Chapter 26: The Black Cat

The sudden appearance of this blood-stained black cat only made Zhao Long feel goosebumps all over his body! The blood on the black cat's body obviously hadn't dried up yet, as cat tracks made up of fresh blood could clearly be seen under the cat's feet. And when the black cat and Zhao Long looked at each other face to face, suddenly Zhao Long had a feeling that this cat had intelligence, its eyes seemed to be filled with contempt for them, the humans, and seemed to know that they would be buried here! "Meow!" The black cat let out another eerie cry before rushing off into the depths of the darkness! Zhao Long hurriedly shone over with the candle again, but then he couldn't see the black cat anymore, and only saw the bloody tracks of the black cat's feet as it entered a room on the inner side. But the weird thing was that the door of that room was closed, but the cat's footprints actually disappeared when it reached the door! At this moment, Zhao Long was almost certain that this black cat, was definitely not a living being! "Zhao Long …… count, count on me to beg you, let's go!" At this moment, Ge Qi actually directly fell to his knees and said to Zhao Long, who had a death grip on his arm, "I don't want to die, I really don't want to die! As long as you let go of me, I can be a cow or a horse for you ah! Please, please, please! I, I don't want to die, I really don't want to die!" Dong Xie and Dong Ning who were at the doorway also saw that black cat, they were too lazy to care about Ge Qi's reaction at this moment, fear of death was human nature, no one could let go in front of death. What they were thinking about was that black cat. "From the time we entered the neighborhood, that black cat appeared in front of the car, and now it appeared here ……" "Brother, that cat, maybe it's not even a living being. If humans turn into evil spirits when they die, then it is just as likely that other creatures will do the same." "Yes …… indeed." At this moment, Dong Xie was reminded of the black cat that the horrifying evil spirit, Zabu Gakko, had kept during his lifetime inside the famous Japanese horror movie, Spellbound. After dying, that black cat had also turned into an evil spirit no less than Gakko's mother and daughter. Back then, Dong Xie had repeatedly watched that movie many times in order to study the techniques of writing horror novels, so he was extremely impressed. Thinking of this, he pulled Dong Ning so that she was as far away from the door as possible, while blocking her with his own body. "Ning, I remember the year you were in high school, I even made a point of coming to watch your school games, and you ran the track and field 400 meters, and at that time, I remember that you took second place, right? Now, you should still be able to run fast too, right?" "Brother? You ……" Dong Xie really didn't want things to develop to that point. It was just that there was no way for him to be an ostrich in this current state of affairs, and he had to prepare for the worst. In fact, it was simply impossible for humans to outrun evil spirits, and the fact that they could escape was purely due to the limitations of their apartments. Dong Xie clenched his fists, his body tensed, and stared deathly into the chamber. At this time, Zhao Long desperately pulled the deadbeat Ge Qi to the door of that room. The black cat's tracks broke off at the doorway, and it was most likely inside the room right now. Zhao Long took a deep breath, then, he said to Ge Qi, "I have to open the door, and I'm going to take the candle with my other hand, and if you run away now, Dong Xie at the door won't let you go." "Zhao Long! We'll die, if we go in, we'll really die!" Ge Qi was almost dragged all the way here by Zhao Long, who was quite strong and actually made Ge Qi unable to break free all the way! "I'm letting go of your hand now to open the door, I'm warning you once more, if you dare to escape …… I'll never let you go." Ge Qi looked at Dong Qi who was blocking the doorway behind him, and then looked at Zhao Long in front of him, he realized that pleading was useless. He could only stand up and said to Zhao Long, "Are we …… really, really going in? I, why don't I guard the door for you outside? Okay?" "Guard the door …… "Zhao Long thought about it, indeed he also needs someone to guard the door, nodded and said, "Okay, you guard the door here. Dong Xie, if he dares to escape, feel free to use force on him!" Dong Xie nodded, clenched his fists, and said, "I know!" To Dong Xie, he'd rather "those things" kill Ge Qi and buy him and his sister some more time. Ge Qi looked at Dong Qi's height, which was close to the door, a head taller than himself. He was like a door god blocking the doorway, trying to escape would definitely not be that easy. Ge Qi could be said to be almost desperate. Could he really die here? At this moment, Ge Qi looked at Zhao Long's back with hatred, wishing that Zhao Long would just die here. After he died, there would be an interval period created. While he was cursing in his heart, Zhao Long had already opened the door and walked in. Ge Qi, on the other hand, had made plans that although he was here to guard the door, if the door did close under the power of the curse, he wouldn't go and actively stop it, leaving Zhao Long trapped inside! "Zhao Long, go to hell!" Ge Qi secretly cursed in a voice so low that only he could hear it, and at the same time, he also surveyed this room that Zhao Long had walked into. It was a bedroom that wasn't very big. The black cat's footprints were similarly invisible after pushing the door open. On the table in the bedroom, there were a few photos. Zhao Long walked up, and he used a candle to shine on those photos for a closer look. At first, when he was in contact with the landlord's son who lived and worked in K City, Zhao Long had asked the landlord's son many questions. The landlord's family had two sons, the older son in K City and the younger son in S City. And in the photo, there appeared a group photo of the landlord's elder son and younger son. In addition to this, there are also photos of the landlord and his wife before they were born. At this time, seeing the landlord's wife on the photos made Zhao Long's heart still feel horrible. Zhao Long scrutinized those photos to see if he could find any clues. "Hmm? This photo was taken in this neighborhood?" Zhao Long picked up one of the photos. He realized that out of all the photos placed on the table, this was the only one that was a group photo of the landlord couple and their two sons. This group photo, on the other hand, was taken with this neighborhood as the background. This made him feel a little surprised, generally speaking, most of the family photos that a family hangs outside are taken when they are playing outside. From this, it could be judged that even if these two sons came back to accompany their parents, they didn't have the time to go out with them. "Eh?" Right at this moment, Zhao Long's eyes widened as he saw an old man who looked to be in his seventies or eighties standing under a tree roughly ten meters away behind the photo. In that old man's hand, he was clearly holding that black cat! He brought the candle closer to look at it, although the distance was a bit far away, but the pixels of the photo were quite clear, and then, he discovered something even more terrifying. The clothes on that old man's body were exactly the same as those worn by the ghastly white evil spirit plastered against the iron door in the photo Dong Qi had found earlier!