Chapter 6: Savannah's Strange Cat
The three of us looked around, and the swan man was indeed gone. We just turned around and walked inside. At this time, the room suddenly lit up. As soon as I entered the house, I saw my aunt walking down the stairs in her pajamas.
"Auntie, I miss you!" When I saw that it was my aunt, I immediately greeted me.
"Xiaoyu, are you here?" My aunt walked down the stairs and said with a flat expression.
My aunt and I hadn't seen each other for a long time, so we rushed up and gave her a warm hug. But she obviously didn't expect me to make such a move, and she seemed a little cramped. It felt a little strange to me, as if something was wrong, but I couldn't tell.
I thought to myself: maybe the two of us have been separated for too long, and we are a little rusty. He scratched his head with an embarrassed smile, then pointed at the old ghost and said, "Auntie, this is my classmate, old ...... No, Shi Hui! ”
"Old Immortal?" My aunt asked suspiciously.
The old ghost glared at me, and hurriedly stretched out his hand and said, "Hello aunt, my name is Shi Hui, I am Fang Yu's classmate, just call me Xiaohui." ”
"Xiaohui, hello. Welcome to Savannah. My aunt smiled and stretched out her hand to shake the old ghost.
Looking at my aunt's words and deeds, I felt a little strange: this was completely different from the emergency she said in the letter, and I couldn't see how anxious she was.
As soon as I was about to ask, I heard her say, "I'm feeling a little unwell and dizzy." You two must be tired after running so far today, right? I'll talk about that tomorrow. ”
Hearing her say this, I had no choice but to give up, and swallowed back the words that came to my mouth.
We were accommodated in the upstairs room with a view of the sea from the window.
Due to the fatigue of the journey, the old ghost quickly fell asleep. But I thought about a lot of things, and my aunt's abnormality, and I couldn't sleep.
Tossing and turning until midnight. Suddenly, a sparse sound was heard from the attic. At first, I thought it was a mouse, but when I listened closely, it was definitely not. The sound of "woo, woo, woo~" came from that direction, like the cry of a baby.
I didn't feel sleepy, so I pushed the old ghost next to me. The guy slept like a dead pig, and it took several pushes to wake him up.
The old ghost was sleeping soundly, and was suddenly woken up by me, obviously a little unhappy. As soon as I wanted to ask, I heard the abnormal crying sound coming from the attic again: "Woo, woo~".
The voice was so loud that the old ghost jumped up from the bed in fright and looked at the place in horror.
I whispered to him, "Go up and see?"
The old ghost was already sleepy at this point, so he nodded. We got dressed, found a baseball bat in our room, held it in our hands, pulled a flashlight out of our bags, and tiptoed up to the attic.
Go to the attic and open the hidden door. Flashlight shines inside, and we both startled.
In front of us, there is a leopard!
The leopard's eyes glowed a strange green, and when it saw us coming in, it bared its teeth and grinned at us. I could clearly see that the hairs on its back were standing on end, and it was making a "hiss" warning sound. On closer inspection, this thing is definitely not a leopard, it has the face of a cat. But it was much bigger than a cat, about the size of a leopard, and covered with black spots.
The thing didn't move, just staring straight at us, bloody from its mouth. I used my flashlight to shine down, and under the face of this (animal) life, there was a half-eaten animal corpse!
I was scared into a cold sweat, this thing was a carnivore. Wouldn't that hurt?
In the middle of my fright, the thing jumped and pounced on me. I hurriedly waved the baseball bat in my hand and hit it over. The strange cat was unusually agile, and with a shrunk neck, it dodged my attack. Stepping on me, a bounce, and pounced straight on the old ghost.
It was so large that I was kicked by it, lost my balance and fell to the ground. The flashlight shook off its hand, circled around the air a few times, and slammed into the wall with a "snap". It fell to the ground again, blinked twice, and went out.
The old ghost didn't react for a moment, screamed, and was pounced on by the thing. He didn't stand firmly, lost his center of gravity and fell heavily to the ground. In the darkness, I heard the sound of a fight and the strange "whoop" of the thing.
I couldn't see anything, and I couldn't help the old ghost, so I had to fumble for a flashlight. After touching it for a while, I finally touched it. As soon as he turned on the switch, there was no response, and he immediately slapped it twice in anger. At this moment, the flashlight lit up, and the bright light suddenly illuminated my eyes, and I couldn't see anything.
As soon as the strange cat saw the light, he let go of the old ghost, and turned to me with a scream.
I listened to the movement and immediately shortened in alertness, dodging the sudden attack of the strange cat. But on his back, he still scratched his paws, and it felt hot and painful. The strange cat didn't stop, and with a "whoosh" sound, it pounced on me again. Instinctively, I waved my hand and hit it with a stick.
