Xiong Xu was distressed.

Yesterday was supposed to be the Heron Ming Festival, so it stands to reason that he should have stayed at home and rested for a day, or else he would have gone to the festival to watch a play, listen to music, and enjoy the festival food.

But yesterday afternoon, the fat man Xie suddenly brought someone over, saying that there was a murder in Hexi, and the murderer was still an ape-like thing, which made the county commander distressed, after all, the Luming Festival still needs to have the county order present, so the county commander had to send two of his own people to Hexi to investigate.

It's a pity that after a night of investigation, apart from some hair, I didn't find the slightest trace of the ghost ape.

At this time, there were only two people and one dog on the side of the river, walking alone by the river.

"Hmm......" Ding Yi rose lazy, walked to the river, took a handful of water and washed his face, washed away the fatigue of searching all night, and said helplessly:

"Master, we've been walking all night, and we haven't found that so-called ape at all, otherwise let's just go back like this? Anyway, I don't think the combat power of this thing is high, maybe it may be a beast that came down from the Jade Mountain or somewhere to feed, maybe it will go back when it's full." ”

Xiong Xu was also unusually sleepy at this time, but as the most experienced head catcher in the city, he still felt that this time was unusual, and the experience of living in Jianyi City for decades told him that there was no so-called large ape population in Yushan, so if there were really apes, it could not be the group of Yushan.

It was a hellish place with wolves and countless lonely graves.

"Hold on a little longer, we will arrive at the tombs in Hexi, let's go there, ask the people watching the cemetery for a glass of water, sleep there for an hour, and then continue to check the task, I can't bear it anymore." Xiong Xu looked up at the bulging hills in the distance and encouraged his apprentice to hold on a little longer.

Even if he is a body forger, after a night of investigation, he is extremely sleepy.

Moreover, they did not even ride their horses today, because because of the sandy land west of the river, the horses are not easy to walk here, but the hunting dogs with a keen sense of smell are very useful.

He touched the yellow dog's head, and sniffed the hair he had gotten from the orchard, and the yellow dog wagged his tail, sniffed the smell, looked into the distance, and then bent down again, and led the two of them into the distance.

But Xiong Xu and the others didn't find anything, through a whole night of investigation, they could basically determine that the thing should be acting alone, only one, and it should be a wild thing running down from the nearby mountains, but this is also a very strange point, there is no ape group near Jianyi City, how can this thing appear near Jianyi City?

Also, it stands to reason that apes don't actively attack humans, but this ape-like thing has too abnormal habits.

Xiong Xu took out a steamed bun from his arms, broke it in half, and handed it half to Ding Yi.

Ding Yi ate the river water and asked, "Master, I have always wanted to ask you a question, just along the way, we didn't see footprints on the sand?"

Xiong Xu smiled, pulled out his long knife, pointed to the water's edge and said: "The water level of the river was still below yesterday, and it has risen to the point where we are looking at it today, if this thing is running along the river, then we will naturally not see the footprints today." ”

"Yesterday we spent most of our time in the orchard, and by the time we chased it out, the river had risen, and we had the situation where we couldn't see the footprints. ”

Ding Yi suddenly realized, and said happily: "Hey, Master, you can also think of this, it's amazing." ”

Xiong Xu nodded, acknowledging his praise, and said: "Actually, it's not that difficult, the dog's nose is much more sensitive than ours, follow the dog, these seemingly abnormal clues can surface." ”

He patted the yellow dog on the head, "Rhubarb, did you find anything?"

"Whew!" As if he had discovered something, the yellow dog sped towards the cemetery in the distance.

Seeing the yellow dog's reaction, Xiong Xu knew that he was finally getting closer to that guy.

"Keep up! There are a lot of mountains and bushes in the cemetery, and that thing may be hidden there!" Seeing the yellow dog's reaction, Xiong Xu hurriedly beckoned Ding Yi and ran forward.

"It's coming!" Ding Yi pulled out the long knife behind his back and quickly followed.

......

The cemetery in Hexi is basically owned by several major clans in Jianyi City, there are two or three tomb guards on weekdays, the age of the tomb guards is not very old, but the combat ability is not strong, they are mostly local farmers, if these people are attacked and killed by that monster, then Xiong Xu will be miserable, this is a few lives!

"Let's go!" Xiong Xu took Ding Yi and ran to the gate of Hexi Cemetery.

At the door, two wooden doors were hidden, and a series of human-like footprints stretched out towards the courtyard, which was unusually quiet, and the shouts of people and the sound of birds had disappeared, as if it were a silent night.

The yellow dog chased here, only daring to spin in place, looking at Xiong Xu with blank eyes, and did not dare to enter inside.

"It smells of blood, right, Master?" Ding Yi looked at Xiong Xu in a low voice.

Xiong Xu also pulled out a long knife, as a senior old catcher, distinguishing blood qi is the most basic skill, even a young man like Ding Yi can smell blood, he naturally needless to say, he has long been ready for battle, but unfortunately, these people guarding the tomb are afraid that they have already suffered accidents.

He unloaded the strong crossbow behind his back and handed it to Ding Yi, the strong crossbow is different from ordinary bow crossbows, the powerful power and huge size can only be controlled by both hands, so it can only be controlled by Ding Yi.

