This actor is full of tricks.

[Scene 3: Late at night, that thing sneaks into your room again. It seems like it has something in your hands. It doesn't mean you any harm; it just wants to reclaim what belongs to it.]

thing?

what?
Lin Jue, who was pretending to be asleep, was taken aback. Had something of Wang Qingya been taken away by this character?

Wait, could it be that tape recorder?
"Give me back my things!"

"Meow!!!!!!"

Wang Qingya's voice began to turn shrill, accompanied by a very shrill cat meow. Lin Jue frowned. He felt that since the other party's voice was already so loud, it would be too fake for him to continue pretending to be asleep.

Thinking of this, he seemed to be startled by the sudden sound, and instantly jumped out of bed, turning his head to look to the side.

Beside his bed, a girl in a school uniform was squatting. Although she was pale, her beautiful face was still visible. Her school uniform was dirty and stained with mottled blood.

Wait a moment.

Wasn't it supposed to be a cat's face? Where's the cat? Where did it go?
No! There's a cat!
Lin Jue noticed that a black cat was perched on Wang Qingya's shoulder. The cat was emanating a terrifying black aura, and its body was covered with cat faces of various shapes.

Compared to the black cat, the black aura emanating from Wang Qingya was almost negligible, probably at the E-level or lower, while the cat's strength had probably reached the B-level.

What combination is this?
Is it a dual-deception or something?
Lin Jue's gaze darted back and forth between Wang Qingya and the black cat. He began to put on an act, his face turning pale inch by inch. He clutched his blanket tightly, his voice trembling, as if he were terrified: "You...who are you? And what is that cat?! It looks so scary!?"

"Don't come any closer! I'm calling the police!"

"Help!"

He shouted in a show of bravado but was actually quite cowardly, while shrinking back against the wall, feeling as if he could knock it down and escape if he used any more force.

"I won't hurt you. I just want what's mine. Give me back what's mine and I'll leave." Wang Qingya seemed to be a very rational person. The black cat on her shoulder was leisurely licking the fur on its paws, but its eerie green pupils were glancing sideways at Lin Jue.

As the cat looked over, all the cat faces on its body turned towards Lin Jue's direction.

"Ah!!!! Tell this cat not to look at me!!!! It's a ghost! A cat ghost!" Lin Jue seemed to be going crazy with fright, covering his face with the blanket.

"Xiao Mi, don't scare people." Wang Qingya's gentle voice rang out. Lin Jue secretly peeked out from under the covers, and the black cat obediently looked away.

Although Wang Qingya is not very strong, she seems to be in a dominant position.

"Um... um, what is it that you want?" Lin Jue swallowed hard, speaking with great difficulty.

"That tape recorder, I left it on the rooftop, and you went up there again afterward." Wang Qingya's voice was still gentle and soft, with a fragility that seemed as if it could be blown away by the wind, much like Lin Daiyu's tone of voice. It was hard to associate her with the cat-faced girl that everyone in Qingwangyuan Community feared.

Lin Jue even doubted whether he had made a mistake.

“I did find a tape recorder, but it was broken, so I took it outside to get it repaired. I’ll return it to you when it’s fixed, okay?” Lin Jue was telling the truth, but Wang Qingya’s brows furrowed slightly, clearly showing some doubt about his words.

It makes sense, considering Lin Jue's current role is that of a junk collector. Which junk collector would think of fixing a broken tape recorder after finding one? The normal thing to do would be to take it apart and sell the electrical parts inside.

Before Wang Qingya could speak, the black cat on her shoulder seemed to have lost patience and jumped onto Lin Jue's bed. The green light in its pupils turned sinister, as if it wanted to attack.

But the next moment, the black cat suddenly turned its head, its fur standing on end, and bared its teeth at the backpack on the bedside table, as if it had sensed some danger.

"Meow!!!!!"

The black cat let out a loud cry, and something extremely terrifying seemed to be awakening in the backpack. You could even hear faint sounds of chains.

It suddenly jumped into Wang Qingya's body, and then Wang Qingya's body began to change. Whiskers sprouted on her cheeks, her pupils turned vertical, and her whole face turned into a cat's face.

"The black cat and Wang Qingya are one! When the two merge, they become that cat-faced girl."

Seeing this, Lin Jue finally realized what was happening. He sighed inwardly. The ghost inside the raincoat sensed the black cat's murderous aura and couldn't sit still any longer. It wanted to crawl out of the raincoat, seemingly ready to fight Wang Qingya.

To be honest, Lin Jue didn't want to become enemies with Wang Qingya. So far, this girl had only been seeking revenge and hadn't harmed any innocent people.

But now that the other party has shown hostility, he has no choice but to take action.

Just as he was about to release the monster from the raincoat, Wang Qingya, who had a cat-like face, did not make a move. Instead, she gave him a deep look and said, "I believe you. I will come to see you again in a few days."

The voice was no longer gentle; it was wary and tense, like a wildcat in the dead of night that had discovered a powerful intruder.

Without waiting for Lin Jue's reply, she dropped to all fours and ran out of the bedroom like a nimble cat.

By the time Lin Jue chased after her, Wang Qingya had already jumped out of the window and disappeared into the night with a few quick movements.

He Wen and Bi Zheng's figures slowly appeared, both of them staring intently at the direction where Wang Qingya had disappeared.

"Did you notice anything?" Lin Jue asked.

"It's a very peculiar kind of mystery, one body with two souls." He Wen is blind, but she has the ability to see through souls and can often see things that others cannot.

Lin Jue was taken aback: "One body, two souls, what is that?"

“See that black cat? That’s a cat spirit. When that cat died, its soul became entangled with Wang Qingya’s, forming the form it has now. Normally, their souls are separate and independent, but they can merge together under certain circumstances to become that B-grade cat-faced girl,” He Wen said slowly.

"Didn't you say you saw a lot of cat corpses in Wang Qingya's room? Did you see the cat faces on that black cat? Those should be the souls of those dead cats, all mixed together to form that cat spirit."

"Wang Qingya's strength is very weak, probably not even at the E-rank. It's just an obsession that would normally dissipate quickly. But because of that cat spirit, the obsession is stable. As long as the cat spirit lives, Wang Qingya's obsession won't dissipate. Therefore, the reason those stray cats are killing each other must be to become cat spirits and protect Wang Qingya's obsession." (End of Chapter)