"Bang", there was a muffled sound, and I felt a real shock on the stick. This time, the strange cat finally hit the right point, and the strange cat fell to the wall.
I thought to myself, brute, Lao Tzu is not powerful, you still treat me as a sick cat!
At that moment, I suddenly felt something on my shoulder. Thought it was the weird cat running behind me and playing a sneak attack? I didn't think about it, reflexively is a stick!
"Ahh Immediately, the old ghost screamed like a pig, "Why are you beating me?" Hiss ......"
As soon as I heard it, it was not good, I accidentally injured my own people, and turned around to take a photo. Seeing the old ghost's head bleeding, I don't know if he was beaten by me or attacked by the strange cat. Hurriedly helped him up and said, "Careless, careless!" ”
The old ghost rubbed his head and scolded: "Your uncle! Lao Tzu almost died at your hands. Oops, my King Kong head! ”
I accompanied me again and again, saying, "You are filming me at this time, aren't you looking for a fight?" ”
The old ghost knew that he was wrong, and without saying anything more, he went back with me to find the strange cat. I scanned it with my flashlight, but I couldn't find any trace of it. Seeing the open window of the attic, it is estimated that the strange cat escaped through the window.
I remembered reading about Savannah, and it was most likely the Savannah cat, a cat breed endemic to the place.
It is a mixed cat breed.
People crossed the serval (sou) cat (a bird that can jump into the air to kill flight) and a domestic cat to breed the "Savannah cat", which is said to be a valuable breed of domestic pet. But when I saw it today, I didn't expect this Savannah cat to be so ferocious! I don't know if it's due to the environment or something else.
I scanned it again with my flashlight to make sure the strange cat was gone. There was some gore on the ground, though. The half-eaten bones were already a blur of flesh and blood. I was also holding back the feeling of nausea and trying to find something to wrap him up and deal with. After taking a look, there was only a hand-woven hanging painting on the wall, so he reached out and tore the hanging painting off.
This tear found that there was a mystery behind the painting.
On top of this wall, there is a brick that is clearly different from the others, like a dark grid. Reaching out and pressing hard, the brick actually sank down, and with a "click", a door opened!
The old ghost and I looked at each other, neither of us spoke, and walked in tacitly. The dark room was small, a few square meters in size, and there was nothing in it, only a locked red box.
Red chests? My first instinct was that someone had mentioned it. Oh yes! It was mentioned in my aunt's letter. I quickly took out the copper key from my body and tried to unlock the lock.
Sure enough, there was a "click", and the box opened in response.
I shone it with a flashlight, and there was a lot of idle stuff in it. There are some essential items for archaeology, as well as some personal items. At first glance, I knew that it was my aunt's collection. The old ghost was also looking around, very interested in something that looked like an antique.
There was a photo album in which I had some old photos falling out when I first picked it up. Those photos turned out to be the same old photos that my grandfather used to see! I was immediately interested, and I was about to look through it, when I heard movement downstairs. hurriedly took the photo album, closed the door of the secret room, and hurriedly went downstairs with the old ghost.
When we got downstairs, we didn't have time to undress, so we quickly covered the quilt and pretended to sleep.
As soon as it was sealed, someone pushed the door in. The man had a candle in his hand, and by the faint light of the candle, he looked at us on the bed. I squinted slightly, and with the help of the bright light, I saw that it was my uncle, and he looked a little strange. Seeing that we were all "asleep", he turned around and gently closed the door and walked out.
What did he sneak up on in our room in the middle of the night?
We made sure we didn't get up until he was far away. The old ghost handed me a cigarette and asked, "Do you feel anything wrong with your aunt and uncle compared to before?" ”
I took a hard puff of my cigarette and said, "I don't think anything is right!" But I can't say it. Do you see something? ”
The old ghost said, "I just feel that your aunt is not in a hurry at all. Moreover, it doesn't seem to be enthusiastic about you. Also, they don't care about our safety. I don't believe it, when we fight with the swan people, the movement and the cry are so loud that they can't hear it! ”
I let out a "hmm" and walked over to the window and opened it to get some fresh air. Suddenly, I saw a sneaky figure in the cemetery not far away!
I immediately remembered the second phrase in my aunt's letter: "the second grave". Look at the place where the figure is stunned, it happens to be in the second one, is there something strange there?
I couldn't contain my curiosity, and while it was dark, I decided to find out. I asked the old ghost what his opinion was, and he said that since it had come to this point, he would go.
In the dead of night, we grabbed flashlights, baseball bats, electric shocks, and so on. I went downstairs through the window in the dark, and went to the grave.