"Did they only hear the child crying? They didn't see her?"
"No. Sigh... When my old classmate heard about it, he got angry. He thought someone was making trouble, and that I was either stupid or helping them make trouble. We had a fight, and things got a little... I went back to the construction site. We'd already put all that money in, so no matter what, we had to finish the project. I was scared when I went back. Seeing the little girl put me somewhat at ease. She... she looked like an ordinary child. She just cried at me and pitifully asked if I hated her and wouldn't help her anymore. I thought that was all there was to it... I kept Old Qin from leaving and had the others who hadn't run away keep helping her look for things. Then Old Qin suddenly thought the thing might be buried underground. At first, we thought a little girl had lost something, so it had to be somewhere on the ground. Old Qin suggested we try looking, so we searched the manhole covers and drains in the factory. Under one of the manholes, we found a burlap sack. At first, we had no idea what was inside, but something like that... clearly wasn't a child's belongings. One of the workers climbed down and hauled the sack up. It was filthy..."
"Mr. Xue?"
"Oh, I... at the time, I just had a bad feeling... I thought of one possibility... Old Qin opened the sack. The zipper was broken, and when he opened it, he tore the bag too. A hand... a hand fell out... A child's corpse... There was... a child's corpse inside... Mm... it had rotted until only the bones were left, but judging by the size, it was