"I do like your respectful attitude toward me," the wolf demon said, pointing at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao gave a dry laugh, "What do you mean?"
The wolf demon smiled, "It's simple. This is enough to prove that you are still a good-for-nothing, an old fossil. That way, it's even more convenient to bully you."
Mu Anxiao looked at the wolf demon's slightly upturned lips, speechless.
In the next moment, the young man stopped by the table, holding a teapot, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to know so many people." As he spoke, he turned to look at the wolf demon.
The wolf demon tilted his head up to look at the young man's flippant demeanor, then glanced at Mu Anxiao and asked, "Who is this?"
"The waiter," Mu Anxiao said with a smile.
Upon hearing this, the young man turned to look at Mu Anxiao's playful expression towards the wolf demon and couldn't help but smile, "You're scared, aren't you?"
Mu Anxiao glared at the young man and asked, "Why are you here? Go find somewhere cool to hang out."
"I came because I had nothing else to do," the young man said, looking down at the wolf demon. "Tell me what you want to eat, and I'll get it for you."
The wolf demon looked at the young man's smiling face with interest, then glanced at Mu Anxiao and said, "What I want to eat is right in front of me."
"Right in front of you?" The young man tugged at his earlobe and chuckled, "Oh, I get it. You want to eat this, right?" He pointed at the meat on the table.
The wolf demon shook his head.
"Then you want to eat... vegetables?" the young man asked uncertainly.
The wolf demon smiled at the young man, "Do you believe me if I say I want to eat you?"
"Me?" The young man was truly startled and pointed at himself, "Brother, are you kidding me?"
"I'm not kidding. My favorite delicacy is human flesh," the wolf demon said with a smile.
The young man chuckled nervously and took a step back, "I'm too thin. I'll be going then." With that, he turned and quickly left.
The wolf demon let out a soft chuckle.
Mu Anxiao glanced at the young man's retreating back, then looked at the wolf demon and asked, "Did you really want to eat him?"
"I don't have that habit," the wolf demon said plainly.
Mu Anxiao breathed a sigh of relief, "So you were just scaring him."
"I was scaring him, but I never intended to scare you," the wolf demon said.
Mu Anxiao swallowed a couple of times and said, "I know, I know." As she spoke, she turned and called out to Lu Bing, who was passing by, "Lu Bing, come here for a moment."
Hearing this, Lu Bing turned to look at Mu Anxiao, "What do you need?"
"I..." Mu Anxiao uttered the word, then her gaze fell on the chopstick holder on the table. Shaking her head, she said, "It's nothing."
"Oh," Lu Bing nodded, smiled at the wolf demon, and walked away.
The wolf demon's brow furrowed, and he looked at Mu Anxiao, asking, "Was he just smiling at me?"
"Yes, he's that guy's junior disciple," Mu Anxiao explained.
"Junior disciple?" the wolf demon exclaimed in surprise.
"They are disciples of the cultivation sect. This time, you're not allowed to have any designs on them," Mu Anxiao warned.
"I know. I stumbled upon them in my previous life. It won't happen this time," the wolf demon said, narrowing his eyes and covering his face with his mask again.
Mu Anxiao calmly watched the wolf demon tie his mask, then looked at the hat on his head and asked, "By the way, do you need to be so mysterious?" "I have to be mysterious," the wolf demon said.
"Truly worthy of being a wolf demon. Your methods are beyond me," Mu Anxiao said, pointing at the wolf demon's hat and asking, "Has your hair grown out?"
"No," the wolf demon shook his head.
"That's right, no matter what, you're using Hu Yuan's body. You..." Mu Anxiao stopped mid-sentence, suddenly remembering the body that was cremated in place of Hu Yuan, and froze.
"What's wrong?" the wolf demon asked, seeing Mu Anxiao's strange expression.
Mu Anxiao blinked and said, "That day... did the vine demon conjure a body?"
"Yes, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to leave," the wolf demon said indifferently.
"Do you remember the appearance of that body?" Mu Anxiao asked, thinking of the gecko.
The wolf demon shook his head, "I don't remember."
"Is that so?" Mu Anxiao said absentmindedly, internally praying that the body cremated was not the gecko.
"Why are you acting so strange?" the wolf demon asked.
Mu Anxiao shook her head, "It's nothing. I'm eating." Then, she picked up a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick holder and started eating.
Seeing that Mu Anxiao was unhappy, the wolf demon said nothing more.
A few minutes later...
Mu Anxiao looked up at the silent wolf demon and asked, "You're not angry that I'm not talking?"
"Why should I be angry?" the wolf demon retorted.
"You're not acting so volatile anymore," Mu Anxiao exclaimed in surprise.
"Volatile, yes," the wolf demon sighed. "Since I got Hu Yuan's body, I've found myself calming down. Many things no longer make me angry, including being wronged. I don't even think about killing anymore."
"Wronged?" Mu Anxiao repeated, frowning, "What wrong?"
The wolf demon's eyes flickered and he said, "Oh, nothing, nothing."
"I feel like you're acting strange. In other words, I feel like you didn't come to find me to kill me?" Mu Anxiao asked, holding her chopsticks and scanning the wolf demon's mysterious attire.
The wolf demon lowered his head.
"Did something happen to you?" Mu Anxiao asked with a frown.
The wolf demon hesitated and asked, "If I tell you, can you help me?"
"Didn't you come here for my help?" Mu Anxiao asked.
The wolf demon said, "I came to stay at the inn. Who knew I'd see you, and then my dissatisfaction with you instantly flooded my heart. Who knew you wouldn't recognize me? How awkward."
"Do you still have any dissatisfaction with me?" Mu Anxiao asked again.
The wolf demon turned his face away and said, "It's awkward. How could I still be dissatisfied?"
"That's good," Mu Anxiao muttered.
This time, the wolf demon didn't pretend to be deaf. Instead, he asked directly, "That's good, you mean? How afraid are you that I'll kill you?"
"You heard me," Mu Anxiao said with a smile.
"I'm a wolf... man. My hearing must be better than ordinary people's. If I can't hear what you're saying, then I'd be disrespecting my ancestors," the wolf demon said exaggeratedly.
"You're even bringing up ancestors. You're something else," Mu Anxiao chuckled.
"Setting aside other things, can you really help me?" the wolf demon asked.
"If it's something that doesn't require magic, I can. But..." Mu Anxiao smiled, "If it requires magic, then forget it. You know my situation."
"It doesn't require magic," the wolf demon shook his head.