Chapter 48 Mimi, why do they call you Brother Mi?
"Where?"
"let me see."
The shop owners and those who came out to help all crowded in front of the bun shop.
The boss of the steamed bun shop said loudly: "Don't crowd, I will record it and send it to the group, you can watch it directly."
The bun shop is originally small.
Everyone was pushing and shoving each other, not to mention whether something would be broken, he was more afraid that everyone would get hurt due to some accident.
A video clip appeared on the screen and members in the group clicked on it one after another.
Because it was midnight.
The surveillance footage was a little dim and blurry, and only a little light could be vaguely seen at the edge. In addition, Mimi's fur was also black, making it even more difficult to distinguish the traces.
Fortunately, a pair of glowing green eyes revealed the black cat's exact location.
They saw Mimi crossing the street and entering an alley.
The surveillance footage ends here.
Everyone looked at each other, why did Mimi go to that alley?
The bun shop owner said, "I watched the rest of the video at high speed, and until now, Mimi has never come out of this alley again—"
As soon as these words came out.
Everyone was suddenly shocked and confused.
That alley is a dead end. Even a cat, a creature that is good at climbing and jumping, cannot leave from anywhere else. It must return the same way it came.
So here comes the question.
Where did Mimi go after she went in?
Someone remembered something and asked the owner: "Did anyone or a stray dog go in during that short period of time?"
Mimi is the king among cats and will never be attacked by other cats.
The shop owner heard this and shook his head: "Nothing at all. That alley is remote and a dead end, people wouldn't throw garbage there."
This is also the reason why he couldn't figure it out.
Mimi was not kidnapped or killed by a stranger or someone nearby, nor was she bitten to death or eaten by a stray dog. But how could a cat just disappear like that?
One brave shopkeeper said directly: "If it doesn't work, let's go to the alley and have a look."
Everyone agreed to the proposal.
There's no point in analyzing it here anyway, so why not go directly to the place where Mimi disappeared, maybe we can find some clues.
Taking advantage of the night.
In addition, this is near the university town and there is no danger at all. Everyone went to this remote alley in a mighty manner. As soon as they walked in, they were inexplicably enveloped by a chill.
It seems that even the hot summer cannot invade here.
The man in the lead couldn't help but shudder and shone the light of his mobile phone inside. There were some debris piled in the alley that had been there for who knows how long, so he had to be careful not to trip when walking past.
The more people there are, the braver they will be.
Everyone scattered and began to look carefully for useful clues. Suddenly, someone screamed, and everyone was so frightened that they almost jumped out.
All the cell phone lights were pointed in the direction of the sound.
It illuminated the man's pale face, as if he had just seen something extremely strange and terrifying.
Everyone felt a little nervous.
The person who suggested coming over earlier quickly asked, "What's wrong?"
The man's lips moved a few times, but he couldn't speak for a long time. Seeing this, the others urged him again, and the man said in a trembling voice: "I just seemed to see a black shadow, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye."
This is a dead end.
If any small animal really ran over, others would definitely notice it.
When the others heard this, they all breathed a sigh of relief. "Maybe you saw it wrong. It's so dark here, with only the light from the phone to illuminate it. It's easy to mistake the debris around you for something else. Don't scare yourself."
"Yeah, let's focus on finding clues first."
Faced with everyone's reactions, the frightened people felt that this place was filled with indescribable weirdness everywhere, such as why it was so cool, and that the shadow just now was definitely not an illusion.
It's alive!
He even suspected that Mimi's disappearance here must be related to that thing.
This place - might be haunted!
But he didn't dare to speak out his guess directly, fearing that the ghost would hear it, so he could only force himself to remain calm and say, "Why don't we come back during the day? It's so dark that we can't see anything, and it would be dangerous if we trip and fall."
Just as some people showed hesitant expressions, Fontaine suddenly froze in place, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, and the light of his mobile phone also trembled, quickly attracting the attention of others.
They all knew Fontaine and immediately gathered around to ask, "What's wrong?"
Seeing that Fontaine didn't answer, they looked in the direction where Fontaine was looking. Under the simultaneous illumination of several cell phone lights, they could clearly see a small piece of fur in the corner.
Not big.
It was only the size of a beef ball, covered in blood and with black cat hair...
Their expressions suddenly froze.
The worst expectation came true, and something really happened to Mimi.
If it were any other time, they would not associate this piece of cat hair with Mimi, but when Mimi mysteriously disappeared here and her life or death was unknown, there was a 98% probability that this piece of black cat hair was Mimi's.
Everyone's heart sank, and their expressions looked ugly and worried.
Although Mimi is just a stray cat, she was raised by everyone, not to mention that there are many well-behaved stray cats on this street. If Mimi is really bitten by something, will she continue to attack other stray cats?
