The black-clad demon’s playful demeanor vanished upon hearing this.
Xu Lanyan glanced at Mu Anxiao, remaining silent.
The rat demons also fell silent, making no move to confront any of the rabbit spirits.
At the doorway, Piao glanced at them in the woodshed and said, "Alright, let's go."
"Okay," Mu Anxiao replied, frowning as he looked at Feng Qishi, who was staring at him.
Feng Qishi remarked, "It was already crowded here. With so many rats brought in, it's even more so."
"What do you want?" Mu Anxiao asked impolitely.
"Take them away. They aren't welcome here," Feng Qishi said, deliberately looking for trouble.
Mu Anxiao’s brow furrowed. "This isn't your territory, so don't think too highly of yourself."
Feng Qishi feigned speechlessness.
Mu Anxiao shot Feng Qishi a glare, then turned to Xu Lanyan. "You'd better not make any more unnecessary moves, or I won't be polite to you."
"You're just a good-for-nothing," Xu Lanyan said intentionally.
"You..." Mu Anxiao spat out the word, putting on a defiant expression. "I might be a good-for-nothing, but he isn't." He gestured to Piao with his side.
Piao, not wanting to get involved, said, "It's all settled, let's leave."
"Okay," Mu Anxiao agreed casually, glared at Xu Lanyan, and turned to follow Piao.
Following them, Xu Lanyan sighed.
The female rat demon glared at the rabbit spirits before her, about to speak, when Feng Qishi said, "It's best not to take any further action."
Hearing this, the female rat demon looked at Feng Qishi, then recalling his confrontational attitude towards Mu Anxiao earlier, she retracted her provocative stance.
The maid rabbit looked at Xu Lanyan and said, "You're too honest, aren't you?"
Xu Lanyan looked at the maid rabbit. "You heard me."
"Mmm, you said you were here to save them," the maid rabbit said, pointing at the rat demons.
A smile touched Xu Lanyan's lips, and he offered no reply.
The black-clad demon asked, "Why did you say that?"
"The Great Demon dislikes being lied to the most. By saying that, he won't feel anything because," Xu Lanyan glanced at the rat demons, "he doesn't even take these guys seriously."
Feng Qishi looked at Xu Lanyan's behavior with a helpless shake of his head.
"Why are you shaking your head?" Xu Lanyan walked up to Feng Qishi and asked.
Feng Qishi said, "Simple matters were made so complicated by you all. Seeing it makes me speechless."
"That's true," Xu Lanyan nodded.
Then, the female rat demon turned to the fake male rat demon number one and said, "It's all your fault. If you hadn't done that, we would have left long ago."
"How do you plan to leave?" the maid rabbit asked.
The female rat demon knitted her brows, glanced at the maid rabbit, and said rudely, "None of your business."
The maid rabbit was left speechless.
Xu Lanyan glanced at the maid rabbit, recalling the explanation from the fake male rat demon number one earlier. "You know that Dog Head is at the back door?"
The fake male rat demon number one looked at Xu Lanyan and nodded. "Mmm."
"Do you hate him?" Xu Lanyan suddenly asked.
The fake male rat demon number one froze.
The second male rat demon asked, "You're his subordinate. Won't he see through you?"
Hearing this, the fake male rat demon number one looked at the second male rat demon. "I just wanted to curry favor with him, and then..."
"Rather than currying favor, I find battling him for a few hundred rounds more satisfying," the third male rat demon said.
The fake male rat demon number one was rendered speechless.
"I'm sorry about earlier," the second female rat demon said to Xu Lanyan.
Xu Lanyan stretched lazily and said, "Just as this guy said," he glanced at Feng Qishi, "what was supposed to be simple has become so complicated, and we even got captured. We're really unlucky."
"Indeed," the black-clad demon agreed with Xu Lanyan and nodded.
Xu Lanyan glanced at the black-clad demon. "Alright, I believe Mu Anxiao will find a way."
"Mmm," the black-clad demon nodded.
"Is that Mu Anxiao?" the female rat demon asked in surprise.
"You know her?" Xu Lanyan asked, looking at the female rat demon.
A shadow fell in the female rat demon's eyes. "I wouldn't say I know her, but I've heard of her. My grandmother told me."
"She's quite famous," Xu Lanyan said with a smile.
The other rat demons remained silent.
Then, the second female rat demon said, "We're done for."
"What's wrong?" the black-clad demon asked the second female rat demon.
"Mu Anxiao is a girl who captures demons without blinking. Now that she's working for the Great Demon, aren't we finished?" the second female rat demon said with concern.
Xu Lanyan and Feng Qishi remained silent.
Seeing that Xu Lanyan and Feng Qishi said nothing, the black-clad demon also kept quiet.
The maid rabbit said, "Without her, you wouldn't have survived at all."
Hearing this, the second female rat demon looked at the maid rabbit. "What do you know?"
"The Great Demon kills without batting an eye. In other words," the first rabbit spirit said with determined eyes, "he spared you purely out of respect for Mu Anxiao."
"Mu Anxiao..."
"If you say Mu Anxiao is that kind of person, then I ask you, did she capture you?" the second rabbit spirit asked.
The rat demons were silenced.
"The difficult one now is her," the maid rabbit said.
Feng Qishi looked at the maid rabbit speaking up for Mu Anxiao, feeling a wave of relief in his heart.
"What do you mean by that?" the female rat demon walked up to the maid rabbit.
"The Great Demon will surely make Mu Anxiao kill you. So, isn't she in a difficult position?" the maid rabbit said coldly.
"You..."
"Last year, you all saw the Great Demon kill demons, right?" the maid rabbit interrupted.
Immediately, the rat demons fell into deep thought, and then the female rat demon said, "Without blinking."
"Once a demon is targeted by him, none of them survive. Just like you," the maid rabbit pointed at them.
"Us?" the female rat demon blinked in surprise.
The maid rabbit nodded. "The only difference is that he has handed your lives over to Mu Anxiao. This might be a way to train her."
"How do you know so much about the Great Demon?" Xu Lanyan asked the maid rabbit in surprise.
The maid rabbit said, "No matter what, I've always been by the Rabbit Queen's side. Although there's some distance, I've heard about many things."
"Why did the Rabbit Queen capture us?" the female rat demon asked.
The maid rabbit said, "I can't tell you that."
"Does she think we have rebellious intentions?" the second male rat demon said.
The maid rabbit was rendered speechless.
The third male rat demon said, "It must be so. Otherwise, the Rabbit Queen wouldn't be so heartless. Of course, if I'm not mistaken, the one who stirred up trouble in this matter," he deliberately glanced at the fake male rat demon number one, "must be that Dog Head."
The fake male rat demon number one lowered his head.
The second female rat demon still had no intention of letting the fake male rat demon number one off. "If it weren't for you earlier, we wouldn't have been discovered at all. It's all because of you. It was you last time too."
"Last time?" the female rat demon repeated, her eyes widening.