"Don't mind it."
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"Let's keep going."
"Oh, okay."
Since the person involved had spoken up, the others didn't know what else to say.
But during the first few steps, quite a few students kept glancing back.
Before long, they realized—
"Ah!"
Someone cried out.
"It's following us again!"
This time, everyone turned around.
They saw the branches swaying, and a pair of feet on a tree trunk.
It turned out that after realizing it had been spotted, the little monkey had quickly hidden in the treetop.
Everyone: ...
"Ah..."
The confusion on everyone's faces was practically palpable.
"Why is it following us again?"
"Does it plan to follow us the whole way?"
"It's not following us. It's following Xiao Xiao."
Someone corrected them.
"Oh, right."
Xiao Xiao shook his head slightly.
"If it wants to follow us, then let it."
Come to think of it, he'd gone into the mountains and somehow ended up with two "tails" behind him.
He hadn't expected that at the start.
"We don't need to worry about it."
"Oh, okay."
Everyone nodded.
Their eyes still kept wandering over to it from time to time.
They said they wouldn't mind...
But it was hard to ignore a monkey following them around.
Though, to be precise, the monkey was following Xiao Xiao.
Still...
All they could do was ignore it.
Because even if they did mind, there wasn't anything they could do.
If it had been a person, they could have asked why it was following Xiao Xiao.
But it was a monkey.
They were different species and spoke different languages.
There was no way to communicate.
As time passed, everyone gradually got used to having a monkey follow them.
That was mainly because the monkey was only