Yokai Tea Party
Chapter 4787

The Child in the Tree

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He emerged from within.

"Let's go."

Zhang Bo changed the subject. "I'm hungry."

"Let's hurry back."

"Grrrr~"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Bo's stomach obligingly rumbled.

Zhang Bo: ...

It really didn't need to be that cooperative.

He'd only brought it up to change the subject.

He hadn't expected...

He really was hungry.

Zhuge Yun snickered.

"Mm."

"We know you're hungry."

Zhao Luzheng found it rather amusing. "Eldest Brother, your stomach's being way too cooperative."

Xiao Xiao shook his head slightly.

Not at Zhang Bo.

But at the little Taotie above him, who had seized the opportunity to loudly proclaim that it was hungry too.

Zhang Bo pressed down hard on his stomach.

He wanted to stifle the rumbling inside.

He strode forward.

"It's already dinnertime."

They'd been walking all day.

They'd just eaten a little something for lunch.

Wasn't it perfectly normal for his stomach to be rumbling now?

"Yeah, yeah."

Zhuge Yun and Zhao Luzheng exchanged an amused glance with Xiao Xiao, then followed after Zhang Bo.

"I'm hungry too."

As they drew closer to the campsite, Xiao Xiao and the others gradually began to hear the chatter of people.

They could make out shadowy figures in the distance.

"Tiantian!"

"Tiantian!"

"Where are you?"

"Dinner's ready."

"Tiantian..."

Hmm?

Zhang Bo and the others glanced at one another.

Then they looked around.

Had a child not come back?

"Tiantian!"

The child's mom was starting to get worried.

What was going on?

She'd called out so many times, but the child hadn't answered...

"Where did he go?"

"What's wrong?"

The child's dad came over.

"Tiantian's missing!"

The child's mom looked frantic. "I told him not to wander off."

"This place is so big."

"What if he

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