"Little sister," he called out again, but the child seemed to have vanished from the world, even her lingering presence had disappeared.
"What's going on?" The man strode over, his tall and long-legged figure reaching the spot in a few steps. But there was nothing, just an empty garden, not even a flower bloomed, let alone any humans.
"Where is she?" He asked his younger brother.
Gu Ning shook his head. He did not know.
The two brothers searched nearly every corner, but in the end, they still couldn't find the child.
"Perhaps, she hid herself," the older man patted his younger brother's shoulder. This was the most logical explanation unless her family happened to find her just then. But both possibilities seemed unlikely.
Is it possible that Gu Ning was experiencing some kind of hallucination, mistakenly thinking he had found a little girl?
Gu Ning put his hand around his neck, his necklace was gone.
