Chapter 83: Nursery Rhymes (1/2)

[Visiting Graves At The Middle Of The Night: Ball, how could there be a ball in a place like this? It can’t be a person’s head!]

The ice-cold comment spoke out everyone’s thoughts, but in this heavy ghostly environment, Sen Leng’s mechanical voice seemed strange.

Bai Yan slowly raised his head and gazed at a distance. His sight wasn’t good, especially under this troublesome lighting, but amid their dusky surroundings, he, instead, could see clearly.

Before anyone else found out, he saw the lump of a petite figure getting up from a grave. Seeing its stature, it ought to be a kid.

The child’s back was hunched over, while his mouth was mumbling something incoherently as though he was talking to someone.

As the child walked closer, Bai Yan could then faintly make out the words coming out of the child’s mouth. What this kid perpetually saying was actually a weird nursery rhyme——

“Dong Zi’s Daddy throttled Dong Zi’s Mommy to death,

Dong Zi’s Mommy strangled Dong Zi’s Granny to death,

The boy used his little dusty hands to hold the ball, perking his head up to look at him, not saying a word, only giggling maniacally.

“You don’t know? Or you don’t want to tell me?”

Bai Yan muttered to himself and asked, “Do you know Dong Zi? Where did Dong Zi go?”

This time, the young boy finally reacted.

He mischievously laughed for a while and said using his big tongue, “Dong Zi… Dong Zi has been reunited with his parents!”

As soon as these words came out, shock spread across the two anchors’ faces. Dong Zi’s mom was already throttled to death. So, don’t these words mean that Dong Zi’s dad and Dong Zi had also passed away?

Under the influence of the dark and bleak environment, the dreadful nursery rhyme had made Bai Cui feel so cold, her teeth started chattering. Horror was consuming her so fast that she couldn’t utter any words out.

Beside Bai Yan, Lu Ruichao opened and closed his mouth, wanting to say something, but upon seeing Ye Shangyu also squat down directly beside the child, he shut his mouth and resumed his silent demeanor from earlier.

“Little brother, you didn’t finish your nursery rhyme, what’s the rest of it?”

The boy just held his ball, his eyes looked lost as though he didn’t understand what Ye Shangyu meant.

He used his sharp child-like voice to sing the nursery rhyme again, and when he reached ‘threw Dong Zi’s Sister to her death,’ the color of confusion flashed through his eyes as if he didn’t know what the lines to the rhyme were.

However, after stopping several times at ‘Dong Zi’s Grandpa threw Dong Zi’s Sister to her death,’ a smiling expression suddenly appeared on his face, seeming to be happy that he recalled the lyrics by himself——

“…Dong Zi’s Grandpa threw Dong Zi’s Sister to her death,

Then, their family of six were together again!”

Singing the very last line, the boy put down his ball and started to applaud his singing, most probably feeling proud of himself.

After listening to the boy sing the entire nursery rhyme, Bai Yan also saw through that this nursery rhyme must have been self-composed by the boy. Since it was self-composed, then there’s a possibility that this event had once happened in this village.

Finally finding a clue, this evening wasn’t in vain.

Seeing the body continue to foolishly laugh, Bai Yan couldn’t help but expose a mischievous smile himself, but noticing that the boy was looking at him in a daze, he quickly adjusted his expression accordingly, asking again in an amicable manner, “Who is Dong Zi?”

“Who is Dong Zi?”

The boy repeated this under his breath, unexpectedly standing up and beginning to dribble the ball. Who would know what he was thinking.

“A nice boy, but unfortunately…”

Bai Yan regrettably clicked his tongue, thinking that this silly child was unhinged, perhaps a nutjob.

Sure enough, the app always favored people with mental problems.

Either from knowing too much or not having an untimely demise, they would go mad.

The young boy evidently knew a lot, but he was answering evasively, and adding onto his mental instability, everyone also can’t force him to answer.

Generally speaking, threatening a child was also ineffective.

But, after encountering a character that had clues, everyone was no doubt unlikely to give up that easily.

After switching their manner of questioning a few times, the boy just giggled playfully and lowered his head to play with his ball, basically ignoring them.

Bai Yan’s group of three also knew that if he couldn’t answer or didn’t want to answer the question, the boy would never open his mouth from the start.

Seeing that there’s nothing left to ask, in the end, Bai Yan hopelessly asked one last question, “How did you know? Dong Zi’s family is gone, did you see it?”

Bai Yan initially assumed that the boy still wouldn’t pay him any mind but didn’t expect that upon hearing this question, the boy unexpectedly threw away his ball and prostrated himself onto the ground, his butt up in the air.

The boy stretched his head for a while and then crawled on all fours on the ground.

Getting in familiar with everyday rural objects, interest flashed through Bai Yan’s eyes, “Digging dog holes?”

The boy repeatedly nodded his head, looking up with a foolish smile.

Probably from feeling that he shared a common language with this uncle, he threw himself at Bai Yan, wanting to hug him. But, Bai Yan nimbly hid behind Ye Shangyu, so the boy pounced on Ye Shangyu instead, leaving behind two dusty handprints on her khaki pants and leaving Ye Shangyu speechless.

‘Going this far?’

‘How naive.’

Ye Shangyu shot a glance at Bai Yan and lifted her hand to lightly pat the boy’s head, softly saying, “We’re going.”

The boy nuzzled against Ye Shangyu’s hand like he was quite reluctant to part with her gentle pet.