Heaven knows she was just reaching up to tidy her hair, but how on earth did she touch something soft and furry on her head?!
Could it be that there was a furry little ghost still on her head?!
Si Mo twitched the corner of his mouth. The little fox was holding one of her ears in each hand, looking terrified as she asked what she had touched. Had she been so scared that her mind stopped working?
Trying to overcome her fear, Rong Lan pinched the thing on her head. To her surprise, she found that it was warm. It definitely wasn't a ghost, and the touch felt just like the ears of her fox form.
"Si Mo, could you conjure a mirror for me?"
Since she asked, Si Mo naturally wouldn't refuse. He raised his hand and drew a circle in the air, then pointed at it. The circle turned into a mirror.
The next second, the little fox's ears fluffed up in shock.
"Why are my ears showing up?!" Rong Lan stared at herself in the mirror in disbelief, her face full of shock at the sight of her fluffy ears. "Oh no, what should I do? How can I make them go away? Should I push them back?" As she said this, she tried to tuck her ears into her hair.
Si Mo covered his face. The little fox's cute and stupid look was really something. "Is it possible that ordinary humans can't see your ears?"
"Yeah, that's possible." Rong Lan stopped messing with her ears. "Theoretically, ordinary humans shouldn't be able to see them. If they could, it would be a disaster. How about we send my father to the hospital first and not worry about my ears for now?"
"Sure." Si Mo squatted down and prepared to carry the unconscious man on his back.
Rong Lan helped lift her father onto Si Mo's back.
Carrying a man heavier than himself, Si Mo had no trouble at all. He stood up without even holding onto anything and even bounced a little after he was steady on his feet.
When they reached the corridor, they found that the abandoned factory was brightly lit. The stairs that had been pitch - black when they came up were now illuminated, and all the lights in the corridor seemed to be on. Although they were just dim yellow lights, they were bright enough.
Si Mo sneered. "They sure know how to behave." His golden pupils were still shining. He had kept them like this in case some stupid little ghosts tried to scare them. He could act as a deterrent. He didn't expect these little ghosts to turn on all the lights in the abandoned factory, as if they were afraid he would think they were rude.
While the little fox was fighting, he had checked online and found that the abandoned factory didn't have lights on at night. With the little ghosts' actions, the paranormal events in the abandoned factory were probably going to resurface.
Following behind Si Mo and protecting the man on his back, Rong Lan said, "After all, they have questions to ask the Dragon God."
"That's true."
"By the way, are you really a dragon? Were you born a dragon, or were you some other species at birth and then became a dragon through hard cultivation?" Rong Lan was extremely curious. She had guessed Si Mo's species before, but she had never thought he was a dragon.
"Can one be another species at birth and then become a dragon through cultivation?" Si Mo was just as surprised as Rong Lan.
Rong Lan nodded. "Of course! In my world, dragons only exist in myths and legends. No one has ever seen what a dragon looks like. All descriptions of dragons come from people's imaginations. We have a saying that dragons evolve from snakes. A snake cultivates for a thousand years to become a python, then another thousand years to become a boa constrictor, another thousand years to become a flood dragon, and finally ten thousand years to evolve into a dragon."
Si Mo: "..." This saying really opened his eyes.
After all, he was born a majestic dragon.
"I don't fit that description." He bounced the man on his back a little. "I was born a dragon. This is probably because of my parents' powerful genes."
"Are your parents also dragons?" Rong Lan asked while taking out her phone to call a taxi.
They had already reached the first floor. They just needed to walk a short distance to get out of the abandoned factory, so it was the right time to call a taxi.
"No." Si Mo shook his head. "My mother is a dragon, and my father is a phoenix. I guess you've never seen a phoenix either. Since there are no dragons in the world you used to live in, there probably aren't any phoenixes either."
Rong Lan's eyes lit up. "I've never seen one. If I get the chance, I must go to the world you live in to broaden my horizons!"
Dragons and phoenixes were only things that appeared in books or on buildings. She had never thought that they actually existed in the world.
The little fox was so excited that her white fluffy ears perked up. Si Mo shook his head helplessly. "You're welcome. Of course, it's impossible for you to see my parents in their original forms. But my third sister takes after my father and is a phoenix. I can persuade her to show you her original form."
"Wait for me!" Once she regained all her cultivation, she would start looking for a way to go to Si Mo's world. If she could see a dragon and a phoenix, she would definitely show off to her parents and aunt when she went back to her own world. "Can I bring Chu Hengyuan?"
Si Mo raised his eyebrows. The little fox actually wanted to take an ordinary human to travel between different worlds? "You can if you can manage it."
He didn't think he could do it. Even his parents with tens of thousands of years of cultivation might not be able to do it, let alone the little fox with only five hundred years of cultivation.
The two of them walked out of the abandoned factory one after another. After they left, the brightly lit factory suddenly went dark, and all the lights went out.
Rong Lan looked back. "Couldn't they wait until we got in the car to turn off the lights?"
The path outside the abandoned factory had no streetlights. Without the lights from the factory, the darkness around made the little fox feel scared.
"It's already very considerate of them to keep the lights on until we walked out." Si Mo didn't have high expectations for those little ghosts. He even thought it was good that they didn't scare the little fox. After all, idle ghosts were often mischievous and liked to scare timid people. They would find it fun to see those people scream and tremble.
"Thank goodness the car is almost here." Rong Lan muttered as she turned on the flashlight on her phone.
A little while later, a white car pulled up in front of the abandoned factory.
Rong Lan opened the car door and let Si Mo put her father in the back seat first. After Si Mo sat down in the back seat, she walked around to the passenger seat and got in.
With the driver there, Rong Lan and Si Mo didn't talk much.
Si Mo noticed that when the little fox first sat in the passenger seat, the driver's gaze on her was very strange. The gaze seemed to fall on the top of the little fox's head, and the driver's eyes showed surprise.
So, could ordinary humans see the little fox's ears?