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Chapter 472 Help

Twenty-three years.

After Xiaolu finished speaking, she blinked and looked at the people in front of her, not understanding why their expressions suddenly became so strange.

The young man in the scholar's robe had red eyes, as if he was about to cry. The middle-aged man in the gray robe, though expressionless, had a complex light in his eyes that she couldn't understand. And then there was the young man carrying the red gourd. He had turned his back, so she couldn't see his face, but somehow, his silhouette made Xiaolu feel a sudden pang of sadness.

strangeness.

She clearly didn't know these people.

"Um..." Little Deer scratched her head, "Are you sure you haven't mistaken me for someone else?"

Feng Lie opened his mouth, wanting to say "I didn't admit my mistake," but he swallowed the words back.

Chen Anran then asked, "You just said that you grew up in the mountains and lived with a group of little monsters?"

"Yes," the little deer nodded again. "We live deep in the mountains, it's so much fun! There are rabbit spirits, squirrel spirits, fox spirits, and a very, very old hedgehog spirit. It knows so many stories, and the stories I'm telling you all came from it."

Chen Anran continued, "How far is that mountain from here?"

The deer replied, "Not far."

"Not far?" Chen Anran turned around and looked at her. "How far exactly?"

The little deer tilted its head and thought for a moment, then stretched out its dirty little hand and gestured a distance: "It's about going east from here, crossing three mountains, then two rivers, then going into a very dense forest, walking and walking and walking until you reach a place with a big banyan tree, then turning left and walking until it gets dark—that's about it."

After gesturing, she blinked at Chen Anran with an expression that said, "I've made myself perfectly clear."

Feng Lie, listening from the side, was completely baffled: "What do you mean by 'not far'?"

"It's not that far to begin with," Little Deer said matter-of-factly. "When I used to travel, I could make a round trip in three days."

Feng Changyuan's lips twitched: "Three days... for a round trip..."

Xiao Lu didn't notice Feng Changyuan's strange expression; she was just looking at Chen Anran with curiosity in her big eyes.

"Um..." she suddenly spoke, her voice lower than before, "Are you really immortals?"

Chen Anran looked at her: "What do you think?"

The little deer thought for a moment, then pointed to the group of pursuers still trembling on the ground: "They were incredibly fierce just now, chasing me for three days and three nights. My legs were almost broken from running. But as soon as you arrived, they all gave up. What else could they be but immortals?"

As she spoke, she tilted her head again, and her fluffy deer ears twitched.

"I've heard the old hedgehog say that there are immortals outside the mountains, and they're incredibly powerful. They can fly, disappear into the earth, and summon wind and rain. I've always wanted to see what immortals look like, but I never dared to go too far. Today I finally saw one."

As she spoke, she grinned, revealing two small tiger teeth.

His smile was so bright, as if he had completely forgotten that he had just been chased.

Chen Anran looked at her and fell silent.

Unlike her senior sister's transformation, and unlike Wei Qingyi's reincarnation, this Xiao Lu, aside from becoming a demon, remained completely unchanged in personality. It was as if... the person before him wasn't Feng Xiao Lu's past life, but rather the real her...

"Little deer," he suddenly said.

"Um?"

"Would you like to come with us?"

The little deer was stunned. "Go with you? Where to? (Chapter 472: Help Me for a Surprise, Click to Unlock Now)"

"Let's go somewhere," Chen Anran said. "There's food, lodging, and people to play with. You won't have to wander around anymore, you won't have to exchange stories for food, and you won't have to be chased by people anymore."

The deer's eyes lit up for a moment, but then it became wary again.

She took a half step back, pressing her fluffy deer ears back.

"You...you're not going to capture me to make pills, are you?" she asked softly. "I heard from the old hedgehog that some immortals capture monsters to make pills, that's terrible."

Feng Lie quickly waved his hands: "No, no! How could we possibly arrest you to refine pills!"

Little Deer looked at him suspiciously: "Why are you in such a hurry? I didn't say anything about you."

Feng Lie was choked, opened his mouth but couldn't say a word.

Feng Changyuan was trying to suppress his laughter, his shoulders shaking from holding it in.

Chen Anran looked at the deer and suddenly smiled.

The smile was very faint, almost imperceptible, but the little deer saw it.

She paused for a moment, and for some reason, the wariness in her heart suddenly lessened.

"What are you laughing at?" she asked.

Chen Anran did not answer, but only said, "I don't capture demons to refine pills."

"Then why do you want me to go with you?"

Chen Anran thought for a moment and said, "Consider it... doing us a favor."

"Help?" Little Deer blinked. "Help with what?"

"You'll find out later," Chen Anran said. "Now, tell me, are you willing?"

The little deer tilted its head and looked at him, its big eyes flashing with many emotions.

Curiosity, vigilance, anticipation, hesitation.

She looked at Chen Anran, then at Feng Lie and Feng Changyuan, then at the three strange iron boxes in the distance, and the people standing next to them.

Those people were watching her too.

An old Taoist priest, his beard sticking up high, was craning his neck to look in their direction. A woman of the same tribe, dressed in strange clothes, was staring at her with a slight smile. A plump middle-aged man, his small eyes narrowed into slits, was clutching something in his hand. And a monk, twirling prayer beads, was chanting something softly.

There was also a little girl, who was leaning against the car window, waving frantically at her.

The deer's gaze lingered on the little girl for a moment.

The little girl smiled so hard her eyes curved into crescents, and she waved her hand with particular force, as if she were calling out to her... "Uncle-Master"?

The little deer was a bit puzzled, but didn't think about it too much. She just suddenly remembered her friends in the mountains.

Rabbit spirit, squirrel spirit, fox spirit, and that extremely old hedgehog spirit.

She's been out for so long, aren't they worried about her? Will they come out to look for her?

"Um..." Little Deer suddenly spoke up, "If I'm going with you, could I bring my friends along too?"

Chen Anran looked at her: "You mean the monsters in the mountains?"

"Mmm-hmm!" The little deer nodded vigorously, its eyes sparkling. "They're wonderful! The rabbit spirit can pick mushrooms, the squirrel spirit can find fruit, the fox spirit is incredibly fast, and the old hedgehog knows so many stories. If you take them with you, you definitely won't regret it!"

Feng Lie muttered under his breath, "Is she going to be bringing her whole family along..."

The little deer, with its sharp ears, heard him and immediately turned to glare at him: "Is that not allowed?"

That look, that tone—it was exactly how Feng Xiaolu argued with someone back in the day on Cloud Hidden Mountain.

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