Someone said, "I'll ask someone to test the information on the cat's hair. Maybe we can find out what's going on."
Others couldn't help but sigh, feeling sad and uncomfortable.
It was hard for everyone to accept the possibility that Mimi was injured... or even dead.
Just as the man took out a plastic bag and was about to put the cat skin in it, the cat fur suddenly moved, and a black shadow emerged from the cat fur and turned into a mass of something that was unclear.
Everyone saw this scene clearly.
This is not an illusion.
In an instant, a chill ran down my back, and someone suddenly screamed, "Ghost!!"
Everyone was frightened and their faces turned pale. In panic, they turned around and ran out. Fontaine wore glasses and had a little night blindness.
In her haste, she didn't see the road clearly and was tripped by some debris, stumbling forward heavily.
The others had no time to help Fontaine.
At this thrilling moment, the black shadow flashed over at an extremely fast speed and directly held Fang Dan up. A cold breath spread, freezing him like a popsicle.
Fontaine screamed in fear and struggled instinctively.
The others hurriedly turned around, dragged Fang Dan forward, and quickly left the alley. Fang Dan was still in shock, and for some unknown reason, he turned his head to look at the dark alley.
The shadows merged into the darkness, and nothing could be seen clearly.
But she didn't know if it was an illusion, she seemed to see a pair of faint green lights flash by, so fast that she almost thought it was an illusion.
In a trance.
A thought flashed through Fontaine's mind, so fast that he still couldn't catch it.
“Hoo—Hoo—”
After a dozen people ran all the way to the nearest store, the signboard lights and the bright lights inside the store finally drove away everyone's panic and fear.
They gasped and looked back in shock.
fine.
There weren't any suspicious shadows around, which meant that thing didn't catch up.
One of them gasped and couldn't help complaining: "I told you there was a ghost a long time ago, but you didn't believe it."
The others felt a little embarrassed when they heard this, and they regretted not listening to this person and leaving. As a result, they encountered the black shadow again.
Someone couldn't help but worry: "It shouldn't target us, right?"
As soon as these words came out.
Make everyone nervous.
yes.
It was obvious that the black shadow was the murderer who killed Mimi. Only a small piece of cat skin was left.
You can imagine how tragic this scene is.
They were sad about Mimi's death, but also felt fear and terror about whether they would encounter the same tragic situation.
"H-What should I do?"
Some timid people were so scared that their legs went limp and they sat on the ground, saying at a loss: "How about we go find the fortune teller across the street, maybe we can catch the ghost?!"
An old shop owner shook his head and said, "Him? My relative is from the same village as him. He doesn't have any real skills. I would say we should go to the temple and worship Buddha together."
Everyone became even more uneasy after hearing this.
"jingle--"
The cell phone suddenly rang, and everyone was so scared that they couldn't help but jump. When they realized it was a text message reminder from Fang Dan, they wiped the sweat off their foreheads.
Fang Dan's face turned pale and he opened the software with trembling hands.
Seeing the caring words from her boyfriend, she couldn't help but feel tears welling up in her eyes and pressed the voice bar: "Honghang, I'm so scared."
Not long after this voice message was sent, the other party immediately made a video call.
When the others saw this, they considerately moved away, but then they thought of their families and children, and for a moment they didn't know whether they should go back.
That's a ghost!
As ordinary people, they have no way to resist such a terrible thing.
When Yu Honghang's face appeared on the screen, his expression showed his concern and anxiety. "Dandan, what's wrong with you?"
Yu Honghang noticed the scenery behind Fang Dan: "Why haven't you returned to school yet? What happened? Don't panic, we can solve it together slowly."
Fontaine held back her tears and sniffed: "I, I seem to have seen a ghost."
As soon as the words fell.
Fang Dan saw Yu Honghang's extremely shocked expression, and then blurted out: "You also encountered a ghost?!"
As soon as these words were spoken, all the people who had not thought of eavesdropping on the conversation of the young couple looked up, their expressions became filled with surprise and doubt, and they hurriedly came to Fang Dan to ask Yu Honghang in the video.
"You've seen a ghost before? What did it look like?"
Yu Honghang knew these people and could no longer sit still: "I'll leave the school and come find you guys right now."
Fontaine quickly said, "But your illness..."
"I'm not sick." Yu Honghang had to tell the truth: "I lied before because I also encountered a ghost, and I didn't want to implicate you, so..."
"Anyway, stay with them first, don't separate, I'll come find you soon."
Fontaine nodded quickly, feeling increasingly uneasy.
She didn't understand why she and Yu Honghang had run into a ghost?
About half an hour later.
