Chu Zhishui didn't care that the paper compensation slip was taken away. She successfully provoked Xin Yunmao to stand up, and went back to the office to tell Jin Yu.

In the logistics department, Jin Yu and Niu Shi looked at each other when they saw the taciturn Xin Yunmao. They had never counted each other as part of the department, and now they knew that he was going to handle the compensation, which was the first time in the world.

Jin Yu carefully pulled Chu Zhishui's sleeve and said in panic: "...Or I will go with you."

"It's okay, just tell me the process, it's part of my job." Chu Zhishui saw that they were unwilling to deal with Xin Yunmao, so she didn't accept Jin Yu's invitation to form a team. After all, Niu Shi couldn't be in the same team with Xin Yunmao, and Niu Shi probably didn't like it.

Jin Yu obviously understood this, so she didn't insist and told Chu Zhishui the process and asked him to contact her anytime if he had any questions.

Xin Yunmao didn't communicate with Jin Yu and Niu Shi at all. He stood behind Chu Zhishui without saying a word, with no expression on his face, completely out of the loop, as if he couldn't see his other colleagues.

Chu Zhishui said goodbye to his colleagues and left with the car keys, and Xin Yunmao followed slowly.

In the yard, Chu Zhishui walked straight to the parking lot. Xin Yunmao looked at her back and said suddenly, "Just this once."

Chu Zhishui paused with her hand holding the door handle. After she reacted, she smiled and nodded, "Okay, then you'd better do your best, otherwise I will suspect that you deliberately missed something and want to create an opportunity for communication in the future."

Xin Yunmao's face turned ugly when he heard this. He even clenched his fists to endure it, which made Chu Zhishui feel the pleasure of revenge.

Chu Zhishui opened the door and got in the car. She started navigation with her mobile phone. When she didn't see another person coming in, she slowly lowered the window.

Xin Yunmao stood outside stiffly, with an unpredictable expression on his face, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Chu Zhishui mistakenly thought he was struggling with his seat, so she pointed at the passenger seat and said through the car window: "Sit in the front, I don't want to be your driver."

Xin Yunmao finally reached out and opened the door, and sat down in the passenger seat like a snail. He slowly scanned the car, and used his peripheral vision to sneak a peek at the driver's situation. His lips were slightly pursed, his body was slightly tense, and he looked quite alert.

Chu Zhishui didn't understand his slow movements, as if there was some kind of monster in the car. Did he think she had ulterior motives towards him?

Chu Zhishui looked at the open door, and she patiently reminded: "Close the door, fasten your seat belt."

The door was closed.

"Seat belt." Seeing that he didn't move, Chu Zhishui pulled the belt in front of her and said seriously, "I don't care what your previous habits are, you must wear a seat belt when riding in my car."

Chu Zhishui felt that Xin Yunmao was being pretentious, otherwise why would he just sit there after getting in the car?

Xin Yunmao followed her movements and stared at her for a long time, and finally pulled out the seat belt from the side and fastened it.

Chu Zhishui no longer cared about him and set off according to the map navigation. The destination was very far away from the city, and she wanted to go to the mountains. Since she had a car, she chose a long journey, and didn't want Jin Yu and Niu Shi to be too tired.

Xin Yunmao saw Chu Zhishui start the car with ease, which was completely different from the pale face and messy hair when they first met. She was now particularly at ease, as if she was back at home, leaving her nervousness and discomfort behind.

"The road ahead is clear, please go straight..."

Xin Yunmao heard the navigation voice: "Where are we going?"

"The mountainside in the suburbs, it seems to be." Chu Zhishui said casually.

Xin Yunmao questioned: "Have you been there before?"

"No."

"What if you get lost?"

"No, this road is not difficult to walk, but the distance is quite far." Chu Zhishui heard his suspicious questioning and his restless state in the car. She suddenly remembered something and said, "...You haven't ridden in a car before, have you?"

Jin Yu is a monster, and even the computer can't understand it.

He is also a monster, and similarly he may have never ridden in a car, so he looked a little stupid after getting in the car.

