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With this thought in mind, Xi Mengyao slowly walked to the previously cleaned corner.

If she wasn't mistaken, the next time those people would be doing something in this corner.

She tried to push against the side wall, and from there she forced open a small hole. Where it was located was in the corner, and people outside could not be seen unless they looked along the wall.

As a precaution, she even filled up a small hole, leaving only a small gap. Then she put a few stones in the far corner.

In this way, she would be able to step on it and use her feet to look outside.

There were two big trees outside this place. If they were on the road outside, they wouldn't be able to see anyone observing them.

It was just in time to see the direction in which those people had left.

After finishing her preparations, she stayed in the courtyard to cool down, as if nothing had happened.

When it was deep into the night, she purposely exclaimed loudly, "Sleep!"

After she finished speaking, she went back and extinguished the candle.

However, she did not go to bed. Instead, she carefully moved a stool over to the side window and sat down, quietly listening to what was happening outside.

In the end, it was the middle of the night.

The moon was already high in the sky, and there was no movement from outside.

Xi Mengyao did not plan to stay up all night either. At this time, she could not help but yawn, and as she heard more noise coming from outside, she slowly started to soften. Just when she was thinking about it, it was not tonight, but when she prepared to go back and rest.

There was suddenly a sound from outside!

Those were two sounds, and one could tell that it was a bird cry that a human had imitated.

Then, someone answered from not too far away.

Then, she heard messy footsteps coming from outside. Moreover, from the sound of the footsteps, it seemed like there was more than one person.

The group of people didn't pretend, probably thinking that she was really asleep.

Xi Mengyao listened to the noise outside. After it gradually quieted down, she carefully opened a gap in the window and looked outside. There were no changes in the courtyard, just like in the past.

She took a deep breath and quietly rolled out of the window. She left the window open.

She bent down to stand by the corner of the wall. Then, she peeked out from a small hole in the wall.

There were four people standing outside, and they looked like wizards.

The one in the lead was very tall, standing almost level with the wall.

The academy walls here were not considered high. It was probably because the people here were not tall enough and the wall was less than two meters.

From the looks of it, she was either 1.8 meters or 1.9 meters.

After that person walked over with the white lantern in his hand, he looked around, but it was unknown what he was looking at.

Xi Mengyao could not see her face clearly, he only saw her head turning around and around. After confirming everything, she stopped at the place in front of her.

"Alright." The man lowered his voice and spoke to the two lackeys behind him.

The two of them did not say anything and just nodded. Then, they took a big step forward.

They formed a triangle and bowed deeply towards this position. Then, they clasped their hands together and kowtowed, as if they were begging Buddha.

But they were words she could not understand, and they did not sound like dialects.

She vaguely felt that it sounded like Sanskrit, but, those people spoke in a very soft voice, so Xi Mengyao was not sure.

The three of them seemed to have memorized the scripture completely. They didn't stop at all and kept whispering to each other. No one knew how long they would have to talk for.

In the beginning, Xi Mengyao listened with interest, wanting to find a few words that were different.

But later on, she started to feel sleepy.

"Ha!"

Just at this moment, the people outside seemed as if it was about to end as they shouted loudly.

Following that, she saw the tall, black-robed man in the lead suddenly raise his head, raise both his hands, and take a posture as if he was begging for thunder to strike her.

The two people behind her raised their hands high into the air, clenched them into fists and punched each other on the head.

Xi Mengyao squinted her eyes, slightly complaining.

In order to disguise herself, she had only left a small gap for him to see through.

She only saw the hands of these people. They were very clean and white.

However, it was not that detailed. It seemed to be someone who had done a lot of work.

It was probably a maidservant.

Just as she was thinking this, she saw the person in the lead lower his head, yet it was as if he was mourning. He lowered his head to the corner of the wall and kept silent for a moment.

Then, she suddenly raised her head and shouted once more. Then, she pulled out a rabbit from her sleeve!

It looked like a mountain hare. It was very small, about the size of a hand.

The rabbit was very quiet. After kicking twice, it stopped moving.

The man looked around to make sure no one was around before he called the two men behind him.

Although these two girls wore black robes, their faces weren't covered by a tight black veil, causing others to not be able to see their faces.

However, it was obvious that their clothes were of a lower grade and did not have any embroidery on them.

When they came over, one of them was holding a white lantern. No one knew what candle was inside, but the light was very dim. One could only see a faint light, as if it could be extinguished at any time.

The two of them held lanterns and walked around the rabbit. Then, she saw the leader of the group take out a machete from his sleeve.

The scimitar was also very strange. It was very thin and light. At first glance, it did not seem to have a hilt.

However, when she took a closer look, she discovered that it was something like a piece of metal. The handle of the knife was actually on the outside, and it was wrapped in a layer of something that looked like rosin.

The leader paused for a moment. With a wave of his hand, he saw the rabbit struggle twice as blood spurted out from its throat. It had lost all its strength just like that.

The man broke the rabbit's neck, exposing the blood vessels that were still spurting out of them, and sprinkled the blood on the corner of the wall. After sprinkling the blood all over the ground, she flung the rabbit's remaining blood behind her. It actually circled around the two people behind her and scattered in half.

Xi Mengyao continued to hold his breath as she watched, but the more she read, the stranger it felt.

This was indeed a strange ceremony, but he did not know what kind of style it was.

After they finished dripping the rabbit's blood, the two lackeys placed the rabbit into a cloth bag.

The leader dug a hole in the ground and buried the bag. Then, he lit a candle at the place where the rabbit was buried and took out a paper money.

This paper money was also strange, it looked different from the copper money paper other people used.

It was a square yellow paper that was about the size of a modern underworld coin. There were copper coin runes engraved on it, and there were even words written on it in cinnabar.

Those words seemed like they were written in the Middle East, but they also had some Tibetan meanings.

Xi Mengyao was completely unable to understand it.