"Ah, that’s right."
Suddenly, Seven exclaid.
"I rember now, at that ti, Granny Ghost disappeared. It was only when we were looking for people that she ca out, saying she went to relieve herself," he said.
"Granny Ghost..."
Lin Caisang squinted, knowing that Granny Ghost in the Ghost Clan was a midwife.
"Could it really be Granny Ghost? How could she do such a thing?"
The faces of the two Ghost Clan won listening to their speculation turned pale. Granny Ghost was a woman too, wasn’t she afraid that her own family would suffer the sa fate?
"But... but the Granny Ghost we hired is different, isn’t she?"
Another woman was sad for a mont, then rembered sothing important. So many baby ghosts have gone missing, and they weren’t all delivered by the sa Granny Ghost, right? How could it have been Granny Ghosts?
Could it be that many Granny Ghosts conspired together to steal babies? That seems unlikely, right?
If it really were Granny Ghosts, wouldn’t they have already been suspected long ago?
"This..."
Hearing the woman’s words, the two n also felt it was unlikely.
If it really were Granny Ghosts, did so many Granny Ghosts in the Ghost Clan conspire together?
That seems too far-fetched, doesn’t it?
"Sirs, could it really have been Granny Ghosts?" They looked at Lin Caisang and Sui Zimo, asking quietly.
"Think about it a bit more,"
Lin Caisang didn’t reply directly but asked them again.
There are many possibilities in such matters, Granny Ghost is just one of them, and there are many more possibilities.
"Think more..."
The four looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Besides Granny Ghost, who else could it be?
Even if childbirth is the sa procedure, the people around can’t be the sa group, and even if it were the sa person doing it, how could one explain the daily theft of so many babies?
Could it be that the person knows how to split themselves? Or is it really done by many people together?
"Earlier when we ca in, there was a strange sll. Did you sll it?" Lin Caisang asked them, seeing that they couldn’t co up with anything.
"Sll?"
The four were bewildered upon hearing this.
"No sll, sirs, perhaps you’ve mistaken. There’s no strange sll in the house," one of the n said to them.
They really hadn’t slled anything.
"You didn’t?"
Lin Caisang and Sui Zimo exchanged a glance.
"The scent outside mixed with a foul sll, didn’t you sll it? It was quite strong."
Upon hearing this, the four seed to understand.
"Sir, if you’re talking about that sll, it’s not strange; it’s the scent of the child-death flower," the woman explained to them.
"You may not know, in our Ghost Clan, the child-death flower grows in many places. The flower has a very strong life force and can be seen in any field or forest.
The flower doesn’t need watering or fertilizing, yet it thrives. The scent is strong, and people of the Ghost Clan have beco used to it, so we don’t really notice it."
"Yes, indeed."
The two n agreed, one of them speaking up.
"The child-death flower is quite beautiful, though it’s poorly nad and, when scrutinized closely, carries a stench, which is why people don’t like to cultivate it."
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