Volume 1 - Spring City Tragedy Chapter 20 - The Ugly Cat Demon
Yu Weiguo drove Li Yuanchu to the north of the city, which is obviously backward compared with the high-rise city center, but it is exceptionally quiet, and there is even a forest further north of the bungalow area, which is also the area with the best ecological environment in Chuncheng. However, due to the distance from the city center, the vast majority of residents rent here because of the cheap rent, especially migrant workers, so this is also the most troublesome area in the whole Spring City.
After arriving at the scene of the crime, Yu Weiguo felt a pain in his brain, only to see that the courtyard of the crime scene was full of people watching the excitement, and the police had no choice but to guard the door of the house. Yu Weiguo left Li Yuanchu outside the courtyard, struggled to separate everyone and walked in. After careful search, it was found that the scene this time was as messy as the last time, the first group of police officers who arrived said that the scene in the house was not damaged, and the deceased was also lying in front of the TV, with a bloodless face, hands stretched forward, bulging eyes, and cracked corners of the mouth, but the difference was that the deceased fell to the ground, although the TV was on, but the DVD player was turned off, and the most important thing was that the house was not inhabited by a person.
The deceased's name is Jia Hui, and according to his neighbor, who is also the informant, he met the deceased returning late last night, and the two also said hello, and there was nothing unusual at that time. But at about four o'clock in the afternoon, he heard shouting next door, and just as he was about to go out to check, he saw three people running out quickly, vaguely like three other residents next door. So he dared to check it out, and found the dead body. Just as Yu Weiguo was about to interrogate further, a policeman ran over and said that he had found a large wooden box in the corner of the outside of the house, which was full of iron rods, machetes and other controlled items, and there were more than 30 after counting the number. Seeing this, Yu Weiguo immediately asked his subordinates to find the landlord of this house and investigate the identities of all the four people who rented it. He then began to inspect each window along the exterior wall, and found a cat's paw print on the edge of one of the windows, as well as a tuft of gray hair, which Yu Weiguo placed in his evidence bag.
After learning that there were indeed cat paw prints here, Li Yuanchu turned around and left, found a supermarket and called Huang Sange in the slightly cold bar, asking if there was an untransformed cat demon in Chuncheng, and the other party said that he didn't know, but he could help Li Yuanchu check. Looking at the sun, which was already sinking below the horizon, he decided to go home and wait first, and bought a cake for his sister along the way. After returning home, Li Junyan looked at the cake and jumped around happily, but Li Yuanchu could only go back to the house to write a review first. Zhong Jingzhen let him into the house, only to see that he was holding a red rectangular gift box in his hand, handed it to Li Yuanchu's sister, and motioned her to open it, and it turned out to be a brand-new harmonica.
"Third brother, let you break the bank."
"Less, you asked me to check the matter has eyebrows, it just so happened that I had a guest in the northern suburbs met a cat demon, sure it was only untransformed, oops, I was about to eat, then I'm welcome."
Li Yuanchu was surprised by Huang Sange's efficiency, but even more surprised by this guy's cheekiness, seeing the food just served on the table, he sat directly on the chair. Li Yuanchu's mother added him a pair of dishes and chopsticks, and when he saw him eating like a storm, he almost chewed the chopsticks, and while eating, he introduced what he knew to Li Yuanchu.
"That cat demon seems to live in an old lady's house, I heard that the cat and dog world in the northern suburbs is about to be unified, and I feel that the strength is good, but I don't know what the specific way is. By the way, this kind of shapeless youkai is rare now, so if you find it, remember to bring it over for me to see, haha. ”
After eating, Third Brother Huang patted his stomach with satisfaction, thanked Zhong Jingzhen and left, this rush of coming and going really fits his work style. After sending him away, the three of them sat on the sofa to rest, while Li Junyan showed off her new harmonica to her brother, happily playing "Friendship Lasts Forever", and ran around the living room after playing, it can be seen that she likes this harmonica very much.
After school the next day, Li Yuanchu went to the northern suburbs alone, and the second murder happened here, and the cat demon also appeared here, and it is not a coincidence between the two. But what Li Yuanchu cares about the most is that an untransformed monster will take the initiative to live with people, and generally only demons after transformation are willing to live with humans, and the reason why some monsters do not transform is that they hate the appearance and lifestyle of humans. But there is also a possibility that the cat demon is using this civilian area as a hunting ground, and if this is the case, he must find it out faster.
Coincidentally, when Li Yuanchu didn't know where to start, he saw an old lady sitting in front of the door, with a gray-haired cat lying at her feet, but the appearance of this cat can only be described as ugly, and the hair on the body has fallen out in many places, as if it has scabies, two scars on one of the eyes are slanted to the mouth, and the tail behind him is broken in half. But even so, the old lady did not dislike it, but smiled from time to time and said a few words to the ugly cat next to her, although she knew that she would not get a response. A person and a cat get along very harmoniously, and the ugly cat is not as happy as other cats, but so honestly lying next to the old lady. Although this ugly cat deliberately concealed the demonic aura on his body, Li Yuanchu still clearly felt it after getting closer.
Li Yuanchu walked to the old lady casually, and when his left foot stepped on the gray cat, an aura swung around with him as the center, and the gray cat suddenly "meowed", and the hair on his back stood up. It looked up at the boy, but the boy didn't stop, and walked forward without looking back, as if everything was an illusion. But the old lady sitting next to her suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing, which woke her up, who was about to fall asleep.
"It stinks, it's windy, it's time for us to go back to the house, let's go." So saying, the old lady got up and walked tremblingly to the room behind her.
"Meow."
"What? Do you still want to go out for a walk? Go, remember to come back early, I'll give you fish and meat in the evening, I'll see where I put the old Li family two days ago...... "The old lady nagged and turned away.
The gray cat looked at the hunchbacked figure, shook his head humanely, and turned to run in the direction where the boy had left just now. Li Yuanchu is now running in the alley at his fastest speed, but was soon caught up by the gray cat behind him, he glanced back, smiled slightly and suddenly disappeared from the place, and then appeared more than ten meters in front of him, the gray cat was also stunned by this situation, and then accelerated his speed to catch up, until this person and a cat came to the forest. Suddenly, the cat demon behind him stopped in place, only to see its back hunched, the gray fur stood upside down like a steel needle, and then a whirlwind blew in the forest, and the gray cat's body was shrouded in a faint green light, and then a phantom figure rose from the ground. I saw that this phantom was about two feet high, as strong as a tiger, with four and a half tails flying in the wind behind him, and a big stone was smashed with one claw, and the eyes that looked at Li Yuanchu were both wary and disdainful.