Deep in the mountains not far from Willowmist Village, several figures emerged one after another from a Space Portal.
First came Moqian, already in her eight-tails state, wearing a beetle face and looking thoroughly wary. Next came Stitched-Up Man, bringing Gentleman Man with him.
Moqian scanned her surroundings and immediately grew restless, ready to flee.
She was no naive fool. She knew this fellow must have had some ulterior purpose in rescuing her.
Unfortunately for him, she had no interest in being anyone's dog.
Besides, did he really think she didn't know who had been behind those three deformed cursed spirits that day?
She understood all of it perfectly, from his sinister intentions to the deliberate rescue just now.
So she felt no inclination to thank him. She only wanted to get as far away from this trouble as possible.
"Why are you in such a hurry to leave? You're safe here now."
Gentleman Man seemed to have recovered somewhat. He had Stitched-Up Man let go of him and acted as though he hadn't been hurt at all.
Moqian immediately sneered. "Safe? Are you sure? Don't think I don't know what you're plotting."
"You deliberately used those shoddy, low-level cursed spirits to attract human attention just to drive me out of there. Ideally, I'd end up hating humans because of it, leaving me no choice but to join you."
"And that perfectly timed rescue just now makes it very hard not to believe you'd planned everything from the start."
After hearing Moqian out, Gentleman Man actually nodded and admitted it, to everyone's surprise.
"That's right. I killed your subordinates, and I released those monsters. My goal was exactly what you just said: I wanted you to join us."
"Besides, I don't see anything wrong with what I did. We and