Volume 1 Chapter 21: Rivals in Love, Enemies in Affection

  "Who?"

  I immediately shielded Lin Muxian behind me, and without her bracelet, she was no stronger than an ordinary woman.

  As they looked around, four people walked down the stairs leading to the second floor. In the middle was a blond-haired, blue-eyed foreign young man, not very old, probably in his early twenties, with a slender and handsome appearance, but with an arrogant expression on his face that made him look quite unpleasant.

  At this time, he was holding a beautiful woman with a slender figure and unparalleled beauty, walking down from upstairs with a noble air.

  Next to him was a **-year-old little girl with big eyes, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, who would smile sweetly when looking at people, looking very cute.

  The one walking at the back was a little old man, thin and short, very inconspicuous.

  "Who are you again?" The blond man spoke in pure Mandarin, his cold gaze sweeping me up and down.

  "Do you know him?" I turned around and asked Lin Muxian behind me.

  Lin Miao's face changed to an extremely strange color, and he slightly nodded: "Greetings, Inspector General, I didn't know you were visiting, so I couldn't welcome you from afar, please forgive me."

  When I heard this, I was stunned. It turned out that I knew Lin Muxian wasn't fighting alone before. It seems that this time disappearing for so long has brought his companions here.

  The blond man hummed coldly from his nose, glancing at me and saying, "Why aren't you answering my question?" The tone and manner of speaking were very similar to Lin Muxian's earlier, but the feeling he gave people was quite uncomfortable.

  A beautiful woman's pride is called personality, why does a man have to be so clingy for no reason.

  I'm sick!

  "See me not making a sound, Lin Miao Xian hastily said: 'Reporting to Patrol Envoy Sir, he is called Fang Cheng, my newly acquired soul servant.'"

  "What? You're a Soul Reaper?" The blond-haired man's face clearly showed his surprise, he stared at me for a while before scolding: "What makes you think you have what it takes?"

  "Uh... I hesitated for a moment, cupped my hands and said: 'To answer the master's question, I have no special skills, fortunately, I was favored by my master and do some rough work like serving tea.'"

  I've heard Lin Miao Xian say before that the Yí Hún Jiè attaches great importance to hierarchy, so since he's a big shot, it's better to be polite and avoid trouble.

  "Huh? Is that so?" The blond-haired man hummed skeptically, his gaze passing over me to look at Lin Muxian behind him, "As the master, how can you let a soul servant stand in front of you, huh?"

  The last "hmm" was hummed in a very arrogant manner, I heard the sound and hastily pretended to retreat several steps back with respect, shouting: "It's all my fault for not understanding etiquette, please forgive me, sir."

  The blond man didn't take it kindly and coldly said: "Do I have anything to say to you? Slap in the face."

  What? I was taken aback, this guy...

  Lin Miao Xian was also stunned, looking at the arrogant-looking patrol officer with a mixture of difficulty and helplessness on his face.

  "You were wrong, Master. Please punish me." I don't care about things like face-saving at all. Seeing this scene, I raised my head and said.

  Lin Miao Xian stared at me, stunned. She hadn't expected me to be so obedient. After a moment of silence, she suddenly knelt down and said: "Inspector General, this subordinate is new to the job and hasn't been taught many rules yet. Please forgive him for his first offense."

  Noticing Lin Muxian's abnormality, the blond man furrowed his brow and gained a hint of understanding. This newly acquired soul servant had a relationship with Lin Muxian that was not as simple as an ordinary master-servant relationship. He stopped asking questions, waved his hand and said: "Get up, don't do it again next time." However, there was a hint of coldness hidden in his eyes.

  I stood up and said: "Thank you, Inspector General, for sparing me punishment."

  The blond-haired man didn't look at me again and beckoned to Lin Mu Xian with a wave of his hand, saying: "Sit down and talk, what's happened during this time?"

