"Of course I will believe it." Bai Fang nodded.

If it were before, I might have regarded these words as the guest's highly nervous hallucinations or fantasies, but after meeting Yu Yao, now I feel that nothing I hear is strange.

"It's like this." Liang Wan clenched her hands, lowered her head, and began to slowly tell her story.

"I live in a residential complex not far from here. I share a house with a roommate. Since I work mostly from home, I don't go out very often. I have a very well-behaved cat at home named Tuantuan."

Liang Wan gestured to measure the size of the cat with her hands, and her expression relaxed a little. "My cat Tuan Tuan is usually very well behaved. He has never scratched or been mean to anyone."

"Until a week ago, my roommate came back from a trip." Liang Wan's expression froze instantly, becoming stiff. "The day she came back, I was watching TV in the living room."

"As soon as she walked in, Tuantuan, who had been sleeping peacefully on my lap, suddenly woke up, his fur standing on end, and he stretched out his paws, panting and baring his teeth at my roommate who had just walked in."

"Its body kept shaking, as if it was afraid of something."

"But the only person at the door is my roommate who just came in..."

"What's wrong with your cat? Why is it suddenly acting nervous?" The roommate put down her things and stared at the small calico cat. Her pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip. When she moved slightly, a warning sound came from the other side.

"I don't know. I've never been so mean to you before." Liang Wan reached out and touched Tuantuan's fur helplessly, trying to make it relax a little.

"Did you see something scary?" The roommate looked back at the door. The corridor was empty, there was nothing there, so she closed the door.

"I don't know either..." Liang Wan touched Tuan Tuan's head to relax it, then raised her eyes to look at her roommate.

They live in the same house, and the cat is familiar with the roommate's smell. She is usually gentle and well-behaved towards her. It shouldn't be possible that she has forgotten her smell after just a few days of not seeing her.

"I heard cats don't like the smell of other cats." The roommate shook his hands innocently. "Maybe I just petted a black stray kitten downstairs, so the kitten's smell is on me. I'll go wash my hands now."

"Well, okay, you go first." Liang Wan nodded.

After the roommate left the living room and went to the bathroom, Tuantuan, whose hair stood on end, slowly relaxed and retracted his claws little by little, but his eyes were always vigilantly staring at the bathroom.

"Tuantuan, be good and don't be afraid." Liang Wan rubbed the cat's head and could feel its little body trembling.

"I'm done washing, it should be fine now." As soon as the roommate came out of the bathroom, the cat instantly got angry again.

"No way, is there anything else? Cats have such a keen nose." The roommate sniffed his hands and said, "I washed them thoroughly with soap, and there's nothing but a sweet smell."

Liang Wan was also at a loss, hugging Tuantuan in her arms, "Have you really forgotten your smell and treated you as a stranger?"

"I've only been away for a few days, it shouldn't be that serious." The roommate squatted down and slowly moved over so as not to make the cat nervous.

The cat, whose fur had originally stood on end, slowly gathered its fur, lowered its ears a little bit, and lay tightly on Liang Wan's legs.

He was just angry because of the warning just now, but this time he was really scared and didn't even dare to make a sound.

"Have you really forgotten? You can remember me by smelling me first." The roommate stretched out his hand tentatively and moved his finger towards the cat's nose little by little. However, before he touched the cat, the cat shrank back, let out a low meow, and quickly fled under the sofa, curling up into a ball.

"Tuantuan?" Liang Wan immediately squatted down. No matter how she called, the cat refused to come out.

"I was actually a little suspicious of my roommate at the time, suspecting she had gotten something dirty outside, but she looked normal and didn't feel unwell. It's hard to put a finger on something so strange. I could only tell myself that she had been out for a few days and the cat had forgotten her scent and thought she was a stranger."

Liang Wan shrank her head, a look of fear gradually emerging on her face. "But that night, I realized I was wrong. The strange thing just hadn't happened yet."

"Because my cat keeps hiding under the sofa and won't come out, I'm not used to it. I usually sleep with the cat, and I always need to hold something in my arms to feel safe."

"So I didn't sleep very well that night. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard some noise coming from the living room. I thought my cat was hungry and crawled out from under the sofa to look for food."

"Tuantuan?" Liang Wan stood in the living room, reached out to turn on the light in the living room, squatted down in front of the sofa, and looked under the sofa, but there was nothing underneath.

"Huh? Not here? When did he run away?" Liang Wan stood in the living room in a daze, turned her head and glanced at the kitchen. After she got up, she kept hearing some noise in the kitchen, gurgling, as if there was water boiling in the pot.

