Mu Anxiao was also inexplicably surprised by their unified silence.
"I said, why aren't you two talking to me?" She looked at Feng Qishi and Piao respectively.
Immediately, Piao and Feng Qishi exchanged glances. Feng Qishi said, "I thought you would be worried about those people's safety, but I didn't expect you to say something different from what I was thinking."
"Right," Piao agreed.
Mu Anxiao looked at both of them again and said, "I've never seen you so in sync before." With that, she walked ahead.
Piao said, "You think the same way."
Feng Qishi glanced at Piao and said nothing.
Ahead, Mu Anxiao walked, sensing the situation around her.
Feng Qishi and Piao followed her obediently.
After a while, Mu Anxiao suddenly stopped, looked left and right at the shops with their doors closed, and muttered, "Strange, these shops shouldn't be closed?" As she spoke, she suddenly felt something under her foot.
Then, she took a step back, looked down, and saw it was a money bag.
"Silver," she mumbled, squatting down to pick up the money bag. Upon seeing it, she exclaimed, "Xiao Zeng."
"What's wrong?" Feng Qishi asked, stopping behind Mu Anxiao.
"This belongs to Xiao Zeng," Mu Anxiao said, standing up and holding the money bag in front of Feng Qishi's face.
Feng Qishi glanced at it and said, "Wasn't he in the ruined temple?"
Mu Anxiao guessed, "Did a thief break into the ruined temple?"
Feng Qishi said, "A thief breaking into that place? Unlikely!"
"Then..." Mu Anxiao weighed the money bag in her hand, "What's going on?"
Feng Qishi thought for a moment and said, "We'll know if we go back and take a look."
"Okay," Mu Anxiao nodded.
Piao, listening to their conversation, was also confused.
"What are you talking about?" he asked.
Mu Anxiao put away the money bag and looked at Piao, saying, "Alright, you can go back now."
"What do you mean?"
Mu Anxiao patiently said, "It means, what happens next is our business, and it has nothing to do with you. You can go back and rest."
"I haven't done anything yet, and you're telling me to leave?" Piao feigned surprise.
Mu Anxiao said, "There's nothing for you to do anyway. Besides, you don't want to help humans, right? If that's the case, I won't trouble you. What, you're unhappy that you're not being asked to do anything?"
Piao hesitated and said, "To be honest, I came because I wanted to help you."
"No need," Mu Anxiao shook her head.
"I..."
"One more Piao means one more person, Mu Shazi, why are you refusing?" Feng Qishi interrupted.
The reason Mu Anxiao wanted to send Piao away was because they were going back to the ruined temple, and Chen was currently there. If Chen met Piao, it would cause more trouble. Therefore, she didn't want Piao to go, to avoid unnecessary complications.
Who would have thought that Feng Qishi, this meddlesome fellow, would butt in, leaving her speechless.
Helplessly, she had to compromise, "Alright, but on the condition that you don't enter the ruined temple."
"I wouldn't go into such a dirty place."
"Just don't get curious," Mu Anxiao pointed at Piao.
Piao snorted.
Mu Anxiao glared at Piao and walked ahead.
Feng Qishi looked at Piao's arrogant expression and asked, "Hey, are you really here to help us?"
Hearing this, Piao and Feng Qishi walked and talked. "Of course. Listening to you, I realized I was speaking a bit too harshly, so I want to make amends."
"I never thought you, a demon, would have a heart," Feng Qishi said with his hands behind his back.
Piao turned his face and said, "If I didn't have a heart, could I still be alive?"
"I'm really curious, is your heart black or red?"
"Black heart is just a saying. I think... there shouldn't be a black heart."
"What you said makes sense, but I think your heart is black," Feng Qishi said lightly.
Piao pondered Feng Qishi's words, then looked down at his chest and asked innocently, "Why do you say that?"
Feng Qishi said, "You've killed countless people, and you're cold-blooded. How can your heart still be red?"
Piao: "...."
In all these years, no one had ever spoken to Piao so directly. Therefore, Feng Qishi's words made Piao fall into thought.
After a while, they arrived outside the ruined temple.
Mu Anxiao stopped, turned to Piao, and said, "You wait here."
"I know," Piao nodded.
Mu Anxiao glared at Piao, then turned and walked into the ruined temple.
Feng Qishi patted Piao's shoulder and followed Mu Anxiao.
At first, Piao couldn't figure out where Mu Anxiao and Feng Qishi lived.
At this moment... Upon glancing at the place, he was quite disgusted.
"This place is too... casual," he scanned the surroundings and took a few steps back.
At the same time, Feng Qishi closed the door.
Seeing this, Piao felt a sense of isolation, but looking at the environment, he didn't say anything.
Inside the temple, Mu Anxiao walked gracefully to Lin Yan's bedside, then bent down and forcefully pushed Lin Yan's arm, calling out, "Wake up for me."
Following that, Lin Yan's eyelids moved, and when he opened his eyes, he was so scared that his body trembled, saying, "You're back."
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao straightened up.
Lin Yan yawned, sat up, and asked, "Where is Xiao Zeng?"
"Wasn't Xiao Zeng with you?" Mu Anxiao asked calmly, concealing her inner worry.
Lin Yan said, "He went out."
"You let him go?" Mu Anxiao asked again, her hands already clenched into fists.
At the same time, Lin Yan cautiously glanced at Mu Anxiao's clenched fists and said, "I... I just wanted to eat pastries, so I told him to go buy them, but I gave him travel expenses."
"I told you, you're not allowed to bully him. Did you forget?" Mu Anxiao asked coldly.
After the events of that morning, Lin Yan had developed a fear of Mu Anxiao. Especially seeing her eyes deliberately widened, he was even more intimidated.
"I... I gave him travel expenses, and he was quite happy about it, but..." Lin Yan leaned back, "I'm also puzzled, why hasn't he returned yet?"
Mu Anxiao knew that scaring Lin Yan was useless, so she straightened up and asked, "How long has he been out?"
"He's... been out for over an hour."
"So long," Mu Anxiao said. Thinking about the situation in the market, she thought: It seems Xiao Zeng is really in trouble.
Lin Yan looked at Mu Anxiao's thoughtful expression and asked with a trembling voice, "Is something going to happen to Xiao Zeng?"
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao shifted her gaze back to Lin Yan's face, "If something happens, can you take responsibility?"
"I..."
Lin Yan uttered one word, and Mu Anxiao raised her hand and forcefully chopped at the back of Lin Yan's neck. Lin Yan fainted.
Feng Qishi glanced at Lin Yan, who had fainted and lay down by himself, then looked at Mu Anxiao and asked, "Why did you knock him out?"