"Hmm?"
Su Ming suddenly froze in place.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Qianqian turned her gaze toward Su Ming, her eyes full of inquiry.
"Nothing."
Su Ming thought he had imagined it, so he shook his head at Xu Qianqian.
But right after that, another strange sound reached Su Ming's ears.
It was a sound that remained indistinct no matter how he listened, seeming both like singing and like weeping.
"What is this?"
Su Ming once again wore a stunned expression, even beginning to look somewhat astonished.
"What exactly is wrong?"
Seeing this, Xu Qianqian could not help frowning.
"Could it be that you didn't hear any sound?"
Su Ming frowned as well and looked at Xu Qianqian in surprise.
"Sound?" Xu Qianqian gathered her focus and listened carefully for a while before shaking her head and saying, "I didn't hear anything strange."
Su Ming stared at Xu Qianqian for quite some time before finally confirming that she was not lying.
But Su Ming had indeed heard it.
"I heard someone singing, though it also sounded like someone crying."
Su Ming told Xu Qianqian this.
"Singing? Crying?"
Xu Qianqian's brows furrowed more and more deeply.
Clearly, this young lady truly had not heard anything.
Su Ming, on the other hand, had not only heard it, but could hear it more and more clearly.
"Meiling—"
All of a sudden, the sound became clear.
"Meiling?"
Su Ming muttered involuntarily.
What kind of sound was this?
Su Ming could not identify it.
He only felt that the sound was inexplicably beautiful and inexplicably alluring, making him unable to resist listening more closely, even wanting to search for its source.
Then Su Ming turned his head and looked in one direction.
"Over there?"
As if struck by sudden inspiration, Su Ming confirmed the direction from which