The rain kept pouring down, splattering against the body of Huang Yi in sheets of blood-red water.
He just stood there in the rain, gazing in the direction where the woman had vanished.
She had left in a hurry, probably fearing that she would harm her child if she turned into a ghoul. But she couldn't bear to truly leave, so she tricked the little boy into playing a game of hide-and-seek, enduring the long night with the hope of returning the next day to continue being his mother.
The inner struggle of a mother was laid bare before Huang Yi's eyes.
Huang Yi shifted his gaze and immediately transformed into a Treasure-Sniffing Cat, slipping through the window into the wooden house and quietly hiding himself.
Meanwhile, his incarnation waited outside the town, anticipating the fall of night.
Time ticked by, second after second, as Huang Yi, now the Treasure-Sniffing Cat, roamed the house. The interior was dilapidated, with furniture scattered in disarray.
