In the middle of the night, the Su family's ancestral house was an old house, and it was at the foot of the mountain, and it was gloomy at this time.

It was the cold season of spring, and the cold wind outside the window was blowing.

Cao Mian was not very timid since he was a child, and when he was a child, at night, Cao Yusheng often used stories of various monsters to scare him.

Until one time the child was scared into a high fever and did not go away for days, Cao Yusheng was distressed, and never told this kind of story again.

Later, Cao Mian knew about the existence of the Hunting Gate, and slowly discovered that in fact, the stories that his old man told him when he was a child were actually true.

It's all the things recorded in "Kyushu Foreign Objects", and the old man is just a little artistic.

So at this moment, seeing Cao Yusheng's expression, Cao Mian was in a trance, as if he felt that he had returned to his childhood.

The feeling of anticipation and fear came to my heart unconsciously.

But he still grew up after all, Cao Mian took a sip of the cigarette butt in his hand, snuffed out the cigarette, and listened.

"The prey that Lin Shuo and they are facing this time, if nothing else, should be the Dover Demon. Cao Yusheng's voice was very low, "Cao Mian, don't you think the name Dover Demon sounds a little strange?"

"yes. Cao Mian nodded, "Whether it was the hooked snake, the king of the mountain lord, or the white-headed flying corpse, the names of these strange creatures had obvious traditional Chinese elements, and when I heard it, I knew that these things were discovered and named by us Chinese first."

The Dover Demon is a little weird.

From the word structure, the word demon should determine the nature of this thing.

It is a demon, or rather, it is understood as a demon by those who know that it exists.

But the word demon itself is a foreign word, not native to China.

The word 'Dover' is even more strange, these two words are supposed to be definite, used to modify, qualify, or explain the word 'demon'.

However, the Buddha and the demon are themselves two religious systems, and it is difficult to mix them together in normal times.

So I speculate that the word Dover may be a transliteration.

When the name spread to China, it was pronounced like this, so it was recorded as these two characters. ”

After listening to Cao Mian's analysis, Cao Yusheng nodded: "The analysis is good."

The first time the Dover demon appeared in the records of our hunting gate was during the reign of Tang Tianbao, that is, during the reign of Tang Xuanzong.

In the first few years of the Tang Dynasty, it was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.

Gao Xianzhi, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, broke the Tubo, Xiaobolu, Cheshi, and Shiguo in the Western Regions, and was made an envoy to the four sections of Anxi during this period, and the scenery was unique for a while.

With Gao Xianzhi's continuous conquest, the influence of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, that is, near present-day Central Asia, also reached the peak of Chinese history.

By the way, do you know where Shiguo is now?"

Cao Mian shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"This is where Lin Shuo and the four of them settled tonight, now the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent. Cao Yusheng said.

"Oh. Cao Mian said, "What a coincidence?"

"It's not a coincidence, it's this thing, it's around there. Cao Yusheng continued, "When Gao Xianzhi conquered the Shi Kingdom, the king of the Shi Kingdom surrendered at that time, and Gao Xianzhi also surrendered.

As a result, this Gao general probably felt that if he just surrendered, the credit was not big enough, and the record was not brilliant enough, so he changed his mind.

Civilians, kill them all. King, take it. Property, looted.

In the first month of the tenth year of Tianbao, that is, in 751 AD, Gao Xianzhi entered the court and presented the captured king of Shiguo in front of Tang Xuanzong.

As a result, he was awarded the title of General of the Right Feather Forest, and his prestige reached the pinnacle of his life.

And the king of the stone country was beheaded.

Cao Mian, what do you think about this?"

"Not authentically. Cao Mian said, "But there's nothing wrong with it." Military generals want military merits, which is caused by the system at that time, and human nature cannot stand the test in the first place. ”

"Yes. Cao Yusheng said, "When things come to this, it's not a big problem." But Gao Xianzhi's mistake was that he failed to eradicate the roots. The king of Shiguo was caught, but the prince ran away.

