Qiao Xixi's blue eyes flickered. "I don't know either. Are the dangerous beasts you're trying to catch merfolk?"
"That's right." After speaking, the beast-soldier paid Qiao Xixi no more mind and turned to his companion behind him. "You go check over there."
"Yes, sir."
Qiao Xixi watched them leave and didn't continue forward.
'Merfolk are sea-dwelling beasts. They would never leave the ocean unless it became truly impossible for them to survive there.'
'Situations like Xijing's are exceedingly rare. The beastman those soldiers want to catch is probably Xijing.'
'But seeing as Xijing's location tracker shows he's outside the city now, I don't have to worry about the soldiers inside the city catching him.'
Qiao Xixi returned to her stone house before dark. She shut the flimsy wooden door from the inside and propped a wooden stick against it.
