On the clean and tidy road of Huaiyang Village, the butcher
dragged Ning Su by the back of his collar in silence.
In the moonlight, the two shadows merged into a strange
shape.
Ning Su neatly folded his hands on his stomach, and he
obediently let the butcher drag him along with his strong arms.
After a while, without having to move himself, he lowered his
gaze to his calves and made a reasonable request, “Big brother, you’re dragging
me a bit low, and my pants are rubbing against the ground.”
The butcher raised his hand in silence, and Ning Su’s upper
body rose as a result.
He looked down and was satisfied to see that his calves were
off the ground.
After moving for a while longer, Ning Su spoke again, “Big
brother, the back of my feet is rubbing the ground.”
“...”
The butcher exerted force with his elbow, slung Ning Su over
his shoulder, and carried him.
Ning Su’s head and hands hung behind the butcher’s shoulder.
He looked at their shadows on the ground for a while, and said, “Big brother,
my body won’t rub against the ground anymore with this position, but can you
turn your head around so I can see your face?”
The butcher paused his steps.
By the time he lifted his foot again, Ning Su’s head had
already been turned forward.
Now he could see the butcher’s face.
He looked at him and negotiated, “Big brother, when I was
staking out the slaughterhouse gate, I saw you light two piles of bonfires.”
“You can’t waste bonfires, right? Can you roast a lamb leg
for me to eat?”
“I have eaten no meat all day today, and I’m starving after
working all night.”
The butcher refused to give him the roasted lamb leg and
instead shoved him into the incinerator.
After the incinerator’s door was closed, the interior sank
into a bottomless darkness.
This was an incinerator, but it’s not hot at all. Instead,
it’s bone-chillingly cold.
Who knew how many living creatures have been burned alive in
this incinerator? This much coldness was normal.
Ning Su waited, thinking that the temperature might rise once
the incinerator was turned on.
He waited for a while, but it was still freezing. The
bone-chilling coldness drilled into his body like the winter wind.
Ning Su couldn’t wait any longer and reached out to touch the
furnace wall.
The wall wasn’t hot yet.
It was uneven and had sticky things attached to it, so sticky
that when Ning Su’s fingers touched it, he felt like he was being wrapped up in
it.
His fingers kept moving, and when he reached forward, he
didn’t touch the wall.
Ning Su was puzzled and crawled forward bit by bit. He didn’t
know how long he crawled in the endless darkness, but he finally touched
something different from the furnace wall.
Ning Su pushed hard and opened it.
This was the incinerator’s door.
After opening it, Ning Su saw the slaughterhouse from where
he was.
Only...
Ning Su looked up and quietly watched the blood-red moon in
the night sky.
The sky above was as dark as ink, and the wind hurried past
like a rushing stream. A heavy, blood-red moon loomed in the darkness,
emanating an eerie and foreboding atmosphere.
Just as Ning Su was about to continue sticking his head out,
his ankle suddenly felt cold. A cold little hand had half-grasped his ankle and
was dragging him backward.
Ning Su crawled to the door with difficulty and was about to
escape, but he was dragged back into the incinerator.
He lay still, unable to do anything as the space inside the
incinerator was not high enough for him to raise himself higher.
Ning Su was slowly pulled backwards until his feet were
dangling and he was yanked out of the incinerator.
He almost fell face first.
Ning Su stood up and turned to see the ghost child.
The child was standing crookedly in the moonlight and did not
hide or run away this time, probably because he had already revealed his face
to Ning Su last time.
However, he still hung his head and did not fully reveal his
face, only lifting one large eye to silently stare at Ning Su.
This time, Ning Su had time to take a closer look at the
child.
He had fine, soft hair and a small face. In the bleak
moonlight, his skin was white with a tinge of gray, and his two cheeks were
different.
Ning Su had not been mistaken last time. The skin color on
the two sides of the child’s face was subtly different. One side was normal
white, while the other was covered with a layer of fine purplish gray.
Thinking of last time, when his hand went through the child’s
hand but managed to grab the other hand, and now seeing the subtle difference
on the two sides of the child’s face, Ning Su couldn’t help but become
interested.
He reached out to touch the child’s face, but when he saw the
child’s mouth tighten, he inexplicably sensed the child’s unhappiness.
He changed the direction of his hand and poked the child’s
forehead, “What’s making you unhappy...”
As the child had just learned to stand and was not stable
yet, he immediately toppled over when Ning Su poked him.
“...”
Looking at the child lying on the ground, Ning Su felt a rare
twinge of guilt. He squatted down to pick up the child, but the child reached
out with two small hands and hugged his neck.
The child clung to Ning Su’s neck and rubbed his small head
against it, leaving a cold and soft touch.
Ning Su’s lips curved slightly, but when the child licked his
neck, he pulled the child’s head away, which was pressed against his neck.
The child’s two arms hung around his neck, and he looked up at Ning Su quietly. One of his eyes was big and black, with curled lashes that seemed to have caught a layer of pale moonlight, while the other side had no eyeball, only a round and black eye socket that was particularly big.
Ning Su couldn’t resist anymore, and reached out to pinch the
child’s cheeks. “Little child, why are you so cute?”
The tender cheeks were cool and soft, very easy to pinch, and
Ning Su couldn’t get enough, pinching the little face until it turned purple
and black.
Meanwhile, the child, who had been staring at Ning Su, was
stunned by his words, and his eyes seemed to have grown even bigger.
In those large eyes, there was a slight glow that reflected
the full face of a person. The glow seemed to gather around this individual,
flickering slightly because of their presence.
Meanwhile, the entire slaughterhouse was illuminated by
moonlight, revealing two individuals, one big and one small, standing next to a
withered tree and both equally stunned.
Ning Su waited for a while and looked at the child in
confusion. “I already asked you before but, are you really not going to tell me
what’s going on in Huaiyang Village?”
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