A few of us got out of the car, turned on the flashlight, and walked cautiously towards the black shadow, Lao Qin and Xiao Li and I all picked up our guns and stood in a row, Zeng Qian followed behind us. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but the black shadow didn't seem to care about our approach, with his head bowed and hunched over, as if he was busy with something on the ground.

Approaching a few dozen meters, I saw the strange place of the black shadow, saying that it was a wolf, obviously its forelimbs were very long, its neck was erect, its posture was like a half-squat, and its forelimbs were scratching something on the ground, very similar to human movements. It is said to be human, it is covered with long gray-black hair, and a long pure white tail that is very abrupt.

I stretched out my hand to stop everyone, white head and white tail, this should be the old herdsman said that the wolf king. But from the appearance to its movements, there is a sense of evil. Lao Qin whispered next to me, "Lao Chang, the distance is too far, it's difficult to hit the tranquilizer gun, let's take a few steps forward?" I grabbed him, "Don't go forward, it may not be a wolf, but there are dozens of them behind it, and there are wolves on both sides of us, and we are slowly retreating now." ”

My eyesight was much more sensitive to dark objects than normal people during my long work in the second half of the night, and my hearing was even more so, and my judgment was confirmed in a few seconds. Everyone saw that behind the wolf king, a pair of grass-green eyes were constantly flashing, and in the grass dozens of meters away on both sides of us, there was also the sound of Suosuo.

"Have we fallen into the trap of the wolves again?" asked me as Lao Qin stepped back.

"Probably not, I always felt that the wolf king was doing some kind of ritual, but he didn't want us to disturb us, and we retreated to the place where we got off, and they shouldn't attack us. Before I finished my words, behind me, Zeng Qian's voice rang out.

"Uncle Chang, this is impossible, the biggest difference between humans and animals is that their social behavior is fundamentally different in addition to the manufacture and use of tools, if the wolf has a social behavior with religious significance, then the theory of evolution must be rewritten. ”

Before Zeng Qian's words fell, the wolf king suddenly straightened up and stood up, indeed as the old herdsman said, taller than an adult. The wolf king raised his head and roared, which sounded less like a wolf howling than the mournful cry of an old man. Then the wolves behind it let out one howl after another. At this moment, the forelimbs of the wolf king were raised to the sky, as if to sing something, not at all like the front paws, just like human hands. And behind him, the wolves actually lined up and began to circle around the wolf king. This scene seems to be the ritual of transcending the soul in the cult.

I could imagine Zeng Qian's surprised expression behind me, but I knew that now was not the time to talk about it, because the wolf king's four legs returned to the ground, leaped out of the wolf pack, stared at us like a torch, and began to slowly approach us.

"Everyone continue to retreat, but don't turn around, retreat into the car, it should be safe, don't shoot, as soon as the gun goes off, we can't avoid so many wolves." As I spoke, I deliberately slowed down, and the distance between me and the Wolf King gradually narrowed. I looked back, and the three of them were more than a dozen meters behind me, less than thirty steps from the jeep.

I simply stopped, put down my flat rifle, and just stared at the wolf king's movements. Zeng Qian's anxious shout came from behind him, "Uncle Chang, come back, hurry." I didn't look back, and shouted loudly, "Get in the car, listen to me, Xiao Li, hit the car and wait for me." ”

The wolf king also stopped at a position of about thirty paces after me, I simply extinguished the flashlight, and in the moonlight, although I couldn't see very clearly, I knew that the wolf king was also watching me motionlessly. Those eyes are completely different from the eyes of ordinary beasts, maybe not bright enough, but deep enough, people have been staring at it for a long time, it seems that it is no longer a pair of eyes, but two deep tunnels, leading to another world.

It's a very peculiar feeling, you're in a tunnel, it's dark all around, but there's no fear in your heart, you're silently waiting, as if a voice is about to sound, a voice that will answer all your questions.

I threw the gun to the ground, and just as the wolf king had just done, my hands facing the sky, the wolf king crouched on the ground, looking up at the moon, and let out a low roar. But at this moment, the sound of a car engine came from behind me, but I knew that it was not Xiao Li who started the jeep, but several others, speeding over from far and near. Then, a crisp gunshot rang out. The wolf king straightened up from the ground, his eyes instantly filled with hostility and resentment, and he roared, shaking the valley, and then turned around, galloping away as fast as he could, disappearing into the darkness. And the wolf howls echoed with the wolf king, getting farther and farther away.

