Suddenly, the moment they had both put their emotions aside, the door creaked open as the wind blew it ajar. Hearing the sound, Hei Qi and Hei Gu quickly let go of their recent 'grudge' and looked at each other. "What's going on?" Hei Gu asked urgently.
"It's a demonic wind," Hei Qi summarized simply and turned towards the door.
As the wind began to stir, Feng Qi Shi watched Hei Qi walk towards the door and frowned slightly. "This demonic wind is likely not related to your master," he said, walking up behind Hei Qi who had stopped at the door.
Hei Qi nodded. "You are correct, it is indeed not related to the master." He turned to look at Feng Qi Shi.
Hei Gu sniffed the pervasive demonic energy in the air and said, "It's... no, this isn't just demonic energy, it's... resentment." She quickly moved to Feng Qi Shi's side. Yu Xiaosheng.
Feng Qi Shi glanced at Hei Gu, who had suddenly become serious, and remained silent.
"It's souls," Hei Qi stated calmly.
"Souls..." Feng Qi Shi uttered the word, thought for a moment, and continued, "Are the souls you speak of... the souls that have lost consciousness?"
"You know quite a lot," Hei Gu exclaimed in surprise.
Feng Qi Shi: "..." He looked towards Hei Qi.
Hei Gu, seeing Feng Qi Shi's deliberate act of ignoring her, snorted lightly and said, "It seems you and Mu An Xiao have secretly learned a lot about us behind our backs."
"Know yourself and your enemy, and you will win a hundred battles. You understand this principle, and we..." Feng Qi Shi started to say, but suddenly thought of his relationship with Mu An Xiao, and his heart skipped a beat. "We naturally understand it too."
"The two words we used are now a thing of the past, aren't they?" Hei Gu said deliberately.
"You should say less," Hei Qi said, unable to stand Hei Gu's demeanor, and deliberately tried to shift the topic for Feng Qi Shi.
"This matter is probably not related to us either," Hei Gu said indifferently, not taking the 'demonic energy' outside seriously at all.
On the contrary, Hei Qi took it very seriously and said, "It is not related, but this resentment spreading out is not a good thing."
"How..." Hei Gu stopped mid-sentence as a roar suddenly came from outside. Hearing the sound, Hei Gu immediately withdrew her words and became angry. "The people in this mansion are truly undisciplined." She then looked at Feng Qi Shi.
Feng Qi Shi said coldly, "You are not very disciplined yourself."
"You..."
"That's not human shouting," Hei Qi interrupted Hei Gu.
Upon hearing this, Hei Gu looked at Hei Qi with disdain. "If it's not human shouting, what is it, you..."
"Ah... help me, General, help me."
"Someone is calling you," Hei Gu, startled by the sudden cry for help from outside.
"I'll go see," Feng Qi Shi said, stepping forward and bypassing Hei Qi as he ran outside.
Then, Hei Qi said, "I'll go see too. You wait for us here."
"What do you think it is?" Hei Gu asked urgently.
Hei Qi looked at Hei Gu's flustered expression, hesitated, and said, "I'm not sure, but I know it's definitely related to souls." He then turned to leave.
Seeing this, Hei Gu quickly stopped him again. "Weren't those souls taken out by Gu Yan? How did they appear here?" She strode forward and grabbed Hei Qi's arm.
Hei Qi's body stiffened. He stared at the confused Hei Gu and said calmly, "There are some things I can explain to you, but some things, you still have to figure out yourself." He lowered his head to look at the arm Hei Gu was holding. "Let go."
"But..."
"Sometimes, just having a pleasing mouth isn't enough. Of course, I don't know about other things, but I do know," Hei Qi became unusually serious, "this matter is not as simple as you think." After speaking, worried that Hei Gu wouldn't let go, he gently pushed her hand away and turned to leave.
After Hei Qi said those words, Hei Gu remembered her own playful nature during the mission, and... she also recalled her own baseless complaints to Ouyang Ye. She muttered, "Is it wrong for me to be playful?" At that moment, a gust of demonic wind suddenly blew in. Immediately after, she lost her balance and fell backward onto the ground.
However, it was this fall that made Hei Gu realize something was wrong. "Not good," she muttered, glancing at the hand she had propped herself up with behind her, then quickly got up and rushed out.
Outside, the demonic wind raged.
Feng Qi Shi and Hei Qi stopped in place, raising their arms to shield themselves from the wind, while looking at two 'transparent monsters' opposite them, who were spreading their arms and conjuring the wind, frowning.
"What is that?" Feng Qi Shi had never seen it before and was a bit bewildered.
Conversely, Hei Qi recognized the two figures at a glance. "They are souls," he said, looking at Feng Qi Shi with difficulty.
"Souls... souls without consciousness."
"Yes," Hei Qi nodded.
"What should we do? Do you know?" Feng Qi Shi asked, feeling lost.
Hei Qi shook his head. "I haven't seen corrupted souls before, but what I'm wondering now is," he said, leaning forward slightly, keeping himself in place, "where did they come from."
"You said Gu Yan was managing them..."
"Yes, the master handed these souls over to Gu Yan. At first, they were all within the mansion, but after some things happened..." Hei Qi paused for a few seconds and then a realization dawned on him. "I remember now, these are two souls that were forgotten here. At that time, I vaguely heard Gu Yan say that two were missing."
"How did they get corrupted?"
"Perhaps, something happened to those souls, and under their influence, these two souls also became corrupted," Hei Qi said, reaching out and grabbing Feng Qi Shi's arm. "Now, we must subdue them, otherwise, they will harm others."
"One for me, one for you," Feng Qi Shi arranged.
"Alright, as long as we control them with our magic," Hei Qi said, walking towards them against the wind.
Feng Qi Shi followed closely.
In the alley, Ouyang Ye and the others were blocked at the entrance by obstacles like tables and chairs that fell from the sky. Due to the obstacles, Ouyang Ye had no idea where to start. There was nothing he could do but lead Mu An Xiao, Hun Ling, and Jia to stand there and figure things out.
"Why is this demonic wind so strong," Mu An Xiao said, looking up at the various objects blown into the air and chuckling. "If you continue to ignore it, Yuan Xian will know your location. Then, what will you do?" She deliberately tried to scare Ouyang Ye by mentioning Yuan Xian.
Ouyang Ye cast a sideways glance at Mu An Xiao. "You should really say less."
"What I'm saying is the truth," Mu An Xiao stated firmly.
As Mu An Xiao and Ouyang Ye conversed, Hun Ling and Jia exchanged a glance. Then, Jia, with a flash of inspiration, said, "How about you go take a look?" He looked at Hun Ling.
Hun Ling hesitated.
Immediately after, Mu An Xiao, seizing on Jia's words, shifted her gaze to Hun Ling's face.