Prince Shi ran to the black-clothed food next door and went to the rescue.

And guess what happened?"

"Old man, I really don't know this history. Cao Mian shook his head and said.

As soon as Gao Xianzhi heard that Prince Shi asked for help from the black-clothed Great Food, he didn't wait for any movement over there, but actually chose to take the initiative to attack, and went to attack the black-clothed Great Food with 20,000 horses.

I estimate that there was also a problem with the intelligence at that time, Gao Xianzhi didn't know the depth of the black-clothed food, he thought that this was also a small country like Xiao Bolu Kingdom, Cheshi Country, and Shi Country.

In fact, at that time, the whole world, from the current point of view, was four large countries.

One was the Tang Dynasty in the east, the Frankish Empire in the west, and the other was Byzantium, the Eastern Roman Empire near Greece.

The last one was the Arab Empire, which had just completed the change of dynasty at that time, called the Abbasid Dynasty, which is the black-clothed food in Chinese history books.

As a result, Gao Xianzhi led more than 20,000 horses and horses, and met an army of 200,000 in the away field, and later reinforced to 300,000.

This is the famous Battle of Talas in the history books, and the Tang Dynasty did not win.

The reason why this battle is famous is because it is the only time in history that the Tang Dynasty and Arabia have faced each other, which is considered a gimmick.

But in fact, the historical significance is not great, because the Tang Dynasty has lost less than 20,000 men and horses, most of whom are not Tang people, but mercenaries from small affiliated countries.

Even the main general Gao Xianzhi did not die and fled back, he was later suppressed during the Anshi Rebellion and was beheaded by Tang Xuanzong.

However, in other aspects, there are still influences, mainly one in and one out.

The one who went out was papermaking.

Papermaking is an invention of our China, because of this battle, we have craftsmen who were captured by that side, and the craftsmanship has been passed on, and since then there has been a West.

And the one who came in was the Dover Demon.

This name is the remnant of the defeated **, which came from there. ”

"Hey, then this deal is a big loss!" Cao Mian shook his head.

"Who says it's not?" Cao Yusheng said, "Although Gao Xianzhi is greedy for merit, he is a famous general, and his ability to use soldiers is really good."

In the ten-to-one ratio of troops, General Gao did not suffer a loss in a frontal decisive battle, and held each other for several days.

In the end, it was defeated because a vassal army rebelled and was attacked from both sides.

Even so, in the midst of the chaos, Gao Xianzhi can still run out with thousands of men and horses, which shows that the combat effectiveness of the descendants in his hands is very strong.

Among them, there are people in our hunting door.

We have always been like this, not only to eliminate harm for the people, but also to serve the country.

In all dynasties, wherever the border army needs to fight frequently with foreign countries, we will send people to participate in the hunting.

And there are rules, we hunt people, do not serve as officers in the army, at most as a personal elite soldier, generally only as a pawn, charging and killing the enemy.

Among Gao Xianzhi's personal soldiers, there are people from our hunting family, who are three brothers from a family, surnamed Fu.

During the Tang Tianbao period, their Fu family was one of the nine masters of the hunting gate at that time.

The three brothers of the Fu family in Gao Xianzhi's place, according to records, were specially sent by the Fu family to support the army, real inheritance hunters, and they have real nine-inch ability.

In the Battle of Talas, the three brothers faced two or three hundred thousand enemies, killed countless enemies, and there were no injuries on their bodies, and Gao Xianzhi, who they were protecting, did not lose a single hair.

As a result, on the way to retreat, passing by a desert, the three brothers all died, do you know why?"

"I've met the demon of Dover. Cao Mian sighed.

"yes. Cao Yusheng nodded, "There are more than 3,000 people in Gao Xianzhi's remnants, although they have lost the battle, they are also my best men in China."

They are indeed not bad at fighting, but when they encounter fierce beasts in the desert, people are sleepy and the environment is harsh, it stands to reason that they have no chance of survival.