Xin Yunmao frowned and said nothing.

Chu Zhishui knew immediately that she was right. She stopped the car on the side of the road in surprise and confirmed again: "Is this really your first time riding in a car?"

Xin Yunmao wanted to put on an icy face, but was stung by the smile on her lips. He said angrily: "We never travel in this way."

If she wanted to make a sarcastic remark, he would immediately open the door and get out of the car.

Chu Zhishui noticed that Xin Yunmao's attitude was not good, but she rarely felt offended. Instead, she thought it was a little funny.

He was so arrogant, but he had never ridden in a car before.

In Chu Zhishui's mind, the image of Xin Yunmao and the image of a poor mountain child suddenly overlapped. She didn't care about his hedgehog-like state, reached out to open the co-pilot drawer, and took out a mint candy in a metal box: "Mint candy, you can eat this if you feel dizzy."

Xin Yunmao was stunned.

"I don't know if monsters get carsick, but it will be troublesome if you vomit in the car."

Chu Zhishui handed him the candy, then restarted the car, half-opened the window for fresh air, and drove as smoothly as possible onto the main road. Outside the

window were flowing light clouds and dark shadows, and driving on the straight avenue in the suburbs was just smooth.

The breeze rushed into the car, and the aroma of mint candy and the slow English songs flowed and blended together, making Xin Yunmao, who was soaked in the sun, want to close his eyes. He quietly observed Chu Zhishui and found that she was driving seriously and did not pay attention to the situation of the co-driver.

He simply leaned against the side of the car to take a nap.

After a long time, Chu Zhishui arrived at the address on the list accurately, found a place to park the car, and woke up the monster who was the co-driver. She was not sure if he was asleep or not, mainly because he opened his eyes instantly when she spoke, and his eyes were clear.

"Human transportation is a bit boring." Xin Yunmao was still holding the box of mints when he got off the car. He turned the box lazily, and the candy box made a series of noises, "... Of course, it's not that boring."

Chu Zhishui ignored his self-talk and had already contacted the villagers at the scene. They are now in a village in the suburbs. The small house of villager Lao Li stands alone in the field. Not far away, there are mountains and it seems that there are few people.

To be honest, she didn't know what compensation she had to check before she came. When she saw the broken branches and leaves and the messy vegetable fields, she felt a subtle sense of something wrong. The wet soil was turned upside down, and there were strange claw marks on the damaged crops, as if a fierce battle had taken place here.

"How did this happen?"

"Oh, how would I know? Someone from your bureau said they would take care of something here, and when they came back, it turned out like this." Old Li noticed that Chu Zhishui's face was not right, and hurriedly said, "They promised to compensate you, comrade, you can't default on your debt!"

Chu Zhishui said politely, "Okay, don't worry. We will check the situation on site and ask you to fill out a form later. We will leave only after we confirm that there is no problem."

"That's good, that's good. I just sowed the seeds and they haven't sprouted yet. What a pity!" Old Li looked at the rotten vegetable field with regret, and then winked and hinted, "Comrade, they said it was wild animals that made trouble, but there are no animals here... What are you doing here?"

The situation on the scene was weird, and it was inevitable that Old Li would think too much.

Chu Zhishui wondered how she knew, but still showed a soothing smile and said without leaking a single word, "It was indeed an animal. Thank you for your cooperation."

Chu Zhishui and Xin Yunmao took photos and records on the scene and calculated how much compensation was paid in total. Old Li had to go back to the village to get some farm tools, so he couldn't wait by the field the whole time, so he said he would come back to sign in an hour.

After getting off the car, Xin Yunmao didn't talk to Old Li, and followed Chu Zhishui nonchalantly, looking idle.

Chu Zhishui didn't expect him to do any work. It wasn't difficult to check the compensation. If it weren't for the rules and regulations of the bureau, and the fear of being routinely checked, she could handle it herself.

