"Master! Master!"
"Where's Senior Sister?"
"Why can't I find her?"
At midday, Jin Xiaoli ran beneath the big tree in the backyard of Cloudrise Hall. In the shade, she found her Master Annie dozing on a vine swing in the garden. Looking around, she hurried over and asked anxiously.
"??"
(′~`●)
"Isn't she in the main hall up front?"
o(╥﹏╥)o
Annie opened her eyes and glanced at her. Her face instantly scrunched up as she answered lazily.
"The main hall?"
"But..."
"Isn't the one in the main hall just a fake stand-in?"
Jin Xiaoli said confidently.
"??"
!?(?''??)?
"How did you know she was a stand-in?"
!(;?o?)o
Annie asked, rather puzzled.
The puppet made from Mo Caihuan was meditating in the main hall. If anyone came to see her, she responded and handled things quite appropriately. Her appearance, voice, and even the fluctuations of her spiritual energy were all practically perfect. Around here, only she, Flame Immortal, and Tushan Xue, who was max-level but lacked the talent to break through, should be able to see through it. There was no way Jin Xiaoli, who was under level forty, could.
"That's easy!"
"I went up and slapped her butt, and she didn't resist or hit back. So she had to be a fake—she definitely wasn't Senior Sister!"
"There's no way I could be wrong!"
Jin Xiaoli said with a perfectly straight face. Whether what she'd done was proper was a matter of opinion.
"..."
=('ヮ'=)
"You can do that?"
(lll￢▽￢)
Annie thought it over, then quickly nodded in realization.
That puppet really wouldn't react or make a judgment about non-hostile behavior. So it wasn't surprising that Jin Xiaoli had used such a crooked method to tell the real one from the fake.
If it had really been Mo Caihuan, the two