  He walked towards the sofa, at this time, the thin old man who had been bowing behind him suddenly took a step to the side, and a white thread as light as gauze flew out from his hands, quickly covering the sofa, rolling over it like flowing water.

  In an instant, the spotless leather sofa shone with a hint of light, as smooth and bright as the skin of a newborn baby. Just then, the blond man happened to walk over to the sofa and sat down.

  My eyes narrowed suddenly, and I wasn't clear about how to divide the high level of Yu Shi's soul, but from the coordination of action and time, this person was stronger than Lin Miao Xian by more than one point.

  It seems I underestimated him.

  Lin Miao Xian sat down beside him, without a hint of surprise on her face, clearly this scene was not the first time she had seen it.

  A charming woman leaned coquettishly against a blond-haired man, while the little girl sat down beside them. Only an emaciated old man stood quietly behind the blond-haired man without moving.

  After some polite conversation, Lin Muxian started talking about that night when he was caught, all the way to living on a deserted island and taking me as his soul servant.

  Among them, when talking about life on the isolated island, that cute little girl with big glasses suddenly gave me a sweet smile and said, "Brother, brother, how do you know so much? Have you been there to play before? Hehe, can you take me there to play next time?"

  She smiled with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, looking like an innocent and carefree person. In fact, I didn't see anything unusual from her eyes or facial expression, but I always felt that this little girl was not simple.

  Maybe it's intuition, an intuition that has lived for nearly a thousand years.

  Hearing the question, I learned to be clever, just humbly smiled and looked at Lin Muxian for her opinion.

  Lin Mou Xian turned his gaze back to the blond-haired man and asked: "Inspector General, who is this young lady...?"

  The blond man waved his hand and said, "You don't need to ask about this, let him answer."

  "Yes."

  Receiving Lin Muxian's permitting gaze, I respectfully said: "Miss, to be honest with you, I've never been to a place like this isolated island before. Those things I knew were all from miscellaneous books. Many of them are my first time putting into practice, and I didn't take good care of the master. In the future, I will definitely make amends."

  "Hehe, I see! But you're also very impressive! When I go back, I'll have to read more books too." The little girl smiled brightly at me.

  As soon as our eyes met, my feigned humble gaze suddenly narrowed, I knew something was off. This smile, this gaze, seemed to be able to strip away the disguise beneath your surface and see into the depths of your heart.

  Lowering my head slightly, I still have that humble gaze, hehe, although she has a discerning eye for people, my hundred lifetimes of reincarnation weren't spent in vain.

  After a simple inquiry, the blond-haired man said: "What do you plan to do to retrieve your lost soul device?"

  Lin Miao Xian glanced at me and said, "As for the matter of the soul servant, it has been handed over to him to handle. He grew up in this city since he was a child."

  "Oh?" The blond-haired man glanced at me with the corner of his eye, "Do you have a plan?"

  I hesitated for a moment before saying: "Uh, I've already sent someone to gather intelligence. Once they return, we'll come up with a detailed plan."

  "So there's no plan?" The blond man sneered, "A small detective has made you so helpless. In my opinion, just wait for him to be alone and then capture and interrogate him directly, it's quick and easy."

  "Adults have their own views." I raised my hand in a salute, but Lin Muxian's face looked somewhat unnatural.

  The blond man saw the situation and coldly laughed, saying: "Forget it, you guys handle this mess yourselves. I'll only stay for three days, if you haven't solved the problem by then, just wait to go back and face trial. Hmm, I want to see what kind of skills this soul servant has." After speaking, he took the beautiful woman upstairs.

  For a moment, there were only two people left in the hall, Lin Muxian and I.

  After a moment of silence, Lin Muxian suddenly spoke up in a soft voice, "Earlier, sorry, I've troubled you to cooperate like this."

  I shrugged and said, "Nothing much, I'm just helping myself. If he insists strongly, I think you should detonate the Soul Servant Seal, right?"

  Lin Miao Xian thought for a moment and honestly said: "That's right!"