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"Taotie, you'd better tell me what you are doing?"

Qiongqi frowned and stared at the small group of gray unknown creatures with an unfriendly look.

After hearing what Qiongqi said, the little thing slowly got up from the ground, raised its head, looked at Qiongqi lazily, and stretched.

"Long time no see, Qiongqi." The childish voice came out from the petite body, which was really cute. But Qiongqi looked distorted.

He squeezed his eyes under his armpits, as if trying to keep himself awake, but in the end he couldn't help but yawned, revealing his pointy teeth.

"...You are so lucky." Qin Xiao couldn't help but say to Qiu Puryue.

Qiu Puryue:?

Seeing that Qiu Puyue still had a puzzled expression, Qin Xiao did not explain, his face was as complicated as it could be.

Yin Xihui tilted his head. Out of curiosity, he couldn't help but lean to look. At first glance, he thought it was a lamb, but at the second glance he realized it was not the right thing.

Where are its eyes?

Yin Xihui looked at it for a long time before he realized that its eyes were actually under its armpits. The creature seemed to notice him and glanced at him with one eye.

"(Why are you with this human?)" Qiongqi asked in that strange language.

Taotie yawned again, stretched his front paws hard, and stretched lazily. The horns on his head only protruded a little and were not obvious.

"(I want to go out. You know, we can't go out by ourselves, so I want to try to let that human take me out)." Taotie replied, and then lay down lazily again.

"(What are you going to do after you get out)?"

"(I don't know, let's go around first)."

"..."

Qiongqi and Taotie were talking in a murmur. Qiu Puyue didn't understand what Qin Xiao said, so she couldn't help asking, "Why do you say that?"

Qin Xiao glanced at Qiongqi and the others, then looked at her, but did not answer her question: "Why do you think he is a little demon beast?"

"Because he was only this big when he first appeared." Qiu Puryue pointed at the palm-sized Taotie and said.

"Isn't it a Warcraft? Then what is it?" Yin Xihui also came over and asked, "Speaking of which, the creatures we encounter here are not in the Warcraft book."

"His name is Taotie, that is..." Qin Xiao paused, not knowing how to introduce him for a moment. After all, he had never seen him and only heard of him from rumors.

"...Have you heard of me?" Taotie, who was communicating with Qiongqi, suddenly turned his head and asked.

"...Yes." Qin Xiao looked at him.

Qiongqi used one claw to pull Taotie back and introduced him to Taotie: "(He is from Mangshan, brought here by Mangling)."

Taotie heard it and blinked: "(From the central part?)"

Qiongqi nodded.

Taotie seemed to be thinking about something and looked at Mo Hanyu again.

“(Such a familiar smell...Mo Ze?)” Taotie said it directly.

Qiongqi slapped him on the head, glanced at Qin Xiao, hooked Taotie and ran to the dark place behind the tree to talk in a low voice.

Qin Xiao: ...

Although your attitude has almost given you the answer.

Qiongqi poked his head out to look at Qin Xiao, and when he saw that Qin Xiao wasn't looking at them, he nodded to the Taotie: "(It should be his reincarnation)."

Taotie didn't quite understand his attitude: "Why are you talking here?"

Qiongqi told Taotie what he had discovered earlier.

"...That shouldn't be the case, right?" Taotie disagreed with his point of view, "Do you think that Mo Ze gave his heart blood to that human, so he fell in love with him? Impossible."

"Of course that's not what I meant." Qiongqi frowned, "I heard that the child was only a few years old at the time. How could Mo Ze be interested in a cub? He's not a pervert. What I meant was that this human should be very important to Mo Ze."

After hearing this, Taotie nodded: "It is true when you say that..."

"But so what?" Taotie stretched out his hind hoof and scratched his ear. "Mo Ze is already dead. Even if there is a reincarnation, so what? He is not himself after all."

"——Unless he recovers his memory." Taotie paused and added.

"So what do you mean now? Qiongqi." Taotie stared at him, "Do you want to help Mang Ling?"

"Me? I won't help anyone." Qiongqi sneered, "One or two of them are so troublesome... Although I have never had any contact with Mang Ling before, there is no need to make enemies with him. As for Mo Ze... I plan to follow him and see."

"So you want to go out too." Taotie smiled and said, "Then it's just right for us to go together."

"But speaking of it... I wonder if he can break this restraint." Taotie thought, glancing at Mo Hanyu, "Since he has recovered his strength, he should know how to break it, right?"

Qiongqi also glanced at Mo Hanyu who was still sleeping, and narrowed his eyes: "Who knows?"

