"Never mind Mom, thinking too hard will not be good for your health," said Wan Lie after he finished putting the food on the table, he did not know how many times he had heard his mother exhale rough breath since entering the room.
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Do not feel the night is getting late, faintly heard the sound of night animals that break the silence. The night air was so cold but refreshing. The sky, which was clearly due to the scattered stars filling the horizon, was accompanied by the moon peeking shyly behind the clouds. A girl never leaves where. She is who knows how long she has stood sipping the silence of the night, lost in thoughts like an endless maze.
Even though she never left her room all day, but all the new things that happened to her drained her energy and mind. Fu Xie Lan, for some reason the girl hasn't fallen asleep yet, her eyes that are reluctant to cooperate forced her to stay awake.
The night wind blew softly, blowing her black hair that had swayed beautifully. Right now she was behind a half-open window, staring blankly at the air.
"Hmm," another sigh sounded, like a person under a very heavy burden.
A few seconds later, she tried to circulate her pupils to see the situation around the building where she was, very quiet. Maybe everyone is asleep. She then took a swing and started moving out of the room through the window.
Even though her room was on the second floor, it wouldn't be difficult for her if she wanted to leave the room. It turned out that being in the room all day made her bored, and decided to take a walk to enjoy the night air alone without any disturbance.
Slowly but surely she moved along the side of the building, jumping from window to window to gain a foothold with great skill. However, when she jumped back to her last footing before hitting the ground, her leg suddenly wobbled under the weight of her body, as a result, she lost her balance and fell to the ground.
"Awww," a falling voice along with muffled screams could be heard.
"Who is there?"
Suddenly Fu Xie Lan immediately left where she fell with a limp, hiding behind a tree not far from her.
"Aww, Ssshh ..." she almost got caught. She sprained her leg badly. Again, she became careless. Fu Xie Lan forgot, that the body she was currently using was not her trained body like in her past life. She did not think that her current physique would turn out to be this weak.
Sitting leaning against a not-so-big tree, slowly stretching her legs out on the level ground, letting her leg muscles rest for a moment. She did not force herself to walk immediately as this would further aggravate the condition of her legs. She intended to go out for a walk to get some fresh air, but what she got was a bad thing. Now, she doesn't know anymore, with her injured leg, how can she get back?
She tried to tear the dress she was wearing for her to use instead of a bandage. A moment later, the cloth wrapped around her leg perfectly. and sure enough, it managed to reduce the pain even if only slightly.
"Hey, what are you doing there?"
A sudden sound made her gasp.
"Ah, I was just checking something," replied someone again. A few moments ago he heard a sound falling from next to his room.
The man's voice made Fu Xie Lan exhale a little in relief. A few seconds ago, she thought someone was asking her to talk, it seems that after she checked, not far from where she was, there were two old people, one of them was elder Bao and another who she didn't know who that man was.
"So far?"
"Err, tonight I'm staying here, what's wrong with it if I'm at my best friend's house?" replied the figure lazily.
"And you, what are you doing hanging around in the middle of the night like this?" he added again, staring in surprise at the old man who was about the same age as him.
"Oh that, I was just walking around, getting some fresh air and not realizing that I have come this far, by the way, what did you check?" asked the man back then approached Elder Bao.
"Nothing important."
"I heard that there is a half-human girl at Elder Chen's residence?"
Elder Huang Bao did not respond, his gaze shifted to the sunken ground like something heavy had applied pressure earlier.
"Hey, I'm talking to you."
"Yes, I heard it."
Not because he didn't want to answer, it's just that right now he is very lazy even just to make a sound.
"You can ask that of Elder Chen," he added.
Fu Xie Lan who was behind the tree heard everything very clearly because indeed her position was very close to the Elder.
The moonlight began to crawl out of hiding, adding to the illumination of the night.
Fu Xie Lan suddenly realized something that distracted Elder Huang Bao. It was the ground where she had fallen earlier on.
She then felt de javu. No, something similar like this had happened when she was still in the forbidden forest. Oh no more. She does not want someone to know her existence. Especially the man who just asked about herself. Apart from that, she couldn't imagine what kind of question the old man would again ask when she learned of her whereabouts. After all, she didn't have a plausible explanation for it.
It would be impossible if she had to answer that she jumped from the second floor just for a walk. But didn't this world made no sense to her? Answering like that, can't be weird right? Yeah, if she had the same strength like them, that might be fine. But it would be a different story if it was her, who they said was a half-human.
A half-human is known to be no different from humans. They had natural mana in their bodies and were able to control mana but it was a relatively small amount, making them underestimated. If there is a level of 0, then a half-human will probably be at level 0, a level lower than a person with grade one. Although some of them were equivalent to level one, they could only be counted on the fingers. Meanwhile, she did not know what level she was.
Fu Xie Lan then forced herself to stand up to minimize her presence. Her leg injury made it a little difficult for her to move. If only she could, she wanted to be one with the tree.
When Elder Huang Bao and the man wanted to turn around, Huang Bao's movements suddenly stopped. If his eyesight wasn't wrong, he had just seen a silhouette of a person from behind a tree that was only about ten meters away.
"Wait a minute."
Rather than guessing nonsense, he decided to check.
Fu Xie Lan who saw Elder Huan Bao walking towards her could only surrender.
One second...
Two seconds ...
When there were only about five steps left before reaching the tree, suddenly a black cat jumped at him, making him jump and fall on the ground.
"Huh, it turns out to be just a cat," he said, trying to stand up and then cleaning some parts of his robe which were soiled with dirt. After that, he turned around together with the unknown old man by Fu Xie Lan.
However, what had just happened was not what Elder Huang Bao had witnessed. Fu Xie Lan who saw the cat frowned slightly. She did not know if her eyes were problematic or what, because she could very clearly see that the cat was not a cat. But black smog is very dense and resembles a cat, especially when she watched the cat's body go up into the air and disappear.
'Maybe it's one of the oddities of this world.'
After watching the two old men leave, she returned to her original position. Sitting with her legs straightened. Suddenly her feeling of drowsiness was so intense, didn't care where she was now, her eyes slowly closed, and fell asleep. The moonlight that managed to escape from the leaves caressed her cheek, adding to her a peaceful appearance.
Without realizing it, someone had been watching her from afar.
"It turns out that after being reborn, your habit of sleeping anywhere does not change," said the figure with a smile etched on his lips.