"Hmm~ Little Red is really amazing. A lot of the strange threads on your soul have been devoured. After a while, they might be able to be cleaned up."
Nan Yuanman withdrew her chubby little hand with satisfaction. When she looked up, she saw Gou Dan staring straight at her.
The little girl blinked and tilted her head: "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Even though the five-year-old is thin, she still has chubby baby fat on her face. The flesh on her cheeks presses down on her shoulders with her movements. Her eyes are big and round, with clear black and white. She looks like an absolutely adorable little thing.
Dog Egg felt a sudden, sharp sensation in his heart. His long, slender fingers twitched slightly as he suppressed the urge to pinch her chubby cheeks. He asked her softly, "Have we... known each other before?"
Nan Yuanman shook his head: "No."
Dog Egg pursed his lips, lowered his eyes, and gave a disappointed "oh".
Seeing him, such a big, hunched figure, huddled in the chair looking so pitiful, the little girl's heart softened. She sighed like a little adult and patted his hand.
"Don't worry, once Xiao Hong has devoured all the threads on your soul, you should be able to remember your family."
Dog Egg nodded slightly without saying a word. His subconscious told him that the memories he had forgotten were probably not good ones.
Whether you remember it sooner or later, it's all the same.
"Yuanman, are you awake? Breakfast is ready." Yao Xianglu gently knocked on the door and called out to her in an exceptionally gentle voice.
"I'm awake! Sister Lu, I'm coming out right away!" Nan Yuanman answered in a childish voice, reached out and stuffed Gou Dan back into the small coffin, put on her clothes and shoes, grabbed her little bag, and ran out to eat.
After breakfast, Yao Xianglu and Nan Yuanman set off back to S City.
After all, Nan Yuanman has been out with her for a day and a night, and her family must be worried.
Half an hour after Nan Yuanman and Yao Xianglu boarded the bus and headed to S City, they arrived at the house where the old man lived at the end of the village.
The old woman cooked the rice as usual, gently tapped the beads, and called the man inside to come out and eat: "Son, breakfast is ready, come out and eat with your mother."
The bead trembled slightly, but there was no reaction.
The old man frowned and tapped the beads again.
There was still no response.
The old woman tapped the beads again, her gentle and kind expression gradually turning gloomy: "Little one, if you don't come out, Mommy will get angry."
Still no response.
A bad feeling suddenly rose in the old woman's heart. She forcefully pulled off the beads around her neck and used the fruit knife on the table to cut a gash in her palm.
She clenched her fist and dripped the blood that had seeped out onto the bead. A red light flashed across the bead, instantly absorbing the blood.
She closed her eyes, muttering a string of strange and difficult words. After a moment, the old woman opened her eyes, her face filled with shock and anger: "Gone! How could they be gone?!"
The baby she had painstakingly bound inside the bead had disappeared!
how so? !
Since arriving in Daba Village, she has not interacted with anyone. She even had someone buy her daily vegetables and meat and leave them at her door so she could carry them in herself.
She was on guard so carefully, so why is the baby still missing?
Who on earth stole her baby?!
The elderly woman screamed in a fit of rage, forcefully sweeping the prepared food from the table onto the floor, shattering the porcelain plate instantly.
She shakily pulled out her long-unused phone, but because her hands were covered in blood, the phone slipped from her fingers and shattered on the ground.
The old man's eyes darkened for a moment. He took deep breaths, trying to calm himself down, then turned and staggered into the room, quickly packing his things.
She wanted to ask that person what had happened. Didn't he say everything was foolproof and no one would discover his whereabouts? Why did he suddenly disappear from the bead?
She had gone through so much to nurture that person's soul until now, and she was just one step away from fulfilling her wish... just one step away...!
At the same time.
A discreet black sedan drove up to the entrance of Daba Village.
The car door opened, and a young man with long legs stepped out, dressed in a black casual suit, pale skin, black earrings, and sunglasses.
The young man took off his sunglasses, his narrow eyes slightly narrowed. The other car door was opened, and a tall, muscular man with a green buzz cut, wearing a black vest and a blue dragon tattoo on his shoulder walked up to him: "Brother Chi, the last woman we locked onto is in this village."
“Let’s go say hello to my dear grandmother.” Feng Xingchi put on his sunglasses, put one hand in his pocket, and slowly walked towards the village: “She lives so close to S City, it would be a bit unreasonable not to take her to see my dear father.”
The tall, strong young man answered in a deep voice and followed slowly behind him.
It was midday, and most of the villagers were working in the fields, while those who weren't were busy with housework at home. The arrival of two strangers in the village didn't cause much of a stir.
Feng Xingchi found the old woman's house accurately and knocked on the door: "Grandma, it's me, Xingchi."
The room was quiet, and no one answered.
Feng Xingchi patiently knocked on the door for another half minute, but there was still no response.
Feng Xingchi raised an eyebrow, turned his head and gave the young man behind him a look. The young man understood, took two steps back, and suddenly rushed forward. Using the momentum, he climbed up the wall and jumped over it.
A moment later, the tightly closed door was opened from the inside.
Feng Xingchi strode in, and what came into view was an exceptionally desolate farmhouse courtyard. All the flowers planted in the flowerpots had withered, and the grass and vines in every corner had also withered.
A wooden table sat under the eaves, food was scattered haphazardly on the ground, and shards of porcelain plates and bowls were flying everywhere, making it look extremely messy.
He and the tall, strong young man searched several rooms but couldn't find anyone. The only thing they found was a mess of clothes piled up on the bed in the east room.
Feng Xingchi stood by the bed for a while, his gaze falling on a drop of blood remaining on the edge of the bed. He bent down, gently dipped his fingertip into the blood, rubbed it lightly, and clicked his tongue: "The person escaped, but not long ago. Call Rat and the others and see if they can intercept them."
Tall, strong young man: "Yes!"
It seems that, just as my older brother said, there is indeed something strange about his nominal grandmother.
If there's nothing strange about it, how could it run so fast?
This was only because he rushed over overnight after receiving the news. If he had arrived two days later, it would probably have been an empty house, and the clothes and bloodstains would not have been left for him at all.
It should still be in time...
"If what my elder brother said is true, and Father's coma was caused by that old woman, then perfect... let's capture that old woman, wake Father up, and present him as a gift to that sister we've never met before!"
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On the other side.
Nan Yuanman and Yao Xianglu returned to S City. Jiang Lixuan, who had been worried all night, couldn't help but run to the bus station to wait for her.
Yao Xianglu carried Nan Yuanman out of the car, and Jiang Lixuan strode towards her in a flurry, shouting, "Yuanman!"
"Someone's here to pick me up. Goodbye, Sister Xianglu. Contact me if you have any problems!" Nan Yuanman waved her chubby little hand to say goodbye to Yao Xianglu, pointed to the watch on her wrist, and then turned and ran towards Jiang Lixuan.
Jiang Lixuan scooped her up from the ground and looked her over from head to toe: "How are you? Are you hurt? Are you hungry? Have you been in any danger?"
"No," Nan Yuanman answered honestly. She was quiet for a while, then couldn't help but struggle: "Jiang Lixuan, put me down."
"No respect for elders, call me Uncle." Jiang Lixuan put her down on the ground in an annoyed tone and ruffled her soft hair.
He then forcibly grabbed her wrist and said, "Come on, your uncle will take you to pick out a dress to wear to the family reunion banquet tomorrow."
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