Mu Xiang watched Wan Sha’s skillful movements with composure. Then, tilting her head back, she glanced at the soul of the first female that had disappeared into the sky and said faintly, "The direction is off."
Hearing Mu Xiang’s mundane reminder, Wan Sha impatiently scratched her cheek, also tilted her head back to look at the sky, yawned, and asked, "What, got a problem?" To hide her awkwardness, she shifted her gaze to fix on Mu Xiang’s face.
Mu Xiang: "I don't have a problem, it's just that you just said to let her find her friends. If you throw her off course like that, she won't be able to find her friends."
"..." Wan Sha was left speechless by Mu Xiang’s words. She glanced at Mu Anxiao’s side, turned, and walked ahead.
Mu Xiang didn't continue the topic. Instead, like Wan Sha, she glanced at Mu Anxiao’s side, then turned to follow Wan Sha, saying, "I want to eat buns."
Wan Sha said as she walked, "Buns aren't good."
"Dumplings."
"Dumplings aren't good."
"Noodles." Mu Xiang quickly caught up to Wan Sha’s pace.
Wan Sha glanced at Mu Xiang walking beside her and smiled, "They're not good. I know a place that’s especially delicious."
"You?" Mu Xiang didn’t believe Wan Sha.
Wan Sha: "What, don't you believe me?"
"Yes," Mu Xiang said, tilting her head back to look at the sky, guessing, "You’re not going to send me back, are you?" She turned her head to look at Wan Sha.
Wan Sha: "So smart."
Upon hearing Wan Sha’s words, Mu Xiang stopped in her tracks.
"..." Wan Sha also stopped, turned her body to look at Mu Xiang, who clearly was unwilling to comply with her wishes, and said, "This means you disagree."
Mu Xiang: "Of course, I disagree. I just got out of there last night, and I even broke that guy’s leg. Sister-in-law must have returned because of this, too. If I go back..." she said, "I'm bound to suffer some... tribulation. Moreover, they're going to marry me off to that idiot in these next couple of days. I'm not going back."
"I've thought about it for you," Wan Sha said suddenly.
Mu Xiang frowned, "What have you thought for me now?"
Wan Sha took a deep breath, "You can’t just walk away like this. If you leave, won’t all the suffering you’ve endured since childhood be in vain? Are you willing... to stop at just breaking his leg?" Her eyes turned grim. "Is that all?"
"You told me to..."
"Today is different from yesterday. Don't worry, I'll be with you. Besides, as you just saw, it's not peaceful outside right now. If your jade's magic isn't enough, then you," Wan Sha interrupted, shaking her head slightly, "will be in big trouble."
"What big trouble?" Mu Xiang suddenly felt that Wan Sha’s words made some sense.
"Didn't you notice that those ghosts are all wearing black clothes?"
"Black..." Mu Xiang echoed the word, looking around with Wan Sha, and finally focusing her gaze on a man in black. "Is that a ghost?" she asked, then withdrew her gaze and looked at Wan Sha.
Wan Sha nodded, "Yes, those ghosts are all solitary souls. They are now in urgent need of a physical body to revive. The two women we just sent flying were for this purpose. Of course," she narrowed her eyes, "there were only two just now, so they were easier to deal with. But imagine if a group comes out, that would be trouble for you and me."
"A group?" Mu Xiang repeated, looking around her surroundings, and asked, "You mean there are many more?"
"Yes, as far as I know, they are being gathered. The safest place right now is your home."
"Why my home?"
"Your grandfather’s connection."
"My grandfather?"
"Yes, your grandfather is still alive, and he’s old. Furthermore, he possesses a unique mark for solitary souls, so they dare not enter. Therefore, that is the safest place."
"Then let's go quickly." Mu Xiang believed Wan Sha’s words.
Wan Sha nodded and left the place with Mu Xiang.
Outside the tavern.
Mu Anxiao looked at the madam’s indifferent face, then at the people who willingly remained silent with the madam, and impatiently asked, "Did you understand?"
After Mu Anxiao spoke, the madam quickly responded with a trembling voice, "I understood."
Mu Anxiao nodded, then glanced at the others present and said, "Don't worry, my friend will not harm you. But if you harm her, don't blame me for being impolite."
Then, a young man stepped forward and said, "My younger brother was captured. You ask us to let her go, but who will let our relatives go?"
Hearing the young man’s words, Mu Anxiao frowned and glanced at the young man, "What do you mean your brother was captured?"
"Just now, as we were walking, we suddenly saw black-clothed men we shouldn't have seen, and then the black-clothed men walked towards us. One of the black-clothed men said my younger brother was very suitable for him, and then... he took my younger brother away."
Black-clothed men?
The young man's explanation triggered Mu Anxiao's memory. She lowered her eyelids slightly. She suddenly realized that Yuan Yan also seemed to be wearing black.
Thinking this, she looked up at the young man and asked tentatively, "Are they all dressed in black?"
"Yes, all the ghosts we saw are dressed in black."
"All dressed in black, then alright, I'll ask you," Mu Anxiao said, turning around and pointing at A Long, who was hiding by the water vat, "Is she wearing black clothes?"
Hearing Mu Anxiao's words, the young man glanced towards A Long and shook his head, "No, but that doesn't prove she's not with those ghosts."
Mu Anxiao looked at the young man, who was still stubbornly trying to blame A Long for everything, and gasped, "If you eliminate her, won't those ghosts still come?"
"..." They fell silent.
The madam, after being threatened by Mu Anxiao, became much more normal. She then raised her hand, wiped the bloodstains from her face, and asked, "Can I get a closer look at her?"
Upon hearing this, A Long curled up even tighter.
Feng Qishi glanced at A Long, then at the madam covered in dog blood, and said, "It's better if you just stay here."
Hearing this, the madam glanced at Feng Qishi and compromised.
Mu Anxiao also glanced at A Long, who was now thoroughly frightened of these people, and then asked the madam, "By the way, have you seen any ghosts?"
The ghosts, it must be said, were rather boring. They captured people, but they also had to set a rule.
The content of that rule was that anyone who saw them had to escape within a quarter of an hour. Those who couldn't escape would fall into their clutches.
Mu Anxiao had heard about these rules from those who had escaped.
However, looking at the madam's bulky physique now, she couldn't help but wonder if the madam was just going with the flow? Perhaps the madam had never actually seen a real ghost?
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