Without hesitation, Qin Manjiang answered the call.
"Hello?"
He spoke first.
What answered him at first was endless silence.
Only after a long while... did he hear a bewildered, low female voice:
"Who am I?"
Strange things happened every moment in this world, but someone suddenly calling you to ask who she herself was hardly fell within that range.
Glancing at the name saved for this number on the phone, Qin Manjiang chose to remain silent.
"Where... is this?"
Besides confusion, the low female voice on the phone now held a measure of helplessness and panic.
"Beep, beep, beep!!!"
Short blasts of car horns came through the phone. Qin Manjiang could almost see densely packed vehicles speeding past her.
What exactly was going on with this woman?
"Are you on a road?" Qin Manjiang asked.
"A road..."
On the other end, a woman in a white dress, with disheveled hair, an extremely frail body, and sickly pale skin, swayed as she crossed from the middle of the road back onto the sidewalk.
Qin Manjiang could hear something clearly wrong in the woman's voice.
She was far too dazed, as though she had just woken from a nightmare.
"Tell me a landmark you can see nearby. I'll come find you."
Qin Manjiang spoke after a moment's thought.
"I'm under a tree..."
"..."
"Try another one."
"The mermaid fountain..." she said again.
The mermaid fountain?
After thinking carefully, Qin Manjiang determined her approximate location. She was in the west of the city.
"Don't wander off. Wait for me."
Without hanging up, he took the little yellow dog home, got it settled, and immediately headed out.
The woman's condition was strange, and her identity stranger still. She could not even remember who she was, yet she had instinctively called this phone. She must