A few minutes later, the roar of the car engine came behind me, and the light column of the headlights completely enveloped me. With the heavy sound of the door closing, the loud voice of the Cao team sounded: "Lao Chang, you said that the little girl is not sensible, what are you doing with it? The person opposite you is not a god or a ghost, a wolf, or a beast, if you want to stay on the grassland, I can't take care of it, but you can tell me anyway." ”

In my impression, Team Cao never seemed to be so angry with me, and it seemed that I was really uncomfortable. I picked up the gun on the ground and turned around, and the Cao team brought a dozen people and got out of the car one after another. I walked up to him and said slowly: "Team Cao, if I saw that it was a wolf just now, it was not an ordinary wolf, dissipate our anger, the wolf king gave us a dismount, we have to be calm, no, I am impulsive, adventurous, accept your criticism, go, I will tell you the evil of this wolf king." ”

I led the Cao team to the place where the wolf king and the wolves had stayed just now, and as I expected, there was a circle of rice on the meadow, and in the center of the circle was the mutilated corpse of the security officer. Team Cao turned around and saw that everyone was walking here, and hurriedly shouted: "Xiao Li, don't let Xiao Zeng come over, you go back to the car and wait." ”

"Chang, do you see that this circle was drawn by the wolf king, how did it get it out with its claws?" asked me as Team Cao lowered his voice.

"I didn't see how I could get it, but there was certainly no one else, and I saw that the wolves were doing a ritual by drawing circles. "Team Cao and I walked around the white circle.

"If anyone else had told me, I wouldn't have believed it, but these wolves are so ghostly, we were calculated by them by the lake, and now I feel scared to think about it. Team Cao handed me a cigarette and turned around to stop looking at the white circle.

"Team Cao, you say that they are cunning and ferocious, they are all right, this is their nature, but drawing white circles, and using rice, is a kind of excessive ritual, in the past, the sect would do this to those who died in vain, so as not to dissipate the resentment of the dead and harm innocent people. From this point of view, the wolf king may not be as ferocious as we think. "Although I have always believed that the white circle of the wolf king is the one who was bitten to death by them, there are many unexplained questions in between, such as, who taught the wolf king the ritual of transcendence, and how does the wolf king think it makes sense for him?

"Lao Chang, you can't convince me on this issue, I can't explain why there is a white circle, but I know that now this wolf king has more than a dozen of our lives in his hands, this revenge must be avenged, your relatives let others kill, and the murderer has done a magic deed to exceed, can you get away with it? Team Cao threw the cigarette butt on the ground, said no more, and arranged for people to deal with the scene while looking for Director Tian and those people.

We were busy, it was already the second half of the night, and after meeting Director Tian, we went back to the mine. After a night of thrilling events, everyone was in no mood to talk, and made an appointment to discuss it the next day, so they went back to their rooms one after another.

Early the next morning, we had another meeting, at which the Cao team reviewed the failure of yesterday's operation to trap the wolf king, and then began to discuss the next step of the wolf eradication plan. At this time, I could clearly feel that the people who were holding the meeting were divided into several factions. Team Cao, Director Tian and others are the main suppression faction, whether it is the wolf king or other wolves, the goal is to kill them all. Lao Qin and Mine Chief Li are one faction, advocating or trapping the wolf king, but I know that Lao Qin wants to capture the wolf queen alive and get it back for research, after all, there are too many mysterious and unknown things in this wolf king, and I have become a faction alone, advocating not acting rashly, and then formulating countermeasures after studying the reasons clearly. But obviously, no one can listen to my ideas at this time.

The strangest thing is Zeng Qian, who usually talks the most, and everyone also needs her professional advice on animal behavior, but she didn't say a word at the meeting. I can vaguely guess the reason, Zeng Qian has experienced all the weird things with me in the past two days, but this has had a huge conflict with her years of research, and even the subversion of her outlook on life, at this time, she is extremely conflicted in her heart, and she will not make a choice easily, besides, in her heart, she has always believed that the conflict between us and the wolf is still caused by the destruction of the surrounding ecology by the mine.

Since they couldn't agree on their opinions, Team Cao and Mine Manager Li decided that everyone would think separately first, and they would both propose their own solutions at the afternoon meeting, and everyone would vote on it. After the morning meeting, I thought that Team Cao would come to me and convince me again, after all, I have always been very cooperative with him. The strange thing is that it was not Team Cao who came to me, but Zeng Qian.

I poured Zeng Qian a cup of tea, and was thinking about how to speak, but she said straightforwardly: "Uncle Chang, you know that I don't agree with Team Cao's approach in my heart, we can't impose nature's punishment on us to the wolves, but your point of view, it's hard for me to accept, so I want to ask you a few questions." ”

I smiled and sat down next to her, "I agree with your point of view, but you didn't bring it up at today's meeting, and I don't know who to support." But I believe that there is never an accident in this world, everything has a cause and effect, and people are deceived by things, mostly because they are unwilling to admit it in their hearts and unwilling to seek the truth. ”

(If you can't see it, it's called Yi; if you don't hear it, it's called Xi; if you can't fight, it's called a small name.) These three cannot be interrogated, so they are mixed into one. There is no darkness on the top, and there is no ambiguity on the bottom. --Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching) (To be continued.) )