"I don't know why..."
The boy rubbed his eyes again without thinking. "All I can see is a dark blur."
"I can make out their general shapes."
"But no matter what, I can't see what they look like."
"How strange."
The boy rubbed his eyes again. The whites were bloodshot. "Why can't I see them clearly?"
"Is my eyesight getting worse?"
"Strange..."
"Stop rubbing them."
Xiao Xiao grabbed the boy's arm. "There's nothing wrong with your eyes."
"Then what's wrong?"
The boy stared at Xiao Xiao, eyes wide. "If there's nothing wrong with my eyes... then what's wrong with me?"
"There's nothing wrong with you."
"You just can't see the yaoguai clearly."
Xiao Xiao's words did little to ease the confusion on the boy's face.
He felt as though he hadn't understood what the big brother had said.
And yet, deep down, he seemed to have an inkling of what it meant.
He was so close.
He was almost able to figure it out.
"Shouldn't you be focusing on Big Ox's situation right now?"
Xiao Xiao let go of the boy's arm.
The boy immediately forgot the question he'd been agonizing over and asked anxiously, "Big Brother... Big Ox..."
"How are you going to find Big Ox?"
He couldn't think of any way to find Big Ox, who had vanished without a trace.
"If there's blood..."
The boy murmured, "Could we use a dog?"
"But..."
His face full of confusion, he knew he was only joking. "Can dogs smell a yaoguai?"
How could they?
Xiao Xiao smiled. "Of course, not just any dog."
"Not... just any dog?!"
The boy realized something. "Were those dark blurs dogs?"
Thinking about it now, he seemed to have heard something like a dog's bark?
"Dog yaoguai?"
"Dog yaoguai can fly?!"
He remembered that