After being killed I became my own cat

Jiang Yujun was lying on the bed in the rented house, wearing the suit he wore when he entered the door. The air conditioner in the room was a bit old, and the cooling effect was mediocre. Some thin beads of sweat had already appeared on his forehead. Broken hair stuck to his face, but he was too lazy to get up, change his clothes, or take a shower.A day's work drained him, and he wanted nothing more than to sleep on his arm until dawn.

A needle could be heard in the room, Jiang Yujun was paralyzed relaxedly, two or three flying insects were crawling back and forth in the ceiling lamp on the old yellowed ceiling, he just watched with his mind empty, his thoughts gradually drifting away.

He was thinking about gingerbread again.

Gingerbread is his cat.

used to be.

Jiang Yujun is an out-and-out cat slave. He has smoked cats for more than 20 years and always dreamed of having a cat owner of his own.But the attitude of the family members is also very clear. There can only be one cat and one person in this family. He didn’t dare to argue with his family during his studies. Besides, animals are not allowed in the dormitory, so he can only keep saying, big and small cat blogger He is among the fans.But as soon as he graduated from college, he cut it off and took a kitten home with him.

Maybe God felt sorry for him and gave him a kitten on his way home from the university dormitory to move things home.Jiang Yujun was holding a big bag and a small bag in his hand at that time, when he was suddenly stopped by a group of gray and dirty cats like little hedgehogs, yes, that milk cat touched porcelain and ran to his feet Lie down in front and don't go away.After a while, the kitten saw him hesitating, so he pawed up and began to climb his trouser legs, meowing in a childish voice while crawling.

Where did Jiang Yujun suffer from this?Impressed by the master on the spot, he didn't think the milk cat was dirty, so he took it home in his arms, and after taking it home and washing it, the R card directly became an SSR. This is a pure white lion cat, covered in He couldn't find any variegated colors on the top and bottom, his flesh pads were pink, and his emerald-like eyes melted his heart.He named the cat cub Gingerbread, which is a homonym of his own surname, which is very beautiful.

Jiang Yujun's thinking is also very beautiful, if gingerbread can conquer him, he must also conquer his parents, but it's a pity that the summer vacation after graduating from university can't wait for the true fragrance of Jiang's father and Jiang's mother.He has no choice but to bring gingerbread to S City to work hard.

But over a month ago, Gingerbread disappeared.

After all, it is not a breed that is born to be a pet cat bought from a cattery. Gingerbread inevitably retains the heart of many wild cats who like to go out and roam. can not go out.It grew up a lot in S City, the rental house is small, and the windows are easy to open, so Gingerbread doesn’t come home all day long, except for coming back every night to let Jiang Yujun, a poop shovel, feed and water, at other times, he doesn’t see him at all. There is no shadow of a cat.

Jiang Yujun was busy looking for a job from morning to night, so he was inevitably negligent.

When he found out that Gingerbread was missing, Gingerbread hadn't come home for three days, and his cat had been lost since then.

Jiang Yujun recalled it like this, maybe he was too tired, the empty-nest excrement shovel officer was empty, lonely and cold, so he just fell asleep in a daze.

"Squeak—creak—"

"Squeak--"

"kindness……?"

In the middle of the night, Jiang Yujun woke up with a jolt.He sat up and looked at the sky outside the window, there was no light outside except for the flickering old street lamps in the distance.

There was a scalp-numbing scratching sound from upstairs again. This ear-piercing sound of someone scratching the floor with something had lasted for more than a month, and it started in the middle of the night when everything was quiet. People can't sleep well at night.When he got up, he felt his temples twitching. He was sweating from sleeping in a suit, and it smelled bad and uncomfortable sticking to his body.

"Squeak—creak—"

The weird scratching sound sounded again.

"Damn it." Jiang Yujun suddenly became angry.

Does this person have the consciousness of living in a public place?At first he didn't pay much attention, he just thought that the people upstairs were moving something, but it has been more than a month, every day.In the past, when he didn't find a job, he didn't have to get up early during the day, and it didn't matter if he was woken up a few times at night. Now he has to get up at six o'clock every morning to drive the car, and at night because of the stupid upstairs.Forced to rest badly, his blood was surging with irritability.

