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The hotel was now surrounded by a fence. There are talisman stickers on the fence wall, all of which are brand new.

The cat stopped in front of the fence, meowed a few times, and its anxiety turned into anger.

Its body disappeared and was taken to the hotel.

It ran around the hotel a few times and suddenly felt its body being moved.

Severe pain swept through its body and passed into my consciousness. It was as if the body was put on fire, roasted by the flames, scorched, turned into ashes, then restored to its original state, experiencing this pain again.

The cat screamed, and the shrill sound echoed through the mountains.

I heard the sound of Buddha floating in the hotel. It's just that this chanting sound is different from the chanting sounds I've heard in the past. It doesn't bring me peace. Instead, it enters my brain like a demonic sound, making me miserable.

This is not transcendence.

My soul passed through the fence and failed to find Mrs. Shimada and the monk. They were elsewhere in the hotel.

By the time everything stopped, I don’t know how much time had passed.

The cat became haggard, its head drooped, and a little listless. It lay on the ground, feeling that life was passing by. This is another life passing by. Its soul is drying up.

The cat struggled to stand up and walked slowly into the forest.

It bypassed the empty shrine and walked to the waterhole.

There is still Yin Qi in the pool.

It was dark, and there was a full moon overhead.

The reflection of the moon is completely reflected in the pool.

The cat stood on the stone and stared at the water.

After a while, things under the water surfaced.

I was stunned for a moment.

This was a scene Bai An had seen in his dream.

The pool, the full moon, and the looming faces in the dark pool.

The bright moon begins to change, the moon halo disappears, and the moon shadow becomes clear. That full moon had extra human features.

Wow, wow...

Something rose up in the water, passed through the moon, and stood on the water.

It was a woman, dressed in the attire of an ancient dynasty, with her head lowered and her wet hair covering her face.

I saw the woman's face from the cat's perspective.

She had no skin, and her flesh, flesh, and muscles were exposed to the air. Blood and water mixed with the pool water fell down.

The woman held out her hand to the cat.

In an instant, both parties reached an agreement.

The cat jumped into the woman's arms, was held by the woman, and sank into the water together.

Darkness swept over my vision, and when my eyes lit up, I saw the man.

The man was so distraught that he walked to the shrine as if sleepwalking.

The female ghost hugged the cat and sat in the narrow, dark shrine. Only her hands and the cat's vertical pupils were exposed.

The man stopped in front of the shrine and asked nervously: "Miss Sayuri? Sayuri?"

The female ghost chuckled and waved to the man.

The man wanted to move forward, but as soon as he stepped onto the shrine, he stopped again.

As if he woke up with a start, his expression suddenly changed and he stepped back.

The female ghost made a mesmerizing sound, like an invitation from a beautiful woman.

The man became even more frightened, screamed strangely, turned around and ran away.

The female ghost stroked the cat's head and clenched her hands into fists.

"As expected...it's still the same..." the female ghost whispered.

The cat looked up at the female ghost. The terrifying face of the female ghost was reflected in the cat's eyes.

Snowflakes suddenly appeared in the sky.

The ghost and the cat were wandering outside the hotel's fence. They all stared at the wall.

I walked through the fence and saw the open window.

Indoors, a man is lying on the ground holding a wine bottle.

The wind blew loudly and snow drifted into the room. The man curled up in the cold, but he was delirious and never woke up.

The time changed, and Tanaka shouted, opened the door and came in, his face suddenly turned pale. She ran out in a hurry, and when she came back, Mrs. Shimada came in with her. Both women were panicked.

"Madam, send your husband to the hot spring. Take a dip in the hot water..." Tanaka said anxiously.

Mrs. Shimada suddenly understood and nodded repeatedly.

The two dragged the man out of the house.

I was a little surprised.

Mrs. Shimada didn't seem to have any intention of killing someone intentionally. Her panic and confusion didn't seem to be fake.

The female ghost and cat outside the fence move along the fence. I followed the walk and arrived outside the hot spring pool.

I watched Mrs. Shimada and Tanaka busy for a while. But the man had already frozen to death. Maybe he didn't freeze to death, but died suddenly from drinking. Their busyness is in vain.

Tanaka was at a loss.

