The Demon Envoy followed the village chief into the inn, which was actually nothing more than a thatched hut that could barely withstand the wind and snow. As soon as the village chief entered the inn, the waiter in the store noticed the tall figure behind the village chief, he had never seen any demon envoys, at most he had heard it in the mouths of some passers-by, but the waiter had already known how to read words and feelings, he knew that it must be a person, so he hurriedly entered the warehouse, and then took out a brazier and respectfully brought it to the side of the demon envoy, and did not forget to smile at the demon envoy, hoping that he could leave an impression on himself.

The village chief asked the waiter to bring a pot of tea, and said to the demon envoy: "This village is poorer than other villages and towns in the province, only this inn has some tea leaves that do not flow into the stream, please ...... Belch...... Adult will bear with me, and please ask for the adult's honorific name. ”

The Demon Envoy replied: "My name is neither respectful nor big, it's just a butcher who hunts monsters, but since the village chief asked, then I'll report my name, my surname is Sun Mingfeng, but the tea is good, let's talk about business, you mentioned in the letter that you suspect that there are monsters to do it, so why do you think so?"

The village chief said: "Okay, Lord Sun, the matter will be told about twelve days ago: on that day, you saw the woman at the entrance of the village, her husband and son decided to go to the mountains to cut some firewood because the family did not have enough firewood, originally she persuaded her husband to go to the neighbor's house to borrow some firewood to burn, but her son said that staying at home was too boring, and wanted to go out for a walk, so she let her husband take his son into the ......."

"Wait," Sun Weifeng interrupted the village chief, "In other words, it wasn't snowing yet, right?" ”

"Yes, sir. The village chief replied: "The snow fell five days ago, and that was a few days after the murder of the two men was discovered." ”

Sun Weifeng interrupted the village chief again: "You found the body, when and where?"

The village chief replied: "They never came back after they entered the mountain, and the next day I organized the village guards to go into the mountain to look for them, but their bodies were not found until the afternoon of the third day after they entered the mountain, according to the guards, they were found at the entrance of a cave, and after the matter deteriorated, I immediately called the messenger to the city of Tanuki to deliver the letter." ”

Sun Weifeng thought for a moment, and then replied, "I only have one last question, is the guard's words trustworthy?"

The village chief stood up: "They are all completely credible, I know adults will be suspicious of them, but the appearance of those corpses is definitely not something that people can do, the woman's husband had his entire lower body ripped off at that time, and a piece of flesh was off his shoulder, and their children were even more ......" The village chief couldn't say any more, the corners of his mouth began to tremble, I don't know if it was because of fear or anger.

The reason why Sun Weifeng asked about the guards was because he had encountered a similar situation, originally everyone thought that the monster killed the victim, but in the end it was the poisonous hand of the relatives around him, the behavior of the monster is predictable, but the behavior of people is unpredictable, so Sun Weifeng is used to suspecting people first.

Sun Weifeng said: "In that case, let me see the corpse." ”

The village chief raised his head and looked at Sun Weifeng, with some hesitation in his eyes: "Okay, but their child's body has been buried, and his father's body has been kept in the snow to prevent decay, please come with me." ”

At this time, the snow had stopped, and the two of them stepped on the knee-deep snow, Sun Weifeng followed the village chief to the door of the cemetery outside the village, and the village chief dug up on the right side of the door with a shovel, at this time Sun Weifeng asked again: "Have you not been to the forest in that area in the past?"

The village chief panted while waving a shovel: "Go over...... Of course we are...... I've been, but only in the summer, some small children ...... I've been in that cave before, but it's ...... Nothing. “

Sun Weifeng felt a little funny when he saw the village chief speak so hard, but he didn't ask the village chief any more questions, and after a while, the village chief finally said, "I dug up his clothes!"

The village chief just wanted to continue digging, but was stopped by Sun Weifeng: "Be careful not to destroy the corpse." As he spoke, he grabbed the corpse's clothes with one hand, lifted it vigorously, and directly lifted the corpse out, which frightened the village chief, not because of Sun Weifeng's strength, but because the corpse was too terrifying! I saw that the lower body of the corpse was directly ripped off, due to the cold weather, the intestines were tightly attached to the back of the corpse, the clothes on the arms had been torn, and there were countless large and small scars on the arms, among which the left arm had two deep and wide claw marks, and even the bones could be seen, and the back of the head was hit by some kind of heavy object, causing the skull to collapse, and several bone fragments pierced the scalp to reveal the bloody bone tips, perhaps because the force of the blow was too great, the victim's eyes were protruding, and the eyeball of the right eye had protruded most of the eye sockets, and the eyeballs that had already turned white stared straight at Sun Weifeng。

Sun Weifeng was really startled, and threw the corpse on the snow, the corpse had already frozen hard, and it was directly trapped in the snow and buried by the snow again.

The village chief was so frightened that he sat in the snow and closed his eyes, trembling all over. Sun Weifeng didn't expect the corpse to be so broken, and he was also shocked into a cold sweat on his forehead.

Sun Weifeng stood for a while, sighed, and pulled up the village chief: "I'm afraid, village elder, you have to dig up the body of the child who has been buried." ”

The village chief also calmed down a lot: "But ...... But isn't that an insult to the dead?"

Sun Weifeng replied: "Dig it up and cremate it with his father, and bury the ashes together, so that the broken body is easy to pollute the victim's soul, if you don't want to be haunted in the coming year, do as I say." ”

The village chief whispered yes, he really didn't want to see the corpses.

Sun Weifeng said: "Let's go back first, prepare a room for me with hot water, I also want to warm up, and take good care of my horse." ”

The village chief reluctantly agreed, and went back after Sun Weifeng.

At night, the faint candlelight illuminated the room, Sun Weifeng soaked in a wooden basin full of hot water in the room on the second floor of the inn, only his head was exposed, and he could still see his scars all over his body through the water, his eyes looked at the fire burning at the village gate outside the window, but his mind fell into deep thought:

What could have done that level of damage to a person's body, people? No, they were all of the same race, and no amount of hatred would have made the body look like that, and the victim's right arm was left with deep claw marks. That's right, claw marks, what kind of monster lives in the caves of the north? Why do monsters live in the caves that were empty in the summer, but in the winter? It is huge, powerful, and angry, what disturbs its quiet dormancy......

The howling cry of the woman outside interrupted Sun Weifeng's thinking, no matter what it was, only tomorrow to find out!