"..." While controlling the cat, Jiang Xia watched the black cat's dark silhouette merge into the night. The paws beneath him curled involuntarily. This cat feels pretty good to step on... Too bad it runs too fast. And it looks like a peaceful, well-behaved cat—I have no reason to catch it and step on it for no reason. Besides, there's important business to handle now.
Thinking that, Jiang Xia sighed regretfully and continued along his original route, carefully avoiding the crisscrossing wire alarms in the yard until he reached a spot where he could see the house door.
Two security guards stood at the entrance. One anxiously pressed the doorbell, while the other fiddled with his phone, intending to start recording before forcing the door open to check the situation.
But before they entered—
The doorknob turned, and someone opened the door from inside.
The two security guards looked up and met a hollow, deathly pale face. Startled, their hair stood on end, and they instinctively raised the various riot-control tools in their hands.
"What are you doing?" The person who had opened the door noticed their movements and spoke with displeasure. "Are you trying to attack the homeowner?!"
"..."
The guards froze, jolted awake by those very human words.
After forcing the terrifying thought of "we rang the doorbell and summoned a ghost" from their minds, the two slowly realized what was happening.
—The person who had opened the door was not a ghost, of course, but a slender woman.
The woman was wrapped in a white bathrobe and wore a white shower cap, her hair tucked entirely beneath it. A white facial mask covered her face. Dressed all in white, coupled with her pale complexion... she looked especially frightening in the middle of the night.
"Ah, sorry, we