Chapter 77 Ten rabbits and nine rabbits said that five rabbits would never come back...

After opening the kitchen door, the teddy bear frowned and subconsciously covered his nose. He turned his head and took a breath of fresh air, then he mustered up his courage and sniffed the kitchen carefully again.

"Believe me, this is the stench of a corpse!"

"I studied forensic medicine and was fortunate enough to be taken to a workplace by my teacher. The rotting corpses gave off this pungent, fishy smell."

"are you sure?"

Hearing Cecia's question, the teddy bear nodded firmly: "It's not wrong."

"Decomposing corpses will produce a variety of gases with peculiar smells. These gas molecules have strong adhesion. After adhering to the nasal mucosa, you can smell this disgusting smell for several days. I remember it clearly!"

The smell in the refrigerator is the same as that in the kitchen, which means that both places have stored rotting corpses... What exactly happened here?

Seeing the teddy bear's thorough analysis, the girl next to him became anxious.

"You're lying! This is my house! My house doesn't smell like a dead body!"

She screamed, ran forward, jumped up and tried to grab the teddy bear, but the height difference between her and Cecilia was too great. No matter how hard she tried, she could not reach the teddy bear on the "giant's" shoulder.

The teddy bear glanced at the girl, ignored her dissatisfaction, and continued, "Besides that, Xia, I have heard of the nursery rhyme you mentioned. The NPC has also asked you to get the rabbit doll many times. There must be some connection between the two."

Indeed, there are many kinds of dolls in the bedroom, but most of them are one animal. Only rabbits have multiple dolls, and the main theme of the nursery rhyme is also rabbits...

Cecilia was thoughtful. She trusted the teddy bear 100%, so she told it everything she had experienced in the copy, including the nursery rhyme hummed by the girl.

"Do you remember the whole text of the nursery rhyme?"

The little guy poked his head in and asked.

"She only sang two lines." Cecia shook her head and turned to stare at the angry girl. "Did you hear me? Sing the nursery rhyme in full."

"Why? I won't!"

The girl snorted and turned her head to the side, deliberately not looking at Cecilia.

Normally in dungeons, she was treated like an emperor. Although she had no way to deal with Cecia, a tough guy, she would not obey him obediently.

"Hmm... this place looks pretty good, how about staying here?"

Cecilia didn't argue with the girl. She changed the subject, swaggered into the girl's bedroom with her teddy bear, and lay down on the soft bed.

"You! You are a rogue!!"

The girl's face turned red with anger, and there was no longer any emptiness in her dark eyes, but they were filled with anger.

"This is my room! How dare you steal a child's things?"

"Hey, this bed is quite soft, and it smells nice." Cecia turned a deaf ear to this and talked to herself leisurely, "There are so many stuffed toys next to it, so the little bear can keep him company, too."

Teddy Bear knew Cecilia's character very well.

It cooperated and jumped off his shoulder, looking very excited, and rushed into the pile of dolls.

"Wow, there are so many dolls! Are these all mine?"

Although its tone was very stiff, the girl's eyes were red with grievance, and she couldn't tell whether it was acting or not.

"Who said they were yours? These are my toys! Mine!"

Her thin body was shaking with anger, and she jumped into the pile of dolls, imitating the teddy bear, and kept searching inside with her hands, trying to catch the teddy bear.

But the teddy bear was small and its appearance could blend in with the dolls. It was agile and moved around in the pile of dolls. The girl couldn't catch it at all and made herself look very embarrassed. Her originally delicate dress became wrinkled.

The little guy was like a fish in water in the pile of dolls. Not only did he easily avoid the girl's capture, but he also pulled out a few rabbit dolls from time to time and threw them to Cecilia.

"Xia, look at these dolls. They should be related to nursery rhymes."

Teddy Bear said breathlessly.

It was obvious that the girl was a bully and only knew how to chase it. Cecilia was almost asleep in bed, so she didn't dare to disturb her.

"Nursery rhymes... bunny dolls... why bother with that?"

Cecia half-closed her eyes, put the bunny doll aside, and lazily advised, "The room is just right for living in anyway, why not stay a few more days and leave when you have enough rest."

Hearing this, the teddy bear understood what he meant and simply stopped hiding and lay quietly among the pile of dolls.

The girl had no idea how to deal with the man and the bear. She was so angry that she stomped her feet, threw the rabbit doll in her hand to the ground, and gave up holding the teddy bear.

"…I'll tell you! Can't I tell you the complete nursery rhyme?"

She gritted her teeth and said, her pale cheeks turned redder, "I can tell you the nursery rhyme, but you have to leave this room within today."

"You're giving in so soon? I haven't been here long enough."

Cecilia turned over in bed, feeling as if she was addicted to being a rogue.

"you!"

"Okay, okay, I promise you."

She waved her hand perfunctorily and finally sat up in bed.

The girl glared at her angrily and hesitated for a while, worried that she would not keep her promise, but she had no other choice but to hum aloud reluctantly -

"The big rabbit was sick. The second rabbit looked at it. The third rabbit bought medicine. The fourth rabbit boiled it. The fifth rabbit died. The sixth rabbit carried it. The seventh rabbit distributed the medicine. The eighth rabbit drank it. The ninth rabbit sat on the ground and cried. The tenth rabbit asked why it was crying. The ninth rabbit said that the fifth rabbit had gone and would never come back."

