Chapter 59: The Mysterious Ca (2/2)
“Yes,” I replied.
She then asked Wang Yuanchao, but he did not hear anything. Apparently, the voice appeared at the time of the incident. A family of three suddenly suffered unexplainable headaches at the same time, and then their temperament changed. This was undoubtedly the key to this case.
I sighed.
“I think what made this family temporarily lost their minds was probably…”
I was interrupted by the sound of the white mice in the cage that suddenly squeaked very loudly. They shook the cage desperately until it almost fell off the window sill.
“That’s bad!” I cried. “Something’s coming into the house!”
“Something? What do you mean by ‘something’?” asked Huang Xiaotao, her face turning pale.
I picked up the phone from the ground and walked over to check the mice. After seeing it, all three of us sighed in relief. There were cat paw prints on the layer of flour next to the cage, and it continued all the way to the stairs.
“Huang Xiaotao, you stay here and guard this place,” I said. “Old Wang and I will go out and chase the cat!”
“Nope! No way!” protested Huang Xiaotao. “I’m not staying in this creepy house alone! Wang Yuanchao, you stay here! I’ll go out with Song Yang!”
I had no choice but to relent. After I went out with Huang Xiaotao, I noticed that there were no street lights on the old street at all. The only light came from the inside of the houses on the street. The whole place was pitch black otherwise.
I decided that our best plan would be to separate our ways and each look for the cat in different directions. But Huang Xiaotao suddenly grabbed my arm and said, “It’s much better if we move together. What if something happens?”
I wanted to say that splitting our ways would be more efficient, but I was afraid that something might really happened, so I agreed.
One direction of the old street was a wide road, while the other was a small alley. I thought that the cat was more likely to escape into the alley, so we decided to look for it in this direction.
After walking for some distance, I suddenly realized that Huang Xiaotao had been holding my arm all along. Wasn’t she acting a bit too intimately? When I looked down at her hand, she quickly retracted it and said, “Don’t misunderstand! It’s not that I’m afraid or anything…”
I wasn’t sure if it was my own wishful thinking, but I noticed how Huang Xiaotao suddenly acted strangely.
“I must’ve frightened you back there. How should I make it up to you?” The moment I uttered the last word, I immediately realized how embarrassing I was. Why am I being so weird in front of Huang Xiaotao? Didn’t I always think of her as a friend and colleague?
Huang Xiaotao made no reply. She merely walked on with her head hung low. I got worried so I turned to her, but to my surprise, I saw that her face was even redder than mine!
Her skin had always been fair and delicate and white, and now that her cheeks were blushing, she looked especially adorable!
I wasn’t sure if she was blushing out of shyness or anger, because she suddenly glared at me and said, “No, thank you!” Then she strode forward.
I was utterly confused and didn’t know what to say to that. A woman’s heart truly was the most inscrutable thing in the world—much more so than a hundred murder cases!
We came to the alley, and the light from my phone suddenly dimmed—it seemed that the battery was almost out. I asked Huang Xiaotao to take out her phone. She searched through her pocket and said, “Oh no, I think I left it at the house!”
Soon enough, my phone died, and we were left in pitch-black darkness.
At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of something rolling on the ground. I saw a little girl kneeling on the ground, playing with a ball. She turned her head towards us when she heard our footsteps, and I saw her eyes glow in the dark!
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