Xiong Xu whispered: "My kung fu is better than yours, I will explore the road ahead, I heard Xie Fatzi say, this thing is not too fierce, even the little guy of the Su family can hurt it." ”

Ding Yi nodded, he knew that Xiong Xu handed over the strong crossbow to him because he was afraid that when Xiong Xu was fighting with that monster, that thing would still have helpers, if the strong crossbow was in hand, the speed of support would be greatly improved.

After the two discussed, Xiong Xu put the yellow dog back first, then took the lead and cautiously sneaked into the tomb keeper's house.

The room was a mess, blood was spilled all over the floor, blood footprints on the ground were disorganized, trampled everywhere, and bursts of foul smell wafted into the noses of the two.

"Cover your mouth and nose. Xiong Xu whispered.

Ding Yi pulled up the linen cloth on his chest that had been wet with water, and there were a lot of headcatchers planted on the smell of poisonous smoke and other smells.

"Master, there seems to be a corpse there!" Ding Yi is a young man after all, and he first found the body in the house.

The corpse was on the other side of the bed, leaving only one hand leaking outside, Xiong Xu and Ding Yi walked over cautiously, and when they saw the appearance of the corpse, even an old catcher like him couldn't help but tremble in his legs, what kind of corpse is this!

The corpse's clothes were torn and turned into strips of rags, half of the head was gnawed, revealing half of the skull inside, and the neck was the same as the corpse in Xie Fatzi's orchard, with a big hole, and only the limbs were left after being eaten, and only the blood-colored skeleton was left on the upper and lower bodies!

"Squeak squeak......" There was a sound outside.

"Not good!" As soon as Xiong Xu heard the voice, the whole person was like the wind sticking to the edge of the window and watching, looking out through the gap in the window, and said secretly: "I know, how can one or two such things eat people like this?"

There were ten black long-haired monkey-like creatures crawling around outside, and these monkeys were almost the size of newborn calves, and some of them were even walking into the room!

"Come here!" Xiong Xu's face changed greatly, grabbed Ding Yi over, found an ordinary wooden cabinet, and rolled directly to hide in it.

Judging from the situation in front of them, the combat power of a few of these monkeys can be compared to that of an ordinary body forger, even if some monkeys do not come out, they can forcibly break out, but Ding Yi is likely to fold here.

"Shhhhh Xiong Xu was silent.

Through the small gap in the cupboard, Ding Yi was horrified to find that the eyes of these things were actually glowing green, and the paws were not at all the same as ordinary monkeys, sharp and shiny, and the faces of these monkeys had all rotted without exception, and some of them even had maggots moving on their faces!

"This ...... What kind of monster?" Ding Yi shrank into a ball in the cupboard as if he had been hit by five thunderbolts, and he didn't dare to speak for a long time.

After a long time, two black-haired monkeys came over here, they just sniffed at the cupboard where Xiong Xu and Ding Yi were hiding, and then they didn't bother anymore and gnawed at the corpse lying under the bed.

The two black-haired monkeys squatted on the ground like this, ripped off the skeleton on the corpse, put it in their mouths and kept gnawing on it, and in that fishy mouth, the sound of sharp teeth biting bones crackled, as if they were eating a few ordinary chicken feet.

I don't know how long it took, the black-haired monkey had no other corpses to eat, and finally waved his hand, intending to leave here.

Ding Yi and Xiong Xu both breathed a sigh of relief, quietly opened the cabinet door, and planned to leave here.

After all, this matter is too weird, and I still have to report it to the yamen.

Ding Yi volunteered to take the lead in observing the situation, and as soon as he opened the cabinet door, Ding Yi felt that the cabinet shook slightly, and there seemed to be something on his head, like a shadow shrouded in it.

He raised his head, and a rotten and foul-smelling black face stared at him like this, and the rotten breath went straight to Ding Yi's mouth, and there were still disgusting maggots crawling around on this face, moving in the flesh and blood, as if he had planted a Miao Jiang Gu technique.

"Gross!" Ding Yi vomited immediately, and even forgot to dodge in time.

Xiong Xu was shocked, this black-haired monkey actually took advantage of their inattention, and climbed directly to the top of the cabinet to rest, just at that time, the attention of the two of them was on the monkey outside the cupboard, and the two of them didn't notice that there was something above their heads!

"Shhh

Seeing that Ding Yi didn't dodge, the black-haired monkey immediately pounced on him!

Between this lightning and flint, Xiong Xu could only roll forward, crushing Ding Yi under him, and then got up and slashed with a backhand!

A white light slashed, this knife was as fast as lightning, Xiong Xu asked himself, this was the fastest knife he had swung in his life, and one of the arms of the black-haired monkey was cut off like cutting tofu.

The black-haired monkey lost its balance and fell out of the air, the knife was too fast to give it painful time to react, and it was puzzled and stared blankly at its empty arm.

"Give it to me!" Xiong Xu snatched the strong crossbow from Ding Yi's hand with his backhand, half-squatted on the ground, and shot an accurate arrow!

The arrow was shot on the head of the black-haired monkey, and the powerful kinetic energy caused the crossbow arrow to pass through the skull, nailing the black-haired monkey directly to the cupboard!