My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

Hua Ran paused, then her foxy eyes flashed with displeasure.

His big tail swayed behind him, and he even tried to reach over and wrap it around Joey's neck.

Joey rolled her eyes at him. "The expiration date is still valid. I can see souls."

Hua Ran's originally pointed fox ears drooped down instantly.

But then I thought, isn't this still contact?

So he took the opportunity to stick out his little tongue and lick Joey's palm.

!!!

Joey quickly pulled her hand back, "There's a soul here, that's too much!"

Hua Ran scoffed.

"You've gone too far than I have. How you treated me last night! You were so rough with me, my whole body aches, and I can barely get out of bed!"

Hearing this, the male soul, whose body had been cleansed of blood and whose eyes had regained their clarity, blushed slightly on his pale face.

Joey stared wide-eyed.

"Freeze said!"

The male spirit immediately said, "Miss Qiao, it's alright. We've all been through this before, I understand."

You know the shit!

Have you ever been struck by yang energy? If you were struck by it, your soul would be scattered!

Qiao Yi rubbed her temples, saw Hua Ran give her a smug little look, and decided not to make a fuss.

She asked the male spirit, "Tell me your problem. Who gave you the power to make your grievances even more intense?"

“This servant…does not know. I acted on my gut feeling. Before, I was only focused on taking revenge on the Wang family, so I acted on my anger and never met anyone.”

"Have you ever seen any spirits or monsters?"

You can't blame Joey for thinking in that direction.

Because the sky... became even more overcast.

According to the system notification, the anomaly at the Wang family's residence has been resolved, and only six red dots remain. That's a quarter less, so things should be clearer now.

The system said, "Baozi, the heavy resentment in the sky over Shiqiao Village may not be due to those strange phenomena, which are only superficial."

Joey thought so too.

The male soul thought about it carefully, and suddenly he saw the scene before he died.

After being pushed into the water and coughing up water, he saw his hair spreading up from underwater.

It's very long... and very dark.

He wanted to reach out and grab the hair; he didn't want to give up even the slightest chance to call for help.

Instead, the hair wrapped itself around his entire body, dragging him downwards, and deep inside, it seemed to be a pair of pale hands.

"Ugh! My head hurts so much... There's someone underwater... I saw someone underwater before I died... Now that I think about it, it probably wasn't a person."

He swayed and almost fell, and Joey reached out to help him.

Hua Ran suddenly pushed Qiao Yi aside and went to help the male spirit herself.

"Hmph, I'll do it!"

Joey thought to herself, "Fine, you can come if you want, but I don't want to help you up."

She coughed and said, "There's someone underwater, isn't there? Alright, I understand. Now that you've avenged your great grudge, you can go back to where you belong. Granny Wang will be paralyzed in bed for the rest of her life, and her husband will also lose a leg. After all, it wasn't them who killed you, and there's a punishment more painful than death called 'living in misery'."

The man looked distressed.

“Miss Qiao, I thank you for your great revenge, but… I can’t leave this village. I don’t know why. When I first died, my soul came out of the river, but I wasn’t covered in blood. It was only later, when I couldn’t leave, that I felt more and more resentful. I served that family of three… and that’s how I slowly became covered in blood.”

"You can't get out either?"

Joey wondered if the old woman's daughter, who died and did not go to her final resting place, but instead hid in a certain place, was also because she could not go to her final resting place.

She placed her hands back on the male spirit's head.

Hua Ran felt uncomfortable and pouted, pushing the male spirit away.

"My lady, you should touch my head, not his!"

"Oh dear, what are you touching? I'm just giving him a tiny bit of yang energy so that he won't be contaminated by this yin and resentment."

"Oh……"

After completing all these tasks, Joey let out a sigh of relief.

"I need to explore underwater."

The male spirit died at night.

So Joey went over in the pouring rain, not wanting to get her hands on the blood, but she had to anyway.

She took off her coat and handed it to Hua Ran.

Hua Ran took a floral umbrella from Old Man Qiao and stood there, looking exactly like a charming fox in a picture of perfect harmony and tranquility.

Joey was stunned.

Hua Ran is like a fox fairy in a painting, captivating the eye.

The system called out to Joey in her consciousness.

"Baozi, Bao'er!"

"what……"

"What are you looking at so intently? We need to go down now!"

Joey coughed. "I was just afraid the fox wouldn't be able to keep an eye on my clothes, that's why I didn't look at the fox's face!"

The system chuckled.

The laughter made Joey feel anxious, and she plunged headfirst into the river.

The river water smelled of blood, but fortunately, Joey was a good swimmer and swam in it without any problems.

She saw a skeleton below, and judging from the clothes, they were the clothes the male soul had worn in life.

Swimming deeper, she saw a coffin, entirely made of black lacquered wood, but with a strange totem drawn on it in bright red blood.

What is this?

"System, take a picture."

"okay."

The system captured the image and stored it on the screen in the consciousness space.

Joey reached out and rubbed the bright red blood on it hard. It felt like the same thing as the coffin with the flower dye, or rather, it was only snake blood and not deer blood.

There is only yin, no yang.

Is there something inside that was originally suppressed but then escaped?

Joey had been holding her breath for a while, and she was about to swim upwards when she felt a tightness around her ankle. Something was wrapping around her ankle and trying to drag her down.

At the same time, a red circle larger than all the red dots appeared on the system screen.

The entire screen emitted an alarm.

"Attention! Attention! Something unidentified has suddenly appeared!"

Joey remained calm and instead turned and swam towards her feet, her long black hair wrapped around her ankles, the ends of which were too far away to be clearly seen.

She put two fingers together, blew bubbles at the long hair, and the bubbles, mixed with strong yang energy, slammed into it.

When the hair is broken, people come out.

Joey finally surfaced and took a deep breath of air.

"I'm dying of suffocation!"

The next moment, Hua Ran leaned over and kissed Qiao Yi's little mouth.

He gave her a quick kiss and then left.

"Did you feel any better after I gave my wife some energy?"

Joey pouted, "Don't look over there. If you fall in, the things inside will drown you, and you won't be able to get back up."

"Eh? My wife...you're...you're worried about me?"

Joey rolled her eyes and came up herself.

"No."

Hua Ran, however, swayed and sat down on the ground.

"My lady... my legs are numb from squatting... please help me up~"

"Who told you to squat like that?"

Hua Ran pouted and said, "Well, I was worried about you, so I wanted to squat down and check on you."

Just then, someone shouted, "Help! Someone's been trespassing!"