"I don't know."
Xiao Xiao answered with complete honesty. "You've already asked me that question."
Pei You: ...
"I remember now."
She really had asked him before, using up her third and final question.
"Then can't you give me a different answer?"
"Something a little more hopeful, maybe?"
Pei You couldn't help complaining.
Otherwise, what was the point of asking again?
To get hurt all over again?
Silence filled the phone line.
Pei You: ...
"All right, Master Xiao. You don't have to say anything."
Pei You surrendered. "I'm sorry. I bothered you with the same question again."
The girl on the other end of the call made a face.
Pei Liang, watching her in the rearview mirror, couldn't help smiling.
"Um, Master Xiao."
Pei You tugged at her sleeve. "Can it hear me if I talk from the shore?"
"Or do I have to go into the water before it can hear me?"
"Wait, how do you talk underwater?"
Pei You suddenly froze. How had she never thought of that before?
Then Master Xiao...
"Master Xiao, can you talk underwater?"
"Or can you communicate with monsters telepathically?"
The girl fired off one question after another.
Either way, it was astonishing.
Though the fact that Master Xiao could see monsters was already astonishing enough.
But...
There was still nothing but silence on the other end.
Pei You couldn't help taking the phone away from her ear to check the screen. For a moment, she suspected she might have accidentally hung up, or that Master Xiao had ended the call because he was tired of her.
But the phone showed that the call was still connected.
The girl put the phone back to her ear. "Master Xiao?"
"Are you there?"
"Mm."
"If you speak louder from the shore,