Mrs. Shimada suddenly laughed, smiled, and shed tears.

I felt the fluctuation of the female ghost's Yin Qi, floating outside the fence, and saw the muscles on the female ghost's face tightening. Even without shame, you can still see that her expression is distorted and her eyes are full of ferociousness.

No one alive in the hotel knew.

Soon, the police came, and some people, maybe hotel employees or hotel guests, came to watch the fun.

Mrs. Shimada sat aside numbly, neither crying nor laughing.

She ignored the police's questions. The police went to interrogate Tanaka.

Tanaka should be an illiterate person, without much knowledge. The police asked a few questions, but she hesitated and spoke incoherently, unable to explain clearly. She was so anxious that she was sweating profusely and looked at Mrs. Shimada frequently.

The policeman looked at Mrs. Shimada with suspicion.

"Mom..." Shimada, barefooted, squeezed out of the crowd and looked helplessly at his mother.

I saw a change in Mrs. Shimada's eyes. She looked at Hikaru Shimada, stood up from the ground, stretched out her hand and hugged Hikari Shimada into her arms.

"I don't know what happened. Tanaka told me that he was missing. We searched for a long time before we found him in the hot spring pool. He must have been drunk... He kept drinking until he was unconscious... ...It must have been the same yesterday. She drank, came to the hot springs, and drowned..." Mrs. Shimada looked at the policeman, her eyes filled with tears, as if she could not control her emotions, and she reached out and grabbed the policeman's arm. "What should I do... The child is still so young... He just left like this. What should I do with this family..."

When she cried, Shimada Hikaru also started crying.

Mrs. Shimada touched Hikaru Shimada's head, and then reached out to grab the policeman, as if looking for help.

I saw Mrs. Shimada take something out of her sleeve and put it into the policeman's hand. She had her back turned to others, so no one saw this scene.

The policeman's expression moved slightly and he looked at his colleagues.

His colleague checked the man's body and looked embarrassed. After coughing, he pretended to say: "Ah... he was drowned. That should be it..."

After such a fooling around, the case was settled.

Mrs. Shimada was still crying.

Tanaka froze on the spot in a daze, not knowing where to put his arms and legs.

No one bothered to investigate the cause of the man's death.

I looked at the people watching, and their comments also echoed Mrs. Shimada. It should be common knowledge in this small place that men drink alcohol.

The yin energy from the female ghost's body overflowed outwards, but stopped at the outer wall of the hotel.

The cat meowed, flicked its tail, and left with some regret.

It glanced back and saw that the female ghost was still where she was.

Their purposes are different.

The cat wants to kill Mrs. Shimada, and the female ghost wants to kill the man.

The man died like this, and the female ghost's resentment could not be resolved.

It would be difficult for the cat to enter the hotel and get close to Mrs. Shimada without the man.

They should be separated like this.

The scenes around me flew by me.

I saw bits and pieces and was sure the cat was still lingering on the mountain.

The female ghost did not appear again, and the cat did not find a chance to kill Mrs. Shimada. It couldn't get into the hotel, and it couldn't get out of the mountain. It was very worried, worried that Mrs. Shimada would die first and it would lose track of its enemy.

The passing scenery stopped.

The cat squatted on a branch, looking down at the road below.

A car drove up the road and stopped in front of the hotel.

Several people got out of the car.

Hikaru Shimada looks pretty much the same as he is in real life. His wife, son, daughter-in-law...

The figure of Daiki Shimada was reflected in the cat's eyes. Daiki Shimada was still an infant at this time.

The cat suddenly stood up.

In the mountains, the yin energy belonging to the female ghost slowly rises.

I felt the cat's thoughts at this moment, and not only opened my mouth in astonishment.

"Meow." The cat meowed lowly, and jumped down from the tree nimbly. When it landed, its figure had already appeared on the edge of the pool.

In the pool, the female ghost stood on the surface of the water, lowered her head, and let out a weird laugh that made people sweat.

"he he he he he……"

"Kekeke..."

Wow…

The water in the pool surged.

Countless female ghosts laughed out loud at this moment.

Their yin energy hovers in the mountains.

"Meow--" the cat meowed, and in response to the female ghost's laughter, it narrowed its eyes and turned to look at the hotel.