Chapter 479: Chapter 479: The Old Lady with a Cat’s Face Returns Home!
 

The saying goes, being bitten by a snake makes one fear a straw rope for ten years. Mengqi was frightened by cats. Seeing many black cats surrounding them, she shrunk and hid behind Huang Xiaolong, her body bristling with fear.

Huang Xiaolong sneered. “A bunch of beasts dare to block the way?””

He took a step forward, Huang Xiaolong’s body shined with golden light. Waves of awe-inspiring, overwhelming pressure, like a tidal wave, swept out, scaring those black cats that they rolled around and scurried away.

“Master Huang… you’re so formidable!” Mengqi looked at Huang Xiaolong with an infatuated expression.

Huang Xiaolong walked to a bare old tree and smiled. “These are ‘common locust trees’ known as the ghosts of the woods, full of yin energy. If you see common locust trees in the wild, it’s better not to get close, because… hehe, there might be corpses buried under the tree. If no locust trees are planted in front of the house, the little ghosts won’t come. Now, around this villa, there are a lot of locust trees. Imagine how sinister, and wicked this place is…”

“Oh…oh…” Mengqi lost the color in her face.

“Alright, let’s go inside the villa and have a look. Anyway, Cat-face grandma isn’t here, let’s see what is interesting inside this villa.” Huang Xiaolong walked briskly towards the villa’s main entrance with interest.

“Master Huang, wait for me~~” Mengqi caught up, gritted her teeth, and took the initiative to hold Huang Xiaolong’s hand.

The two of them intimately held hands. Huang Xiaolong held Mengqi’s soft and delicate hand, feeling indescribably comfortable.

They arrived at the villa’s main entrance, where there was a monolithic stone threshold covered with thick dust.

Huang Xiaolong stopped, bent over, and wiped off the dust on the stone threshold, then smiled.

Mengqi looked down and instantly turned pale.

The moonlight shone on the stone threshold, revealing a few large blood-red characters – “Shrine of Xia Lin”

“Huang… Master Huang… this… this is…” Mengqi stuttered.

“Xia Lin is old cat-face’s name. This is a tombstone. Heh, using tombstones as thresholds… this house is undoubtedly a yin house. It’s not a yang house where the living stay.” Huang Xiaolong smirked. “It’s getting more and more interesting… let’s go in!”

He pushed open the slightly ajar front door of the villa. Instantly, a chill like a blade wafted out from inside, along with a ghastly howling wind.

It was mixed with an acrid smell of blood.

Huang Xiaolong calmly circulated some yang energy, entering hers through Mengqi’s palm, so she wouldn’t feel too uncomfortable.

The two of them stepped inside the house.

What met their eyes was a grand hall with antique furnishings.

Something seemed to be cooking in the kitchen, as wisps of steam wafted out. It wasn’t quite clear what kind of smell it was, not fragrant, just odd.

Huang Xiaolong inhaled slightly, then led Mengqi up a wooden staircase to the second floor.

Suddenly!

At the end of the second floor in a room, blood was seeping under the door!

“Master Huang… that room… that room…” Mengqi’s body started trembling like sifted flour. “The smell of blood is so thick…”

“Don’t be afraid. Since we’re here, let’s relax. Let’s go, let’s check it out.” Huang Xiaolong dragged Mengqi along the corridor to the room at the end.

The door was slightly ajar.

They pushed the door open, the room was lit. They walked in.

The room was filled with congealed blood. Stepping on the floor, it made a creaking sound, like treading on a muddy road after rain, very sticky.

Suddenly!!!!!

Mengqi let out an uncontrollable scream!

She immediately bent over and began to vomit uncontrollably.

As it turns out, in this room, there were numerous cat skins hanging from the ceiling!

There were also a number of bloody skinless cat corpses. These gruesome cat corpses had their eyes bulging out in anger, as if they were glaring at the world with such intense resentment that it was indescribable.

Additionally, in the corner of the room, there were several baskets filled with cat organs and intestines.

Indeed, the scene was gut-wrenching and one would feel a chill creeping up their spine. Stepping into the room felt akin to stepping into hell.

However, Huang Xiaolong just looked around nonchalantly. “Oh, I see. This room is where the Old Cat-Faced Lady tortured and killed stray cats. She used cruel methods to fill the cats with resentment till they died, then turned their spirits into malicious ones. With these spirits, she could then possess live cats and turn them into cat ghosts.”

Huang Xiaolong led Mengqi, who was almost vomiting bile, out of the room.

The door to the room next door was ajar, so Huang Xiaolong pushed it open to take a look.

The room was empty, but on the floor, a formation seemed to be drawn in blood.

This formation was divided into two parts, resembling a Yin-Yang symbol.

The left side depicted an old woman with a hunched back and a horrifying cat’s face.

The right side depicted a mature woman with an enchanting figure, so lifelike and stunningly beautiful.

“It’s…it’s Miss Xia! Xia Ying!” Mengqi exclaimed.

Indeed, the mature woman depicted on the right was Xia Ying!

The one on the left, it was not hard to guess, must be the Cat-Faced Old Lady!

Besides the two figures, the formation was also filled with characters resembling tadpoles, obscure and difficult to decipher.

“Master Huang, what exactly is this?” Mengqi asked, shuddering with fear.

Huang Xiaolong nodded thoughtfully. “Witchcraft…this appears to be an old Witchcraft ritual. This must be the plot against Xia Ying.”

Then, in the same room, Huang Xiaolong found some sharp scalpels and a bucket of mercury.

“I get it now,” Huang Xiaolong’s eyes flashed with understanding.

However, he didn’t immediately share his findings with Mengqi. Instead, he led her downstairs to the kitchen where food was being prepared.

In the kitchen, two huge pots were boiling, their soups bubbling.

Huang Xiaolong leaned in to see that both pots were cooking meat.

One of the pots contained some hair, teeth, and even human skulls, unmistakably boiling human flesh soup!

The other pot was cooking cat meat.

“It seems the rumors about the Cat-Faced Old Lady cannibalizing humans are true indeed,” Huang Xiaolong muttered to himself with a murderous glint in his eyes.

“Master Huang, what is it?” Mengqi was about to approach the pots to take a closer look.

Huang Xiaolong quickly grabbed her hand. “There’s nothing worth seeing here, let’s go out.”

In the main hall.

“Master Huang, what should we do now?” Mengqi asked nervously.

“It’s pretty simple. We just wait here for the Cat-Faced Old Lady to come home, and then, we…kill her!” Huang Xiaolong stated coldly.

Just then!

“Hee hee hee~~~” An eerie cackling voice of an old woman echoed from outside the main entrance, “Young man, young lady, you were here yesterday… I had initially let you off, but I didn’t expect you would choose to walk to your own deaths… What a pity~~ However, with tender smooth skin like yours, I bet you taste wonderful~~ Hee hee hee~~”

“Alright, Cat-Faced Old Lady, cut the nonsense and come in. I’ll kill you with one punch!” Huang Xiaolong sneered.

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