"Okay, wait..." Wen Xiao’ai tiptoed to look at the few stores in front, selling who knows what delicious food, "Let’s eat at two more places and then go back."
"Okay."
When Wen Xiao’ai finally had her fill, carrying the portion she had packed for Jun Moyan, and turned to find her way back to the hotel, she realized she might have walked a bit too far.
She walked back the way she ca for a few minutes, but Wen Xiao’ai, who didn’t rember which corner she had turned at earlier, stood by the roadside, perplexed.
"What’s wrong, sister?" The boy asked, looking at Wen Xiao’ai’s frowning, baffled face.
"I... I think I’ve forgotten the way..." Wen Xiao’ai admitted, sowhat sheepishly touching her own cheek.
"Ah? Seriously?"
"Baozi, do you rember how to get back?"
"I... I thought you knew the way, sister, so I didn’t pay attention. Plus, I can’t rember... I’m a bit directionally challenged." The boy’s face reddened, although it didn’t show in his current state.
"What a coincidence, I’m directionally challenged too," Wen Xiao’ai said with a face full of excited camaraderie.
Among all the people she knew, she was the only one who couldn’t rember directions. Sotis, she even had trouble recognizing faces, unless the person was extrely handso, extrely ugly, or had very distinctive features that she could recognize at a glance, she would need to see them several tis to rember them. Moreover, she couldn’t even differentiate left from right, let alone the cardinal directions.
Her friends often teased her about this.
But it never really bothered her.
"Sister, I don’t think that’s the point right now; we’re lost."
"Um... How about we try going this way?"
"But what if it’s not this road, but the one below? Then we’ll be getting even farther away."
"If it’s not, we’ll co back and then try the next one; we’ll eventually find our way back."
"Okay then."
The two little confused wanderers walked on, as the completely unfamiliar skyscrapers around them made them lose all sense of direction.
"Sister, this doesn’t seem right."
Seeing the decreasing number of pedestrians and the dim street ahead making the boy timidly move closer to Wen Xiao’ai.
"It does seem off, I don’t rember seeing this park when we ca before," Wen Xiao’ai pointed to a park by the roadside as she stopped and looked around.
"Sister, does the place we’re staying at have a na? Can we ask soone for directions?"
"Yes, Jun Moyan said it’s called a hotel."
"Then let’s head back to that place we were at earlier and ask around."
"Okay." The two had no choice but to retrace their steps again.
"Baozi, no need to worry, we won’t get lost. As long as I have this little bell, Jun Moyan can find no matter where I go."
"Little bell? Is that so kind of magic artifact?" The boy looked at the hand Wen Xiao’ai lifted.
"Mhm... This is a magic artifact from the Human Realm. Last ti Jun Moyan said there is sothing inside this little bell called so kind of positioning device, I didn’t catch the na, but it’s really powerful."
"Is it that human who gave it to you, sister?"
"It wasn’t given, it was a reward from Jun Moyan, the only one in the whole world," Wen Xiao’ai said proudly as she ntioned the reward.
"Also, Baozi, don’t keep calling him ’that human.’ It sounds weird; just call him Jun Moyan like I do."
"Okay."
Two passersby, seeing her talking to herself and getting answers, couldn’t help but give Wen Xiao’ai a second look.
They wondered to themselves who the girl was talking to.
"Bro Shèng, is that the girl?" Behind a bus stop not far away, seven or eight an-looking n stood there, their gazes uniformly fixed on Wen Xiao’ai as she walked towards them.
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