"It was her!" I finally remembered whose voice it was.
Xu Qiuyan's mother.
It was her scream.
Ye Jinghong hurriedly asked, "Who is it?"
"That crazy woman!" As soon as I said it, Ye Jinghong was also shocked. "How could it be her? Wasn't she at the border, stopping those foreign gods from entering?"
I shook my head. I had no idea what was going on either.
No matter what, I had to go take a look.
"If it really is her, what will you do? Will you help her?" Ye Jinghong asked.
I froze for a moment. If it really was her, what should I do?
I shook my head, and Ye Jinghong sighed. "It's up to you. Whatever you want to do, I'll support you."
I gave a helpless smile.
We headed toward the source of the sound. Darkness like this was something we could quickly adapt to. Both Ye Jinghong and I could still see in the dark.
We moved through the woods. The sound had clearly seemed very close, yet after walking for nearly twenty minutes, we found nothing.
It wasn't an illusion. We really had heard a woman screaming.
"Look, there seems to be light over there!" Ye Jinghong pointed into the distance. I saw it too. In this darkness, even the tiniest flicker of light was dazzling.
After walking another dozen meters or so, we saw a small house ahead.
The house appeared to be built from piled stones, without even mortar or cement to hold them together.
There should have been a candle burning inside. Xu Qiuyan's mother's screams were coming from within the house.
We had reached the outside of the house. It did not look large. There was a doorway, but no door.
Ye Jinghong and I exchanged a look. We