? had said a lot.
This time, after coming down the mountain, it had truly seen far too many strange things.
Aside from humans, who seemed to still be the humans it remembered, everything else had changed.
It had become so unfamiliar.
It asked Spirit Maple many questions.
Although it received no answers to most of them.
Even for the few questions it did get a response to, it seemed Spirit Maple had only given it a few words to send it away because it had been pestered beyond endurance.
It knew that Spirit Maple liked peace and quiet.
But Spirit Maple was the only one it could ask for help now.
It was very disappointed that Spirit Maple did not know its friend.
Yet it could not leave just like this.
If it left, it would only repeat its previous aimless search.
It had grown somewhat afraid of searching like that.
If it stayed here, at least it still had Spirit Maple.
But how was it supposed to find its friend?
At night, without the liveliness it showed during the day, it would always stare blankly at the sky.
Wondering what it should do next.
"Who is your friend?"
Rather than send ? back to the home whose route even it could no longer remember, Xiao Xiao felt that, comparatively speaking, finding its friend would be easier.
"What is its name?"
"~~"
Its name was Ling Yao.
? announced its friend's name with a fair amount of pride.
Its friend was incredibly capable.
Especially after leaving home this time, it had come to feel even more strongly how amazing its friend was.
Every time its friend came to its house, it never got lost on the way?!
How did it do that?
Everything around them had