May 1st, Labor Day, although Chengdu is still in the period of lockdown, but there are not many people out of the city, the four of them easily rushed through the checkpoint, on the way to Harbin, only encountered a few attacks by the underworld, and then there is no other danger.

Although this is not the first time that the four have come to Harbin, the current Harbin is completely different from the Harbin they remember, and from 1958 to 1965, Harbin experienced the tortuous development process of the Great Leap Forward and economic readjustment. During the Great Revolution, Harbin's national economy suffered serious setbacks, and the normal economic and social order was seriously disrupted. After the reform and opening up, Harbin as the largest Sino-Russian trade city, the development is extremely rapid, high-rise buildings, smooth asphalt roads, can fully show the prosperity of Harbin.

On the seventh day of the mission, Wang Sheng and the four of them were sleepy, but the task time was limited, and the four of them did not dare to have any delay, and asked around about the cat-faced old lady.

The cat-faced old lady rumors are not inferior to the Chengdu zombie incident, and it can be said that in the entire Heilongjiang Province, there is no one who does not know.

It is said that some local elementary schools have held a special all-school assembly, that is, the principal stands on the podium and lectures to the whole school, and the content is probably that the primary school students must walk in pairs when they go to and from school, and they are not allowed to act alone; second, the whole school students must tie a red rope It is said that the cat-faced old lady eats children, but by tying a red rope to her wrist, she can ward off evil spirits. So far, this rumor has caused children all over Heilongjiang to panic, because they are afraid of being eaten on the road, and some children do not go to school at all.

Of course, the cat-faced old lady is the same as the zombie incident, and there are more than a dozen different versions of the rumors. All rumors have one thing in common, the cat-faced old lady moves at night, has infinite agility and strength, and likes to eat children's meat, but adults will also become cat people after being bitten, and it is said that there are already many cat people in Harbin City.

Among the more than ten kinds of rumors, there are two of the most credible rumors, the first is in the Daowai District of Harbin, there is an old lady in her seventies, who died on the road when she was going home from grocery shopping, and then was pounced on by a cat.

It is said that there was a couple who were almost forty years old when they had a cute little baby, who was very doting. In the blink of an eye, the child is three years old, very lively, running all over the ground, innocent children's voices are filled in the house from time to time, and the days are very happy and happy.

One day, the hostess brought back a kitten, with interlaced black and white patterns, and it looked very cute. After entering the house, it was immediately cleaned and dried with a hair dryer, and the kitten showed that he was enjoying it very much. Soon, the little one and the cat became good friends. The hostess went to the kitchen to make dinner, and the man was on the side to help. At this time, the cat swooped out and ran out.

The child was still finishing the building blocks, and found that the cat was gone, and after a few barks, a black shadow appeared in the corner of the room, and in the black shadow, the cat walked out and walked towards the child step by step. When the child noticed this strange sight, he stretched out his little hand and pointed to the cat in horror as he approached step by step, he wanted to call his father and mother, but he couldn't make a sound. After a while, the couple had finished cooking and set the table in the square hall, and the hostess went into the house to beckon the children to eat.

When the door was opened, the hostess was fixed there, her eyes wide. The man hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the hostess, who was about to faint.

The child fell to the ground, seemingly dead. The cat lay next to the child and slowly turned its head when it heard the noise. At this time, the man found that the cat's head turned around had the face of an old lady, grinning wrinkles and seemed to be smiling. The man called the police, and after the police investigated, they learned that the old lady in the man's mouth was the old lady who died on the road while shopping for groceries. Since then, the cat-faced old lady will come out at night and call the entrails of the little ones specifically.

Another more credible rumor is that in a small village on the northern border of Heilongjiang Province, there is an old lady whose husband's surname is Li, and no one knows what the old lady's surname is. The old lady's son and daughter-in-law were not very good to her, and later because of a trivial matter, the old lady and her daughter-in-law fought. In the evening, the sky was overcast, and the old lady sulked and hanged herself.

The old lady's death was extremely horrifying, her eyes were half-open, her tongue sticking out of her mouth, and her face was so hideous that people were afraid to come forward. The old man's son came and almost didn't laugh when he saw his mother dead, so he made a show to the villagers, knelt down in front of the old man, and cried loudly, but he didn't see a single tear.

The old man in the village said that people who died unjustly must have their closest people by their side before they can be buried in the coffin, and more than a dozen villagers have the courage to get the old lady down. Because he died with hatred, his family was not very wealthy, and he planned to put his body overnight and bury it tomorrow.

The son changed into a shroud for the old lady, and the villagers pointed behind her daughter-in-law's back, she couldn't stand the abuse of the villagers, so she went back to her parents' house.

Heilongjiang winter night is very long, daughter-in-law went back to her parents' house, the old lady's son did not dare to keep vigil alone, a good-hearted neighbor he sat together and chatted, the neighbor said that the speaker fell asleep, at this time the old man raised a flower cat, jumped from the old man's body, after landing, the flower cat did not move, the neighbor came forward to see, frightened legs weak, the cat bled through seven holes, died.

