What was going on with that young man surnamed Kong's room?
Why could it keep monsters out?
Shu Hu couldn't make sense of it.
At first, it had watched the young man for a long time and realized he really couldn't see monsters and couldn't hurt it either.
It tested him a few times.
The young man didn't react at all.
Once it had put its mind at ease, it focused wholeheartedly on getting its stone back.
But even after it had struggled to make the young man hear its voice, the young man still couldn't understand what it was saying.
It was just like when he couldn't hear it at all.
It was both frustrated and irritated.
Annoying humans.
Hateful humans.
Stupid humans...
It kept muttering to itself.
Since the young man could hear its voice, maybe one day he'd be able to understand what it meant, too.
So it persevered, chattering nonstop in the young man's ear.
Give its stone back.
Give it back, give it back...
Xiao Xiao had more or less figured out what was going on.
He looked at the young man, whose expression was hard to describe.
Noticing the gaze on him, the young man abruptly looked up and met Xiao Xiao's eyes.
There was still an odd, searching look on his face that he hadn't had time to hide.
The young man rubbed his cheek.
"Um..."
"Did you pick up a stone on Emerald Mountain?"
Xiao Xiao got straight to the point.
"A stone?"
The young man immediately forgot what he'd been about to say. "Emerald Mountain?"
His expression shifted.
Could it be...
"It might have been a piece of amber."
After all, the monster hadn't described it very clearly, and he hadn't seen the stone himself, so Xiao Xiao didn't want