Liang Wan opened the kitchen door and was just about to look inside when a small figure suddenly brushed past her feet and quickly crawled under the sofa in the living room.

"Tuantuan?" Liang Wan looked back, "So you were in the kitchen just now..."

After confirming that the cat was okay, Liang Wan turned to look into the kitchen. Her roommate was standing in the kitchen in her pajamas, holding a kitchen knife in her hand, gently cutting something on the chopping board. There was a fire on next to her, and water was boiling in the pot.

"Are you cooking in the middle of the night?" Liang Wan walked in and found her roommate slicing fish bit by bit with a knife on the chopping board.

Liang Wan relaxed a little, looked at her roommate with a smile, and asked, "Are you making something delicious for Tuantuan?"

The kitchen was quiet. Apart from the boiling water in the pot, there was no sound. My roommate also silently lowered his head to cut the fish without any response.

The strange feeling that appeared late at night made Liang Wan suddenly feel uneasy. She swallowed hard, slowly lowered her head, and checked on her roommate's condition.

She was wearing pajamas, with her head buried and her hair hanging down in a mess. Under her hair, her eyes were wide open and her expression was dull. She was cutting fish and had no reaction to Liang Wan's presence, as if she was sleepwalking with her eyes open.

Liang Wan felt a chill down her spine at the strange look on her roommate's face. Thinking of the cat's strange reaction to her during the day, and all the speculations that popped up in her mind, she slowly took a step back, not daring to make too much noise. She just wanted to quickly return to her room, lock the door, and pretend that she had never come out.

However, as soon as he turned around, the sound of knives in the kitchen suddenly stopped.

Liang Wan froze in place, not daring to move. Apart from the sound of boiling water, there was no other sound in the kitchen.

She quietly tilted her eyes to look at the pot on the stove. The iron pot of stewing soup reflected the scene in the kitchen. Behind her stiff body, her roommate turned her head and stared at her motionlessly, standing there like a puppet. The atmosphere was so weird that it made her scalp tingle.

Liang Wan couldn't help but tremble, and even her breathing became uncontrollable and rapid. This was the fear that was about to overflow from the bottom of her heart.

She had lived with her roommate for a long time, and she had never once shown any strange reactions late at night.

Since returning today, the cat has been strangely afraid of her. It boils water and cooks alone in the kitchen late at night, and its state is so strange that it doesn't seem like a human being.

She clearly felt that the person standing behind her, motionless and silently staring at her, was not her roommate at all.

There was a soft sound of a knife being placed on the chopping board behind her, and then her roommate moved and slowly walked towards her.

Liang Wan's face was pale and her body was shaking. With every step the other party took closer, her fear increased. She didn't even dare to move, and couldn't even take a step.

"what are you doing here?"

A hand was placed on Liang Wan's shoulder, and the roommate's face with round eyes slowly stretched to Liang Wan's side, staring at her intently. Liang Wan trembled with fear and wanted to scream in terror, but her throat lost its voice due to fear. Her whole body froze and she almost fainted.

Liang Wan opened her mouth but couldn't say a word. However, her roommate's face was right next to hers. The extremely familiar face seemed particularly strange at this moment.

"Are you hungry?" The roommate's wide eyes slowly narrowed, and he reached out and grabbed Liang Wan's hand.

Her hand probably had just touched the fish, so it felt a little cold and sticky, giving Liang Wan goosebumps all over her body.

"I'll cook for you. Young children can't go hungry at night." The roommate slowly pulled Liang Wan's hand and walked to the stove. While muttering softly, he picked up the kitchen knife again.

As soon as her roommate let go of her, Liang Wan immediately retracted her hand and stammered, "I'm not hungry, I just want to get up and take a look."

The roommate turned around, and his previously extremely stiff face became even more unspeakably creepy after his eyes curved into a smile. The upward curve of his mouth and the slightly narrowed eyes made him look particularly intimidating.

"You're all up now, why not have a midnight snack? I was just cooking for your cat."

"It's hungry and has been staying under the sofa."

Liang Wan glanced at the sofa in the living room and felt her scalp tingling and confused. She didn't want to stay here for even a second.

"Then, I'll go into the house and wait for your meal... I'm cold standing here..." Liang Wan asked cautiously.

"Okay." The roommate nodded and agreed.

Liang Wan immediately turned around and rushed to the living room. She reached under the sofa and pulled the cat out. She picked it up and rushed back to her room without saying a word.

Before closing the door, she saw her roommate standing in the kitchen staring at her.