The three brothers of the Fu family used their three lives to drag down the Dover demons, save them, and let them go home.

Cao Mian, when you tell this story to your son in the future, don't leave out the names of these three brothers.

Their names are Fu Zhenghong, Fu Zhengyi, and Fu Zhengliang, and they are the three martyrs of our hunting door. ”

"I made a note of it. Cao Mian nodded vigorously.

Cao Yusheng sighed and continued: "More than 3,000 people have returned, and the news has naturally come over.

Since then, there have been seven hunting operations that have almost poured out of the nest, all of which have been aimed at this thing.

As a result, this thing was elusive and I didn't find it.

With the defeat of the Battle of Talas, and the subsequent Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court slowly lost control of the large area of land near the desert.

So the matter of hunting the Dover demon can only be delayed.

Unexpectedly, seven hundred years later, that is, in the eleventh year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing appeared again in the Taklamakan Desert.

At that time, the Hunter Gate was at its best, and fifty-seven hunters formed a hunting team.

I've seen the list of fifty-seven people.

At that time, the head of the hunting gate, as well as the heads of the nine families, there were many of them, and they were all inside. The other inheritance hunters have the least capable of seven inches.

It was like this, fifty-seven hunters, and in the end, only one Lin Tahai came back.

And even this Lin Tahai, who was posthumously recognized by the door as a ten-inch capable, died within a month after coming back, and died of serious injuries. ”

"No, it's scary. Cao Mian was dumbfounded, "Then can my sister still come back?"

"It's hard to say. Cao Yusheng shook his head, "That's the eleventh-ranked beast xenomorph in Kyushu foreign objects, and it is one of the most powerful beings that humans have ever hunted.

With this kind of thing, who dares to say that they can come back alive?

And the one that Lin Shuo and they are about to face is very likely to be the one that the Fu brothers faced more than a thousand years ago, or the direct descendants of that head.

It's so close, it's all red desert. ”

"Then what does this thing look like, and why is it so powerful?" Cao Mian asked again.

"I don't know what it looks like. Cao Yusheng shook his head, "The head that Chenghua was shot to death by Lin Tahai in the eleventh year, the body sank in the sea of sand, Lin Tahai only brought back its head, and by this time, the head was long gone."

The picture drawn on the foreign object in Kyushu, the old version has been passed down to the present, and it is no longer clear.

Anyway, judging from the description, the head is not big, about the size of our head, and it really looks like a legendary demon, hideous and terrifying.

As for the ability, according to Lin Tahai himself, this thing can create illusions and mislead hunters when it is far away.

Once it gets close, it is very strong in hand-to-hand combat, and the average nine-inch hunter is like a paper paste in front of it.

Usually it hides under the sand dunes, so it is easy not to show up, and it is difficult to find. ”

"Alright, old man, I can hear you. Cao Mian said, "You want Lin Shuo and them to die, so you let them take this deal."

Old man, let me tell you the truth, even if I take over your hunting business, I will be the mastermind at most and give my cousin ideas.

Be the leader, I really don't have this idea, you don't have to hold back to hurt others so much. ”

"How can you talk about the stinky boy?, am I that kind of person?" Cao Yusheng glared and scolded, "You kid doesn't deserve to be a hunter when he says this."

Eliminating harm for the people has never been as easy as it says it!

When did we hunters think about our own life and death?

The European Xing family, the seven-inch threshold, there are only two nine-inch hunters in total, don't they know that it may be the Dover Demon?

The son went and didn't come back, and the father took someone to follow, do you think it's just the father looking for his son?

It's called going forward and going forward!

This is the rule set by our ancestors!

A seven-inch threshold family is still like this, Lin Shuo is the leader of the hunting gate, what should I do?

Cao Mian, in terms of ability, I never expected you kid to be able to compare with Lin Shuo.

But in terms of consciousness, can you learn well and look at the outstanding peers around you?

Lin Shuo, Nian Qiu, and Di Lan, you give me a good look at them, what is a real hunter!"

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