When Ye Dongfeng and Mu Xiaoyi arrived at the place where the child was found, they felt that the place looked somewhat familiar.
Mu Xiaoyi looked at the building in front of her, then turned to look at the building next door, and finally said with some surprise, "Huh, isn't this Jiu Ling's house? I was wondering why it looked so familiar~"
Upon hearing this, Ye Dongfeng turned to look at the nearby buildings. He smiled and said, "Ha~ It really is. You should tell Jiuling. I'll go check under the stairs first."
Mu Xiaoyi nodded and said, "Yes, I'll tell her."
As she spoke, Mu Xiaoyi started a video call to Yue Jiuling and told her that the place where the child was found was near her home.
Ye Dongfeng had already begun his inspection of the stairwell of a building. He first circled the area around the apartment before reaching the bottom of the stairs. Finding nothing unusual in the vicinity, he prepared to leave. However, just as he turned to turn away, he suddenly noticed a small head peeking out from the stairwell wall!
Hey, kid!
Ye Dongfeng was initially quite excited when he saw the small head, because it was the soul of the child they were looking for. However, to his surprise, the moment he spoke, the small head immediately shrank back into the wall in fright.
Ye Dongfeng: "...No, kid, is Uncle really that scary? Come out quickly, don't hide behind the wall!"
Seeing how terrified the child's spirit was of him, Ye Dongfeng was speechless. He coaxed the child out while calling Mu Xiaoyi over.
"Hey kid, don't be afraid, Uncle's here to help you. Can you come out through the wall first?" Ye Dongfeng said, then turned and shouted towards the stairwell, "Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, I found him! Come quick!"
Mu Xiaoyi was on a video call with Yue Jiuling when she heard Ye Dongfeng's voice and immediately hung up. She ran to the stairwell and said, "Found it! Where is it? Where is it?"
Ye Dongfeng pointed to the wall of the staircase with a troubled look and said, "He's here, but he won't come out. What should we do?"
"Here?"
Upon hearing Ye Dongfeng's words, Mu Xiaoyi frowned and approached the wall. Sure enough, as soon as she got close, she saw half a small head cautiously peeking out from inside the wall. When it realized there was someone in front of it, the head quickly retracted!
"Ugh, this kid, why does he love playing hide-and-seek so much?"
When Mu Xiaoyi saw that the child's soul was hidden inside the wall, she was in a bit of a dilemma. They had tried to catch ghosts from inside walls before, but back then it was all done with excessive force, and those ghosts were forcibly pulled out of the walls.
The method of violent law enforcement can be used on those disobedient ghosts, but it cannot be used on this child. Therefore, Mu Xiaoyi is in the same predicament as Ye Dongfeng.
She said, "What if he refuses to come out? We can't force him; it would be bad if we damaged his soul, as a child's soul is quite fragile."
"Should we try to coax him?"
Ye Dongfeng scratched his head, looking at a loss, and said, "You should do it. I don't know how to coax children."
Mu Xiaoyi blinked and said, "Alright, I think this child is timid, I don't know if I can coax him out~"
Then, Mu Xiaoyi spoke softly to the wall, "Little friend, come out and play with me, okay? I'll give you candy~"
Ye Dongfeng chimed in from the side, "Yes, your brother will even buy you toys!"
As for why Ye Dongfeng called himself "uncle" earlier but is now calling himself "brother," it's because he doesn't want to be outdone by Mu Xiaoyi!
Since Mu Xiaoyi already calls herself "sister," wouldn't it make him look older than Mu Xiaoyi if he called himself "uncle"? So he simply changed how he addressed himself!
After being coaxed by Mu Xiaoyi and Ye Dongfeng for a while, the soul inside the wall finally agreed to come out. The child looked very timid. He stared at Ye Dongfeng and Mu Xiaoyi with fearful eyes, without saying a word.
Seeing how frightened he was, Mu Xiaoyi said, "Don't be afraid, child, I'll take you back right away."
As Mu Xiaoyi was about to reach out to hug him, the child shrank back into the wall before she could even touch him. Then he peeked out with half his head to look at her and whispered, "I want to find my mom."
He didn't think there was anything wrong with being able to shrink inside the wall; he just looked at the person in front of him in fear and asked to find his mother.
Upon hearing this, Ye Dongfeng immediately coaxed, "Okay, okay, we'll take you to find your mother, alright? Come out of the wall first~"
Mu Xiaoyi was also overwhelmed with maternal love by the child's small voice. She felt that the child was too pitiful, so she quickly said, "Okay, come out quickly, we will take you to find your mother. Are you still hungry? I will buy you candy, okay?"
The child was initially quite afraid of the two people and only dared to hide inside the wall. However, after seeing that they didn't intend to harm him and were even tempting him with snacks and toys, he finally came out from inside the wall.
Seeing that the child had finally come out, Mu Xiaoyi quickly handed him a talisman and said, "Come in, we'll take you to find your mother, and you'll get some candy too~"
After speaking, he waved the talisman, and the child's soul was absorbed into the talisman.
Seeing that things were finally settled, Ye Dongfeng took out his phone and called Yinni. He also sent a message in the work group, saying that he and Mu Xiaoyi had found the child's soul and were going back to the hospital now.
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