After hearing the villagers' conversation in the cave during the day, Bo Yi had formed a theory.
And after seeing the villagers skirt that house on their patrols, he had become even more certain.
But final confirmation still required the "person herself"-
As he watched the woman gradually slow her pursuit, then stop a short distance away before she had even caught him, an "I knew it" expression appeared on his face.
"So you really don't dare go inside..."
The woman ignored Bo Yi. Even her gaze, which had been fixed intently on him, shifted to the building behind him-the Lady's Temple-the moment she saw it.
Her back arched, and the hands braced against the ground kept slapping at it. She turned restlessly in place, looking just like an animal anxiously pawing and clawing at the earth.
Bo Yi was about to speak again when he noticed something strange about her expression.
She kept growling softly toward the Lady's Temple, and the arms she used to crawl kept trying to reach toward it. Yet every time she extended them, she quickly drew them back, as though wary of something.
Huh? Bo Yi watched her for a while, slowly furrowing his brow.
Why did he get the feeling... that it wasn't that she didn't dare go inside? Her behavior actually looked more like-
She wanted to go in, but couldn't.
Interesting... Discovering that his deduction was wrong didn't discourage Bo Yi; instead, he grew even more excited. Just as he was about to step forward, grab her, and test how this worked, the woman suddenly straightened up as though she had heard something. She turned and stared intently in the direction they had come from.
Soon, she withdrew her gaze and turned back to Bo Yi. Although her face was utterly