The dog, upon hearing the elder woman's words, swiftly circled around to the front of the female ghost.
The female ghost looked down at the dog, which was wholeheartedly protecting her, and her eyes darkened. She then looked back at the elder woman, "I only wanted to see it. I never intended to harm you. Why... won't you let me go?"
"I've made myself clear. Since you like this dog so much, fine, I'll kill both of you."
Not far away.
Mu Anxiao watched the elder woman's wicked side, then glanced at the bullied female ghost. She clenched her fists, about to speak, when Feng Qishi quickly reached out and covered her mouth, "You cannot speak."
Mu Anxiao: "..." She stared intently at Feng Qishi's face.
Feng Qishi: "You want to save the dog."
Mu Anxiao nodded.
Feng Qishi: "A dead dog cannot be resurrected. You have no right to alter its fate, because you live in the future."
The past cannot be tampered with arbitrarily. Mu Anxiao knew this better than anyone. But seeing the female ghost, who was bullied by the elder woman even in death, she had such a thought. At the same time, her thought was dispelled by Feng Qishi's words.
"..." She tugged at Feng Qishi's arm.
Feng Qishi: "If you don't intervene, I'll let go."
Mu Anxiao nodded.
Seeing Mu Anxiao compromise, Feng Qishi stopped and lowered his hand.
On the other side, as the dog's soul had recounted, it shielded its owner from the hoe to prevent them from getting hurt. The female ghost, not wanting it to die, quickly reached out and grabbed the hoe. As golden light spread, the female ghost's hand began to corrode.
Seeing this, the elder woman took out a water flask from her embrace, chuckled twice, and said, "Go to hell, you." With that, she unscrewed the cap and splashed the dog's blood inside towards the female ghost. The female ghost vanished.
This scene was exactly as the elder woman had described. The difference was that the elder woman felt no fear; instead, she showed a triumphant smile.
Then, the elder woman beat the dog to death before their very eyes.
Along cried.
The dog's soul lowered its head, no longer daring to look at its past self.
Mu Anxiao, unintentionally, recalled her own actions before coming here, including her defense of the ruthless elder woman, and felt a pang of guilt.
The next second, she shed tears.
Immediately after, she gradually revealed herself.
Feng Qishi looked at Mu Anxiao, his face filled with apprehension, "You can reveal yourself by crying?" he asked. Glancing at the elder woman leaving with the dog, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Mu Anxiao: "I'm going to find that female ghost."
"What are you going to find her for?"
"I want to save her. If I'm not mistaken," Mu Anxiao turned and looked at the hoe abandoned by the elder woman, "the curse on that hoe can only be used once. Her owner just touched it, so there shouldn't be much of a problem yet."
Hearing Mu Anxiao wanted to save her owner, the dog's soul wagged its tail happily and barked.
Mu Anxiao looked down at the dog's soul, "I don't know how far I can go, but I will definitely not let your owner dissipate into nothingness."
The dog's soul barked twice.
Feng Qishi: "I advise you not to speak too soon."
"I have already changed the past."
"What do you mean?" Feng Qishi didn't understand.
Mu Anxiao: "Think about it yourself." With that, she turned and walked towards the houses not far away.
Taking inspiration from Mu Anxiao's words, Feng Qishi recalled the elder woman's disappearance not long ago and was startled, "The one who took the elder woman away, was it really its owner?" He caught up with Mu Anxiao.
"Yes, if it weren't for me, how could her injuries have healed?"
"Perhaps it was someone else."
"It must have been me," Mu Anxiao firmly believed, looking down at the dog's soul, "It was wrong of me not to trust you just now."
The dog's soul walked beside Mu Anxiao, wagging its tail.
"You're so narcissistic," Feng Qishi said, looking down at the magic in his hand and sighing, "Silly Mu, the truth is, it really wasn't you." He raised his hand.
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao tutted twice, turned to look at the magic slowly dissipating in Feng Qishi's palm, her eyes widened. She looked down at her own body gradually disappearing, and a twitch ran across her lips, "Uh, as expected, I was being narcissistic." With that, they vanished into the past.
Soon, they returned outside the tavern.
"Silly Mu!" Feng Qishi stood in place, leisurely tidying his clothes, then looked down at Mu Anxiao who was lying on the ground, saying, "Narcissism is not good."
Mu Anxiao looked up, "Then why did she get better?"
"What do you think?" Feng Qishi tilted his chin, deliberately shifting his face towards the shop door.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao pushed herself up from the ground and said, "It doesn't make sense."
"How so?"
"..." Mu Anxiao glanced at the empty road, took a step forward, and whispered, "They can see ghosts, and it hasn't been an hour yet, so..." She frowned mid-sentence.
"What is it?"
Mu Anxiao thought about the weather over there, then looked up at the gloomy sky and said, "No, the wind was strong yesterday, but there's hardly any wind today."
"Continue." Feng Qishi guided Mu Anxiao's train of thought.
Mu Anxiao pondered, "If that's the case... the elder woman acted yesterday."
"Yes, if it were today, there wouldn't be enough time to deal with the dog's blood and its corpse," Feng Qishi looked down at the dog's soul, "there simply wouldn't be enough time."
"Makes sense." Mu Anxiao agreed with Feng Qishi's viewpoint, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Then, who do you think saved her?"
She was referring to the female ghost, the dog's first owner.
"I've already given you a hint," Feng Qishi said with his arms crossed.
Mu Anxiao looked at Feng Qishi's mysterious demeanor and suddenly had an epiphany, her mouth opening slightly. She whispered, "Thinking about it this way, he is indeed suspicious."
"Mhm." Feng Qishi was very pleased with how Mu Anxiao was following his lead.
Mu Anxiao thought about it and shook her head slightly, "That doesn't seem right either."
"What is it now?"
"If it was yesterday..." Mu Anxiao took a deep breath, "They couldn't see ghosts yesterday, they only started seeing them today."
"The elder woman saw them early, otherwise, how could she have prepared the dog's blood?"
"..." Mu Anxiao fell into thought.
Feng Qishi looked at Mu Anxiao's expression and remained silent.
Along looked from Mu Anxiao to Feng Qishi and casually interjected, "Making someone see ghosts is a type of sorcery, and it requires trials."
"Trials..." Mu Anxiao unintentionally repeated the word Alon g spoke, and her mind gradually cleared, "I know."
"Speak." Feng Qishi was curious.
"He had already locked onto its owner. In other words, that guy was using its owner and the deeply hateful elder woman as practice."
Feng Qishi: "Continue."
"On the surface, its owner was dispersed by the dog's blood, but in reality, she was taken away. Along the way, he healed her, thus using the scene of the elder woman killing the dog to ignite her hatred towards the elder woman."
"..." Feng Qishi nodded.
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