Yu Honghang is here.
They went together to the inn owned by one of the innkeepers, which was a large enough place for everyone to gather together without having to worry about being crowded.
Under everyone's urging, Yu Honghang talked about what happened last night.
When he described the black shadow, one of them nodded quickly: "Yes, it is a black shadow. Even if you take a photo with your mobile phone, you can't see what it looks like."
One of them suddenly realized and said in fear: "I was the first one to see the shadow. Then when everyone shone their cell phone lights on me, the shadow disappeared. It must have disappeared because it was afraid of the light."
When everyone heard this, their expressions became even more horrified.
This similarity further proves that they seem to have encountered the same ghost.
Then, Yu Honghang talked about the black shadow again, which seemed to have a black tail. When everyone heard it, their expressions suddenly became sad and horrified.
Yu Honghang felt something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong?"
Fontaine was silent for a moment, then said, "That black tail you saw... might be Mimi's."
Yu Honghang suddenly froze, and after a while he asked in a hoarse voice: "W-what do you mean?"
I thought Fontaine came out to look for Mimi.
But in the end, I encountered a ghost. Is there any connection between the two?
Fang Dan held Yu Honghang's cold hand and talked about the piece of black cat skin she saw in the alley. Now that she thought about it, the black shadow was very likely to have swallowed Mimi and then carried Mimi's...
Fontaine was already feeling too uncomfortable to continue.
Yu Honghang felt like he was hit on the head. He felt dizzy and unable to think normally. He recalled the first time he saw Mimi, she was just a tiny ball. He was afraid and breathed fiercely.
Later on, he went to visit Mimi every week, and he and Fontaine planned to find a job and rent a house after graduation so that they could adopt Mimi. He would give Mimi delicious food, drinks and fun things.
All this happened because the ghost disappeared.
What’s even more terrifying is that the ghost is now targeting everyone!
Yu Honghang, who was usually good-tempered, was so sad and angry that his eyes were red. The others were also very confused and scared, and could no longer comfort Yu Honghang.
Right now, they need to discuss how to deal with the ghost.
Yu Honghang forced himself to calm down and said, "There are several people in the school who are haunted by the ghost just like us. We suspect that we are being targeted, so we must have something in common."
The others looked at each other.
"But we are just doing business, not in school, how can we have anything in common with you?"
The others nodded.
Fontaine suddenly asked, "Could it be... related to Mimi?"
All of them knew Mimi, which seemed to be the only thing they had in common.
But there is still one thing that doesn't make sense.
Yu Honghang shook his head: "My roommates have never seen Mimi. They just heard me mention Mimi occasionally. As for the first couple in school who saw a ghost, they definitely didn't know Mimi."
One of the shop owners asked, "Have you confirmed it?"
Yu Honghang was stunned. Really not.
He immediately took out his cell phone to contact the young couple and asked if they had seen a black cat at school or in the university town outside the school.
The boy said no.
The girl replied: "I like kittens very much. I usually feed cats with canned food and cat food strips. I have also seen black cats a few times. I wonder if the cat you are talking about is among them."
This time, the clue seemed to be broken again.
The hotel owner sighed and said, "If it really doesn't work, let's wait and see tomorrow. In case nothing happens later, you can stay in my hotel."
Everyone thanked the hotel owner, paid their money and checked in.
The same is true for Fontaine and Yu Honghang.
The two of them hardly appeared in the small group of five that day, and soon attracted the attention of the other three, who asked what happened.
The two didn't want to implicate the other three, so they said they just wanted to spend some time alone together. The three didn't think much of it and just made some friendly jokes.
Night falls again.
In the hotel, these owners and residents told their families that they had urgent matters and would not be going home for the time being.
When someone was asked by his family what happened, they saw that the other party kept talking and began to suspect that he had done something bad outside. It was not until the hotel owner and others came forward and confirmed that the other party had not done anything bad.
But this also aroused more suspicion.
They suddenly got together, with no plans to go home, and didn't make it clear what they were going to do together. This feeling of being kept in the dark was very bad, and it made them as a family feel very insecure.
In the hotel, everyone sighed helplessly.
Wait until the second half of the night.
Because they had encountered a ghost today, all the lights were on in the hotel and no one dared to turn them off to sleep. Everyone planned to stay up until dawn.
Just when some people were almost unable to bear the sleepiness.
A strange sound was heard.
“Bah—”
"Kachi kachi——"
It seemed as if something had entered the hotel openly, making a subtle but clear noise.
A moment.
Everyone in the room became tense and on guard.
Late in the night.
None of them dared to go out rashly. Could this noise be...
The moment this thought flashed through their mind, the clicking sound seemed to be closer and the lights in the room flickered slightly, just like in the horror movies they had seen.