"Is he very powerful?" Qiu Puyue was still asking Qin Xiao about Taotie. "Why do you say that?"

Qin Xiao recalled the rumors about Taotie and was silent for a moment: "It's just... he eats everything, including people."

Qiu Puryue:?

Qiu Puryue looked at Taotie in surprise and asked, "You eat everything?"

"He's smaller now. He didn't look like this before." Qin Xiao said briefly.

Qiu Puyue seemed to understand.

"Wow even."

Qiu Puryue said: "So I am indeed very lucky. But——"

"Are you really okay with your injury?" Qiu Puryue thought about it, still feeling a little worried.

Qin Xiao paused. Although it was only for a moment, Qiu Puryue still caught it.

Qin Xiao looked at Qiu Puryue, met her concerned eyes, was silent for a moment, then raised his hand to lift up his shirt and took it off.

Seeing this, Qiu Puyue knew that Qin Xiao had compromised. She turned to check his body, and paused when she saw his back.

"...This is not a minor injury." Qiu Puryue frowned and stared at the wound on Qin Xiao's back.

The wound looked like it was cut by a broken blade, extending from the left shoulder all the way down to the right waist. It was deep and long, and in some places one could even see the turned-over flesh.

Yin Xihui came over at some point and couldn't help but hiss after seeing the situation.

"It's not very serious, just some flesh injuries." Qin Xiao said.

"You can't just leave it there. You didn't bandage it and didn't say anything. I thought it was just a skin scrape." Yin Xihui said as he untied the strips of cloth wrapped around his waist.

"I saw some clothes on the road, so I tore them into strips and used them as bandages." Yin Xihui explained with a smile when he saw Qin Xiao looking at the strips of cloth in his hand.

"It doesn't have to be so troublesome, right?" Qiu Puyue looked at Qin Xiao, "Don't you know how to do it? Why don't you just restore it?"

She remembered that there was a method in blood magic that could quickly heal wounds, but the price was to extract the vitality of a living creature, whether it was an animal or a plant.

"It's not necessary." Qin Xiao lowered his eyes. "Don't use this method unless it's absolutely necessary. Although it's very convenient, it will increase the probability of going astray."

Qiu Puryue was stunned, she didn't even know about this.

Yin Xihui looked at her, then at Qin Xiao, and pulled out a stick from the fire.

Qin Xiao knew what he was going to do by looking at his actions, and without saying anything, he acquiesced.

Yin Xihui directly put the sparking wooden stick on the hideous wound. Qiu Purue couldn't help but hiss when he saw it.

Qin Xiao frowned, his knuckles turning slightly white as he gripped his knees, cold sweat dripped down his forehead, and his breathing became heavier.

"If I had a needle and thread, I could sew it up." Yin Xihui said, moving his hand down another inch, "It's a pity that I don't have one. Your wound is too deep. What happened?"

"The knife broke on the cliff." Qin Xiao's voice was a little hoarse, as if he was trying hard to endure something, "I wasn't paying attention for a moment, and it was cut off."

Qiu Purue picked up Qin Xiao's blood-stained shirt and saw that there was indeed a mark of a sharp blade on the back.

"This dress is torn too." Qiu Purue shook her head, "Can I still wear it?"

"It should be fine." Qin Xiao looked at her.

"...If you can't help it, just scream out. I can understand." Yin Xihui couldn't help but say when he saw Qin Xiao's lips turned pale and cold sweat appeared on his body.

Qin Xiao glanced at him and shook his head.

Yin Xihui didn't say anything else. He simply stopped Qin Xiao's bleeding and then bandaged him up.

"Who's on guard tonight?" Qiu Puyue asked as she hung Qin Xiao's clothes next to the fire.

Qin Xiao just opened his mouth: "I——"

"Let me do it." Yin Xihui sighed and patted Qin Xiao's shoulder, "Just take a good rest."

Qin Xiao looked at him and said nothing.

"What? Are you still not confident in me?" Yin Xihui laughed.

Qin Xiao shook his head: "No."

"Then you should take a rest first." Qiu Puryue advised, "If there is anything, we can talk about it tomorrow."

Qin Xiao looked at her, and then looked at Qiongqi Taotie who had finished chatting and walked out from behind the tree.

"Why are you looking at me? I'm not going to eat you." Taotie lay on Qiongqi's head and wanted to say something, but was thrown down by Qiongqi.

Seeing this, Qin Xiao stopped worrying and fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

Although Yin Xihui was a little afraid of Qiongqi and the others, he felt a little relieved when he found that they had no intention of attacking.

