Xiaolan and Taoist Master stood on both sides of the door, listening with their ears raised.
This is a silent battle. Whoever loses his composure will lose.
Although... the few people watching did not understand the meaning of this battle at all.
"Taoist Master, there seems to be no sound inside," Luo Jiutian was the first to lose his temper. "Did Xiaolan and the others run away?"
"If she ran away, then she must not be real," Li Muyuan analyzed rationally, "otherwise, what would they be afraid of? She must be feeling guilty!"
Xiaolan at the door cleared her throat specially.
Do you doubt that I can do it and say that I have a guilty conscience? That must be impossible.
"Xiaolan, they are still here," Yi Yao heard the conversation between several people and frowned, "And I...why did I seem to hear them calling my name just now?"
"I heard it too," Xiaolan said through gritted teeth, "Uncle Yi, do they also know you?"
"That Taoist brother probably doesn't know me, but if it's Jiutian and... hmm? What's going on outside?"
Before Yi Yao finished speaking, the sound outside the door suddenly became noisy.
Xiaolan and Yi Yao looked at each other, ran to the wooden door in unison, and put their ears against the door.
"Taoist Priest! Did you see it?!..."
"I saw... Jiutian, be careful!..."
"I'm fine... What's going on? They... what are they? They don't look like living people... They all seem to be running in that direction..."
"..."
Xiaolan and Yi Yao exchanged nervous glances.
After that, the two of them reached out at the same time, grabbed the door handle, and opened the door at the same time.
The creak of the door opening was quickly drowned out by the noise outside.
Even the three people outside the door did not notice that the door was opened immediately.
Xiaolan saw the figures of Taoist Priest and Luo Jiutian at a glance, and the joy in her eyes instantly bloomed, but was quickly replaced by surprise.
In the world outside the door, there were countless weird and weird "people", flying across her line of sight and running towards her right.
Those weirdos had different shapes, but no one could be called "normal". They were shouting and roaring. Looking at this hellish scene, Xiaolan only thought of one word - Hundred Ghosts Night Parade.
The Taoist Priest's peripheral vision caught sight of Xiaolan and Yi Yao. He turned around suddenly and looked at the two of them with wide eyes. Xiaolan looked at those familiar eyes and could imagine that the Taoist Priest's brain was busy at this moment. At what speed is it rotating?
Because she herself is in the same state.
The two cautiously doubted each other for a while, and slowly, their muscles finally relaxed.
"Xiaolan?"
"Taoist priest?"
Bright smiles bloomed in both pairs of eyes at the same time.
"Taoist Priest! It's really you! It's really you!"
"Xiaolan! Great, you're okay..."
Xiaolan rushed towards the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest picked up the little girl as usual. He soon found that he couldn't hold her, so he put her down naturally (pretending to be).
"Look, Taoist Priest, I just said it's Xiaolan inside," Luo Jiutian said while stroking Xiaolan's hair affectionately, "Taoist Priest also said to wait."
"Jiutian," Yi Yao said from the side, "do you still remember me?"
The three of them looked at Yi Yao, their expressions a little stiff, and then they all looked at Xiaolan.
"Look...what are I doing?" Xiaolan said, "This is Yi Nian's Uncle Yi. Brother Jiutian, don't you know him?"
"Of course I know Uncle Yi," Luo Jiutian stared at the innocent Yi Yao suspiciously, "It's just... is this true or false?"
"Ah? Is this still false?" Xiaolan was confused by Luo Jiutian's words, "Uncle Yi, he is...ah! Uncle Yi, you haven't been lying to me, have you?!"
Xiaolan immediately switched sides, hid behind the Taoist priest and pointed at Yi Yao.
"I'm not lying to you," Yi Yao said in a dumbfounded voice, "Jiutian, I am Uncle Yi. Tell me what's going on. You don't even recognize me?"
"Xiaolan, has Mr. Yi always been with you?" the Taoist priest turned his head slightly and asked.
Xiaolan nodded.
"How long have you been here?"
"It's been a long time," Xiaolan said, grabbing the Taoist priest's sleeve. "I don't remember the specific time, but it was at least one day."
"That's it." After listening to Xiaolan's words, the Taoist priest pondered for a while and then said, "When we first entered this world, we met this Mr. Yi."
"What?" Yi Yao's eyes were even more surprised than when he opened the door. "Taoist Priest, I haven't seen you before... Wait, I understand..."
Xiaolan also raised her index finger, obviously colliding with Yi Yao's idea.
"I think what you saw was the fake Uncle Yi," Xiaolan said. "When we first arrived, we also met the fake head of the Xiahua family..."
"Have you met the head of the Xiahua family?!"
The three of them showed shocked expressions at the same time.
"Yes," Yi Yao said, "That Xia Hua looks weird. We judge that it is not the head of the Xia Hua family himself."
"The head of the Xiahua family was originally with us," Li Muyuan said, "but she went to another world."
"What?!" Xiaolan was scared out of her mind, "Xia Hua is dead?!"
"Uh...that's not what I meant," Li Muyuan noticed the ambiguity in his words, "it was the literal meaning. According to our speculation, she was caught in the mirror."
"Mirror?" Yi Yao narrowed her eyes, "What on earth is going on?"
"This... it's a long story," the Taoist priest said, "Mr. Yi, Xiaolan, how did you two meet?"
"It's a long story for us," Yi Yao pointed at the running weirdos and said, "Why don't we deal with the matter in front of us first, and let's talk about the rest while walking."
"Okay," the Taoist priest agreed, "these things should be..."
"They are corpses in different rooms," Yi Yao said, "that is, potential threats active in this world."
"That's right," the Taoist priest continued, "under normal circumstances, their target should be us."
But now, as if they couldn't see a few people at all, they ran forward like moths to a flame.
"There must be something ahead," Xiaolan said, "Let's go over and take a look."
"It just so happens that our room is also in front," Luo Jiutian said, "Let's go back and bring Miaozhen and Senior Brother Zhuge with us first."
"They are here too?" Xiaolan then noticed the gray thread in Luo Jiutian's hand.
"Yes," the Taoist Master's footsteps became more and more hurried, and in the end he started to trot. "I think we should go faster. I always feel that this place... seems to be disappearing..."