The field was dug into a mess, and with the heavy rain that suddenly fell on the mountainside, the mud was extremely muddy with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Seeing Xin Yunmao hesitating, Chu Zhishui said, "You can wait there, I'll take a look and come back."

Both of them ran over and made a big fuss, and their shoes got dirty.

Xin Yunmao was about to say that he could just go over, but he found that she walked away without even looking back. He looked at her back as she tried to keep her balance at the edge of the field, feeling subtle emotions. He really couldn't describe the feeling at the moment, it was simply a strange experience since birth.

She seemed to treat him like the fish in the office.

Xin Yunmao occasionally ran into Chu Zhishui and Jin Yu interacting, the former treating the latter like a child.

Chu Zhishui stepped over the bumpy mud and found a vegetable patch behind the cottage, with two or three green bamboos beside it, casting light shadows.

The area nearby was far away from the village and sparsely populated. There were many dark climbing frames on one side of the vegetable patch, with old wooden barrels placed underneath, the barrels were almost filled with rainwater and fallen leaves.

The vegetable patch was also a mess. Chu Zhishui took a photo to confirm the situation and prepared to walk back slowly.

There were deep and shallow marks on the ground. She didn't know whether it was the shadow of the climbing frame or the water accumulated in the dark, so she had nowhere to step.

At this moment, the black shadow on the ground suddenly twisted, and even rose from the ground strangely, rushing towards her like a wave.

She clearly felt the cold touch on her ankle!

"Wow!"

Not far away, Xin Yunmao was startled when he heard the sound.

If Chu Zhishui's experience in the corridor of the Observation Bureau could be regarded as an illusion, then she was now really touching a certain slippery and cold existence, and goose bumps arose all over her body. She tried to run away, but was tripped by the mud and fell to the side uncontrollably.

Behind her were black waves and in front of her was a hard field ridge. She was afraid that she would get her head broken and bleed.

The bamboo leaves made a slight sound in the wind.

The next second, Xin Yunmao flashed to the edge of the field ridge. He grabbed Chu Zhishui, who was about to stagger and fall to the ground, and supported her with one hand: "What are you panicking about?"

Chu Zhishui witnessed with her own eyes the black shadow shrouding Xin Yunmao's head, swimming like a giant python hunting for food, and arching its terrifying body high. She trembled and said, "Behind you..."

Xin Yunmao turned his head, his eyes were shiny black, and he pinched his thumb and index finger lightly. Between his fingers, the black curtain covering the sky and the sun was pierced, and was dispersed in an instant, turning into a drizzle!

The mist and rain came in a drizzle, and disappeared in an instant, falling into the damp mud.

He let go of Chu Zhishui, checked left and right, and put his hands in his pockets casually: "It's just the remnant of the demonic energy, which can even deal with the newly formed small monsters."

"...Okay, okay, you're pretending." Chu Zhishui was still in shock, her voice was still a little soft, and she said with a headache, "But please understand that I'm not a monster, I'm a real human."

She had never seen any demonic energy before!

Seeing her pale face and fear, Xin Yunmao said with interest: "Are you that scared? You were so powerful when you were chatting with me, but now you are so scared that you can't speak when you see the demonic energy."

He really didn't understand why she was not afraid of monsters, but was afraid of demonic energy.

"You don't understand at all!" Chu Zhishui defended herself stubbornly, "I'm not afraid of evil spirits, I just don't like unknown and invisible existences, such as invisible and intangible ghosts, and things without a concrete form..." "

Oh--" Xin Yunmao dragged out his words, thinking of how she had followed him downstairs, and raised the corners of his mouth as if he had realized something, "If she's pretty, you chase her, and if she's ugly, you get scared. Your likes and dislikes are really straightforward."

"..."

Chu Zhishui took a deep breath. She calmed down after being interrupted by him: "You're wrong, I don't chase her just because she's pretty."

Xin Yunmao didn't believe it, and said with his arms around his chest: "Then did you have the courage to go downstairs with me?"

She glanced at him and said lightly: "I'm simply not afraid of being stupid."

Xin Yunmao: "?"