"Crack————————————"

"Fuck!" The slap was so long that it directly made his temper that was about to explode completely exploded.

Jiang Yujun sat up suddenly, and the inferior bed board made a "click", but he didn't care about it at all right now.He touched the phone from the bed and unlocked it. It was 56:[-] in the morning.This point is still acting as a demon upstairs, most of it is a little bit of that.He pushed open the door heavily, and knocked on his roommate's door with the light reflected in his own room.

"Bang bang bang bang-"

"Bang bang bang-"

Knocked twice, no answer.

Standing in the aisle where he couldn't see his fingers, Jiang Yujun was blown by the slightly chilly wind at night, which eased his temper a little and made him clearer.

Maybe I'm asleep...

he thinks.

Going to knock on other people's doors so late at night is quite annoying.Before he could turn around, the door of his roommate's room opened.

Jiang Yujun sized up the puzzled roommate, and found that he was still neatly dressed.

Didn't sleep, that's fine.

"Um...Brother Cao, have you ever heard that kind of... how should I put it, scratching sound upstairs?" Jiang Yujun scratched his hair, his roommate was surnamed Cao, a round older than him, usually he was polite Call Cao Ge.

Brother Cao frowned, "No."

Why not?so loud...

Jiang Yujun's expression froze, "No...I, that's right, I've been hearing people upstairs scraping the floor with something. At first I thought it was moving things, but then I found out...every night It's the sound at night."

He gestured while talking, "Aren't you weird? I don't want to be nosy, but I can't sleep because of the noise."

"Well... forget it if you didn't hear it, maybe I was thinking too much, and I'm sorry to bother you." Jiang Yujun looked at his roommate with a stiff face and no interest, and was ready to slip away resentfully.

"You can't sleep because of that noise every day?" Brother Cao asked him suddenly.

"Yes."

"Why didn't you say it earlier? It's so uncomfortable, you have to get up early to go to work, right?" Brother Cao's loud voice turned on all the sensor lights in the aisle, and a little white light came in from the vent on the top of the living room. This light suddenly appeared in the corridor of the living room, and he glanced sideways subconsciously.

"But it's too late now, call me after you get off work tomorrow, and I'll accompany you to find the landlord to talk about it. Hey! Did you hear that?" Brother Cao patted Jiang Yujun's shoulder with his big hand, and turned his gaze back to My side.

"Ah...Okay, okay, thank you Brother Cao." Jiang Yujun, who thought the matter could not be resolved just now, was overjoyed. Ah, disturbing your sleep at night."

He smiled politely at Brother Cao.

Brother Cao was stunned for a moment, "It's okay, I haven't slept yet, I'm watching the live broadcast of the game."

Still watching it so late?Is it really that good-looking... Internet addiction is really scary.

Jiang Yujun was puzzled in his heart. He looked at the thick glasses that were almost bulletproof and the squinted eyes that were already deeply myopic and deformed. He swallowed, thinking that it was none of his business.Then the two exchanged some polite words, and he went back to his room, took his pajamas, took a shower and went to bed.

I don't know if it's because the matter has found a solution, the weird sound didn't sound from upstairs this night, and he slept soundly in the second half of the night.

Jiang Yujun kept this in his heart all day the next day, and he hurried back to Room [-] to find his roommate after work.Brother Cao kept his word, so he immediately followed him downstairs to find the landlady's mother-in-law with his slippers on.

"The sound of scratching?" Granny Yang's wrinkled eyes widened, "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

What she said was exactly the same as brother Cao's last night, which made Jiang Yujun very embarrassed.Indeed, he could talk to someone earlier, but the thing is always in the middle of the night, and he always forgets about it when he gets up during the day, and it’s scary to be in the dark at night. Although Jiang Yujun is not suspicious, but he is alone in the middle of the night If he ran downstairs, he was still a little scared, after all, the sound was quite hellish.

