The wind blew through the woods, filling the air with sand, like the sound of ocean waves.
Or it drifted into the pass from the coastline.
The wooden door opened silently.
"Meow"
The elegant black cat squatting beside the door raised its head and called softly.
The silhouette of the girl stood behind the door, as dark as a cat and as dark as the night.
"I found a way..."
The girl lowered her eyes.
"He can't come back..."
"But I will bring him back."
…
The eldest sister stopped to translate.
The narration is very rough, and Sister Tou tried her best, because the flowing cat cannot express more details.
Anna seemed to sink into the ground with Lu Li and remained silent for the same twenty-four years.
The oil lamp cast the crowd's seemingly frozen shadows.
The flowing cat doesn’t know where she went.
After a brief silence, Lu Li asked Father Vig if anything weird happened in the town today.
"There is indeed one thing... Moni's dead daughter came back to life."
The priest recalled the funeral he presided over half a month ago.
…
"The noble flowing cat protects our body and soul. Even if the body decays, the soul will remain immortal..."
At the foot of the Hilleweg Mountains, at a simple funeral built with wooden planks, the priest presided over the ceremony in the open space.
"Bebes, who has dedicated her life to the mountains, will be guided by the flowing cat to the resting place of the dead..."
Wege Town has a population of less than a thousand, many of whom are elderly, and young people are scarce and precious.
But today, a young life is withered.
No one wants this to happen.
In addition to Bebes father and the Church of the Flowing Cat who hosted the funeral, some townspeople gathered around the edge of the open space and whispered about what happened to the deceased.
"Poor Bebes...she hasn't had time to taste the taste of love..."
"She was so careless that the flesh rug touched her wound...:
"Poor Moni, he almost went blind with tears..."
Small whispers drifted through the forest clearing like rustling wind.
There are also the sounds of wild cats.
Many wild cats gathered around, waiting for something.
“The angel of the Lord has arrived!”
The priest suddenly raised his arms and shouted: "They will take away her soul"
The middle-aged man named Moni cried even more painfully and even asked the believers to help him.
People were infected by this sadness, and no one noticed that under the light of the torch, a black shadow gracefully walked among the soil covered with footprints, and penetrated into Moni's shadow.
Moni stopped crying, and the believer who supported him thought he was tired, but he didn't notice the panic deep in his eyes.
Panic quickly melted away, filling her eyes and crawling onto her face, and then Moni found herself recovering.
Then, he saw his daughter lying in a rough coffin, covered in flesh and blood like a carpet of germs, opening her turbid eyes filled with bloodshot eyes.
The priests and believers also saw this scene. They had never encountered anything like this before. However, their status as believers prevented them from screaming and fleeing. The townspeople in the distance could not see what was happening here and did not spread commotion.
"who I am?"
"I'm Moni."
"I'm not Moni..."
"I'm Bebes."
He muttered a few words to himself that sounded vague and weird, and turned his head towards Moni.
"dad……"
Moni recognized this sentence clearly, and in addition to joy, there was also more fear.
"You, who are you?!"
"Dad, I am Bei"
The body of the woman who claimed to be Bebes began to melt, and for a moment it turned into an indistinct gurgling sound, before forming into a ball of red and white flesh in the coffin.
…
"Money was not only blinded by crying, but also went crazy. The town of Vig lost two citizens in one day..."
The priest sighed, he almost watched Moni grow up, and little Beibei...
Lu Li was silent.
It became gray outside the window and it was almost dawn.
Knowing that Lu Li and others had not rested all day, the priest arranged several rooms for them, but Catalina refused and only asked for a large room.
The priest personally sent them to the big house in the center of the town, and watched respectfully as the flowing cat followed them into the house.
Bang.
Catalina, who was walking behind, hung up the latch.
Caterina and Pusius have many questions, and it seems they can ask them now.
"The Anna you are looking for is the girl's shadow...an...evil spirit?"
"Um."
"Can humans also become evil spirits..."
"People change all the time."
Evil Fall sounded with a sarcastic harsh voice.
Catalina ignored the evil fall, looked at Lu Li and asked: "The funeral the priest mentioned...is she her?"
"Maybe."
It's not like Anna's ritual where she won't leave a puddle of minced flesh, but blend into the shadows and devour them all.
"It's unimaginable..." Katarina whispered.
I don’t know whether it’s unimaginable for Lu Li to search for an evil spirit, or it’s unimaginable to be cruel to evil spirits.
Then she suddenly heard the sound. In front of the hunter's hut, Lu Li loaded the psychic gun.
"Then you...are you still looking for it...Miss Anna?" Pusius asked.
"Um."
"But where will she go?"
The clues seem to be broken, but there still seems to be traces to follow.
If there is a shadow of Anna in the Bebes incident, she will not stop there.
"What's the name of this stop in Viggo?"
Katerina suddenly asked.
"I'm looking for..."
Pusius was going to look for the map in his suitcase.
"Hauge Town." Lu Li said.
"Evil spirit... I mean Anna, she may have gone to other towns." Catalina seemed to finally be smarter.
The possibility is high.
But the steam train won't arrive until the afternoon, so it's rest time now.
The strange fog quietly subsided, and they lay on the single beds sent by the priest, using their fatigue to wash away the shock of traveling all day and knowing the secret.
Lu Li didn't go to sleep. He still had something to ask the flowing cat.
And whether it's going to leave with them.
The flowing cat refused to leave, and wanted to stay to ward off evil spirits.
The frog fish man I saw in Nice town last night.
If there is no obstruction from the flowing cats, they will land in the Hillevig Mountains, occupy this place, and perhaps one day cross the mountains and reach the town of Veeg.
The very end of the railway will be permanently missing a piece.
In the afternoon, the sleeping people woke up, said goodbye to the flowing cat and the priest to the sound of the steam train whistle, and boarded the empty train.
There are no passengers on the train today.
After waiting for a while, the steam train left the platform at a slower speed than walking. The platform employees were chasing away the wild cats lying on the warm rails on the railway.
Catalina looked at it for a while, then withdrew her gaze and yawned, leaning on the soft-backed chair, ready to sleep again.
Lu Li still didn't go to sleep, he was trying to understand what Anna was doing.
To others it is not complicated, even simple: this evil spirit is performing its ritual.
Near noon, the steam train stopped at the platform in Haug, far away from the Hilleweg Mountains.
Haug Town is more prosperous than Vig Town, at least not so lifeless.
They asked about whether any strange things had happened in the town recently, and got confirmation from the townspeople, and it was similar to what happened in the small town of Vig.
It seems that Anna's presence has left traces here.