Qiu Purue looked at Qin Xiao who was lying on his side and sighed.

"Really..." Qiu Purue looked at Yin Xihui, and both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

"Neither one nor any of them makes me feel at ease." Qiu Puryue sighed again.

Yin Xihui agreed.

He had discovered long ago that Qin Xiao never told them about his injuries. If Qiu Puryue hadn't asked tonight, he would definitely have said nothing.

Thinking of this, Yin Xihui felt a little headache.

In fact, just thinking about it should be clear that jumping from such a high place would definitely not be safe and sound, but it seemed that because the strength Qin Xiao had shown before was too strong, he subconsciously thought that as long as Qin Xiao didn't say anything, he would not be injured.

But Qin Xiao's personality was really troublesome. Not only did he not say anything, he also acted as if nothing had happened. Before he was exposed, his every move was flawless, so Yin Xihui had never paid attention to it.

After Taotie was thrown off by Qiongqi, he looked at him lazily, not angry, and slowly crawled to Qiu Puyue's feet, as if wanting a hug.

Although Qiu Puyue heard what Qin Xiao said, she didn't take it to heart because they had been getting along very well these days and she had never seen Taotie do anything dangerous or terrifying. She skillfully held Taotie in her arms and sat down next to Qin Xiao.

Yin Xihui sat nearby, looking at Taotie and then at Qin Xiaomo Hanyu who was sleeping soundly on the ground.

"Come to think of it... today really surprised me."

Qin Yun'an, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly spoke. He sat opposite them and smiled at them.

"I didn't expect he would have a partner."

"Why?" Qiu Puryue felt the Taotie in her arms turned over, as if he had found a comfortable position, and immediately began to snore.

"Don't you know why?" Qin Yun'an raised his eyebrows, "Just his personality..."

As Qin Yun'an spoke, his expression twisted for a moment as if he had thought of something.

Qiu Puyue recalled how she looked when she first met Qin Xiao, and did not resonate with Qin Yun'an.

"He has a very good personality, but he doesn't smile much," said Qiu Puryue.

When Qin Yun'an heard this, his expression was very interesting.

"Very good?" Qin Yun'an wondered if Qiu Puryue had any misunderstanding about the word.

"What is he like with you guys? When he was with me, he was always shouting and killing. He looked so scary." Qin Yun'an said, and thought of the curse mark on his neck again, and couldn't help but click his tongue.

"Well...it's pretty good. The reason he treats you like that might be because you haven't gained his trust yet." Qiu Puryue was obviously able to chat with people easily and followed Qin Yun'an's words.

"...Your words are too hurtful." Qin Yun'an said with a hurt expression.

Qiu Puyue seemed amused and chatted with Qin Yunan for a while. The atmosphere between the two of them became much more relaxed.

After Qin Yun'an waved his hand and said he wanted to rest, Qiu Puyue ended the conversation. Seeing that Qin Yun'an had fallen asleep, she turned around and wanted to say something to Yin Xihui, but was stunned when she met his eyes.

Yin Xihui noticed Qiu Puryue's pause and immediately restrained his expression, smiling at her as usual.

At this time, they were the only two people awake by the campfire.

Qiongqi had closed his eyes long ago, Taotie lay relaxed in Qiu Puyue's arms, Qin Xiao was sleeping particularly deeply, perhaps because of his injury, and Mo Hanyu was still unconscious.

"What's wrong?" Qiu Puryue asked him.

"What's wrong?" Yin Xihui smiled in confusion.

Qiu Puryue frowned. She had just seen that Yin Xihui's eyes were frighteningly dark, and it was clear that he had something wrong, but when she asked him about it, he pretended not to know.

It happens every time.

And she was frightened at first sight.

He just stared at her straight, his pupils were pitch black without a single light, the color of his pupils was so dark that it was impossible to see the color inside, it was so deep and scary.

Seeing Qiu Puyue's dissatisfaction, Yin Xihui still had a smile on his face: "Nothing, I was just thinking about something."

"What's the matter?" Qiu Puyue persisted.

"That's it..." Yin Xihui rolled his eyes, as if hesitant, and hooked his finger at her, motioning her to come over.

Qiu Puyue cooperated by moving her butt towards him and putting her ear closer.

Yin Xihui looked at her posture, feeling amused but also a little helpless. He leaned close to her ear and whispered softly, as if he was whispering something.

"Do you think Qin Xiao and this guy called Qin Yun'an look a bit alike?"