As she spoke, the girl began walking back the way they came, holding Little Yang.
Xu Hao suddenly said, "Wait a minute."
While the girl was walking, it seemed like she was deep in thought, so when Xu Hao's call came out of nowhere, she jumped like a startled deer, quickly turning her head to look at Xu Hao.
Xu Hao smiled and asked, "Are you always this jumpy?"
The girl immediately denied it, claiming, "I dare to fight Mice!"
Xu Hao couldn't help but laugh, thinking that a girl who dares to fight mice isn't really a coward, is she?
He walked over to her in a few strides, stood beside the girl, and smiled, "Has Little Yang been acting strange these past couple of days?"
"How did you know?" The girl eyed Xu Hao warily and took several steps back, her right hand reaching behind her as if to grab something.
Xu Hao gave a wry smile, "You don't have to be so guarded against me, I'm not a bad guy..."
"Hmph! Bad guys don't have the words 'bad guy' written on their faces. Who knows if you're a wolf in sheep's clothing?" The girl was very cautious, even though Xu Hao had saved Little Yang, she still hadn't let her guard down.
Xu Hao sighed inwardly, wondering what kind of environment a girl had to grow up in to be so wary of others.
Helplessly, Xu Hao said, "I'm really not a bad guy, otherwise, why would I risk so much to save Little Yang?"
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"Because you're Superman." The girl said earnestly.
Xu Hao was speechless and said helplessly, "Alright, I admit it, I'm Superman."
"Then why don't you wear that... thing on the outside?" the girl immediately asked.
Once again at a loss for words, Xu Hao thought about the girl's unique logic, which always seemed to fixate on strange things. After a moment, he said, "To build a civilized society, I, as Superman, must also follow order, so I don't wear underwear on the outside, as that would negatively affect social mores."
"Oh." The girl nodded solemnly.
Xu Hao quickly asked, "Tell me, has Little Yang been very abnormal these past few days? Unnaturally strong? Eating a lot? Very irritable? And also running very fast?"
"You've been spying on us!" The girl tightened her hold on Little Yang and once again looked at Xu Hao with suspicion.
Xu Hao was beyond the point of retorting. He realized that the girl was very innocent and had unique thoughts but was also filled with suspicion towards strangers.
He said, "I'm Superman; why would I spy on anyone's private life? I have special abilities that allow me to see when someone is in trouble recently."
"I don't believe you!"
The girl immediately demanded, "Unless... unless you tell me what kind of trouble I've been having recently."
Xu Hao glanced at her and said, "You're not in a good mental state. That's due to lack of sleep and anxiety, which means you must be worrying about something. And it's obvious that right now, it's because of Little Yang's situation."
"That's partly right, but not completely because my concern is not only about Little Yang." The girl nodded.
"There's someone else?" Xu Hao immediately asked.
Had it not been for that large cluster of Evil energy he found in Little Yang's head, he would not care about meddling in other people's business.
"Yeah, there are a lot of kids where we are, and these past few days, four children have inexplicably gone mad, unstoppable, and after a while, they would fall asleep deeply like Little Yang did, and upon waking up, they would go crazy without reason again," the girl finally revealed.
Xu Hao suddenly remembered there was an orphanage nearby. Could it be that Little Yang was one of the orphans?
And this girl, she must be a caretaker there, right?
He suggested, "Take me to your place and have a look. Maybe I can help with something."
"Can you really help us?"
The girl said with some doubt, "The day before yesterday, a man dressed as a Taoist came to our place. He said he was a Taoist from the mountain, claiming that we had been taken over by dirty things, surrounded by Evil Qi, and he wanted to help us drive out the dirty things to return us to a bright world.
The old dean also strongly agreed. When the incident first happened, she said it wasn't sickness but that the children were afflicted by evil dirt, and she even had me make a lot of delicious food for that Taoist.
Although I'm not quite a believer in these things, I thought it was worth a try; what if it actually worked? But who knew that the Taoist just started his ritual and hadn't even passed a minute before he spat out blood and collapsed. Some older kids quickly carried him inside, and it took him a long time to recover.
He said at that time that the evil dirt here was too powerful for him to overcome alone, and he needed to go back to ask his senior brother for help. The old dean even gave him some travel and food money, but I feel that he was just a charlatan from Jianghu, coming to swindle food and drinks. When I was making the food for him, many children looked enviously, yet the old dean said it was for entertaining the Taoist and didn't let them eat."