Chapter 2129: The Waiting Cat

The cat's speaking indeed gave Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt a shock, and its voice sounded like a teenage girl.

Mr. Bernhardt used his eyes to ask Xia De what was going on, but Xia De didn't know either:

"Sorry, so you knew what we were doing here from the beginning, right?"

He asked the cat.

"There is only this place that is weird nearby. Aren't you looking for this place?"

The cat looked up at Xia De and said.

"So, you actually have nothing to do with this place? You are not a victim here, nor are you an accomplice of this group of people?"

The cat licked its paw:

"When my corpse entered the sewer, you probably hadn't been born yet, and the person beside you was probably less than 20 years old. I just know this place, and I have nothing to do with them. You are very capable people, and should be able to help me, so I led you here. Now can you help me? Let's set off immediately."

Xia De looked at the blood-sucking species viscount again:

"Sorry, I'm not very clear about how to express it. Let's put it this way, do you know what your situation is now?"

The cat nodded:

"I know, I'm already dead, and very powerful. I've wandered in the sewer pipes for more than 20 years."

It said very simply, and after saying it, it lowered its head to lick its fur, and the fur also changed direction as the cat licked. This detail of the change in body hair is normal for ordinary cats, but for a soul, it is another manifestation of the powerful vengeful spirit's materialization.

"How did you become like this?"

Xia De asked again, and the cat in his arms became impatient:

"Humans are really troublesome. I helped you, and you also have to help me. Isn't that right? If you want to ask questions, after helping me, I'll tell you again."

It jumped from Xia De's arms onto his shoulder, and then lay down very comfortably:

"Let's set off now, humans are really troublesome."

Xia De looked at Mr. Bernhardt again, Xia De nodded slightly, and Mr. Bernhardt asked the last question:

"I'm very curious, why do you want us to help you, instead of letting others? You've been in the sewer for so many years, it's impossible that you've only met us, right?"

"Because he looks pleasing to the eye, like a good person."

The cat patted Xia De's shoulder, so Mr. Bernhardt understood.

The thing the cat wanted the two to help with was very simple. Although it was powerful, it couldn't leave the sewer, and it wanted to go to the ground to see someone, so it needed the help of "capable people" like Xia De.

Just listening to its description, Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt knew that it was bound to a certain range by its own corpse, so as long as the corpse was moved, it could realize its wish.

As for the cat's own story, it was very simple. About twenty years ago, one day, it was crushed to death by a carriage on the road, and then thrown into the Taton River. The corpse drifted with the river water, and for some reason, it drifted into the sewer. At first, its soul consciousness was very blurry, and it took many years to possess its current ability.

And its corpse was still in the sewer today, so Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt temporarily sealed the secret passage and followed it to leave. And when it led Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt to find the corpse in the pipe, the two saw the cat corpse, which only had half of its skeleton left, covered under a few stones.

"This is..."

"I brought the stones. Don't humans always cover corpses with stones and dirt? So I have to do this too."

The cat said so.

Because it was unclear who the cat wanted to find, and what it would do after finding that person, considering that its essence was still a powerful vengeful spirit, Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt decided to accompany it to the ground. The black cat's soul was very happy and kept praising Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt as "very good" humans.

The cat gave them a specific address. The location was not far from here, an apartment facing the street in the north of the city. The ordinary three-story apartment had nothing special about it even though it was located in the rich Moon Bay.

"No. 16 Martyr Alley, this is it."

Following the address, they found the building.

Xia De stood behind with the vengeful spirit cat and let Mr. Bernhardt knock on the door. The person who opened the door was a slightly chubby woman wearing a headscarf. Mr. Bernhardt talked to her politely for a while before retreating to the street and saying:

"The Denver family moved away 12 years ago."

"Moved away..."

The black cat said in a daze. Xia De immediately covered its mouth and looked left and right, fortunately no one looked at it:

"You promised us not to speak just now."

"Don't worry, although so many years have passed, the current residents know where they moved to. I think we still have to walk a distance."

Mr. Bernhardt also said.

"If it's very far, you don't have to accompany me."

