I looked at Xiao Qing, my feelings complicated.
I felt that this mental domain of mine had a great deal to do with her.
But then I thought, even if she had not reminded me, I would still have noticed that paper effigy. That probably could not count as a psychological suggestion from her, could it?
To create a mental domain, one first needed consciousness. Yet no matter how I looked at it, my previous mental domain seemed to have been created unconsciously—unless there had been more than one person constructing it.
I narrowed my eyes. If someone else had constructed that mental domain with me, then who was that person? Could it have been Xiao Qing standing before me? But Guiguzi had said it was my mental domain. He had even said he had seen it, and that the mental domain belonged to me alone.
Could it be that he had lied? But why would he lie?
I could not make sense of it.
"Jiang Xiaobai, what exactly are you thinking about? Why do I feel like you keep zoning out?"
Faced with Xiao Qing's questioning, I shook my head. What I was thinking really was not something I could say aloud.
I said to her, "Come on, let's keep moving forward."
Ying Gou also said, "Your mood seems off. Are you too tired?"
I had not noticed it until he mentioned it. Once he did, I really did feel a little tired.
He said, "Why don't you go back and rest? We'll keep looking."
I shook my head. The other party had said that only I could come. I told him, "How about this? You all leave first!"
I was saying this to Xiao Qing as well. Xiao Qing said nothing, merely looking at me, but Ying Gou