"Sure enough, I've heard this nursery rhyme before."

The teddy bear pulled a piece of white paper from the side and scribbled on it with crayons. "How many rabbit dolls are there here? I've only found three so far."

"Nine."

As Cecia spoke, she skillfully picked out the remaining six rabbits from the pile of toys.

Before she discovered the loophole in the rules, she was forced by the girl to find the rabbit doll many times, and practice makes perfect.

"There are ten rabbits in the nursery rhyme, and maybe there's one hiding somewhere..."

Faced with nine rabbits as big as himself, the teddy bear fell into deep thought - these rabbits looked exactly the same and there was no way to tell the difference between them.

"Xia, shall we take the rabbit apart and have a look?"

"No! These are my dolls! Why are you touching my things?"

Hearing the teddy bear's suggestion, the girl stopped him in a stern voice and trotted in front of the rabbit doll.

"I can't move them."

Cecia rarely compromised. She squatted down and stroked the girl's hair kindly. "What do the nursery rhymes you sing mean? Just tell me and I will give them back to you."

"I... I don't know... This is a nursery rhyme my mother taught me... Mom..."

The girl whispered, her eyes suddenly becoming confused, as if she was thinking of her parents again.

When Cecia reached out to the dolls again, she came to her senses and begged, "Sister, can you let them go? This is my favorite toy."

The girl's eyes were filled with tears, and even the teddy bear felt sorry for her.

"Xia... forget it, I'll think of another way."

"good."

Cecia said "yes" cheerfully, not knowing whether she agreed to the little girl or the teddy bear. The next second, she mercilessly tore the bunny doll away from her hand.

Wow--

The earth-shaking cry rang in my ears. The little girl cried loudly, gasping for breath, and her little face turned red.

As expected of Thea, she is cruel and ruthless.

The teddy bear didn't dare to say a word, and decided in his heart that he would follow Cecilia for the rest of his life and never become her enemy!

Unfortunately, there is only snow-white cotton inside the doll's body.

She took out all the cotton, but still found no clues.

"Am I wrong?"

The teddy bear scratched his head awkwardly. He had been picking at the cotton for a long time, and then he went to pick at the rabbit's skin.

"Huh? There seems to be something wrong with this fabric."

It was holding a rabbit doll with only a layer of skin left, and its bear claws were touching it again and again, eventually locking onto a piece of cloth with a different feel.

"It's right here! It feels hard and there seems to be something inside!"

Following the little guy's instructions, Cecilia cut open the doll's outer skin, and an irregularly shaped piece of paper fell out from the interlayer.

“This looks like a photo?”

The teddy bear climbed onto her shoulder and came closer to look at the paper in her hand.

The front of the paper looked like a fragment of a photo, with only green vegetables in a plastic bag visible. On the blank back, someone had written a number in red pen: "three".

"Your guess is correct."

Cecilia collected the fragments, tore open the second rabbit with her bare hands, and found the photo in the interlayer.

This time, on top of the fragments was a clean iron pan, and on the back of it was written the number "four" in red pen.

The edges of the two fragments fit perfectly together.

Seeing this, the man and the bear looked at each other and quickly tore open the skins of the remaining rabbits.

There are nine fragments in total, and the numbers written on the back correspond to one to ten, except for the missing "five".

After putting them together, it is obvious that the photo was taken in the kitchen, but the kitchen walls in the photo are painted white and look clean and tidy, as if someone takes care of them every day.

In the middle of the kitchen, there stood a girl and the adult next to her. The girl was smiling brightly, but the adult next to her had no face.

“There is a correspondence between nursery rhymes and photos.”

Cecia whispered, comparing the photo with the nursery rhyme the teddy bear had memorized.

"The three rabbits buying medicine correspond to the freshly bought vegetables, the four rabbits stewing food corresponds to the iron pot used for cooking. The girl's picture has 'nine' written behind it, and the missing face is 'five'..."

Rabbit Five died, and Rabbit Nine sat on the ground and cried. Rabbit Nine said that Rabbit Five would never come back.

"Could it be that..."

The teddy bear immediately understood what Cecilia meant. It glanced at the girl secretly and didn't continue speaking.

"Let's go to the kitchen."

Grabbing the teddy bear, Cecia opened the smelly kitchen again.

"I've gone through everything on the surface. According to the nursery rhyme, the most suspicious ones should be the places where fragments one, two, and ten correspond."

As she spoke, she placed the teddy bear on the high place corresponding to one and two, and focused her attention on the floor corresponding to fragment ten.

She knocked on the floor one by one, and the girl stood at the door, looking at her and the teddy bear busy in the kitchen with a look of idiot.

"Xia, I didn't find anything here."

The teddy bear reported loudly that there was no progress on Cecia's side. Every floor tile made the same sound, nothing special.

Wrong direction?

She groaned for a moment, then took out an axe from her system backpack.