Chapter 9: The Mystery of the Ghost
"Is this the village?"
There was a hint of timidity in his voice, his innocent eyes were mixed with flashing light, looking at the gazes of others, his petite body dodged slightly, "That Xia Lulu, we didn't go to the wrong place, right?"
"Probably not!" Although he wasn't very sure, in order to reassure Wendy, Xia Lulu still said in the affirmative with a proud face.
"But what do we do now?" Wendy arrives in a strange place, like a little beast away from home, not knowing what to do.
Xia Lulu pursed her mouth helplessly, then took Wendy's hand and walked towards the house with the most people in the village, "Let's go to the village chief's house first, let's go and see if the wizard with the fairy tail is here?"
"Oh~oh!" By the time Wendy fully reacted, they had already arrived at the door of the village chief's house, looking at the old man in front of the door with dull eyes and panicked, his gray hair was messy as if he had lost his life force, and he looked completely lifeless. The cloudy eyes looked helplessly at the little wooden horse in front of the door, sometimes smiling, sometimes crying.
"Xia Lulu, Xia Lulu, what's wrong with him?" Wendy was frightened by the village chief's crazy appearance, and her small body hid behind Xia Lulu in one step.
"I guess it's too sad!" Xia Lulu could feel the deep sadness emanating from the village chief's side.
That's not right! Xia Lulu glanced at Wendy behind her, wondering in her heart, according to Wendy's character, she should have felt these things earlier than me, how could she not feel sadness?
"Wendy, don't you sense that he's sad?"
"Sadness, don't you feel it!" Wendy was asked, and suddenly felt that she had done something wrong, should she feel sad?
"I ...... I ......"
Just when Wendy didn't know what to say, the village chief had already come to his senses, and his wrinkled face barely raised a smile that was more ugly than crying, "Are you the magicians of Fairy Tail?
"Just the two of us!" Wendy pointed with two fingers, and then explained, "And we are not the magicians of Fairy Tail, we are the magicians of the Cat Lodge, my name is Wendy, and she is Xia Lulu!"
"Oh, oh, I'm sorry, I thought only Fairy Tail took this commission, but I didn't expect your guild to take it too, so let's sit down first, the wizard of Fairy Tail hasn't arrived yet!"
After entering the house, Xia Lulu found a place to sit down, calculated the time, and then frowned, looking unhappy, "How can it be so slow, it stands to reason that he should have arrived, why hasn't he come yet?"
"Will it be weak!" The last sentence Xia Lulu said in a very small voice, only Wendy heard it, Wendy pulled Xia Lulu's little cat paw, signaling her not to talk nonsense.
"I'm sorry! don't be surprised, grandpa the village chief!"
"Eh~What, what's the matter?" the village chief didn't hear Xia Lulu's whispered muttering at all.
At this moment, a voice as clear as a mountain spring came in from outside, "I'm really sorry I'm late, but I'm not without strength, I'm just a bit of a road idiot!"
As soon as the voice fell, a few people saw a slender figure walking in from outside the door, slender and well-proportioned figure, the perfect golden ratio between the top and bottom wrapped in a large white shirt and white pants, a pair of heroic sword eyebrows on the handsome and elegant face condensed slightly, as if smiling, giving people an inexplicable pressure, but the most noticeable thing was that his sky-blue shoulder-length hair was tied up high by a white ribbon, and the ribbon hung down along the hair to the ear.
"This sister—"
"This brother—"
Xia Lulu and Wendy spoke at the same time, and then the two looked at each other in embarrassment, and finally Wendy plucked up the courage to say, "This brother, you are the magician of Fairy Tail, right?"
"Brother?" Xia Lulu's eyes widened in shock, why didn't she see that he was her brother, and then there was a question in her heart, how could Wendy, who had always been more confused than herself, be so sure that he was a man!
Lanos walked over with a friendly smile on his face, rolled up his white sleeves in front of Wendy, revealing the sky-blue guild coat of arms on his right arm, "Look, isn't it?"
"Really, really!" Wendy shook Lanos' hand with a happy face, "Then you know Natsu, don't you?"
"Natsu?" Lanos touched Wendy's long dark blue hair, which was very soft, "Of course I know, he's a very hot-blooded person!" Lanos wanted to laugh a little when he recalled Natsu's blood.
"Ahem-" The village chief coughed twice, and when he found that all eyes were back on him, his eyes showed a sad look again, and the calloused old hand groped for the old picture beside him, with an old man, a husband and a wife, and a baby.
"That's—"
"It's my son, daughter-in-law and grandson, but the disaster five years ago took the lives of my son and daughter-in-law, and now only my grandson and I are left to rely on each other, but now even my grandson has been arrested!" the village chief became more and more excited, and the hot tears in his eyes slowly flowed.
"Don't cry, don't cry! we'll help you!" Wendy quickly advised.
Lanos also stepped forward and said, "Yes, we will help you, isn't this the commission we accepted?"
"Can you tell us what's going on here?"
The village chief glanced at a few people, and then said helplessly: "Actually, we don't know what happened, but since last month, our village has begun to have children missing, at first I just thought that individual children were greedy for fun and couldn't find their way home, but there were more and more missing children, but there was no news of coming back, and the first family members in our village to lose their children have always said recently that they saw their children, and their children are crying!"
Listening, Wendy's small hand held Lanos's big hand tightly, and Xia Lulu on the side also hid behind Lanos with Wendy, as if she was afraid to see those things that seemed to be ghosts.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here!" Lanos's voice was surprisingly gentle now, and his two hands fell on Wendy and Xia Lulu's heads, and a blue halo merged into their brains, and the two of them only felt a rush of warmth, and the fear seemed to be gone.
"So can the village chief tell us where the last child disappeared?" asked Lanos.
"Oh, it disappeared right at the entrance of the village!"
"Okay, let's go to the entrance of the village and have a look!"
As soon as the words fell, I saw Lanos's face change, his body moved, and he floated out with an elegant afterimage, his feet stepped on the invisible wind, and the white ribbons hanging from his ears also floated up one after another.
"I won't let you run away this time!"