"Who's there!"
The boy shouted and looked to his side, getting startled and falling onto the ground.
"Are you a human or a ghost? How did you appear?"
The boy's facial expression twisted, the alley was a dead end, and at the end of it was this small courtyard, no more than twenty square meters in area. Other than the decrepit cabinet placed against the west wall, there was nothing else. That cabinet, with its size, couldn't possibly hide a person; even the boy himself didn't have the ability to fully hide inside it.
Therefore, the moment one foot entered this small courtyard, everything inside was plainly visible. Although the boy hadn't looked carefully earlier, if there was someone inside, there was no way they could hide without being seen.
But how did this person appear?
The boy sat on the ground with his hands planted, scrutinizing the figure wearing a duckbill cap, whose face above the nose seemed to be shrouded in mist; from any angle, only his chin was visible.
