When I got home, it was already late at night.

Mother didn't say a word, she just cleaned grandpa's house again. She had never entered grandpa's house before.

I offered Liu Jie's memorial tablet, lit three sticks of incense, and then went back to my room to sleep.

When I woke up, it was already noon the next day.

While serving me some food, my mother said, "Your father and I have discussed it, and you should go to Xinhai to study. It's a big city with development! I've already applied for your application."

I nodded and didn't object.

My college entrance examination scores were good or bad, but I still had room for choice.

The reason why my mother asked me to go to Xinhai is because I also understand that there are almost no burials in big cities now.

Seeing my promise, my mother finally showed a relaxed expression: "Then you go early. Big cities are different from ours. Get used to it first. Don't take the tablet with you. I'll burn incense for you."

After glancing at his father, it was obvious that his mother had not discussed this with him.

I shook my head and said, "Mom, I can go there in advance, but I have to bring the memorial tablet with me, so I can only bear it."

Mother nodded silently.

After dinner, I started discussing with my father about my going to Xinhai.

She was very anxious for me to leave, for fear that something would happen to me one night.

So, after only staying at home for two days, I boarded the train to Xinhai nearly two months in advance.

Xinhai is one of the top three largest cities in the country.

As soon as I got off the bus, I saw that everyone was walking in a hurry, as if they were being chased by something invisible. There was no leisure in a small city.

My parents had no acquaintances here, so they just asked a friend of a friend to help me rent a room in an apartment not far from the school.

It is less than 20 square meters, very small, but it also has a bathroom and kitchen. At a glance, I don’t know where to put Liu Jie’s memorial tablet.

In the end, I could only keep it in the closet. I just hope that when I leave, the closet will not be blackened by incense.

After settling down, I walked around again. I really didn’t know what to do, so I had to lie on the bed early.

What I didn't expect was that instead of sleeping in bed, I was woken up by a burst of noise.

Before I could complain about the soundproofing here, there was a knock on the door.

When I opened the door, I saw the landlady I had met before looked past me and looked into the room with a panicked expression.

"Xiao Huang, right? Have you seen my Dahei?"

"Big black?"

I was confused and was about to ask, but the landlady nodded eagerly, and the fat on her face continued to ripple with her movements.

"Yes, yes. Dahei, it's the one I held when you came to get the key..."

"That black cat?" I interrupted the landlord and shook my head: "No, has your cat been lost?"

"Yeah, I'm so anxious, Xiao Huang, please help me look for it."

After saying that, without giving me a chance to refuse, I turned around and walked to the next room.

I looked at the landlord's back speechlessly, and then I realized that there were several people following her.

One of the young people, about 20 years old, muttered in a low voice with an unhappy look on his face: "Who is it that woke everyone up in the middle of the night to help her find a cat?"

The young girl wearing jeans next to him said: "Help me look for him, Dahei is quite cute."

As the doors of each room were knocked, the team looking for the cat gradually grew, and everyone chatted with each other about the search.

I also have a preliminary impression of my neighbors.

The search lasted for more than an hour. Just when everyone was gradually losing patience, a scream instantly attracted everyone's attention.

When I ran over with the crowd, I discovered that the young girl who had just been persuading everyone to help find the cat was looking ahead with a horrified look on her face.

Dahei, who everyone was looking for, was lying in the corner not far in front of her, his black hair frozen together with blood.

One eye was gouged out by someone and crushed on the side.

Even an ordinary person can tell from the twisted body that its bones are broken in more than one place.

Seeing this scene, everyone's sleepiness disappeared instantly. The landlord shouted Dahei's name, crying but did not dare to come forward.

"Who is so cruel?"

"This is too scary."

"Call the police! Call the police!"

….

The noisy sound finally awakened the landlord from her sadness. She looked around with fierce eyes: "Let me know who it is, and I will never let him go."

After saying that, he hurriedly thought about running to the first floor.

Everyone was very dissatisfied with her attitude and followed her with complaints. After all, everyone knew that surveillance was installed here.

I thought about it and followed.

When we got to the first floor, the landlord was indeed checking the surveillance camera.

The monitoring room is not large, and except for a few people who are familiar with the landlord, everyone is waiting outside.

But what no one expected was that as the surveillance video was played, the anger on the landlord's face was gradually replaced by panic.

Even the face of the person watching the surveillance camera with her changed.

While everyone was surprised, the landlord suddenly turned off the surveillance camera: "No, it's okay. Let's go back and rest."

Some people still wanted to ask, but the landlord just kept urging everyone to go back to their rooms and said nothing about the footage on the surveillance camera.

Like most people, I left with doubts.

When she just walked around the corner, she heard the landlord almost pleading, asking the person who was watching the surveillance with her to get rid of Dahei's body.

That person is like avoiding snakes and scorpions.

I didn't stop, and the landlord's deliberately lowered voice gradually became inaudible. On the contrary, people around me started talking about it.

The young man who complained about the landlord before said mysteriously: "That must have happened again. I have lived here for seven or eight years, and it happens almost every year."

Some people who had just moved here asked, and the young man said, "You guys came late. Many people don't know about this. This building is haunted!"

Everyone looked at each other and felt a little bored.

Some people even stood up to leave, but were stopped by young people.

Seeing everyone's disapproval, the young man said: "Listen to what I have to say, this place is really deadly, and its ghosts are still there, and they come out every once in a while."

Now everyone was shocked, even me looked over in surprise.

Anyway, we were no longer sleepy, so we all gathered in the activity space on the second floor to listen.

The young man was very satisfied with everyone's reaction. He lowered his voice and said as if telling a ghost story: "Have you seen the cats climbing around? There used to be many cats here..."

I yawned as I listened to what he said.

His story is also very simple.

Because the landlord likes cats, he does not object to keeping cats in the apartment. He even planned the second floor as an activity space and installed a cat climbing frame, etc., so that people can have close contact with the cats.

Over time, there were many people keeping cats in the apartment.

Seven or eight years ago, a fire drill was organized in the apartment, and everyone ran out. Only a girl who worked overtime missed the drill.

The place where I had never planned to practice was sealed off due to an infectious disease, and everyone in the apartment was quarantined. I had to beg the girl to help feed the cat.

When the fourteen-day quarantine was over and everyone hurried back to prepare to suck the cat, they discovered that the young lady had died in the activity space on the second floor.

His clothes were all reduced to pieces, and there was no trace of flesh and blood on his body, leaving only white bones covered with tooth marks.
Chapter completed!