The cat replied in a low mood, but Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt still wanted to accompany it.

Finding a carriage at the street corner, they set off again. This time they moved forward from the north of the city toward the southwest of the city, and got off at "William Street," which was separated from the dock area by one street.

This was a residential block of typical middle-class families in Moon Bay City. On both sides of the street were neatly arranged detached buildings with gardens, and the lawn in front of every household was trimmed quite neatly. It was peaceful here on Tuesday afternoon, and Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt, these two strangers, if it weren't for their clothes and temperament being quite good, would probably have immediately received suspicious gazes from the residents of the block.

The target this time was No. 9 William Street, but it was a pity that the courtyard gate and the room door were both locked, and Xia De didn't hear the sound of a heartbeat inside the house.

"There seems to be no one in the house."

Xia De said, and Mr. Bernhardt also looked inside:

"We didn't find the wrong place. The woman just now said that the Denver family's daughter married a man named Mahat. Look at the surname on the doorplate, it's this one. This family's life looks good, the house is newly painted, the lawn must be trimmed by hired people. I can see a piano inside the window, and the doorbell on the door is a real high-end product."

"I'll wait here by myself, you..."

The cat said again, and was rejected by Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt together:

"We'll accompany you."

They simply used illusion to cover their own figures and stood in front of the door chatting. Of course, it was mainly Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt learning about who the Miss Denver the cat was looking for.

"Of course it's my master, little angel Janet!"

Talking about this topic, the black cat's eyes were simply shining:

"She is the cutest child in this world, cuter than you can imagine. My mother gave birth to me in a trash can in the alley, and went to a very distant place where I haven't been able to go yet that winter. My brothers and sisters then left one after another, and little Janet found me huddled by the wall in the heavy snow, and then I had a new home."

Although its tone was cheerful, both Xia De and Mr. Bernhardt knew that this was a very sad story.

"Little Janet has lived with me ever since, and my responsibility is to protect and accompany her as she grows up. Human cubs are mostly naughtier than cat cubs, so this is not a simple job, so I spent a lot of time with her. But I liked that time very much. We read books together, slept together, ran on the lawn together, waited for dinner at the table together..."

This time it was definitely not a mistake, the vengeful spirit black cat's eyes were really shining:

"But human cubs also always grow up very fast. I thought she would always need my company and protection, would always need me to play with her. But one day, while I was looking down to count the ants on the ground, little Janet's mother asked her what she was going to do in a while. She didn't play with me, but walked toward the study to read. So when I looked up at her, she grew up all of a sudden."

The cat tried to stand up, opening its two front paws to represent "growing up." Because it was in an invisible state of illusion, Xia De didn't stop it. This was the cat's strange metaphor, not a thorough transformation of body and soul like a witch awakening, just a child becoming sensible.

Xia De pursed his lips, feeling inexplicably heavy in his heart. Looking again, the blood-sucking viscount beside him also had a similar expression:

"So that's how a pet cat views its human owner... What happened after that?"

"After that? After that was continued life! Little Janet grew up and didn't always need me to accompany her. I had more free time, and she would still want to play with me occasionally."

The black cat was still speaking excitedly in the human girl's voice:

"I just lay on the windowsill of the house, watching her walk back and forth in front of me, waiting for her to think of me occasionally. She became taller and taller, and her hair became longer and longer, but she also had more and more troubles. But what could I do, I'm just a cat."

Xia De felt his mood even heavier. It was almost evening now, a few sunset clouds hung on the horizon, and the black cat illuminated by the sunset glow had an inexplicable strange luster.

"But little Janet never forgot me, because when she was still a child, she made a promise with me to always accompany her. So after the big tree became bare and then full of leaves again, the leaves fell like beautiful butterflies and then became bare again. One day, I went out for a stroll after eating my fill as usual, and then I died."

Saying this, it also "Meow~"ed. Only unlike the two men who pursed their lips, there was no sad expression on the black cat's face:

"That was really magical. I knew in that instant where Mom went that winter when I was born. She never abandoned me, and she also had to leave the person she loved just like me." ===== CHAPTER 2130 =====