"A love token?" Hong Yan exclaimed in surprise.
Feng Qi Shi narrowed his eyes into slits. "Can you stop talking nonsense? It was your cowardice, you silly Mu, that forced me to give it to you."
"Where is she?" Hong Yan asked anxiously.
"Oh, she's outside," Shi Yi said with a smile.
Seeing Shi Yi's nonchalant demeanor, Hong Yan lost the inclination to continue conversing with him and turned back to Feng Qi Shi. "We need to leave quickly."
"Actually, I'm quite afraid of dying, but it might not be appropriate to just go out like this," Shi Yi said, glancing at the invisible Feng Qi Shi.
Immediately, Feng Qi Shi touched Hong Yan's head again. "Okay, I'll listen to you." With that, he reached out, picked Hong Yan up, and tucked her inside his clothes.
Shi Yi watched Feng Qi Shi's actions in astonishment and asked, "Brother, you're invisible, how can you move her?" He pointed at Hong Yan, who was nestled in Feng Qi Shi's arms.
"I can touch anyone who can see me. Of course, only I can touch you all," Feng Qi Shi's lips curved into an arc. "You all can't touch me."
"Show-off," Shi Yi pouted.
"Alright, stop sitting, get up," Feng Qi Shi said, standing up.
Shi Yi sighed, stood up very slowly, and scanned the surroundings. "Tell me, how should we get out?"
Feng Qi Shi looked to both sides, a smile tugging at the corner of his lips. "Shout."
"Shout?" Shi Yi's mind wasn't as quick as Feng Qi Shi's.
Feng Qi Shi curled his lips. "Shout that Hong Yan ran away." He then pointed towards the small window opposite the door, and it creaked open slightly on its own.
Shi Yi turned to look at the window and said, "You really are a master thief."
"Of course, but," Feng Qi Shi's lips curved, "I can't be as much of a thief as you, you rat spirit."
"You..."
"Stop 'you'-ing me. Hurry, Mu An Xiao can't do without this," Hong Yan said from Feng Qi Shi's embrace, her rabbit head peeking out.
"It's not that serious, is it!" Shi Yi chuckled.
Hong Yan's expression was serious. "If Mu An Xiao doesn't have this, she'll be easily discovered by demons. If I've explained it this clearly and you still don't understand, then I can only say you have a problem with your brain."
Feng Qi Shi understood Hong Yan's words and said anxiously, "Rat spirit, she's explained it so clearly, hurry up."
Hong Yan glanced at Feng Qi Shi, retracted her rabbit head back into his embrace, and he held her protectively.
Seeing Feng Qi Shi's anxious expression and recalling Hong Yan's words, Shi Yi nodded, skirted around Feng Qi Shi, ran to the door, and feigned urgency as he shouted, "Help! Help the rabbit! Help the rabbit!"
Outside, a passing red-clothed rabbit spirit frowned and stopped outside the room where Shi Yi was imprisoned. "What's going on?"
"Hong Yan ran away! Hong Yan ran away!"
"Hong Yan..." the red-clothed rabbit spirit repeated, then thought for a moment. "Who is Hong Yan?"
"Hong Yan is that rabbit spirit who hasn't transformed yet," Shi Yi explained patiently.
Feng Qi Shi frowned tightly. "Why are you explaining so much to him? Just say the rabbit locked up with you ran away, wouldn't that be enough?"
"We don't have a rabbit spirit like that here. Guilty rabbit, you just wait to be roasted." With that, the red-clothed rabbit spirit left.
Shi Yi twitched his ears. "He's gone."
"Was that a female or a male?" Feng Qi Shi asked.
Shi Yi thought for a moment and said, "Male rabbit."
Feng Qi Shi sighed. "Next time, if it's a male rabbit, don't talk."
"Why?" Shi Yi asked, confused.
"Because I've found that female rabbits are much easier to communicate with than male rabbits. Understand?" Feng Qi Shi forced himself to be patient with Shi Yi.
Shi Yi suddenly smiled. "I understand."
Seeing the smile on Shi Yi's face, Feng Qi Shi mumbled, "Let's hope so."
At the entrance to the immortal cultivation sect, Mu An Xiao had completely fallen asleep. The green-clothed man's heart was filled with worry for Hong Yan. He clenched his fists a couple of times, unable to wait any longer. "No, I still need to go check." He said, extending his hand and conjuring a green disc.
Mu An Xiao sensed the immortal energy from the disc and asked with closed eyes, "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to check. I'm worried about that rat spirit," the green-clothed man said, looking down at Mu An Xiao's sleeping face.
Mu An Xiao pursed his lips and hugged his arms tighter. "Alright, I'll wait for you here. Be careful."
"Okay." The green-clothed man nodded, touched the disc with two fingers, and the pointer on the disc spun twice. A plate of text appeared before him, showing "Long corridor over there, Hong Yan." Seeing the line of text, the corner of his mouth turned upwards. "I'm going."
"Go ahead, go ahead," Mu An Xiao said groggily, waving his hands dismissively.
The green-clothed man glanced at Mu An Xiao and left with the disc.
Mu An Xiao turned over and began to snore.
Shortly after, the green-clothed man bypassed the rabbit spirits and loudly called out, "Senior brother, where are you?"
In the room, Feng Qi Shi exclaimed excitedly, "It's Junior Brother."
"It's the green-clothed one," Shi Yi said, glancing at Feng Qi Shi, then deliberately shouting, "Help! Hong Yan ran away! Hong Yan ran away!"
Hearing this, the green-clothed man stopped at the foot of the stairs, his eyes darting around. "Hong Yan ran away."
Over there, Shi Yi continued to shout, "Help the rabbit! Help the rabbit!"
The green-clothed man stood frozen, thinking. He shook his head and said, "Impossible, she's injured, how could she run?"
Shi Yi, hearing no movement outside, cleared his throat and shouted again, "Rabbit, ran away, ran away."
"This voice is the rat spirit's," the green-clothed man realized. He looked down at the disc and said, "Something has indeed happened. I have to handle this." Just as he was about to step forward, the Number One Mother Rabbit Spirit suddenly appeared, passed straight through him, and ran to the door. She raised her hand and pounded on the door twice, shouting, "What are you shouting about? I could hear you shouting from far away. What's the matter?"
Shi Yi's scalp tingled as he heard the Number One Mother Rabbit Spirit's voice from outside. "Hong Yan ran away." He took a few steps back, carefully glancing at Feng Qi Shi.
"Hong Yan?" the Number One Mother Rabbit Spirit repeated, quickly conjuring a key. "You'd better not be lying to me." With that, she unlocked the door and pushed it open.
Shi Yi smiled at the hastily entering Number One Mother Rabbit Spirit, chuckling dryly. "She really ran away. She even injured me just now." As he spoke, he clutched his chest and pointed sideways at the half-open window.
The Number One Mother Rabbit Spirit glanced in the direction Shi Yi was pointing and asked, "How long has she been gone?"
"She..." Shi Yi had just uttered one word when the green-clothed man crossed the threshold and entered. Shi Yi looked over the Number One Mother Rabbit Spirit's head towards the green-clothed man and deliberately shouted, "Be careful behind you!"
"Behind me?" The Number One Mother Rabbit Spirit frowned, looked behind her, and then met his gaze. "You think you can trick me into running away? Do you think I'm stupid?"