This means - the ghost is coming!
Some people were so scared that they hid under the quilt, breathing rapidly: "Oh my God, I won't die here, will I?"
The clacking noise seemed to get louder.
The sound of something sharp scratching was followed by a crackling sound, and everyone's face turned pale, as if their nerves were also being scratched.
Until dawn.
They still didn't dare to make any noise until around six in the morning, when the flow of people outside began to increase, with voices, noise, and the sound of cars.
These human movements gradually diluted their fear, and they bravely came out of the house and met up with others on the first floor.
The summer sun is hot and strong.
But everyone felt as if they had escaped death and felt the long-lost sense of security again.
After everyone recovered, they talked to each other.
They found that everyone heard what happened last night, especially the scratching sound, which happened from time to time and almost brought them to the brink of collapse.
But the strange thing is that they checked the hotel and didn't find any signs of scratching.
It was as if everything that happened last night was just an illusion.
Yu Honghang was looking down at his phone, his expression gradually becoming ugly, not only for the people in the hotel, but also for the young couple and - his roommates.
I heard the scratching sound one after another last night.
He asked carefully about the specific time and was horrified to find that the sound did not appear at the same time. He had a terrible guess in his heart.
That ghost probably went to school at a very fast speed.
Made a noise.
Another half an hour passed and he suddenly came back to the hotel and continued scratching.
It lasted all night.
The energy was so strong that it was creepy, and Yu Honghang was puzzled. What on earth did that ghost want to do?
If you really want to kill them, why not just kill them.
The innkeeper's face turned pale: "Maybe... ghosts enjoy the feeling of playing with their prey?"
Regardless, everyone is aware of one thing.
That ghost was indeed targeting them.
"Taoists, monks, and some charlatans, let's all look for them. In case one of them is genuine and can help us get rid of that person--"
The words haven’t been finished yet.
The water cup on the table suddenly fell to the ground out of thin air, making a noise.
"ah!"
Everyone screamed in fear, their expressions becoming even more terrified than before. It was clearly daytime, and that ghost was actually by their side the entire time, and even heard their conversation.
Some people could no longer bear this fear and shouted like crazy: "Come out and kill me if you have the guts. Why are you hiding and trying to scare people? Come on, kill me if you have the guts!"
Bai Yuan hid his body and was imitating his original self to use his claws to scratch the cup, learning how to be a cat boss.
According to the information he secretly searched in the Internet cafe.
Cats like to use their claws to scratch everything on the table, sofas, beds, curtains and other items, which can fully release the cat's stress.
Bai Yuan found it very novel.
Oh, yes.
Cats also like to sneak up on calves.
Bai Yuan rushed over at an extremely fast speed and hit the man's calf hard with the pad of his paw.
Um.
Perfect.
"Ah——!" The person who was going crazy just now suddenly screamed, knelt down and rolled on the ground holding his calves. The others screamed in fear.
I didn't expect the ghost to really take action.
Bai Yuan: “…”
It's just a chill invading my calves, it will be fine after some sun exposure.
The system kindly reminds: [Host, maybe this person is just too scared and thinks he is really injured. ]
After all, the human brain is very complex.
You can even trick your own body.
Bai Yuan suddenly realized.
No one dared to stay in the hotel anymore and hurriedly dragged out the person whose calf was attacked. Several people bravely rolled up their trouser legs, expecting to see a bloody and terrifying scene.
After taking a closer look, he couldn't help but hesitate for a moment in confusion.
There is a clear black plum blossom mark on the calf, and at first glance, it looks like a blackened version of the bear.
Take another look.
It's actually kind of cute.
This terrifying atmosphere was completely diluted.
Others also looked over anxiously and were also stunned.
this……?
Yu Honghang did not dare to underestimate this strange mark and asked worriedly, "Does it really hurt?"
The person holding his calf began to shout hesitantly, "Okay, it doesn't hurt anymore?"
Everyone: “…”
What was the purpose of the ghost suddenly smashing the cup and leaving a cute plum blossom mark on the calf?
Is it a death mark?
Anyone who is pressed with this plum blossom mark will be killed by a ghost tonight?
Everyone was getting more and more panicked the more they thought about it, until Fontaine said hesitantly, "This plum blossom print also looks like a cat's paw print."
A moment.
Everyone thought of Mimi again.
The atmosphere became weird again. Could it be that this plum blossom mark was made by the ghost with its claws?
Fang Dan looked at everyone's frightened expressions and always felt that he seemed to have overlooked something. A vague clue that only needed a tiny bit of inspiration to be connected together.
She couldn't help biting her fingernails.
What on earth...had I overlooked?
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