Once the affection level is maxed out, the rivalry begins!

[Exorcising Anomalies: Underworld]

[The Doll of the Lord of the Underworld: A doll inhabited by a wisp of spirit, perhaps it can be used to summon a projection of the Underworld.]

Bai Ze shook the Netherworld Lord in her hand, which looked like a scaled-down version of him. Suddenly, she opened her mouth and bit his hand fiercely.

Then he covered his teeth and let out a painful hissing sound.

"Are you still conscious?"

Bai Ze felt something was very strange.

However, the Silver Serpent Ring previously emitted a white serpent phantom with the [Reincarnation Infection Disease], so it might be the same situation.

"You actually used your mouth to bite it? Are you a dog?"

He lifted up the tiny, black-haired girl, who looked like a doll, and shook her up and down like a carbonated drink. Soon, she saw stars and looked like she wanted to vomit.

"Gu, kill me..."

"Um, what are you playing with that weird residue for?"

Xia Xingzhi helped her younger sister, who had just woken up from her coma and seemed a little dazed, walk over.

Upon seeing Xia Yunli, the miniature version of the Lord of the Underworld propped himself up with the back of Bai Ze's hand.

"I will never submit to you... you devil!"

She broke free from Bai Ze's grasp and resolutely lunged at Xia Yunli.

The next second, he slapped him down, his face making intimate contact with the ground, his limbs spread out in a starfish shape.

As Xia Xingzhi said, the current Lord of the Underworld is nothing more than the remnant left after the source of power was destroyed.

They've been completely reduced to mere comedic characters!

Bai Ze lifted her by the back of the neck and placed her on his shoulder.

Whether it was the swatting that had just happened that severely damaged her self-esteem, the shrunken girl rubbed her reddened nose and remained silent.

"Lord of the Underworld... that title is too troublesome. From now on, you'll be called Mingming."

He flicked the other person's forehead. "Mingming, do you think the dust on me will just disappear on its own?"

The girl, like a doll, knelt silently and reached out to brush the dust off Bai Ze's shoulder.

"Once I regain my power, I will surely plunge you into the depths of the underworld..."

She whispered through gritted teeth.

"Are you going to keep her?" Xia Xingzhi was still wary of the Lord of the Underworld, even in his doll-like form.

"It might come in handy later."

Bai Ze shrugged, almost throwing Mingming off.

Moreover, he was quite envious of Lu Xingyao for having a core girl, a creature similar to a summoned beast. Now they were like-minded people who could sit on each other's shoulders!

"Where...am I?"

After the commotion, Xia Yunli's unfocused gaze refocused as she surveyed her surroundings.

"Sister? So what just happened wasn't a dream."

"That's right, do you know why the cult—the people who kidnapped you—targeted you?"

Bai Ze leaned closer to interject with a question.

Xia Yunli took a step back alertly, covering her chest with her hands.

"I don't want to answer the groper's questions!"

I'm disliked.

Xia Xingzhi tugged at her sister's sleeve: "That was an act of luring the anomaly to appear, in order to rescue everyone from the other world."

"My sister also spoke up for him..."

Xia Yunli had no choice but to lower her hands and neatly cross them in front of her lower abdomen, her head slightly lowered.

"Thank you for saving us, brother."

After politely thanking her, she put her hands on her hips and said, "But I still think it's a bit much to do that kind of thing without asking first! Especially in front of my sister!"

This child's personality is completely opposite to her sister's.

"We're just assistant and detective!"

Xia Xingzhi covered her flushed face with her deerstalker hat and shouted.

"Besides her assistant, is there anyone else my sister can stay with who wouldn't mind being involved in dangerous situations?"

"Ooh, ooh-ah—"

The composed younger sister unleashed a barrage of words, leaving the pitiful older sister utterly defeated and sunk.

She crouched down, covering her head with a piece of cardboard box containing equipment placed in the exhibition hall.

"You flatter me."

It's terrifying that Xia Yunli, who committed such an atrocity, could continue the conversation with such composure.

"When my sister has a traumatic episode, she sometimes does strange things. I hope you, as her assistant, can be more understanding of her."

"You're the one who triggered her trauma!"

Bai Ze complained.

"Getting back to the point, I don't know why I was being targeted."

She actually changed the subject!

Xia Yunli frowned in distress. "Unlike my sister, I'm just an ordinary person who's powerless... unable to do anything."

But you have a "favorability rating" above your head that only witches can display.

Both Lu Xingyao and Lin Tingwan seem to have moments when they can awaken the power of a witch. Could it be that the witch in front of us is not yet awakened?

The cult may have targeted this point, which is why they planned to offer her up to the underworld to complete some kind of ritual.

"You don't seem to like being an ordinary person?"

Bai Ze glanced at the trembling cardboard box beside him. "Even after seeing how your sister was troubled by her abilities, you still think this way?"

"...That wasn't a curse!"

The girl raised her voice, "I've never blamed my sister; it's just that I'm too weak. If I were as strong as you, brother, I could have gotten away with it even if I were involved in something like this today."

She pressed her right hand heavily against her left arm: "Only the strong who are not afraid of danger can stay by my sister's side and stay with her; not the cowards who pretend to play in the band but actually choose to run away."

"If only I could have that kind of power..."

Xia Yunli turned her face, which bore a resemblance to Xia Xingzhi, and bit her lip.

So that's it. She was seeking and yearning to possess extraordinary power.

In a world where there are truly many strange and bizarre things, this kind of mentality is actually quite dangerous.

But it's hard for Bai Ze to criticize him; if he put himself in Bai Ze's shoes, he would have the same thoughts.

"My sister must have come to this city because there's something she needs to investigate, right?"

Xia Yunli saw things very clearly. "You guys shouldn't linger here. Go do what you need to do. I'll clean up the mess."

"Don't you want to chat with your sister a little longer?" Bai Ze asked back.

The girl forced a wry smile: "After what just happened, she'll definitely be worried about getting me involved in something again."

"Forcing her to stay will only hurt her more."

Therefore, Bai Ze did not continue to object.

This must be the tacit understanding between these two sisters.

He walked up to the cardboard box marked "Fragile, Handle with Care" and yanked it open.

"Wow!"

Upon seeing the light of day again, the detective was startled by the bright lights of the exhibition hall and flailed her arms and legs like a mudskipper that had jumped ashore.

Bai Ze picked her up and said goodbye to Xia Yunli: "Well then, we'll take our leave now."

"Could you do me a favor, brother?"

She took a step closer, tilted her head back, and looked up at him. "Please... protect my sister."

"Leave it to me."

Bai Ze agreed.

He dragged Xia Xingzhi away from the underground exhibition hall, and the figure of the girl waving alone among a group of unconscious people was blocked by the soundproof door.

"The detective's sister is quite an interesting person."