C57 (1/2)

Seeing that my face was a bit pale, Dazhi also leaned his head over to look at the photo.

”What's wrong with these three children?”

”No, nothing's wrong.”

My voice was a little shaky. After saying that, I pushed open the door and walked into the main room. I went to Hua Zi's ear and told him about my dream from before.

After hearing what I had to say, a look of shock appeared on his face. ”How is this possible?”

”How is that impossible? Do you remember the boy's expression this afternoon when he mentioned the so-called Ash? ”

My words caused Huazhe's face to change drastically once again. After a long while, Hua's face regained its calm. He looked at the elder and asked, ”Elder, does anyone in your family know a child by the name of Ah Xi?”

It was obvious that the old man's body trembled when Hua Zi asked this question.

However, before the old man could reply, an unfamiliar voice sounded from outside the door.

”We don't know a child called Ah Xi, but we can be certain that this child has something to do with the disappearance of our village's children!”

Just as he finished speaking, the main door of the room was pushed open and a tanned middle-aged man walked in.

The middle-aged man looked at me and Hua Zi, and then walked over to the old man. ”Dad, Wang has also disappeared?”

”Yeah, it just disappeared right under our noses!”

Seeing the return of his son, the old man seemed to have put down a heavy burden. His voice also couldn't help but become choked with sobs.

The middle-aged man's Chinese name was Miao De, the village chief. After knowing Hua Zi's identity, although he didn't expect Hua Zi to help him find his child, he told him about the strange things that happened in the past few days in detail.

According to him, from a few days ago, the children in the village started disappearing in a bizarre manner.

At first, they thought it was the children who liked to play and purposely hid away, so they didn't pay much attention to it. But when the missing children did not return for the night, the villagers began to worry.

However, no matter how much they searched, they couldn't find those missing children. Furthermore, every day, there would be many children missing. For a time, the entire village was filled with fear, and the children hid at home, not daring to go out. As for the remaining women, they stayed at home with their children all day, afraid that they would lose them as well.

Today was the third time the village chief summoned the village's laborers to search for the village, but the result was the same. Not only did he not find any of the missing children, he even lost his only remaining child.

”I don't know if anyone from the other families knows anyone named Ashi, but at least our family has never heard of him.”

”Then, when we first arrived this afternoon, I heard from your second son that your eldest son and youngest son went to play with Ah Xi. What's going on?”

”That's just what he imagined. I remember the night my eldest son went missing, I asked him, and he said that my eldest brother was playing in the hallway with a man named Ashi, but we couldn't find him anywhere, and he said that my eldest brother and Ashi were just standing in the hallway playing. ”Besides, we have no one here named Ashi.”

Miao De didn't look like he was lying, which meant that they really didn't know what Ashe was called. And we can't just say to him, ”That Ash is a ghost, he took your child away.”

Therefore, towards this Ah Xi, we can only keep our mouths shut and not talk about him.