But he didn't have the nerve to say that he was afraid of it, so he could only smile awkwardly.

"Your upstairs... Let me think about it. Your upstairs is room No. 12. You live in a hard-working wage earner like you who leaves early and returns late. He seems to be a programmer. He often comes back early in the morning to call me He keeps the door, I know that person. Go, I will take you to find him. "

Granny Yang stepped on her little black leather shoes and led Jiang Yujun and Brother Cao upstairs to find the programmer in room No.12.

Granny Yang is the landlord of the youth apartment. Although she is old, she still likes to dress herself up. I heard that her son is very filial and good at making money. She tells everyone that her son is good and her grandson has good grades. He is studying in S city. The most famous Chinese and English school, who will study abroad in the future.Jiang Yujun just smiled when he heard it. Going abroad is not affordable for ordinary people, but he didn't say it, maybe people really have the ability.

When the three of them arrived at the door of Room No. 12 on the third floor, Granny Yang knocked on the door, but no one responded for a long time.

The keys of this youth apartment are all given to the tenants. The landlord does not have a backup key in his hand. If he loses the key, he can only pay for the lock. Feel free to enter their dormitories and check them.But it's not convenient to find someone right now, and I don't know if it's true that he hasn't come back yet.

"Maybe it's because I haven't got off work yet. I just lowered my head to choose vegetables, and I didn't notice if anyone came back." Granny Yang whispered.

"But it's not a problem if it goes on like this. It's so noisy that we rest every day." Before Jiang Yujun could answer, Brother Cao rushed to say.

Granny Yang's face was already full of wrinkles, and this frown made her whole face squeeze together, "Well, the two boys in Room [-], don't worry, I'll just watch at the front desk and wait for him to come back." I'll talk to him about it, and I'm sure I'll let you guys sleep peacefully today, do you think it's okay?"

Brother Cao looked at Jiang Yujun, and he had no choice but to agree. There was really nothing he could do if he wasn't there, but with the guarantee from the landlord's mother-in-law, he still felt much better.

That night, after taking a shower, Jiang Yujun lay on the bed and routinely missed his gingerbread, reminiscing about the joy of petting cats.Since he had his own cat, he has basically given up smoking cats in the cloud, and other people's cats suddenly become unsavory.He kept his eyes open until two o'clock in the morning, and the scratching sound that had already started in the past had really disappeared.He thought in his heart that if he had known to find his mother-in-law earlier, he wouldn't have bothered about this matter for so long.

But in the end, the matter can be resolved, Jiang Yujun is still very satisfied, and immediately fell asleep happily and met his gingerbread in the dream.

After solving the major issues that troubled him, Jiang Yujun became more motivated to work during the day, and he was diligent in running his business. In addition, he was already well-groomed and handsome, so his grades improved a lot today. , After work, he was praised by the manager, saying that he insisted on working hard to maintain this achievement, and gave him a salary increase at the end of the month.

"A happy little frog ~ la la la la la la ~" Jiang Yujun returned to the apartment on a shared bicycle after work, and happily hummed a nursery rhyme that he heard when passing by a cat cafe during the day. It's right for his appetite, especially brainwashing, and now when he wants to hum a song, his mind is full of this song.He was in a good mood, and even looking at the muddy ground in the urban village full of garbage thrown everywhere that he disliked and hated on weekdays, he felt the breath of nature.

Jiang Yujun's good mood lasted until he sat on the bed after taking a shower and recalled his cat.

"Squeak—creak—"

Jiang Yujun suddenly opened his eyes and looked upstairs.

"Crack-crack-crack-crack-"

"Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-"

The scratching sound came again.

And the sound was much louder than before, like a lunatic trying to cut through the ceiling upstairs to get down, Jiang Yujun felt a chill on his back for no reason, and his hairs were about to stand on end.

"Zizi..."

At this time, the lamp on the street seemed to be unable to hold on anymore, and the strange noises from the roof began to ring one after another. Jiang Yujun looked over nervously, the lamp flickered a few sparks and then went out .There was no longer any light to be seen outside the room.

"Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-"

The scraping sound grew louder and harsher.

It's completely different from the inconspicuous sound that can barely fall asleep thinking of gingerbread in the past, this time it's really loud enough that Jiang Yujun can still hear it even if he covers his ears.He wanted to sleep but couldn't sleep.

He didn't dare to sleep either.

He dared not turn off the lights.

Turning off the light, without the little light outside the window, listening to such a terrifying sound in the darkness... Jiang Yujun shivered in the hot weather of August.

"Crack-crack-crack-crack-"

Jiang Yujun sat stiffly on the bed, and any noise around him would be particularly noticeable in this quiet time. He hoped that the roommate he shared with him at this time was not a young Internet addict but a social madman who liked to party all night. It would be best if everyone in the living room A friend, a little more vocals, let him know there's someone else in the house.But apart from the voice above his head that made his brain constrict, there was no other sound, so the voice above his head seemed to be amplified, and it was terrifyingly loud.He wanted to find Brother Cao, but he didn't dare to move for no reason, always feeling that if he moved, something terrifying would jump out.

He just sat on the bed like this for an unknown amount of time, the sound kept ringing until Jiang Yujun felt as if someone was scratching the floor with something next to his ear, or someone was directly scratching his brain .

Jiang Yujun suddenly thought that a few days after Gingerbread disappeared, he saw in the news that someone called the police in Thirteenth Street, and when the police came, they found a bag of stinking cat corpses.It is said that they were all cut into minced meat, and some of them were already covered with maggots. He felt sick for a while when he heard the report, and didn't dare to check whether there was any gingerbread in it.It was also at that time that he was sure that the gingerbread was really gone. Every night he would recall the appearance of the gingerbread guiltily, and he couldn't help but associate the lively and cute gingerbread with the rotten meat in the news.

Will Gingerbread blame him, the master, for not protecting himself?Could it be that the ghost turned into gingerbread came to look for him upstairs?

"Squeak————————"

Time passed by every minute and every second, as if a century had passed, the voice gradually became weaker, Jiang Yujun's nerves also relaxed a little, and now there was a sudden sound, which made him tremble with fright.

Finally, after that sound, the sound stopped.

Jiang Yujun pricked up his ears again and waited for a long time to confirm that the voice really stopped.

He lay down carefully, like a feline dormant in the grass, listening vigilantly to the movement around him.

Forget it.

Leave the lights on.

he thinks.

Just sleep through the night.

Lying on the single bed that he was familiar with, Jiang Yujun couldn't convince himself to close his eyes, so he could only stare at his sleepy eyes, and the ceiling that made the strange noise just now was right in front of him.

As he watched, the yellowed ceiling seemed to be getting closer, and then it suddenly twisted, turning into a huge white cat and leaping towards him.

"what!!"

Jiang Yujun sat up in fright, only then did he realize that he had fallen asleep at some point.The lights in the room were still on, and it was early morning outside the window.

"Nightmare?"

He pressed the back of his aching head, as long as he didn't rest well, the back of his head would be swollen and swollen.

What happened to the horrible noise yesterday...

Didn't the landlord's mother-in-law have already agreed with the programmer upstairs that she would not make such noise anymore?

The morning sun seemed to be able to destroy all dirty and evil things, and gave Jiang Yujun inexplicable courage. He thought about the sound last night, and now he didn't think it was so scary, but if it happened again tonight...

No.

Jiang Yujun tidied himself up quickly, ready to go downstairs to find the landlady's mother-in-law.

"Ah, Granny Yang... It seems that her grandson is sick and needs no one to take care of her, so she left last night. I saw someone driving to pick her up." Jiang Yujun couldn't find anyone at the counter, and knocked for a long time. He looked down and saw that the room had been locked, so he felt something was wrong. He just happened to go out and ran into the old man who was doing morning exercises nearby. The old man lived nearby and had a good relationship with Granny Yang. Come here for a chat.

gone?

Jiang Yujun was speechless.

It was too unfortunate a coincidence that he left, if there was still that ghostly voice at night, how could he sleep...