Zixiu actually shared the same thought as Kaijie. To be precise, he was even more eager to figure out what was really going on with the strange wooden fish striking that had been echoing from outside the temple gates every night in the small hours.
Thinking about it was one thing, but taking actual action was an entirely different matter. Zixiu was by nature an extremely suspicious and overthinking person. First, he doubted whether the sounds were even real; then, once Kaijie verified them, he began questioning whether it was truly necessary to get to the bottom of the matter.
Yet Kaijie’s attitude toward the whole affair was exceptionally resolute. He repeatedly urged Zixiu to send someone to investigate thoroughly, arguing that such eerie sounds in the dead of night were hardly normal.
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