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It was late at night.
Xu Ziling and Wanwan had just finished their visit to the Arhat Hall at the Great Stone Temple. Now, together with a certain troublesome little girl, they strolled unhurriedly along a mountain path beneath the moon, heading in the same direction.
"..."
?(｀_′)?
The troublesome little girl walking in front was none other than their master, Annie—currently ranked first among the martial arts world's grandmasters!
But...
For some reason, she was stomping along ahead of them, her short legs taking heavy steps, as if someone had offended her.
"..."
"..."
Xu Ziling and Wanwan followed behind her, their expressions somewhere between amused and exasperated. They said little, their faces in the darkness revealing helplessness, bemusement, and a certain lack of enthusiasm.
As for why they looked that way, that was still unclear.
"How dare you!"
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"You two!"
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Finally!
After walking for a while, the troublesome little girl couldn't hold back any longer. She stopped, turned around, and spoke indignantly:
"I was pretending to be a ghost!"
?(?﹏?,)?
"And I did it so well! Any ordinary person would've been scared to death, but why did you two have to go against all reason and stab me instead?"
?(?`^′?)?
That was right!
The reason Annie was angry, and Xu Ziling and Wanwan looked so strange, was naturally because of that.
As it turned out, after the chaos in the Great Stone Temple's Arhat Hall had ended, a sinister figure had appeared silently behind Xu Ziling and Wanwan, hoping to scare them—and had indeed given them quite a fright. With disheveled hair, dressed in red, pale-faced, with slanted eyes and a long tongue, the figure had floated eerily in midair. It had suddenly turned a terrifying, hair-raising gaze on them.
That creepy figure had been