Ying Gou remained inside my body without coming out. He was our secret weapon, capable of producing unexpected results at critical moments.
From the outside, it looked as though I was just wandering aimlessly around the foot of the mountain with a cat.
"By the way, why haven't I seen the Time-Space Houn?" It suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't seen the Time-Space Houn all day. It usually liked to curl up in the cave and rarely went out.
Erha gave a strange grin. "It got lured away by a female Houn!"
My eyes widened. "What? A female Houn?" I was curious. Where could a female Houn have come from here?
Erha said, "I found it strange too. At the time, it and I were in the cave when it suddenly flipped over, sprang to its feet, and ran outside. I asked what had happened, and it said one of its kind was in danger and that it had to save its companion. I figured I had nothing better to do, so I went with it. But I found it odd. I hadn't heard anything, so how did it know while it was with me? It told me that its companion had sent out a distress signal and that it heard it loud and clear. That only made me more depressed. I'm Di Ting! What is there in this world that I can't hear? How could I not have heard any distress signal?"
Erha could be quite long-winded at times, but I still didn't interrupt it.
"Sure enough, less than two miles from the cave, we found a badly injured Time-Space Houn. It had originally intended to bring the injured Houn back to the cave, but then I don't know what that Houn said to it. It left with