Mu Anxiao, with a calm expression, looked at the frightened silver needle and said, "Since you know fear, tell me clearly."
The silver needle listened to Mu Anxiao's words, and after a few moments of delay, it said, "Do you want to know my story?"
"What?" Mu Anxiao was surprised by the silver needle's narcissism at this moment.
The silver needle coughed dryly and said, "Don't you want to know who my master is? If so, you must first know my relationship with my master, right?"
"What does your relationship with your master have to do with your story?"
"My story with my master," the silver needle said faintly.
Listening to the silver needle, Mu Anxiao couldn't help but frown. "What story do you have with your master?" she asked, then lowered her eyes and thought, "No, you're deliberately stalling for time, aren't you?"
"I'm not."
"Then why are you telling me this?" Mu Anxiao retorted, feeling a bit anxious.
Silver Needle: "I just want you to understand me better. I," it paused, then continued, "am actually the demonic energy within my master's body."
"Your master..." Mu Anxiao, halfway through her sentence, suddenly became nervous. "What do you mean by that?" she feigned composure.
In Mu Anxiao's understanding, the silver needle and Ouyang Ye were definitely connected. She even believed that Ouyang Ye was the master of the silver needle.
So now, as the silver needle uttered these words, she suddenly worried if the silver needle's consciousness was already entangled with Ouyang Ye's.
However, to prevent the silver needle from overthinking, she could only pretend to be surprised. As for nervousness, she didn't show an ounce of it.
Silver Needle: "It means my life is inseparable from my master."
"Then are the masters of the other needles the same as your master?"
Hearing Mu Anxiao's words, the silver needle began to glow black again.
Mu Anxiao looked at it in confusion. "What's wrong? Did I offend you?"
Silver Needle: "We are all demonic energy from the master's body, but I," it said in a low voice, "am waste gas."
"Waste gas? What is that?" Mu Anxiao was a bit confused.
"It means demonic energy that is not protected by the master. On the contrary, if anything happens to them, the master will appear immediately. Moreover, they even have the master's consciousness, but I don't."
"Your master can't supervise you?" Mu Anxiao understood a little, and her nervousness lessened.
The silver needle grunted in affirmation.
Mu Anxiao breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Who is your master?" As she asked, she suddenly realized that the silver needle was female, and Ouyang Ye was male? In that case, Ouyang Ye and the silver needle wouldn't have a direct relationship?
Thinking about it, she couldn't help but become curious about its words.
Silver Needle: "My master's name is Gu Qin."
"Gu Qin." Mu Anxiao was clearly surprised.
Hearing Mu Anxiao's surprised tone, the silver needle asked, "What's wrong?"
"Do you know Gu Yan, Gu Qin's sister?"
"Gu Yan..." The silver needle repeated, thought for a moment, and said, "You're not saying it correctly."
"How am I not saying it correctly?" Mu Anxiao asked, confused.
Silver Needle: "My master is Gu Yan's sister, Gu Yan is not my master's sister."
"Oh?"
"Oh what? Don't you know?"
Sisters?
Mu Anxiao never paid much attention to such relationships, so she felt a little displeased when the silver needle corrected her.
So, she said, "It's fine as long as there's a relationship. You know Gu Yan, right?"
"Those demonic energies were bought by her. I also became waste gas because of her. In short, I can't explain the things within it clearly to you in a short time."
"I can't even hear clearly," Mu Anxiao said in a low voice.
Silver Needle: "You don't understand what I'm saying?"
"One moment you're waste gas, the next you have consciousness. Now just tell me, are those demonic energies the same as you?" Mu Anxiao was getting dizzy from the silver needle.
The silver needle was stunned for a moment and said, "No."
"Just because you are waste gas, they..."
"They all defected to Gu Yan, only my master is still Gu Qin."
"They all betrayed Gu Qin."
The silver needle grunted in affirmation.
"Then why didn't you tell me clearly just now?" Mu Anxiao retorted.
Silver Needle: "This is a shameful thing for me."
"You were despised by Gu Yan because you were incapable?" Mu Anxiao asked, following her own thoughts.
The silver needle sighed and said, "I don't want to be with her. She's not a good person."
"I think so too."
"It seems we have something in common," the silver needle said faintly.
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao was too lazy to waste any more time with it and said, "By the way, does that Gu Yan have her own demonic energy?"
"She steals everything from her master, even missions and demonic energy. She's just a piece of trash."
"Trash," Mu Anxiao hadn't realized Gu Yan was trash. In her eyes, Gu Yan was just as cunning as Ouyang Ye. So, hearing the silver needle say this, she couldn't help but feel a sense of novelty. "What do you mean? Tell me about it."
"My master cultivated the demonic path first. She used her sweet talk to deceive my master. My master brought her along, but in the end, she bit the hand that fed her. In short," the silver needle said, "the things within it are very complicated, and I can't explain it in a sentence or two. You just need to know that Gu Yan is not a good person."
"Not a good person, yet you cooperate with her to harm others."
"I am just a needle now, and my actions are not very convenient. Because of this, I secretly sneaked into the hands of mortals bought by her," the silver needle said earnestly, "in order to find a suitable body, so that I could avenge my master. I didn't expect to meet you."
However, Mu Anxiao didn't hear the latter part of her words. Instead, Mu Anxiao became concerned about the mortal bought by Gu Yan, wondering who it was.
Immediately, she thought for a moment and said, "Is the mortal bought by her named Aju?" she asked expectantly.
Silver Needle: "No."
"No?" Mu Anxiao was surprised.
The silver needle thought for a moment and continued, "In short, I have never seen the person's face clearly. Every time they acted, they handed over the silver needles, and I didn't see who they handed them to. But it's definitely not Aju." it said with certainty.
Mu Anxiao was troubled by this.
Silver Needle: "Do you want to find that person who was bought?" its tone was full of curiosity.
Mu Anxiao: "Are those demonic energies specifically for harming people?"
"Yes, don't you already know?" The silver needle felt that Mu Anxiao knew more than it did, so it said so.
At this moment, Mu Anxiao became even more certain that the weapons that took those people's lives were the other silver needles.
But, what she didn't expect was that Gu Yan's move of 'killing with a borrowed knife' was quite skillful.
Thinking about it, she fell into silence.
The silver needle also fell silent.
Feng Qi Shi frowned, realizing that the matters within were quite complicated.