I don't care."
Mu Anxiao found the man in green's flippant attitude exasperating. She then stepped forward and looked down at the rabbit spirit, asking, "Do you agree?"
"It doesn't matter," the rabbit spirit said.
The rabbit spirit's reply was also beyond Mu Anxiao's expectations. Especially seeing the look in the rabbit spirit's eyes as she gazed at the man in green, it seemed she understood something. Mu Anxiao sighed.
"Alright," she said, consciously taking a step back.
The man in green sneered at Mu Anxiao and turned to walk away.
Mu Anxiao was disgusted by his expression, but thinking of the fierce-looking monsters, she couldn't help but follow him with a sense of dread.
Half an hour later...
Mu Anxiao recorded the names, addresses, and birthdates of the girls with spiritual affinity on this street for the man in green.
"Done?" Mu Anxiao asked, putting away her brush.
The man in green gently stroked the rabbit spirit's head and asked, "Are you hungry, my功臣?"
"Hungry," the rabbit spirit said weakly.
"Let's go eat," the man in green said with a smile, giving Mu Anxiao a mischievous grin.
A quarter of an hour later...
Mu Anxiao sat on the steps outside the tavern, gnawing on a steamed bun and glancing at the rabbit spirit beside the man in green inside the tavern, munching on a carrot. She muttered, "I helped too, why do I have to eat steamed buns here? What kind of person is this?"
"Aren't you blind?"
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao's eyes widened. She slowly turned to look at the dog-headed demon with a mischievous grin and then glanced around at the passersby who couldn't see any demons. She gave a dry laugh.
"Mu Anxiao, you're impressive," the dog-headed demon recognized Mu Anxiao at first glance.
Mu Anxiao kept giggling foolishly.
"What are you laughing at?" the dog-headed demon asked, staring at Mu Anxiao's face.
"How do you guys know who I am?" Mu Anxiao asked, still giggling foolishly.
"Want to know?" the dog-headed demon raised an eyebrow.
Mu Anxiao nodded.
"If you want to know, then come with us," the dog-headed demon said, grabbing Mu Anxiao's arm.
Mu Anxiao's body stiffened, and she said, "Tell me, and I'll go."
"I will kill you," the dog-headed demon said, looking directly into Mu Anxiao's eyes at close range.
Mu Anxiao suppressed her inner fear and said, "There's an immortal in this tavern. If you kill me, I guarantee you'll end up worse than your elder brother."
"Fine, I won't kill you for now," the dog-headed demon said.
"How did you know who I was?" Mu Anxiao asked the question again.
Hearing this, the dog-headed demon loosened his grip on Mu Anxiao's arm and said, "It's very simple. Very few people can see us. But since you, a blind person, can answer our questions, that's very suspicious."
"It was the rattan spirit who told you, wasn't it?" Mu Anxiao revealed.
Immediately, a hint of embarrassment appeared on the dog-headed demon's otherwise clever face, "If you know, why ask."
"As long as I don't agree, no one can get my immortal body. Moreover, I'm a woman. You're looking for a female body for your elder brother. Your elder brother," Mu Anxiao looked up at the dog-headed demon's dog-like eyes and said, "Would he agree?"
"Alright then, tell me, where is our elder brother's body?" the dog-headed demon asked coldly.
Mu Anxiao lowered her head and said, "I don't know."
"You don't know?" the dog-headed demon said, grabbing Mu Anxiao by the collar, "Mu Anxiao, you wouldn't not know. Our boss was captured by you."
"I captured him, but I really don't..." Mu Anxiao's gaze swept sideways as she couldn't continue her lie, "I forgot."
"What can you remember?" the dog-headed demon roared.
Mu Anxiao laughed dryly, "I can remember eating, drinking, and sleeping."
Seeing Mu Anxiao's refusal to answer properly, the dog-headed demon raised his fist and punched her in the face.
Mu Anxiao's body leaned to one side as the dog-headed demon struck. The steamed bun in her hand immediately rolled off the steps.
"If I can talk properly, you should talk properly," the dog-headed demon growled.
"You're so bold, daring to shout like that," Mu Anxiao said, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth and bending down to pick up the steamed bun.
The dog-headed demon looked at Mu Anxiao and said, "Forgot to tell you, I'm invisible. No immortal can see me, only you can. She then looked at the little demon beside him, "Take her away."
"Wait," Mu Anxiao said, pushing away the little demon and standing up with the help of a pillar, "I'll go say goodbye to that immortal, and then I'll go with you."
"No..."
"If you don't agree, I'll say there are demons here. That immortal really dislikes demons," Mu Anxiao said, looking up at the dog-headed demon.
Hearing this, the dog-headed demon's gaze swept sideways and he said, "Go ahead."
"Good that you know better," Mu Anxiao said, wiping the blood from her mouth with her hand and stepping over the threshold to stand behind the man in green. "Here you go," she said, taking out the paper with the information about the girls with spiritual affinity from her sleeve.