Feng Qishi stood by the door, staring blankly at the room's entrance, silent and unwilling to turn and look at them.
Mu Anxiao stayed with him in silence for a moment before she couldn't help but ask, "Shen Moyun, why aren't you talking?"
"What do you want me to say?" Feng Qishi didn't turn around.
Mu Anxiao: "You tell me what you want me to say. Right now, in this room, you are the most capable. You..."
"I knew you bringing her in would be troublesome for me," Feng Qishi interrupted, turning to look at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao looked at Feng Qishi's earnest expression as he said this and said lightly, "Since you knew I'd be troubling you, I'll trouble you to come over here then."
"You..."
"Stop with the 'you'. Use your magic to erase the memories she just heard. Eliminate them," Mu Anxiao interrupted.
Feng Qishi furrowed his brow.
Jia added, "I can do it too."
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao looked at Jia and asked pointedly, "You can too?"
"Mhm, didn't I help you settle things whenever you got into trouble before? Why..." Jia tilted his head up to glance at Feng Qishi, "Now that he's appeared, you're discarding the old for the new." He then looked back at Mu Anxiao.
"What do you mean by discarding the old for the new? You little thing, do you know how to speak?"
Hearing this, Feng Qishi said, "You trust me that much?"
Mu Anxiao gasped and turned her head back to Feng Qishi. "This is a secret. If she goes out and talks nonsense, it will disrupt my mission. As for Jia's abilities, I... don't trust them."
"Mu Anxiao, you..." Jia's eyes widened. "You actually don't trust me." He felt hurt.
Mu Anxiao: "..." She didn't even glance at Jia, her gaze fixed on Feng Qishi's face.
Feng Qishi looked at Mu Anxiao's serious expression, then glanced at Jia, who looked extremely upset. He said, "Mu Anxiao, you're quite cunning."
Mu Anxiao's eyes flickered slightly. "Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying."
Feng Qishi snorted and said, "Keep pretending then."
"That's not a nice thing to say, you..."
"What about me? You know that after you enter the palace, I absolutely won't help you with magic. Therefore, you don't want Jia to use his magic. That way, he can help you later, right?" Feng Qishi stated, following his own conjecture.
As Feng Qishi had said, Mu Anxiao did think that way. She had intended to explain to Jia after Feng Qishi had finished his task, because she didn't want Jia to think she was using him. Unexpectedly, Feng Qishi had exposed her.
Thinking about it, she had no words to refute.
Conversely, Jia, after hearing Feng Qishi's words, inexplicably burst out laughing. "Haha."
Hearing Jia's laughter, Mu Anxiao was startled and then shifted her gaze to his face, asking, "What are you laughing at? Could it be... you're not angry?"
"Why should I be angry?" Jia retorted.
Mu Anxiao gave a wry smile. "Don't you think I'm using you?"
"Using me..." Jia maintained his smiling expression. "If I remember correctly, in less than a year, you've been using me constantly. What, have you suddenly developed a conscience?"
Mu Anxiao had always thought Jia didn't know she used him in some matters. Who knew... she had been naive all along. Looking at Jia, she felt embarrassed.
"..."
"Mu Anxiao, if you can use me, it proves I'm useful. Thank you." Jia suddenly became serious.
Mu Anxiao looked at Jia's sincere expression of gratitude and gave a helpless smile. "You really are a masochist." As she spoke, she lowered her head and shifted her gaze to the girl's face.
Jia followed Mu Anxiao's gaze and looked at the girl, asking, "Did you discover something?"
Mu Anxiao stared at the girl's face for a few seconds before saying, "Do you think it might be her?"
"Her?" Jia didn't react immediately. "What are you suddenly talking about? I don't quite understand."
Mu Anxiao withdrew her gaze from the girl's face and looked at Jia. "Could it have been her who helped me just now?"
Feng Qishi: "You're saying she helped you?" He looked at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao turned back to Feng Qishi and said, "Perhaps... she followed..." She suddenly couldn't articulate.
Jia: "I don't think it was her." He walked to the girl's side and crouched down.
Mu Anxiao looked down at Jia. "Then take a look."
"..." Jia reached out and took the girl's wrist.
Mu Anxiao remained silent, waiting for Jia's response.
Feng Qishi crossed his arms in front of him, calmly watching what other 'crazy' things Mu Anxiao and Jia would come up with.
Momentarily.
Jia withdrew his hand, tilted his head up to look at Mu Anxiao, and said, "She is human."
"Human..." Mu Anxiao repeated, nodding slightly. "Alright, since she's human, I won't say anything more."
"But... her memories... have been erased, and they were erased with magic," Jia added.
Mu Anxiao froze for a moment and then shifted her gaze back to Feng Qishi, asking, "Was it you?"
Feng Qishi: "It wasn't me." He said, walking to Mu Anxiao's side, then looking down at the girl. "This makes sense now."
"Makes sense of what?" Mu Anxiao tilted her head up, staring at Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi: "She wasn't scared unconscious by Jia, but rather..." He crouched down and reached out to stroke her hair, "she was struck unconscious by magic."
"Struck unconscious... Could it be... that blue light?" Mu Anxiao guessed.
Jia's eyes lit up as he listened to Mu Anxiao and Feng Qishi's conversation. He stood up and said, "That's possible."
Mu Anxiao: "Then, that means the demon or immortal possessing this magic hasn't left yet." After speaking, she was about to turn around when Feng Qishi casually grabbed the hem of her skirt.
Jia looked down at Feng Qishi's action and was startled.
Feng Qishi ignored everything else, continuing to tug at the hem of Mu Anxiao's skirt, and said, "You're not allowed to leave."
Mu Anxiao tugged at her skirt, then looked at Feng Qishi with deep helplessness, asking, "Why?"
"This is your opportunity." Feng Qishi tilted his head up, his hand tightening its grip on the hem of Mu Anxiao's skirt.
Mu Anxiao didn't understand Feng Qishi's words and asked, "What do you mean?"
"Want to." Feng Qishi gave her one word, then released his hand and turned to look at the girl, preparing to cast his magic.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao suddenly realized, "You want to use magic to fill in her blank memories."
"The memory content, you decide." Feng Qishi was ready.
"I want to..." Mu Anxiao fell into thought.
Jia watched Mu Anxiao's pensive expression and Feng Qishi's words. He asked, "What exactly are you two doing?" He was completely out of sync with their rhythm.
Then, Feng Qishi said without looking up, "You'll know when the time comes."
"When the time comes, but I..."
"Curiosity kills the soul. I advise you to remain an observer." Feng Qishi interrupted.