"Sister, I've already screenshotted it. If you don't come pick me up, I'll make your photos public," Yan Ruoruo said playfully, knowing Shi Momo cared about her image.
Hearing this, Shi Momo quickly hung up the phone.
Yan Ruoruo frowned. Just as she was about to speak, her phone vibrated. A smile curved her lips as she answered, "Hello, Sister, do you agree?"
"Send me your school address, and I'll find someone to pick you up."
"Great! But make sure you tell them to ask for leave for me. I don't want to see the teacher."
"Send me your teacher's phone number," Shi Momo said helplessly.
"Okay, wait for me," Yan Ruoruo said, then hung up.
Shi Momo rubbed her already messy hair with a look of annoyance. She sat up and stared at her phone, muttering, "Yan Ruoruo, just you wait until I'm done with you." With that, she got out of bed and started packing. xxs壹贰
Meanwhile, Mu Anxiao had followed Zhang Yan downstairs to Shi Momo's apartment building. Mu Anxiao looked at the still, silent disk and said, "It seems this thing is indeed useless." She then put the disk into her pocket.
"You go up. Call me with this if you need anything," Zhang Yan said, handing Mu Anxiao a feature phone.
Mu Anxiao took the feature phone and frowned. "Why is this phone different from the ones you use?"
"This is a feature phone for elders. Since it's inconvenient for us to communicate, I'm lending you mine. Just press the button with the green phone icon later," Zhang Yan said, pointing to the buttons on the feature phone.
"Got it," Mu Anxiao nodded, holding the phone and looking up at the tall building. "Are there elevators in these buildings like in shopping malls?"
"Oh, you know quite a bit, don't you?" Zhang Yan smiled and said, "She lives on the eighteenth floor. As for the door number, I don't know. Just call out her name."
"What if she's not home?" Mu Anxiao asked casually.
"She'll definitely be there. Go ahead," Zhang Yan said, nodding his chin and turning to sit on a bench by the roadside.
Mu Anxiao glanced at Zhang Yan sideways and mumbled, "Her home is really high up, the eighteenth floor." Then, she followed the flow of people and walked inside.
Upstairs, Shi Momo stood in front of the washbasin in her pajamas, brushing her teeth while admiring her beautiful bare face.
At the same time, Mu Anxiao was already inside the elevator.
"Which floor, young lady?" an auntie beside her suddenly asked.
Mu Anxiao then focused on the numbers that made her dizzy and casually said, "Eighteenth floor." She slowly extended her finger to find the number.
Seeing Mu Anxiao's less-than-skillful movements, the auntie smiled and reached out to press the button for eighteen. "Alright, you can get off when you arrive."
"Thank you," Mu Anxiao said, carefully retracting her finger and nodding.
The auntie smiled without saying anything.
Soon, Mu Anxiao reached the eighteenth floor. She walked out of the elevator, looked left and right, and casually called out, "Shi Momo."
Inside the apartment, Shi Momo immediately heard the voice outside. She quickly put down her toothbrush, then yanked off her towel and casually wiped her mouth. She hurried to the door, opened the anti-theft door, and saw Mu Anxiao directly facing her. She whispered, "Come here."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao turned to look at Shi Momo and was stunned. She walked up to Shi Momo.
Shi Momo asked, "Did Feng Qishi send you?"
"No," Mu Anxiao replied. "You..."
Before she could finish, Shi Momo quickly grabbed her arm, pulled her into the house, closed the door, and turned to look at her. "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
"I didn't know which apartment was yours. If I had known it was this close, I would have knocked," Mu Anxiao said expressionlessly.
"Why are you here to see me?"
"I just wanted to ask you," Mu Anxiao glanced around and asked, "Do you feel anything unusual about your body?"
"No. But speaking of which, you have quite the thick skin. After being beaten up like that yesterday, today," Shi Momo leaned forward and stared at Mu Anxiao's nose, smiling, "you can still come out so shamelessly. Amazing."
"My nose, you can tell?" Mu Anxiao touched her nose and asked.
"You wouldn't be able to tell unless you looked closely," Shi Momo replied.
Mu Anxiao nodded. "Um, are you the only one at home?"
"Let's not talk about that for now. Why are you really here?"
"I'm not here for anything. I just felt..." Mu Anxiao dared not speak directly about the matter of the second evil spirit. After a pause, she said, "I wanted to come and see you."
"We're not familiar with each other, and our previous meeting wasn't pleasant. You coming to find me like this," Shi Momo said, crossing her arms, "makes me feel uneasy."
"I am..." Mu Anxiao was speechless.
"Alright," Shi Momo said, picking up her phone to check the time. Then, inspiration struck, and she suddenly said, "I know. You feel that Feng Qishi was disrespectful to me the last two times and specifically came to apologize on Feng Qishi's behalf. Of course, I'm a reasonable person. Now, you go and do something for me. When you come back, we'll talk properly."
"What is it?" Mu Anxiao asked casually.
"Just this: my sister is feeling unwell. Go to her school to pick her up and meet me at a certain shopping mall."
"If she's unwell, shouldn't she go to the hospital?" Mu Anxiao asked.
"My sister's discomfort is different from others. Anyway, don't ask questions. Just go pick her up for me, and ask her teacher for leave. When you get back, we can talk about anything." Shi Momo said, stepping aside and opening the door.
"I don't know the place, and how should I contact the teacher you mentioned."
Hearing Mu Anxiao's question, Shi Momo realized she hadn't been thorough enough. She extended her hand. "Give me your phone."
"What are you doing?"
"I don't like giving my phone number to people I'm not familiar with. I'll save everything to the phone for you to look at when you get there," Shi Momo said, still extending her hand.
Seeing Shi Momo acting so normally, Mu Anxiao confirmed that the second evil spirit had not yet succeeded. To observe Shi Momo more closely, she cooperated by taking out the feature phone Zhang Yan had given her.
"Is this your phone?" Shi Momo's mouth twitched.
"Yes," Mu Anxiao nodded and handed the phone to Shi Momo.
Shi Momo took the phone and was stunned the moment she lit up the screen. "Is this old man your grandfather?" she asked, holding the phone up to Mu Anxiao's eyes.
Mu Anxiao looked at Zhang Yan making a scissor gesture on the screen and nodded.
"Your grandfather is quite peculiar," Shi Momo said. She tapped on the message section and then quickly used her own phone to input Yan Ruoruo's address and phone number into the feature phone. "Done," she said, handing the phone back to Mu Anxiao.