This line of work was far too dangerous.
I was literally risking my life to earn this money.
"Are you okay?"
An Ning rushed over, her face full of worry, and helped me up.
It took me quite a while to recover. If she had woken up a second or two later, it wouldn't have been me falling down alive, but my corpse.
"How did you... get a Vajra Pestle?" I asked her.
And I had seen this Vajra Pestle before. Someone from that organization had used it.
Before we came, An Ning had gone home once. Presumably, she had gone to get this.
"I stole it..."
"Stole it?"
My eyes widened. "Where did you steal it from?"
"From Seventh Master's house," An Ning said. "When I took my nephew to his house, I hadn't eaten for two days. I was hungry... so I went inside and ate something. I saw this in his house, so I stole it."
She even sounded quite justified.
Of course, stealing was wrong, but luckily she had stolen this thing. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to save me just now.
"Thanks. If it hadn't been for you today, Meng Yifan would have had compensation to pay." I was deeply grateful to An Ning.
"The boss wouldn't have to pay," she said. "Who would he pay? Your family's all gone."
I was speechless.
I decided to withdraw my gratitude.
I was very curious. An Ning had already been possessed by the Yin Soul, so how had she managed to wake up halfway through?
Even with the Yin Soul possessing her, she had actually retained her own consciousness.
I asked her, but she said she didn't know either. She had woken up when she wanted to.
"I've never encountered anything like your situation before. It's