The young man looked around beside Xiao Xiao. "Huh, where's Yue?"
"And that other white bird..."
"Why are they both gone?"
"I asked Yue and Ying Shao to help look for Little Fire."
Xiao Xiao's words made the young man's eyes widen in surprise. "They went to look for Little Fire?"
"Mm."
Xiao Xiao nodded.
"Do they know what Little Fire looks like?"
The young man blurted out the question.
They had never seen Little Fire...
"Well, I've never seen Little Fire either."
Xiao Xiao raised an eyebrow slightly.
Hadn't he been looking all morning?
"It's not the same..."
The young man stopped himself.
He hadn't meant anything bad.
It was just...
"You said Little Fire had a white head and a red body. Those are already pretty distinctive features."
Xiao Xiao smiled slightly. "If they look for Little Fire based on that description, they'll be able to find him."
"They can understand my description?"
The young man's eyes widened, as if he found it unbelievable.
"What did you think they were?"
Xiao Xiao, on the other hand, didn't understand why the young man was so surprised.
"They're yaoguai."
Wasn't it only natural that they could do something like that?
"They may look like birds, but that doesn't mean they're really birds."
Xiao Xiao began to understand what was going through the young man's mind.
The young man looked sheepish.
To hide his embarrassment, he reached up and nudged the frames on his nose.
"I..."
Inwardly, though, he felt relieved that Xiao Xiao understood what he was struggling with.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have known how to describe his thoughts accurately.
"Sorry."
The young man lowered his eyes and gave a bitter smile.
"No, you don't need to apologize."
Xiao Xiao smiled, a little surprised. "It's just a slight misunderstanding."