The old lady sat up openly, half of the human face, half of the cat face, the old lady's son was stupid on the spot, after the old man got up the corpse, grabbed the nearest neighbor to him, and bit him to death, the old lady's son ran away, howling while running: "My mother cheated the corpse!"

People in the countryside go to bed early, and it is very quiet at night. In normal times, if someone yells in the middle of the night, the dogs will definitely follow suit, but this night is different, all the dogs in the village crawl in the nest and hum quietly, and none of them bark.

The old lady's son was also frightened, and rushed along the road to a man's house in the village, where he spent the night, and at night the family was also very frightened, and did not dare to sleep, for fear that the old man would come to his son, and lead the dog into the house, and the dog looked at his son and kept neighing in a low voice.

After dawn, the villagers also went home with the old lady's son, and found that the neighbor's stomach was scratched open, and the old lady's body was gone.

The rumors of the cat-faced old lady are different from the rumors of the zombies in Chengdu, the rumors of the zombies have the exact location and the parties, while the cat-faced old lady is just a legend, and no one has really seen it. Cat-faced grannies and zombies also have something in common, the first point is that cat-faced grannies are the same as zombies, they are all dead people, and second, they both act at night.

The bald head touched his shiny head and asked, "Leng Ai, is this cat-faced old lady a zombie or a zombie?"

"The cat-faced old lady is not a corpse, he belongs to the monster. ”

"Youkai? why did he become a monster when he was obviously a corpse?"

Leng Ai explained: "After the death of a person, the physical biofield no longer exists, and the cat will cause the deceased's vital characteristics to react, and the animal soul will possess the corpse, so there is the phenomenon of cheating the corpse." ”

The bald head slurped his teeth and said, "Why are there so many kinds of demons and monsters!"

Wang Sheng asked, "Then why is it a cat? Why not chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, or other animals?"

Leng Ai replied very patiently: "That's a long story......

Legend has it that before humans, cats were the smartest numbers in the world, and it was cats who invented numbers. Cats are lazy by nature and are absent-minded no matter what they do. In the life of cats, in addition to eating, they occasionally open their eyes and count how many flies are nearby.

It is said that the god of life, who is in charge of life, saw the natural grace of the cat's body, and his eyes could not help but light up, although it was extremely plump and fat because of its laziness, but the god loved him very much, and the god asked him, "Who are you? What will you do?"

Seeing the gods, the cat did not show any excitement, still lazy, did not even open his eyelids slightly, and muttered in a low voice: "I am a very learned old cat, I am very good at counting." ”

The god laughed happily, "Wonderful! So how many can you count?"

The cat muttered in a low voice, "I can count to the limit!"

The god was very satisfied with the cat's answer: "In that case, how about making me happy and happy, counting for me?"

The cat stretched out, stretched, yawned a few times, and then began to pretentiously recite "one, two, three, four......" and each time he read one more number, the voice became more and more indistinct, and when he counted seven, the cat was already half-asleep, and when he counted to nine, he simply snored and returned to a sweet sleep.

Although the cat had only counted nine, the god was still very satisfied, and said to the sleeping cat, "Since you can only count to nine, then I will give you nine lives." Since then, the cats have had nine lives.

Cheng Hao asked curiously, "How do you know all this?"

Leng Ai replied, "In the wizarding world, the cat is a sacred beast, equivalent to a god. ”

When night comes, the light of life emitted by the sun is hidden in the cat's eyes. Every night, the sun god is riding in a boat accompanied by the ghost of the dead, passing through the underworld, the demon will prevent the sun god from drinking the water under the boat, the cat suddenly appears, beheads the head of the demon, and the ghost of the dead makes a "meow" sound to cheer for the cat. And the cat has been 'meowing' since then.

In Western legends, the cat symbolizes the savior, and women are very envious of the mysterious temperament exuded by the cat's eyes, so from ancient times, people began to draw eyeliner, hoping to transfer the temperament of the cat's eyes to their eyes. ”

Wang Sheng said: "You said so much, and I didn't say why it must be a cat!"

Leng Ai replied: "Because cats have nine lives, if other animals lose one life, then it will die, but cats are different, even if he loses one life, it can still live well, remember Jinmen?

Cheng Hao said disdainfully: "Don't talk about these useless truths, the cat-faced old lady has eaten people, and you actually excuse the cat!"

Leng Ai asked rhetorically, "Have you seen the cat-faced old lady eating people?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? We're all here together, where can I go up and see it eat people?"

Leng Yi smiled: "You haven't seen it eat people, don't say that it has eaten people, and, I dare to guarantee, this cat-faced old lady must have been seen, the so-called cannibalism is just an evil that is passed on one by one, our task is to save the cat-faced old lady, not to kill the cat-faced old lady, so, I'm sure that this cat-faced old lady has never eaten people, and besides, it is also very afraid of people!"